"You... ran into the same thing too, didn't you?"
Perhaps that was why Hoodie Woman was much calmer this time. Zhang Yuyao and Ke Yi nodded at her question, while Li Xian rolled up his sleeve skeptically.
After a careful inspection, he found a closed loop of red lines on the skin of his right arm.
It was a sign that his skin was about to peel off.
Li Xian turned to Ji Xie. "What about you?"
Ji Xie did not lift his clothes, only answering simply, "About the same as you."
"So why are we ending up like this?"
Hoodie Woman was clearly the worst affected among them, so she was also the most desperate to learn the cause.
Li Xian shook his head in silence.
"Though I don't know what caused it, I think it might very well be... the Instance giving us a literal deadline."
He lowered his head to look at the small red mark on his skin and suddenly felt it had grown fainter. Li Xian thought his eyes were playing tricks on him, but even after rubbing them, it still looked the same.
... No.
The red mark wasn't the problem.
Li Xian abruptly raised his head and scanned his surroundings. His movement was so sudden that it startled Zhang Yuyao beside him, and she began looking around too, a little frightened.
But after looking for a while, she found nothing strange nearby, so she turned to Li Xian in confusion.
"What's wrong?"
"The fog's coming."
Once Li Xian confirmed that, he quickly fixed his eyes on Ji Xie, then spoke to everyone at breakneck speed.
"Since there are very few clues on the ship under normal conditions, I think most of the information must be concentrated in the periods after the fog rolls