“I asked Liu Dongcheng, and he said that Wen Zuo looked very surprised when he returned to the room. He must have realized that he was not injured and had returned to the room safely. If things had gone according to plan, we would have been deceived.”
Yang Zhou couldn't help but laugh. "But we just had to believe that fake Wen Zuo was real. Even though he returned to his room unharmed, Captain, you still had your doubts and used your own methods to confirm that Wen Zuo was indeed fake. This... was truly a twist of fate."
Wen Zuo fiddled with his phone and found that it was working, so he lowered his head and started typing.
Wen Zuo: At that time, I was teleported to the secret room where those of us who had been replaced were staying. I found that the wound I had stabbed the fake me had transferred to my own body and I was unable to heal it.
Mo Shuwan read aloud what Wen Zuo had sent her: “You see, if things develop normally, we will conclude that Wen Zuo is fake, and the fake one is real.”
Wen Zuo: I'm pretty lucky.
"yes."
"Captain, do you have a way to set up a discussion group? That way you won't have to repeat Wen Zuo's words again."
Although Yang Zhou made a suggestion, he actually found it strange that Wen Zuo, who could speak, insisted on typing and writing.
"Okay, I'll look for it."
After she turned on her phone, she opened the messaging app and found that there was indeed a function to create a discussion group. She created one and immediately clicked on her contacts when the option to invite people popped up. However, only four names were lit up in her contacts; the others... were all dead.
Mo Shuwan was silent for a moment, then sighed silently. As she pulled Wen Zuo and the other three into the discussion group, she whispered, "We must live well and strive to become stronger."
Wen Zuo then said, "Definitely."
With the discussion group, Wen Zuo's words can be seen directly by the other three people.
Wen Zuo: Because I was judged to be a loser by the game, it directly sent me into the gambling game as a monster. At first, we were ourselves, but as time went by, we also became monsters in each other's eyes. Later, after you entered the maze, we losers were also thrown into the maze. But at that time, I had completely lost my humanity and rationality. I thought I was a monster.
"Damn, this game is so cunning! It's full of traps."
Liu Dongcheng was silent for a moment, then looked relieved. "Luckily, we couldn't beat you back then, but you still remembered to protect the captain."
Mo Shuwan, who was about to speak, paused for a moment when she heard Liu Dongcheng's words. Right, she almost forgot that Wen Zuo would protect her whenever someone attacked her in the maze.
Filled with warmth, she smiled and poked Wen Zuo's arm, "Thank you for subconsciously remembering me!"
Wen Zuo coughed lightly, feeling embarrassed.
Wen Zuo: The saplings we hold in our hands, those leaves are actually the lives of us losers. If all the leaves are gone, even if we are unharmed, we will die, because our lives have been used up.
"What?!" Mo Shuwan stared at Wen Zuo in shock. "I even stole a leaf from your tree!!!"
"It's okay, don't be nervous. A leaf won't affect me," Wen Zuo quickly reassured Mo Shuwan.
Mo Shuwan was somewhat relieved, but she was still furious because Zhou Quansheng had eaten the last leaf! That was Wen Zuo's life!
Wen Zuo whispered a few more words of comfort to her and assured her that nothing was wrong, which calmed Mo Shuwan down.
She frowned. "The reason why the passenger in 404's body shrank so much was because the leaves that represented his lifespan were almost used up?"
Wen Zuo: Yes, what you were holding in your hands at that time was the small tree that his life had transformed into. Because there were still leaves on the small tree, he was still alive.
Seeing Wen Zuo's last words, Mo Shuwan knew he was trying to comfort her and tell her not to feel guilty. She shook her head. "No wonder you insisted that I give him all those leaves. But in the maze, you were all in the form of monsters. I could barely see some of your problems, and that was my limit. I couldn't possibly know what those trees represented. This matter is not my fault, and I will not take the blame for it."
Although Mo Shuwan's words may seem somewhat heartless, what she said was indeed the truth. In that situation, if she wanted to survive, she had to snatch the monster's sapling. However, the monsters that the passengers had transformed into were also attacking her out of instinct given by the game. The two sides were completely opposed, and besides, she had no idea what the tree was for at that time.
Wen Zuo was afraid that Mo Shuwan would get stuck in a rut and think that he was the one who caused Chen Chen to become like that, so he was relieved.
"At most, I feel a little guilty, but the captain really has no responsibility for this."
Liu Dongcheng and Chen Jiaxu both nodded in agreement.
"Did he go back before you left?"
Wen Zuo shook his head.
not yet.
Only three people could successfully pass the test. The last spot was taken by them. No one knew the outcome for Qin Liu's team, but they felt that they were at least not in any danger, since the game usually left passengers with a chance of survival.
After clarifying all the doubts in the previous sub-level, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief.
With these doubts no longer weighing on my mind, I feel much more at ease.
"There's something else I haven't told you yet." Mo Shuwan said, taking out a jade pendant from her storage space. "This jade pendant was given to me by a mysterious person. He said it was my stepping stone in the future. The increased difficulty of my punishment game task was a test given to me by the mysterious person. I barely passed it, and then he gave me this."
Wen Zuo reached out and took the jade pendant, examining it carefully. "Did it say what kind of test it was?"
“No, I asked him who he was, and he said I would find out in the future. I saw the word ‘supervision’ written on this jade pendant, so it should be related to this.”
Supervision?
They all fell into deep thought, but unfortunately, they couldn't come up with any relevant information no matter how hard they tried. After all, they had only arrived in the fifth mission world and had just come into contact with the real time bus. It was simply impossible for them to see through the layers of mystery and figure out the meaning of this jade pendant.
After Liu Dongcheng, Yang Zhou, and Chen Jiaxu all examined the jade pendant, it returned to Mo Shuwan's hands. She looked down at the light red characters in the center of the pendant and said softly, "Why do you think the Time Bus exists?"
"Who knows? Maybe someone just wants to see us ordinary people struggling between life and death every day."
"I hadn't thought about it."
“I’ve thought about it,” Mo Shuwan said. “Unfortunately, I don’t have any clues. But I feel that the Time Bus couldn’t have existed for no reason. The mysterious person said he hoped to see me again in the future, which at least shows that the purpose of the Time Bus is not to make us struggle between life and death before we die.”
Wen Zuo: Do you think the person who gave you this jade pendant might be related to the existence of the Time Bus?
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