The underground instruments were indeed destroyed, and those Eastern District players who came in also shrank. As he went up, those people had just landed, and as soon as they met eyes, the giant-like Zheng Yuci suddenly appeared nearby, raising his hand to imprison them in the beehive.

Everyone was separated, each with a cell and a cell corresponding to a corridor. Taking two steps forward, one could see other cells and corridors, but once trapped inside, it was like being stuck in a beehive maze, becoming a bee unable to find its way out.

The Eastern District players didn’t understand psychic power, but with the help of mental interference props, they could demolish aggressively. Unfortunately, as the spiritual world strengthened, no matter how many layers were torn down, the outside always seemed like an endless beehive.

"Teacher Zhao, think of something?" Xu Huo stabbed through the hexagonal barrier in front, directly finding Teacher Zhao. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Teacher Zhao was relatively rational, not attacking him immediately, just gave him a cold look and used spatial power to break through nearby cells searching for his people.

Clearly feeling his spatial power being suppressed here, Xu Huo followed him, "Wasn’t Zheng Yuci the psychotherapist you invited? Didn’t you consider this possibility before?"

Teacher Zhao painstakingly found two people back. Those two were angry enough to want to kill but were stopped by Teacher Zhao, "Find the exit first."

"Teacher Zheng is one of our own, he shouldn’t kill us along with them, right?" One person said uncertainly.

"Your Teacher Zheng has already abandoned Yuquan City," Xu Huo reminded, "White Bear Laboratory."

This was indisputable. Zheng Yuci indeed mentioned White Bear Laboratory in front of everyone, even if not all witnessed it, those who heard and saw naturally spread the news. Before they returned, the White Bear Laboratory was still in fierce battle; if not for fearing Xu Huo would completely destroy Agor’s underground laboratory, no one would come back to intervene in the duel between him and Zheng Yuci.

"Try to stop him," Xu Huo glanced up, "Otherwise, you may not even have a place to stay."

Interrupting those two players attempting to refute, "Isn’t the White Blood toxic? You’ve stored this potion in more than one or two laboratories; whether Eastern District players invade or accidentally get swept by Zheng Yuci’s beehive, there’s a risk of potion leakage."

"Do you think it’s just a few barrels of potion? Even if it leaks, cleaning it up is simple."

"But if I were Zheng Yuci, my research results, even if I couldn’t take them, I wouldn’t leave them for you."

"Think about whether he has any other backup plans."

After finishing speaking, he opened a path above with a materialized long knife and vanished in a flash.

Teacher Zhao immediately used spatial ray to block the passage, preventing the few from being trapped again. As they went out, he took along another Eastern District player nearby, totaling four people. After successive exits from the beehive, they discovered the world before them had completely changed. Initially, the beehive almost covered their entire view. This was due not only to their shrinking but also to the rapid growth of the beehive. Moreover, the sky now had numerous doors, amidst them, some continuously rising and falling rotating staircases, occasionally lifting a circular building... Flying hexagons everywhere, and long or short, sometimes grounded, sometimes airborne black shadows. These two objects replaced Zheng Yuci and Xu Huo personally, starting aerial fights, sometimes hexagons slicing shadows, sometimes shadows cleaving hexagons. With increased numbers and faster fight frequencies, their spiritual world was a chaotic dance of demons.

The damage potential of hexagons and shadows was evident from the beehive torn apart in all directions; they were not mere optical illusions but actual weapons!

"We can’t continue like this," Teacher Zhao said to the people around him, "Ask Elder Qiao to handle it."

An Eastern District player nodded and departed from the city’s center under his escort.

On Xu Huo’s end, as his output of spiritual power increased, the unilateral suppression from Zheng Yuci finally ceased. The world around him also didn’t continue to expand. However, this was him going all out combined with the assistance from props, unable to be maintained for long, so he had to think of a way to leave within three minutes at the latest.

"Lure him to the ground, there’s not enough time!" The prop attached to his back transmitted the Nefarious Mask’s voice again.

He simply removed the prop, letting a piece of shadow split to send it forward.

"If there’s not enough time, you make it up," Xu Huo said and threw the prop.

Regardless of the reaction from the Nefarious Mask, Xu Huo faced increasing pressure from Zheng Yuci, and Zheng Yuci seemed more intent on competing in spirit evolution, rarely using long-range props during the process. When facing each other, they often used materialized items, much to his surprise as Zheng Yuci appeared increasingly impatient.

He suddenly flashed close and asked coldly, "Why?"

Xu Huo was pushed back dozens of meters, wiping the blood from his mouth corner, instead asked him, "I also wonder, don’t you have anything else to do? Explore human limits? Couldn’t you find a healthy and normal hobby?"

Zheng Yuci’s expression instantly darkened like a thundercloud, angrily said, "Enough! If you insist on such meaningless nonsense, then you need not speak."

After speaking, he forcefully pinched with thumb, index, and middle finger, causing Xu Huo to find himself unable to open his mouth. Zheng Yuci looked at him with disappointment, "It seems you’re a mundane person too, wasting my time."

As his index finger slightly pointed in the air, a hexagon appeared out of thin air, fitting snugly around Xu Huo, shrinking at lightning speed—the thin hexagon was less than one-tenth the thickness of paper, with edges being extremely narrow. If it weren’t for the luminescence on it, it would be almost impossible to catch with the naked eye at high speed!

"Three Seconds of a Lifetime" was already in hand, and a mental portal had opened below. However, before falling down, a pitch-black hand emerged from behind, firmly grasping the hexagon.

Unlike the shadow hand from before, this hand seemed to possess substance, as Xu Huo turned his head, he could see the indentation pressed by the hexagon along the palm edge. However, before he could react, Zheng Yuci’s face broke into a smile, his eyes gleaming, "Haha! So you split into a second personality, and it’s already grown this big, not bad."

Though words seemed approving, his hands didn’t stop. Hexagons appeared one after another, seemingly intending to stack them into a column to drown Xu Huo. Xu Huo’s situation was indeed dire because he felt something inside his body about to peel away, making him stiffen in place, completely immobile!