Snowflakes falling from the sky grew denser and denser, while a howling wind began to sweep through the streets. Not long ago, this place had been enjoying a clear and tranquil winter night, but now it seemed as if the entire neighborhood had been shrouded in a blizzard. As the wind and snow intensified, the fog entrenched in the streets not only failed to disperse but gradually thickened until even the buildings dozens of meters away became impossible to see.
Yu Sheng felt as though the "boundaries" of the entire world were growing blurred. Many things within his perception had become mixed together, and he even felt that the ground beneath his feet had turned into an unstable, drifting illusion.
But just then, strands of ghostly blue foxfire abruptly appeared in the blizzard. The spirit-energy-filled flames seemed to form some kind of complex array, circling and dancing through the wind and snow. Wherever the foxfire passed, runes ignited from thin air, and the surrounding fog and snow briefly cleared.
The group had no time to delay. They hurriedly took advantage of that moment of stability to dash through the several dozen meters of wind and snow, running toward the "underground parking lot entrance," which had already transformed into a bizarre cavern.
Before they could step into the cavern, the surrounding streets were finally swallowed completely by the wind and snow, becoming a vast stretch of connected silhouettes amid the snow and fog.
The howling wind suddenly weakened, as though it had been cut off outside the entrance by an invisible barrier.
Yu Sheng frowned as he glanced back at the path covered by the wind, snow, and thick fog, then turned his gaze to survey their surroundings.
He saw the parking lot ramp stretching ahead. The reinforced-concrete ground was torn