Excessive ferocity due to caution

The moment they saw the ghost tide, everyone in the car and the viewers in the live stream were utterly shocked!

Through the car window, the overwhelming array of vengeful ghosts, each with its own unique form, created an indescribable visual impact!

Thankfully, the soundproofing of the bus windows was quite good, which greatly reduced the ghostly howls that could make people lose their minds.

Inside the car, everyone except Zhao Yi was trying to take deep breaths.

They must learn to relax, otherwise their sanity will drop too quickly, and they might not even survive until the ghost tide ends!

There seemed to be a mysterious force protecting the ghost bus.

Faced with the surging tide of ghosts like a raging storm, the ghost bus was neither overturned nor directly crushed like the surrounding hills of earth and stone...

In the tide of ghosts, it was as small as a small boat on the sea, yet it stayed in place steadily.

Some evil spirits also crashed into the ghost bus, but apart from leaving a pool of flesh and blood on the ghost bus, they did not cause any damage to it.

Watching these vengeful ghosts flee frantically, the people in the car felt rather heavy-hearted.

Through the thin car window, they could clearly sense that there were many powerful vengeful spirits (infected people) in the ghost tide outside!

Although they are somewhat weaker than Sudi, their numbers are enormous, numbering in the tens of thousands...

What exactly happened in the east?

How could such a fierce ghost be so frightened that it fled in a frenzy?

Wang Chui looked eastward through the car window, his eyes filled with sorrow.

Pulse City is just to the east.

That was a major city in the Federation of Humans!

Whether it's population, the number of super soldiers, or military technology, that place is far more powerful than the city!

But seeing the terrified expressions of countless vengeful ghosts amidst the horde, Wang Chui found it hard to imagine what kind of bizarre existence had appeared in the forbidden zone to the east...

Could it be a level 4 infected?

Or perhaps... an even more terrifying 'source of infection' has emerged within the Black Disaster?

The ghost bus moved very slowly through the ghost tide, and Sudi's figure did not reappear during this time.

An hour passed.

The momentum of the ghost tide has diminished.

The number of infected ghosts fleeing outside is decreasing, and the next bus stop can be seen ahead.

Zhao stood up.

Wang Chui said:

"Zhao Yi, what are you doing?"

Zhao Yi replied:

"I want to get off the bus."

Wang Chui checked the time:

"No rush!"

"There are still three hours until six in the morning."

Zhao Yi:

"Ha, I get carsick!"

Wang Chui squinted.

"Next time you make up an excuse, could you please put a little more effort into it?"

"I don't know what you're planning, but getting off now might mean running into Sudi who's chasing after you. And then... nobody can save you!"

Zi—

The bus has arrived at the station.

Zhao Yi stood at the back door, looking at the group of people who wanted to leave with him, and said:

"If you don't want to die, you'd better not follow me."

"I'll come find you later."

After he finished speaking, he got out of the car and walked into the fog.

Luo Qili and Li Liangchao looked at each other, and in the end, they chose to listen to Zhao Yi.

Firstly, they felt that Zhao Yi wouldn't harm them.

Secondly, they no longer have torches to dispel the fog.

Once they enter the fog, even if there are no ghosts inside, their sanity will continue to decrease.

Following Zhao Yi at this point would be tantamount to suicide.

The ghost bus drove away again, and the aura emanating from Zhao Yi, who got off the bus, gradually changed.

The appearance of black tattoos signifies the merging of the darkest personality with oneself.

With the boost from various titles and the power of his darkest personality, Zhao Yi's power level began to skyrocket...

"Huh..."

In the mist, a huge, blood-stained cleaver suddenly cleaved through the fog and slashed straight at Zhao Yi from behind!

As if he had eyes in the back of his head, the latter dodged to the side, and the scalpel in his hand suddenly flew into the back of the huge kitchen knife!

But it missed.

Zhao Yi retrieved his soul weapon, watching the enormous cleaver in front of him slowly disappear into the mist, lost in thought.

The kitchen knife, and the bloody hand that had previously tried to drag Li Liangchao into the fog... were not real ghosts or monsters.

Rather, it is a curse-like power that is formed by clinging to some kind of rule.

Approaching uninfected individuals within the mist will inflict a curse, making them vulnerable to attack!

Zhao Yi identified a direction and quickly ran back the way he came!

Before long, he found some infected people who had not yet left.

Upon seeing Zhao Yi, it immediately pounced on him like a whirlwind!

puff!

In an instant, the scalpel in Zhao Yi's hand transformed into a sword that could slay a demon, severing the head of the vengeful ghost!

As for the vengeful ghost's claws piercing his chest... Zhao Yi didn't care.

The wound is healing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

With a thought, Zhao Yi's sister-slaying knife transformed back into a scalpel.

The blade flashed.

The still twitching ghost was instantly split into eight pieces.

"Why are you running away...?"

Zhao Yi muttered to himself as he began dissecting the headless but not completely dead ghost...

soon.

The vengeful ghost is completely dead.

Everything it saw before its death replayed in Zhao Yi's mind.

Zhao Yi discovered the reason why these ghosts had fled—

In an area about a hundred miles to the east, the Black Disaster underwent a severe transformation.

The concentration of its contaminant particles has reached a level that even these second-tier infected individuals cannot withstand!

So in order to survive, they had to begin large-scale migrations.

In addition, a certain peculiar behavior of this vengeful ghost during its lifetime caught Zhao Yi's attention.

It never approaches Pulse City.

Not just that.

Almost none of the ghosts this vengeful spirit encountered in the years before its death ever approached Pulse City.

This includes third-order infected individuals.

"The higher-ranking infected possess considerable intelligence, and their reluctance to approach Pulse City proves that Pulse City must instill fear in them..."

"Logically speaking, the Human Federation should be the weaker party..."

Zhao Yi stroked his chin.

"Is the military strength of Pulse City that strong...?"

Or perhaps...

P.S.: My stomach is still very uncomfortable today.

Try to stay up until the third watch of the night.

To the best of one's ability.