Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1208 - 633: Who Attacked Xu Xin, After All? (Part 3)

In the current explorer team, only the three of them weren’t members of that timeline, that team.

Having lived three hundred years, having gone through humanity’s two most hopeless eras across two timelines, and having just been betrayed by a friend, she would naturally suspect every possible target she could suspect.

”Huh? Of course it’s impossible that we brought him here.” Lou Fei’Er said unhappily. ”Are you suspecting us? If we really had brought him back, what would we have to hide?”

”I was just saying it as a possibility. Since it’s not...”

Xu Ying sighed. ”Since it’s not, then unless that man has the same kind of free time–space travel ability as I do, there’s no way he could have gotten here this fast. We’re near a fully mature World Tree here, in the area most deeply affected by it. With their method, teleporting here is impossible; basically, the only option is to come from far away on foot and then launch an attack.”

”Oh?” Ji Chaoyang caught the key point in that sentence. ”Going by what you’re saying, that kind of situation we had before, with large-scale mutated creatures being teleported over to besiege us...”

”Oh, that can’t happen anymore.” Xu Ying nodded.

Everyone was stunned.

”Why didn’t you say that earlier...” Xu Xin shook his head helplessly.

Xu Ying looked completely innocent. ”I thought you all knew. The area around the World Tree is all its territory now—how could it possibly allow that kind of situation to exist? But the teleportation range the World Tree can interfere with isn’t very large, only about a fifty-kilometer radius or so, much smaller than the range its root network has spread to.”

”That’s already huge, okay!” Wang Lei yelled. ”A fifty-kilometer radius is already huge, that’s already... huh? Wait, those petrified creatures were discovered around forty to fifty kilometers out. Could it be they were teleported to just outside that fifty-kilometer range and then walked toward us from there?”

”Eh...” Xu Ying stared wide-eyed at Wang Lei, then lowered her head and muttered under her breath, ”So you really didn’t know... ah!”

Her forehead got flicked by Xu Xin, and she immediately glared at him. ”What did you flick me for? You’re the ones who are dumb. Sis-in-law, look at him!”

”Mm, this time it is your fault, Yingying.” Li Wenxi pinched her cheek hard.

”Mmm mmm...”

”Back to the point.” Xu Xin clapped his hands.

”So we can basically confirm now that the person who attacked me shouldn’t be the same one you three ran into.” Xu Xin said to Lou Fei’Er and the other two.

Xu Ying started muttering again. ”I thought from the start it wasn’t him. A desk jockey like that couldn’t possibly get his hands on a sniper rifle like this. Having a little handgun for self-defense would already be pretty good... ah!”

She covered her forehead where she’d been flicked again and glared fiercely at Xu Xin.

”You should’ve said that earlier.” Xu Xin rolled his eyes, then his expression turned worried again.

If that person wasn’t the survivor Lou Fei’Er’s group had met, then who was he?

”Was it... the Order Keepers?” Ji Chaoyang looked toward Xu Ying, who was rubbing her own forehead.

”Of course it was. Only the Order Keepers would have something like this.” Xu Ying said as if it were obvious. ”That’s why I told you to be careful. The Order Keepers have clearly already set their sights on you. I mean, it’d be weird if they didn’t. You’re the biggest headache they’ve had in the last thousand years.”

So that’s how it is...

Hmm...?

Xu Xin suddenly remembered something, something he’d almost overlooked.

”Yingying, you said they already can’t teleport into our area anymore, right?” Xu Xin asked.

”Yeah. What’s the problem?”

”Then... can they teleport out?” Xu Xin pressed.

”Of course they can’t.” Xu Ying said.

”Then...” Xu Xin looked at Shi Wanyun. ”Shi Wanyun can teleport out because she’s one of us?”

”Of course. We already gave her free in-and-out access to the World Tree.” Xu Ying looked at Shi Wanyun. ”It’s normal that she can use teleportation devices.”

...Then how did that red dot on the mental map I saw before suddenly disappear?

Didn’t it teleport away?

Wait...

Xu Ying had said that people with time–space abilities could still teleport...

Other than her, who else has time–space abilities?