At half past six in the evening, it was already completely dark.

The countryside in winter is always much quieter than the city, night falls faster and lights go out earlier.

The strange time of eight or nine o'clock in the past was greatly advanced. Li Mo clenched the strange pistol in his left hand, ready to deal with any emergency at any time.

Holding the strange coin in his right hand, if the strange pistol cannot effectively suppress it, Li Mo can only pin his hopes of escape on the strange coin.

"I understand, but I can't get up now..." Kallen said awkwardly.

Li Mo sighed, bent down and stretched out his right hand to help Karen up.

As she was being helped up, Kallen added, "Why were you standing there, peeping at me from behind, without saying a word? I was so scared I thought I was being targeted by a wild animal in the forest."

"..." Li Mo was silent for a while before answering, "I wasn't standing still. I only found you when I heard the sound of someone running and disappeared nearby."

Karen: "..."

Li Mo: “…”

As soon as the voice fell, Li Mo took out his notebook without hesitation and asked anxiously: "Where should I run to survive now!"

The notebook was unable to react for a moment, as Li Mo was using it so easily.

This time, there was no scramble for the right to answer on the first page, and the notebook quickly turned to the second page.

The rule on the second page is to keep Li Mo alive, no matter what method or means are used, even if the soul of the surviving Li Mo disappears.

As long as life continues, the second page is considered a form of survival. As the saying goes: "Love desires life."

"Who are you talking to?"

"Survive? Run? Why? Don't you have a gun? Even a large wild animal can't withstand it, right?"

Karin was very puzzled by Li Mo's sudden panic.

But Li Mo knew very well what this meant.

When he was in Taixu Mountain, Li Mo also took risks at a time when strange things were surging, but he was relatively safe in the first few minutes.

Even if you meet someone, it is an accidental encounter, and the other party will definitely not take the initiative to come to you at the first time.

Unless the ghost is lying dormant nearby, and then when it comes time to wake up, it finds a living person around it.

Something was wrong; the sun had only set a few minutes earlier.

Plus the sound of Kallen running quickly in the jungle continued for several minutes.

Combined with the previous statement, this is clearly saying—

As the sun was setting, the ghost had already come to Kallen and locked onto her.

Li Mo didn't know what the pattern of killing was, but the ghosts outside the village most likely had the pattern of locking onto and attacking anyone who got close.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why no one has ever left Yae Village at night and returned alive.

Because the triggering rules are too simple.

But the ghost was just spying on Kallen and didn't attack. This puzzled Li Mo, who could only guess that there was a pattern of delayed killing.

Delay unknown.

So you have to race against time and get to a safe place before the delay ends.

Including the time they spent running away, there was almost no time left for the two to make a decision. Li Mo could only use his notebook without thinking to try to survive.

My name is Li Mo. When you see this, I am two minutes away from my second death.

My name is Li Mo. When you read this, I am twelve minutes away from my third death.

My name is Li Mo. When you see this, I am still thirty minutes away from my final death.

The first three sentences in the notebook made Li Mo sweat profusely.

The second page clearly states that if a notebook is not used to find a way out of the situation, even with three restart opportunities, the extremely calm quadruple death state can only last for half an hour.

You should know that after entering the triple death state, you can use "Usurpation". In this situation, you cannot go back alive. No wonder no one has ever returned to Yae Village alive the next morning.

I must now...

"Thorn-"

Hot blood spurted into Li Mo's eyes, and his brown pupils were stained with a layer of disbelief.

Li Mo slowly raised his head and saw that Karen's body was broken into two pieces, and strands of blood vessels and intestines naturally slid to the ground under the influence of gravity.

There was a strong smell of blood in the air.

Li Mo looked down at his right hand. All he was holding was this soft and cold arm.

"Whoosh!"

A sound of breaking air came, and Li Mo dodged it with his extraordinary reaction ability.

Looking closely, I saw an axe tied to vines, being pulled by something to cut through all the people blocking its way.

"Tsk! Two minutes..."

Li Mo clutched the notebook tightly and ran deep into the woods.

While running away, I glanced around but didn't pay attention because I didn't have the energy.

All Li Mo had to do was remember the surrounding environment, and the most important thing was the contents in the notebook.

It will take time for the notebook to give the answer, and before that he must rack his brains to survive.

[I must run towards the cave in my memory right now, even though there is no passage for me to get out.]

"If I return to Yae Village now, I will only face certain death."

[The dilapidated cabin on the way here can help me block some of their patterns.]

[My name is Li Mo. When you see this sentence, I...]

"thump!"

Li Mo fell to the ground without warning, and the notebook slipped from his hand and fell into a ravine.

"Damn..."

If you want to pick it up now, you will definitely be caught by the ghost chasing you.

