In a small pine forest with sparse forests, a thin young man sat sideways under a thick pine tree. His head was slightly tilted, clinging to the tree trunk, like a person who had been tired for a long time leaned against the pine tree to rest for a while.
However, his face facing everyone showed a bloodless paleness, purple lips and dull eyes, all of which indicated that the breath of life had gone away from this young man.
"Carmen!" John knelt in front of his companion with some sobs. Compared with the handsome Allen, he and Carmen had a better relationship.
In fact, Carmen, who is easy-going and humorous, has a good relationship with almost every one of them, and is the lubricant among the five of them. Because of the existence of Carmen, the grumpy John was able to get along with the somewhat arrogant Allen for so long without parting ways.
Looking at Carmen's body, Allen and the others fell into a long silence.
Although the death of the mother, daughter and elderly couple has reminded them of their current situation all the time, only when death really fell on the five people did they feel the pain. In addition to the sadness of the rabbit's death and the fox's sorrow, the more intense fear weighed them down.
Now it's Carmen, who will be next
"Listen up, you monster, I will kill you, like a chicken, you know, you wait for me!" John stood up suddenly and shouted excitedly around the pine forest.
"Bang bang bang!" He raised his hand and fired three aimless shots with the Colt python.
"Crack!" A bullet from the Colt Python broke a pine branch above Natasha's head, and the two-meter-long pine branch fell heavily.
"Huh?!" The moment the pine branch fell, Qin Lun's right eye opened and closed, and the silver-white clock dial flashed away. A rusty iron nail on a pine branch entered his perception field.
The iron nail embedded in the branch, the nail cap has been rusted off, and the current broken section is probably no more blunt than the nail tip. When it fell, it was just aimed at Natasha's sky cap.
It is estimated that it was left by a former ranger, perhaps to pull a banner, or for other unknown purposes. Anyway, after the work was over, he didn't pull out the nail again.
Qin Lun's hamstring twitched violently, but when he saw the fat man three meters behind Natasha, he forcibly suppressed his body's instinct and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Be careful!" Natasha only heard a shout behind her, and felt her body rise into the air.
The next moment, a huge black shadow blocked the sky above and pressed heavily on her.
"Ah..." Natasha couldn't help screaming, feeling that all the bones in her body were broken. The little biscuits and mineral water she ate in a hurry in the morning poured up from her stomach to her throat.
"What are you bastard doing? It's just a branch. Do you know a branch?" John angrily grabbed the fat man by the collar, lifted him from the ground, and said sarcastically, "It's just a branch." Not even a tenth of your weight...”
Donald lowered his head and said nothing. No one could see the expression on his face, and he just let John grab him.
"Natasha, are you okay!" When John scolded Donald, Allen checked Natasha's situation with concern.
However, the girl didn't seem to hear her boyfriend's greeting, and just stared blankly at the thick branch. It seemed that she had discovered the rusty iron nail on it.
Natasha's face turned white in an instant, her lips trembled into Allen's embrace, and she pointed to the iron nails on the branch.
"It's nothing, it's just a small nail, your luck will not..." Natasha's strange behavior quickly attracted the attention of others. John also noticed the iron nails, and then his voice became smaller and smaller, his face slowly turned livid, and he unknowingly loosened Donald's collar.
He may have more muscles than brains, but he's not dumb either. With that mysterious force staring at them all the time, they obviously don't have any luck at all. It can even be said that the probability of being unlucky, which was originally only one in a billion, will directly become 100% for them.
If the fat man hadn't pushed Natasha away, another of their companions would have died in an extremely unexpected situation, and he killed it himself.
"I... I didn't mean to..." John squatted down slowly covering his head. For the first time in his life, he felt a chill all over his body, and a chill rushed straight from the tailbone to his brain. He has always been as strong as a bull, and he has never felt this way. Even when he saw Carmen's body just now, the first emotion that came out of his heart was only anger.
Allen was also staring at the nails on the branch in a daze. He suddenly discovered that when Natasha was in danger, he didn't have the previous precognitive hallucinations...
Qin Lun silently glanced at the expressions on everyone's faces, feeling as happy as taking drugs in his heart.
Their fear, confusion, remorse, frustration... all fell into his eyes, making him feel that the human heart is so novel and interesting.
