“…Chen Hui? Did you hear what I said?”

“I heard.”

“Then why aren’t you responding to me?”

“Liao Jingjing, can you settle down a bit? You’ve been complaining ever since entering the maze, and now you’re gossiping about others. Don’t you think you’re being very boring?”

“Chen Hui, did I offend you somehow? You’re being so cutting today…”

“I’m being cutting?” Chen Hui laughed in exasperation. It was just her bad luck to be assigned to the same tent as Liao Jingjing.

“Isn’t it true?” Liao Jingjing said. “I didn’t provoke you or bother you. Why are you criticizing me for the sake of an outsider? Disabled people are prone to urinary and fecal incontinence anyway—they’re filthy. I didn’t say anything wrong…”

Chen Hui turned over, not wanting to listen to her nonsense.

Liao Jingjing stopped for two seconds, then suddenly said: “Ah… Chen Hui, you’re defending that cripple so much—you haven’t fallen for her brother, have you?”

Chen Hui: “…”

Even “what the hell” wasn’t enough to express her feelings at this moment.

Liao Jingjing: “Her brother is quite handsome, different from the boys in our class. He has a real manly aura, doesn’t he?… Hey? Where are you going?!”

Chen Hui grabbed her things and left the tent without looking back: “I’m going to squeeze in with Teacher Tu!”

“What do you mean by that…”

The young girl complained in the tent, feeling Chen Hui was too heartless.

Chen Hui had only taken a few steps when she saw Shen Mo not far away. Her face immediately burned. Thinking that Liao Jingjing’s words had probably been overheard, she was so embarrassed she almost covered her face and dove into Tu Dan’s tent—

Shen Mo calmly withdrew his gaze.

He couldn’t be bothered to haggle with a little girl, but thinking back on those words… the taste in his mouth was indeed unpleasant.

Fortunately, she was asleep.

He turned his head to glance at the tent.

With just one glance, he was proven wrong. Because Bai Youwei had come out of the tent.

“What are you looking at me for?” Bai Youwei propped herself up on her elbows, half-lying at the tent entrance. “Come over and carry me quickly.”

Shen Mo paused, got up to carry her, and didn’t ask if she’d heard those words. His movements were natural as he carried her to the wheelchair beside them.

But Bai Youwei wouldn’t let it go, asking: “What were you staring at me blankly for just now?”

Shen Mo: “Your hair was all disheveled. I thought Sadako had crawled out.”

Bai Youwei: “…”

Shen Mo glanced at her. “Don’t be unhappy. The real Sadako is quite pretty.”

Bai Youwei: “Well, thank you for that.”

Shen Mo: “You’re welcome.”

Bai Youwei felt even more stifled and asked him: “Are you in a particularly good mood?”

“Aren’t you in a bad mood?” Shen Mo looked at her.

Ha, being gossiped about like that, how could her mood possibly be good?

Bai Youwei said coldly: “I don’t know when we’ll finish this maze. I’m feeling very annoyed.”

Shen Mo handed her a bottle of water and said: “We’ll get out.”

The water was a sports drink, lime-flavored. Although the road ahead was unclear and dangers lurked everywhere, fortunately this place didn’t lack food or drink. Staying a few more days was no burden at all.

Bai Youwei gripped the water bottle, her eyes dark, not knowing what she was thinking.

Shen Mo was about to tell her to go back to sleep when she suddenly said nervously: “Brother, look over there quickly…”

Shen Mo: “…”

He looked around—there was nothing.

“It’s over there… the fountain, there’s something in the water… it crawled out…” Bai Youwei’s voice trembled slightly, as if she’d seen something extremely terrifying and was about to cry from fright.

Shen Mo looked toward the fountain but still saw nothing.

He opened his mouth to ask when Bai Youwei pressed her voice and said: “Shh… don’t talk, don’t let it notice us…”

Shen Mo: “…”

He used his eyes to warn her: Don’t cause trouble.

Unfortunately, Bai Youwei was too into character:

“It seems to be a doll… It crawled out, covered in water. Where is it going?

…What should we do? It’s crawling toward the red tent. Should we tell everyone? …No, better not. What if it notices us?

Oh my god, its mouth and eyes are spurting water, so scary…

It’s getting closer… Ah, it’s about to crawl in…”