“Another snake?!” Bai Youwei was astonished.

Ever since they learned this was the gluttonous snake maze, they’d subconsciously assumed there was only one snake in the maze! How could another snake appear?!

Just how many of those monsters were there?!

“…Wait, why would that guy mislead us?” Bai Youwei frowned tightly, unable to figure it out. “Doesn’t he want to get out?”

“Could it be we’re the ones who got it wrong?” Tan Xiao said matter-of-factly. “Some gluttonous snake game modes are multiplayer—many snakes competing for beans. You need to avoid touching other snakes, otherwise you’ll become a bean yourself…”

Shen Mo glanced at him lightly. “He was deliberately misleading. Otherwise he wouldn’t have said things like ‘only when the gluttonous snake reaches its longest and largest state will the exit to clear the level open.'”

Tan Xiao pondered for a while and caught on, murmuring, “Right… if there are many gluttonous snakes, which one has to meet the requirements to open the exit? …Damn!”

Tan Xiao angrily stood up, cursing, “He dared to trick us!”

Turning to leave, intending to teach him a lesson.

Teacher Cheng stopped him, patiently persuading, “You’re still injured—treat your wound first. It’s still bleeding…”

Tan Xiao frowned, reaching to touch the wound on his waist. Besides blood, there was also a layer of sticky stuff—somewhat itchy and stinging, very uncomfortable.

“Damn, could that monster’s teeth be poisonous?” Tan Xiao didn’t dare be careless, his face darkening as he sat back down.

Logically, after their data upgrade from the previous maze, their bodies’ recovery abilities had all improved to varying degrees. Just a flesh wound shouldn’t still be bleeding after this long.

Bai Youwei took tissues to help him wipe, wiping a handful of sticky goo—like blood but not quite blood, more like some mixture of gel and blood.

She stared blankly at the reddish viscous substance.

Shen Mo said, “Regardless of his motives, that person clearly didn’t tell the truth. Now that there’s more than one snake, to make the maze open an exit, we need to think of other methods.”

“He smiled just now…” Bai Youwei suddenly said.

Everyone looked at her.

Shen Mo asked, “What?”

Bai Youwei frowned thoughtfully, slowly saying, “Just now… when the snake came, I saw him smile…”

Pausing, she raised her head to look at Shen Mo, her tone certain. “He’s not afraid of the gluttonous snake.”

“Why not?” Tan Xiao was puzzled. “That big of a thing—he’s not afraid of being eaten by the snake? I’d rather face a hundred little monsters than that one huge snake!”

Bai Youwei was stunned.

Right, why?

She carefully recalled, her expression growing worse. “He’s afraid of the little monsters…”

When the skinned monsters were about to come in, that man had been so scared he cried—it didn’t seem like an act.

The snake was as large as a building—he wasn’t afraid. The skinned monsters died from one poke—but he was terrified? This didn’t make sense…

Bai Youwei looked at Tan Xiao’s wound, then at the glob of viscous gel on the tissue. She frowned and wiped the tissue’s contents onto the table—dark red and light red stuck to the chunks of flesh, more viscous than blood, softer than meat. It was hard to say what it was.

Why wasn’t he afraid?

Could it be he…

Bai Youwei’s face suddenly paled. She abruptly raised her head to look at Tan Xiao.

Tan Xiao was startled by her expression, exclaiming, “What’s wrong? Is there a problem with my wound?”

“Teacher Cheng! Get out the clay!” Bai Youwei suddenly said.

Cheng Weicai immediately reached into his pocket to retrieve it.

Tan Xiao was bewildered. “What… what’s wrong? I just broke some skin—isn’t using clay a bit wasteful…”

Before he finished speaking, Teacher Cheng had already brought the clay over—