At the same time, under the influence of adrenaline hormones, Qin Lun's thinking was running fast. The more frequently that mysterious power appeared, the deeper his understanding of it would be.
At least, Natasha's distress this time gave him another piece of information...
He originally thought that the mysterious force could not manipulate intelligent creatures in any form, but now it seems that this idea is biased.
John's three shots just now were too coincidental. If he hadn't been affected by the mysterious power, it would never be possible to shoot off the branch. At the same time, this kind of accident cannot be calculated in advance, so the big guy must have been affected just now.
This shows that the mysterious force can indirectly affect the behavior of intelligent creatures when their emotions are close to losing control. As for why it is indirect, it is very simple, John did not shoot Natasha directly.
"Ailun, you just now..." Suddenly, Qin Lun remembered something again, and turned to Ailun and asked.
"I didn't have precognitive hallucinations just now!" Before Qin Lun finished speaking, Ai Lun already knew what he wanted to ask, and answered with a livid face, letting everyone hear it, his heart sank again.
Sure enough, I think I know why that mysterious force attracts all the targets to Arcadia.
Qin Lun lowered his head slightly, showing a cold smile from an angle that no one could see.
Every time that mysterious power appears, it is always accompanied by death, so for the time being, it is regarded as a game of death.
If the reincarnation and the apostles hadn't intervened in this world, then for ordinary people, even a person like Allen who was gifted with precognitive hallucinations might find it difficult to escape the game of death in the end.
However, the reincarnators and apostles have come after all, and there are quite a few of them, which are beyond the control of the death game. Reincarnators and apostles far surpassed the physical fitness of ordinary people, allowing them to escape with their lives in many desperate situations.
If you don't want to really attract the attention of the world, the god of death will have no way to target these people again and again. After all, no matter how coincidental the incident is, the frequency of it will inevitably attract the attention of interested people.
Since the number of accidents and damage can no longer be increased, the design can only be enhanced from a technical point of view to make the trap more delicate and difficult to detect.
But before doing this, someone from Allen's team must be marginalized first, that is Allen himself, no matter how ingenious the design is, it can't stop the precognitive hallucinations.
Before Natasha was in danger, Qin Lun didn't know what the god of death would do. Now he roughly guessed how the god of death would invalidate Alan's predictive ability, which was also the main purpose of the god of death to lure them to Arcadia.
Qin Lun speculates that Alan's foresight is only for certain causal laws distorted by the god of death, but he cannot see the normal laws of causality, otherwise he would not only foresee the process fragments of the god of death's game, but should foresee all types of future pictures .
Since Allen can only foresee the distorted law of cause and effect of the god of death, what will happen if the cause and effect of other mysterious forces are mixed in it
That's what the god of death did. The attack on Natasha just now may have been a test. As it turned out, he succeeded!
Carmen's death and John's anger have nothing to do with the death game, and as a result interfered with Alan's precognitive hallucinations. If it weren't for Donald's timely shot, Natasha would have died just now.
"Cheer up, everyone, isn't Natasha okay?" Just as Qin Lun was thinking, the fat man who had been a hero just now clapped his hands and forced a smile, "Besides, we have other things to do, at least not Leave Carmen hanging like this."
John, who was squatting on the ground, froze, stood up slowly, took off his coat, and walked towards Carmen expressionlessly. Fatty's words moved him, 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 down from its neck, causing John to stand up suddenly, his eyes widened.
When Allen and the others saw Carmen before, there was a bowl-sized hole in his chest, and some of his ribs were smashed, and part of his internal organs were pulled out, as if he had been dug out by some powerful monster. It is in line with the crime characteristics of fjord monsters.
It's just that Carmen, who was leaning on the tree trunk, spit a lot of blood from his mouth, covering the entire upper body from the chin, neck to chest, and no one noticed the wound on the neck.
But now that the body was pulled by John, and as soon as his head fell off, everyone discovered that the real cause of his death might not be the wound on his chest, but beheaded by a sharp knife and axe.
"What happened to him? Did the fjord monster really kill him?" Everyone looked at the smooth and neat section of Carmen's neck, and fell into confusion for a moment.
"It's very interesting, it's getting more and more interesting!" The light in Qin Lun's eyes became more intense, and it was almost under pressure that he restrained himself from laughing excitedly, "Reincarnators and apostles obviously don't do such things , then in other words... there is a third mysterious power in Arcadia... "