Mo Shuwan immediately rejected the idea without even thinking, "No, even if you're a light sleeper, it'll still take time for you to wake up, it's not safe."

Wen Zuo thought for a moment, then buried himself in writing again.

—How about stringing a rope across the doorway?

Mo Shuwan thought for a moment and nodded.

There were no ropes readily available in the shed, so Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo started twisting dry grass into ropes, winding them together until they quickly formed a thick strand. They tugged at it and found it wouldn't break easily. Each of them took one end and went to the door to compare the distances; they were about the same.

So they put the freshly twisted straw rope in the shed, and then went out together to find several large stones and brought them back. They placed one at the main entrance and the other two, tied with rope, on either side. The positions were quite hidden, so that if someone sneaked in, they would definitely trip over it. If they still didn't wake up by then, it could only be said that heaven was going to destroy them.

Quietly returning to the haystack, Mo Shuwan glanced at the large rock in the center by the firelight, breathed a sigh of relief, rolled over and lay down, whispering, "I'm going to sleep."

Wen Zuo nodded. After watching Mo Shuwan fall asleep, he quietly moved all his hay outside the pile where Mo Shuwan was sleeping, leaving a distance of about one meter between them. When Wen Zuo lay down, he conveniently blocked Mo Shuwan from view.

While Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo were catching up on sleep for their nighttime trip, the passengers staying behind the kitchen, a far cry from their confident demeanor of the previous two days, huddled together, trembling. "They've gone mad...they've all gone mad..."

A cool voice came from the corner at the other end, "I told you this place was weird, but you wouldn't listen. Now look what's happened, you're going to get eaten up."

"Hindsight is 20/20, don't think I didn't see how much you enjoyed your meal these past two days."

The person in the corner is the girl who said Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo had a special mission. She was able to escape being eaten by zombies because she was unconscious at the time and was taken away by a strong man who wanted to carry away as many food supplies as possible. Qin Lei, who was carried back with her, was not so lucky.

Qin Lei already had a leg injury, so he was considered a priority for food supplies as he was unable to move around. He had already been dealt with a day earlier.

But it wasn't until this afternoon that the passengers inadvertently discovered the truth. Fearful, some naturally tried to escape, which led to the scene that Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo had witnessed not long ago.

Pointing fingers at each other won't solve the problem, and now the passengers feel that this safe zone is eerie everywhere, so they don't dare to talk much, resulting in a deathly silence in the room for a long time.

After a long while, a passenger cautiously said, "I...we should go find...them and discuss it."

Everyone knew perfectly well who "they" referred to, but no one responded for a long time. The passenger who made the suggestion became anxious, "Say something! They're the only ones we can turn to now. If we don't go to them, what else can we do? Are we just going to obediently let these devils eat us up?"

"I'm too ashamed to go to them..."

This statement perfectly expressed the passengers' feelings. Before discovering the truth, they had ridiculed Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo to the extreme, and even boasted about how well they were living and eating, so they had no right to ask them for help.

In the crowd, a passenger remembered Mo Shuwan's warning from a few days ago and immediately became furious, "Damn it, so she already knew."

"Know what?"

The passenger angrily relayed Mo Shuwan's warning to the others, saying, "Since she knew this safe zone was suspicious all along, why didn't she just tell us!" He paused, then added through gritted teeth, "I think she just wanted us dead!"

"Didn't she...didn't she remind me..."

"That's right, you're just too stupid to understand, so why are you blaming others instead?"

"If you had told us that back then, we would definitely have been able to guess what she meant."

The passenger was shocked to find himself surrounded by enemies. His face turned pale and then dark. After being collectively criticized for five or six minutes, he finally snapped and roared, "What the hell do you mean? Are you trying to shirk responsibility? Heh, don't think I don't know. If it were you guys in my shoes, you might have gone even further than I did. Now you're playing the good guy. You're despicable."

That being said, the passengers couldn't admit it. They were still hoping to find a scapegoat to apologize to Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo in order to absolve themselves of responsibility. They had to act as if they hadn't helped Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo a few days ago, and even made sarcastic remarks because they had been misled by villains.

The group of people initially kept their voices down, but the argument grew louder and louder, even threatening to escalate into a fight. When a group of people are up against one person, the outcome is obvious. The passenger, who was being held down by several people, was filled with rage. Knowing that he had been used as a pawn, he no longer held back and began to hurl profanities, cursing everyone present and their ancestors.

This really stirred up a hornet's nest. A group of passengers who hadn't originally planned to fight angrily surrounded the attacker and started punching him repeatedly. The screams and curses never stopped. The passengers were also in a frenzy, and each one hit harder than the last.

The girls were terrified by the angry passengers and shrank into a corner. Only when they belatedly realized that the cursing and screaming had stopped did they shout, "Stop hitting him! He's not making a sound!"

But the passengers, as if possessed, punched him several more times before retreating. Several girls rushed over, and seeing the passenger's bruised and swollen face, a sense of fear rose in their hearts. "He...he won't be beaten to death, will he?"

The men who had assaulted the man were also startled and hurriedly tried to defend themselves, shouting, "How could that be? We didn't hit him hard at all!"

"Get up! Stop playing dead!"

They kicked the person lying on the ground several times, but after waiting a while, the person still didn't react. The group started to panic and tremblingly bent down to check for breathing, but they couldn't feel anything...

"Dead, dead!!!"

A group of passengers immediately fled the scene in terror, huddled in the farthest corner, trembling as they stared at the corpse not far away. No one expected that they had actually beaten someone to death!

After a long while, someone stammered, "The...the...they're all...they're all dead anyway, let's quickly move him over there to apologize and admit our mistakes..."

"Yes, yes, yes, they're all dead anyway. And it's his fault for not telling us that. If he had said it sooner, we might have escaped from here by now!"