The danger that came after that calm caused Lin Ya to be injured and poisoned, and his life and death have not been decided until now. And the calm we are experiencing now will be another trap that leads us to death?

Sadly, even though we know that this is a trap, even if we know that there is no safety but danger in going on, we still have to keep going.

If there is really despair in this world, then the so-called despair probably refers to the endless murky and dirty water, the seemingly close but actually distant island in the middle of the lake, the dead silence of the lake with hidden dangers, and a group of people who know that "two of us must die".

People always need hope to support themselves to live, even in a seemingly hopeless environment, they have to struggle to find hope, and then live with this hope in despair.

There are still two of us who have to die, that's our definition of despair at the moment.

I'm going to be someone other than those two dying people, and that's the hope we struggle to find out from despair.

Oh, what a sad hope.

I turned my hand outwards and looked at a faint mark on the side of my hand. It was the wound I left last night when I washed my hands by the lake, and after a night's rest, only faint traces remained. It can be vaguely seen that the shape of the wound is uneven and not neat. If it was outside the room, I would have thought it was some sharp debris in the water. But here, first, I know that there can't be industrial metal waste in the water, and second, I have a guess about the existence of some kind of creature in the water.

This should be a bite. The wound is not large, indicating that the creature that bit me is not large, but it cannot be ruled out that this creature is a social creature. Perhaps this is the source of the danger we are about to face.

Living in water, small in size, lethal in bite, and carnivorous clues, I have already thought about it, but I haven't told anyone else about this speculation.

It's not that I'm trying to hide it or anything, it's just that even if I guess what's in the water, there's no need to say it.

Everyone here knows that there is something in the lake, and that it is dangerous and will directly or indirectly lead to the death of one of us. But even so, everyone chose to head towards the center of the lake.

When the danger becomes real and predictable, and everyone is mentally prepared to meet it, it doesn't matter what the danger is.

I took off the fabric from Lin Ya's forehead to re-moisten and cool it, and when I was pouring water on the fabric, I saw that the surface of the lake seemed to fluctuate.

My hand paused, and I stopped pouring water, and looked up slightly at the lake in front of me, unsure if it was my own delusion.

"Did something pass just now?"

Fu Lingjun's voice sounded, and the tension in his voice was obvious.

I turned my head to look at Fu Lingjun, who was staring at the lake with wide eyes, and unconsciously moved towards the center of the raft.

Sure enough, it wasn't my delusion. Something that should have come seems to have arrived.

"Over there!"

Li Sheng shouted, and at the same time stretched out his hand to point in one direction, and we immediately looked in the direction he pointed out, almost visible to the naked eye, and a wave on the lake in the distance was coming towards us—something in the water was approaching!

"Here we are." Lu Haisheng was still as calm as ever, and I quickly glanced at him, he frowned and squinted, his eyes staring at the approaching fluctuations on the surface of the lake.

Lu Haisheng lowered his voice and said in a low voice: "Li Sheng! Put the paddles away! Don't move, don't make a sound! ”

Li Sheng listened to his words, immediately picked up the wood pulp, and also took two steps back towards the center of the raft. Almost except for Lu Haishen and Yu Pu, everyone subconsciously moved closer to the center of the raft, silently staring at the rapidly approaching fluctuations.

Lin Ya was lying in the middle of the raft, and I had been beside him, so I didn't deliberately move away from the edge of the raft at this time. The others stood up when they gathered towards the center, and now they were standing around me, and since everyone was looking at the lake, I could only see the backs of the others.

"yes, let's go and haul the raft in, it's going to rain."

After Li Sheng walked out, Yu Pu also walked out with him. Lu Haisheng has been standing in front of me and Lin Ya, and after a while, Lin Chang also walked out of the cave, and Lu Haisheng also walked towards the outside of the cave.

I looked at Lu Haisheng's back, and I didn't know what kind of mood I should have for a while. What did he think? One moment it makes me think that he is a selfish person who only cares about himself, and the other makes me feel like a bastard who misunderstands him.

When the four men walked out of the cave, only me, Fang Ruoxi, Fu Lingjun and Lin Ya in a coma were left in the cave.

