Ill Mountain: Flying Dragon and Hidden Village

Rakavik Town,

Originally, this should have been a European-style pastoral town, with sparse, low bungalows arranged in a way that suited visiting travelers.

But as the Gray Zone spread, the plague ran rampant.

Disease had seeped into every inch of land, every brick and tile, and every layer of wall paint. The town had undergone a fundamental transformation through disease. The once-low bungalows began growing like living things—not vertically, but in crooked, twisted shapes.

The various window structures looked more like organs such as mouths and eye sockets,

and even more bizarrely, the completely diseased houses seemed capable of "reproduction." They gave birth to similarly structured buildings around themselves, making the once-sparse town grow cramped. Spacious roads became passable only by squeezing sideways. In some places, people even had to climb walls, crawl through holes, or pass through the interiors of houses.

Most buildings converged above the second floor, with doors connected to doors and windows connected to windows,

The town's residents did not wander through the streets. Instead, they visited one another between the buildings, creating a lively scene.

This vertical structure also increased the town's population capacity more than tenfold.

Simply standing outside the town and looking at the dense mass of twisted buildings made people feel uncomfortable, as though they would be crushed by the houses the moment they stepped inside.

William was drawn to the town's structure from more than a hundred meters away. He wanted to go inside, stroll around, and experience its local culture.

Just then, crack~ A sound came from the roadside,

A snail shell the size of a soccer ball peeled away from the ground. First, it secreted a large amount of mucus for lubrication, then a mass of soft tissue grew out from inside.

A translucent, wet pair of long legs,