From a theoretical perspective, Max indeed might know where the staircase to the fourth floor was located. After all, she had circled around this floor extensively, so finding a suspected entrance was quite reasonable.

But...

Max's current pace was just too certain.

Although the Ancient Notebook also recorded some information about Max, and Lin Yu knew this person had a compass that could locate things...

He hadn't actually seen Max take out that compass, had he?

So combining this with the dungeon's mechanics, Lin Yu had reason to suspect...

"Could this person also have retained memories?"

But that shouldn't be the case. If that were true, Max's behavior should have shown more abnormalities. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Lin Yu didn't think he could encounter such a genius actor in this dungeon with superb acting skills capable of fooling even himself.

If Max was truly acting, she wouldn't have just deceived him once—according to the Ancient Notebook's records, in previous cycles, he had always thought Max was just a bit scatterbrained and careless, without any subjective malice.

Even when he had started developing some suspicions in the last cycle, he still hadn't changed his assessment of Max.

Moreover, the Max he witnessed with his own eyes during this activity did indeed seem somewhat harmless.

Thinking this far, Lin Yu decided...

To simply ask Max directly.

Following the determined Max straight to the stairwell door, looking at the "Unsafe Passage" before the door in the empty and silent corridor, Lin Yu naturally exclaimed.

"Eh? Is this the passage to the fourth floor?"

"Max, how did you know to come here? Do you also have precognitive abilities?"

Hearing Lin Yu's question, Max standing at the stairwell entrance froze.

She scratched her head, seeming to experience some mental short-circuiting due to Lin Yu's question.

"Eh? Ah? Right... why did I think about going upstairs and come straight here?"

Max looked at this large door, falling into deep thought: "Could it be some kind of intuition?"

"Or perhaps this is actually some kind of trap luring us here."

Watching Max's reaction, Lin Yu developed a hypothesis.

"Could it be that this person hasn't retained memories, but like me, has some residual 'feeling' that led her to this passage?"

After all, Lin Yu had relied on that abnormal "sense of déjà vu" in his heart to think of using Closed Mind, thus confirming his memory loss phenomenon.

Calculating it this way, it wasn't surprising that Max had similar symptoms.

So...

"It really might be sixth sense."

Lin Yu played up his current persona as the 'Seer', speaking mysteriously.

"Because I can also feel that this 'Unsafe Passage' is the correct path."

As he spoke, Lin Yu opened the door on his own.

According to the details recorded in the Ancient Notebook, there was a monster behind this door.

Just as Lin Yu prepared to use the Fear Torch to preemptively clear out the monster behind the door...

Another deviation from the notebook's recorded contents occurred.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

A series of hurried footsteps came from upstairs.

Then, Lin Yu saw a young woman wearing simple clothing hurriedly descending the stairs.

Seeing Lin Yu and Max standing at the doorway, she immediately stopped abruptly, pulled out a paintbrush and swiftly drew a geometric shape to crush the monster behind the door, then turned to look at Max and Lin Yu with a very stiff posture.

This kind of posture was very familiar to Lin Yu—like when a drama club doesn't have enough actors and pulls in classmates with no foundation to play extras.

They remember the lines they're supposed to say and know when to say them, so they focus completely on waiting for the previous actor to finish their lines so they can immediately pour out all their lines at once.

This was Robin's current state.

Sure enough...

As Max exclaimed in surprise: "Holy crap, you're Night Watchmen's Teacher Robin, right? I'm Night Watchmen's Max!"

"Amazing, I actually encountered you in this dungeon!"

"I'm from the Star City branch, my class is Thief."

"The person next to me is also a player, he has the Unique Class Seer, um, seems to have no organization!"

Sure enough, upon hearing Max's self-introduction, Robin immediately began rapidly reciting her lines as if triggered by a reflex.

"Oh oh, Max right, good good, since we're from the same organization that makes things easier. I've already done some investigation—to clear this dungeon we need to go to the first floor. Since you're from Night Watchmen, and the player next to you is also from..."

At this point, Robin suddenly stalled.

She paused for a moment, then pulled out from her chest what looked like a small vocabulary flashcard notebook, glancing back and forth three times.

"Unique Class Seer? No organization?"

Max nodded, speaking happily: "Yes, Teacher Robin, his Unique Class information position is directly invincible! Plus me... both of us gather information, we can directly support you, we can bulldoze through this dungeon!"

"What do you think, bro?"

Lin Yu nodded, naturally not contradicting Max.

Simultaneously, looking at the stunned, brain-crashed, somewhat reality-questioning Robin, he understood in his heart.

"Sure enough, as a Third Tier Painter and renowned expert, she also has methods to retain information when encountering this reincarnation cycle mechanism, and she actually recorded mine and Max's identities."

Back when Lin Yu first chose to pretend to be the Seer, he had realized that because of Robin's existence, meeting her might cause this lie to fail.

He might even be directly exposed by Robin.

But it didn't matter...

Because according to intelligence, in previous cycles, Robin definitely hadn't been honest about having methods to retain information, only revealing some clues.

So...

"Um... Seer."

Robin quickly regained her composure, speaking to Lin Yu.

Lin Yu knew this was her struggling between suspecting that her past self's recorded information was wrong and suspecting that he was lying, ultimately choosing the latter.

After all, Robin would soon realize that the Seer class sounded exactly like the kind of profession someone who could retain information across cycles would pretend to have.

And when Robin addressed him by the name "Seer," Lin Yu clearly understood what Robin intended to do.

Sure enough, Robin gently waved her hand toward Lin Yu while apologetically looking at Max.

"Sorry, Max... I might need to have a private chat with this Seer."

"Eh? Ah?"

Although Max was somewhat surprised, soon, out of trust in the name 'Robin,' she stopped worrying about it.

"Okay Teacher Robin, you two chat slowly! I'll go wander around outside for a bit!"