The four words - shut-in, fair-skinned, short, and weak - perfectly describe Mo Shuwan.
Until one day, she boarded the mysterious dimensional bus and gained a group of变态 teammates...
Th...
The door closed again.
"The door was opened? So the game is lost?"
But the rules here didn't give them a chance to think. Soon a turntable appeared on the floor of the room, with each empty space on the turntable and only the pointer being black.
"What does this mean? Are there no other clues?" Liu Dongcheng looked around but didn't see any other words in the room.
Mo Shuwan walked over and squatted down next to the spinning wheel, whispering, "Since it's a punishment game, and now there's a spinning wheel, if I'm not mistaken, each of these empty spaces represents a punishment. Whoever spins it gets the punishment."
Before she could finish speaking, she had already reached out and moved the pointer. Unable to stop her, Wen Zuo clenched his fist and could only squat down and watch silently.
As the pointer spun, black characters appeared on the white empty spaces. Only one of the dozen or so spaces remained blank, meaning that she could avoid punishment if she was incredibly lucky. Moreover, the writing on the wheel must have been tampered with; even though the wheel wasn't spinning very fast, they couldn't see the words at all.
A few seconds later, the ring slowly came to a stop.
'Sociability'
The text on the other blank spaces disappeared again. Mo Shuwan frowned as she looked at the two words the pointer was pointing to. "Sociability? What does that mean?"
Just as she was speaking, the door opened silently by itself. Wen Zuo immediately reached out and grabbed Mo Shuwan's wrist, standing up to shield her behind him.
Mo Shuwan smiled and said, "It's alright, I'll go take a look first." Seeing that Wen Zuo didn't let go, she patted his hand and teased, "Maybe you two will also be turning around later. I just got there a step faster than you two and even seized the initiative. Maybe I'm the safest one."
Liu Dongcheng simply said, "Don't break the rules of the game."
These words struck a nerve with Wen Zuo. He was worried that his actions would break the rules of the game and cause Mo Shuwan to be punished more severely. After all, the trials that the three of them had experienced along the way were much more difficult than those of the other three teams.
Mo Shuwan tucked her hope into Wen Zuo's arms, exhaled, and stepped out of the room. After the door closed behind her, she could no longer hear any sound from inside.
A green arrow appeared on the ground. Mo Shuwan was silent for a moment, then followed the arrow forward. After walking for about three minutes, she stopped in front of a room. Without even raising her hand, the door opened automatically, and inside sat a person she recognized.
Wan Sheng turned his head and saw that it was Mo Shuwan who had appeared there. He sighed deeply and said in a low voice, "We're in danger."
Mo Shuwan frowned and walked in. "What do you mean?"
"See for yourself."
Because opening the door earlier caused them to lose the game, the truth of what the new G-09 team captain said to them became unpredictable once again. If they had lied to them, then not opening the door the first time had indeed almost led to their complete annihilation.
According to Wen Zuodao, he had no power to resist at the time. If she and Liu Dongcheng had also failed to escape, the three of them would have been trapped in the room, their limbs slowly cut off by that invisible knife until their heads were severed. They would have been powerless to resist and could only wait to die.
But it's also plausible to say that the other party didn't deceive them; they were indeed prompted that the game was over and they were added to the punishment game after opening the door.
But Mo Shuwan remained skeptical of Wan Sheng, the passenger who had a rope tied around his finger.
She didn't say anything, but walked over and stood opposite Wansheng. There were several lines of black text on the table.
"You will switch identities with the other player. You have five minutes to exchange information. Until the next mission, you must both remain in the other team and avoid being detected by their teammates. If your identities are revealed, you lose the game."
The punishment for losing the game wasn't written down, but anyone could guess that it was anything but simple.
The news had already made Mo Shuwan's expression unpleasant, but when she saw the mandatory requirements below, her expression became extremely ugly.
Looking at Wansheng sitting opposite her, she gritted her teeth and asked, "So, you tied the bracelet to your finger because of this?"
Wan Sheng nodded. "Yes...you, you've already become suspicious?"
Mo Shuwan nodded helplessly. She never expected it to be for this reason; it was simply...
"Who were you switching identities with at that time?"
Wan Sheng shook his head. "No, my last mission was different from this one. Last time, I was on my own."
Since it was mandatory for passengers to tie the wristband to their fingers, Mo Shuwan no longer suspected him. Seeing that the five-minute countdown had already started, she quickly reached out to remove the wristband, saying, "You'd better tell me your situation first, so you don't give yourself away."
Without hesitation, Wan Sheng quickly told Mo Shuwan about his and his team's general situation. Mo Shuwan, who was taking off her wristband, frowned because she couldn't remove it.
Two minutes passed quickly. Mo Shuwan anxiously explained her and her team's situation while trying to remove the rope, but she couldn't get it off no matter what she did. As the five-minute time limit was about to expire, her eyes flickered, "Do I have to cut off my arm to get it off?"
Wan Sheng also panicked, "What do we do now?"
The countdown was about to end, and just as Mo Shuwan gritted her teeth and decided to cut off her arm, a black hand rope and rubber band suddenly appeared on the table. Mo Shuwan, who looked like she had just escaped a disaster, immediately grabbed the hand rope and rubber band and tied the hand rope to the same finger as Wan Sheng.
Wan Sheng breathed a sigh of relief. "Let's go. You don't need to worry about your image. In their eyes, you are me, and I am you."
“Be careful, we already suspect your identity. If you go back now, looking like me, with the bracelet tied to your finger, they will definitely be suspicious. You'd better hide your hand. If they ask, just say you're injured and act weak. They won't ask any more questions.”
"I know that the more you say, the more mistakes you make. How much information can one person convey in two minutes?"
Mo Shuwan nodded, "Okay, I—you take care of yourself." She originally wanted to tell Wan Sheng about her situation, but the words just wouldn't come out. The game rules limited them to five minutes, so they couldn't say anything about themselves or their teammates after the time was up.
Wan Sheng sighed again, "That's why I said we were in danger this time when you came in. You guys are really smart."
Mo Shuwan gave a bitter smile and said nothing more. She left with Wan Sheng. After they parted ways, she thought about the information Wan Sheng had just said and planned to pick out some important details. However, after carefully recalling the information, she realized that the information Wan Sheng had mentioned was completely dispensable.
"Too hasty, or on purpose?"
With too little information to analyze, Mo Shuwan had no choice but to keep her doubts to herself for the time being. She took a deep breath, calmed her heartbeat, and slowly returned to the door of room 404.