After eating a very unpleasant dinner.

Chen Ye sat cross-legged inside the newly built shelter.

The daylight had completely vanished.

Surrounding him was an ink-like darkness.

Only the area around the Monster Pickup Truck had some light.

To save electricity, Chen Ye had only turned on one of the auxiliary lights.

He sat cross-legged, cultivating the Moon Devouring Technique.

Due to the absence of moonlight, the gains from cultivating the Moon Devouring Technique were now very minimal.

But Chen Ye still persisted diligently every night.

Once the current situation improved a bit, Chen Ye planned to upgrade the Moon Devouring Technique.

By then, advancing to Sequence 4 would also be much faster.

He just didn't know what the sequence name for Sequence 4 actually was.

Time passed second by second.

Every second carried a faint scent of blood.

Although he didn't know how Chu Che knew that there would be Anomaly Tides every day from 0:00 to 0:30 for those thirty minutes.

Chen Ye didn't think Chu Che was talking nonsense.

Although Chu Che was a bit sleazy, he rarely dropped the ball on critical issues.

At 11:55.

Chen Ye opened his eyes.

He fished out a Ta cigarette from his pocket.

He lit the Ta cigarette, the weak flame illuminating the side of Chen Ye's face, his blood-colored pupils appearing particularly horrifying in the night.

He exhaled a puff of smoke.

The thick smoke quickly filled the entire temporary shelter.

It even seeped out from the gaps around the shelter's door.

That wasn't enough; the smoke continued to spread.

It completely enveloped the entire shelter and formed a dense misty jungle all around the shelter.

Not only that.

Chen Ye also activated his simulation ability.

Using the smoke, he formed a hard mist shell around the entire periphery of the fog.

This mist shell was like a large bowl turned upside down and placed over the area.

This simulation had no specific target to mimic.

Calling it simulation wasn't quite accurate.

It was just Chen Ye using his Supernatural Power to force the smoke into a pseudo-solid state.

Even then, Chen Ye still didn't feel it was safe enough.

He directly thickened this inverted bowl once more.

It could be said that apart from the shelter being hollow, everywhere else was a solid mass formed by the mist.

Of course, Chen Ye didn't expect this mist shell to block those Door-Opening Anomalies.

Everything he did was just an attempt.

The first sentence Captain Chu wrote in the captain's notebook was: never use experience to deal with Anomalies.

Otherwise, you are not far from death.

When dealing with Anomalies, no amount of caution is ever enough.

Suddenly, Chen Ye felt something.

He saw that another line of Glowing Characters seemed to have appeared next to the shelter.

Chen Ye patted the truck's rear.

A tentacle extended out. Chen Ye stood on the tentacle, which directly carried him to the side of the Glowing Characters.

The smoke shell opened a passageway all the way.

Fortunately, when building the shelter earlier, Chen Ye had specifically built it next to the Glowing Characters.

The purpose was to receive Squad Leader Chu's messages at any time.

Soon, Chen Ye saw the newly appeared line of Glowing Characters.

"Do not break the rules!"

To send a message at this moment?

Had Chu Che discovered some new information?

Before Chen Ye could think more, the countdown on his Wristwatch sounded.

Midnight had arrived!!!

Chen Ye hurriedly had the tentacle carry him back.

The smoke shell healed again, as if Chen Ye had never been there.

Just as Chen Ye returned inside the shelter.

He felt something and looked outside the smoke shell.

His blood-colored gaze, like nails, pierced through the gaps in the shelter's door, shooting straight outside.

Outside the mist shell formed by the smoke, a figure roughly only seventy to eighty centimeters tall was staring intently at the mist formed by the smoke.

Those expressionless eyes weren't looking at Chen Ye, nor at the shelter.

They were fixed precisely on the mist shell before it.

It seemed the Smoke Breath Mist had isolated Chen Ye's living human aura; it couldn't find its target.

Chen Ye also watched this figure nervously.

The Smoke Breath Mist shell was only the first step.

He was conducting an experiment, to see what they would do if there was no door?

In the blink of an eye.

Chen Ye saw many figures of varying heights appear outside the smoke shell.

They were those Door-Opening Anomalies that had appeared yesterday.

In just the blink of an eye, the short figure that had appeared first had already vanished into the "sea" of Door-Opening Anomalies.

So many Door-Opening Anomalies!

Far, far more than yesterday!

Although they hadn't started attacking yet.

Chen Ye already felt an immense sense of pressure.

The twelve minutes also began their countdown.

Every second seemed prolonged in Chen Ye's eyes.

Even before the attack began, Chen Ye felt a pressure far more terrifying than yesterday's.

Until the area outside the smoke shell was filled with those expressionless, anomalous human figures.

These figures did not launch an attack; they just stood there dumbly.

It seemed because there was no door, these anomalous figures didn't know how to initiate an attack, and they also lacked a target to attack.

They seemed quite bewildered.

Would they just stand there like this forever?

If they were to stand there forever, that would be fine too. Everyone minds their own business; that's great.

Chen Ye felt a faint glimmer of hope in his heart.

Fighting and all that, it's best not to happen.

But just then, Chen Ye noticed the eyes of these Door-Opening Anomalies changed.

Originally, those grayish-white dead eyes held no emotion, but in the next second.

The eyes of all the Door-Opening Anomalies began to fill with resentment.

As if the Smoke Breath Mist shell before them was their mortal enemy.

They moved...

They started moving...

Chen Ye saw two Door-Opening Anomalies actually begin to climb onto the Smoke Breath Mist shell.

This was behavior they had never exhibited before.

Previously, when they attacked the Monster Pickup Truck, they clearly could have attacked from the roof.

But they didn't.

This once led Chen Ye to believe they had a rule against attacking from above.

But now...

Their rules seemed to have changed.

With the first two Door-Opening Anomalies setting the example.

The other Door-Opening Anomalies began to imitate them, starting to climb onto the shell of the smoke mist.

One minute later.

Earlier, they had only surrounded the smoke mist.

But now...

Chen Ye could feel that the shell of that smoke mist was crawling with Door-Opening Anomalies.

And more and more were coming.

After these Door-Opening Anomalies climbed onto the smoke mist shell, they began using every possible method to attack the shell formed by the smoke mist.

Hands, teeth, arms, knees...

Any method that could increase their attack power, they were using it.

At first, Chen Ye felt a pang of nervousness.

But seeing their attacks weren't causing any damage to the smoke mist shell, he relaxed. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Thinking today's attack would end here.

But the next second, Chen Ye's expression turned very ugly.

Because, one of the Door-Opening Anomalies began to be wreathed in black resentment.

This black resentment intensified with each of their attacks.

Gradually, almost all the Door-Opening Anomalies began to be shrouded in black energy.

This black energy began to erode the smoke mist.

The previously seemingly indestructible smoke mist shell was, in the blink of an eye, eroded by this black energy into large black pits.

Chen Ye understood.

His own desperate actions had caused the mutation of the Door-Opening Anomalies.

Chen Ye suddenly understood the meaning of Chu Che's words.

"Do not break the rules!" That's what it meant!