The blood rain seemed to be stopping.

But the changes brought by this torrential rain had just begun.

The city fell into flooding, with the bloody water flowing into the city center's giant pit. Mangled corpses floated up and down with the bloody water, as if something was being awakened.

"Where... is this place?"

In Ye City, someone inadvertently pushed open a door, and after a burst of dazzling light, a strange, fog-filled space appeared before them.

New individuals were chosen... at this moment, the moment when new entries should have ceased long ago.

And it was far more than one person.

A nearly unbearable burning sensation wildly spread from the heart to the limbs and bones, and at this moment, everyone still alive in Ye City felt it.

This was... the call of Fog Gathering!

Although they didn't know what was happening, that terrifying premonition drove everyone to make the same choice — they rushed to push open that door.

In an instant, the Fog Gathering was densely packed with people!

At the same moment, Bai Yanren and Bai Yanliang, who were about to leave Song Que's house, also felt the call of the Fog Gathering.

Even Song Que, who had lost his eyes, and the elder butler felt it.

The entire Ye City, except for those who entered the Earth Cave at the city center, none of the survivors were spared.

The strange and eerie space, the sudden changes, and the lingering unsettling feeling in their hearts, plunged most of the people gathered in the Fog Gathering into extreme panic.

There were truly too many people, even though some had died in the blood rain, the population of Ye City still exceeded a million. At this moment, the Fog Gathering space was filled with a dense crowd as far as the eye could see.

This time, people from all walks of life, men, women, old and young, were all swept in.

Arguing, crying, pushing, insulting...

Bai Yanliang looked around immediately after entering the Fog Gathering.

At this moment... Bai Yanren was no longer by his side.

Everyone's position was reshuffled the moment they entered the Fog Gathering, but for Bai Yanliang, this was a good thing.

He glanced down at the key in his hand; he needed to send everyone into another future before the world collapsed.

Although he suddenly learned the likely existence of someone who could be his mother, for the first time his heart felt what panic and helplessness meant, but Bai Yanliang quickly calmed down.

Now, according to the photos from Song Que's house, the elder butler's story, and the activated memories in his mind, Zhou Tian and Meng Zhen were highly likely his biological parents.

Bai Yanliang had always been a rational person and didn't want to fool himself in such a place.

Based on the known information, this was the most reasonable conclusion.

With some speculation, it wasn't hard to deduce the reasoning.

Although Bai Yanliang didn't know the cause, it was highly likely that Meng Zhen and Zhou Tian discovered the secret about the Fog Realm, and then the two encountered an accident while exploring it, leaving Meng Zhen forever in the Fog Realm.

And himself... was born in the Fog Realm.

So, he was a human infant born in the Fog Realm.

It made sense then that when Bai Yanren summoned a soul to resurrect his true younger brother, the real Bai Yanliang, what came was the only existing human soul in the Fog Realm.

Bai Yanliang looked up at the top of the Fog Gathering.

The fog in this place was getting denser; without a doubt, everyone was here at the moment.

He couldn't find anyone else among a population of over a million; now all Bai Yanliang could do was wait quietly.

He believed that Fog Gathering bringing everyone in was not meaningless.

Perhaps... it wasn't even the work of the Fog Gathering itself but someone controlling it, starting this... grand feast.

At this moment, everyone felt as if they had a convulsion.

All the noisy sounds vanished without a trace.

Everyone in Ye City looked up at the sky above the Fog Gathering.

To be more precise, they looked at the fog condensing above the Fog Gathering.

The fog was eerily twisting, arranging, and in a very short time, formed a line of text...

This scene was not unfamiliar to Bai Yanliang and others.

But for the other people in Ye City, it was a terrifying event that overturned their understanding.

What scared them even more was the meaning represented by the text.

"Corpses that are not corpses, bones that are not bones, I am not I, men are not men."

"Survive, for one day."

Clearly gray mist, suddenly turned blood-red at the moment everyone read it!

As if suddenly activated, the bloody words hanging above everyone's head suddenly flowed down, pouring over each person...

At the same time, a terrifying blood-red countdown appeared on the back of everyone's right hand —

24:00.

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Time went back to a little while ago, Ren Wudao awoke in the Earth Cave.

He finally arrived here, at the place Zhou Tian had described to him in detail.

However, there were far too many "entry points" here compared to what Zhou Tian had said. They were densely packed, scattered all around.

Which one was the original connection to the Fog Realm?

According to Zhou Tian, only that entrance was the original point, located at the Fish Eye of the Fog Realm in the real world.

Which one was... the right one?

Ren Wudao frowned slightly; he couldn't try each one. He only had one chance to jump in.

If he jumped into the correct one, he would be able to connect with Zhou Tian, who had already gone to the Fog Realm and reached the Fog Realm's Fish Eye, and start the final Fog Gathering as Zhou Tian had instructed.

But if he jumped into the wrong one, not only would he lose his life, everything Zhou Tian planned would fall apart and have to start over.

Come to think of it, Ren Wudao still couldn't quite believe Zhou Tian would entrust such a crucial part of years of planning to him.

Perhaps Zhou Tian had a backup plan?

Ren Wudao didn't think too much, he was a man of his word, and since he promised, he had to give his all.

The initial hole must be different from the later appearing ones.

Ren Wudao's eyes scanned the surroundings, looking for clues.

Piles of skeletal remains were everywhere, which actually, to speak, was also a clue.

According to Zhou Tian, around the initial entrance, there would undoubtedly be the most remains.

Then...

That one?

Ren Wudao looked ten meters to the right front.

The hole with a gray sheen looked unremarkable, but surrounding it, skeleton after skeleton looked particularly gruesome.

But, would it be that simple?

If he chose wrong, everything would be over.

Ren Wudao looked around again; this time, he even checked above him. Suddenly, his eyes lit up!

So that's it...

Ren Wudao leaped, jumping into the space a few meters to the right of the pile of bones.

Simultaneously, Zhou Tian, in the Fog Realm, suddenly opened his eyes and whispered:

"Good, then... let's begin."

He spread his hand open, and a very small gray sapling appeared in his palm.

"The final Fog Gathering."

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