Nick had no idea that after a certain monster resembling a Titan had been killed by concentrated fire, the monsters still rampaging through the underground base had surged toward the underground altar as if answering some summons and returned to the abyss.
Before long, the abyss, perpetually shrouded in mist, began spewing thick fog as though a gateway to another world had opened.
Along with that thick fog came countless strange creatures that seemed to hail from ancient times.
As the fog spread, these creatures began moving within its reach as though rebuilding an ecosystem. They nested, reproduced, killed every living thing they encountered, and even fought and devoured one another.
Something in the abyss seemed to think that monsters of this type, paired with the fog, were better suited to occupying this world. And in fact, the results had initially been quite good.
The unprepared military was caught off guard. Some units engulfed by the thick fog soon lost contact, while the remainder had to abandon their heavy equipment and flee all the way back.
Fortunately, the air force promptly dispatched B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers to drop GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs on the abyss's location-conventional bombs touted as the most powerful nonnuclear weapons, designed specifically to destroy military installations buried deep underground.
The fog's spread had now stopped, and as follow-up operations unfolded, this supposed apocalyptic crisis would soon be eliminated.
Of course, even though Nick knew nothing of what was happening outside, there was no reason to panic, because he knew The Mist.
In the original film, it was the military that arrived to save the day at the end.
Even if events followed the not-exactly-happy open ending of Stephen King's original novella, he was confident he could take his companions back to Portland, or escape the mist and