Everyone has awakened, but I am the only mortal!

Old Zhou and Hei Zi went from initial fear to astonishment, until Su Bai pushed open the door and walked in, and only then did they dare to believe that what they had just seen was not an illusion.

"What's outside the window is just an illusion, not real," Su Bai said calmly, his tone undisturbed.

Kuroko couldn't help but ask curiously, "How did you find out?"

"If a living creature were that close to the window, it would leave a breath or mark on the glass." Su Bai paused, then added, "After I went outside, there was nothing outside the window, which confirmed my guess."

Old Zhou scratched his head: "So what's the use of this illusion? It can't just be there to scare us, can it?"

Hei Zi said seriously, "Everything in this other world must have its purpose."

Old Zhou rolled his eyes: "Don't waste your breath on this kind of nonsense that's as good as saying nothing."

Kuroko: "..."

Chen Hua, who was sitting against the wall, suddenly chuckled softly.

"Stop gloating!" Old Zhou glared at him immediately.

Chen Hua raised an eyebrow and looked at him with a slight smile.

Old Zhou raised an eyebrow, pushing his luck further, and said, "What are you glaring at? You're a prime suspect, and you still have the nerve to laugh?"

Chen Hua: "..." This is such a personal insult!

After venting his frustrations, Old Zhou's tone suddenly turned serious as he sighed, "In the last alternate realm, Luo Zheng said that we had to wait for someone to get into trouble before the rules could be triggered. At the time, we thought he was heartless, but now it seems that sometimes there really is no other way."

As he spoke, he followed Su Bai to the table, and the three of them stared at the meat on the table.

"The meat is very fresh," Su Bai said slowly.

Yes, it's been two days, and the meat is still incredibly fresh and juicy, as if it were just cut from the animal.

This is impossible in the real world, but this is another world.

All the abnormalities have become normal.

Old Zhou reached out and touched the table, then scoffed, "It's not a freezer, how can it stay like this for so long without spoiling?"

Kuroko: "....."

Before anyone knew it, Chen Hua had also come over, lightly touching the piece of meat with his fingertips, and said with a playful tone, "It's certainly fresh, but I wonder if this meat will still be available tomorrow."

Su Bai looked up at him.

Chen Hua returned a meaningful smile: "This meat isn't just here for us to see, is it?"

Meat is meant to be eaten.

What other use could it have?

Something suddenly flashed through Su Bai's mind, so fast that he couldn't catch it.

Before he could think it through, a series of hurried footsteps came from outside the door.

Luo Zheng and his group have returned.

However, everyone looked unwell. Luo Zheng and Zheng Ge remained relatively calm, but Huang Xiang and the others had lingering fear on their faces.

Su Bai glanced around and was shocked to find that one person was missing from the group.

Luo Zheng strode up to Su Bai, his expression grave: "Something's happened."

He paused for three seconds before slowly speaking: "Everything went smoothly on the way there, and everyone avoided the floodwaters, but on the way back, some people were still pulled into the water."

Su Bai didn't press further, and Luo Zheng continued, "The first two lines of the twelve-character motto must be considered together to form the complete rule. 'No noise brings peace, no wading in deep waters' means not only that you shouldn't tread water, but you also shouldn't make loud noises by the water."

Zheng Ge added from the side, "Someone couldn't help but speak when we came back, and the incident happened right after they finished speaking."

Su Bai nodded slightly: "If that's the case, then this is the rule of survival outside."

Luo Zheng frowned: "The rules are all related to the water outside. Could the solution lie outside, rather than inside this room?"

"We have too few clues right now," Su Bai said. "We only know how to avoid the rules of death, but we have no clue what the key to breaking this deadlock is."

Everyone fell silent, and they all thought of the broken cup.

The missing two words are the key to breaking the deadlock.

Just then, Xu Chen, who had been frightened outside, suddenly burst out and vented all his anger on the stunned Jiang Fan.

He rushed over and started punching and kicking Jiang Fan with great force.

Jiang Fan was like a mindless punching bag, letting him beat him. Even when a tooth was kicked out and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, he still didn't react, neither dodging nor avoiding.

No one stepped forward to stop him. Everyone knew that killing the wrong person in the otherworld would result in being killed in return. No matter how irritable Xu Chen was, he didn't have the guts to actually kill Jiang Fan.

Xu Chen was forced to stop until Su Bai walked over, grabbed Xu Chen by the collar, and shoved him aside.

Xu Chen collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, his eyes bloodshot, glaring fiercely at Su Bai, his eyes filled with hostility.

But this hostility was quickly replaced by extreme fear.

Jiang Fan, who had been dazed, suddenly got up from the ground and rushed towards Su Bai, who was closest to him, like a madman.

This happened so fast that Luo Zheng couldn't even reach out to stop it.

Everyone's hearts jumped into their throats.

Fortunately, it was just a false alarm.

Jiang Fan rushed up to Su Bai, then suddenly stopped, grinning foolishly at Su Bai while repeatedly muttering only two words: "Water, water..."

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly convulsed violently, fell heavily to the ground, kicked his legs twice, and then became completely still.

Su Bai walked over, squatted down, checked his breath with his fingertips, then turned to the crowd and said, "He's dead."

Two people died in one day.

Xu Chen trembled with fear, pointed his finger sharply at Chen Hua, and roared, "It must have been you! You're the one who did this!"

Chen Hua glanced at him disdainfully, his tone mocking: "If I wanted to do something, why didn't I just kill him outside? Why bring him back here, going through all that trouble?"

"Because you brought him back, you were able to clear yourself of suspicion!" Xu Chen forced himself to remain calm and retorted.

Chen Hua scoffed, "I brought him back, which is why you've been so suspicious. If I had come back alone and said I didn't know where he was, wouldn't I have been able to escape punishment even more easily? Why would I create trouble for myself and have you all watching me?"

Chen Hua's words were reasonable, and Xu Chen was speechless for a moment, unable to find any reason to refute them.

One second he was still blaming Jiang Fan.

Now that Jiang Fan is dead, he immediately shifts the blame onto Chen Hua.

This sycophantic and irresponsible behavior earned the contempt of everyone present.

Luo Zheng simply ignored the hysterical Xu Chen and turned to ask Su Bai, "What did Jiang Fan mean by repeatedly saying 'drink water'? Did he mean he didn't want us to drink water, or did he mean he wanted us to drink water?"

Su Bai pondered for a moment, then slowly replied, "I think it means we should drink water."

Huang Xiang couldn't help but speak up, her tone much gentler than before, yet still carrying a hint of barely perceptible doubt: "Why can't it just mean we can't drink water?"

She still looked down on Su Bai, but she had to admit that Su Bai could always quickly sort things out. It seemed that Luo Zheng was in charge, but in fact, Luo Zheng was watching Su Bai's attitude at every step.