Seeing these scenes, cold sweat began to break out on Beyond's face.
As a battle-hardened adventurer, he was well aware of what these signs from the animals meant.
A terrible disaster was about to arrive!!!
Beyond swallowed hard.
"Run!"
With just one word, and without any further explanation, he turned around and walked away into the distance.
Pariston followed him immediately, but the others who followed Beyond hesitated slightly.
But they also kept silent and quietly left.
Just as Beyond had walked less than fifty meters, suddenly, behind him, a chilling wind suddenly swept over.
"Ah!!!"
A shocking scream rang out.
The sound echoed over the Lake of Life.
This scream seemed to be the opening movement of a symphony of hell.
The next moment! One after another, a series of screams rang out in unison.
Beyond couldn't help but stop and look back.
But what he saw was a horrifying scene.
The wind had stopped! The smoke that had been moving against the wind instantly enveloped those who were closest to the lake.
Those who touched the smoke almost instantly experienced violent changes in their blood vessels.
The blood flowing in their blood vessels turned black in an instant.
Black, sticky liquid began to flow from their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, the seven orifices of the body.
It emitted a putrid odor.
In just an instant, a person who had been perfectly fine just a second ago was transformed into a grotesque, inhuman figure.
However, those who had turned into this form didn't seem to have completely lost their minds.
The unknown pain made them let out incredibly miserable cries.
The first victim grabbed their own head and tore at it frantically.
Finally, they ripped out their own tongue.
Then! They fell to the ground and died!
After witnessing a living person go from being exposed to the smoke to dying,
Beyond was stunned.
Even Beyond, who had seen so much, couldn't figure out why this person had died like this.
What had happened to their body? What changes had occurred? Why did they tear out their own tongue?
However, at the same time, Pariston saw something different.
That person had directly gouged out their own eyes, but they still died.
These people were mutilating themselves frantically, and their expressions were terrifying.
This terrifying scene was completely like a living hell.
The unknown horror was what truly made people feel terrified.
Those who hadn't been enveloped by the smoke began to flee frantically.
At this moment, it wasn't just the people who had been enveloped by the purplish-black smoke who had become scary.
Those who were desperately trying to escape were truly terrifying.
Pushing someone down would cause the smoke, which seemed to have a will of its own, to give up chasing them and choose to envelop the person who had been pushed down and couldn't escape.
After Beyond finished speaking, he himself turned into a blur and disappeared from the spot.
This scene greatly surprised Pariston.
'That move from earlier... was Shave from the Six Styles. As expected of Beyond, he's mastered that move.'
Thinking this, Pariston then used Moonwalk to leave.
As for preventing the spread, the member of the V5 put down their wine glass and raised a hand to turn on the projector in the room.
The image that appeared on the wall was Greed Island.
"If we detect a spread, we'll strike immediately."
"As long as they're hit by the radiation, they'll completely lose the ability to move."
"The only price we'll pay is to have an island permanently plunged into nuclear radiation."
Since there were such thorough arrangements, there was no need to worry.
However, this person had clearly not considered one possibility.
Did they really understand these microorganisms? Releasing this terrifying thing onto an island full of Nen users was certainly dangerous.
Nen users were still human, but Nen gave them infinite possibilities.
Especially when someone was pushed to the brink, no one knew how much power they would unleash.
It wasn't uncommon for ordinary people to unleash their potential when in dire straits.
Let alone Nen users.
No matter how they had awakened their Nen abilities, they were destined to have willpower far beyond that of ordinary people.
It wasn't impossible for Nen users to undergo some unexpected changes.
And what if these microorganisms underwent some changes themselves after devouring Nen users, who possessed a large amount of life energy?
Things were rarely that simple.
The V5, who thought they had everything under control, didn't know that on Greed Island,
the players weren't dying as quickly as they had imagined.
The bodies of Nen users contained vast amounts of life energy.
The time it took for these microorganisms to devour a Nen user was almost a hundred times longer than it took to devour a normal person.
In their experiments, the situation of someone being completely eaten in an instant hadn't occurred.
The thousands of corpses near the Lake of Life had been devoured for several hours, but they still hadn't been completely eaten.
And at this time, the players, after escaping, first wanted to find the creator of the game.
Loki! They wanted to ask Loki what was happening on the island.
Was it also part of the game event? But before they could do anything, they suddenly discovered that they couldn't summon the Card Book properly.
The game! It seemed to have gone wrong again.
This caused the anger towards Loki to surge in the hearts of the players who had wanted to leave Greed Island.
Leaving this place was what most players wanted to do most.
Faced with something so terrifying, not many people wanted to really figure out what was going on.
They wanted to survive.
But the Card Book couldn't be summoned properly.
The cards in their hands were useless.
Those cards that could allow them to escape Greed Island were also useless.
Some players were complaining, but the players who were burning with the desire to survive discovered that the cards should still be usable.
Since the Card Book couldn't be summoned, they could just go and get the cards they wanted and use them directly.
Large numbers of players surged towards the port.
However, after losing cards like Magnetism and Accompany, they would need to run for a while to reach the port.
During this time, the island's barrier in the sky suddenly changed.
The barrier, which would automatically hide when it wasn't being attacked, suddenly lit up.
And the light seemed to have become somewhat different.
Circles of strange patterns appeared on the barrier.
It looked! It looked just like a giant cage.
The players looked at the suddenly brightened cage.
A bad premonition rose in their hearts.
The Card Book's function could be used normally again.
But when the players took out their cards to leave Greed Island, they discovered that the descriptions on the cards had changed.
On Floating Island, Loki, covered in sweat, sat cross-legged on the ground, supporting his body with his hands behind him.
"Completely closing the exits is impossible."
Loki had spent a lot of effort but couldn't completely erase the ways to leave the island.
Because it involved the fundamental rules designed by Ging.
If he erased them, the entire game might crash.
Of course, if he made a major overhaul, he could still do it.
But Loki didn't have that much time.
Because he had wasted too much time modifying the cards, he didn't have enough time left.
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