"Why didn't you say so sooner..." Xi gazed at the black walls that reached for the sky, his voice tinged with despair.
"I wasn't sure... I've never seen the maze change with my own eyes," Li Luo said apologetically. "And we were always moving forward before. The paths got wider, and even though we'd sometimes end up in a loop, we were still making our way deeper in."
Li Luo pointed to the route on the digital screen. "Look, here's the entrance. We're already very far from it. I thought if we just kept going, we'd reach the deepest part. But I never imagined that the deeper we went, the faster the maze would change—until we couldn't keep up anymore."
Xi was still confused after hearing Li Luo's explanation.
"If the maze is constantly changing, why haven't we noticed? And now that it's changing even faster, shouldn't we be seeing it happen all the time? We've been walking for so long, so why haven't we seen it even once?"
