Fog Set.
Above the grey foggy sky, there are still two narrow red moons hanging, like a pair of ... scarlet eyes.
The thirty unlucky people who were deep in the curse did not leave, but quietly waited here, looking at the names that seemed to be dripping blood from time to time.
It wasn't that the feelings between the people were so deep, in fact, everyone tacitly chose to make friends, after all, if it was all about death, the grief of the passing of someone who wasn't so familiar was better than that of a friend, a lover, whom one loved dearly.
But the fundamental reason everyone waited where they were was because, until everyone alive came out, the fog set could not leave.
And what's even more peculiar is the time here, which flows very differently from the outside world.
Even if you don't eat, don't drink, don't sleep for months in the Fog Collection, you won't feel hungry or tired at all.
Because in reality, everyone's time passed only a few short moments.
From time to time, Du Shangjing wondered if such a self was still considered alive.
However, before he could think deeper, a sudden outcry and exclamation rang out from the fog concentration.
Du Shangjing frowned slightly and subconsciously looked towards Li Mu.
However, he saw that Li Mu was staring at the blood-coloured names filling the sky with an extremely ugly face.
Du Shangjing looked along with his gaze and could not help but be stunned, and then an extremely deep fear welled up.
"Why is this happening? What on earth has happened?"
Du Shangjing's murmur was tinged with fear and disbelief.
Not only him, but everyone present was in a state of extreme shock and horror.
The first group, the past world where Wei Xiu had been chosen as a Grievance Stalker, had unexpectedly disappeared six names in an instant!
Wei Xiu, Qin Siqiao, Yuan Pengfei, Jin Wen, Lu Shuang, and ... the newcomer Shen Changrong who had just come in, their names, had already turned into a mass of grey mist and merged into this mysterious void.
This meant that the first group, the group was destroyed!
"Damn it, how did this happen?"
"Who remembers the first group's explanation?"
The fog concentrated voices one after another.
"I've memorised it, the first group's solution phrase is ... Hiding the moon in the mountains, fishing for coffins under the water."
"Hiding the moon in the mountains, fishing for coffins under the water ..." Du Shangjing lightly recited the deciphering phrase, how could it be ... What the hell is that place? Is it necessary for Wei Xiu and the others to go down to the bottom of the water to fish for a coffin?
"Li Mu, does this mean ..." Someone looked at Li Mu, his voice trembling with fear.
The gazes of the crowd also looked at him, and Li Mu looked at the six names that had completely dissipated, which meant that there were six people ... who had completely died in the past and could never come back.
Turning to face the gazes of the crowd, Li Mu nodded his head in confirmation and said, 'Well, the "Hiding the moon in the mountains, fishing for coffins under the water" scenario will become the task of everyone present in half a year.'
Glancing at the crowd whose pupils were trembling tremendously, Li Mu silently retracted his next sentence: if everyone is still alive after half a year ...
With Li Mu's confirmation, the fog set was once again quiet.
Only messy gasps, low sobs, and incompetent curses rang out from time to time.
Du Shangjing couldn't help but feel a tightness in his heart as well.
He hadn't come to Misty Set too late, but he had never experienced this kind of thing either; in fact, it seemed that Li Mu was the only one who had ever experienced this kind of incident.
The others had only heard about it slightly.
Legend had it that in every Misty Set mission, as long as there existed a time node where the reunion had wiped out everyone, then the scene that existed at that time node would become a cursed mission for everyone half a year later.
And because of the last reunion, no one could survive until after the time limit ended, and no one could find the ghost's only weakness before the time limit arrived.
So, next time, it would become a truly unsolvable ghost.
There would no longer be any proven means to restrain it.
The only thing that might be useful is the message conveyed in the interpretation ...
Hiding from the moon in the mountains, fishing for coffins under the water ...
What exactly is that place ......
Everything in the fog concentration was naturally unknown to the people who were in the past world.
In fact, almost everyone was now in a state of panic and fear.
But that didn't include Hakurei Kenryuu, even though he was eager to experience what extreme fear was like.
Walking through the corridor, turning the corner, and just about to enter the hall on the ground floor, Bai Yanliang was confronted by a pale face.
It was fortunate that it was him, anyone else would have absolutely screamed in terror.
'Bai Yanliang?'
Xu Zhi An shouted out in surprise, then as if he thought of something, he hurriedly tried to grab Bai Yanliang's wrist.
'Quickly follow me!'
'What's wrong?' Bai Yanliang's gaze slightly condensed as he skilfully dodged Xu Zhi'an's grabbed hand, and his entire body pulled back some distance as he asked suspiciously.
Who knows, after hearing Bai Yanliang's query, Xu Zhi An's face turned even whiter, and his hair was even completely dampened by sweat, condensing in strands on his forehead, no longer as neat as before.
'Ghost, that waitress is a ghost! Zhang Wen! There's also a man, I don't know who he is, with two ghosts! This Ruyi Inn, there are two ghosts!'
Xu Zhi An's emotions were a bit intense, and it was obvious that he was greatly frightened.
This time, Bai Yanliang didn't dodge his pull and let him lead him towards the ground floor lobby.
Looking up, he glanced at the time.
Ten fifty-five.
The agreed upon eleven o'clock rendezvous in the hall, it was unknown how many people would be able to come.
Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhinan sat on the sofa from before, quietly waiting for the remaining three.
In fact, the only one who was quiet was Bai Yanliang.
Xu Zhi An was sitting as if his bum had been scalded, looking left and right, every now and then giving Bai Yanyang another wary glance.
Bai Yanliang sighed darkly in her heart, not knowing what had happened to him, just a few short hours of absence, this rather shrewd looking young clerk had deep-set eyes and a haggard description, as if he had suddenly aged a lot.
At this time, two people came out of the lift.
Li Yuejun and Jiang Li exited the lift back and forth, and their gazes just happened to meet with Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhi'an.
The two were also a little curious about Xu Zhi'an's appearance, but they were able to guess that he must have encountered something terrible.
'What have you guys got?'
Jiang Li sat cross-legged on the sofa with a big grin, not taking off his shoes.
Although she was asking the duo a question, in reality, her gaze was fixed on Bai Yanliang alone.
Bai Yanliang's conscience was unperturbed, as if she didn't sense her interest in her.
'There are some, let's talk about them together when Feng arrives.'
Bai Yanliang had just finished saying this when he heard Feng Xinghan's voice coming from the side of the hall door.
'Young people nowadays are quite punctual.'
The four of them turned their heads in unison to look at Feng Xinghan.
Among them, Xu Zhi'an's gaze was especially the most odd, as he stared at Feng Xinghan with a grim and fearful expression.
Feng Xinghan had just taken a step in this direction when he was suddenly stunned, and then a flash of horror appeared in his eyes.
He pointed at the stairway of the safe passage on the ground floor, his eyes wide and trembling, 'How is there still a Jiang Li there?'
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