At this moment, the Outer City District had clearly descended into utter chaos.

Screams, cries, and pleas for mercy all blended together.

Everywhere one looked, there was despair and suffering.

Everything one heard was wailing and bitter lamentation.

Numerous furtive figures flitted through the shadows.

"Chao-ge, Chao-ge, where are you..."

A young woman, her face etched with terror, stood amidst the crowd, fearfully calling out her boyfriend's name.

The two had met after the apocalypse, originally planning to start a family together.

They had even thought that after the Unlimited Racing Competition, they would go find the City Lord and ask him to officiate their wedding!

But now...

A somewhat familiar, yet chillingly cold voice came from behind the young woman.

"Manman, I'm right behind you, turn around and look at me..."

The young woman turned around in pleasant surprise, only to see a figure both familiar and strange standing right at the boundary between light and shadow.

That familiar face was half in the firelight, half in the darkness, flickering uncertainly.

Overjoyed, the young woman took two steps forward, then froze, her entire body beginning to tremble slightly.

"You... you're not Chao-ge, who are you?"

The young woman's voice was filled with infinite terror. She wanted to turn and run, but her body felt weak and limp, trembling uncontrollably.

"Hehe... Manman, who do you say I am?"

The figure at the boundary between light and shadow let out a chilling, cold laugh.

Behind the young woman, a person with a dull, vacant expression silently appeared.

From the center of this person's forehead all the way down, there was a pitch-black straight line.

The line was beginning to open up like a vertically blossoming flower.

The young woman's voice was filled with infinite despair and horror.

"Chao-ge... Chao-ge told me... told me..."

"You... you are... Pseudo-humans..."

"Last time Chao-ge went to the Talisman Shop..."

Just as the young woman uttered the words "Pseudo-humans,"

The withered figure behind her began to fully bloom.

The person standing at the boundary between light and shadow laughed even more gleefully: "Yes, knowing we are Pseudo-humans makes things easier."

"Although you're just an ordinary person, having one more companion is always good..."

"Ah... Our race is great in every way, the only troublesome thing is that for people who don't know of our existence, we are completely harmless."

"But for those who know we exist, we are their nightmare!"

"Hehe... Wonderful!"

"I absolutely love this rule!"

The terror on the young woman's face completely transformed into despair.

Chao-ge had previously worked for some Superhumans.

Sometimes, Chao-ge would tell her some of the things he knew.

Just yesterday, Chao-ge told her a story about Pseudo-humans.

This story seemed to have spread from the Talisman Shop.

It caused her to have nightmares all last night.

She never expected to actually encounter Pseudo-humans today.

This wasn't a story, it was real!

Before the young woman could finish her next sentence, the vertically blossoming crimson flower suddenly enveloped her entire person.

The young woman struggled frantically.

But in the end, it was all for nothing.

When the last trace of the young woman's existence in this world vanished,

A new young woman, nearly identical to the previous one, appeared in the same spot.

The new young woman shook her head left and right, her limbs moving stiffly...

It was like a person trying on a new piece of clothing, testing to see if it fits properly.

"The Talisman Shop... did well..."

"If not for them... we probably wouldn't... have so many... companions!"

Perhaps because the newly acquired body wasn't fully adapted yet, the speech was somewhat halting and stumbling.

The figure that had been standing in the light and shadow earlier chuckled: "Yes... so many people know of our existence."

"The more people know about us, the more of our kind there will be."

"The only thing that annoys us is that there are still many unrelated filthy things in this city..."

"Detestable..."

A residential building not far away burst into a great fire.

The flickering flames illuminated the faces of the two humanoid monsters.

At that moment, many similar figures emerged from the darkness, their shadows overlapping.

Vaguely, there seemed to be about a hundred people...

Some looked like Anomalies that had newly acquired human form.

The postures of these Anomalies were each strange in their own way.

Some had slanted shoulders, some had their heads directly lolling on their shoulders.

But some appeared much more natural, looking no different from other people.

These people appeared behind the Anomaly called "Chao-ge," standing silently without a word.

Suddenly, the smile on the face of the monster the young woman had called "Chao-ge" began to stretch wider and wider.

His mouth pulled all the way back to his earlobes, the smile on his face twisted and utterly bizarre.

"Chao-ge's" head suddenly rotated 180 degrees, while his body remained standing in its original position.

A ferocious face now appeared on his back, looking towards a corner not far away.

A sinister voice, as if emerging from hell, cackled with laughter: "Although we cannot actively tell humans about our existence!"

"If you discover it yourselves, then it has nothing to do with us!"

"Wonderful... more people know we exist!"

There was still no movement from the corner.

As if no one had ever been there.

"Chao-ge" gave a sinister smile: "Are humans all this foolish?"

Still no movement.

"Chao-ge" frowned, exerted force with his feet, and his entire body began to stride backwards.

It was the kind of sight where you could see both a person's face and their back and buttocks.

And then this person started "running" towards you with large backward strides.

All the way to the corner.

"Chao-ge" still saw no one.

The expression on Chao-ge's face finally morphed into an indescribably bizarre look.

There was a hint of killing intent, a hint of helplessness, and a hint of anger at being mocked.

At the same time, a large crowd of people appeared behind "Chao-ge."

Some of these people were "running" forward by moving backwards.

While others were no different from normal humans.

"They can't have gone far, chase them!"

"I smell the scent of Superhumans, many of them..."

"This scent is truly intoxicating..."

...

The figures these "Pseudo-humans" were chasing were none other than Chen Ye and his group.

They had just come out from the Inner City. According to Xue Nan's directions, they only needed to turn two more street corners to see the rest of the convoy.

Just as they were about to turn the third-to-last corner,

The group was halted by Chu Che and Auntie Zhao.

The expressions on their faces were quite strange.

In their perception, turning this corner would lead them to encounter several Anomalies.

Some of the Anomalies' auras were very weak, while others were quite strong.

Of course, the strongest among them was still no match for the previous "Tangled Crowd."

Compared to other routes, this one was undoubtedly the most time and effort-saving.

After all, with so many Sequence 3s in the group, simple Anomalies could still be dealt with.

But... the aura of these Anomalies was very odd.

Thus, the few of them ended up furtively standing at the street corner, peeking over.

And then they witnessed the incident with the Pseudo-human "Chao-ge" and "Manman."

At this point, even a fool would understand what was going on.

For example, a fool like Iron Lion also knew they had encountered big trouble.