Lin Taichu looked at the blank space on the map, his finger tapping the position of the two-hundred-sixtieth floor.
"From the two-hundredth floor down, the Restrictions become more and more complicated. When Zhou Jin took us down, he stopped at every intersection to look at the runes on the walls, and only after looking did he decide which path to take."
Zhao Feng leaned in to look at the map.
"Those runes are road markers?"
"They're indicators for the Restrictions. Different types of Restrictions have different runes. Zhou Jin could understand the runes, so he knew which paths could be taken and which couldn't."
Zhao Feng raised his head and looked at Lin Taichu.
"Your Excellency, you can understand those runes too?"
"I can't, but when Zhou Jin looked at the runes, I remembered which positions he was looking at."
Lin Taichu's finger moved across the map, starting from the entrance to the two-hundredth floor and following the route Zhou Jin had taken, stopping at every fork.
Zhao Feng's eyes lit up.
"Your Excellency, you remembered all of this?"
"I remembered it, but I don't know what those runes mean. I only know which positions of the runes he looked at at each intersection, and then which path he chose."
Zhao Feng thought for a moment.
"Then can we follow the route you remembered and go all the way down to the two-hundred-sixtieth floor?"
"We can try, but when Zhou Jin looked at the runes, there were some he didn't examine fully. He might have only looked at one group or two before making a decision. I don't know whether the groups of runes he didn't look at contained important information."
"And the Restrictions in the Underground City aren't set in stone. Some Restrictions change with time. A path that