Chaos erupted in an instant. Howls and the loud slap of shoes against tile echoed through the hall.
Dozens of people scattered. Lu Mi frowned involuntarily, covering Zhong Zixian as they searched for somewhere to hide while looking around to see what that thing was.
He considered going upstairs, but that dark mass had blocked both stairways.
"Help me-"
Someone had already been attacked. Terrified screams rang through the hall while everyone else seized the chance to flee farther away.
The unlucky victim's lower half had already been sucked into a spinning vortex.
His exposed upper body clung to a pillar as he screamed, "It hurts! Help me, help me!!!"
But the vortex seemed to have an immensely powerful suction, and the man was soon dragged bodily inside.
Zhong Zixian whispered, "What is that thing..."
Lu Mi didn't know either.
The vortex was large enough to swallow a grown man effortlessly.
Yet it was embedded in an enormous, dark, moving mass, with countless similar spinning vortices beside it, as though they were nothing more than insignificant patterns on the monster's body.
Silence returned to the hall, broken only by the sticky, squelching sounds of the monster moving.
The hall was several meters high. The monster seemed to have suddenly emerged from its far end, filling the entire wall, and no one could see its full form.
The others hid in various corners of the hall, watching its movements intently.
Would it leave after swallowing a living man?
Lu Mi held his breath and focused, but at the same time, a question arose in his mind-
"Aaaaaah-"
Another scream. Someone else had been attacked!
The sound came from the other end of the hall. Just how huge was this monster?
Roman remained perfectly composed, as though he were playing hide-and-seek with