Xie Ying was the first to head toward the Nurses' Station. She walked up to it, reached out, and pressed a hand against the seemingly ordinary counter.
Aside from the white-clad nurse behind the counter with her head lowered, the document boxes piled behind it, the pens carelessly strewn about, the slightly yellowed landline, and even the computer displaying the hospital's system interface all looked as normal as anything in an ordinary hospital.
But the instant Xie Ying's fingertips touched the counter, the lights that had illuminated the entire corridor as brightly as daylight suddenly began flickering violently!
"Why is it always like this? Does every strange incident have to make the lights flicker nonstop? Can't these Strange Creatures come up with anything more creative?" Le Shiya's voice sounded in Su Bai's mind, tinged with exasperation and complaint.
Su Bai wholeheartedly agreed.
However, everything in the Nightmare World was steeped in the Red Moon's Power. Strange Creatures did not exist in isolation, but were intimately connected to the territories they occupied, like symbiotic organisms bound together by flesh and blood. Whenever a Strange Creature stirred, the space it inhabited would also be affected, just like the endlessly flickering lights before them.
In a sense, these changes were not "special effects" deliberately intended to create a terrifying atmosphere, but their own instinctive reactions.
Moreover, in the Nightmare World, certain buildings and vehicles were themselves Strange Creatures, so the lights in compartments and rooms, and the tremors running through vehicle bodies and walls, all counted as their "breathing" and "heartbeats."
Yet while Su Bai was still considering the nature of the changing lights, he keenly sensed that the fluctuations of power in the air had abruptly gone wrong!
A powerful, unfamiliar surge of the Red Moon's power swept toward them like a