When the dense fog shrouding Luo Island dispersed, everything seemed to return to normal beneath the blazing sunlight.
Aside from the scarlet bloodstains on the streets, chunks of flesh blasted up by high-pressure water cannons, and skulls accidentally embedded in the asphalt, it seemed as though nothing had happened.
The fires had gone out, and the collapsed buildings had been cordoned off again... while the intruders who should not have been here all scattered back through the sewers to where they belonged.
Nothing happened.
After the brief chaos, the music resumed and the dancing continued.
Inside his office, burned pitch-black, the utterly disfigured Ling Shuo once again received guests who had come from afar.
Amid an atmosphere of mutual delight between host and guest, he saw his "blood brother" from different fathers and mothers, Ling Zong, out the door—meaning he had him hanged from a crack in the outer wall of the office.
The mutilated corpse swayed in the wind from its rope, and beneath the sunlight, it seemed almost to be smiling.
Nor was that all. Misty Reef, long obscured by dense fog, had been set ablaze. Upon that dark, sponge-like island, the flames burned like torches. Within the sea of fire, the "Family" that had once ruled all of Misty Reef now glowed and gave off heat, turning into kindling, sacrificing themselves to illuminate others. One wailing figure after another struggled out of the flames, only to be coldly thrown back in.
Following President Ling's orders, no intact or even mostly whole thing was permitted to crawl out of those Blazing Fire unless it had turned to ash.
While Ash Port suffered a bloody purge, countless meteorites falling from the sky paid a visit to Sea Abyss Cape at the edge of the West Sea. The unleashed armored