The other two Lantern Night Terrors finished reaping the players' lives one after another.
They turned their featureless hoods and eerily raised their heads to glance toward Sighing Heights.
Even from several hundred meters away, the players on the heights felt a chill rise from the depths of their souls.
Then, carrying their green lanterns, the Night Terrors gradually faded, as though dissolving into droplets of water, and silently vanished into the thick black fog again.
"Gulp..."
A chorus of synchronized swallowing rose from the heights.
"This is a fucking scripted death!"
Lu Ziye wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "Looks like once night falls, if you stay in the black fog too long, these monsters that specialize in mental contamination come out like city enforcement officers to clear the streets!"
"Guess we'll have to buy Ash Protection from the shop before going out at night from now on!"
"Otherwise, running into these things just means getting our asses kicked!"
Everyone nodded repeatedly, still shaken.
While everyone was marveling at how brutal the nighttime mechanics were...
[Ji Luo] frowned, staring fixedly at the black clouds above Fog Town.
"Lu, Jiahao."
"Do you guys feel like... the air in this town suddenly got really sticky?"
At Ji Luo's words, Jiahao and Lu Ziye quieted down and carefully felt their surroundings.
Something was indeed wrong.
As the night deepened, the black fog above Fog Town showed no sign of dispersing. Instead, it began churning violently and sinking.
"Drip... drip..."
An utterly eerie dripping sound came from some unknown source, echoing across the empty Wasteland.
Yet no rain was falling from the sky.
In the faint light, the players on the heights made a startling discovery.
A slick, transparent mucus had begun seeping out of nowhere onto the flagstone streets of Fog