Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

As soon as the words left his mouth, the students erupted in a small frenzy.

"It's really wrong?!"

"What do we do now?… Did we just waste our entire day?"

"How could this happen?! Who planted the flag incorrectly?!"

"Lin Zihang, was it you? You were the one who said you weren't sure about a spot!"

"What are you talking about?! You also said you weren't sure!"

…

The students began to argue amongst themselves.

Zhang Tianyang walked back to his tent with a sullen face. He entered the tent without saying a word, ignoring everyone.

Tu Dan's heart was in turmoil, but as a teacher, she had to step forward and calm the students down.

"Everyone, quiet down, please stop arguing! We'll correct the mistake now that we've found it. Blaming each other won't solve anything!" Tu Dan said with a slightly stern tone. "Now everyone pack up and get ready to rest!"

A student raised their hand and asked, "But teacher, our route is wrong now, shouldn't we solve this problem first?"

"What good will come from all this arguing?" Tu Dan said solemnly. "There's nothing wrong with the route itself. It's because you were all careless that this happened. We'll just be more careful tomorrow. Now go to sleep, and don't start arguing about this again!"

They were all fifteen or sixteen-year-old children; they calmed down as quickly as they got worked up.

Bai Youwei watched the commotion from afar. Seeing that they had stopped arguing, she found it boring and curled her lip slightly.

Teacher Cheng, being a worrier, asked Shen Mo, "Should we help them?"

Shen Mo shook his head. "There are too many of them."

Not only were there many people, but they were all adolescent boys and girls. People of this age group, caught between childhood and adulthood, had personalities, drive, and at the same time, a childlike innocence that made them difficult to manage.

Teacher Cheng worried for Tu Dan. "Teacher Tu shouldn't have brought all the students in. What if something happens? How will they escape? Sigh…"

"About that…" Tan Xiao interjected, "It seems that only half of them got the frog item. They were afraid of missing out on the maze reward, so they all came in."

Bai Youwei looked at him curiously. "How do you know?"

Tan Xiao replied, "I went to the bathroom over there just now and overheard some students talking. Teacher Tu initially divided them into two teams. The first team successfully got the mud, but before the second team could enter, the game disappeared. They said… it activated an anti-farming system."

"Pfft!" Bai Youwei chuckled, unable to hide her schadenfreude. "No wonder they all had such complicated expressions when they came in. It's not a fear of scarcity but a fear of inequality, haha!"

"These students are too headstrong. I doubt Tu Dan can control them for long." Shen Mo remarked.

Tu Dan wasn't a strong-willed person to begin with.

Perhaps when the apocalypse first struck, the students, out of fear and instinct, habitually sought help from their teachers. But as they delved deeper into this world, accepting the rules and knowledge of the game, they would no longer obey their teachers.

This wasn't a bad thing; it could even be considered a necessary part of growing up. It's just that this process had its pros and cons.

Shen Mo didn't care about other people's business. After setting up the tent, he carried Bai Youwei inside and brought back the rabbit she had been charging all afternoon, stuffing it into her hands.

"See, is it fully charged?" he asked.

Bai Youwei felt the rabbit and shook her head.

Shen Mo asked, "Roughly how much charge does it have?"

"Hard to say…" Bai Youwei sensed for a moment and replied lazily, "It doesn't have much power anyway."

Shen Mo then said, "We'll continue charging it tomorrow."

Bai Youwei hummed in response.

After a while, she looked up at him, seemingly unhappy for some reason. "You seem to care a lot about this item. Why? Do you think that because I have an item to rely on, you don't have to care about me anymore?"

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