From the moment the dense fog descended, the Red Moon's Power, which the Fog City Lord had "shut out," began entering Fog City through the Rift.
In other words, the Dense Fog Zone that had begun to feel the Red Moon's influence did indeed contain a "rift," just as most players had suspected. Without the interference of that terrifying fog, perhaps Feng Zhe's team of elite players really could have found a loophole and left Fog City early.
Unfortunately, no world had room for so many "ifs."
In Su Bai's eyes, the "Red Moon" had always been a special presence. It seemed both the mastermind behind all these nightmares and a complete bystander. Yet most of the time, that presence really was like any ordinary sun, moon, or star, high above everything, casting its power equally over every person and Strange Creature.
So the root cause of the mutations among Fog City's people lay not with the Red Moon, but with the Fog City Lord.
Fog City had once been so clean that it contained no Red Moon's Power apart from what the players carried. Its transformation into this tangled mess of powers had nothing to do with the Red Moon, either. Its creator had simply abandoned the city.
Precisely because everything in the city-its environment, its "people," and the surrounding powers-had become such a mess, Su Bai found it genuinely difficult to locate the Fog City Lord by distinguishing between those powers. But just as he was about to head to the Mayor's Office alone to take a look, he spotted the Fog City Lord's signature spotless White Suit in the crowd.
Su Bai had no time even for a quick goodbye to Jin Zheng and Jin Yi. He immediately set off after him.
But just as Su Bai