After most people had gone inside, Liu Dongcheng, who had been separated from the crowd, finally walked up to Mo Shuwan and asked in a low voice, "What's the deal with that monster?"

Instead of answering, Mo Shuwan asked, "Didn't you notice anything strange about Wen Zuo when you were with him?"

Mo Shuwan's bringing up this topic at this time clearly indicates that Wen Zuo has a problem.

Liu Dongcheng frowned, carefully recalling his behavior when he was alone with Wen Zuo, but he wasn't very familiar with Wen Zuo to begin with, and no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't figure out what was wrong with him.

"I don't know much about your affairs, but if I had to point out something strange, it's that your little dinosaur sometimes bares its teeth at Wen Zuo."

Mo Shuwan paused for a moment, then, remembering that Wen Zuo had seen through Wan Sheng last time because of Hope, she couldn't help but laugh, "Hope still lives up to expectations."

Liu Dongcheng asked, "Is that monster related to Wen Zuo?"

“Otherwise, why do you think I care so much about a monster and agreed to those conditions? I can’t tell you the details right now.” After thinking for a moment, Mo Shuwan pointed to Liu Dongcheng’s chest, “There’s a lividity spot on Wen Zuo’s chest.”

"Lividity?!" Liu Dongchen stared at Mo Shuwan in shock.

Mo Shuwan nodded, "The hidden dangers left behind in the zombie world can be used to verify whether Wen Zuo is real or not if you encounter this situation again."

Then she thought about what important features she had, and finally realized that there really weren't any. Even if the zombie virus spread, she couldn't possibly take off her clothes and let Liu Dongcheng confirm it.

At this moment, Liu Dongcheng recalled that after Mo Shuwan returned to the room, she had Wen Zuo unbutton his shirt. "So you suspected him back then, and you had him unbutton his shirt just to confirm the truth. Why didn't you expose him then?"

Mo Shuwan smiled and said, "If we expose him, where will we find that card that can shorten the time of each mission? Since he has replaced Wen Zuo, he has to do missions just like us. If we keep him doing missions, we can spend less time and take less risk."

Liu Dongcheng silently watched Mo Shuwan.

Apart from the two of them and Qin Liu's team, everyone else had already rushed into the passage. It seemed that Qin Liu had waited a moment after seeing that she and Liu Dongcheng had finished talking before leading his teammates over.

"I need to talk to you about something in private, is that a good time?"

Qin Liu, who hadn't had a chance to speak yet, paused for a moment, then nodded.

Qin Liu followed Mo Shuwan to a spot about ten meters away from Liu Dongcheng and the others. He was puzzled that Mo Shuwan had called him over alone. "What do you want to tell me?"

"When you brought us the trays before, you thanked me. I've never understood why you would say thank you to me. Is there something I don't know?" After saying that, she felt that her words seemed a bit abrupt, so she added, "This matter is very important to me. I need to know before I can decide whether I should tell you something."

The matter of Wansheng was no longer a secret, so Qin Liu naturally had no reason to refuse and directly told Mo Shuwan the truth about the punishment game mission.

"So that's how it is. No wonder he thanked me."

Mo Shuwan looked at Wan Sheng and the others who were standing not far away with Liu Dongcheng. Their team still had eight people. She had learned from Wen Zuo that the two monsters next to him were both people from 404, so two of the six people over there were fakes.

She paused for a moment before saying, "Then don't you feel that anyone in your team is acting strange?"

Qin Liu looked at Mo Shuwan quietly for a few seconds and nodded.

"What do you think the class monitor and she were talking about?"

"have no idea."

"You'll know when the class monitor gets back."

After whispering amongst themselves, the group quietly waited for Qin Liu and Mo Shuwan to return. They didn't wait long, but seeing Qin Liu's gloomy face, their earlier joking attitude gradually disappeared.

"Squad leader, what's wrong?"

Qin Liu looked at his teammates and said in a deep voice, "It's nothing, let's go in."

His obvious reluctance to engage in further conversation silenced the others, who followed him into the passageway.

After they left, only Mo Shuwan and Liu Dongcheng remained.

"Aren't you going in?"

After carefully looking around but not finding Wen Zuo and the others, Mo Shuwan sighed, "Let's go."

The passage was only wide enough for one person to pass through, and they had to go in one by one. Mo Shuwan was walking in front of Liu Dongcheng, but after taking only a few steps, she suddenly stopped and looked back. The wall behind her slowly moved and completely blocked the entrance to the passage. Now they could only go forward and there was no turning back.

Mo Shuwan remained silent for a moment, then took out a flashlight from her storage space, finally illuminating a spot in the pitch-black passageway.

“I’ve been through a punishment round once, and every choice I made could put me on the edge of a cliff…” Mo Shuwan paused, “Look, there are several passages here, and it’s all about choices. I never believed the rewards the game promised from the very beginning.”

Liu Dongcheng also shone his flashlight on the passageways. Logically speaking, since so many people had just gone in, and the only way in was the one they were standing on now, there should have been some traces left in these passageways. But there were no traces left at all, as if no one had ever been here.

Mo Shuwan shone her flashlight on the ground, then suddenly reached out and ripped off a button from her cuff and threw it on the ground. "Come on, take two steps forward."

After saying that, she took two steps forward. However, since she hadn't decided which passage to take yet, she didn't deliberately deviate in any direction. She just stood in the middle, with the flashlight beam still shining on the button in front of her.

Liu Dongcheng walked to Mo Shuwan's side and cautiously shone his flashlight around. Although the game rules had stated that it was a reward game, it was illogical for a reward game to suddenly appear in such a dangerous mission world.

This is also why Mo Shuwan suspected the Rewards Bureau. She had read a lot of information about the game world on the forum, and none of those posts mentioned anything about the Rewards Bureau.

Something unusual must be going on.

"Look!"

Liu Dongcheng immediately looked away and looked at the button that Mo Shuwan had shone her flashlight on. It was visible to the naked eye that the button had melted into the ground. After the button had completely disappeared, the two waited for a moment before walking over, squatting down, and touching the spot where the button had disappeared.

Liu Dongcheng's voice was low and deep, "There is no trace whatsoever."

Mo Shuwan hummed in agreement. She touched the ground around her, then looked at the several passages that had left no trace. Suddenly, she raised her arm and peeled off the scabs on her arm.

Drops of blood fell to the ground, quickly turning the clean, spotless surface red.