Highway Survival for All: My RV's Infinite Evolution

Just when the atmosphere became extremely tense.

Da da da.

At that moment, a series of hurried footsteps broke the silence.

Several police officers in black retro uniforms came running up, panting. The one leading them was Carl, who had a small mustache.

He glanced at the pile of shattered tree demon remains on the ground, then at the tree-man corpse at Leon's feet, stroked his beard, and praised:

"Oh God! Look at this perfect marksmanship, look at this fallen evil!"

"As expected of the great Sheriff Lyon! With a single move, these evil tree demons were vanquished!"

"Your marksmanship is even more unpredictable than this fog!"

The other officers echoed this sentiment, their faces filled with admiration.

Inspector Lyon showed no sign of delight despite the flattery.

He glanced at Lin Hui and said calmly, "Karl, stop with your exaggerated acting. I only managed to pick up one fish that slipped through the net. Mr. Lin took care of the big guy."

"Well……"

Carl paused for a moment, his exaggerated expression frozen on his face, looking somewhat comical.

He turned his head, looking at the Chinese man in the down jacket with disbelief, then at the huge crater, before his tone became respectful:

"So it's Mr. Lin! Oh, I knew it! A powerful person like you shines brightly wherever you are! Even in this cursed land!"

Lin Hui wasn't impressed by this kind of empty flattery and simply nodded indifferently.

He suddenly raised his head, looked directly at Inspector Lyon, and said:

"Inspector Lyon, I have a question I'd like to ask you."

The Lyon police chief, with a cigar in his mouth and squinting, asked, "What's the problem?"

Lin Hui raised his hand and pointed to the depths of the cemetery not far away, where the crosses were arranged in a neat and orderly fashion.

"In this cemetery, what exactly is buried in each and every grave?"

These words were spoken.

Chen Ye, Song Shan, and the trio from South Korea were all taken aback.

What else could be buried in a cemetery? Corpses, of course! What's so interesting to ask?

however.

Karl, who had been flattering her, froze instantly with a smile.

The expression on Inspector Lyon's face also froze for a moment.

He took a deep drag on his cigar until the end was glowing red before slowly exhaling a long puff of smoke.

"call……"

"You're really smart; you guessed it so quickly."

"What did you guess?" Chen Ye and Song Shan were completely confused, feeling like outsiders.

Xia Yun, Park Chang, and Park Ke all perked up their ears, their intuition telling them that what Sheriff Lyon was about to say might involve the most crucial secret of this instance.

Inspector Lyon extinguished his cigar and then put it back into the tin box.

Then, he raised his head, looked around at everyone, and slowly began to speak:

"You are not ordinary players, and you have witnessed the terror of the tree spirit. Since that's the case, I might as well tell you."

He paused, his gaze fixed on the distant wall of mist, as if piercing through the thick gray fog to see something terrifying.

"In the misty town, death... is not the end."

"Everyone will eventually become a demon. Even if they were not infected by demons in life, even if they died of old age or disease... after death, their bodies will mutate, become demonized, and then return to the mist."

Lyon's voice echoed through the empty cemetery, sending chills down one's spine:

"And I have to tell you a despairing truth."

"Demons...cannot be killed!"

"Even if you blow them to pieces right now, even if I blast their heads off, they'll reform and reappear the next night when the fog descends!"

"Those graves in the cemetery might have bodies buried during the day, but at night... they're all empty!"

boom!

These words struck like a thunderbolt, exploding in everyone's minds.

Chen Ye couldn't help but exclaim, "Then...doesn't that mean the number of demons in the town will only increase? We'll never be able to kill them all?!"

"Yes!"

Inspector Lyon nodded grimly. "Fortunately, the demons only become active when the fog appears. Otherwise, the town's residents would have been slaughtered by the demon army that has accumulated over countless years."

