A devastating disaster engulfed everyone.
The sky-blotting blood mist and blood cloud of Red Forbidden Zone - Red had already spread throughout the Screen World, as though it were a barrel packed with gunpowder.
Once detonated, it would unleash a colossal disaster capable of obliterating everything.
The White-haired Old Ghost finally decided to stake everything on one desperate gamble, striking first just as the Red Forbidden Zone was about to burst through the screen.
Before its opponent could grow strong enough to match it, the ghost pressed the "detonator."
Originally, it would never have had this opportunity. All of this stemmed from the "Draw a Circle to Imprison" that Wei Guang had employed.
Once the apocalypse arrived, one either escaped the world or perished along with it.
There were more than a dozen living people here.
Li Guanqi, Lu Caiwei, Hou Guisheng, Chang Sheng, Huang Banxian, Wang Da Chui, and Li Mochou—the seven of them automatically withdrew from the screen the instant the blood mist exploded.
In the apricot grove, Huangfu Jiajia took one final look at the man in the Corpse Pit and let out a long sigh before leaving.
Everyone who could leave had left.
Perhaps their departure also signaled an inevitable outcome.
The rule for this round: anyone not within a forbidden zone could withdraw from the screen at any time.
But withdrawing also meant forfeiting any further chance to compete for ownership of the Puzzle Piece Fragment.
When Li Guanqi and the others returned to the Fourth Floor corridor, for a fleeting instant, they actually found its cold darkness indescribably comforting compared with the blood-mist-filled screen.
Accustomed to moving through terrifying, gloomy environments, they had unknowingly lost the normal perceptions of ordinary people.
"Finally out. That damned place really isn't fit for humans."
Lu Caiwei immediately