Beneath the pitch-black sky, a dark red lighthouse gave off a faint glow.
Looking at the reports submitted before him, Zhuge Yun rubbed his forehead with a headache.
It had been nearly a week since [Extreme Darkness] descended. Although they had made ample preparations beforehand, as time passed, problems kept surfacing one after another.
As long as one remained in darkness, there was a chance of being devoured by it. This rule was simply too disgusting. After all, no one could guarantee that they would always stay somewhere with light—not even players.
The only difference was that players still had the ability to resist, while ordinary people had almost no ability to fight back.
Over the past week, the number of Disappearance Incidents caused by people being devoured by darkness for various reasons had already reached nearly a hundred thousand. Moreover, as time went on, the number of people disappearing each day was still gradually increasing.
If this continued, even if supplies could still hold out, a public uprising would become inevitable.
Just as Zhuge Yun was nursing his headache, someone knocked on the office door. Then, without waiting for his response, a petite gray-haired figure in a white lab coat walked straight in from outside.
"Why are you here?"
Zhuge Yun looked somewhat surprised at the figure who had come up to him.
[Dawn Lord • Positive and Negative], the publicly acknowledged number one researcher within the Night Watchers, was also the craziest among them. Unable to sleep for years on end, she always had heavy dark circles beneath her eyes.
Though she was not well-known among players, the Teleportation Arrays connecting the various Safe Zones and the experimental medicines developed specifically for ordinary people—these Research Achievements had all come from her hands.
There was no doubt that she