Chapter 307: The Great Fog Arrives
“……I hope you can still smile when you see us in the real world.”
Before his words had even finished, Ruan Boyang directly pulled out a dagger and slit his own throat.
Blood spurted out from the artery in his neck, but Ruan Boyang seemed to feel no pain at all, even revealing a ferocious smile on his face.
Seeing this, to avoid wasting points, Lu Bai decisively punched him.
[Points +1, Current Points: 27, Current Rank 1/87]
The mechanical prompt that rang in his mind confirmed Ruan Boyang’s death.
Lu Bai looked at the corpse named Ruan Boyang in front of him, lost in thought.
He wasn’t surprised that this guy was a replicant.
After all, with one hundred death fighters and one hundred replicants, it wasn’t strange to encounter a replicant under such probabilities.
What concerned him somewhat was mainly the words Ruan Boyang had said before committing suicide.
“So you can even come to the real world?”
Lu Bai sincerely sighed, but the smile on his face didn’t change much: “Anyway, we’ll talk after this deathmatch duel ends.”
[Ink Black].
He turned and took a step, as if endless darkness rapidly diffused from around his body, gradually sweeping through the entire containment center.
……
Containment Center C Zone.
A white mist that appeared out of nowhere after nightfall covered nearly ten acres.
The hazy white mist surged turbulently, forming a towering gray-white mass five or six stories high.
Standing at the edge of the white mist, one could occasionally hear shrill screams coming from within the white mist, sending chills down the spine.
Sequence 109—Great Fog.
No one knew what exactly was inside this great fog; no one had ever walked out of this great fog.
Humanity knew almost nothing about this great fog.
Fortunately, the great fog moved relatively slowly, so even if one unluckily encountered it, as long as they ran away and didn’t get trapped inside, there would be no problem.
But the problem was.
This time, the great fog appeared inside the containment center.
A large portion of civilians didn’t even have a chance to escape before they had already entered the interior of the white mist.
Visibility inside the white mist was extremely low; even if it hadn’t reached the point of not seeing one’s hand in front of one’s face, it wasn’t far off.
Everything two meters away was a vast expanse of white.
The crowd cried and shouted as they scattered and fled, and the occasional screams further intensified the panic in the crowd.
“Stand steady.”
A hand stretched out from the white mist, grabbing the little girl who was about to fall and steadying her.
She instinctively looked up, and under the influence of the great fog, she could barely make out the silhouette of a young man wearing vibrant blue-and-white sportswear.
“Separated from your family?” Xu Lingwen frowned as he asked, but he didn’t really mean to get an answer.
After asking, he immediately continued: “Follow me for now.”
The little girl nodded tearfully, timidly grabbing Xu Lingwen’s clothes hem and following behind him.
As a death fighter, after arriving at this deathmatch arena, Xu Lingwen naturally went to understand these so-called anomalies at the first opportunity.
He knew there was danger in staying in this great fog, but unfortunately, he still didn’t know what the source of the danger was.
So he reached out to help this little girl not only conveniently, but also with the idea that if there really was danger, this little girl might be able to “help.”
Another heart-wrenching scream came from not far away, making Xu Lingwen’s heart tighten as he involuntarily quickened his pace.
“What exactly is the danger? Some kind of monster? A group of monsters? No, it doesn’t seem quite like that.”
Logically speaking, with such frequent screams and positions that weren’t fixed, it probably couldn’t be done by just one monster.
But if it was a group of monsters, how could they not have seen even a shadow after so long?
Just like that, he walked while guessing the source of the danger.
After more than ten minutes passed like this, Xu Lingwen stopped with an ugly complexion.
He saw no possibility of walking out of the great fog at all; it felt like he had been circling in place the whole time.
He thought for a moment, then turned to look at the little girl behind him and asked: “Do you still remember…”
Halfway through his words, he suddenly felt his consciousness blur for a moment, just like blacking out from drinking.
He habitually wiped his nose with his hand and only realized when he brought it to his eyes that he was already bleeding from the nose.
This startled him.
Had he already been hit? But where was the anomaly? He hadn’t seen anything at all?!
“Are you looking for these little guys?”
The little girl suddenly spoke, as if she knew what he was thinking; she waved her hand in the mist in front of her: “These little guys are everywhere.”
The little girl’s words, packed with massive information, left Xu Lingwen petrified.
Fortunately, just as Xu Lingwen had no idea how to react, a change of circumstance appeared in the white mist before his eyes.
Boundless darkness eroded in, this darkness utterly unreasonable and extremely domineering.
Like a drop of ink spilled into a cup of water, it rapidly converted all the mist into black paint.
……
“Hm?”
The terrifying sharp sonic boom subsided, and Lu Bai barely managed to stop in front of a wall; if he had been even a fraction of a second slower, he would have crashed headfirst into it.
He realized he had somewhat underestimated the ability [Act Under Cover of Darkness].
Or rather, the linkage effect between [Ink Black] and [Act Under Cover of Darkness] was a bit too significant.
In Lu Bai’s expectation, being able to amplify speed by two or three times would already be worth it.
He never imagined that in the black paint created by [Ink Black], the speed amplification of [Act Under Cover of Darkness] was upwards of ten times.
Originally, the physical quality enhancement after [Bursting Qi] already allowed him to rush seventy or eighty meters in a second.
Stacking on the amplification from [Act Under Cover of Darkness], his speed could directly be measured in Mach, even reaching the degree where his body completely couldn’t withstand the pressure.
Lu Bai steadied himself, preparing to continue getting familiar with this speed, when he suddenly heard the sound of conversation.
“What anomaly is this black? Has this world gone mad? How could there be such a monster? Which round of deathmatch duel is this?”
“I don’t know what you mean by deathmatch duel, but this kind of darkness, I think it shouldn’t be created by an anomaly.”
“I almost forgot, you’re also an anomaly, really…”
Lu Bai noticed that among them, the male voice carried an obvious attitude of giving up, with a kind of whatever-happens-happens beauty.
The somewhat childish little girl voice, on the other hand, was very calm.
“Anomaly?” Lu Bai blinked eyes, curiously moving closer.
He was quite puzzled how a death fighter had ended up mixed together with an anomaly.
“Big sis, don’t toy with me, I just want to survive, what’s wrong with that?”
“I’m not toying with you.”
“You’re not? You…”
Lu Bai blended into the darkness and silently came behind them, suddenly speaking: “Everyone, let’s talk things out nicely, no need to get heated.”
