In other words, there was only one person who played the punishment game with Shuwan just now, and that person was the passenger in room 404.

After mentally processing the information he already knew, Wen Zuo asked, "What is the content of the punishment game? Is it that you have to impersonate the other team and not be discovered in order to complete the task?"

At this moment, Mo Shuwan frowned, looked troubled, drew an arrow over the first character of the first line of the first poem, and wrote: What does this poem mean?

The word "是" in the sentence is exactly aligned with the first word of the first line.

Wen Zuo almost couldn't help but laugh when he heard the person next to him say, "Qian."

Having received an accurate answer, Wen Zuo immediately pretended to explain the meaning of the poem to her. The rules of the game had never restricted their question-and-answer session, so it seemed that this loophole had not yet been discovered.

Because Mo Shuwan couldn't say it on her own initiative, even if Wen Zuo asked, he could only use this roundabout way to simply tell him whether his guess was correct or wrong.

Having not been personally involved, he didn't know what had happened. Even if Wen Zuo was very smart, he couldn't guess any more. After asking all the questions he had guessed, he really couldn't think of anything else to ask.

Mo Shuwan noticed it too, so she put down the paper that was already filled with writing, and asked, "What happened after I came back?"

I am referring to Wansheng, of course.

"After you came back, you were the same as before, analyzing the other three teams with us. You even said that we couldn't just sit and wait for death, and that we could use the time when delivering the trays to send false information to the other three teams." Wen Zuo thought about it and realized that apart from the slight slip-up he made when he was about to leave, he hadn't shown any unusual behavior at all.

Mo Shuwan was also surprised, "Didn't they say anything strange?"

“I didn’t realize anything was strange until I noticed something was off. I realized she was a fake because when Liu Dongcheng left, she was also standing at the door. At that time, I didn’t realize that she wanted to leave or that I wanted to hold on to her. That’s when I felt something was strange.”

Thinking back on what had happened, Wen Zuo still felt a bit strange. After recounting how she had held onto Wan Sheng tightly until she finally caught her and how she left, Wen Zuo hesitated and said, "I think she deliberately left a flaw for me to discover before she left."

Upon hearing this, Mo Shuwan understood. If she wasn't mistaken, Wen Zuo believed that the flaw Wan Sheng deliberately revealed was something that the game rules forced them to say.

But... why did this kind of conversation only happen when Wansheng was about to leave? I clearly had it shortly after I went in. Also, in that short five-minute exchange of information, I only spoke for about two minutes. Even if there was some key information, it was just to help Wansheng get through the situation at the crucial moment.

According to Wen Zuo's description, Wan Sheng's way of speaking, and even her facial expressions and movements, were exactly the same as hers.

Why? Why does he know me so well?

If it weren't for the sudden appearance of a flaw that forced them to reveal themselves at the last moment, and if Wen Zuo hadn't seized upon every suspicious detail and reacted swiftly to capture and expose the other party, Wan Sheng would have been able to complete the mission perfectly.

Wen Zuo suddenly hesitated and said, "Should I not have seen through him?"

Mo Shuwan shook her head. "I don't know either."

She frantically tried to connect the clues in her mind, and looking at the tray that was quietly resting in front of her, an idea flashed through her mind. "Wen Zuo, do you remember what was written on the note inside when we turned the tray and drew out the number six lucky bag?"

Wen Zuo nodded, read the contents of the note again, and then looked at Mo Shuwan in shock.

Both of them saw their own shocked expressions reflected in each other's eyes.

"You thought of that too?"

Wen Zuo nodded, then couldn't help but sigh, "Yes, I've got it. It's completely impossible to guard against."

Mo Shuwan breathed a sigh of relief. "The note said that my teammate and I completed the punishment task perfectly, so the reward was a chance to draw a prize. I originally thought that 'teammate' referred to—"

She silently recited Wan Sheng's name in her heart, and continued, "Only now do I realize that the teammates here refer to you and Liu Dongcheng. Only when you see through the fact that I am fake, and I am not—, can we truly complete the task given by the punishment game."

Even though he still couldn't say some of the key words, Wen Zuo easily guessed what she meant by those pauses because of their coded exchange just now.

“If Liu Dongcheng and I hadn’t seen through your deception, even if you had successfully completed the task, you wouldn’t have received a reward and might even have been punished. And those black letters indicating game failure probably only refer to the one with 404.”

Because not only was Wan Sheng exposed, but his teammates also failed to see through Mo Shuwan.

Mo Shuwan nodded, but for some reason, she still felt a sense of unease, as if something was not quite right.

In such a place, Mo Shuwan never ignores her intuition. She said, "According to you, we have indeed completed the mission perfectly, but I am sure that the mission was carried out jointly and it is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface. There must be something else that we don't know."

Wen Zuo had never experienced this before, and the information she received came from Mo Shuwan and from some clues she had discovered herself. Since she felt there was a problem, then there must really be a problem.

Unable to voice the crucial information or discuss it with Wen Zuo, Mo Shuwan felt as if her head was about to explode from the overwhelming amount of complex information.

After completing the punishment game, she followed the green arrow back to her room. Wansheng thanked her, and she assumed it was out of guilt, since the information he gave her was of no help whatsoever. At that time, after learning that Wansheng had been exposed, she took the defensive bullets he gave her and left.

I didn't think carefully about why he said thank you.

Now that I think about it carefully, I realized that while I wasn't exposed, Wen Zuo and the others did, and I was rewarded. On the contrary, Wan Sheng should have been punished. Since Wan Sheng had already been chosen once, he must have known the consequences of being exposed. So why did he thank me back then?

“He said we won before he left, but he also said he hadn’t lost yet. If we calculate based on the time you came back, you should still be doing the punishment game task at that time.”

Wen Zuo could only use what he knew to help Mo Shuwan deduce the truth.

Mo Shuwan frowned and hesitated before saying, "Is it because I wasn't exposed that he thanked me?"

"Did I thank you?"

"Yes. They said so, and they gave me this too."