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A red mark appeared immediately on Liao Jingjing’s face, she was stunned for two seconds, then she looked toward Chen Hui in shock: “You slapped me?!!”
Liao Jingjing opened her eyes wide, feeling extremely wronged: “It’s not my fault that Teacher Tu turned out ! It’s those dolls! You have no right to hit me!!!”
Just as Chen Hui attempted to slap her again, Zhang Tianyang stopped her: “Chen Hui! Come and look at Teacher Tu!”
Chen Hui bit her lower lip, glared at Liao Jingjing with resentment for a moment, and finally let go, turning back to Tu Dan.
Tu Dan was completely oblivious to the students’ quarrel.
Her thoughts seemed exceedingly dull, her speech slow. In her usual tone, she said: “It’s late… everyone, just go back to your tents and rest…”
The students stared at her, none of them moved.
Chen Hui supported Tu Dan’s upper body with an arm and wiped her face with her other hand, asking softly, “Teacher Tu, how do you feel now? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”
“No…” Tu Dan, her eyes drooping powerlessly, voice weakening, stated, “Just feeling… tired… Let me sleep for a while, just a little while…’ Tu Dan closed her eyes.
Her students surrounded her, none of them left or spoke.
All emotions sank into this deathly silence…
After a while, Bai Youwei and Shen MO returned to their own tents.
Chang Weicai and Tan Xiao stayed outside, afraid that these students would mess up again.
Tu Dan’s accident was like a bolt from the blue for everyone. They hadn’t found the way out of the maze yet, the people were dropping one by one, there was no defense against the mirror-infested place. It was impossible to cover all of it even if they wanted to!
As long as they survived a day in the maze, they faced the threat of the mirror dolls for a day.
They didn’t know how many would be gone by tomorrow.
Shen MO sat in his tent without a trace of sleepiness. Looking at the paper Bai Youwei used to draw, she had already restored about one-third of the labyrinth map through counting and inference. If they continued at a faster pace, within two days at most, they could restore the whole labyrinth map.
But Shen MO did not feel relaxed at all.
Because the ultimate goal of restoring the map was to find the exit, but the exit had already appeared before them.
Only that they couldn’t distinguish now, which exit was real, which exit was fake, or maybe…all were fake.
“Maze, maze…at the end of the day, it’s still a game.” Bai Youwei, holding her pen deep in thought, “Every game must have rules and solutions.”
Shen MO looked at her: “But this game didn’t give us any rules, nor even arranged an Inspector.”
“No, the rules were given to us long ago, we just might not have understood them…” Bai Youwei stared at the unfinished map in front of her, murmured, “If
I were the maze, what would I do?” “If I were the maze…
She drew a circle on the paper.
“First, I would create a starting point for the players.”
She drew a circle of horizontal lines outside the circle.
“I would mark the starting point with mirrors, letting the players know that this is the starting point.”
She scattered a few small black dots in other parts of the map.
“Then, I would establish the finishing point location. The real finish line would be unique, with a unique path out of the labyrinth.”
“However, discerning the real from the fake wouldn’t be enough challenge for such a large-scale game. I need to continue to create difficulties for the players, especially since I’ve already provided them with enough food and water.
She drew danger symbols near the black dots, murmuring to herself:
“I would need to increase the difficulty, creating mirror dolls and forcing the players to find the real exit amid heightened danger…”
As she spoke, she abruptly stopped.
“What’s wrong?” Shen MO asked her, “Did you think of something?”
Bai Youwei stared in silence, “Mirrors can bring death, but they can also bring life. Tomorrow I want to go and see the first exit..”