In almost an instant, the bright sunlight vanished from the sky, replaced by a gloomy darkness as oppressive as ink.
Above the old city district, vast clouds slowly swirled like a vortex. A gale seemed to come from nowhere, howling and stirring up one strange rumble after another, as if the sky itself were mourning.
Layer upon layer of gathering clouds brewed rain within, making the darkness overhead grow ever deeper.
For a time, screams and cries rang out one after another beyond the old city district.
"Run! Hurry and run!!"
"The world is ending!"
"Can anyone get in touch with Lu Bai? Tell him to stop, quickly!"
"This is all your fault! You made that guy angry!"
Chaos broke out on the streets again, rapidly spiraling beyond anyone's control.
Perhaps if they calmed down and thought it through, they would realize that if the apocalypse really had arrived, there was no point in running anywhere.
However, after Lu Bai had recently made the sun disappear, the people were already on edge. Their nerves were stretched taut, as if they were waiting for judgment to fall.
Even though the commotion Lu Bai was causing this time wasn't aimed at ordinary people, the herd mentality meant no one could stay calm.
Even the officers trying to keep order were panicking and fleeing in every direction.
In less than a minute, hundreds of car accidents occurred one after another, and the entire city's traffic system ground to a halt.
If anyone had been able to get to a high vantage point and look out over Jiangyu City, they would have seen the whole place thrown into chaos, with not a single area able to maintain order.
Unlike the chaos all around them,
the place where this disturbance had first erupted was