Chapter 1000...

  The fifth day, sunny turns cloudy, windless.

  Yin Kuang held a map, looking at it while walking. Anyway, he was in the safe period, so he didn't have to worry about the Reaper's design. But Qian Qian, who followed behind Yin Kuang, couldn't be as carefree as him. At this time, she was following closely behind Yin Kuang, her little head turning left and right, her face filled with inexplicable fear, and her two small hands tightly clenched together.

  Why did Qianqian follow Yin Kuang, and not Li Shuangmu? It's a bit complicated. Last night, after Yin Kuang returned to the campsite, everyone discussed how to deal with the upcoming task. The result was to split up! Each group would track those plot characters and be ready to rescue at any time. There were 9 people in total, divided into 5 groups. Yin Kuang was alone in one group. The remaining 8 people were paired up. Bai Jue and Ouyang Mu formed a group to track the glasses girl. Li Shuangmu and Qianqian formed a group to track Nelson. Tang Rouyu and Zeng Fei formed a group to take care of Dennis. Wei Ming and Pan Longtao formed a group to track the male lead Sam. The female lead Molly didn't need to be considered before Sam died.

  Yin Kuang is a lone ranger. His target is Uncle Black! He absolutely goes to find Uncle Black to have a chat.

  Later, Li Shuangmu used the excuse that he had cut off one of his arms and could no longer guarantee Qianqian's safety. Because up until now, only Qianqian had not been affected by the Grim Reaper's design, meaning she was still in danger at all times. So he handed Qianqian over to Yin Kuang. Qianqian was initially unwilling, but after meeting Li Shuangmu's unyielding gaze, she softened. Although Yin Kuang also didn't want to take on the burden of Qianqian, he couldn't refuse, so he could only nod in agreement.

  Then, Qian Qianqian, who had always been following Li Shuangyu's back, was now following Yin Kuang's back. At first, it made Yin Kuang feel very uncomfortable. Later on, as Yin Kuang gradually became absorbed in his own thoughts, he would occasionally forget that there was a Qian Qianqian behind him.

  When Yin Kuang raised his head again, Qian Qian weakly said to him: "Yin Kuang, you...you've been keeping your head down all this time, aren't you afraid of something unexpected happening?" Yin Kuang turned around and only then remembered that there was a Qian Qian following behind him. After carefully considering Qian Qian's words, Yin Kuang smiled and said: "Don't worry, since we're in the same group, I'll do my best to protect you." Qian Qian looked up at Yin Kuang with her eyes and asked: "Thank you, Yin Kuang." Yin Kuang chuckled and lowered his head to look at the map again. However, he immediately raised his head and looked at Qian Qian, saying: "I'm telling you, Qian classmate, if you keep going like this, it won't do. Honestly, I can protect you once, but I won't be able to always protect you. Li Shuangmu is the same, everyone is the same. In this university, if you really want to survive, I think it's still necessary to rely on yourself more. So, I hope you can overcome your fears and be brave, prove the significance of your existence. Otherwise, forgive me for being blunt, but it will be difficult for you to get everyone's recognition. No one else has an obligation to protect just you." After a pause, Yin Kuang sighed: "If you always follow behind others, if one day you're abandoned by someone, who can you rely on then? It's still not too late to make a change now. I hope my words will get through to you."

  After hearing Yin Kuang's words, Qianqian's small body trembled involuntarily, her big eyes suddenly turned bright red, and her head hung even lower. Just as Yin Kuang was about to sigh, Qianqian said: "I... I understand. Thank you, Yin Kuang, you're a good person. I just... can't adapt yet. But I promise, I won't hold everyone back."

  Yin Kuang scratched his head, nodded, and thought to himself: "Is this the legendary Good Person Card?" He shrugged his shoulders and looked into the distance, saying: "We've finally found it. Let's go see that mysterious black uncle. Maybe he can really give us some help... hopefully."

  Qian Qian asked: "Yin Kuang, do you think the black uncle is really a death god? I've accompanied my former roommates to see Death God before, and they all said that the black man was indeed Death God."

  "I don't..." But before Yin Kuang could answer "I don't know", a disheveled black homeless man suddenly appeared beside him. The pungent smell was nauseating. His right hand was holding a tawny, emaciated little dog, an unusually quiet little dog. All he heard was the man saying to Yin Kuang, "Will you help an artist struggling for retirement?"

