After listening, Lu Guichi said, wide-eyed, "Lucky I was dead asleep, otherwise if I were pretending to sleep, with such noisy voices in my ear, I definitely wouldn't have been able to hold back. Will they come again tonight?"
"I don't know, we'll find out tonight."
Lin Wu folded the blankets, thinking back to the conversation he had overheard last night, "According to what they said, in another four or five days, we'll be like everyone else, having no choice but to listen to them. That 'everyone else' must refer to the prisoners. We're probably unknowingly ingesting something during this time, which gradually builds up to an amount they can control. It's likely the water."
"Although I'm not clear on the specifics of how they're doing it, or what they control, drinking less water these few days can't be wrong... Eat less as well, just in case there's something wrong with the food. When Rat Lord and the others are around, just pretend to eat, don't actually swallow."
