After leaving the convoy, he had been heading southeast the whole time. Naturally, his route back was northwest. There could be no mistake.
But how had he caught up with Ai Si here?
That went without saying. Ai Si must have had no sense of direction and gone the wrong way.
"I-I got the direction wrong?"
Seeing how certain Luo Fan looked, Ai Si began to lose confidence. Could it be? Had he really gotten it wrong?
"How, how did you determine that I got my bearings wrong?" After a moment of silence, Ai Si asked Luo Fan.
"Isn't it obvious? I traveled southeast for all those days, and now I'm back here. Doesn't that mean you've been heading northwest all along?" Luo Fan replied as though it were only natural.
"Impossible. When we parted the night before last, I observed that you were heading due east, not southeast," Ai Si said, shaking his head.
Due east? Absolutely impossible!
The reading Brother Zhao gave me through Divination said to head southeast. That was the best route for me.
And sure enough, although I encountered a Rule-Type Weird, I dealt with it easily. Didn't that confirm Brother Zhao's reading perfectly?
"How did you determine that you've been heading west all this time?" Luo Fan asked Ai Si, unsure whether to laugh or cry.
Let's correct his mistake in telling directions first.
"It's simple. I used the direction of the sunset."
"In summer, here in China, the sun sets in the northwest."
"And in winter, the sun sets in the southwest."
"Isn't that common knowledge from middle school geography? Is there something wrong with that?" Ai Si answered Luo Fan's question.
"Uh, the sun sets in the southwest in winter...? N-not due west?" Luo Fan was a little stunned by Ai Si's