When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 227

The Fence, the Courtyard, the Flower Garden, and the Manager

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"": 200, "": "", "": "Half an hour included the time spent walking forward and returning to this point.

That meant the farthest he could go one way was fifteen minutes.

The detour depended on the path beneath his feet, and the path beneath his feet depended on his eyes.

In fact, whether he found his way out or got led in circles, it all came down to the anchor points his eyes saw.

Normally, his eyes were always watching the path.

Only Luo Bin could break away from that normal state and find an anchor point that was not the path.

That was also why he had managed to escape the looping path outside Qiang Village.

So Luo Bin did something.

He used the Woodcutter's Knife to cut a strip of cloth from the hem of his clothes.

Then he faced a direction he had walked in before and tied the cloth over his eyes.

His vision went completely dark.

Once again, he used Rewind on a memory, one of himself sitting in his room at his home in Cabinet Mountain Village, thinking.

Luo Bin did not dwell on what he had been thinking about then. Instead, he watched the clock on the wall and began counting the time.

At the same time, he gathered his courage and stepped forward.

Luo Bin kept his steps steady, making sure he walked in a straight line.

Of course, he still held the Woodcutter's Knife. Like a blind man feeling his way forward, he kept probing ahead with the blade. He also listened intently in every direction. The moment he heard anything unusual, he would tear the cloth off his face!

The first few steps were fine. After that, Luo Bin felt as though his next step might land on

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