3:40 a.m.
Under the cover of night, Lian City had quietly become "lively."
The frightened Awakened contacted their friends and acquaintances, forming groups and preparing to leave the urban area.
Jiang Qiao glanced around casually.
He saw one panicked Awakened after another emerging from buildings.
A few Evolvers were mixed among them.
Some dragged suitcases or carried bags packed with daily necessities. Others ran out empty-handed, without taking anything at all.
Of course.
Aside from those with supernatural abilities, quite a few ordinary people also wanted to flee the city overnight.
However.
Walking through the streets in the middle of the night—
In a city that had already been eroded by the supernatural—
If they were unlucky,
they would have to pay the price.
On just a few nearby streets, Jiang Qiao sensed several faint Supernatural Fluctuations.
Several corpses with gruesome deaths had also appeared beside the roads.
Some of them were Awakened.
"Although Vicious Ghosts can appear at any time, the middle of the night really is when all kinds of ghosts are more likely to roam."
"It's just like how living people can go outside at any time of day."
"But most people still go about their business during the day and return home to sleep at night."
Jiang Qiao swept his gaze across the surroundings.
The area with the most deaths was the central district.
There was an obviously abnormal food stall there. An honest-looking middle-aged man was cooking wontons.
The three tables set up beside the stall were already packed with people.
At that moment,
those people were like starving ghosts, wolfing down bowl after bowl of wontons.
"Take your time. There's plenty."
The uncle gave a simple-minded smile and placed a bowl of freshly boiled wontons on the table.
Nothing made a chef prouder than