Wakefulness: Uninvited Guests in the Night! (Two-in-One)

Whether in peacetime or in a true wasteland, the accumulation of personal wealth can bring unparalleled pleasure.

Although Su Mo knew that the accumulation of personal wealth could easily breed an "exploiting" class in the lowlands.

New, uncontrollable "capitalists" are emerging.

However, even the most brilliant and ambitious founding emperor needs ministers who follow him.

Su Mo had no choice but to take this step!

With more and more learning, he became confident that his control over people's hearts had reached another level.

But the problem is...

Throughout history, no one has ever been able to manipulate people's hearts.

This is a field that even Su Ba had never reached.

It is also the most dangerous area.

On his way back to the Underground Shelter, Su Mo thought for a moment and then took a detour.

He appeared to be taking a walk, but in reality, he was listening intently to what was happening at the Agricultural Tool Center.

As expected.

After more than ten minutes, the cheers and noise in the Agricultural Tool Center began to rise higher and higher.

A few strange lights burst out from within as the crowd gasped in surprise.

Gazing into the distance at the intersecting rays of light shooting into the sky.

Su Mo's smile gradually deepened.

Even without seeing everyone shouting in person, he could already see them through the faint mist in the night sky.

A fog?

The weather in the depression is so nice, where did this fog come from?

Whoosh! In just a moment, the mist seemed to appear out of thin air in the distance.

As it drifted above the depression, Su Mo felt a sudden chill on the back of his head, and the hairs on his body stood on end.

His mind quickly flashed through some meteorological knowledge he had learned in the previous few days, and then he quickly focused on fog.

Fog is classified into Radiation Fog Advection Fog.

"Radiation Fog usually appears in the early morning when the sun shines on the earth's surface, causing advection and increased humidity; this is very common in modern times."

"Advection Fog requires wind and water vapor."

"Such a weather phenomenon is impossible to form without warm, humid, overcast or rainy weather or the period before the transition to overcast or rainy weather!"

If this fog had occurred during yesterday's torrential downpour, Su Mo wouldn't have been surprised at all.

But the depression had been baked by the sun all day, and there was still fog.

Unless his eyes narrowed and he became extremely cautious, Su Mo did not rush to notify everyone to be on guard.

He strode forward, relying on his strong physical abilities.

What used to be a ten-minute walk, Su Mo hurriedly slipped into the Underground Shelter in just two minutes.

Pull open the stone door and quickly walk down the Z-shaped passage.

Before Su Mo could even head to the third floor, Oreo, who had been lying on the ground, suddenly sprang up as if he had been electrocuted.

"You found it?"

"Woof!"

Since the invention of firearms and the eradication of the lion-men and kobolds, the depression has been free from enemy invasion for a long time.

This directly led to Su Mo subconsciously neglecting this defensive issue in certain aspects.

Even after being transferred to the New Continent for more than two days, he did not alert anyone and simply continued to maintain the previous intensity.

So much so that the enemy has now silently infiltrated the territory, and only Su Mo has discovered them yet! "Can we find their location?"

Oreo sniffed it, barked twice, and then shook its head.

"There was no smell of enemies in the fog, nor any threat, but there was a strong sense of malice. They were looking for something, or perhaps they wanted to take something back with them."

"The boss suspects they're collecting each of our scents so they can use other methods to locate us!"

Standing to the side, Moore, the translator, also became unusually serious, with none of his usual joking around.

"Wasn't it an attack?"

Upon hearing that the mist was not the "poisonous gas" he had imagined, Su Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

Calming himself down, he instructed Moore to call Chen Shen and the others over.

Taking advantage of this time, Su Mo went down to the third floor again.

Staying in Underground Shelter does not mean losing control of the outside world.

on the contrary.

Turning on the old-fashioned CRT television, and using the 360-degree unobstructed view from a kilometer away, Su Mo immediately pinpointed the source of the fog.

High in the air, the problem was indeed immediately apparent from the fog.

Like a well-planned smoke trail, the mist stretches forward in a straight line from the edge of the territory.

Then, above the depression, all the fog mysteriously gathered together, eventually transforming into a pot-lid shape that covered the sky.

Every five seconds, the fog would shake rhythmically once.

It sounded like an animal breathing, and it sent chills down one's spine.

Fortunately, after observing the condition of everyone below for a while, Su Mo was temporarily relieved.

"The low-lying area is currently extremely poor, and we haven't made any enemies with any other races since we first arrived."

"Even if Zhu Chuan and his group moved very fast, they couldn't possibly explain the reason in such a short time and then launch a second investigation."

"As for the dwarves, judging from the sound of the wind, they didn't seem to be planning a counter-invasion; instead, they deployed heavily armed guards to defend the Black Stone Camp."

"In this way, the investigators are left with only two targets."

