Survival Queen of the Frozen Wastes novel Chapter 668

Chapter 668 The Fractured Safe Zone

Chapter 668 The Fractured Safe Zone

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Farther off, an elf NPC stood beside the portal, holding a long silver thread in her hands. She tried reconnecting the thread to the broken gap on the portal frame, but the second she finished, the silver line snapped with a sharp pop.

The elf stared at the broken thread with a blank expression, bent down to pick it up, and tried again.

No one paid Riley and her group any mind.

No one explained what had happened in this hall either.

Riley walked over to the potion cabinet.

That was when the orc NPC finally looked up.

“Buying something?”

His voice was rough and gravelly.

Riley glanced at the cabinet top.

There were only three potions in sight, all high–grade recovery potions. Their prices were 20 percent higher than the ones in the Floor 18 central hall.

“Is this all you have?”

The orc shoved the price sign forward half an inch.

“Take it or leave it.”

TartKing fell silent, not knowing what to say.

Riley wasn’t surprised by the NPC’s rude attitude at all.

She bought all three recovery potions on the spot.

As soon as the tokens were deducted, the orc’s movements sped up a little. He pushed the potions toward her and then dropped his head again to fix the cracks under the cabinet.

Riley didn’t walk away.

“What happened here?”

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The orc kept working without pausing.

“Don’t know.”

Riley placed one token on the cabinet surface.

The orc’s eyes flicked upward.

Riley set down a second token.

The orc stayed quiet for two full seconds before snatching both tokens off the table.

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“Floor 20’s energy surge broke through. It wrecked half this hall. We’re fixing it, but it ain’t gonna get fixed anytime soon.”

After saying that, he went back to work and refused to speak another word.

TartKing wanted to ask more questions, but Riley held her back with a hand gesture.

They wouldn’t get any more answers here.

Pineapple Beer stood a short distance away, staring quietly at the central portal.

She’d barely said a word ever since they stepped into the Floor 19 central hall. Her new gloves fit snug against her fingertips, and the silver lines of the Shadow Rift Gloves flickered every now and then, almost responding to the fractured light along the portal’s edges.

Riley walked over to her.

“Did you remember something?”

PineappleBeer didn’t answer right away.

Her gaze lingered on the broken portal frame, unfocused. It looked like she was staring at the door itself, yet also seeing something far beyond it.

TartKing crept closer and whispered, “Did Floor 20 blast through this place too?”

Pineapple Beer’s lips moved slightly.

“Pretty much.”

Riley looked straight at her.

Pineapple Beer lifted a hand and pointed at the missing chunks in the hall’s dome ceiling.

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“This place was never supposed to be this messed up. The Floor 19 central hall should’ve been a safe zone, just like all the ones before it. But stuff from Floor 20 leaked out and crashed right into this floor.”

TartKing’s fingers tightened nervously.

“Leaked out?”

“Spatial distortions, leftover time fragments, and probably other things too.” PineappleBeer’s voice was soft. “That’s why the NPCs are scrambling to fix everything. If they can’t fix it, Floor 19’s main hall will get slowly pulled into Floor 20. But this isn’t just regular physical damage. That’s why their repairs keep failing over and over.”

TartKing’s expression turned serious.

She glanced subconsciously at the nearby NPCs.

The dwarves still hauled stone bricks back and forth. The elf still reconnected the broken silver threads over and over. The orc hammered nails tight into the cracks under his cabinet.

All of them looked cold and detached.

But none of them stopped working for even a second.

Riley fell silent for a moment and then split the newly bought potions. She handed one bottle to TartKing and stashed the other two in the easiest–to–reach slot of her backpack.

“There are no other survivors here.”

TartKing quickly scanned the entire hall.

She didn’t spot a single person.

None of the top–tier survivors they’d met in the Floor 18 central hall–Crow, the three–person team, the guy with the bone pauldrons–were anywhere to be seen. No players from other servers had arrived here to rest either.

The whole hall felt like an abandoned maintenance station.

TartKing swallowed hard.

“Do you think everyone got stuck on the Gatekeeper fight?”

Riley didn’t reply.

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It was possible.

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Or some people might’ve beaten the Gatekeeper but missed the path to this hall.

Or they’d pushed straight into Floor 20 and never come back out.

Pineapple Beer suddenly spoke up.

“Not everyone can even see this hall.”

Riley turned toward her. “What do you mean?”

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Pineapple Beer’s brows furrowed faintly, like she wasn’t even sure where the thought came from.

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