Fang Ruoxi looked at me and sneered, and also walked out of the cave and didn't know what to do. Fu Lingjun walked to the fire in silence and put out the fire, without looking at me or speaking.

The whole cave was empty and quiet, and I came back to my senses from what had just happened, only to realize that the water in the water bottle had been squeezed out by my clench, and left along the bottle, wetting a piece of the ground.

Putting the deformed water bottle aside, he looked at the soup in Lin Ya's mouth and still did not decrease, sighed again, and had to give up. Changing the fabric on his forehead again, I helped Lin Ya wipe his body to cool down, and I was in a daze thinking about the current situation.

Being told the situation by Fang Ruoxi was something I didn't expect at all, this situation was completely unexpected by me, and I was caught off guard and didn't know how to deal with it.

How did Fang Ruoxi know? Could it be that she heard it when I was chatting with Chen Si before? Thinking about it carefully, it seems that Fang Ruoxi did not express surprise or doubt about Chen Si's disappearance after waking up, as if she hadn't noticed that Chen Si was missing at all, or that she already knew about Chen Si's death.

I think there is indeed something wrong with Fang Ruoxi, she is completely different from the Fang Ruoxi I know, judging the two of them.

However, the biggest problem now is by no means Fang Ruoxi, but everyone's thoughts.

I think that's the scariest thing about this particular room, and the real danger doesn't come from the danger of the room itself, but from the cannibalism between the entrants.

Only five people will survive, so if Lu Haisheng is excluded, two more people will die between us. In other words, after two people died, the rest were safe.

Leaving aside the others, at least I can be sure that as long as there is a chance, Lin Chang will definitely choose to kill two people in exchange for his own safety. I don't know what other people think.

I looked down at Lin Ya, his face flushed with a sickly flush, the high fever still continuing, the toxins eating away at his life. I don't know how long he'll last, just like I don't know how long I'll last.

For the first time, I felt so powerless, I didn't know how to live or how to die.

I thought that I had adapted to this place after going through three rooms, and I thought that I could survive with my sanity and strength, but now I realized that what I thought was strong was actually vulnerable.

I wanted to save Lin Ya, but I couldn't do anything about the current situation.

I want everyone to live, but two people have to die before anyone else can live.

I want to be companions with other people who can trust and rely on each other, but the truth is that we can only escape by seeking each other's lives.

What is truly frightening is not the danger, but the humanity in the face of it.

What is truly desperate is not the environment, but the human nature that makes people dare not speculate.

I don't know what I'm going to do, I don't know how to keep myself and the people around me alive, I don't know if I should pray for someone else's death in order to live, I don't know how those two places of death should come.

My mind was in a mess, all my thoughts were swirling and struggling, and I couldn't make any decisions at all.

It wasn't until Lu Haisheng brought the raft back that the next nitric rain came, and I listened to Lu Haisheng tell everyone about his next plans.

When the rain stops, we will start preparing to cross the lake, and if nothing else, the center of the lake should be the place to escape. And there is one more thing, Lu Haisheng did not say, but all of us know that it will never be calm in the process of crossing the lake.

Every 6 hours without rain, one person dies, and in the process of crossing the lake, there will be danger, whether it is from accidents or man-made.

What's more, if a person dies in the process of crossing the lake, then there will be one place left that must die, will Lin Ya be given up at that time?

Even if Lin Ya didn't give up, would he be able to last another twelve hours?

I raised my eyes to look at Lu Haisheng, but he still didn't look at me. I knew he must have noticed my gaze, but he didn't want to give me a response.

I lowered my head and reached out to hold Lin Ya's arm. The heat of his fever was transmitted to the palm of my hand, and I really felt his presence.

I don't know how to describe how I feel, but from the time I entered the endless room to the present, if you count the time when time is reset, Lu Haisheng and I have been together for about three years. He seemed to have been by my side for three years, but when he was with me, I didn't feel anything and even rejected his approach, but when he was suddenly no longer by my side, it made me feel as if I had lost something important, as if I had lost a part of myself.