level curve not tangent to the constraint curve

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Is level curves always spread in one direction(monotonic increasing or decreasing)? for example, enter image description here enter image description here

I change 3 to 6, I think it is possibile for a graph's level curve exists in this pattern. But obviously the level curve's gradient is not parallel to the constraint curve's gradient, but it has the biggest value which is 6.