Chapter 1 ?!

The subway station abruptly stopped shaking, but the many players who were still rushing towards the subway entrance showed unconcealable astonishment and confusion on their faces.

The collapsed subway station, the thick fog surging from the cracks in the ground, the special prop—the palace lantern—refreshed above the thick fog, and the lantern's ominous note.

All these factors mixed together left even a Special Affairs Bureau official like Ash bewildered and confused.

Li Ang reacted quickly. The instant the system prompt appeared, he abruptly turned around and rushed toward the palace lantern hovering just above the low layer of thick fog.

The classic palace lantern was made of Phoebe zhennan wood, hand-carved with openwork, making it appear luxurious, elegant, classic, and refined.

Its main colors were red and yellow, and it was an octagonal polygon as a whole. Each side was covered with a material similar to silk,

and the silk was covered with patterns of landscapes, flowers and birds, bright moons and starry skies, all composed of curled gold and silver threads. The edges of the faces were inlaid with pale yellow, precious jade stones.

Red tassel pendants adorned the wooden edges of the octagonal palace lantern.

At the center of the lantern, a warm, moonlit glow shone. Under the illumination of the Bafang Mingyue Gongdeng (Eight Directions Bright Moon Palace Lantern), the thick fog surging from the ground constantly receded, cowering and prostrating itself on the ground.

This formed a stark contrast to the Qianhua Road anomaly on the other side of the city.

Li Ang had entered the fog realm before and even led a group of ordinary people who had been caught up in it to escape.

However, that time he hadn't entered the depths of the fog realm at all, and the various monsters he encountered were far from the strongest in the fog realm.

‘According to the hints in this mission briefing, combined with the various clues collected along the way, it is sufficient to prove that the fog realm anomaly occurring in Qianhua Road will evolve into a hazard affecting Y City.’

‘Assuming that the fog realm will expand to cover the entire Y City at that time, and this lantern’s note says that it can dispel Yin and evil mist. In other words, as long as you hold this lantern, you can ensure safety in the fog realm, and you may even be able to walk directly out of the fog realm.’

‘Whether it’s taking the palace lantern to escape Y City with Wang Congshan and the others, or working with the Special Affairs Bureau to try to crack the anomaly, both require competing with other players to grab the palace lantern and ensure that it is under your control at the end of the mission.’

‘You even have to guard against teammates—the mission process prevents you from harming teammates, which also means that if a teammate grabs the palace lantern, you won’t be able to grab it back during the mission.’

‘This mission is really full of malice.’

Li Ang, who was lunging toward the palace lantern, quickly pondered in his mind. He casually threw two blood worm crowbars at Miss Chai.

At the same time, the three-edged bone spike spear in his hand thrust out violently, the broken spear blade aimed directly at the hanging ring at the top of the hand-held palace lantern suspended above the fog, intending to snatch the Bafang Mingyue Gongdeng (Eight Directions Bright Moon Palace Lantern).

*Zheng—*

Across from him, the Wraith, who seemed to know more details about this mission, directly took action, waving a long whip to slash diagonally at Li Ang,

and condensed countless fire rain around his body, bypassing the palace lantern and bombarding Li Ang.

"Get out of my way!"

The Wraith waved his long whip, his eyes gleaming with extreme excitement. The pillar of fire behind him suddenly burst forth, propelling him toward the Bright Moon Palace Lantern.

In this critical moment, seeing that Li Ang was about to be swept by the green flame whip, Miss Chai drove her Qing'e Armor to charge forward, using two blood worm crowbars to strike the green flame whip.

The substance of the green flame whip was actually a long animal tailbone with a concrete substance.

After coming into contact with the blood worm crowbar, the long whip was driven by inertia, swirling around the crowbar,

directly melting and breaking one blood worm crowbar on the spot, and severely damaging the other crowbar as well.

Fortunately, although the long whip failed to hit Li Ang, the fire rain erupting from the Wraith's side arrived first, shooting toward him.

Li Ang, unable to borrow any force in the air, turned around abruptly, using the Ming Ye Chang (Night Cloak) disguised as a Batman cape to block the fire rain. The bone spear blade still stabbed toward the hanging ring at the top of the Bafang Mingyue Gongdeng (Eight Directions Bright Moon Palace Lantern).

As a high-quality defensive equipment, the Ming Ye Chang (Night Cloak) blocked a large area of ​​fire rain bombardment.

Those corrosive fire rains directly melted the Batman cloak disguise, revealing the cloak woven from black animal fur underneath.

The surface of the cloak that came into contact with the green fire rain made a "sizzling" burning sound, melting out countless rice-grain-sized, dense holes.

The scorching heat penetrated the bulletproof vest on Li Ang's back, transferring the heat to his spine, burning his skin, and scalding it red and swollen.

But under the Moon Cutting effect of the Ming Ye Chang (absorbs moonlight, repairs the cloak, and enhances the user's self-healing ability), these injuries quickly healed as before.

It just hurt, a lot.

"No!" In the Wraith's angry roar, the blade of the three-edged bone spike spear accurately struck the hanging ring of the palace lantern.

As the spear lifted, the palace lantern slid toward Li Ang.

"You asked for it!"

The Wraith's roar echoed and reverberated in the subway station. While maintaining his forward rushing posture, he stretched out his hand and pointed to his forehead, poking at a certain pair of compound eyes the size of mung beans on Gururulugu.

Due to the ground shaking just now, Li Ang's Drowning Assassination Technique was interrupted, and Gururulugu, who had returned to normal, directly controlled this body.

*Pa*,

He poked and exploded one of Gururulugu's compound eyes with his finger.

"Aaaaaaaah!"

In the extremely shrill screams of the green worm,

Li Ang, who was about to flee with the Bright Moon Palace Lantern on his back, suddenly stopped, every inch of his skin, bones, and muscles began to tremble inexplicably.

This skill of Gururulugu is called, and requires the player's own eyeballs as materials for the activation formula.

Its special effect is to designate a player, amplify the enemy's fear by a hundred times, force him to recall the most terrifying memory of his life, and experience that experience a full hundred times in one second.

The power of this skill is as great as its consumption.

In Gururulugu and the Wraith's previous experience of hunting players, Wan Ju Shi Shen (Devouring Body of Ten Thousand Fears) has always been effective. Even players whose strength far exceeds Gururulugu,

will lose their minds under the fear that devours them, become stiff or fall into madness, and be easily harvested by the Wraith.

This time was no exception!

Although Li Ang has cat-eye equipment, which can play a slight role in resisting illusions, the quality of the cat-eye cannot completely resist a powerful skill released by a player at the cost of his life. He was directly dragged into the illusion,

recalling the fear that had always been sealed in his memory.

Li Ang was stiff and unable to move, and Wu Mu and others in the distance only reacted at this time and rushed towards here.

But the distance between the two sides was far, and what's more, they had to resist the impact of the fire rain.

*Hu, Xi,*

One second later, Li Ang's eyes returned to clarity from the chaos.