In lands corrupted by the Eerie, there was no longer any distinction between day and night. Horrific creatures of bizarre shapes roamed the streets and alleys without pause, searching for living beings not yet transformed into Eerie.
Unarmed civilians were the first to be devoured, followed by Federation forces who had rushed to the front lines despite having no experience dealing with the Eerie. The vested interests at the top of the food chain had fled early with their wealth, leaving behind the worker ants of the cities—those who created value but could never enjoy it—to struggle on bitterly.
Before long, these people too had died in scattered heaps. Instead, all sorts of people who usually lurked in society's gray areas stood out, relying on unorthodox tricks honed through life on the streets to barely survive beneath the claws and fangs of ghosts and monsters.
The Eerie Invasion was like an abyssal beast opening its maw beneath the population pyramid, swallowing the lives of every social class inch by inch from the bottom up, erasing all disparities overnight.
Whether homeless vagrants or affluent members of the middle class, after death they shared only one identity: contaminated Eerie, never to rest in peace.
At five in the morning on May 12th, Jiang City.
Covered in putrid blood and rose sap, Li Yan held his breath and carefully circled around the rose monsters wandering the streets before slipping into the mall at the intersection.
As an Eerie Game player, he had been among the first to learn that disaster was coming. He had stocked up on drinking water, salt, and dry food at home. After seeing reports of "mutated roses appearing" in the local chat group and learning that all of Jiang City had been locked down, he had shut himself inside