With Xu Huo judging the general direction and Mu Yan choosing the passage with more foot traffic, their journey went fairly smoothly. Over the next half day, they uncovered three clues and a number card, not counting effects that were basically meaningless, like "Go forward one hundred meters" or "Go back one hundred meters."
The three clues were:
"The information given by the cards is accurate."
"One player has already collected six flower cards."
"The maze's exit will not change location."
The truth of the first two clues wasn't that important, but the third seemed to suggest something, whether it was true or not: the maze's layout might not be fixed.
"Could the maze's exit actually move?" Mu Yan asked in surprise, her brows knitting tightly. "There's been no word of anything like this in instances from before or after the upgrade. Could the maze be trying to throw us off?"
"There might not have been anything like this before the upgrade, but that doesn't mean there isn't now," Xu Huo said. "I've read guides for earlier instances. The maze's basic setup hasn't changed much. If the instance's area has expanded, it makes sense to place obstacles at the start and exit."
"Don't these maze passages count as obstacles already?" Mu Yan said. "Without the right clues, you might not find your way out in ten days, let alone a month. And there's also a chance of running into a random teleportation gate. You could reach the exit and still get teleported away. Maybe clearing the instance comes down to luck."
"It's a C-class instance," Xu Huo said. "It should be this difficult. Besides, just walking through a maze isn't all that hard."
Finding one's way through a maze was merely a tedious way to clear an instance. Even with