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Several association presidents exchanged opinions in private chat and quickly reached a consensus...

If any strange creatures come from that direction later, they will be an excellent opportunity to hunt them down, thanks to the protection of those monsters and the tower.

If a large number of monsters really do swarm over tonight, they only need to stay behind the tower, wait for the monsters and monsters to wear each other down, and then finish them off.

The discussion on the channel gradually shifted from panic to a tense yet expectant atmosphere.

Everyone held their breath, staring at the edge of the night sky covered in dark red light, waiting for something to appear.

Then something moved in the darkness.

It wasn't a multitude of strange creatures emerging from the darkness, but rather a human figure rising from the night.

The person strode swiftly through the air, their movements as fluid as if they were stepping on solid ground, moving rapidly at the boundary between the dark red night and the thick fog.

As he drew closer to the area illuminated by the tower's light, his face gradually became clearer... Su Mu.

The entire channel fell silent for a moment. Not because there was nothing to say, but because everyone was stunned.

"...Su Mu? How did he come from that direction?"

"Red zone? He went to the red zone alone and came back alive?"

The way he ran just now...it felt like he was floating!

"Don't talk nonsense, it's too far to see clearly. But he definitely came from the direction of the red zone."

"Holy crap... he really went into the red zone alone and came back alive?"

No one can answer those questions.

Su Mu had already rushed into the area covered by the tower's light. Behind him were countless, densely packed ghostly creatures.

......

Let's rewind ten minutes.

After Su Mu escaped from the street where a hundred ghosts roamed at night, the density of ghosts around him did not decrease, but instead increased. Those that were originally lurking in the shadows, wandering in the cracks of buildings, or sleeping in the shadows of ruins, now seemed to have been awakened by something at the same time, and began to surge out from all directions.

At first, Su Mu tried to kill a few of them with his spear, just like he had done with the mist monkey before.

But he soon discovered a problem...

Although these ghosts are not of high level, mostly below level five, their numbers are terrifying.

Fortunately, killing low-level ghosts also grants experience points, at least one point, and at most two or three points.

Normally, he would never let such an opportunity pass, but this is not a normal time.

The ghosts gathered behind him for as long as he ran.

At first there were only a few scattered ones, then dozens, then hundreds, and then thousands.

The ghostly figures seemed to be weaving a constantly tightening net behind him, surging in from both sides, from above, and from the gaps in the buildings, trying to trap him on the streets of this red zone.

Su Mu's parrying talent was triggered almost a hundred times during this period. Attacks that suddenly shot out from the mist, claws that stretched out from his feet, and shadows that slashed from the side were all blocked by that invisible shield.

Rule-based talents demonstrated their full potential in this type of area-of-effect attack...

No matter which direction the attack comes from, how concealed it is, or how unexpected it is, as long as he fails to sense it in advance, his talent will automatically take over the defense.

He sprang up from the ground as he ran, stepping onto an invisible support surface in mid-air. Each step felt like walking on air, as if he were ascending a flight of stairs.

It moved so fast that it left a blurry afterimage in the dark red night fog.

Behind him, in the night fog, tens of thousands of ghosts were surging in from the same direction...

It was densely packed, covering the entire street, the exterior walls of the buildings on both sides, and even the fog in the air.

Some of them were incredibly fast, while others were slow and cumbersome, but they all moved in the same direction, carrying dark purple currents of energy towards the same point. Su Mu could even feel the oppressive aura behind him intensifying, as if he had stirred up all the ghosts in the area.

As he rushed into the area covered by the tower's light, the ghosts behind him also surged in.

The tower's light flashed brightly the instant the ghosts touched the light membrane, and a ring of air emanated from the top of the tower, instantly evaporating the first row of ghosts into ashes.

But the tower's attacks were intermittent. In the nearly two-second gap, more ghosts surged in. Dark purple, grayish-white, and translucent figures crowded past the boundary of the light, only to be intercepted by the monsters that had already lined up around the tower's base.

The monsters that had been drawn to the tower seemed to have received some kind of unified command, and simultaneously pounced on the surging ghosts.

The minotaur swung his massive iron hammer, smashing the figures of the first row of ghosts. Goblins circled around to the weak point behind the ghosts from the side, while the enormous giants at the front spread their arms to block the dark tide that followed.

The collision between the two forces erupted simultaneously on the first defensive line around the tower base, and the shockwaves from the impact caused the ground to tremble slightly.

For those few seconds, the sky in the regular area was illuminated for a moment. In the light, you could see the ghosts and monsters tearing, colliding, shattering, and disappearing between the light of the tower and the dark purple ghostly aura. The scene was as grand as a war compressed to its extreme.

Everyone in the regular area was watching this scene.

Those survivors who had been standing on the edge of the street, on top of the ruins, and behind the windows of buildings, from their initial fear to their later shock, all crowded into a place with a clear view.

Some people saw Su Mu rush into the tower, saw the overwhelming tide of ghosts behind him, and their eyes were fixed on the figure moving quickly among the ghosts.

"Behind him... how many ghosts are there? Thousands? Tens of thousands?"

"He came all the way back from that place by himself? The Red Zone is full of these things now?"

"We said there weren't many ghosts in the red zone during the day, but they all came out at night..."

Some people tried to rush towards the battle area near the tower base, thinking of taking advantage of the chaos to finish off a few ghosts and complete the guild mission, but they were blown back by the aftershocks of the ghosts and monsters colliding with each other as soon as they got close to the edge, and they landed with only a sliver of health left.

After several people tried, the others had to stop.

For low-level players, the aftershocks of the battle were an insurmountable barrier. Beyond that barrier, Su Mu's figure moved swiftly through the horde of ghosts. Each swing of his spear took down a ghost, his movements so fluid that they seemed less like a life-or-death struggle and more like a harvest.

Everyone watched the battlefield with longing, but no one could join in.

But the main point of envy is... Su Mu killed them too easily.