In a small, sparsely wooded pine forest, a thin, young man sat sideways under a thick pine tree. He tilted his head slightly and clung to the tree trunk, as if he was someone who had been tired for a long time, so he leaned against the pine tree and rested for a while.

However, he was facing the faces of the crowd with a bloodless pallor. His purple lips and lusterless eyes showed that his aura of life had already left this young man.

“Carmen!” John sobbed and knelt in front of his companion. He and Carmen had a better relationship than the handsome Ellen.

In fact, Carmen, who was amiable and humorous, was on good terms with almost every one of them. He was the lubricant among the five of them. It was precisely because of Carmen’s existence that the irascible John and the somewhat arrogant Allen spent so much time together without parting ways.

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

Although the death of the mother and daughter and the old couple had reminded them of their current situation, they could only feel the pain of death when it truly descended on the heads of the five of them. Apart from the sadness of the rabbit’s death and the fox’s grief, even more intense fear was pressing down on them, causing them to be unable to breathe.

Now it’s Carmen, who’s next?

“Listen up, you monster. I will kill you like a chicken. Do you understand? Wait for me!” John suddenly stood up and shouted excitedly at the surroundings of the pine forest.

“Bang, bang, bang!” He raised his hand and fired three shots aimlessly with the Colt python.

“Kacha!” A bullet from the Colt Python broke a pine branch above Natasha’s head, and a pine branch about two meters long smashed down heavily.

“Huh?!” The moment the pine branch fell, Qin Lun’s right eye opened and closed, and the silver clock dial flashed. A rusty nail on the pine branch entered his field of vision.

This iron nail embedded in the branch had rusted off its cap, and its cross-section was probably not much blunter than the tip of the nail. When it landed, it was aimed at Natasha’s skycap.

It was probably left behind by a former ranger, perhaps to pull a banner, or perhaps for some unknown purpose. After work, he didn’t pull out the nail again.

Qin Lun’s hamstring jumped fiercely, but when he saw Natasha three meters behind Fatty, he forcefully endured his instincts and narrowed his eyes.

“Be careful!” Natasha heard a loud shout from behind her and felt her body soar into the air.

In the next moment, a huge black shadow blocked the sky above her and heavily pressed down on her.

‘”Ah ~” Natasha couldn’t help but scream miserably. She felt as if all the bones in her body had been crushed. All the biscuits and mineral water she had hurriedly eaten in the morning gushed up her throat.

“What are you doing, you bastard? That’s just a branch. Do you know what a branch is?” John didn’t realize that he was in trouble. He angrily grabbed Fatty by the collar and lifted him up from the ground. He said mockingly, “It’s not even one-tenth of your weight …”

Donald lowered his head and didn’t say anything. No one could see the expression on his face. He just let John grab him.

“Natasha, are you alright?” As John scolded Donald, Alan looked at Natasha with concern.

However, the girl did not seem to hear her boyfriend’s call. She just stared blankly at the thick branch. It seemed that she had discovered the rusty iron nails on it.

Natasha’s face instantly turned snow white, her lips trembling as she threw herself into Allen’s embrace and pointed at the nails on the tree branch.

Natasha’s anomaly quickly attracted the attention of others. “Nothing. It’s just a small nail. Your luck won’t …” John also noticed the nail, and then his voice became softer and softer. His face slowly turned ashen, and he unconsciously loosened Donald’s collar.

He may be more muscular than his brain, but he’s not an idiot. With that mysterious force staring at them all the time, it was obvious that they didn’t have much luck. It could even be said that the probability of being unlucky, which was originally only one in a trillion, would directly turn into 100% for them.

If Fatty hadn’t pushed Natasha away, another companion of theirs would have died in an extremely unexpected situation, and he had personally killed him.

“I … I didn’t do it on purpose …” John clutched his head and squatted down slowly. For the first time in his life, he felt a chill run down his spine. He, who had always been as strong as an ox, had never felt this way before. Even when he saw Carmen’s corpse just now, the first thing that surged out of his heart was anger.

Ellen was also staring at the nails on the tree branch in a daze. He suddenly realized that when Natasha was in danger, he hadn’t had the hallucinations of the past …

Qin Lun silently scanned the expressions on everyone’s faces, feeling as if he was addicted to drugs.

Their fear, confusion, regret, depression … all fell into his eyes, making him feel that the human heart was so novel and interesting.

