Darkness Descends

Although the authorities had previously anticipated a city-wide blackout and issued announcements urging everyone not to panic and to stay indoors as much as possible, the actual event still inevitably triggered terror and chaos.

Many residents living in high-rise buildings along the streets hid behind their windows, watching the chaotic crowds below. Cars on the roads collided in the confusion, blocking the way, while people were reduced to mummified corpses in the blink of an eye and collapsed...

The outside world was in chaos, and the internet was in a similar state of disarray.

[It's so scary outside, so many people are dead, so many!!]

[Those of you living along the streets, hurry up and shine your high-intensity flashlights outside like before! Don't be selfish now, saving lives is more important!]

[Damn it, stop the nagging! I only have one high-intensity flashlight in my house, and my family of three is relying on it to survive. Where would I have extra light to save others?]

[How could there be a power outage? What are the authorities doing? They know how important electricity is to us, why didn't they protect it? Why is there a blackout, ahhh!]

[The hydroelectric plants were breached, can you believe it? A whole regiment couldn't hold them! I heard that before the power went out, gunfire was reported at all the major plants. The fighting was intense, but they still couldn't hold the line.]

[Seriously? I thought only City A had a total blackout. Are your cities out of power too?]

[Z City is out!]

[B City is out too!]

[C City...]

The successive reports made it clear to everyone that this blackout was no accident; it was a calculated scheme.

Finally, someone realized: [This is terrifying! Does this mean the monsters have intelligence? They can