[ Xue Yang's grin widens noticeably to anyone who can look to see it, but his tone of voice when he speaks remains unchanged. ]
Isn't that up to your own luck? You have just as much chance getting it wrong as right.
[ Or it would be, if Xiao Xingchen weren't the sort of person to, far more often than not, have terrible luck.
Xue Yang turns to the left and tugs Xiao Xingchen along with him. The path before them is long, without any further turns visible before it disappears in the distance around its slight right curve. They follow it along and Xue Yang continues to talk as if nothing is amiss. Finally they reach a left u-turn that sends them back along a path parallel to the one they'd just been walking, now curved left. After a bit more distance of that, Xue Yang slows to a stop. ]
You should try to figure out what's in front of us, daozhang.
[ What's in front is, of course, a dead-end. But more than simply that, there's a closed treasure chest waiting for a lost explorer to discover it. Xue Yang hasn't opened this one in particular, but he's opened a couple others, enough to develop an expectation of what's inside. ]
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Isn't that up to your own luck? You have just as much chance getting it wrong as right.
[ Or it would be, if Xiao Xingchen weren't the sort of person to, far more often than not, have terrible luck.
Xue Yang turns to the left and tugs Xiao Xingchen along with him. The path before them is long, without any further turns visible before it disappears in the distance around its slight right curve. They follow it along and Xue Yang continues to talk as if nothing is amiss. Finally they reach a left u-turn that sends them back along a path parallel to the one they'd just been walking, now curved left. After a bit more distance of that, Xue Yang slows to a stop. ]
You should try to figure out what's in front of us, daozhang.
[ What's in front is, of course, a dead-end. But more than simply that, there's a closed treasure chest waiting for a lost explorer to discover it. Xue Yang hasn't opened this one in particular, but he's opened a couple others, enough to develop an expectation of what's inside. ]