Dark clouds gradually gathered over the island.
Suddenly, thunder boomed, and a pillar descended from the sky, plunging directly into the island's forest. The trees throughout the forest instantly withered, while countless animals rapidly aged and died.
By chance, a trial participant named Mo Ji was in that area. The moment he saw this, he turned and ran without hesitation. As he ran, he checked his wrist and, sure enough, his lifespan was rapidly decreasing.
Before the pillar had fallen, he had only lost one second of life per second. Now, however, he was losing ten seconds every second. Worse still, the pillar had an even greater effect on other living creatures, causing them to age and die instantly.
If more pillars fell and killed every living thing on the island, the trial participants would have no way to obtain more time.
"Damn it!"
The time Mo Ji had painstakingly gathered was draining away far too quickly. The pillar's affected range was enormous as well. Even though he moved at incredible speed, it still took him five minutes to escape it, meaning he had wasted fifty minutes.
But at that moment, thunder suddenly roared again. A pillar crashed down several thousand meters ahead of him, and the area where he stood was once more within its range.
"Fuck!"
Mo Ji let out a pained roar and immediately started running again.
At the same time, pillars descended across many parts of the island. Some clever people had already realized that these pillars were slowly encircling the entire island, forcing them toward its central region.
Nameless stood atop a tree at that moment. Since he was near the mountain range closer to the island's center, he could clearly see the situation in the forests along the island's edge from the mountain.
"Why