While they were eating, Liang Shuang bought a copy of a "Maze Guide" from the restaurant staff. "There are plenty of guides for places like Card City. They aren't necessarily accurate, but you might find some reliable information in them. They're cheap anyway, so there's no harm in taking a look."
Xu Huo went along with it and bought a different one somewhere else.
The maze had only recently been upgraded, so no detailed guides were available yet. Naturally, the maze's secrets wouldn't spread through the streets and alleys so quickly either. The rumors in these guides covered only nonessential information, such as the maze's general layout.
Details like what kinds of plants made up most of the maze walls, what traits the Mutated Plants had, how to guard against them, and what their weaknesses were could still be useful, since attacks by Mutated Plants were a major feature of the maze Dungeon.
There were also some basic facts that almost everyone knew, such as how maze walls contained hidden doors that might lead to safe passageways—or conceal danger.
That was about as specific as it got.
Xu Huo had originally planned to buy a guide from an earlier Dungeon, but he was told that most of them had already been collected and destroyed. In the era of cloud-based information storage, junk information was the chief culprit clogging up information channels. At the government's urging, most old Dungeon information had been recalled. At the very least, businesses that openly sold guides on the street couldn't have kept any.
Liang Shuang looked a little uneasy. "I have guides from earlier Dungeons. I was just worried they might mislead you, and I figured they weren't really useful anyway, so I didn't mention them."
As he spoke, he took out a miniature Projector