Something was wrong!
On a scale of one to ten, this was an eleven.
Looking at the strangely familiar stretch of open, flat marshland, Chen Yu gradually slowed down.
"I've been walking for nearly two hours. Why haven't I left this marsh yet?"
"Is this marsh just too big, or..."
Chen Yu's gaze grew grave.
He looked around.
Then he thought of the Black Python that had vanished so inexplicably earlier.
"Keep going."
"If I still haven't gotten out after another two hours, that means something's wrong."
Black Mist Marsh was vast, but not so vast that he could walk straight ahead for four hours and still find himself in exactly the same surroundings.
Chen Yu walked onward.
But after only two steps, he suddenly stopped again.
"Just as well. It's time to replace the Poison-Filter Screen."
Chen Yu quickly and deftly removed the old Poison-Filter Screen and replaced it with a new one. After a moment's thought, he walked over and tied the old Filter Screen to a dead black tree nearby.
He tied it tight, making sure the wind wouldn't blow it down.
Then Chen Yu continued onward.
"The Black Mist Marsh Detailed Records described the conditions here. Aside from the venomous insects everywhere at night, the main dangers in Black Mist Marsh are overlord-class Spirit Beasts like Black Pythons and Gray-Blade Spiders. It didn't mention any other anomalies, so this shouldn't be a ghost wall. Yeah, definitely not a ghost wall..."
Soon, another two hours passed.
Chen Yu's expression grew grave.
His surroundings still hadn't changed much.
"Bad news: this marsh is ridiculously big. It's like there's no way out."
"Good news: I haven't seen the Filter Screen I tied to that branch earlier, so it probably isn't..."
Just as that thought crossed his mind, Chen Yu