Was the prerequisite for peaceful coexistence really having everyone's interests tied together?
Sha Ming's explanation undoubtedly proved once again that the unspoken understanding they'd shared just moments ago had served only one purpose: to "get himself up the mountain."
And his earlier conclusion that the rules here were obscure and difficult to predict had been right, too.
Although he'd explained it simply, you could still hear in Sha Ming's account how they'd become entangled, and how they'd struggled against it.
It seemed to have appeared without warning, and then, tacitly repeating what they'd just done, it had quickly dragged everyone into the mess.
Fu Qian could roughly guess what might have triggered it: the number of people.
If something could be explained by a simple factor, there was no need to make it complicated for no reason.
Compared to that digging team, the size of their group was an obvious difference.
They'd split up and entered the Mirror House from another direction. Because their group exceeded some limit, it had automatically triggered this team bond. That was a simple, straightforward explanation.
From that perspective, Miranda and the others seemed to have turned misfortune into fortune.
If they hadn't split off earlier—or if their team had included a few more people—they might have fallen under the spell of this team spirit, too.
As for why their groups had been divided so unevenly, it seemed strange at first, but it wasn't hard to understand at all: Old Master Huang Leji had never wanted to split up their forces.
That arrangement, in fact, showed that he was far more concerned about the risks they might face down here.
The main reason he'd sent Double Flower Red Club Huang Lezhan to lead the other team was probably Miranda.
Anyone could tell that the three