At three in the morning, Bai Youwei was awakened by crying sounds.

Her legs weren’t convenient, so she didn’t leave the tent. Only Shen Mo went out for a while.

When Shen Mo returned, he told her that Tu Dan had completely turned into a puppet, and moreover, this maze seemed to automatically “digest” puppets—Tu Dan’s body was sinking uncontrollably, gradually descending into the cement floor.

So all her students were crying.

Chen Hui was the one crying most fiercely.

She used all her strength to hold onto Tu Dan, but ultimately couldn’t resist the maze’s power. Not only did she fail to stop it, she was forced to cruelly witness the entire process of Tu Dan’s disappearance.

Afterward, she frantically found a hammer and electric drill, wanting to pry open and drill through the cement slabs! She wanted to dig Tu Dan out from underground!

No one could stop her.

Later it was Shen Mo who knocked her unconscious before things finally settled down.

Cheng Weicai said with moist eyes, “She’s also a pitiable child.”

——Everyone trapped in this maze, who wasn’t pitiable?

Maze Day Four.

Zhang Tianyang replaced Tu Dan’s position, becoming the students’ leader, and led them to continue searching for an exit.

Bai Youwei headed toward the location where Zhang Tianyang’s group had first discovered an exit.

When passing through a corridor where an entire wall was glass mirrors, Shen Mo sensitively sensed something wrong and stopped first, looking at the puppets reflected in the glass mirror.

The others also stopped accordingly.

In the glass mirror, the puppets’ positions had changed.

The four of them were clearly standing in a line, but the puppets in the glass mirror were some large and some small, obviously not standing in a row.

In other words, some puppets were exceptionally close to the mirror surface.

“Damn.” Tan Xiao felt horrified inside and cursed quietly.

His puppet was the closest of the four, as if walking two more steps forward would break through the mirror.

Shen Mo and Teacher Cheng came next.

Bai Youwei’s puppet was the farthest away.

Shen Mo said, “We need to search everywhere for food and water. No matter how careful and cautious we are, it’s hard to avoid being reflected in mirrors. This distance is probably calculated based on the frequency and duration of mirror reflections. It seems Teacher Tu’s death wasn’t a simple accident.”

Teacher Tu’s puppet must have already been very close to the mirror surface—that’s why there was an opportunity to exploit.

“Why didn’t we notice before?” Tan Xiao was puzzled.

Cheng Weicai sighed, “Everyone was too scared to look at mirrors. The mirrors near the tents were almost all covered up—how could we have noticed?”

“There’s not much time left.” Bai Youwei’s face was pale, her hands unconsciously clenched into fists. “Even if everyone can guarantee they won’t look in mirrors, as time passes, they’ll eventually come out anyway. We must find the exit as quickly as possible.”

The four looked at each other and unanimously quickened their pace, continuing forward.

When they reached the exit, the surroundings were still those layered and staggered puppet dolls. Inside the door was still a foggy white light.

The huge mirror surfaces on both sides couldn’t reflect human figures—only countless puppets on the walls could be seen continuously extending in the mirror, extending…

“Ah, this is…” Teacher Cheng exclaimed in surprise.

Everyone turned their heads to look.

Teacher Cheng pointed at the puppets on the wall, his finger trembling. “…They’re the two students who went missing from Teacher Tu’s class.”

Shen Mo frowned and glanced at them, saying, “Looks like that student surnamed Liao guessed right. Teacher Tu wouldn’t let them approach the exit, so these two students secretly ran over.”

Teacher Cheng asked in a trembling voice, “So this exit is fake? Then… then, is the exit we found real?”

“That’s not right…” Bai Youwei seemed to think of something, her breathing tightening, her face growing even paler. “Quickly go find Zhang Tianyang and the others! If they haven’t discovered that the puppet distance in the mirrors is changing, they might be in danger!”