When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 324

Boxed in

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"": ""Usually, we split into groups of four and search the area, gathering as much food as we can to keep everyone alive. The room you're staying in belonged to a friend of ours. He disappeared seven days ago. I was out looking for him when I happened to meet you. He hasn't come back all this time, and we haven't found him, alive or dead. That's why we have to take someone new in," Zhan Qing said again.

Together, their words formed a complete picture.

The Group Dwelling resisted strange entities-in other words, demons-by having living people stay inside and activate its talisman array.

The talisman array was incomplete and could hold out for seven days.

Not everyone could stay here. Some people would be killed.

The observers, those ghostly things with no facial features, only a bare sheet of skin for a face, would kill anyone who couldn't stay. When the talisman array was incomplete and stopped working, they would replace everyone else.

No wonder everyone had looked so strange and conflicted yesterday, and so many had watched him last night, refusing to let him leave.

Now that he had survived the night, did they think he wouldn't leave anymore?

An ordinary person certainly wouldn't. After all, this was a relatively safe place.

But for Luo Bin, staying here would only tie his hands.

These people on Floating Tortoise Mountain had long since accepted "reality" and confined themselves to a prison of their own making.

They only went out to find enough food to survive.

Luo Bin, however, had been "brought" here.

If he didn't hunt Li Yunyi down, Li Yunyi would come looking for him sooner or later!

"I understand," Luo Bin said, his expression barely changing.

"So, Luo Bin, you're not going

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