"Let me see... if my judgment is correct,"
Annan slowly said.
Since this copy only had one chance to clear.
Annan's original plan—to set the mill on fire before entering to see what happens—was no longer an option.
That would have easily resulted in NE.
But to solve the puzzle, one couldn't simply go with the flow.
One had to approach it in the opposite way.
Annan had already learned from Naifertali about the tragic fate of Ian's family.
—Due to the conspiracy of the "Black Widow" devotee "Deword," poison was deployed in the mushrooms. The lumberjacks, either in hopes of curing themselves or due to past grievances, turned against the only unpoisoned "Ian's family," seeking the "antidote" made from their livers.
In the end, they murdered Ian's family, whose corpses transformed into the toxic spores that enshrouded the Sporogenesis Mill, consuming everyone inside and giving birth to Nightmare: Spore Mill.