"Something's wrong with this route."
Jiang Shengnan took out the research institute's layout and route maps, brought them before Luo Fan, and said, "Look, we're here."
"According to the route marked on the map, we should be turning left next."
"But look at where we are. There's no passage to the left at all."
Luo Fan leaned over to look. Judging by where Jiang Shengnan pointed, the route really should have turned left.
Yet there was indeed no left turn in this passage.
"Could you have remembered it wrong, or could the route map have been drawn incorrectly in the first place?"
"After all, even if the many Weird lurking here changed the passages, surely even the decor along the altered passages wouldn't look exactly the same?"
After a moment's thought, Luo Fan offered his guess.
Indeed, judging by the situation, wasn't the most reasonable possibility that Jiang Shengnan had remembered incorrectly, or that the route map itself was wrong?
"I couldn't have remembered it wrong. We've only taken a few turns," Jiang Shengnan said, shaking her head.
"Then either the route map is wrong, or this is the power of a Weird," Luo Fan said.
The scene before him actually felt somewhat familiar to Luo Fan.
Why? Because so far, he had only ever seen one Weird capable of walking in sunlight: his wife.
And yet, on the day his wife disappeared, he had also encountered a Weird that stood unharmed in the light of dawn.
Back then, everyone in the Hope Convoy who saw that scene had truly felt a sense of despair.
They couldn't defeat it, and after finally holding out until sunrise, their opponent should have been certain to die.
Yet it had remained completely unharmed?
Only later had Luo Fan learned that the Weird hadn't