"Baishui Town changed every day. Buildings that could be seen yesterday might disappear the next day. It was precisely because of these changes that I hadn't been able to figure out the situation here these past few days. All I knew was that the deeper we went into Baishui Town, the more dangerous it became. Captain Yang, you can observe the buildings around us. As we went deeper, there were fewer and fewer normal buildings."
"In the end, Baishui Town might completely vanish from sight, and we would truly enter an unknown supernatural town."
"And I'm worried that if we go too deep, we might get lost and never be able to return. So unless it's necessary, I suggest we stop while we can."
As they walked, Xiao Yang explained the situation here while urging Yang Jian to proceed cautiously.
In his view, taking such a risk for a high school classmate named Wang Shanshan was not worth it.
The residents of Baishui Town were more important.
"I understand what you mean. You're worried I'll go too deep and be unable to return, causing the evacuation plan at six tomorrow morning to fail?" Yang Jian walked along the road, his eyes sweeping over the surroundings as he watched for anything unusual.
"One life versus the lives of everyone in an entire town. It's obvious which matters more," Xiao Yang said.
Yang Jian said, "The life of one important person and the lives of a group of strangers—which do you think matters more? Perhaps you shouldn't have come with me. You would have been safer staying in that building back there."
"I also hope we can find her quickly and return. If I hadn't come, and Captain Yang really got lost, I would regret my decision," Xiao Yang said after a