Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
What was going on?!
Bai Youwei gripped the grass under her body tightly. Her fingers sunk into the soil. It was moist and cool to the touch. It felt extremely real.
This was not an illusion, let alone a dream!
They had really come to this unknown place from the highway in an instant!
The game the voice said just now, could it be… was this why people became dolls? If they couldn’t leave here, would they become dolls?
Fear arose in her heart and it began to beat wildly. Bai Youwei wrapped her arms around her numb legs and her skin oozed cold sweat.
Looking around vigilantly, Shen Mo stood not far in front of her. His facial expression was also ugly.
The warm sun was shining on the earth. The white clouds stretched out, and the breeze that was blowing carried the faint scent of green grass. In this good weather suitable for picnics, nobody dared to act rashly.
“Where is this…?” The long-haired woman raised her horrified face. “Weren’t we in the car just now? Husband, I want to go home. Let’s go home instead of going anywhere…”
The woman’s husband pushed his wife away and said with a lot of resentment, “Where is that bald man? Didn’t he say it was okay?!”
“Yes, he said that the road was clear, so we came here!”
“D*mn! I know he was shady! How else would he dare to be the first one? I think he deliberately led us over here!”
“D*mn, that scumbag…”
Everyone cursed as if they had forgotten their earlier gratitude to the bald man just now.
Bai Youwei silently counted these people.
Including her, there were 17 people in total.
The bald man was indeed absent. Why was that? Everyone was following the same route, so why hadn’t he fallen in? Did the game have some other mystery?
It was really weird… She was clearly in such an odd situation, so why was it that besides the fear, there was faint excitement in her heart?
What was she hoping for?
“Listen to me…” A middle-aged man in a suit said, “It has already happened, so complaining won’t solve anything. Only when we all work together and unite can we hope to leave here. I just took a look around. This seems to be a playground with a runway in front of it. Is anyone willing to come with me to have a look?”
The car he drove just now was a Mercedes-Benz, and he dressed like a successful business person. His speech was very convincing.
Many people agreed to his proposal.
A young girl wearing glasses timidly asked, “Is there any danger?”
A young man with bleached blonde hair scolded her, saying, “So what if it’s dangerous? Do you want us to do nothing and wait for death here with you?!”
The girl looked at her boyfriend aggrievedly.
The boy was very slick and he immediately helped ease the tension. “Bro, don’t worry. She is just worried about something happening to us. After all, no one knows where this place is…”
The middle-aged man thought for a moment. “This kind of worry isn’t unfounded. Although there is no danger at the moment, this place is unknown to us, after all. How about we let women and seniors stay, while the men go with me to explore the area?”
Shen Mo thought about it for a while, then turned his head and said to Bai Youwei, “You wait for me here. I’ll go ahead and take a look.”
“No!” Bai Youwei forcefully grabbed his arm.
She said ‘no’ so crisply and loudly that everyone else looked over.
Shen Mo was the tallest among the men. With a slender body, an imposing temperament, and strong arms revealed by his rolled-up cuffs, he was obviously robust at first glance. If he didn’t go, the strength of this ‘pathfinder team’ would be greatly reduced.
The young, yellow-haired young man glanced at her. “Little sister, don’t be willful in this life-or-death situation. How can we find our way back if we don’t figure out the situation?”
“Why separate men and women in this life-or-death situation?!” Bai Youwei seemed as if she suddenly changed into another person, and her tone was harsh as she said, “I don’t know any of you, so if something happens to him, who will take care of me, the cripple? I’m afraid that you will all run faster than a rabbit!”
Bai Youwei tightened her grip on Shen Mo and looked straight into his eyes. “Shen Mo, you promised me that you would send me safely to Yangzhou! Are you leaving me so soon?!”
Several women also showed hesitation and looked at their male companions one after another.
If the men were gone and left the old, women, and children behind, what if something happened? Although Bai Youwei would suffer the most, they wouldn’t be much better off.
“Husband, I’ll go with you. I’m afraid of staying here…” The long-haired woman had also changed her mind.
“Why don’t we all go together?” someone who was a peacemaker suggested. “I don’t think there is much to explore here, except for the grass, the runway, and the forest a little further away.”
“Are we going through the forest?”
“I don’t know. Let’s go to the banner first. I keep thinking that banner is weird…”
“Let’s take a look. Maybe there is a clue.”
Everyone talked as they walked in the direction of the banner that said, ‘The Rabbit and The Turtle Race.’
Shen Mo bent down and picked up Bai Youwei, then followed at the front of the group.
Bai Youwei wrapped her arms around his neck. Her eyes were red, and her voice returned to its original softness, but her stubbornness remained undiminished.
“Do you regret it? Do you think I’m a burden?… Even if you regret it now, it’s too late! Shen Mo, don’t even think about getting rid of me!” she said.
As if to prove that she wasn’t bluffing, Bai Youwei hugged his neck even tighter with a stubborn expression in her eyes.
Shen Mo was strangled by her and was shocked that her hands actually had a lot of strength.
He then thought that perhaps she was insecure because her parents had not been around since she was a child.
Thinking of this, he became more patient and said softly, “I won’t leave you alone.”
Bai Youwei looked at him doubtfully.
Shen Mo was also puzzled. Bai Youwei’s physical and psychological condition was obviously not very good. Why didn’t Auntie Wang bring her to her side to take care of her?
“Look, there seems to be someone under the banner!”
When everyone heard that, they looked over. Shen Mo’s thoughts were interrupted.
As the distance got smaller, the figure below the banner gradually became clearer.
——It was a gentleman dressed in a white tie shirt, a black tuxedo, and a fake bunny head. The long rabbit ears were particularly conspicuous, and those red eyes were staring at them without blinking.