A New Direction

Lan Xin earnestly recounted what had happened in the darkness, while Li Luo listened beside her, her heart pounding with fear.

Crossing through the darkness did not seem like a simple task.

"Is there a map? Is there a map of the darkness?"

"No." Lan Xin shook her head. "The darkness shifts."

"It shifts?"

"Yes. For example, that Warped Valley I just mentioned sometimes appears outside Rainbow Light City, and sometimes vanishes without a trace. It is as if every region in the darkness is being driven by something, constantly changing its own location."

"Is there a pattern?" Li Luo pressed.

If there was a pattern, then it could still be predicted.

But Lan Xin shook her head again. "Some have patterns, while others do not. Those that shift according to temporal patterns are easy to predict, but many have no pattern at all—or rather, their patterns have yet to be discovered. These regions might appear right where you are the very next second. There would be no way to escape."

Li Luo froze. If that was the case, then the danger was impossible to predict.

"Why do the regions shift?" She still could not understand.

"It is a characteristic of the darkness. Like continental drift, there may be some force beneath the darkness constantly affecting the regions above."

Lan Xin told Li Luo that this "Darkness Drift Theory" had only recently been proposed by human scientists.

Previously, humanity had always believed that those regions with strange phenomena only appeared occasionally, or were "fixed," erupting only in certain places.

But later, humanity discovered that the same phenomenon could appear in many different places, as though the region itself was migrating. Such cases were extremely common, and many had been documented.

"Ashfall Zone used to be a very famous region on