Wufeng City.
Chen Xi's gaze was fixed on the emaciated headless corpse.
Fortunately, the mental protection of the Glazed Raincoat let her barely wrench her attention away.
"Don't look!" She tackled Lin Yue, who had already been drawn into the vortex.
The impact jolted Lin Yue back to her senses.
"What on earth is going on..."
The world, which looked like Doomsday, weighed heavily on their hearts.
The blood-red Skynet Forum forcibly popped up.
Only after seeing the information on the screen did they understand the state of the Spark Federation.
But... evacuating the Spark Federation was simply impossible.
They were at least a hundred thousand kilometers from the border.
Even if they left by plane, it would take at least several days to get there.
Just as Chen Xi was considering what to do, Lin Yue, who had been browsing the forum beside her, suddenly spoke. "Let's get out of here first. Things don't seem as bad beyond the Fifteen Cities."
Although posts on the Skynet Forum were refreshing at a frantic pace, a closer look revealed that none of them came from IP addresses within the Fifteen Cities.
Chen Xi nodded. "Then let's do that. I can replenish my magic power with King of the Near Seas, so I can fly at full speed."
She gathered Lin Yue into her arms and was about to propel them with a jet of water when the street suddenly changed.
Specks of black mist rose from the blood and flesh, gradually taking on familiar shapes.
Countless pitch-black, human-shaped shadows, like parasites, emerged from the corpses.
"Headless Shadow," Chen Xi murmured, finally finding the source of everything.
It was that nightmare.
The scene that should have been erased from her mind resurfaced—her experience of being defeated by the Headless Shadow in her