169: Chapter 169 They went out

Instead, two adjacent peaks generated automatically according to his imagination were a bit too close together, but not completely pressed against each other. This formed a gap in the middle, which was the corridor where Xiao Niao and the others were currently hiding.

The end of this corridor naturally couldn't be some cave; it was a Space Barrier disguised as a mountain range. After all, the land Chen Mo had expanded at the time was only so large. Inside the mountains was the territory he personally created and owned, while outside the mountains was an Endless Void Realm—a true nothingness without even light. Chen Mo himself didn't dare set foot there. So, for the safety of the players, he had placed an Invisible Barrier right at the junction of the Main God Space and the Void Realm. Even if there were players who acted like pangolins and dug a tunnel under the mountains, they would eventually be blocked by the barrier and realize with frustration that there was no way forward.

Thus, when Chen Mo saw Tang Yao, Xiao Niao, and the others discussing some cave or treasure down there, he didn't take it to heart at all, because there couldn't possibly be anything behind the corridor!

However, when his "vision" followed Tang Yao to the so-called cave, he was genuinely surprised. Not for any other reason, but because this "cave" looked far too real, as if he had actually set a cave there when making the game.

"Xiao Wan, did you make this cave?" Chen Mo couldn't help but ask Xiao Wan as he looked at the incredibly realistic cave.

Xiao Wan shook its head: [Master only gave Xiao Wan permission to assist in running the game, not the permission to create. Besides, Xiao Wan doesn't know how to do this kind of creative work.]

Chen Mo nodded and said with deep emotion, "Then it seems this thing that looks like a cave, just like the corridor in front of it, was formed by coincidence. Perhaps this is the uncanny workmanship of creation."

Before this, Chen Mo didn't even know such an interesting scene existed within the mountains at the map's boundary.

Although the world of Fantasy Jianghu was created by his own hand, and for the world of Fantasy Jianghu, Chen Mo was to some extent a character like a God of Creation or a Creator, this didn't mean he knew all the microscopic or even abstract things within the world. He needed to "see" what had happened or was happening in the game to know. It was just that as an Apprentice Main God, he still had a bit of a privilege; his seeing was not with eyes, but with his mind.

Wherever his heart thought of or his mind focused on, the things there would emerge in his heart.

So he wasn't omniscient; he only knew things when he thought of them. For instance, with this thing resembling a cave, he didn't know it existed before. He first heard Tang Yao mention the existence of a "cave," and with a thought, the "cave" on the mountain at the end of the corridor appeared in his mind without him needing to use his eyes.

After seeing the appearance of the cave and confirming with Xiao Wan that it wasn't its doing, Chen Mo couldn't help but marvel at the uncanny workmanship of creation. However, he soon felt pity for the trio of Tang Yao, Xiao Niao, and Gualing. They were probably still fantasizing about finding some treasure in the cave, unaware that it wasn't a cave at all. It was just a hole formed by the pressure inside the mountain when it was created. The reason it was pitch black inside wasn't because it was an enclosed space, but because the Endless Void Realm outside the map was showing its darkness through the transparent barrier they couldn't see.

As Chen Mo was thinking, his expression suddenly changed, and the barbecue skewer in his hand dropped.

As the intelligent assistant of the Main God Space, Xiao Wan also sensed something was wrong and looked at Chen Mo with a face full of confusion: [Master, they've disappeared?]

Chen Mo: "They went in... no, they've gone out."

Xiao Wan: [Out? How did they get out?]

Chen Mo didn't speak, closing his eyes tightly and using his mind to sense the presence of Tang Yao and the other two.

After a long while, Chen Mo slowly opened his eyes: "Strange, I can sense they are still in the game, which means they haven't left. But I've searched every corner of the game and can't find them. Xiao Wan, what's going on in this situation?"

Blue light crackled in Xiao Wan's eyes as the data stream scrolled rapidly before slowly stopping and returning to normal. It shook its head and said: [Sorry, Master, Xiao Wan has never experienced such a thing and doesn't know what's happening.]

Chen Mo nodded helplessly in understanding. After all, transforming the Main God Space into a Game Space suited his own wishes and set him on a unique path as a Main God, but it also meant that much of the development experience accumulated by the previous 36 Main Gods was useless. He would even face problems for which Xiao Wan couldn't find any precedents in its database, like right now, where three players suddenly vanished...

Fortunately, Chen Mo used to be a lowly coder. It was common for the code he wrote to run for a bit and then have problems, so he wasn't too nervous facing this sudden anomaly.

Furthermore, he had set a fundamental principle at the beginning of the Game Space's creation—the primary condition for the Game Space to harvest player Soul points was to ensure the safety of the player's Soul. Therefore, what entered the game was only five percent of a player's total Soul points. Even if an uncontrollable accident truly occurred, the worst result would only be character death and being forced out of the game, unable to re-enter that day. Only after the player had enough sleep in reality and their mental state returned to Perfection could they enter again.

So even if Tang Yao, Xiao Niao, and Gualing really ran out from the boundary of the Fantasy Jianghu map and into the Endless Void Realm outside the Main God Space, it would be nothing more than a bizarre nightmare for them; there wouldn't be any more serious consequences.

However, what left Chen Mo completely baffled was how they could have squeezed out through that "cave"?

Chen Mo sensed carefully with his mind, "staring" at that uniquely shaped cave for a long time, when he was suddenly struck by a chilling realization.

"Damn, why does this cave look like a Tombstone?"