Having figured out the situation around the depression and made a few eliminations, Su Mo had already come to his conclusion.

Although the chimney now points straight towards the Radiant Empire, this bizarre method inevitably brings to mind the mysterious Demon Soul Race! This alien race, which sounds somewhat related to ghosts, is an anomaly that has never been encountered before.

Unlike ordinary humanoid alien races, even the powerful Radiant Empire had no way to deal with this kind of persistent pest.

Given the current strength of the low-lying area, it is certainly not capable of defeating them.

"This is really tricky. When we chose this location, the survival rate simulated by the reality system was less than 2%."

"Looking back now, if I hadn't had the means, given the current development trend of the low-lying area..."

"Don't even mention 2%, even 0.0002% wouldn't stop it!"

Four neighbors.

Aside from the Radiant Empire, which they haven't directly confronted yet, all three of them harbor varying degrees of malice.

Using Virtual Reality to simulate the environment, they "persuaded" the tree people to leave.

Su Mo had expected the depression to have a considerable period of development, until the winter represented by the three disasters ended.

But now.

Time became tense once again.

The Demon Soul Race is not like the foolish Treants, but judging from their methods of investigation, we can still discern their abilities.

What exactly were they thinking?

"We can't let this fog carry information about the low-lying area back, at least not now!"

While pondering, Su Mo heard a noisy commotion above, which interrupted his thoughts. He strode back to the garage.

The management team had just adjourned, and now Su Mo had only gathered three people.

Chen Shen, Li Hu, Shen Ke.

With Su Deben rushing back in a panic, the four of them, though unaware of what had happened, instantly became alert upon seeing Su Mo's serious expression.

"The enemy has arrived!"

"Our initial assessment is that they are the Demon Soul Race. They have come with malicious intent, and we must quickly set up Defense Facilities!"

Lightning strikes at the opening ceremony.

Su Mo made no attempt to conceal anything of importance.

"I'll give you three minutes to observe whether there's anything unusual about the depression."

"No need to go out, just stand here and watch!"

Seeing the horrified expressions on everyone's faces, Su Mo remained unmoved and pointed outside.

As if by reflex, everyone immediately turned around and began to investigate.

In the first minute, no one noticed anything; they simply stared blankly at the dark ground, trying to find any trace of the enemy.

In the second minute, after realizing that it was getting late and there were indeed no traces left on the ground,

Everyone began to shift their focus, randomly looking around for suspicious objects in their field of vision.

At two minutes and forty-six seconds, Shen Ke was the first to raise her hand.

At two minutes and fifty-four seconds, Su Deben also noticed the anomaly and turned his head with a serious expression.

The remaining two were not slow either, arriving just within the three-minute mark, and simultaneously noticed the anomaly.

"Chief, if the enemy uses this method, it's absolutely impossible to defend against; it far exceeds our current understanding."

"Could the ghost story that Dwarf Polly guessed be true?"

Making a conjecture, Chen Shen's face showed a hint of barely concealed fear.

Thanks to the popularity of various horror movies around the world.

Most people are more or less afraid of this kind of creature that is difficult to explain with "science".

Especially after witnessing such a supernatural phenomenon firsthand, these things hidden in one's memory will be stirred up.

"Chen Shen, don't scare yourself. How could it be a ghost?"

"I'm inclined to believe this is a small-scale biological weapon released by the enemy?"

"Just like how Human-Machine array composed of a system can draw various characters and patterns in the sky, I had the opportunity to handle a detection instrument that was similar to this but slightly larger when I was in the military."

"How about we try bringing back some mist and see?"

Interrupting Chen Shen's self-inflicted fear, Li Hu, judging from the shape and manner of the fog, was extremely bold.

At the same time, before Su Mo could speak, another voice rang out.

"Su Mo, now that they've discovered us, why don't we take the initiative and attack?"

"Let's capture some fog and see if we can analyze it using our existing instruments?"

After a few pauses, realizing the importance of the matter, Su Deben had already retreated, and Lü Kuan took his place.

Unlike Chen Shen and others, he was a staunch materialist fighter.

Having flown hundreds of thousands of meters into the sky and seen many amazing planets, Lü Kuan felt no fear of such strangeness.

If you listen carefully, you can even hear the excitement in his words.

"Great, that's what I think too."

"Now that the enemy has come to our doorstep, it's better to take the initiative than to wait idly on our territory!"

Seeing that everyone else shared the same thoughts as him.

They went down to the fourth floor, found several sealed bags, and apart from Lü Kuan sitting in the center to start the instrument, the four of them rushed out to start collecting.

Some of the fog is buried very low, making it easy to collect.

Some can only be bottled at the top of Iron Stone Mountain.

From four directions, the three of them were heading towards the end of the fog.

Following the observation of the source of the fog on the television, Su Mo also exerted his strength and rushed towards the source at top speed.