"The little cabin on the way here..."

Li Mo recalled.

I didn't see the so-called dilapidated cabin on the way here, but since the notebook said so, it must exist. I must immediately take refuge in the cabin.

Li Mo pulled out the two arrows that pierced his thighs, endured the severe pain and forced himself to run, limping towards the direction of the cave in his memory.

The notebook was left in the ravine, and on it appeared the last sentence that Li Mo failed to see:

My name is Li Mo. When you read this, I haven't reached a safe place yet. I will soon become one of them.

"Faster...faster..."

Li Mo was holding a strange pistol in his hand, and he finally found the small wooden house not far ahead.

The architectural style is very familiar, and if you just step inside, you might be able to survive until tomorrow.

The wound on my leg will heal automatically in due time, as long as I can...

"Ugh?"

Li Mo made a puzzled sound, and his feet gave feedback of stepping on empty air.

"boom!"

Li Mo fell directly into a man-made trap with iron spikes underneath. They were not deep but sharp enough to easily pierce the flesh and blood, but did not cause fatal damage.

"It's the hunter from the daytime!"

Li Mo remembered very clearly that he paid a little attention to the road conditions during the escape, and there would definitely not be a big hole that Li Mo did not notice.

Combined with the pile of grass that fell with him, Li Mo instantly realized that this was a man-made trap.

Villagers rarely leave the village. The few who do leave the village...are only the people who accept commissions from Yae Shrine to go out and collect resources and the hunter.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much..."

The sharp spikes not only pierced the limbs, but also penetrated various organs in the stomach, as well as the neck and head.

The blood was lost in large amounts. If it were someone else, they would not have survived even if they did not die immediately.

It was Li Mo's strange physical condition that allowed him to barely hold on to his breath, and then... he saw the mastermind behind the scenes.

A black shadow appeared above the trap, its round eyeballs glowing with a emerald green luster, attracting special attention.

"Not... him?" Li Mo was stunned for two seconds.

Because he did not see the enemy he expected.

I thought the hunter was a ghost, setting numerous traps, axes, knives, vines, holes in the ground...

But outside the cave entrance, there was clearly a fat bear with a strange smile on its face.

"Uh-"

His vision began to fade gradually, and Li Mo kept shaking his body to allow the spikes to penetrate deeper into his body and cause more serious injuries.

He must die now, otherwise he might not even have a chance to restart when the bear comes down.

The sharp iron spike pierced through the head, piercing the skull, and moved back and forth in the brain and nerve tissue. Blurred vision had long been useless, and the spike easily pierced from the back of the head to the front of the face.

The eyeball was ruptured and the face was mutilated.

After adjusting the angle, a sharp spike pierced his throat, and he could no longer breathe or speak.

The feeling of suffocation instantly enveloped Li Mo, but unfortunately, not being able to breathe was just a trivial matter given Li Mo's current situation.

Various organs in his body were pierced one by one and were severely damaged. The strange healing power could no longer save Li Mo from such injuries.

My consciousness gradually faded, and the only thing I could feel was the strange whispering in my ears...

Chapter 13 Gentle Yaezakura (5k)

A faint light appeared in the silent night, and time flowed back to the moment when the sun was about to set.

Li Mo suddenly opened his eyes and instinctively touched his neck.

There was no blood, and no piercing hole.

Restart successful.

Looking up, the high mountains in the west almost blocked the entire red sun.

Time is running out.

The light in the surrounding environment began to dim, familiar yet strange. Li Mo withdrew his thoughts and began to organize all the information he had collected before.

"During the escape, various traps used to hunt medium-sized animals were lying dormant in the dark, and then triggered one by one."

"This was premeditated."

"The method of setting traps. Even if the murderer I saw in the end was a bear, that bear was inseparable from the hunter."

"If I'm not mistaken, the law of darkness has been triggered, not only for Kallen, but also for me."

"If a living person is outside the village at night, this killing pattern will be triggered."

The ghost's actions must follow its own rules, but the scene of its last death is still vivid in his mind.

After killing Kallen without any warning, the ghost immediately turned its attention to himself.

But Li Mo did not do much more, interacted less with the villagers during the day, and did not agree to any requests.

What he and Kallen triggered must be a simple law.

"I only have enough time left to run back to Yae Village..."

"No, even if I run back, what can I do? If I don't reveal the secrets of the night, I will never know the true nature of this village."

"This is... the place where the strange origin of the primeval forest was born."

"There's only one thing I need to do. Bring Kallen into the cabin for a night of observation, breaking the rule that anyone who spends the night outside the village will die."

Li Mo took a quick step and ran towards the place where Kallen fell in his memory. In the double death state, he could only vaguely see the flickering afterimage of his running at full speed.

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