Fishing for Robin

Theoretically speaking, it's entirely possible that Max knew where the stairs to the fourth floor were, given that she went around the entire floor and it's reasonable for her to have found a possible entrance.

But...

Max's steps were far too confident at that moment.

Although the [Ancient Notebook] also recorded some information about Max, Lin Yu knew that this guy had a Compass that could locate objects...

But he didn't see Max take out that Compass either.

Therefore, considering the mechanics of this Instance, Lin Yu has reason to suspect...

"Does this guy retain his Memory too?"

But that shouldn't be the case; if that were the case, Max's behavior should have shown even more abnormalities.

Lin Yu didn't think he would encounter a genius Actor with superb acting skills in this Instance, one who could even fool him.

Even if Max was really acting, she hadn't just fooled herself once—after all, according to the [Ancient Notebook], she had always thought Max was just a bit eccentric and didn't have any malicious intent.

Even though he seemed to have some doubts last time, he still didn't change his assessment of Max.

Moreover, Max, whom I saw in person during this event, was indeed somewhat harmless.

Thinking about this, Lin Yu made a decision...

Try asking Max directly.

Following Max's firm steps, Lin Yu walked straight to the stairwell door. Looking at the "Unsafe Passage" in front of the door in the empty and quiet corridor, Lin Yu naturally sighed.

"Huh? Is this the passage to the fourth floor?"

"Max, how did you know we had to go this way? Do you have precognitive abilities?"

Max, who was standing at the entrance to the stairwell, was stunned by Lin Yu's question.

She scratched her head, as if Lin Yu's question had caused a short circuit.

"Huh? Ah? Yeah... why did I head straight here when I thought I was going upstairs?"

Max stared at the door, lost in deep thought, "Could it be some kind of intuition?"

"Or is this actually some kind of trap to lure us here?"

Looking at Max's reaction, Lin Yu had a guess in his mind.

"Could it be that this person didn't retain any Memory, but like me, had some residual 'feelings' that led her to this passage?"

After all, it was by relying on his unusual sense of déjà vu that Lin Yu came up with the idea of using [Closed Mind] to confirm his Memory loss.

Given this, it's not surprising that Max has similar symptoms.

So...

"It really could be a sixth sense."

Lin Yu, adopting his current persona as a "prophet," spoke in a deliberately mysterious manner.

"Because I can also sense that this 'Unsafe Passage' is the right path."

As Lin Yu spoke, he opened the door on his own.

According to the details recorded in the [Ancient Notebook], there is a monster behind this door.

Just as Lin Yu was about to use the [Fear Torch] to preemptively eliminate the monsters behind the door...

The content differed again from what was recorded in the notes.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

A series of hurried footsteps came from upstairs.

Then, Lin Yu saw a girl dressed in simple clothes hurrying down the stairs.

Upon seeing Lin Yu and Max standing at the front door, she immediately stopped, took out her paintbrush, and sketched a Geometric Shapes shape that crushed the monster behind the door. Then, she looked at Max and Lin Yu with a very stiff expression.

Lin Yu was very familiar with this posture—it was like when Drama club ran out of extras, they would pull in a classmate with no acting experience to play a minor role.

He memorized his lines and knew when to say them, so he waited intently for the previous Actor to finish his lines so he could immediately unleash them all at once.

This is Robin's current state.

Really...

Max exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap, you're the Night Watcher's 'Robin' teacher, right? I'm Max from the Night Watcher!"

"Great, I can't believe I ran into you in this Instance!"

"I'm from the Star City branch, my Profession is 'thief'."

"The guy next to me is also Player, the Unique Profession, uh, it seems he didn't stop me!"

Sure enough, Robin hearing Max's self-introduction, Robin immediately began reciting his lines at lightning speed, as if a conditioned reflex had been triggered.

"Oh, Max, is that right? Okay, okay, since you're from the same organization, that makes things easier. I've already done some research. To get through this Instance, we need to go to the first floor. Since you're from the 'Night Watcher,' and the Player next to you is also from..."

At this point, Robin stopped talking.

She paused for a moment, then pulled out a small notebook that looked like a vocabulary book from her pocket and looked at it three times.

"The Unique Profession: 'Prophet'? No organization?"

Max nodded, beaming, "Yeah, Robin, his Unique Profession information-gathering role is practically invincible! Plus me... we're both information providers, so we'll focus on you and easily clear this Instance!"

"What do you say, brother?"

Lin Yu nodded, naturally not refuting Max.

At the same time, he looked at Robin, who was dumbfounded, mentally blank, and somewhat doubting his existence, and Robin in his heart.

"As expected, as Tier 3 'Painter' and a renowned expert, she also had ways to retain information when encountering this kind of reincarnation mechanism, and she even remembered my and Max's identities."

When Lin Yu first chose to impersonate the "prophet," he realized that the lie might fail when he met Robin because of Robin presence.

It might even be directly exposed by Robin.

But it doesn't matter...

According to intelligence, in previous cycles, Robin never openly admitted to having the means to retain information; he only revealed some Spider Silk.

So...

"That... prophet."

Robin quickly came to her senses and spoke to Lin Yu.

Lin Yu knew that she was torn between doubting whether the information recorded by her past self was wrong or doubting that he was lying, and had chosen the latter.

After all, Robin soon realized that the Profession of "prophet" sounded like something someone who could retain information in the cycle of reincarnation would pretend to Profession.

When Robin addressed him as "the prophet," Lin Yu knew exactly what Robin was up to.

Sure Robin, Lin Yu waved gently to Lin Yu, while looking apologetically at Max.

"Excuse me, Max ... I might need to speak with this prophet privately."

"Huh? Huh?"

Max was somewhat surprised, but soon, trusting the name "Robin," she stopped worrying about it.

"Okay, Mr. Robin, you two chat! I'm going to go for a walk outside!"