The bone-chilling sensation struck instantly; in the next moment of his teammate's exclamation, Xu Jiali felt his own steps abruptly hindered, as if something had suddenly entangled his hands and feet. A coldness capable of freezing the soul instantly made even such a powerful Deep Diver lose control over his body—until then, only his peripheral vision noted the strands of black threads appearing in the fog.
The barely perceptible black lines floated as if they had condensed out of thin air, crisscrossing the street, and three Deep Divers had already inadvertently touched those threads, the irresistible coldness and stiffness freezing their bodies in place.
The next second, the Power Armor started alerting, and the perception module connected to the umbilical cord detected an anomaly in the user—
"Warning, mild soul dislocation, warning, mild soul dislocation..."
