It was already dusk at this moment.

At the entrance of the relocation center, buses full of passengers continued to arrive.

After all, evacuating the entire Keshan City, with a permanent population of over a million, was indeed a massive operation.

And those who had already moved into the relocation center had, after a day, basically adapted to this way of life.

During this time, the people residing in the center were very well-behaved and caused no violent incidents.

Even if conflicts arose among the residents, they remained only at the verbal level.

This made management easier and indeed lightened the workload for the center’s staff.

The tent city sprawling to the horizon looked truly spectacular.

Looking closely, you could see people everywhere lined up to receive supplies or carrying buckets to fetch water.

Inside a tent near the edge of the tent city, a few female students from Ke Mountain Art University had just finished dinner.

Seeing that it was still early for bedtime, they decided to gather and chat to pass the time.

"Ms. Yu Han, and then what happened?"

The girls all looked at the plain-dressed girl sitting in the main seat.

The plain-dressed girl known as Ms. Yu Han took a couple of deep breaths and said boldly, "And then? Then I hid! Who dares to check when you see a dark figure in the hallway in the middle of the night?"

"True."

"It’s a good thing you didn’t go outside, otherwise..."

"I heard the Guardian God took care of that Drowned Ghost in just a few moves."

The girls immediately started chattering with their opinions.

Hearing them mention Lv Bai, Ms. Yu Han’s eyes lit up: "I watched the stream, too. The Guardian God is really handsome, right?"

"Yeah, and he looks so young."

One slightly chubby girl squinted with a mischievous smile, "Are you guys lovestruck?"

"So what!"

Ms. Yu Han didn’t mind the teasing from her friends at all and suddenly thought of something, slapping her thigh: "I heard the Guardian God has started taking apprentices. Do you think I have a chance to enroll? Even if I can’t win over the Guardian God, learning some self-defense skills would be great."

"Self-defense? Defend against what?"

This sinister voice rang out, instantly plunging the tent into a deathly silence, even halting their breathing.

Back at Ke Mountain Art University, they had all been dorm mates.

Each was familiar with their friends’ voices.

Yet this voice that suddenly appeared didn’t belong to any of them.

And the unapologetic malice in the eerie tone sent shivers down their spines.

The bitter taste rising in their mouths made them forget to scream.

Ms. Yu Han felt as if she had been thrown from the height of summer into the heart of winter, her body rigid like stone.

She gathered her strength and slowly turned her head in the direction of the voice.

The scene she captured in the corner of the tent turned her mind blank, sending her adrenaline racing.

It was a woman.

A long-haired woman draped in a pale robe, her black hair falling from her head, obscuring her face.

The exposed skin was deathly white, not a healthy or sickly pallor but a lifeless, decayed white.

Blood vessels and tendons stood out on her hands, pressed against the ground as if exerting tremendous force, to the point of grotesqueness.

Even the sight of her was a blatant announcement: this was something eerie.

Not to mention the sudden drop in temperature in the tent, making everything disturbingly uncomfortable.

But when terror reaches its peak, one feels disconnected from their own body.

Ms. Yu Han and the other girls in the tent were all frozen in place, the only movement the sweat appearing on their foreheads.

In this dead and chilling silence, the woman in the corner of the tent began to sway.

Under the terrified gaze of the girls, the woman slowly raised her head...

...

"Ew! What’s that smell? Is someone crapping outside? It’s so stinky!"

Zheng Long cursed as he lifted the tent flap and poked his head out, looking around to find the source of the stench.

He didn’t find it, but instead saw a long-haired beauty squatting by the tent aisle.

Her attire was modest, yet somehow you could sense the enchanting figure beneath her clothes.

There she sat, arms hugging her knees, softly sobbing, with an appearance that evoked pity.

Seeing this, a wicked flame ignited in Zheng Long’s heart.

He silently licked his lips and stepped forward, "Miss, are you in trouble?"

The beauty squatting on the ground immediately stood up and hugged him.

With her warm, delicate body in his embrace, Zheng Long almost forgot his own name, discreetly swallowing.

He reached out his hands to cup her face, intending to bring it closer: "There, there, don’t be scared. Whatever difficulties you have, I..."

But,

At the moment he saw her face, Zheng Long’s eyes widened like saucers.

What appeared before him was no longer the previously beautiful and delicate face, but instead a terrifying visage that made his legs weak.

The beauty’s cherry lips looked as if they had been violently torn open, the split stretching to her ears.

A monstrous mouth full of sharp teeth, a crimson tongue protruding like a giant serpent.

The proximity was too much; Zheng Long could clearly sense the foul odor from that tongue.

"Ahhh!!!"

After a brief moment of stupefaction, Zheng Long’s face turned deathly pale, and he screamed uncontrollably in terror.

Slurp~

The beauty’s colossal mouth expanded like a snake swallowing an elephant, engulfing Zheng Long’s entire head in one bite.

In an instant, blood sprayed everywhere, drenching the beauty in crimson.

...

The sudden scream echoed far and wide.

Even the staff at the entrance of the relocation center heard it.

"What happened?"

A bespectacled staff member led a group of citizens to the designated spot and glanced in the direction of the scream.

Out of curiosity, and due to his duty, he pressed the button on his walkie-talkie, planning to inquire about the situation.

But before he could ask, he caught sight of a prominent shadow on the highway outside the center.

This staff member’s eyes widened, pupils dilating.

As someone from the action department, "Mysterious List" was a compulsory course, so he recognized that eerie sequence on the road at a glance.

Fear washed over his face, and no amount of self-admonishment could calm his nerves.

"S-Slender Shadow Ghost..."