Three more hours passed in this daze, and no one was willing to go out on their own.

It wasn't just fear, but more so the unwillingness to go and die.

It was already five o'clock. Looking at the darkening sky outside, Liu Neng decisively got up from the ground and said, "No, we can't go on like this! If we wait like this, we'll only end up dead!"

No one spoke, but everyone was watching him.

Dr. Liu took out a small notebook from his pocket, picked up four small pieces of paper from it, wrote a few words on them, and then said, "Come here, everyone."

We all sat down by the bedside.

Liu Neng said, "You've all seen these four sticky notes. Two of them say 'go out,' and two say 'don't go out.' Now we'll draw lots. Whoever draws 'go out' will go to the lab to get something. So, whether you go out or not is up to fate, okay?"

We exchanged glances and both thought it was feasible. Dr. Liu didn't include the nurse in the calculations, since she was a young woman and there would definitely be problems if she went out.

"Why are there two?" Shen Lin asked.

“It’s safer for two people to look after each other,” Dr. Liu said.

When I heard this, I was actually a little opposed to it. Being together doesn't mean you're safe; it might even be more dangerous. Just like Zhou Yang before, who kindly saved Zhang Jianzhou but ended up getting killed by him.

Liu Neng handed the four pieces of paper to the nurse and said, "Little nurse, now crumple these four pieces of paper into balls, then mess them up. Don't look at them yourself, and then give them to us."

The nurse nodded, took the four sheets of paper, turned her back to us, crumpled them into balls, and then opened her palm, letting us take them ourselves.

Shen Lin was the first to reach out and grab a small ball, followed closely by Zhang Jianzhou and Liu Neng. I was too slow and only had one left.

I didn't open the paper, but I glanced at Liu Neng's reaction. I saw that he breathed a sigh of relief after opening his own paper. It was obvious that he had drawn "Don't go out".

“Okay, everyone, now spread out your papers,” Liu Neng said, then unfolded his own paper, on which were written the words “Don’t go out.”

I gave a wry smile, unfolded the paper, and saw the word "Get out" written on it.

(End of this chapter)