The Film Crew base was less than three kilometers from the hotel,
At Yi Chen's speed, he could reach it on time in just a few seconds if he went in a straight line,
But just as Yi Chen carried the unconscious Lorien out of the Film Crew's gate, the scene before him made him furrow his brows.
Between the streets,
Every passage connected to the underground,
Whether drainage outlets or manhole covers, figures rapidly crawled out of them. They wore exactly the same red tracksuits as the family from earlier, and there were countless of them.
Even the bathrooms of the nearby residents had red-clad people emerging from them. Toilets and sinks had all become "doors" connecting to the underground.
Moreover, Yi Chen's keen eyesight noticed something crucial.
The red-clad people emerging from the residences looked exactly like the residents who owned them, in both appearance and build. It was as if there were two identical people, one living aboveground and the other underground.
Yi Chen quickly came up with some preliminary guesses:
1. These red-clad people came from underground and were all part of the Eighth Calamity.
2. The essence of the Eighth Calamity might be the "reverse side," the reverse side of all evil. It might even be that another inverted City of Evil existed underground.
3. These reverse-side people did not merely dress alike. Their strength was also maintained at roughly the same level: "phenomenon."
Based on the information available, a simple analysis showed that the keywords of the Eighth Calamity were,
Numbers, the reverse side, and uniformity.
What Yi Chen could be certain of was that these traits were not everything. They were not where the Eighth Calamity's true danger lay.
"If it's only a matter of numbers, then it doesn't matter. As long as