Eliminating this fog is simple.

It only takes 500 Survival Points to activate the authority once and bring a small-scale rainfall to break it.

But this method can only help you hide for a while, not forever.

Having failed the first time due to weather conditions, the Demon Soul Race will surely be unwilling to give up and will make a comeback.

They weren't surprised that the rain had blocked their way the previous times.

But if it happens too often, they will definitely notice and then resort to even more troublesome methods!

While pondering ways to break the deadlock, they kept moving forward.

After a kilometer had passed, the fog still pointed straight ahead.

Pulling out a pistol, releasing the safety, and hanging it on his waist, Su Mo simply continued forward.

Three kilometers. Five kilometers. Under the starry night, Su Mo ran at an extremely fast speed, covering several meters every second, leaving heavy footprints on the ground.

The further you walk towards the fog, the denser the column of smoke in the air becomes.

Under the moonlight, it rolled and tumbled.

"Such arrogant behavior shows I was too naive. This is definitely not the first time the Demon Soul Race has come to investigate."

"They probably did some investigation of the depression on the very first day they moved there."

"But the rain was getting heavier and heavier, which caused their exploration to fail, thus buying some time for the depression."

Once outside the depression and into the outside world, the smoke column had completely abandoned its disguise.

With a determined heart, Su Mo simply stopped and began to turn back.

"I'll drive over to their source and check it out. You all stay here and wait for me. If things go wrong, your lives are the priority."

"We can find new territory if we lose it, but we must protect the safety of all our people!"

Back in the shelter, he hurriedly gave a few instructions and nodded emphatically to Lü Kuan.

He pulled out an Automatic Rifle, loaded it with bullets, and also brought several Explosive Pack and Oreo.

Buckle up, and with a long-awaited throttle, Su Mo slams down the accelerator.

Boom! With the help of flooring the accelerator, the diesel engine's RPM reached its maximum almost instantly.

Within seconds, the pointer on the dashboard jumped to the red zone.

Once the maximum torque was achieved, the car was shifted into gear, and it shot off like an arrow towards the fog.

Compared to running forward before, this time, with familiarity with the terrain, the Earth Tiger's speed was violently increased to 100 mph by Su Mo after only a few hundred meters!

Under the Starry Sky, he was the only "retrograde".

With its headlights on, the Earth Tiger resembled a ferocious beast, rampaging across the ground towards the source of the plume of smoke.

This change seemed to have been noticed by the fog.

Unfortunately, by the time a wisp of mist peeked down from the sky, the Earth Tiger had already darted more than a hundred meters away.

All that remained was a faint, fishy-smelling exhaust fumes! "Oreo, sense if we're in any danger tonight."

Once again, driving the Earth Tiger and taking Oreo into battle, Su Mo gave the orders, and the "cooled" blood in his body began to surge rapidly.

Just like back then, driving the Earth Tiger to find the Dog-Headed Man and the Lion-Man.

Su Mo felt no fear of the road ahead; instead, he felt an endless fighting spirit rising within him.

"Woof, woof!"

"A 50/50 split? That's enough!"

The truly "weak," even if they manage to reach a new level by chance, often find themselves in a state of disorientation and helplessness.

They often even deny their own success.

They attribute it to chance and luck, and then accept their mediocrity with a clear conscience.

But the truly powerful who can control their own "destiny" are quite different from that.

Long ago, Su Mo did not understand this principle, but he unknowingly grew stronger in this way.

Now, feeling this long-lost tremor, constantly stimulating more blood to gush from my heart.

He suddenly realized.

"From beginning to end, I have never been a timid or hesitant person."

"Either be extremely calm, or be so insane that everyone is terrified!"

"In the past, when I was alone, if I encountered such a monster attacking, I would definitely try to find a way to escape and protect myself as much as possible."

"But now, anyone who dares to mess with me or try to ruin my life..."

"They will all suffer my fierce retribution, no matter the cost!"

The thought that the land in the depression had just been leveled during the day, and that major construction was about to begin the next day, was suddenly met with an enemy attack.

A murderous intent surged wildly in Su Mo's eyes.

At this moment, he was no longer the kind and friendly lord who could smile and get along with everyone.

It was not the Su God, in the eyes of other humans, possessed extraordinary power and could annihilate any enemy with a flick of his finger.

It is not a cowardly "old fox" who cowers in his territory and dares not attack.

Looking at the plume of smoke that was already partially visible from its source.

Sitting in the car, as Su Mo's thoughts wandered, he suddenly thought of that first rainy night.

At that time, several arrogant thugs outside the shelter also lit cigarettes, trying to force him to surrender while he was inside.

It was at that time that, in full view of everyone, he sent these five people to live permanently in the depression below.

"Heh, trying to test me, the strongest human being."

"Then I'll personally send you to hell!"