The Fog Has Arrived

"... I hope you can still smile when you see us in real life."

Before he could finish speaking, Ruan Boyang pulled out a dagger and slit his own throat.

Blood gushed from the artery in his neck, but Ruan Boyang seemed oblivious to the pain, even sporting a ferocious grin.

Seeing this, in order to avoid wasting points, Lu Bai decisively punched him.

[Points +1, Current Points: 27, Current Rank: 1/87]

The mechanical notification sound in his mind confirmed Ruan Boyang's death.

Lu Bai stared thoughtfully at the corpse in front of him, which belonged to Ruan Boyang.

He wasn't surprised that this guy was Replicant.

After all, with a hundred deathmatchers and a hundred Replicant, encountering Replicant isn't surprising given the odds.

What bothered him most was what Ruan Boyang said before he committed suicide.

"So it's possible to come into the real world after all?"

Lu Bai sighed sincerely, but the smile on his face remained unchanged, "Anyway, let's talk about it after this Deathmatch Showdown is over."

[Ink Dye].

He turned and took a step forward, as if endless darkness was rapidly spreading from his body, gradually engulfing the entire containment center.

Containment Center, Section C.

After nightfall, a white fog appeared out of nowhere, covering an area of nearly ten acres.

The hazy white fog surged and billowed, forming a towering gray-white cloud as high as five or six stories.

Standing at the edge of the white mist, one could occasionally hear piercing screams emanating from within, sending chills down one's spine.

Sequence 109 -- Dense Fog.

No one knows what's inside this thick fog, and no one has ever emerged from it.

Human understanding of this dense fog is almost nonexistent.

Fortunately, the fog moves relatively slowly, so even if you're unlucky enough to encounter it, as long as you run away and don't get stuck, you'll be fine.

The problem is...

The dense fog occurred inside the containment center.

A large portion of the population didn't even have a chance to escape before they entered the white fog.

Visibility within the white fog was extremely low; it was close to pitch black, if not completely obscured.

Two meters away, everything was a vast expanse of white.

The crowd scattered and fled, crying out in despair. The occasional screams only exacerbated the panic.

"Stand firm."

A hand reached out from the white mist, grabbed the little girl who was about to fall, and steadied her.

She subconsciously looked up and, through the thick fog, could barely make out the outline of a young man wearing a vibrant blue and white tracksuit.

"Did you get separated from your family?" Xu Lingwen asked, frowning, but he didn't really seem to want an answer.

After asking the question, he immediately added, "You should come with me first."

The little girl nodded with teary eyes, timidly clutching Xu Lingwen's clothes, and followed behind him.

As a deathmatch fighter, Xu Lingwen naturally sought to understand these so-called strange phenomena as soon as he arrived at the Deathmatch Arena.

He knew it would be dangerous to stay in this thick fog, but unfortunately, he didn't yet know the source of the danger.

So he helped the little girl, partly because it was a convenient thing to do, and partly because he thought that if there was any real danger, the little girl might be able to "help".

Another heart-wrenching scream came from not far away, making Xu Lingwen's heart tighten and causing him to quicken his pace.

"What exactly is the danger? Some kind of monster? A group of monsters? No, it doesn't seem like it."

Logically speaking, such frequent screams, and their location being unpredictable, couldn't have been accomplished by a single monster.

But if they were a group of monsters, surely they wouldn't have gone this long without even seeing a trace of them?

They walked on, trying to guess the source of the danger.

More than ten minutes passed before Xu Lingwen stopped, his face grim.

He saw no possibility of getting out of the fog; it was as if he had been going around in circles.

He thought for a moment, then turned to look at the little girl behind him and asked, "Do you remember...?"

He was speaking when he suddenly felt his consciousness waver for a moment, as if he had blacked out from drinking.

He habitually reached up to wipe his nose, only to realize when he looked at it that he was bleeding.

This startled him.

I've already been infected? But what's strange about it? I didn't see anything!

Are you looking for these little guys?

The little girl spoke abruptly, as if she knew what he was thinking. She waved her hand in the mist in front of her. "These little guys are everywhere."

The little girl's words, which contained a great deal of information, left Xu Lingwen completely petrified.

Fortunately, just when Xu Lingwen was completely at a loss for how to react, the white mist in front of him changed.

An endless darkness encroached, a darkness that was utterly unreasonable and extremely domineering.

It was like a drop of ink spilled into a glass of water, instantly turning all the mist into pitch black.

"Um?"

The terrifying, sharp sonic boom subsided, and Lu Bai stopped in front of a wall with the utmost care; if he had been even a fraction of a second slower, he would have crashed headfirst into the wall.

He realized he might have underestimated the ability to "Act Under Cover of Darkness".

Or, one could say that the synergy between the abilities [Ink Dye] and [Act Under Cover of Darkness] is a bit too pronounced.

In Lu Bai's mind, a speed increase of two or three times would already be worth the price of admission.

Unexpectedly, within the pitch-black darkness created by [Ink Dye], the speed of the [Act Under Cover of Darkness] ability increased tenfold or more.

The physical enhancement he received after using [Bursting Qi] already allowed him to dash seventy or eighty meters in a second.

With the added boost from [Act Under Cover of Darkness], his speed could be measured in Mach, to the point where his body could no longer withstand the pressure.

Lu Bai paused for a moment, preparing to continue getting used to the speed, when he suddenly heard people talking.

"What is this strange blackness? Has this world gone mad? How can there be such a monster? And this is only the umpteenth round of the Deathmatch Showdown?"

"Although I don't know what kind of Deathmatch Showdown you're talking about, I don't think this darkness was created by anything supernatural."

"I almost forgot, you're weird too, really..."

Lu Bai noticed that the male voice had an obvious attitude of giving up, which had a kind of "whatever" kind of beauty.

The girl's voice, though somewhat childish, was surprisingly calm.

"Strange?" Lu Bai blinked and leaned closer, somewhat curious.

He was quite puzzled as to how death fighters and the supernatural could be mixed up together.

"Big sister, stop messing with me. I just want to survive. What did I do wrong?"

I wasn't messing with you.

"You haven't? You..."

Lu Bai, lurking in the darkness, silently approached them from behind and suddenly spoke up, "Everyone, let's talk things out calmly, don't get angry."