It seemed Xia Nan and the others had already considered this possibility, since they must have introduced themselves to one another.
Once they heard that none of Qin Manjiang's group of three was Number One, they immediately understood.
Funnily enough, Qin Manjiang's group had thought [One], who had issued the invitations, was in the other group, while the other group had thought exactly the same thing.
But once they met up, they discovered there was no such person as [One] at all.
"Let's put together the route map on the invitations first."
Wu Tiansheng spoke.
For some reason, after Wu Tiansheng said this, a chill ran through everyone. It did not come from the ice and snow, but from... the gaze of something stranger.
For fairness, all the invitations were returned to their owners this time. Standing in a circle in the snow, each person held an unfolded invitation and brought it toward the center.
After a simple adjustment to their order, a complete route map appeared.
The dot of light marking their location was still near the beginning of the golden line, while a small "door"-shaped symbol was drawn at the end of the route map.
Barring anything unexpected, that was their destination, the place they were looking for.
Yet just then, something extremely strange happened.
"Do... do we really have to dig it up?" Hu Feifei shook her head slightly, her face terrified, yet her mouth continued, "Twelve years have passed, and we're all fine. Maybe..."
"Xiao Wu! What nonsense are you talking about!" Chen Xin, who should have been shy and taciturn, suddenly glared at her and roared furiously, "We agreed to this. If we don't finish it, we'll all die!"
Now everyone realized something was wrong!
Qin Manjiang, in particular, felt an intense sense of déjà