"Remember the route we take. You mustn't forget it," Fan Xiu told Wang Mizong through voice transmission.
The Underground Underground River crisscrossed in an immensely complex network. If they failed to remember the route they had taken, they would not even be able to return later.
The two kept darting through all manner of underground passages, some enormous, others tiny.
Fortunately, both were experts. Though they passed through countless passages, they still committed their route to memory.
If the current slowed, they believed they could make their way back against it.
The question now was when this current would slow.
"Have you noticed something wrong?" After quite a while, Fan Xiu sent Wang Mizong another voice transmission.
"Something's been wrong this whole time. What do you mean?" Wang Mizong asked.
The currents around them were far too powerful. They had been abnormal all along.
"Haven't you noticed? We seem to have passed this place already," Fan Xiu said.
Wang Mizong's heart jolted at those words. He had been memorizing their route all along, but had not thought to compare the stretches they had passed through.
After Fan Xiu's reminder, he too realized that the two of them seemed to have returned to a place they had passed earlier.
The water flowed so swiftly here that they soon swept past the same place again.
"We seem to be trapped in a circular underground river. This is our chance to get out. Remember this route. We absolutely mustn't let ourselves be swept into any other branches now. If we get swept into another branch, our chances of returning will be extremely slim," Fan Xiu quickly realized.
Wang Mizong understood too and hurriedly said, "We need to seize our chance and get out through the opening beneath the pool."
This was their only