"But each player can hold a maximum of six cards," Lin Qian said. "If you have too many, some may disappear at random."
"Can we discard cards we've obtained?" Xu Huo asked.
Lin Qian and Big Tiger exchanged a glance. "We could before. We're not sure about now."
Xu Huo understood. The game's publicly stated rules were quite misleading. For example, some number cards could help players clear the game, face cards could send them straight to the correct passage, and safe passages corresponding to certain cards could appear on the maze walls.
All three rules seemed to say that the cards could help players clear the game, but they were actually glossing over important details.
The fact that some number cards could help players clear the game didn't mean all number cards could. The same went for the maze walls: cards could be found on them, but most of them were bound to be traps.
These three rules were really prompting players to fight over the cards. Compared to clearing the game, the second rule—the one about the number of players in each faction changing—seemed much less important.
After releasing the power of Cube Space, Xu Huo could move about three or four hundred meters ahead through the maze's winding passages. He couldn't see through the maze walls with his current level of evolution. Or rather, with the dungeon's power reinforcing them, ordinary players couldn't possibly see through the walls, which also diminished Cube Space's effectiveness.
Three or four hundred meters wasn't enough to let him determine in time whether a passage ahead was a dead end, so he could only test each route one at a time.
The background information mentioned 162 correct passages, with overlapping sections making up less than a third of the entire correct route.