"She..."
"Forget it. I can't be bothered with that crap."
Shizuku cut off the old Black man's answer.
"By the way, when I came back earlier, I saw half a corpse at the supermarket entrance. What was that about?"
"After you left, some people wanted to go out and seek help. They tied ropes around themselves and walked into the fog, and then..."
"I get it."
Hearing this, Shizuku shrugged and said nothing more. If you didn't court death, you wouldn't die. She had made herself perfectly clear, but some people still insisted on going out to die. That was their own business. Their lives and deaths had nothing to do with her anyway, right? They could do whatever they wanted.
"Miss, can you tell us what exactly is going on?"
By then, most of the people had gathered around Shizuku, looking at her anxiously. They still did not know where Shizuku had come from, but after watching her destroy those insects and even summon an ice wall in an incomprehensible way to block the gap, they could tell that this girl was no ordinary person.
Everyone in the supermarket was completely confused. They did not know what had happened, but everything they had seen and heard had already shattered their worldview and understanding. Clearly, this was not some factory explosion, nor did it have anything to do with an ordinary natural phenomenon. They were even less willing to believe that crazy woman's claim about God punishing humanity, so their only choice was to listen to this mysterious girl's explanation.
"Miasma. You can think of it as a type of fog. As you can see, it isn't particularly toxic by itself. However, the monsters living within the miasma are the greatest threat."
"But why? Why did something like this suddenly