Chapter 1 Mist Escape

Outside the restaurant's clear glass, the bustling and crowded commercial street of the previous second
was enveloped by a dense fog in the next second, as if a heavy and thick net was covering the sky and the earth.

No color other than gray and white could be seen, and no sound could be heard, leaving only a dead silence.

Most of the diners in the restaurant stood up subconsciously, looking out the window with some unease and panic.

There were also some idiots who refused to accept the reality, turning their heads to question the restaurant staff, asking if they had replaced the glass windows with LCD screens to create some entertainment.

Before anyone could answer this silly question,

a huge black shadow pierced through the thick fog with lightning speed, slamming into the concrete wall above the restaurant.

Boom—

Gravel flew, and the building shook.

Amidst the panicked screams of the people in the restaurant, the huge black shadow fell directly in front of the door, lying on its side on the ground, with its spine covered with long black thorns facing the restaurant.

"Ugh..."

A non-human, muffled roar sounded.

The windows trembled, the water glasses shook,

and everyone, including Wei Linglan, felt a chill all over their bodies, as a cold sense of fear permeated from their skin into their hearts like mercury.

The monster slowly stood up and turned around.

It was a giant rat the size of a van, jet black in color, with its back fur standing on end like sharp swords.

Its abdomen was abnormally swollen, as if it was filled with countless water-filled balloons, fluctuating and undulating at every moment.

"Ugh..."

The giant rat howled softly, baring its yellowed teeth. Its pointed nose contracted backward due to pain and anger, forming deep wrinkles.

With its car-light-like scarlet eyes, it stared unblinkingly at everyone in the restaurant.

Its disproportionately large and sturdy forelimbs were unconsciously scratching the tiled ground, easily cutting the bricks into countless pieces.

Mission trigger conditions met.

Mission type: Regular mission {Teamwork}

Mission name: Misty Escape

Mission objective: Escort 132 people from Yong Yi Ge Restaurant to 149 He Shan Road.

Mission time limit: 2 hours

Mission reward 1: 3 experience points times the number of people who ultimately arrive.

Mission reward 2: 5 game coins times the number of people who ultimately arrive.

Mission reward 3: One rare-quality random item.

Mission failure penalty: None

The system prompt sounded in Wei Linglan's ear. Her face changed drastically, and no longer caring about her image, she shouted directly at the diners near the door, "Get away from there!"

Without her saying so, the diners who were originally sitting on both sides of the door spontaneously stood up, scrambling and running backward in a state of panic.

Although they didn't know what was going on with the fog outside, the giant rat the size of a van didn't look like a friendly creature that would get along with humans.

Seeing the crowd retreating as if the tide was ebbing, and sensing the critical situation, Wei Linglan, still wearing a long dress, took a deep breath, pushed her parents and Li Ang, Wang Congshan into their seats,

and pulled out a German-made HK416 automatic rifle with a grenade launcher, painted in a yellowish-brown tactical camouflage, from the void (actually her inventory).

Before Wei's parents could react in shock, Wei Linglan jumped onto the table, swayed her fairy-like skirt, slightly adjusted her gun-holding posture,

and raised her rifle to shoot at the giant rat.

The loud firing sound of the 5.56 rifle bullets drowned out all the cries.

One copper bullet after another accurately hit the giant rat's head.

Although the barrage of bullets failed to completely penetrate the thick fur and skin,

it still tore out streaks of blood, forcing the rat to close its eyes, lower and turn its head, and raise its front

paws to block the rifle fire.

Wei Linglan kept suppressing the rat with gunfire, and taking advantage of the gap when it lowered its head, she immediately switched to the grenade launcher mode and pulled the trigger.

A grenade flew over the heads of the crowd and hit the giant rat's head directly.

With a deafening roar, the rat's facial skin was blown apart, and it staggered backward several steps.

Before it could regain its balance, Wei Linglan immediately took out a K19 grenade launcher with a tripod from her inventory.

She stepped on the table with one foot and on the seat next to Li Ang with the other.

Squatting halfway, she aimed the grenade launcher slightly, steadily pulled the trigger, and quickly fired 10 high-explosive rounds.

The K19 grenade launcher originated in the United States and has a history of fifty years, but its improved models are still favored by various forces.

The 430 dual-purpose high-explosive rounds it fires not only have a rate of fire exceeding 350 rounds per minute, but can also penetrate 5mm of armor.

The giant rat, still a creature of flesh and blood, didn't even have time to use its back spikes before it was submerged by the high-explosive rounds, squeezed into the corner, and blasted into a bloody paste.

Fortunately, the diners in the restaurant had already retreated, and were not affected by the 15-meter casualty radius of the 430 high-explosive rounds.

At most, they were only knocked to the ground by the shock wave, feeling dizzy, seeing stars, and experiencing tinnitus.

The giant rat's incomplete limbs were scattered all over the ground. Wei Linglan pursed her lips and retracted the K19 grenade launcher's support from the seat.

Wei's parents, sitting in their seats, were dumbfounded, "Linglan, you..."

Li Ang was also dumbfounded, looking at Wei Linglan, the white-skirted female war god standing on the table, with a pale face, "Lanlan, you..."

Wang Congshan, sitting next to him, almost choked,

"Bro, are you still acting at this time??

So f***ing dedicated and devoted to your job!!"