"She should be fine!"
Yang Yu, standing beside Qiu Lei, had also noticed that strange wisp of red mist. After leaving its two successive "hosts," the faint mist had changed from a translucent color resembling ordinary vapor to a reddish hue, gradually becoming visible.
"Didn't they just explain it? Something supernatural appeared in the Dense Fog, and those things tried to disguise themselves as humans when they came out!" Yang Yu had noticed Qiu Lei's anxiety and Feng Zhe's constant faint trembling beside her, so he tried to reassure them. "Those Ghost Creatures were too weak. Their disguises fell apart halfway through, which made it look a little creepy. But Miss Lan lived in Fog City to begin with. Even if that thing latches onto her, she should be fine. We just need to find a way to drive that mist-like thing away!"
"Mr. Feng Zhe!" Qiu Lei had also noticed Feng Zhe's strange condition.
Although Qiu Lei hadn't known Feng Zhe for long, she had watched him in the shop the previous evening as he and his newlywed wife happily discussed their upcoming wedding, planned names for their future children, and speculated about their new life after the Dense Fog dispersed... Qiu Lei was still only a high school student, but she could truly feel from his eyes how deeply Feng Zhe loved this woman from Fog City, whom the Administrator had defined as "false."
Miss Lan Yin was also unlike those Fog City residents who preferred living in the present over remembering the past or imagining the future. Though she came from an immensely wealthy family and enjoyed an absolutely secure life in Fog City, this beautiful, refined woman's eyes brimmed with longing for the world beyond the Dense Fog and hope for the future. Perhaps it was