Inside The Black Mist

In light, that person had their back turned to the rescue team, and had their head buried deeply, only revealing a hunched back.

He wasn't wearing any clothes, not a single piece. So, it was evident that he was very thin, his protruding spine proving his thoughts right.

His skin had an grayish-white color, making him appear even more frail.

"Something's not right."

Han Shu shouted, "Liang Sen, forget about him, let's go. I have a bad feeling, a really bad feeling!"

At that moment, the hologram started flickering, as if the signal was being disrupted, and the captain of Night Walker, seemingly oblivious to Han Shu's warning, didn't hear it.

In the footage, Liang Sen could be seen shouting at the person next to the cabinet, "Which team are you from? Where are your teammates? Are you the only one trapped?"

The repeated voice stopped, and the person seemed to react, his body slightly moving to get on his feet.

Several rifles were immediately aimed at that guy, as the soldiers took necessary precautions.

In the footage, the person slowly rose, and as they stood up, it was then seen that he had a towering stature. Even before lifting his head, it almost touched the ceiling.

"Oh my god," Chen Liu exclaimed in terror, "What is this? What is this?"

This clearly wasn't human. The height of a normal human couldn't reach 2.5 meters, and no human's limbs or joints would be inverted like that.

And then, he — no, it!

It turned around, and people finally saw its head, if one could even call it that-horn structure.

Ssshhh—

Its chest suddenly split open, a fissure extending from the chest to the abdomen, followed by a violent opening from the chest to the lower abdomen. Underneath the exposed flesh and skin, one could see supporting white bones.

Deep inside its body were various indescribable and bizarre organs, and on the surface of one of those organs, a human face was discernible.

As for that gaping cavity, it resembled nothing short of a devil's mouth!

"...Can anyone hear me... Trapped... Requesting support, coordinates as follows..."

The same words, magnified hundreds of times in volume, came from the person's face that resembled the mouth of a devil. In an instant, severe interference disrupted the hologram, causing a delay of a full 5 seconds in image transmission.

When the signal was restored, in the footage, the dark creatures, never seen before, had already been pushed back repeatedly by seven or eight rifles, with bursts of blood blossoming from its body.

Finally, Liang Sen stepped forward. As the champion of War God's Vocation, he sliced that thing in half with a single sword strike. From the cracked body rolled out an organ resembling a heart, emitting a faint yellow light, evidently the cage of that creature's will.

Liang Sen's sword stabbed the cage, shattering it. The body that had been split in two on the ground continued to convulse. However, as soon as the cage shattered, the movements abruptly ceased, and the body quickly dissolved.

Moments later, it had turned into a pile of decayed matter.

Han Shu shook his head. "Liang Sen, report back ASAP."

This time, Liang Sen heard it and gave the command for the team to retreat.

But as the camera angle shifted, Han Shu suddenly jumped up, startled because at the end of the building passage, there was a figure swaying.

Prowlers!

Those cursed creatures emerged unsteadily from both sides of the T-shaped passage. In the footage, those repulsive figures grew larger.

As if the troubles for Liang Sen and the others weren't enough, at that moment, a ventilation duct in front of the passage suddenly dropped, and a prowler slid out from it and fell to the ground.

Before it could get up, more prowlers slid down from the grill one after another. They climbed up from the ground and staggered forward.

Uttering meaningless cries from their mouths, they extended their twisted and grotesque limbs toward the camera!

Liang Sen shouted, "Fall back, retreat into the room!"

There were quite a few prowlers, but they weren't enough to overwhelm a Night Walker squad. However, considering Chen Liu's safety, Liang Sen didn't dare take risks. Helpless, they could only retreat into the room and hold their ground, waiting for rescue.

"Damn it, I knew it was suspicious!" Han Shu yelled, "Night Walkers, move out!"

Tianyang also wanted to join them, but Han Shu pointed at him and said, "You stay behind!"

Then, he looked at the captain of the Gray Pigeon squad, a woman with a shaved head. "Lida, I'm entrusting this side to your command!"

After saying that, in a hurried manner, Han Shu led his team rushing toward the spherical building.

Tianyang faintly heard Han Shu instructing someone to contact the 5th Generation Armed forces. With that firepower, it wouldn't be difficult to blast open an escape route for the Night Walkers.

After the Raven squad left, the shaved-head woman who temporarily took command shouted with her astonishingly loud voice,

"Everyone, obey orders, retreat to the square! Recovery team and medical team in the center! Other squads assume a defensive formation and take action immediately!"

The convoy immediately moved according to the orders of Captain Lida. Recovery and medical teams stopped in the middle of the square inside their vehicles, while several Night Walker squads' combat vehicles formed a defensive formation, protecting non-combat personnel.

They proceeded to set up a defensive line and arrange temporary cover.

Even the 5th generation heavy-armored combat suit brought by Chen Liu stood in the middle of the formation, with all heavy firepower ready and prepared for battle.

Such caution was not without reason. Who could have imagined that there would be such monsters among the dark creatures? Clearly, they were living organisms, yet they could emit distress signals detectable by electronic devices.

As for human language, it was obviously related to that person's face!

Based on past experience, this trap might not be simple.

Furthermore, being in the Inverse Universe, it's always good to be cautious. Better safe than sorry.

As it turned out, Captain Lida's worries were justified. Not long after the Raven squad left, a red signal flare suddenly shot up into the air on the dim road ahead of the square.

It was a warning from the team members on the alert line who had detected the enemy's presence!

"Mad dogs! It's a pack of dogs, at least a hundred of them!"

At the same time, through everyone's communication channels, the panicked shouts of the guards could be heard.

The shaved-head woman immediately shouted, "Heavy artillery on standby, War Gods at the forefront, other levels and soldiers providing long-range support!"

Tianyang rushed to the front of the formation, forming a frontline defense line with seven or eight Ascenders at the War God level.

The young man's left eye emitted a red light, a sign of activating tactical vision's infrared mode. Tianyang looked in the direction where the red signal flare had been lit, closing the distance.

A truly nightmarish figure appeared in Tianyang's sight.

Witnessing that devilish figure, Tianyang felt a convulsion in his stomach, an almost nauseating feeling that almost made him vomit .

Mad dogs, monsters that combined the features of human beings and dogs. With their tall, pointed ears and blood-red glowing eyes, their faces resembled those of humans but with protruding snouts, a single glance was enough to make one tremble in fear.

Their hairless and somewhat smooth bodies moved like dogs, as they raced with their four limbs.

The mad dogs had a slim physique, with the curved claws of a male dog and the ribs of a female dog protruding from their sides, folding under their bellies to support a mass-like growth.

According to recorded data, when a female dog charges into a crowd, the mass-like growth would expand and explode. It would release highly toxic substances at high pressure, creating a large-scale weapon of mass destruction. That's where the name "mad dog" came from.

As Tianyang watched the pack of dogs approaching the defense line through his electronic eye, he remembered something Old Xu had said before.

If the dark creatures were the transformed residents of the Inverse Universe, then what kind of life form had they become? Was it evolution or regression?

What had happened in the Inverse Universe to cause the original inhabitants to turn into the monsters they were today?