"However, even so, every now and then, players who accidentally wander into the town, or weak-willed residents who are bewitched by demons, become treants or tree spirits, threatening the town's safety during the day!"

"That's one of the reasons our police department exists—to clean up these daytime problems."

After hearing this, everyone felt a deep chill run from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads.

This is a dead end.

They can't escape alive, and they become demons when they die. Moreover, the enemy can resurrect infinitely, while they themselves will gradually forget everything because they lack the holy fruit.

despair.

A suffocating despair.

A somber atmosphere permeated the cemetery.

Lin Hui, however, was the calmest among them. He quickly sorted through the intelligence in his mind and suddenly realized a key point.

Is the sacred tree related to tree spirits and demons?

Lin Hui asked.

After all, they are both related to trees, and the "sacred fruit" was also produced by the divine tree. With a little thought, it's hard not to connect the two.

Inspector Lyon shook his head, his expression somewhat complicated: "I've had my doubts about that too. But it seems that's not the case."

"The sacred fruit bestowed by the divine tree is our only means of fighting the curse and preserving our memories."

Ever since Lilith's mother, Evelyn, and her father, Ryan, discovered the Divine Tree's power to dispel the town's curse, we've been consuming it ever since. Without the Divine Tree, the town would have fallen long ago.

Are they Lilith's parents again?

Lin Hui keenly noticed this frequently occurring word.

He discovered that to unravel all the mysteries of the town and find its "exit," he seemed to have to go through Lilith's parents—the first administrators of this misty town.

Lin Hui stared intently at Leon and pressed, "Could you tell me how Lilith's parents turned into demons?"

Logically speaking, how could a powerful figure like Evelyn, who could physically fight a level 7 monster, easily turn into a demon?

Inspector Lyon seemed to be caught up in some painful memory.

He took off his hat, revealing slightly graying temples, and sighed:

"That was one night ten years ago."

"Lane and Evelyn—Lilith's father and mother—made a crazy decision after the fog descended at 7 p.m.

"They opened the gate themselves and rushed into the fog!"

To deliberately enter the fog?!

Everyone was shocked. This was tantamount to suicide!

"That night, an unprecedented battle erupted in the town." Leon's voice trembled slightly. "No one knows what happened in the mist, only the roars that lasted all night."

Finally, just as dawn was breaking, they seemed to have discovered something and retreated back into the house.

At this point, a look of fear appeared in Leon's eyes.

"The next morning, Sheriff Ryan called a meeting with all officers and said he wanted to announce something big about the truth behind the fog."

"But……"

"Just halfway through the meeting, without any warning or the encroachment of the fog..."

"Ryan and Evelyn, right before everyone's eyes, suddenly began to turn into wood, transforming into demons!"

"That's strange, isn't it?"

"It was daytime, and there was no contact with the mist, yet they were still mutated."

"Later we speculated that it might be because the two were too powerful, or that they touched some kind of taboo deep in the mist, causing the curse to erupt within them, allowing them to mutate even without the mist."

Lin Hui frowned and asked, "And then? How did you drive them away?"

Since he had become a demon, and a powerful one at that, capable of fighting against 7th-tier beings, how could the police force at the time possibly defeat him?

Inspector Lyon pondered for a moment, a hint of confusion flashing in his eyes.

He clutched his forehead in pain, his voice becoming uncertain: "I...I don't remember."

"That battle was too brutal; all the police force's elite officers were killed. When I woke up, all I saw were corpses and ruins everywhere."

"My best brother told me before he died, that Sheriff Lane and Evelyn... escaped into the Wall of Mist."

Lin Hui keenly noticed the flaw in Lyon's words.

Can not remember?

How could someone forget such a crucial battle?

This is suspicious in itself.

At this time.

Song Shan, scratching his head, interjected, "Um... I have an idea. Do you guys think there's a possibility?"

"Becoming a demon is actually the way to leave Misty Town, right? Have Lilith's parents already successfully escaped Misty Town?"

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