My physics masters couldn't possibly be grand mages.

It wasn't because they had reached their destination, but because their path was blocked.

One family car after another was mixed together, all seemingly intending to drive out, but all stopping for some reason.

Under the lights, the scene before them made everyone in the car hold their breath.

Dead body.

Almost everything in sight was a corpse, piled up in front of the vehicles.

Their postures were all different, but judging from their figures, they were basically all trying to escape but failed.

The body's skin was charred, with burn-like marks and signs of corrosion, and its eyes were white.

But none of them were in a struggling or pleading-for-help posture; they seemed to have lost their lives in an instant.

An eerie silence descended upon the tunnel, a gentle breeze whistling through it, as if something were sighing at the tunnel's end.

An inexplicable chill enveloped the group of people in the car.

"Do you have any other way to get down?" Xia asked.

Su Ming's expression was rather unpleasant; he clearly hadn't expected so many cars to be stuck here.

They were outside when the incident happened and hadn't even gone inside the base.

Because Lao Zhou lived on a floor close to the ground, he ran relatively fast and was unaware of what was happening behind him.

"We'll have to walk down," Su Ming said.

Char didn't speak.

Something's coming.

At this moment, Cindy, who had been on the roof of the car, suddenly spoke. She stared quietly ahead, her expression unchanged, but it was clear that she was looking at something.

Su Ming turned the headlights up to their brightest setting, the beams cutting through the darkness of the tunnel and illuminating the jammed traffic ahead. Nothing there.

There were only cars, corpses, and the impenetrable darkness at the end of the tunnel.

Char leaned over the driver's seat, trying hard to see the distant view through the windshield.

The entire vehicle actually has no glass; it's all composite armor. The reason it feels like there's a windshield inside is because of holographic projection.

He noticed that frost was gradually forming on some of the walls, and even on the light bulbs above, and then...

"Bang!"

The light bulb made a shattering sound, and many fragments fell to the ground.

The display screen in front of me showed that the outside temperature was dropping rapidly.

20°, 19°, 16°........

They can easily guess what it is.

It was the very ghost that Old Zhou had mentioned, the one that caused the complete annihilation of 300,000 people in the entire base...

The greatest terror in the world is the "unknown".

Although they were sitting in the car, the bizarre scene before them still made them subconsciously swallow.

"Are there other methods to detect it?" Xia asked. "Infrared? Thermal imaging? Or some other kind of radar?"

"I've tried everything." Old Zhou shook his head. "It's no use, I can't see it."

Cindy raised her hand, and a dozen drops of blood flew out. It seemed to have hit something, and the blood spread out, gradually outlining some distorted contours.

Some things were attached to the walls, some to the roofs of the cars, and some were crawling along the driveway, as if forming a kind of encirclement.

However, the blood quickly froze, leaving Cindy's control, and fell to the ground, shattering into ice crystals.

The temperature around them was still dropping, so Su Ming couldn't help but turn on the car's heater.

The heater made a soft whooshing sound, temporarily dispelling the chill from their bodies.

Cindy also made a move; the bloodshot color in her scarlet eyes gradually faded, and pupils actually appeared.

She does have pupils, but they are also red, covered by the red of the whites of her eyes.

Then, her pupils suddenly contracted.

Centered on her, like a pebble thrown into a deep pool, an invisible, unknown energy spreads out, crashing into those things like a wave.

The faint sound of some kind of ice crystal freezing seemed to stop at that moment.

The tunnel fell silent.

But from Cindy's perspective, those things did not disintegrate, but rather retained a certain form.

They even resumed their actions in the next moment.

The thing at the very front tilted its head.

It's as if they're asking, "Is that all?"

Cindy finally frowned, and then said.

"It's not a spirit."

Xia was taken aback, then asked, "What is that?"

"I don't know," Cindy said honestly. "Theoretically, my mental attack should be able to directly sever the connection between its consciousness and soul. But it has no effect on them."

She paused, then continued, "It's a kind of 'weapon,' and someone is manipulating it behind the scenes, but... we don't know who it is. We also don't know what methods they're using."

The monster at the front made a move, charging towards Cindy, who raised her hand.

"Sizzle—"

Lightning bolted from her hand, somewhat resembling a lightning hand unleashing a greater magical output.

In Char's vision, the lightning bolts outlined a human figure in the air, and then twitched slightly.

However, soon after Cindy stopped channeling her magic, he felt something fall to the ground.

"Electricity has some effect on them," Cindy deduced. "Higher-level lightning or light magic should be able to deal with these things."

"Can't you do it?"

"I used to," Cindy said. "I am the strongest Holy Light mage in Vilvia."

"Then you..." Xia Ya stopped mid-sentence, remembering that Cindy had made a pact with a demon, so she could no longer use holy light magic.

Judging from the timeline, she should have been sealed away right after signing the contract with the demon, and then sent to this world as soon as she was unsealed, without having time to construct any other new forms.

"So what should we do now?"

"Run," Cindy said calmly.

Xia frowned slightly, unsure whether Cindy was doing it on purpose or if there was truly no other way, as she claimed.

"Bang!"

They could feel something fall from above and then rush towards Cindira above.

Su Ming quickly switched the camera feed from the roof of the car to the windshield.

The thing seemed to be heading straight for Cindy.

Then Cindy transformed into a cloud of black mist and retreated rapidly.

The black mist seeped out through the crack in the door and disappeared.

The entire corridor fell silent, and the outside world, as transmitted by the cameras, remained completely still.

But at this moment, both Xia Ya and the others in the car felt an inexplicable chill gradually enveloping them.

Everyone clearly recognizes one thing...

They were surrounded.

"What should we do now?" Fang Tang asked, her voice trembling slightly.

"Let's wait until dawn," Su Ming said. "Once it's light, Lin Yuan will be there, and then we'll go out."

Char didn't speak.

"boom!"

The whole car felt like it had been hit hard by a speeding car.

The tire lifted slightly and then fell back down, causing Fangtang's head to hit the car window frame, and everything went black.

Then came the second impact.

"boom!"

This time the impact was much stronger, and the collision occurred from the front.

The car suddenly reversed several meters.

A dent appeared on the holographic projection screen in front of me.

This wasn't a problem with the holographic projection; rather, the armored vehicle's system display casing was damaged.

Many people in the car were seeing stars from the impact.

"no."

Lin Guodong clutched his head, which was still spinning from the impact.

"We'll all die here!"

"But we'll die even if we run away!" Su Ming rejected the idea.

He subconsciously looked at Char behind him, hoping he could give him some advice.

Xia Ya pulled out a computer from somewhere and asked Su Ming, "Can you send me the car's video recording?"

Su Ming was taken aback, but he reacted quickly. He swiftly pulled up the recording on the screen and sent it to Xia Ya.

Char also left this world the moment he received the recording, returning to the magical world.