"...I hope when you see us in reality, you can still smile."

Before he finished speaking, Ruan Boyang directly pulled out a dagger and slashed his own throat.

Blood gushed out from the artery in his neck, and Ruan Boyang seemed to feel no pain, even showing a ferocious smile on his face.

Seeing this, to avoid wasting points, Lv Bai decisively gave him a punch.

[Points +1, Current Points: 27, Current Rank: 1/87]

The mechanical prompt in his mind confirmed Ruan Boyang’s death.

Lv Bai looked at the corpse named Ruan Boyang in front of him, lost in thought.

It didn’t surprise him that this guy was a clone.

After all, with a hundred Death Fighters and a hundred clones, encountering a clone wasn’t unusual under such odds.

What caught his attention the most was what Ruan Boyang said before he committed suicide.

"So you can come to the real world?"

Lv Bai sighed sincerely, yet the smile on his face remained unchanged: "In any case, let’s wait until this death match is over."

[All Ink]

He turned around and took a step, as if endless darkness rapidly spread from around him, gradually engulfing the entire containment center.

...

Containment Center Area C.

A white fog mysteriously appeared after nightfall, covering nearly ten acres.

The mist surged and churned, forming a towering grey-white mass several stories high.

Standing at the fog’s edge, one could occasionally hear harrowing screams coming from within, sending chills down one’s spine.

Sequence 109 — The Great Fog.

No one knew what was inside this fog; no one had ever come out of it.

Human understanding of this fog was nearly nonexistent.

Luckily, the fog moved slowly, so even if one was unlucky enough to encounter it, as long as they ran away and didn’t get stuck, they’d be fine.

But the problem was.

This time, the fog appeared within the containment center.

A large portion of the populace had no chance to escape and had already entered the fog.

Visibility inside the fog was extremely low, almost to the point where one couldn’t see their own hand in front of their face.

Beyond two meters, it was all a vast expanse of white.

The crowd cried out, scattering in all directions, while the screams that occasionally resonated only heightened their panic.

"Stand firm."

A hand reached out from the fog, steadying a young girl who nearly fell.

She instinctively looked up, and against the backdrop of the fog, could barely make out the silhouette of a young man in a vibrant blue and white tracksuit.

"Did you get separated from your family?" Xu Lingwen asked with a frown, not really expecting an answer.

After asking, he immediately added, "Why don’t you follow me for now."

The young girl nodded tearfully, timidly clutching the hem of Xu Lingwen’s clothing as she followed him.

As a Death Fighter, after arriving at this Death Arena, Xu Lingwen naturally made it his priority to understand these so-called anomalies.

He knew there was danger in the fog, yet still couldn’t pinpoint what the source of the danger was.

Therefore, when he reached out to help this little girl, it wasn’t just out of habit; he hoped that if danger arose, perhaps the girl could "help."

A heart-wrenching scream echoed not far away, causing Xu Lingwen’s heart to tighten as he quickened his pace.

"What exactly is the danger? Some kind of monster? A group of monsters? No, that doesn’t seem right."

In theory, given the frequency of the screams and their varying locations, it couldn’t be just one monster.

But if there were a group of monsters, surely he would have seen a glimpse of them by now?

As he walked, he continued to speculate about the source of danger. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

After over ten minutes, Xu Lingwen stopped, his face grim.

He had seen no sign of a way out of the fog, as if he were wandering in circles.

He thought for a moment, then turned to the girl behind him and asked, "Do you remember..."

Halfway through his question, he suddenly felt disoriented for a moment, as if he had blacked out after drinking too much.

Habitually wiping his nose, he brought his hand to his eyes and realized he was bleeding.

This startled him immensely.

Had he already been affected? But where was the anomaly? He hadn’t seen anything!

"Are you looking for these little guys?"

The little girl abruptly spoke, as though she knew what he was thinking, pointing to the fog: "These little guys are everywhere."

The enormity of the girl’s words left Xu Lingwen feeling petrified.

Fortunately, just as Xu Lingwen was unsure how to react, the fog before him underwent a transformation.

Endless darkness descended, an indiscriminate, tyrannical shadow.

Like ink spilled in a cup of water, it rapidly turned all of the fog pitch black.

...

"Hmm?"

The terrifying sharp sonic boom subsided, narrowly allowing Lv Bai to stop just before a wall; a fraction of a second slower, and he would have crashed into it.

He realized he might have underestimated the ability [Strike in the Dark].

Or perhaps the interaction between [All Ink] and [Strike in the Dark] was more pronounced than expected.

Lv Bai had expected a two-to-three-fold increase in speed would have been worth it.

He never imagined that within the darkness created by [All Ink], the speed increase from [Strike in the Dark] exceeded tenfold.

With the physical enhancements from [Bursting Qi], he could originally dash seventy to eighty meters in a second.

With the added boost from [Strike in the Dark], his speed was now calculable in Mach, pushing his body to its limit.

Lv Bai paused to familiarize himself with this speed when he suddenly heard voices conversing.

"What kind of anomaly is this blackness? Is this world mad? How can such creatures exist? What round of the death matches is this?"

"I don’t know what this death match you speak of is, but I think this darkness isn’t created by the anomaly."

"I almost forgot you are an anomaly, seriously..."

Lv Bai noticed that the man’s voice had an evident careless attitude, with a devil-may-care charm.

The voice of the young girl, however, was surprisingly calm.

"Anomaly?" Lv Bai blinked, curiously approaching.

He was quite puzzled as to why a Death Fighter was mingling with an anomaly.

"Sis, don’t mess with me, I just want to survive, what did I do wrong?"

"I’m not messing with you."

"You’re not? You..."

Lv Bai blended into the darkness, quietly moving behind them, unexpectedly speaking up: "Let’s talk things through, no need to get upset."