Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

The exit was getting closer, and the number of puppets behind them was increasing.

Hundreds of Shen Mo, hundreds of Bai Youwei, hundreds of Tan Xiao, Cheng Wei, Zhang Tianyang, Chen Hui, Yang Yi…

Zhang Tianyang tore off another poster. The mirror reflected his puppet face. He quickly tore up the poster, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it away. He had become numb to it.

After doing this, he looked back.

Being followed by so… so many puppets was quite a spectacle.

Chen Hui asked Bai Youwei, "They don't seem to be attacking us anymore, but why are they still following us?"

"Because they want to get out too…" Bai Youwei drew on the paper, eliminating routes. "The maze traps us, and it also traps them."

She paused and looked up. "They are actually us, another version of us. So, if we want to get out, we have to plan a route for them to the exit."

"I understand." Chen Hui nodded. "Use the reflection and refraction of the mirrors to move the puppets in the mirror, so the door with the mirror is the real exit."

Bai Youwei was noncommittal and drew another passage on the paper. She slid her wheelchair over.

Chen Hui followed and asked, "When did you figure it out?"

"This morning."

"This morning?"

"Yes." Bai Youwei nodded. "This morning we went to the exit and confirmed that the mirrors on both sides of the door couldn't reflect ourselves. Not only that, but the mirrors outside the exit passage couldn't reflect either. Later, when we were walking back, I reversed the thought process and found that on the way back, some mirrors could reflect and some couldn't. If the exit is correct, then the problem can only be the path."

She paused, looked ahead, and continued, "When we get to the exit, if the mirror can reflect us smoothly, it means our current path will work."

"What if it still doesn't reflect?" Zhang Tianyang asked.

Bai Youwei was taken aback for a moment, then glanced at him and said, "Then we die."

Zhang Tianyang: "…"

Tan Xiao sympathetically put his arm around his shoulder and gave him a silent look: Cheer up!

Teacher Cheng sighed, "Since ancient times, people have worshipped the maze, believing that a person's entire life is like a maze. Only through a difficult and tortuous search can one say goodbye to hypocrisy and sin and find the true self. From this point of view, this maze game has actually been reminding us from the beginning that we must correctly face the light and darkness within ourselves in order to avoid being swallowed by our demons."

"It's just a self-righteous game, how can there be so many great principles?" Bai Youwei sneered. "Even if there are, it's just the maze adding luster to itself."

She walked alone at the front of the group, her cold tone laced with disdain. "… Besides, whether or not I want to say goodbye to hypocrisy and sin, whether or not I want to find my true self, is my own business. It's none of its business!"

Everyone felt complicated upon hearing this.

They looked back at the puppets behind them again.

Those puppets, with the same faces as them, followed not far behind, crying, laughing, angry, and coquettish, as if they could never get rid of them…

They were them, and they were them.

In the maze, they were just puppets at the mercy of the rules of the game.

"Okay."

The girl in the wheelchair in front stopped and smiled without warmth. "We're here."

Everyone hesitantly stepped forward, turned a corner, and saw the door to the exit.

They also saw the mirrors on both sides of the door.

Their reflections appeared in the mirror - this time, they were living people of flesh and blood.

Shen Mo seemed to have sensed something and suddenly turned around.

The others also looked behind them.

The puppets that had been following behind them, crowding the entire road, had all disappeared.

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