"Once you eat the food here, you can never leave?"
Huo Wujìu murmured as he repeated it.
No matter how slow Wen Zhishu was, there was no way he could fail to understand. Besides, he was not actually that slow; he simply did not like using his brain most of the time, and his body always acted before his mind did.
"Huh? No, wait, what?"
Realizing what that meant, he hurriedly bent over the trash can and started sticking his fingers down his throat. "Blegh! Blegh! Blegh!"
He retched several times but still could not bring up the fruit he had eaten.
Huo Wujìu was helpless. "What's the point of this? We've been eating for days. Even if it's true, throwing it up now won't help."
"What if? What if there's a quantity requirement, and the more you eat, the harder it is to get out?"
Of course Wen Zhishu knew that they had been eating the food here for days. What could vomiting up the fruit now possibly change?
He could not vomit up everything he had eaten before, after all. Those foods had already been completely digested by his body.
"It can't be true, can it?"
Wen Zhishu looked at Shen Yu, a hint of anxious inquiry in his eyes. "Eating the food here really means we can't leave?"
Huo Wujìu followed up with a question. "How did you know?"
"Since that thing lured you inside, it regarded you as prey. And since you were prey, aside from setting the hook at the beginning and using bait to fish, you had already taken the bait and entered the net."
"Then there was no need to keep throwing out bait."
Prey was caught in order to be eaten.
The bait used to catch prey was meant to lure it