Sudden Peril

"How did this place become like this? The city looks so old and run-down."

"It feels like we've come to an unfamiliar place. It doesn't seem like Kobe City at all, but this feeling is truly unsettling. There's an eerie atmosphere everywhere."

As Yang Jian's group ventured deeper into the city, they were astonished by the changes before them.

Dilapidated houses, an air of decay, a dim sky, and the faint stench of corpses drifting through the air.

This place seemed like a hell where vicious ghosts roamed.

Especially in this silent, deserted environment, even ordinary people would feel chills down their spines after staying here for just a few minutes. If they lived here for several days, they would likely suffer a mental breakdown. Real vicious ghosts wandered through this area, capable of taking their lives at any moment.

"It's far more serious than I imagined. Although the Door-Knocking Ghost's Ghost Domain has expanded, the area it can truly affect shouldn't be that large. Back at the school, it only affected half a classroom. But what lies before us now may already cover nearly half the city. There are only two possibilities."

"One, the Door-Knocking Ghost has become more terrifying. Two, it has been wandering through this city without restraint, killing people, and this scene formed through the accumulation."

Yang Jian looked around.

There were traces of the Door-Knocking Ghost's invasion everywhere.

Although this ghost killed slowly, it had a Ghost Domain. Once ordinary people entered it, they could not get out and could only wait for death.

"Th-then, what is that?" The middle-aged man named Sakai suddenly cried out, pointing at the second-floor window of a house ahead.

The others all looked over.

Fear immediately spread through the group.

At the second-floor window stood someone who seemed to