Five Elements Water Formation, Deadly Question

Night fell, and gusts of sea wind carried a fishy smell through the window.

Ye Jinghong and I gnawed on two pieces of dried meat and drank a little water.

We were being frugal. Heaven knew how long we would be trapped here, or whether this food and water would be enough to sustain us until we escaped this danger.

Ying Gou neither ate nor drank. He said he did not need to. Normally, he ate and drank mainly to make himself look more like a real person, but now that he knew how precious food and water were to us, he did not want to waste any.

Naturally, we did not insist. This was no time to be fussy.

"Did you hear something?" Ye Jinghong asked. She was standing by the window, looking outside.

I shook my head. I truly had not heard anything.

Ying Gou, however, said, "It sounded like people talking."

My eyes widened. There were only the three of us on this deserted island. Who else could there be? Yet they had heard people talking, and if they could hear it, then the voices had to be inside the house.

The three of us exchanged glances, then headed downstairs.

I followed the two of them. Since they were going downstairs, the voices they had heard must have come from below.

"Can this water be drunk?"

"If they wanted to kill us, they wouldn't need to go to so much trouble, would they?"

We heard the conversation. Both the voices and the words were incredibly familiar.

My heart jolted. Wasn't this the exchange from when we had first found this house? In the kitchen, Ying Gou had questioned the drinking water, and I had answered him.

Even the voices were ours.

Ying Gou and Ye Jinghong heard