At the foot of Mingdao Mountain.
Yu Hong and Zhao Yu, who had originally been camping and surviving here, saw the thick fog surge after the ninth rule was announced and imdiately dove into a Jeep, locking the doors and windows tightly.
They weren't foolish enough to hide in a tent; that canvas material would definitely be no match for monsters.
But the vehicle didn't seem much better either...
Zhao Yu stared with wide eyes, nervously looking around in all directions: "Sister Yu, what should we do? Hiding in the car like this definitely won't work, right..."
The rules had already stated that a monster called "Nightmare Beasts" existed within the thick fog. The fact that it hunted humans showed it was extrely dangerous.
"How about we go to the nearest city to take shelter," Yu Hong suggested.
"I'll listen to you, Sister Yu."
Zhao Yu was completely at a loss now and couldn't co up with any ideas.
Yu Hong started the vehicle and took out her phone to try and navigate with a map, but the function was completely non-functional.
She thought it was a problem with her own phone and asked Zhao Yu to try with his phone, but the result was the sa.
"This is bad, it seems navigation can't be used in the fog."
"Then what should we do?"
"The fog is so thick, we can't see any roads, and it's hard to tell directions. Without navigation, we can't get to the city at all."
Yu Hong and Zhao Yu didn't know the surrounding roads well. It was impossible for them to drive to the city under the cover of thick fog without navigation. Even if they didn't die halfway from a Nightmare Beast attack, they would most likely get lost and end up dying a violent death.
"Sister Yu, I don't want to die... Can you think of a way, please?" Zhao Yu said, his voice trembling. His personality was weak to begin with, and he wasn't an Ascendant. He had no abilities or items, making him even more powerless in the face of the Doomsday Rules.
Seeing Zhao Yu like this, Yu Hong knew that if this went on for long, he would definitely break down. Gritting her teeth, she said, "It seems we can only go up the mountain and ask the camp on the mountain for help."
From the beginning until now, Yu Hong had never seen what the camp on the mountain looked like, but from several contacts with the people on the mountain, she had a general impression: the camp on the mountain had strong and young people, formidable strength, and abundant resources.
But Yu Hong also knew that the mountain camp held a certain degree of exclusion towards outsiders.
That's precisely why she and Zhao Yu, apart from once buying food, had never gone up the mountain or disturbed the people on the mountain. They were worried about causing dissatisfaction with the mountain camp and getting themselves driven away.
But now, with their lives at stake, Yu Hong had no choice but to hope the mountain camp could help the two of them survive.
"That's right!" Zhao Yu's eyes lit up with excitent upon hearing Yu Hong's words. "I forgot there's a powerful base on the mountain! The people there are so strong, they'll definitely help us! Sister Yu, let's go up right now."
Yu Hong nodded, glanced outside, and said, "When we get out of the car later, follow . Watch your step. If you accidentally slip in this thick fog, you could fall to your death, understand?"
"I know, Sister Yu."
The car door opened, and the two of them got out, their bodies imdiately imrsed in the mist.
In an instant, both of them felt a stinging pain on the exposed skin of their bodies.
It was February now, and the weather was cold. Both were wearing thick winter clothes, with only their palms and faces exposed. The pain ca from there.
"It hurts!" Zhao Yu looked down at his palm and saw faint red marks had already appeared on the back of his hand, similar to burn marks.
"The fog is poisonous! Put on gloves quickly, don't leave any skin exposed!" Yu Hong imdiately shouted a reminder, quickly putting on her own gloves and then wrapping her face tightly with a hat and scarf.
Zhao Yu imitated her, and the two of them quickly walked towards the mountain. With visibility of only a few ters, even though Mingdao Mountain was close by, they could only see the outline of the nearby foothills.
Yu Hong walked in front, each step extrely cautious. Mingdao Mountain had no mountain path to begin with, making it hard to climb. Add to that the frozen, slippery mountain surface in winter, and slipping and falling down was no joke.
