The time and frequency of Anna's dream awakening are not fixed, otherwise the night owl who is familiar with the setting of the scene will not miss the end time of the dream.

Whenever this awakening occurs, the six occasions described in the bedtime story are separated to form six separate and sealed environments.

If the killer and the survivor are trapped in the same area at this time, the area will undoubtedly become a closed death cage, which will greatly increase the chances of the killer succeeding in hunting the survivor.

I have to say that Cangyue Changkong and Cangyue Wuming were really lucky, and when they were about to be caught up by the night owls, they actually happened to meet Anna's awakening time, and the position they were in at the time also happened to be outside the edge of the Stonehenge scene, and the displaced trees blocked the killer for them and saved them.

Without one of these two conditions, they will all be executed after harvesting their willpower.

"With this luck, it's a pity not to buy a lottery ticket today."

The elder will be in the mood to joke there for the rest of his life.

But it wasn't too early to rejoice, because the surrounding trees were still in a state of constant movement shrouded in darkness.

The creaking sound was incessant, and the large trees with fiery red leaves surged as if they had two legs, and they did not dodge and swept towards the two small survivors.

Cangyue Changkong, who could still walk, had no choice but to set up his teammates on the ground, dodging the mindless trees, and hiding in the gap between the trees, without time to stop to treat Cangyue Wuming's injuries.

After a few minutes of dodging and stopping, a soft song suddenly floated through the mangroves.

'Good baby, oh~ My baby, it's getting dark, go back to the house and sleep. ’

'What's in the mangroves?' There are Big Bad Wolves and Little Red Riding Hood. ’

'What's in the mangroves?' There were three little pigs purring. ’

'What's in the mangroves?' There's Pinocchio who loves to lie. ’

'What's in the mangroves?' There is Cinderella and her crystal slipper. ’

'Good baby, it's dark, go to sleep......'

At the same time as the song appears, from the perspective of the girl Anna, looking at the sky of the world outside the dream, as if someone has suddenly pressed to fast forward, the picture changes rapidly, and the plot advances rapidly.

Dangdangdang......

The school bell rings, and elementary school student Anna ushers in her nap time.

Anna lay on the cot, her eyes staring at the ceiling, her eyelids gradually heavi, and finally closed completely after two blinks.

The images played in the sky disappeared instantly, and the abstract yellow moon and stars reclaimed the deep blue night sky.

The darkness of the night that shrouded the mangroves disappeared like a stain on a plate washed by detergent, and the rampage of the trees stopped moving forward, standing motionless, the dull roar turning back to a faint whisper.

"It should be the player with the ID called Altaïr, who used the music box that hypnotized Anna."

Looking at the puzzled eyes cast by Cang Yue Wuming, the elder explained, "That music box seems to be only used once per survivor. ”

After the trees stopped and stood again, a new forest path appeared in front of Cangyue Changkong and Cangyue Wuming, and they didn't know which scene the end of the road led to.

Without wasting time, the elder quickly took out the first-aid medical kit stored in his bag, and with his [Mastery and Healing] skills, he began to treat the seriously injured and dying Cangyue Wuming.

……

"Road, one gone?!"

In the area of the cabin in the woods, the music box had just been wound up, and the lullaby on the music box was launched, and Ataïr, who had successfully lulled Anna to sleep, walked around the cabin, and found that the original four forest paths that extended in four directions were now only three, and it seemed that the trees of the entire mangrove forest had directly covered one road by the rampage just now.

"I estimate that the system sets a time when every awakening time passes, there will be one less road here, until it is reduced to only one road."

Lao Cha hugged his hands on the side and said, "This kind of brain-dead setting is the most common. ”

Altaïr had already guessed that what he was thinking about now was that if the system reduced the route from the hut to the other areas, and when only the last one remained, wouldn't it be possible to connect the other five areas to form a kind of 'one road to the end' structure?

This change in route is not very friendly to the survivors.

Walking to the end, it is not so easy for the Survivors to avoid the killer's patrol, the Killer only needs to advance one area at a time, and he can always encounter the Survivors who are stranded in the area.

Of course, it's too early to think about this problem, and according to the system's setting, Anna will need to go through two more awakening times before only one road outside the forest hut can be wiped out.

The three roads outside the hut are currently in a Y-shape, and the two trails to the northwest and northeast seem to have remained unchanged, one leading to the Good Luck Springs and the other to the Huangshu area.

I can't say for sure that the trees that were moved just now will disrupt the route, but the area where the Fountain of Good Luck and the Imperial Tree are located is fixed, so they won't grow their feet and run around on their own at the time of awakening, so Altaïr and Lao Cha decided to take the path in the forest due south.

The path to the south was wider than the previous two roads combined, and there were more obstacles for survivors to take advantage of, but it was also shorter than the previous path to the Fountain of Good Luck and the Imperial Tree, and as they approached the end of the road, both Old Tea and Altaïr noticed some hideous thorn bushes along the way.

Five minutes later, they managed to reach a new area.

It's a dark jungle of thorns, dotted with low, dark vines, and stout vines with spikes that look hideous.

The thorn bush completely fills the entire area of the scene, and through the gap, you can see that in the center of the thorn bush, there is a white altar building.

This is obviously the scene mentioned in the bedtime story "Valley of Thorns".

Altaïr found a path on his right side by side for the two of them, and followed it into the thorn bush, turning a corner before a fork in the road.

"Labyrinth?"

This area doesn't seem to be large, and even if the thorns are distributed in the shape of a maze, it should be a very simple maze.

Old Tea took the lead in the right direction, and Altaïr had no choice but to follow.

After ten minutes or so, the two of them made some detours back and forth, and finally arrived at the white altar building in the center of the thorn bush.

Walking up the steps of the altar, Altaïr came to a platform in the middle of the altar.

Embedded on the platform was a nine-panel puzzle of slabs that had been disrupted in order, with a stone slab missing from the lower right corner of the puzzle, and Altaïr tried to move the puzzle slate, only to find that the puzzle slate was carved into a stone tower built in the clouds.

"The missing slate should need to be obtained from other areas, right?"

However, Altaïr's page, which contains the Vale of Thorns, only mentions that the treasure of the Queen of Thorns is buried here, and there are no further clues.

"There are three areas that I haven't been to, and it seems that there is a connection between each area."

Old Tea urged Altaïr to continue on his way, there was no need to waste too much time in places that could not be cracked for the time being.

The two of them left the altar and walked out of the labyrinth of thorns before arriving at another exit from the place.

Moving deeper along the forest path, two people squatting on the ground appeared in front of them, one of them with shoulder-length hair looked badly injured, and the other middle-aged uncle with black-rimmed glasses had an earthy yellow glow on his body, squatting next to the wounded man to treat him.

The two groups of survivors who were separated unexpectedly reunited here.

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