The five people looked at their flowers with unease in their hearts.

Their eyes occasionally glanced at Bai Youwei and Shen Mo’s flowers—the sacred white lotus, the graceful peony, both inserted in the glass bottles almost perfectly intact, forming a stark contrast with the other flowers.

The atmosphere was oppressive.

Anxiety, irritability, jealousy, and unease tightly wrapped around these people like invisible nets, suffocating them with their constraints.

It wasn’t until more people returned from the forest direction, with even more severely wilted flowers in their hands, that the gloom in these five people’s eyes dissipated somewhat.

Among the third batch of returnees, Zhang Qi’s flower stood out conspicuously.

He had brought back a piece of vibrant, fresh-looking cactus with a golden flower blooming on top. Because the entire cactus provided nourishment, this flower showed no trace of wilting.

But Zhang Qi’s hands were also injured from the thorns, covered in bloodstains.

Bai Youwei guessed that Zhang Qi must have encountered people returning midway and discovered that their flowers showed signs of wilting, which prompted him to think of this method—quite quick-witted.

Aside from Zhang Qi, the third batch’s flowers had all wilted beyond recognition, some even unidentifiable by species.

No comparison was needed—just one glance revealed the ranking—

The top two were undoubtedly Bai Youwei and Shen Mo. Next came the five from the second batch. Zhang Qi’s flower would certainly make the top ten. By this calculation, only two spots remained…

The Supervisor said pleasantly, “Then, please place your choices in the empty vases.”

Zhang Qi inserted his flower in the eighth vase.

The remaining ten vases were still empty.

These people clutched their flowers tightly, knowing full well in their hearts that once they inserted them, they would face imminent elimination.

Being eliminated by the doll game would definitely not end well.

Some people had already started trembling…

The Supervisor’s mouth corners rose even higher as it patiently reminded them again, “Everyone, please place your choices in the vases.”

Still no one moved.

Wu Lili’s heart was in chaos, her eyes constantly glancing at others’ flowers, secretly comparing whether she could obtain a spot in the top ten.

The flower in her hand had already wilted, barely maintaining its blooming shape, but the color was dismally dark. Of course, the others’ flowers weren’t much better.

She bit her lip and steeled herself to raise her flower, preparing to insert it in a vase—

A hand suddenly reached over! Grabbing her flower and yanking wildly!

The withered petals scattered with a whoosh!

Wu Lili’s expression instantly twisted as she turned angrily to question, “Aunt He! What are you doing?!”

The middle-aged woman called Aunt He completely ignored her, moving quickly to insert her own flower in the vase!

Wu Lili was furious to the extreme. She raised her hand to smash the other’s vase, only to discover that once a vase had a flower in it, that area could no longer be touched, as if separated by a layer of transparent protective shield!

The incident happened too quickly; everyone was stunned.

Wu Lili gritted her teeth, her heart turning vicious! With one hand she inserted her now-petalless bare stem into a bottle, then raised the tree branch she’d been using as a crutch and swung it forcefully at the others!

The scene immediately descended into chaos! Cursing voices rang out continuously!

Some dodged, some fought back. The island’s lazy men, gossipy aunts, sickly patients, deceitful people young and old all became enemies at this moment! Beating each other desperately without regard for their lives!

The glass bottles without flowers were smashed to pieces with crashes and clatters!

Wu Lili’s tree branch had long been snatched away by someone. She curled up on the ground, beaten black and blue, feeling dizzy and her ears ringing, her whole body in severe pain, as if in one more second she would be beaten to death!

Yet those punches and kicks suddenly vanished in an instant.

She opened her eyes and saw the lush lawn before her rolling up high like a green carpet, exposing the damp soil underneath and thick rhizomes.

Those rhizomes looked like pale flesh.

The flesh had bright red gashes.

The gashes were filled with densely packed teeth.

In the sharp teeth were people being swallowed alive, one after another…