The hillside below had walking steps with no accessible passage. Bai Youwei sitting in her wheelchair had no way to go down and could only wait anxiously at the hilltop.

“Shen Mo!… Shen Mo!…” She called over and over.

Wu Lili wiped away tears and asked ingratiatingly: “Should I push you down?”

Bai Youwei irritably glared at her. “How much strength do you have? I don’t want to roll down together with you!”

Wu Lili bit her lip aggrievedly.

Bai Youwei ordered her again: “You go down! Find my brother and bring him back!”

“This place is so big… where should I look?” Wu Lili said.

“I told you to go look so go look! Where does all this nonsense come from?!” Bai Youwei shouted. “How will you know you can’t find him if you don’t look!”

Wu Lili was afraid of her and walked down wiping her tears.

After just a few steps, she saw a village house in the distance open its door. Shen Mo walked out from inside, carrying a person—it was Uncle Zhao!

“Shen Mo!” Bai Youwei shouted at him.

Shen Mo freed one hand and waved.

Bai Youwei said to Wu Lili: “Quick, push me down!”

“Ah?” Wu Lili was stunned. “But didn’t you just say…”

“I told you to push so push!” Bai Youwei became irritable again. “So slow to act!”

“…” Wu Lili didn’t dare provoke her and silently grasped the wheelchair handles to go down the steps.

When they got closer, they discovered Zhao Jiantao was tied up by Shen Mo. The old man had a dark expression and said nothing, probably having nothing to say.

“All the dolls are in those houses.” Shen Mo pointed to the village houses over there. “Everyone’s luggage is also there. He’s quite meticulous in his work. Each time he waits for people to enter the game, he guards nearby. As soon as someone turns into a doll, he drags them into the houses to hide them. Same with the luggage. This way, when he sends people to the island next time, no one will discover it.”

“He came with us—why is he fine?” Bai Youwei asked.

Shen Mo glanced down at Uncle Zhao and said flatly: “I already asked. He said players can’t repeatedly enter the same game, so even if he enters the doll game area, it won’t trigger the game.”

Bai Youwei made an “mm” sound. “…That makes sense. If one mastered the clearing method and came back to repeatedly farm game rewards, that would be too much like cheating.”

Wu Lili wasn’t as calm as them. She rushed forward in a few steps, grabbed the old man’s clothes, and furiously questioned him:

“Zhao Jiantao! Why did you do this? Why?! You killed everyone else—fine—but why did you have to harm Zhang Qi? Zhang Qi and Sun Wei always helped you work on the island! What is your heart made of! How can you be so cruel! Ah! Why?!!!”

Uncle Zhao raised his head to look at her once, his face expressionless. “He insisted on coming himself. Same with you.”

—SLAP!

Wu Lili, filled with resentful anger, viciously slapped the old man’s face!

“Beast!” she cursed through tears.

Zhao Jiantao remained unmoved, his expression numb.

Bai Youwei looked at Wu Lili, then at Uncle Zhao, asking curiously: “Hey, there’s one thing I can’t figure out. Since you clearly knew there was danger on this island, you could have avoided it early on. Why did you instead deceive everyone, saying there was a safe base on the island?”

Uncle Zhao lowered his head, ignoring her.

Bai Youwei speculated on her own: “Could it be that because there were too many people on the island, to save resources, you sent people to the island?… Mm, that doesn’t seem right either. Now there are only sixty or seventy people on the island—not that many. If the population decreased further, there wouldn’t be enough people for fishing and chopping trees…”

Her gaze rolled onto Uncle Zhao. “Could it be… you’re actually a serial killer who does this for pleasure?”

“Ha!” Zhao Jiantao laughed coldly. “You simply don’t know anything. If I didn’t regularly send people into the game, everyone on Sanshan Island should have died long ago!”