"Hah... hah..."
In a dimly lit passage, a girl ran for her life. Her eyes were red, and her parents' screams still echoed in her ears.
"Hurry, get out of here! Forget about us! Aaaaah!"
"Even if only you make it..."
"Dad, Mom..."
The girl murmured, calling softly for her parents, but her feet never stopped moving. She had to leave this place, had to escape this place filled with death and evil...!
"Aah!"
Just then, the girl rounded a corner and ran straight into a dark figure. She cried out and fell to the ground. When she looked up, she saw miners dressed in ragged clothes. Normally, they would have greeted her cheerfully, perhaps even stopped to chat.
But now, they simply stared at her in silence, their eyes filled with cruelty and unrestrained animal savagery.
"N-no, don't come any closer..."
Watching the crowd slowly approach, the girl instinctively scrambled backward across the ground. Yet her movement seemed to enrage them. Almost at once, the workers surged forward and threw themselves onto her, then opened their mouths and bit down hard.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
The girl screamed and reached out, but her feeble struggles accomplished nothing. Soon, amid the sounds of flesh being swallowed, her writhing, screaming body gradually grew still, then disappeared without a trace.
"...A plague? Rioting?"
Li Wei narrowed his eyes as he read the classified document.
According to the document, a mysterious and bizarre plague had broken out in the Lun Mine. Those infected became enraged and aggressive, even attacking other people. Not only that, the infected developed immense strength, rendering ordinary suppression measures ineffective.
The entire Lun Mine was currently sealed off and under a level-one alert. Li Wei's assignment was to determine whether this plague was a natural or supernatural phenomenon.
It was hardly surprising