In a sparsely wooded small pine forest, a thin young man sat sideways under a stout pine tree. His head tilted slightly, clinging to the trunk of the tree, as if a man who had been tired for a long time rested against the pine tree for a while.

However, his face in front of everyone was a bloodless pale, and his purple lips and dull eyes all indicated that the breath of life had left the young man.

"Carmen!" John knelt in front of his companion with a little choked up, and he had a better relationship with Carmen than the handsome Ellen.

In fact, Carmen, who is easy-going and humorous, has a good relationship with almost every one of them, and is the lubricant of the five of them. It is precisely because of Carmen's existence that the grumpy John was able to spend so long with the somewhat arrogant Allen without parting ways.

Looking at Carmen's corpse, Alan and the others fell into a long silence.

Although the death of the mother-daughter and the elderly couple was a constant reminder of their current situation, it was only when death really befell the heads of the five people that they felt their personal pain. In addition to the sadness of the rabbit's death and the fox's sadness, they were overwhelmed by even greater fear.

Now it's Carmen, who will be next?

"Listen to you, monster, I'm going to slaughter you, slaughter you like a chicken, you know, you wait for me!" John suddenly stood up and shouted excitedly around the pine forest.

"Bang bang bang!" He raised his hand and fired three shots aimlessly with the Colt Python.

"Click!" One of the Colt python's bullets broke a pine branch on top of Natasha's head, and the pine branch, which was about two meters long, fell hard.

"Huh?!" At the moment when the pine branch fell, Qin Lun's right eye opened and closed, and the silver-white clock dial flashed away. A rusty iron nail from a pine branch entered his perceptual vision.

The iron nail embedded in the branch, its nail cap has been rusted off, and the current broken section is probably not much blunt than the tip of the nail, and when it fell, it was aimed at Natasha's heavenly spirit cover.

It is presumably left behind by a former ranger, perhaps to pull banners, or some other unknown use. Anyway, after the work was over, he didn't pull out the iron nail again.

Qin Lun's hamstrings jumped hard, but when he observed the fat man three meters behind Natasha, he forcibly endured his body's instinct and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Be careful!" Natasha only heard a burst of cheers behind her, and she felt her body rise into the air.

The next moment, a huge black shadow obscured the sky above and pressed heavily on her.

"Ah~" Natasha couldn't help but scream, feeling that the bones in her body were crushed. A little biscuit and mineral water that she hastily ate in the morning all rushed from her stomach to her throat.

"What are you bastards doing, it's just a branch, you know?" John didn't have the consciousness of causing trouble, so he angrily grabbed the fat man by the collar, lifted him off the ground, and said sarcastically, "It's not even a tenth of your weight......

Donald lowered his head and didn't speak, no one could see what expression was on his face, and just let John hold him.

"Natasha, are you alright?" As John counted down Donald, Alan checked in with concern about Natasha's condition.

However, the girl didn't seem to hear her boyfriend's greeting, and just stared at the thick branch, which seemed to have found the rusty iron nail on it.

Natasha's face turned white in an instant, her lips trembled and she threw herself into Alan's arms, and she pointed to the iron nails on the branches.

"What's the matter, it's just a small nail, your luck won't ......" Natasha's anomaly quickly caught the attention of others. John also noticed the spike, and then his voice became quieter and quieter, and his face slowly turned blue, and before he knew it, he loosened Donald's collar.

He may have more muscles than his brain, but he's not stupid either. With that mysterious force staring all the time, their gang obviously has no luck at all, and it can even be said that there is only a 1 in 100 million probability of bad luck, but it will directly become 100% when it comes to them.

If the fat man hadn't pushed Natasha away, they would have had another companion die in a terrible accident, and he had killed it himself.

"I ...... I didn't mean to......" John slowly squatted down with his head covered, he felt a chill all over his body for the first time in his life, and a chill rushed from his tail vertebrae to his brain. He had never felt like this before, even when he saw Carmen's corpse just now, the first emotion that welled up in his heart was anger.

Alan was also stunned by the nails on the branches, and he suddenly realized that when Natasha was in distress, he didn't have the previous precognitive hallucinations......

Qin Lun silently swept the expressions on everyone's faces, and his heart was filled with the pleasure of taking drugs.

Their fear, their confusion, their remorse, their frustration...... It all fell into his eyes, and it made him feel that the human heart was so new and interesting.

At the same time, Qin Lun's mind was also running rapidly under the influence of adrenal hormones, and the more frequently that mysterious power appeared, the more profound his understanding of it became.

