As night deepened and stars filled the sky, it was another beautiful evening. Hundred Bamboo's four major factions were all swiftly gathering their men to prevent any unforeseen changes in the town, but they did not know that the change had already come, and immense danger was closing in on them.
The Ren Family's patriarch grew anxious as the people he had summoned failed to arrive. He did not know why his eyelid had kept twitching, but he vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
The surroundings suddenly fell silent as well, without a single sound. The scene began to feel strange and eerie.
At that moment, the Ren Family patriarch discovered that his compound was surrounded by gray mist. "What is going on?"
Because they were within the system main city, the Ren Family patriarch had not paid much attention to it at first, thinking it was some normal phenomenon. After all, if anything happened, there was no need for them to handle it—the system main city would step in and resolve it.
The system main city would certainly not permit large-scale fighting. The moment it appeared, it would be bloodily suppressed. With the system main city's protection, they had felt relatively at ease.
Yet as time passed, the gray mist surrounding the compound grew thicker and thicker. The atmosphere around them also became increasingly strange and gloomy. The Ren Family patriarch noticed something amiss; within the darkness around them, something terrifying seemed to be stirring.
"Someone, come quickly!"
The Ren Family patriarch cried out in inexplicable fear, but no one answered him. The surroundings remained deathly still. Panicking, he immediately rushed outside, only to see an incomparably bloody sight.
The open ground was carpeted with corpses. Their expressions were either blank or terrified, and every one of their throats