Zhao Yu followed behind her. The two of them walked up step by step, praying in their hearts that they wouldn't encounter a Nightmare Beast attack before finding the mountain camp.
It seed as if the Fire Thief had heard their prayers. During their arduous climb, they actually weren't attacked and successfully reached the mountainside.
"Zhao Yu, look!" Yu Hong suddenly discovered sothing, her face showing surprise. "The trees ahead are only stumps left. Soone must have cut down the trunks to build sothing. This ans the camp's location isn't far from us!"
After Yu Hong finished speaking, she didn't hear Zhao Yu's response, and her heart suddenly sank. She sharply turned her head to look and saw Zhao Yu standing frozen about two or three ters away from her.
"Zhao Yu, what's wrong?"
Yu Hong walked over and heard Zhao Yu muttering to himself.
"Ho, ho isn't in that direction. It's... it's in the other direction. The other direction is the way ho..."
Zhao Yu muttered, then suddenly turned and started walking towards the other direction. But there was no ho over there, only a cliff.
Seeing this, Yu Hong hurriedly stopped him, grabbing his arm. "Are you crazy? That's a cliff over there!"
"Ho is in that direction..."
Zhao Yu's eyes were firm, making Yu Hong feel an indescribable fear well up inside her.
The next mont, Zhao Yu shoved her away violently. "Don't stop
from going ho!"
Caught off guard by his push, Yu Hong staggered and nearly fell. By the ti she steadied herself and looked up, she saw Zhao Yu had already run to the edge of the cliff.
"Zhao Yu!!!"
"I'm going ho..."
Zhao Yu took a leaping step off the cliff. Yu Hong, who had rushed over in a panic, couldn't stop him. She watched helplessly as he fell and was quickly swallowed by the fog.
"No, no... this... Zhao Yu must have gone crazy... or had a hallucination..."
Yu Hong retreated a few steps in terror, trying her best to calm down.
She didn't know why Zhao Yu had jumped off the cliff like a madman. If it was the fog's influence, then why was she fine? Why could she still stay clear-headed?
Yu Hong shook her head hard. She knew this wasn't the ti for thinking. She was still in the fog and could be attacked by Nightmare Beasts at any ti. Zhao Yu was already dead. She couldn't just give up like this!
She turned and continued walking in the original direction. Since she had discovered the artificially felled trees, it ant the mountain camp was nearby. Finding it ant hope for survival.
Yu Hong jogged along, discovering the path becoming increasingly flat. Soon, she spotted a courtyard ahead enclosed by a fence made of wooden stakes, exactly like a camp!
As she got closer to the courtyard, she also saw a building inside that looked like it was constructed from stone, tightly fitted together.
She was completely stunned, not knowing how such a stone house could be built on a mountain. Building a house by piling stones might be easy, but to have not a single gap between the stones where they connected required all sorts of professional polishing and construction equipnt. How could those be on the mountain?
Was it a house built using so kind of Mind Power item or special ability?
After just a fleeting thought, she quickly ran to the front of the stone house and knocked hard on the door.
Thump thump thump!
"Help! I'm Yu Hong from the camp at the foot of the mountain! Please help !"
Guan Tong was in the room researching and exploring matters related to the thick fog when he suddenly heard the banging on the door and Yu Hong's cry for help. He looked up in surprise towards the door.
Because he had closed the door tightly for fear of the thick fog invading the shelter, the Shadow Surveillance Eyes he had originally deployed on the mountain had all beco ineffective, so he hadn't discovered that Yu Hong had actually co up the mountain.
He had originally thought Yu Hong and Zhao Yu wouldn't risk coming up with the thick fog plus the cold and slippery mountain, but they had actually co.
However, from the sound, it seed only Yu Hong had co.
Thump thump thump!
The banging on the door sounded again.
Guan Tong hesitated for a second, then stood up and walked towards the door.
"Please help and open the door! My friend Zhao Yu already—"
Just as Guan Tong's hand was already on the door handle, Yu Hong's voice outside abruptly stopped.
