“Save me! Save me quickly!!!” The man’s face pressed against the ground, sobbing bitterly. “Help me! Please!!!”

Bai Youwei looked at him. “How can we help you?”

She paused for two seconds, asking lightly and without expression, “Help you cut your face open?”

The man looked at her tearfully.

“Wouldn’t that hurt?” Bai Youwei discussed with him matter-of-factly. “Besides, if the wound surface gets larger, won’t it be more painful? Anyway, your legs are already gone. There’s no use keeping your face. You were originally… already dead…”

The man finally broke down completely!

Whether from anger at her words or from fear, he wailed and roared curses, “May you all die horrible deaths!!! You’ll all end up like me sooner or later! Just like me ahhhhhh!!!”

Shen Mo frowned slightly, gripping the wheelchair handles and turning it around, pushing Bai Youwei out.

Bai Youwei widened her eyes. “I haven’t finished talking with him yet!”

Shen Mo looked down at her. “Now you don’t find it disgusting anymore?”

“…” Bai Youwei’s expression slowly became indescribable.

“Why did you have to remind me…” She closed her eyes and covered her stomach.

The others behind them looked at each other.

Everyone glanced at the struggling, heaving man on the ground, silently speechless, and left the restaurant one after another.

Behind them, the man’s crying didn’t stop, his cursing didn’t stop, using the most vicious vocabulary! The most hysterical tones! Venting the most desperate agony!

He could never get out!

Even if the exit was right before his eyes, he could never, ever return to the human world…

…

Outside was still blood-red, reeking and hot.

Several restless little monsters could be vaguely seen in the distance.

And gluttonous snakes of varying lengths roamed the streets and alleys, liable to appear at any moment.

“Let’s sort through our thoughts again.” Shen Mo withdrew his gaze, looking calmly at everyone. “The gluttonous snake eats the skinned monsters, the skinned monsters eat the maze, and the gluttonous snake, skinned monsters, and maze eat us. Any thoughts?”

Tan Xiao: “…We’re so pitiful.”

“Pfft!” Bai Youwei couldn’t help but laugh.

Shen Mo glanced at her. “Right now we have two directions. One is to follow the main artery direction to find the maze’s core and destroy it—maybe an exit will appear. The other direction is to follow the capillary direction to find the maze’s edge and try to break through it, see if we can create an exit.”

“But the maze’s self-healing ability is very strong.” Tan Xiao said seriously. “Whether we cut it or stab it, wounds heal quickly. And we ourselves can’t get injured, or else it’ll heal us right along with it!”

“Use those things.” Bai Youwei pointed at the skinned monsters in the distance.

Teacher Cheng nodded. “These monsters are like harmful bacteria in the maze’s body, capable of destroying the immune system and preventing wounds from healing… but how do we control them?”

“Before considering control, first decide where to go—the maze’s center or the maze’s edge?” Bai Youwei gently stroked the rabbit in her arms, thinking unhurriedly. “If Teacher Cheng’s assumption is correct, then the gluttonous snake should exist similar to white blood cells, devouring germs and foreign objects and producing antibodies to resist pathogen invasion. They’ll be very active at the maze’s center.”

“So we can’t go to the center.” Shen Mo said. “We go to the maze’s edge.”

Bai Youwei unceremoniously pointed at Pan Xiaoxin. “Xiaoxin, lead the way.”

Pan Xiaoxin: “…”

Seeing him dazed, Teacher Cheng worried the child would feel uncomfortable and voluntarily stepped forward. “How about I look at the map instead…”

“Teacher Cheng, he’s 11 years old—already a mature big kid.” Bai Youwei said matter-of-factly. “Plus he’s a Hangzhou local. He should know best which location is suitable as a breakthrough point.”

Teacher Cheng thought about it, gently patting the child’s shoulder, giving him encouragement kindly. “Xiaoxin, don’t feel pressured. We all believe in you!”