Deep fog blanketed the Wilderness. As time crept past two in the morning, the oppressive night entirely obscured any trace of daytime biological activity.
However, inside Hope Village, it was destined to be a sleepless night.
News from Chen Shen and Li Hu arrived one after the other. Instantly, six massive spotlight beams shot into the sky, and every streetlamp powered up to maximum capacity. Piercing sirens blared from the village entrance speakers—equipment that had never been used before. The deafening noise jolted the sleeping villagers, causing them to instinctively scramble out of their beds.
"Oh crap, it's a first-level alarm!"
Three long blasts followed by two short ones. Previous drills had taught most of them how to identify the alarm level. Hearing this sound now meant only one thing. From this moment on, the village had entered a critical, life-or-death crisis.
