The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

Su Mu suddenly opened his eyes and grabbed the spear that was beside him.

What happened?

He walked to the window and looked outside. The thick fog persisted, obscuring everything. But the cable car was indeed motionless... The steady, consistent movement it had been experiencing earlier was completely gone; the entire cabin seemed to be nailed to mid-air, utterly still.

Su Mu frowned and opened the chat channel.

The news has caused a sensation.

"Holy crap! Why is the cable car stopped?!"

"My connection has stopped too! I can't move it!"

"What's going on? Does anyone know?"

"Is there a problem with the system?"

"Oh no, oh no, we're stuck in mid-air, and there are monsters all below us, what do we do?"

"Calm down! Everyone, calm down! Let's figure out what happened first!"

No one knew what had happened. There were no announcements, no warnings, no system messages. The cable car simply stopped without warning, like an elevator whose power had been cut off, suspended motionless in mid-air.

Su Mu stared at the channel for a long time, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

His first thought was... should he try using fuel to power the cable car? If he was the only one who could move, then he would be the only one who could move freely. That advantage would be enormous.

But the next second, he dismissed the idea.

The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

In a situation where no one knows what's happening, the first person to move becomes the most conspicuous target. If there's any danger, he'll be the first to be hit. He doesn't want to be the first to stick his neck out.

Moreover, why did the cable car stop? Was it a system malfunction? Was it the power of some kind of monster? Or was it the rule of this world itself? Before figuring out the reason, acting rashly will only expose oneself to danger.

Su Mu placed the spear on his knees, leaned against the wall, and stared at the thick fog outside the window.

The cable car has stopped.

Everyone was trapped in mid-air, with monsters below, thick fog above, and endless cables on the left and right.

Today is destined to be anything but peaceful.

.....

Night has fallen.

At this moment, Su Mu was not asleep.

Leaning against the wall, pistol in hand, his gaze shifted back and forth between the thick fog outside the window and the news feed.

The kerosene lamps were not lit, and the only light in the cable car was the faint blue glow from the control screen, which illuminated his face in a half-light, half-shadow.

The messages in the channel are scrolling by very quickly, but the content is mostly the same...

Does anyone know why it stopped?

"My side has stopped too, I can't move at all."

"Could it be a malfunction?"

"A malfunction? This isn't a computer, it doesn't just malfunction like that!"

"Has anyone seen anything? It's pitch black here, I can't see anything."

"Me too, it's all foggy outside, I can't even see the cable car next to us."

Su Mu read through the entries one by one but found no valuable information.

No one knows why the cable car stopped, no one knows how long it will be stopped, and no one even knows whether this is a normal occurrence or if there is some problem.

Until a message made him stop typing.

"Did you guys notice... there seems to be a city up ahead? When the cable car stopped, I happened to glance into the distance, and I could vaguely see a large outline in the fog, like tall buildings, but I couldn't make it out very clearly."

After the message was posted, the channel was quiet for a moment, and then it exploded with discussion.

"City? What city?"

"I saw it too! It's right in front of us. The fog is so thick that all I can see is a huge, dark mass, but the outline definitely looks like a cluster of buildings."

"Why did you stop here of all the towns we've passed through before?"

"Could it be... intentional? To make us land here?"

"Landing my ass! Going down there to your death in the middle of the night?"

"Then why stop here?"

No one can answer this question.

The discussion in the channel shifted from "Why did it stop?" to "What will happen?", and the atmosphere became increasingly tense.

Some people began to recall the terrifying experience of the first night, some speculated whether something even more terrifying would appear tonight, and some had already started making their final arrangements in the channel.

Su Mu turned off the channel, walked to the window, and tried to look ahead through the thick fog.

I can't see anything clearly.

His dynamic vision talent allows him to see fast-moving objects during the day, but at night, in the face of dense fog, this ability is useless.

He needed light, he needed to dispel this damn fog, so he could see what was around him.

He needs fog lights.

However, making fog lights requires 10 Mystic Crystals, and he only has a few that he had saved up before, which is far from enough.

What's more troublesome is that so far tonight, no monsters have attacked his cable car. The quiver is quiet, the animal traps haven't been triggered, and the surroundings are as silent as a dead zone.

Without monsters, there are no Mysterious Crystals.

Without the ghost crystal, there are no fog lights. Without fog lights, he can only remain like he is now, unable to see or know anything.

Su Mu took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

There's no use in rushing.

and so on.

He sat back down, turned on the channel, and continued to follow the news.

About ten minutes later, a message made him sit up abruptly.

"Look ahead! Isn't there a light? I can vaguely see a red dot over here, it looks like it's burning!"

Su Mu immediately walked to the window and looked ahead.

Deep within the dense fog, there was indeed an extremely faint bright spot.

It was dark red, appearing and disappearing in the thick black fog, like a ember about to go out. Unless you looked closely, you wouldn't notice it at all.

Someone set fire inside the cable car.

No, it wasn't a lamp... An oil lamp wouldn't emit this color of light, nor would it make the flame stand out so much in the thick fog. That was a real, burning flame; something was burning.

Su Mu stared at the red dot for a few seconds, then opened the channel.

Sure enough, more people noticed.

"I see it! It's up ahead, about a few dozen parking spaces away, there's a flame!"

"I saw it too! What's that? Is the cable car on fire?"

"No way? How could the cable car catch fire? Who would start a fire inside the cable car?"

"It's not lighting a fire... Listen, can you hear any sound?"

There was a few seconds of silence on the channel.

Then a person named "Liu Yang" sent a message, his voice visibly trembling: "I'm near that location. I... I can hear sounds. Fighting sounds, very loud, and the sound of things hitting metal. There are at least three people fighting inside that cable car."

The channel went silent instantly.

Sounds of fighting. Three different sounds.

Only one person can own the cable car; everyone else is invited in.

Zhou Zhenguo.

The name flashed through Su Mu's mind instantly.