"What... is going on?"
Alamos Town sat on a plateau at the center of a lake, connected to the Sinnoh Continent by bridges.
At this moment, every route connecting Alamos Town to the outside world seemed to have been severed by fog, making the road ahead impossible to see.
Just minutes ago, the police had still been orderly evacuating residents across the bridges leading out.
However, once the fog appeared, batch after batch of evacuees entered it, only to quickly return to where they had started. The phenomenon was bizarre.
They silently realized that they seemed to be trapped inside Alamos Town.
In fact, the residents who had responded immediately to the evacuation order had already left Alamos Town during the day.
Those remaining had initially refused to evacuate for various reasons, only reluctantly agreeing to leave after being persuaded by the police.
The authorities had not even offered a reasonable explanation for this so-called crisis... not many people believed it.
Even during the evacuation, some people had continued to drag their feet.
But now...
Bang!
After entering the fog twice and returning to the starting point both times, a young man was so frightened that he collapsed onto the ground.
"I was... walking straight the whole time."
"C-can't get out??"
In that instant, regret filled him to the core, and his heart went ice-cold.
"Officer Jenny, what's happening?"
"Save us."
"Let us out!"
In an instant, the Alamos Bridges everywhere erupted into an uproar.
"Everyone, please calm down."
The Officer Jennys quickly reorganized the crowd.
Yet even the Officer Jennys were starting to panic.
"This fog..."
One Officer Jenny stared in bewilderment at the fog that had appeared without a sound and was steadily spreading and thickening. Her head throbbed, and her scalp tingled.
She looked at the chaotic