Noticing the Slender Ghost by the roadside, the bespectacled staff member was still so terrified that his spine had gone cold, but he hadn't completely forgotten his duty.
Summoning all his willpower, he turned toward the crowd, which was already starting to panic, and waved as he shouted, hoping the people there would hurry and evacuate.
Seeing the people begin to flee in a panic, the staff member finally mustered the courage to glance back at the Slender Ghost.
But to his horror, the tall, slender black figure had already left its original position while he'd been looking away.
As if it had blinked, it had cut the distance between them nearly in half.
It seemed as though it would appear right in front of him the very next second.
At that moment, the Temporary command center at the containment center was also in complete disarray.
A cacophony of noise filled the command center.
The place that should have been solemn and efficient had turned into something like a bustling marketplace.
The Action Department was indeed always on the front lines dealing with anomalies, so its members naturally had a stronger tolerance for the supernatural than ordinary people.
But right now, no one could stay calm.
It wasn't just because multiple anomalies had appeared. It was also because they had never encountered anything like this before.
Anomalies showing up together like they were at some kind of team-building event was simply unheard of.
Ever since anomalies had appeared in this world, people had known nothing about them at first, resulting in enormous casualties.
But the subsequent death toll had never been severe enough to threaten the continuation of human civilization.
As long as people didn't foolishly trespass into the territory of anomalies whose range of activity was fixed, they