"What should we do? Where do we go next?"
She was getting anxious. We had already wasted too much time in this stone forest. She had said it would take less than an hour to pass through it, but we had already spent nearly two and a half hours here.
I told her not to worry. I wasn't in a hurry either. We would get out eventually.
"You have a way, right?" she asked me.
I calculated again in my mind, then pointed toward a narrow path on the left.
The path was very narrow, with stone walls on both sides that stood one and a half times a person's height. Once we entered, if we got lost, it would be even harder to tell east from west.
But my calculations showed that this was the right path.
She seemed uncertain. She looked at the path, then at me. "Why do I feel like this path is dangerous?"
Dangerous? I didn't get that feeling. But I knew that once we went in, we would probably have no choice but to keep moving forward. Hopefully, this wasn't another maze.
Just then, Ying Gou spoke again. "I think it's dangerous too."
If it had only been the woman saying so, I wouldn't have thought much of it. But now that Ying Gou said it too, I had to give it more thought.
I asked Ying Gou in my mind, "Can you foresee what kind of danger it is?"
He said, "Do you really think I'm a god?"
"But this path is the only way out," I said.
"Since that's what your calculations came up with, let's go in and take a look. If it really doesn't work, I'll make a move then. Go ahead without worry. As long as I'm here, there's