The car drove into a cluster of low-rise buildings and rounded a corner. The buildings disappeared, leaving almost no houses for several hundred meters ahead, only woodland that looked like a park.
After parking in the park's lot, Ke Meng accompanied Old Man Ming inside. They followed a winding route to the public toilets, circled around the back, and stepped onto a grassy area without any paths, slowly making their way deeper in.
Beyond a dense patch of woods, a stone stele came into view, bearing the words "Stop here. Entry prohibited."
"We're here. This is the place, but I have no way of getting in. Your Investigation Bureau should have a way." Old Man Ming stopped before the stele.
The stele was a sealing point established by the Investigation Bureau to keep unsuspecting tourists from wandering inside.
At the same time, special items like this well were deeply connected to their surroundings. Once removed, they would lose their special properties.
"The Lost Way Stele, a Class 6 item. It marks out a certain area, causing anyone who sees it to lose their way without leading them into the inner area. However, people with high spiritual perception can overcome it using their sixth sense..." Ke Meng studied the stele, recalling the file Director Wu had provided.
Apart from using a sixth sense to get past it, there was another very straightforward method: blow the place up and remove everything obstructing the view.
Without those visual obstructions, no matter how lost someone became, they would at least be able to walk in a straight line.
Naturally, Ke Meng used his sixth sense. After taking his first step onto the ground behind the stele, he turned back and said, "Stay right here. Don't wander off. Wait for us to come out."
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