Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

“…Chen Hui? Did you hear me?”

“Yes.”

“Then why aren't you answering me?”

“Liao Jingjing, can you be quiet for a while? You've been complaining since we entered the maze, and now you're gossiping about others. Don't you think you're being very boring?”

“Chen Hui, did I do something to you? You're being so mean today…”

“I'm being mean?” Chen Hui laughed in anger. It was her bad luck to share a tent with Liao Jingjing.

“Aren't you?” Liao Jingjing said, “I didn't provoke you or anything. Why are you speaking up for an outsider? Disabled people are prone to incontinence, they're dirty. I didn't say anything wrong…”

Chen Hui turned over, not wanting to hear her nonsense.

Liao Jingjing paused for two seconds, then suddenly said: “Ah… Chen Hui, are you defending that cripple because you like her brother?”

Chen Hui: “…”

The words 'What the hell' weren't enough to express how she felt at that moment.

Liao Jingjing: “Her brother is quite handsome, not like the boys in our class. He feels so manly, right? …Hey? Where are you going?!”

Chen Hui grabbed her things and left the tent without looking back: “I'm going to squeeze in with Teacher Tu!”

“What do you mean…”

The young girl complained in the tent, feeling that Chen Hui was being too heartless.

Chen Hui had only taken a few steps when she saw Shen Mo not far away. Her face immediately flushed, thinking that Liao Jingjing's words must have been heard. She was so embarrassed that she practically burrowed into Tu Dan's tent with her face covered—

Shen Mo calmly looked away.

He wasn't going to argue with a little girl, but thinking back on those words… the taste in his heart was truly unpleasant.

Fortunately, she was asleep.

He glanced sideways at the tent.

With just one glance, he was proven wrong. Because Bai Youwei came out of the tent.

“What are you looking at me for?” Bai Youwei asked, propping herself up on her arms, half lying at the entrance of the tent. “Come and carry me.”

Shen Mo paused, then got up to carry her. He didn't ask if she had heard those words, naturally carrying her to the wheelchair beside him.

Bai Youwei wouldn't let it go, asking: “Why were you staring at me just now?”

Shen Mo: “With your hair all messed up, I thought Sadako crawled out.”

Bai Youwei: “…”

Shen Mo glanced at her. “Don't be upset, Sadako is actually quite pretty.”

Bai Youwei: “Well, thank you.”

Shen Mo: “You're welcome.”

Bai Youwei felt even more annoyed and asked him: “Are you in a particularly good mood?”

“Are you in a bad mood?” Shen Mo looked at her.

Heh, after being gossiped about, how could her mood be good?

Bai Youwei said coldly: “I don't know when we'll get out of this maze. I'm very annoyed.”

Shen Mo handed her a bottle of water and said: “We'll get out.”

It was a sports drink, lime flavored. Although the road ahead was unknown and dangerous, the good thing was that there was no shortage of food and drink here, so staying a few more days was no burden.

Bai Youwei held the bottle of water, her eyes dark, wondering what she was thinking.

Shen Mo was about to tell her to go back to sleep when she suddenly said nervously: “Brother, look over there…”

Shen Mo: “…”

He looked around, there was nothing.

“Right there… the fountain, there's something… crawling out of the water…” Bai Youwei's voice trembled slightly, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying, scared to the point of tears.

Shen Mo looked towards the fountain, still seeing nothing.

He was about to ask when Bai Youwei whispered: “Shh… don't talk, don't let it find us…”

Shen Mo: “…”

He gave her a warning look: Don't start trouble.

However, Bai Youwei was too deep into character:

“It looks like a doll… It crawled out, covered in water, where is it going?

…What should we do, it's crawling towards the red tent, should we tell everyone?… No, let's not, what if it discovers us?

Oh my god, its mouth and eyes are spraying water, it's so scary…

It's getting closer… Ah, it's crawling in…”

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