"This is..."
Everyone except Su Bai stared in shock at the world beyond the dense fog. During the time they had spent in the Dense Fog Zone, the outside seemed to have become an entirely unfamiliar world.
Each Eternal Lamp could only "dispel" the dense fog in a limited area, so most Players believed that as long as the Patrollers kept the Ghost Creatures emerging from the fog under control, and the blood mist on those creatures stopped spreading, most of Fog City could at least maintain a semblance of normality. That should have been especially true of the plaza at the city's center.
But shortly after their eyes adjusted to the view without the dense fog, they noticed that although the enormous plaza before them remained clear, almost three-fifths of its surrounding area had already been engulfed in dense fog. That was absolutely not something a single Eternal Lamp could have caused!
Other Eternal Lamps had most likely been lit!
Only after realizing this did they notice the chaotic crowds in the plaza.
The uniformed Patrollers had already been swallowed by the crowd. Countless residents of Fog City, their bodies covered in cracks like fired clay, walked along the streets like malfunctioning dolls. Thick blood mist coiled around every mutated resident.
Yes, thick blood mist!
Even Su Bai still remembered that the last time he had seen that blood mist, it had gradually condensed from something invisible to the naked eye, then transferred from the shells of dead Ghost Creatures onto other Fog City residents, eventually spreading like a virus.
Now, wherever Su Bai and the others looked, a steady glance was enough to reveal the blood mist coiling around the mutated residents. The residents who had already realized something was wrong began fleeing in every direction, even screaming