Facing "Dilun's" question, Xu Nan thought for a moment:
"Probably when you told me how difficult the road to Ice Saw Valley was."
Sanger nodded thoughtfully.
Xu Nan had long suspected his true identity, but he had only truly deduced the identity of Ice Saw Valley's master after setting out.
When that map marking the three great danger zones had been placed before Xu Nan, "Dilun" had seemingly been urging Xu Nan to charge straight through, while actually secretly steering him onto another path.
That was to detour across the surface!
That was perfectly normal. Faced with that map, it was the decision anyone with a functioning brain would make.
And the moment Xu Nan made that decision, he immediately sensed that something was wrong.
Dilun had actually insisted on charging straight through such a dangerous route. That clearly did not match the intelligence of a scholar.
He seemed more like he had deliberately proposed that view just to oppose Xu Nan.
That only made Xu Nan more certain of his judgment.
This scholar's true goal was probably to make him change course and head for the surface.
What would happen if he changed course and headed for the surface?
Xu Nan guessed that even if they had not encountered the beast tide, "Dilun" would have found every possible way to drag the group into the struggle for the Seal of Divergence.
Since he had already decided to play the role of a dragonborn captive who had infiltrated the United Legion, he would certainly make all his plans unfold naturally.
Later, Ben Franklin's appearance further confirmed Xu Nan's suspicions.
But at the time, he had not known that Sanger had already been "captured" by Luo Linna, so it had remained nothing more than suspicion.
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