At the very least, Natasha's distress this time allowed him to get another piece of information......

Originally, he thought that the mysterious force could not manipulate intelligent beings in any form, but now it seems that this idea is wrong.

John's three shots were too coincidental, and if they were really not affected by the mysterious power, they would never have broken the branches. At the same time, this kind of accident can't be calculated in advance, so the big guy must have been affected just now.

This shows that the mysterious power of intelligent beings can indirectly influence their behavior when their emotions are close to getting out of control. As for why it was indirect, quite simply, John did not shoot Natasha directly.

"Allen, you ...... just now" Suddenly, Qin Lun remembered something again, turned his head to Allen and asked.

"I didn't have a precognitive hallucination!" Before Qin Lun finished speaking, Alan already knew what he wanted to ask, and replied with a blushing face, letting everyone hear it, and their hearts sank again.

Sure enough, I think I know why that mysterious force is attracting all its targets to Arcadia.

Qin Lun lowered his head slightly, revealing a cold smile from an angle that everyone could not observe.

Every time that mysterious force appears, because it is always accompanied by death, it is regarded as a game of death for the time being.

If the reincarnation and the apostles had not intervened in this world, then for ordinary people, even a person with a gifted and prophetic illusion like Allen, I am afraid that it would be difficult for him to truly escape the game of death in the end.

However, the reincarnation and the apostles are here after all, and there are quite a few of them, which are beyond the control of the Grim Reaper game. Samsaras and apostles are far beyond the physical qualities of ordinary people, allowing them to escape their lives in many desperate situations.

If you don't want to really attract the attention of the world, the Grim Reaper can't target these people again and again. After all, no matter how coincidental the incident, the number of times will inevitably attract the attention of people with a heart.

Since it is no longer possible to increase the number of accidents and the damage force, the only way to strengthen the design from a technical point of view is to make the traps more delicate and difficult to detect.

But before doing so, someone on Allen's team had to be marginalized first, and that was Allen himself, and no amount of elaborate design could stop the illusion of foresight.

Before Natasha was in distress, Qin Lun didn't know what the Grim Reaper would do, and now he roughly guessed how the Grim Reaper neutralized Allen's prophetic ability, which was also the main purpose of the Grim Reaper to bring them to Arcadia.

Qin Lun guessed that Allen's foreknowledge was only aimed at some laws of cause and effect that were distorted by the god of death, but he couldn't see the normal laws of cause and effect, otherwise he wouldn't have only foreseen the process fragments of the god of death's game, but should have foreseen all types of future pictures.

Since Eren could only foresee the distorted law of cause and effect of death, what would happen if it was mixed with the cause and effect of some other mysterious power?

That's what the Grim Reaper did, and the attack on Natasha just now might have been a test. As it turned out, He succeeded!

Carmen's death and John's anger have nothing to do with the Grim Reaper game, and as a result, they interfere with Allen's precognitive hallucinations. If it weren't for Donald's timely action, Natasha would have been dead just now.

"Cheer up, isn't Natasha okay?" Just as Qin Lun was thinking, the fat man who was a hero just now suddenly clapped his hands and smiled reluctantly, "What's more, we have other things to do, at least don't leave Carmen hanging like this." ”

Squatting on the ground, John's body stiffened, slowly stood up, took off his coat, and walked towards Carmen with a blank face. The fat man's words touched him, and no matter what, he didn't want to see his friend die like this.

"Boom!" However, just as John reached out to close Carmen's eyes, the corpse's head rolled off his neck, causing John to stand up and widen his eyes.

When Alan and the others saw Carmen before, there was a bowl-sized hole in his chest, and part of his ribs were shattered, and part of his internal organs were pulled out, as if he had been dug out of his belly and heart by some powerful monster, which was in line with the characteristics of the Fjord monster.

Carmen, who was leaning against the trunk of a tree, vomited a lot of blood from her mouth, covering the entire upper body from her chin and neck to her chest, without anyone noticing the wound on her neck.

But now that John's body was ripped and his head fell off, everyone realized that the real cause of his death was probably not because of the wound on his chest, but because he was beheaded by a sharp knife and axe.

"What happened to him? Was it really the fjord monster that killed him? Everyone looked at Carmen's smooth and neat broken neck, and they were all confused for a moment.

"It's funny, it's getting more and more interesting!" The light in Qin Lun's eyes became more and more vigorous, and he almost suppressed it with all his might, so he couldn't control himself from laughing excitedly, "Reincarnators and apostles obviously don't do this kind of thing, so that means ...... Arcadia still has a third mysterious power......"