At the same time, under the influence of the adrenaline, Qin Lun’s mind was rapidly circulating. The more frequently that mysterious force appeared, the deeper his understanding of it would become.

At the very least, Natasha’s distress had given him another piece of information …

Originally, he thought that the mysterious force could not manipulate intelligent creatures in any way, but now it seemed that there was something wrong with this idea.

John’s three shots just now were too coincidental. If he hadn’t been affected by the mysterious power, he wouldn’t have been able to break a branch. At the same time, this kind of accident could not be predicted in advance, so the big guy must have been affected just now.

This meant that the mysterious force could indirectly influence the behavior of intelligent creatures when their emotions were almost out of control. As for why it was indirect, it was very simple. John didn’t shoot Natasha directly.

Suddenly, Qin Lun remembered something and turned to Alan and asked, “Alan, you just …”

“I didn’t have any hallucinations just now!” Before Qin Lun could finish speaking, Alan already knew what he wanted to ask. He replied with a livid face, causing everyone’s hearts to sink once again.

As expected, I think I know why that mysterious force attracted all its targets to Arcadia.

Qin Lun lowered his head slightly and revealed an icy smile at an angle that no one could see.

Every time that mysterious power appeared, it would always be accompanied by death, temporarily treating it as a game of death.

If Samsara and Apostle hadn’t intervened in this world, it would have been very difficult for ordinary people to escape from the game of death, even if they had extraordinary talent and hallucinations like Allen.

However, Samsara and Apostle had come after all, and there were quite a few of them. They had already exceeded the control of the Reaper Game. Samsara and Apostle far surpassed the physical fitness of ordinary people, allowing them to escape in many desperate situations.

If he didn’t really want to attract the attention of the world, Reaper wouldn’t be able to target these people again and again. After all, no matter how many incidents happened, it would inevitably attract the attention of those who were interested.

Since it was impossible to increase the number of accidents and damage, the trap could only be designed from a technical point of view, making it more exquisite and difficult to detect.

But before doing so, one of the members of Allen’s team had to be marginalized. That was Allen himself. No matter how exquisite the design was, he could not resist the illusion of foresight.

Before Natasha was in danger, Qin Lun didn’t know what Reaper would do. Now, he roughly guessed how Reaper would invalidate Alan’s ability to predict. This was also the main reason why Reaper had lured them to Arcadia.

Qin Lun guessed that Allen’s prediction was only aimed at certain karmic laws twisted by Reaper, but he could not see the normal karmic laws. Otherwise, he would not only see the process fragments of the Reaper game, but should also see all types of future scenes.

Since Allen could only foresee the twisted law of karma of death, what would happen if some other mysterious power was mixed in?

This was what Reaper did. The attack on Natasha just now might have been a test. It turned out that he had succeeded!

Carmen’s death and John’s anger had nothing to do with the game of death, and the result was to interfere with Alan’s hallucinations. If not for Donald’s timely action, Natasha would have been dead.

“Everyone, cheer up. Isn’t Natasha alright?” Just as Qin Lun was thinking, the heroic Fatty suddenly clapped his hands and forced a smile. “Besides, we still have other things to do. At the very least, don’t leave Carmen hanging like this.”

Squatting on the ground, John stiffened and slowly stood up. He took off his coat and walked towards Carmen expressionlessly. Fatty’s words moved him. No matter what, he didn’t want to see his good friend die in grief.

Dong! However, just as John reached out to close Carmen’s eyes, the head of the corpse rolled off his neck, scaring John to the point that he suddenly stood up and widened his eyes.

When Allen and the others saw Carmen, there was a big hole in his chest. Some of his ribs were shattered and his organs were taken out. It was as if his heart had been dug out by some powerful monster, which was in line with the characteristics of the Fjord Monster.

However, Carmen, who was leaning against the tree trunk, spat out a lot of blood, covering his chin, neck, and chest. No one noticed the wound on his neck.

But now that John had pulled the corpse away and his head fell off, everyone realized that the real cause of his death was not the wound on his chest, but the beheading of the sharp blade and axe.

“What exactly happened to him? Did the Fjord Monster really kill him?” Everyone looked at Carmen’s smooth and neat broken neck and was momentarily confused.

“Interesting, it’s getting more and more interesting!” The light in Qin Lun’s eyes grew brighter and brighter. He tried his best to suppress the laughter before he could stop himself from laughing excitedly. “The Samsara and Apostle obviously wouldn’t do such a thing. In other words … Arcadia still had a third mysterious power …”