  Yin Kuang glanced at him, thought for a moment, and said to himself: "Anyway, the US dollars given by Li Shuangmu are of no use to me. I'd better give them to him. We're all poor people." He took out several green US dollar bills and put them in the hands of the homeless man Heihei, "I hope it helps you." Then he walked with Qianqian towards the funeral home not far away.

  The black homeless man turned around and looked at Yin Kuang, saying: "Thank you, have a great day." Then he said to the little dog in his right arm: "Brownie, look what we got? Hmm, not bad, $180. But this kind of currency that's not printed by the Federal Reserve, I'm not used to it at all. Haha, but at least I can buy you a good dog food."

  Yin Kuang and Qian Qian snuck into the funeral home, avoiding security. However, the black uncle seemed very busy these past few days, and no matter where they looked, they couldn't find him. After searching high and low, they finally found the black uncle's workshop - a cold and narrow room with only some specialized tools for handling corpses, a bed, a table and chair, and an ancient desk lamp, nothing else.

  Of course, what's even more frightening is the corpse on the long table that hasn't been processed yet. The shroud only covers the lower half of the body, but exposes the pale upper half. However, upon closer inspection, it can be seen that although the corpse is stiff and cold, its face has a faint smile, as if it's not dead, but asleep, having a sweet dream. In any case, a pale corpse, combined with the gloomy and quiet surroundings, creates an atmosphere that's terrifying to say the least.

  Qian Qian's hands were clenched into fists as she looked around nervously, especially avoiding the corpse. She stammered, "Yin... Yin Kuang, since the black uncle is not here, let's... let's leave quickly. We can come back another time to find him? This place is so eerie..." Yin Kuang shook his head and said, "Since we're already here, we can't just leave empty-handed. Let's take a look around, maybe we'll find something useful. If you're scared, you can wait outside for me. I'll be out soon." Upon hearing this, Qian Qian nodded her head repeatedly, clearly thinking that staying by Yin Kuang's side was the safest option at the moment.

  Yin Kuang first came to the side of the corpse, clasped his hands together, bowed his head and closed his eyes in a silent prayer. Then he began searching for useful clues in the workroom. Qian Qian followed closely behind him, as if afraid of losing sight of him. Until Yin Kuang stopped in front of the only table in the workroom, his eyes fixed intently on something on its surface.

  It was a very ordinary notebook, without any special features, and you can easily find such a book in any stationery store outside.

  However, it was this ordinary notebook that firmly caught Yin Kuang's attention. Why? Yin Kuang couldn't say either, but his intuition told him that there was something extraordinary about this ordinary notebook. Slowly, Yin Kuang stretched out his hand and touched the extremely ordinary notebook.

  The next moment, he received a prompt from the principal: "Special items are not introduced and have no right to use"!

  "It's a special item again!" Yin Kuang widened his eyes, thinking to himself: "Last time it was the guide dog Mary who had the same hint. What about this time? This ordinary book, what could it be?" With such doubts, Yin Kuang pinched the corner of the cover and tried to open the book. What surprised Yin Kuang was that although the principal had hinted that it was "unusable", he was still able to flip the book open.

  "My life belongs to me alone, even God has no right to take it away from me! —— The Escapist"

  The first page, there is only this one sentence.

  Page two, also with only one sentence: "Death is not scary, nor mysterious. When you calm down and clear the thick fog, you will find that death actually has certain rules!" Signed off as "The Escapist".

  When he turned to the third page, Yin Kuang's face finally changed. On it was written "North Bay Bridge collapse accident. The number of deaths should be 86 + 8 + 30 = 124 people. The actual number of deaths is 86 people. 38 people were listed as dead."

  "In order of death: Candice - Isaac - Olivia - Nathan - Dennis - Peter - Sam - Molly."

  "Victims of the disorder: Yin Kuang, Li Shuangmu, Qian Qianqian......" followed by the names of all 1204 students. The entire page was filled with names.

  Yin Kuang's pale face couldn't wait to flip to the fourth page.

  "Candice's death implication", "Candice's death design", "Reclaiming Candice's corpse".

  "Disorderly dead person's death implication", "Disorderly dead person's death design", "Reclaiming the deceased's corpse"…

  Brush brush brush! Yin Kuang flipped through the book quickly, and even when Qian Qian pulled his clothes, he didn't react. Finally, it stopped on the second to last page. At the top was written: "The third death design of a struggler..."

  But before Yin Kuang could look further, a thick and hoarse voice came over, "You shouldn't have come here..."