Guan Tong's wrist, which had been about to turn the door handle, also froze.
"Yu Hong?" he asked aloud.
Outside, there was a deathly silence.
Guan Tong took two steps back.
One second, three seconds, five seconds... No more sound from Yu Hong ca from outside the door.
...
"Alpha-A Combat Team One, fully equipped and ready."
At an ard base sowhere in the outskirts of Yong'an, in the indoor preparation area, over eighty fully ard soldiers stood ready.
They wore specially made fully enclosed combat suits, and nearby were parked armored combat vehicles, tanks, and other mobile ard vehicles.
After hearing the captain's report, the Commander said, "We of Alpha-A Combat Team One are soldiers who have been on the battlefield, tested by iron and blood, with experiences that other Beta-class combat units have never had. On this battlefield, the enemy we face is not human, but a monster called 'Nightmare Beasts.' But no matter what the enemy is, we will achieve victory. Victory is certain!"
"Victory is certain!" everyone shouted in unison.
"Board the vehicles!"
At the Commander's order, everyone entered the sealed armored vehicles, tanks, and others.
Imdiately after, the preparation area's large doors opened, and the fog from outside instantly seeped in.
"This mission: proceed along the designated route to Zone K31, conduct firepower reconnaissance along the way, engage with the Nightmare Beasts in the thick fog, and obtain effective information on the enemy. Move out!"
A convoy of over twenty armored vehicles and tanks drove out from the preparation area warehouse and into the thick fog, soon being swallowed by the mist.
The convoy was in combat formation, with all machine guns and cannons ready to fire at any mont. Combat was inevitable; every soldier knew this deeply, because one of their tasks was firepower reconnaissance—to figure out the combat capabilities of the Nightmare Beasts.
After the convoy entered the fog, navigation equipnt quickly all failed, but radio communication was not affected. The Commander constantly confird the situation ahead and behind through communication. About ten minutes later, a ssage ca from the forward team.
"Report! Team 1 has encountered a Nightmare Beast attack! We are currently engaging the Nightmare Beasts!"
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Boom boom boom!
Gunfire and artillery sounds erupted densely, accompanied by a thundering noise, as if an armored vehicle had been overturned. Those at the rear of the convoy, though they didn't know what kind of attack the forward team had encountered, still followed the command and imdiately flanked from both sides.
A light armored vehicle quickly approached the forward team from the left flank. As it entered visual range, the ard personnel on the vehicle imdiately saw so indescribably strange creatures attacking the forward team's vehicles.
These creatures varied in shape; so had streamlined bodies, while others had multiple segnted limbs like centipedes. But these monsters, called "Nightmare Beasts" in the rules, shared the commonality of being covered in a shell-like textured skin, colored the sa pale purple-green as the fog, allowing them to hide their forms well within the mist.
What made humans feel most uncomfortable was that these Nightmare Beasts all lacked organs like "eyes," "mouths," or "noses," completely different from creatures on Earth. Just as ntioned in the rules, they were definitely creatures from another planet.
These Nightmare Beasts varied in size, but most were quite bulky. Their speed wasn't fast, but their strength was great, enough to overturn tanks weighing over ten tons.
"Fire! Fire!"
The human counterattack poured out in the form of thermal weapons. A large number of bullets, artillery shells, and even high-temperature flas shot out, landing on those Nightmare Beasts. Their shell-like textured skin also cracked and splintered, and their thod of death was like a balloon—they exploded and dissipated into the fog.
This discovery imdiately sent the soldiers into ecstatic joy!
The Nightmare Beasts in this rule weren't like the previous "Sound Hunters"; they could be eliminated by human thermal weapons!
This ant that for the first ti in the Doomsday Rules, the weapons humanity had developed over many years had a sufficient role to play. This rule didn't need to rely on any powerful Ascendants, any flashy Mind Power items or skills. Relying only on humanity's own creations, they could slaughter these monsters in the fog!
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