This actor is full of tricks.

Is there a black fog?
Lin Jue had entered the fog before, and all the fog he saw was white, including the fog that invaded the world.

He had never seen black fog before.

"Could it be that there is a dense fog area over there?" He thought of a possibility.

"That should be right. Although I've never seen a thick fog area, that black fog was filled with unimaginable resentment. It made me suspect that it wasn't fog at all, but resentment that had taken form and condensed into something."

"Just one glance brought my mind, which had barely recovered, to the brink of collapse again."

Li Changming's tone was calm, but his slightly trembling eyes revealed that he was not as calm as he appeared on the surface.

"It's like countless demons from hell whispering in your ears. The mental impact is unforgettable. It's like your entire brain is being torn apart by invisible hands. At that moment, your brain is split into pieces, and countless pieces of information are frantically pouring out of each piece."

"If I had to use a metaphor, I could imagine the human brain as a sophisticated computer that is suddenly crammed with trillions of bits of information in just a few tenths of a second."

He described it in great detail, perhaps with some exaggeration, but this did not affect Lin Jue's imagination of the terrifying mental shock.

I don't know if [No Taboos] can withstand it.

"Then what? Did you see anything else?" Lin Jue couldn't wait to understand the foggy area.

"The black mist seemed to be blocked by something. I saw that the mist seemed to want to get out, but it seemed to hit a transparent cover and was bounced back."

There is no doubt that the "transparent cover" that Li Changming mentioned is the lock. The lock blocks the entire foggy area and locks up the things inside.

"I was constantly on guard in my heart, my mind telling me to leave quickly, but it was as if a mysterious force was pulling me closer to the black fog."

"As the distance grew closer, I truly felt like I had stepped into a mythical hell. The cold resentment seeped into my bones, and every drop of blood and every inch of flesh seemed to be frozen."

After saying this, Li Changming shuddered unconsciously: "Through the black fog, I saw what was hidden inside. Strange and inexplicable things stood there, staring at me with sinister eyes."

"At that moment, I seemed to forget everything. All my joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness disappeared. Only fear remained. The purest fear, an uncontrollable fear that surged like a vast ocean."

Li Changming mentioned three fears in a row, and they were progressively increasing. He must have been really scared at that time.

"I heard the things inside calling me. They wanted to trick me into getting closer to the black fog."

"My strong desire to survive helped me break free from that fear, and before I knew it, I found myself less than a meter away from the black fog."

"I saw something approaching. I couldn't see its appearance clearly, but I could sense it was at the edge of the black fog. It felt like a perverted stalker suddenly pressed their face against your window, their features distorted and deformed from the pressure, staring at you viciously."

"He began to speak, as if he were searching for something, and he kept saying, 'Where's the gap? Where's the gap?' Then he said, 'I've found it!'"

Li Changming's body began to tremble as he spoke. He recalled what happened at the beginning. It seemed that the person standing in front of him now was not Lin Jue, but the thing in the black fog.

"I saw a hand reaching out from the black fog. It wasn't the hand of any creature I knew. It looked more like it came from hell. Every inch of its skin was filled with malice and hatred. It was more terrifying than anything else I'd ever seen."

Wait a minute!

Since it was blocked, why could that thing still stretch out its hand?
Lin Jue suddenly realized something was amiss. Since the entire foggy area was blocked by the lock, the thing inside should not be able to reach out. But why did Li Changming describe a hand reaching out?
He thought about what 160230 had said to him before he disappeared at school.

【Find him and plug the gap】

Could it be that the other party was telling him that there was a gap in the lock in the foggy area?
And that thing was the one reaching out from the gap?

If there is a gap in the lock, could something have already escaped through the gap?

A series of speculations made Lin Jue feel a little heavy in his heart. He intuitively felt that his speculation should be correct.

He did not interrupt Li Changming and continued to listen to what he had experienced.

"I overdrew more than half of my lifespan, unleashing all my abilities to block that hand..." Li Changming's tone was bitter, with a hint of horror. "After igniting my domain and becoming a transcendent, I've always been called the strongest of my generation. Even I believe so."

"But it wasn't until I faced that hand that I finally understood what it meant to be a gnat trying to shake a tree from the bottom of a well."

"All my abilities couldn't even slow that hand down. It was completely annihilated before it even got close."

Li Changming's expression became more and more bitter. He was very capable and had successfully broken through to the fourth level. This should have been the time when he was most confident, but he encountered something in the thick fog area. Just one hand shattered all his pride and also caused him to lose more than half of his life.

"Then how did you escape?" Lin Jue asked. Under that hand, Li Changming definitely had no possibility of escape, but the other party appeared here now.

Although his body was disabled, he had grown old, and his strength had decreased, he still had his life.

"Someone saved me," Li Changming replied. "It was a young man in a hospital gown. I only saw his back. He suddenly appeared in front of me and blocked my outstretched hand."

"When the thing inside saw that person, it seemed to have encountered something terrifying and immediately retracted its hand, while saying something..."

Li Changming frowned as he recalled what was said inside.

"He said that blocking the gap would be futile, and the lock would eventually be completely opened."

Li Changming revealed a lot of information in just a few words.

Lin Jue immediately connected the person in the hospital gown with the hospital, thinking that the other person might be a patient who had escaped.

"Could this be the patient 160230 asked me to find? After all, they're trying to close the loophole, so it's very possible. But 160230 really thinks highly of me, actually letting me look for someone outside the foggy area." Lin Jue pondered in his heart, and asked at the same time: "What's next?"

"The patient told me to escape, saying something had escaped from the gap."

"Oh, by the way, he also gave me a diary and asked me to deliver it to an address. However, I experienced several fierce battles while escaping, and my body had problems and my strength decreased. When I escaped the fog, I found myself in a village."

"I've been recovering here and haven't had time to send the diary out."

(End of this chapter)