Translator: 549690339
At three in the morning, Bai Youwei was startled awake by a round of crying.
With her physical disability, she did not leave the tent, only Shen MO did.
Shen MO returned and told her that Tu Dan had completely transformed into a doll, and this maze seemed to automatically “digest” dolls. Tu Dan’s body was uncontrollably sinking, gradually being absorbed into the concrete ground.
That’s why all her students were crying.
Chen Hui cried the hardest.
She did everything she could to hold onto Tu Dan, but she couldn’t resist the force of the maze. Not only could she not stop it, but she was forced to cruelly witness the entire process of Tu Dan disappearing.
Afterward, she crazily searched for hammers and power drills, wanting to pry open or drill open the slab of concrete and dig Tu Dan out from underground!
No one could stop her.
It wasn’t until Shen MO knocked her unconscious that things finally quieted down.
With moistened eyes, Chang Weicai quietly commented, “She’s just a pitiful child. ”
—Who among those trapped in this maze isn’t pitiful?
The fourth day in the maze.
Zhang Tianyang took Tu Dan’s place, becoming the leader of the students, leading them to continue searching for the exit.
Bai Youwei, on the other hand, headed to the location of the exit they had first discovered.
As they passed a corridor whose whole wall was made of glass mirrors, Shen MO acutely sensed that something was amiss. He was the first to stop, looking at the reflections of the dolls in the mirror.
The others followed suit and halted as well.
In the mirror, the positions of the dolls had changed.
Although the four of them were clearly standing in a line, the dolls in the mirror were of various sizes and were clearly not standing in a straight line. In other words, some dolls were exceptionally close to the mirror surface.
“Damn,” Tan Xiao was horrified in his heart and cursed quietly.
His doll was the closest among the four; it felt like if he took another step forward, he could break out of the mirror.
Next were Shen MO and Teacher Chang.
The doll representing Bai Youwei was the farthest.
Shen MO said, “We need to look for food and water everywhere and it’s difficult to avoid looking into mirrors. It is likely that this distance is calculated based on how long and often we look into mirrors. Seems like Teacher Tu’s death wasn’t a simple accident.”
Teacher Tu’s doll must have been very close to the mirror, creating an opportunity to be taken advantage of.
“Why didn’t we notice this earlier?” Tan Xiao was puzzled.
Chang Weicai sighed, “Everyone is afraid to look into the mirror. All the mirrors near the tent are blocked, how could we discover it?”
“We’re running out of time.” The color drained from Bai Youwei’s face, her hands unconsciously clenched into fists, “Even if everyone can guarantee that they will avoid the mirror, with the passage of time, they will eventually come out. We need to find the exit as soon as possible.”
The four of them glanced at each other and hastened their pace, continuing forward.
When they arrived at the exit, all around them were still those intricately stacked dolls, with a hazy white light still filling the area inside the door.
The giant mirrors on both sides reflected no human figures, only countless dolls endlessly repeating on the mirror-covered wall, over and over again…
“Ah, this is…” Teacher Chang gasped in surprise.
Everyone turned their heads at the sound.
Pointing at the dolls on the wall, Teacher Chang’s finger was trembling,
“…these are the two students of Teacher Tu who had gone missing.”
Shen MO frowned and said, “It seems those students guessed right; Teacher Tu didn’t allow them to get near the exit, so these two students secretly ran over here.”
Teacher Chang asked in a trembling voice, “So this exit is fake? So…so, is the exit we found real?”
“Something is not right…” Bai Youwei seemed to have thought of something.. Her breath quickened, her face turning even paler, “Go find Zhang Tianyang and the others quickly! If they haven’t realized that the dolls’ distance in the mirror is changing, something bad might happen!”