It was already very late.
There were only pale lights, quiet dolls, and a door that led to nowhere.
No one would feel comfortable staying in such a place for long.
Shen Mo came over and asked Bai Youwei, "What's wrong?"
Bai Youwei pursed her lips and insisted, "I don't feel well. Push me back."
"Then let's go back." Teacher Cheng was also concerned about her health and said, "Weiwei has been out with us all day, she should go back to the tent and rest. If you're afraid of missing anything, you can ask Xiao Tan to record it or take pictures."
Hearing this, Tan Xiao took out his phone from his trouser pocket and took pictures of the surroundings.
He took pictures of the mirrors on both sides of the door and exclaimed with a thick nerve, "Wow, what a magical mirror! It can't reflect me~ It can't reflect me~"
Bai Youwei's face suddenly turned ugly, and she shouted in a low voice, "Stay away from there!"
Tan Xiao was stunned and turned to look at her.
The other students also looked at Bai Youwei with different expressions.
The strange feeling that was faintly lingering became more obvious because of Bai Youwei's abnormality…
Tan Xiao froze for two seconds, put away his hippie face, quickly took a few pictures, and came back, hiding behind Shen Mo as if afraid of annoying Bai Youwei.
The other students also hurriedly took a few pictures with their phones and then walked back together.
No one wanted to stay any longer.
Bai Youwei was silent all the way back.
Shen Mo asked her, "Is it because of the mirror?"
She shook her head first, but after a while, she nodded again.
Shen Mo lowered his voice and murmured, "You said before that it's more important to find people than to find the exit. Those dolls just now are probably the people we're looking for. They walked into that door and turned into dolls—otherwise, I can't explain why there are so many dolls gathered near the door."
Bai Youwei lowered her head and thought without speaking.
Shen Mo's voice became even lower, like he was talking to himself, "If the door is not the exit, then where is the exit?"
"There's one more thing…" Bai Youwei reminded him, "Where did we in the mirror go?"
In a game without rules, no detail is without reason. The dolls in the mirror appear and disappear from time to time, there must be a certain reason, it can't just be to scare people.
Bai Youwei felt that they were a kind of hint. Only by unraveling this layer of hints could she truly clear the game.
But what exactly was it hinting at her?
She had to think about it again…
Think again…
…
That night, everyone tossed and turned.
Early the next morning, Bai Youwei woke up early. She opened her eyes and lay in the tent without moving. There were voices, footsteps, and the sound of basins and jars colliding when washing outside the tent.
The noise gradually cleared her mind.
She got up, opened the tent, and saw Teacher Cheng cooking tomato noodles outside.
There were two poached eggs in each bowl of noodles. The red soup set off the white and tender eggs. With a poke of the chopsticks, golden yolk flowed out, mixed in the soup, and mixed in the noodles, which could make people's taste buds wide open.
Teacher Cheng felt sorry that no one ate the food in the maze, so she cooked a lot and sent it to the students on Tu Dan's side if they couldn't finish it here.
In return, the students also brought a lot of food to Teacher Cheng, calling out "Teacher Cheng" one after another, which sounded extraordinarily cordial.
Chen Hui saw Bai Youwei sitting alone by the tent curtain, thought for a while, brought a bowl of noodles over, and asked, "Would you like some?"
Bai Youwei didn't look at her and said lazily, "I haven't brushed my teeth yet."
Chen Hui followed her gaze into the distance, knowing that she should be waiting for Shen Mo, and said, "Your brother went to fetch water and will be back soon."
Bai Youwei gave a soft "um".
Seeing her indifferent look, Chen Hui turned around to leave. After taking two steps, she frowned again. She bit her lip and came back to Bai Youwei and said, "Please don't misunderstand what happened yesterday."