If Su Man’s hand truly was that badly hurt, going into the labyrinth alone would be little short of a death sentence.

Bai Youwei frowned. “Does Su Man have any items on her?”

“She should only have the Snowflake left,” Zhu Shu said, deeply worried. “The water-monster eggs are all used up. Aside from the Snowflake, she has neither puzzle pieces nor any other items. According to her parents, some first-aid medicine and weapons went missing from the house — she must have taken them with her.”

“But how would she know where the labyrinth is?” Bai Youwei couldn’t work it out. “If she wants to go to the labyrinth, she needs to know the direction at the very least. She can’t just wander around aimlessly.”

Zhu Shu hesitated, then said quietly, “Her father works for the organization. He may know things we don’t. If Su Man got clues about the labyrinth from him, that’s not impossible.”

Speculating like this, there was still no concrete conclusion.

Bai Youwei said, “How about we go find Professor Song and ask?”

Zhu Shu shook her head slightly.

Professor Song occupied a peculiar position within the base.

When he wanted to see you, seeing him felt perfectly easy, almost unremarkable.

But when he was immersed in his research and had no wish to be disturbed, finding him was harder than reaching heaven itself — even the head of the organization, Chu Huaijin, wasn’t necessarily able to get an audience with Professor Song.

Shen Mo said, “Trying Chu Huaijin would be the same — if there’s intelligence about the labyrinth, he, as the chief person in charge, should know it too.”

“Might as well go ask,” Bai Youwei said. “If we want to collect puzzle pieces, we’ll need to find out about the labyrinth sooner or later.”

There was no time to lose. After a brief discussion, Shen Mo headed out to find Chu Huaijin.

They had expected to wait some time before learning anything — but to their surprise, Shen Mo returned quickly.

Chu Huaijin had come with him, bringing a map and two overlays.

The two overlays were very thin — nearly translucent — depicting scattered red dots and areas shaded in bright yellow. The patterns looked similar, yet differed in certain locations.

Chu Huaijin explained: “I should have had these delivered yesterday. This is the payment I promised: a map marked with labyrinth and game locations.

As you know, neither the labyrinth nor the games are fixed in position — the labyrinth expands its radius, and the games shift at random. So last night, the professor worked through the night to make corrections. These two overlays show: one is the detection results from a month ago, the other is last night’s corrected results. With our current technology, we can only guarantee 70% accuracy. I hope they’ll be of some use to you.”

“That’s enough,” Shen Mo said evenly. He took the two sheets and laid them over the map in turn.

The red dots and yellow patches aligned with the map at once, making everything clear at a glance. The yellow areas were the labyrinths; the red dots were the games.

“Is this the largest area you can currently detect?” Shen Mo asked.

The map in his hands covered a somewhat wider area than a standard city map — taking in several surrounding provinces and cities — but beyond that, it fell outside the map’s scope.

Chu Huaijin nodded. “Yes. While establishing the base, the research team’s personnel and equipment have been heavily strained. The current detection range is already at our limit.”

Shen Mo furrowed his brow slightly and looked at Bai Youwei and Zhu Shu beside him.

“From the map, the two nearest labyrinths are: one to the north, toward Xuzhou; one to the south, toward Fuzhou. Su Man should have gone to one of them.”

Zhu Shu and Bai Youwei looked at each other.

Two labyrinths, both completely unknown. In terms of distance alone, the difference was negligible. So… which labyrinth had Su Man gone to?