Just one scream triggered the other people's emotions and those standing closest to the fog immediately shoved other people in their way, scrambling towards the center of the open-air parking lot.
"Move! Move!"
"Run!! Don't touch the fog!"
Chaos erupted and many people were shoved to the ground while others stomped on their falling bodies.
"Ah! D-don't step on me!"
"H-help! There's someone down here!"
"I-I can't breathe!"
The stampede quickly spread towards Leinster, who wasn't at the center of the parking lot, even a bit close to the looming white fog.
Thud!
Someone shoved Leinster's body aside and another person bumped into him so hard that Leinster staggered, almost falling to the ground—
Wait, no.
He's falling straight towards the creeping fog.
!!
"Fck, bipedal!!"
Leinster quickly used the red tongue carpet around him as a shield and was about to bear the impact head on when someone yanked his long hair from behind and forcefully pulled him.
Swoosh!
Leinster's body stopped mid-air, just an inch away from the white fog.
Before the white fog could creep closer, Leinster hurriedly took a few steps back in the direction of where his hair was being pulled and his back bumped into someone.
"Ughhh..."
A woman groaned in an almost audible voice but Leinster's sharp ears caught the subtle noise and something clicked in his mind.
Ah? How come this voice sounded familiar?
Leinster quickly turned his body around and indeed saw a familiar person.
It was a woman with bob hair, still wearing the white shirt, the black office blazer and a tight mini skirt.
"Huh? It's you?"
Leinster gaped in awe.
It was such a coincidence that he met one of his first few subscribers!
The woman rubbed her face that bumped into Leinster's back and when she was about to speak, her eyes suddenly widened in horror.
"Oh no! The fog is getting closer!"
Without looking back, Leinster immediately grabbed the woman's wrist and cut through the sea of people using his body as a bulldozer.
"Move, move, bipedal!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"Go away!"
Slap!
Leinster slapped someone's face with his hair and kicked someone's b*tt with his leg, quickly creating a path that was closer to the entrance of the mysterious building.
When someone tried to shove the woman next to him, Leinster even waved his red tongue robe around, slapping them away like swatting away flies.
"Hmph! How dare you bipedals try to push and shove me?"
Leinster sneered in a sinister stone, exactly like a third-rate villain.
With his tough stance and the chains that threatened to fly to someone's neck, the people around Leinster quickly calmed down and took a few steps back, creating a vacuum zone for him.
The woman who was included in this vacuum zone immediately lowered her head and even wished to bury herself inside the asphalt.
Ahhh! Why is this guy offending people and making enemies everywhere??
Leinster puffed out his chest at the sight of the vacuum zone and quickly released the woman's wrist.
"Hmm, hm, thank you for saving me back then."
Leinster flashed a gentle smile at the woman, his inner fox was already wagging its tail.
Hehehe, this is his loyal customer and donator.
He can't scare her and had to lure her in with his handsome face!
Surprisingly...the woman didn't blush at Leinster's killer smile at all and just nodded calmly, but if one looked closer, her palms were sweating and her legs trembled, almost softening into noodles.
Wuwuwuwuwu, that was so close! π~π She was about to die!
Why did she have to help this criminal?
Ughhhh! If it wasn't for that...
The woman quickly shook her head and spoke in a deliberate soft voice.
"It's okay...you saved me and my friends back then, it's just a payback."
Leinster nodded and was about to continue building rapport with his loyal subscriber when the people around him suddenly became agitated.
"Ah! The fog is still chasing after us!"
Leinster whipped his head around and indeed saw the thick fog quickly enveloping several people who fell on the ground.
Their screams were muffled and turned into silence in mere seconds.
Leinster didn't know how many people died in that fog but the deep crimson color told a tragic story.
Seeing that the fog kept chasing them but there was no fog around the mysterious building, Leinster and the others, possibly challengers with some wits, immediately ran towards the entrance of the mysterious building.
"Let's go, let's go!"
Leinster tugged the woman once more, dragging her around as if she was a cow.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
The sound of hurried footsteps quickly overwhelmed the screams and sobs in the background.
Soon, the group of survivors came close to the building and at this distance, Leinster could finally see the true face of the building.
It was a sphere-shaped building with approximately three floors, definitely not an ordinary building.
But...as an alien, Leinster doesn't know what kind of building this is!
It was the woman who gasped subconsciously.
"I-isn't this an old shopping mall in the town?"
The others also recognized the unique-shaped building.
"This shopping mall is the one in the news, right? It was shut down due to a bombing accident..."
But the building in front of them, although it looked old, didn't look like it was bombed at all.
There was not even a trace of burnt on the outer wall, just some moss and dirt.
The group of survivors hesitated, not daring to enter the automatic glass door of the building until someone, possibly a challenger, stepped out of the group and walked towards the glass door with chest puffed out.
He definitely looked confident.
Ding.
The glass door opened automatically with a soft chime of a silver bell.
The man who looked like he was in his twenties immediately stepped onto the shopping mall and his entire body left the place where the yellow light shone upon, slowly descending into the darkness.
The next moment...
A scream erupted from inside the building.
"AHHHH— NOOOOO!! The darkness— the darkness— "
And then, silence.
No more sounds came out of the building, only the sound of the wind resembling a woman's soft weeping whispered in everyone's ears, sending chills down their spines.
What? What happened inside?