As Chu Che's voice spread through the convoy.

The noise within the convoy instantly fell silent.

Even the voices over the radio went quiet.

The convoy slowly moved forward.

There were no voices, not even breathing was much quieter.

Only the sound of tires grinding against the ground and the howling wind by their ears.

The tense atmosphere grew increasingly strained with each passing moment.

Chu Che said there was a small group of Anomalies ahead.

So there definitely was.

He said they couldn't be avoided.

So they absolutely couldn't.

Because, perhaps, the situation elsewhere was even worse.

Chu Che's soft voice came through the radio again: "Everyone, turn on your headlights!"

"Without my order, no one is to attack!"

Then the radio fell completely silent.

At the same time, all the headlights came on.

Basically, every light that could be turned on was on.

Even flashlights inside the vehicles were held by the survivors.

Not all Anomalies were afraid of light.

It was just that, under the Eternal Night, some Anomalies despised light immensely.

There had been instances before where Anomalies attacked living people despite the presence of light.

There were even Anomalies that could launch attacks on living people under direct sunlight.

But…

The situation under the Eternal Night was different.

Maybe it was because of the prolonged Eternal Night that the Anomalies roaming within it had grown to despise light.

Of course, it was only disgust, not enough to kill them.

And that was only a trait of some Anomalies.

Otherwise, cities wouldn't have become Uninhabited Forbidden Zones.

Just as Chu Che finished speaking.

Through the protective netting on the window, Chen Ye saw a person with a bizarre smile on their face walking straight toward the convoy.

This creature with the eerie smile grinned in a very strange way.

The skin on their face was pale, and their head and body were covered in dirt.

It looked like they had just crawled out from underground.

The skin on their face was as pale as sheets of paper.

Not only that, the smile on their face looked… like a fake person.

That smile reminded Chen Ye of the Pseudo-humans in Oasis.

Those Pseudo-humans smiled just like that.

As they got closer, Chen Ye realized that the smile on this person's face wasn't a stiff expression caused by muscle movement.

Instead, someone had stitched a smile onto their face with a needle and thread.

That smile looked particularly… pieced together.

Not only that, Chen Ye saw several more stiff figures emerge from the darkness.

Their faces were stitched into various expressions with needle and thread.

Some wore a bitter expression.

Others had a smile.

And there were faces whose expressions couldn't be described with existing language.

They looked like a child's careless doodle.

Just as one of these stiff figures approached a tour bus.

Screams erupted from inside.

Suddenly, a beam of light shot out from the vehicle.

The stiff figure froze instantly, standing motionless in place.

It wasn't just that bus being approached by these stiff figures.

The same was happening to Chen Ye.

Two stiff figures, about seventy centimeters tall, were approaching him.

But the Monster Pickup Truck had already upgraded its lighting system.

The entire vehicle was surrounded by illumination lights.

The moment these two figures were exposed to the light, they froze instantly, not moving a muscle.

It was like the children's game of "One, Two, Three, Wooden Figures."

Chen Ye noticed the lights flicker slightly.

He glanced at the vehicle's power display.

In just that short time, the vehicle's battery had actually dropped by one full bar.

This… the power consumption was way too fast.

What the hell…

The current charging efficiency was fifteen percent, so it was almost "dawn."

But if the power was draining like this, with only twelve degrees of battery reserve, it definitely wouldn't be enough.

Chen Ye cursed his bad luck.

Although he didn't know how much combat power these Anomalies had.

Fighting them obviously wouldn't be a pleasant experience.

The convoy slowly moved forward.

More and more of those stiff figures surrounded them.

On the vehicles without windows, the survivors watched in terror as the numbers grew.

So far, thanks to the lights, these creatures just froze when exposed to the light.

But the vehicle's power was also being consumed at an alarming rate.

Chen Ye wasn't the only one facing this.

Everyone was dealing with the same problem.

As the convoy advanced.

Chen Ye's pupils contracted sharply.

First, the vehicle's battery reserve was depleting at an incredibly fast rate.

Second, within the range of the lights, Chen Ye saw—

Rows upon rows of graves overgrown with withered grass.

These graves were connected one after another, stretching endlessly into the distance.

There was no end in sight.

Calling this a graveyard wasn't enough.

To be precise, this was a sea of chaotic graves.

What the hell…

Chu Che, you come here and tell me this is a small group of Anomalies?

A small group?

Some graves had already been dug open.

While others remained intact.

Chen Ye's expression grew uglier and uglier.

Why were these graves here?

Logically, this was a brand new continent, a world that humans had never set foot on.

Logically, there shouldn't be humans here, let alone human graves.

What… were these?

Why was there such a sea of chaotic graves?

Where… the hell was this place?

His blood-colored pupils contracted to the size of pinpricks.

Chen Ye wasn't the only one filled with fear at the sight of this sea of chaotic graves.

Everyone else felt the same.

The survivors in the vehicles had already begun trembling uncontrollably.

Many people's legs shook as they desperately tried to hide deeper into the crowd.

This scene before their eyes, they would never dare forget it for the rest of their lives.

The convoy continued forward.

But there was no road ahead.

Only the endless sea of chaotic graves.

"Ahhh~~~"

A scream finally broke the crowd's terror.

At that moment, on the newly joined bus, a blurry figure in the darkness grabbed a woman by the hair and dragged her out of the vehicle.

The entire action was shockingly fast—from the scream to the woman being pulled out, it took less than a second.

That bus had somehow had its lights go out.

Only a faint yellow glow remained from the vehicle's headlights.

"An Anomaly! An Anomaly!"

"I don't want to die!~~~"

That bus instantly descended into chaos.

Just then.

Chen Ye saw on Bus Number Six.

The bearded young man had somehow pulled out a small kerosene lamp from somewhere.

Yeah, one of those old movie-style kerosene lamps.

The bearded young man leaned out the window and hung the kerosene lamp on the rearview mirror of Bus Number Six.

The moment the lamp was hung on the mirror.

The entire Bus Number Six seemed to be wrapped in a layer of hazy, faint light.

Simply put, it was as if Bus Number Six was glowing on its own.

Not only that.

Bus Number Seven, Bus Number Eight, and Bus Number Nine were also glowing.

Even Chu Che's school bus seemed to be infected by it.

The entire vehicle radiated a faint, hazy light.

This light was different from the vehicle's own lights.

It gave off a very warm feeling.

Like the warm sun in winter.

Scorching but not blinding.

Those stiff figures that had been trying to approach earlier were instantly frozen in place upon contact with this hazy light.

On that bus, seven or eight stiff figures were suddenly rooted to the spot, not moving a muscle.

Each of them held a struggling, screaming figure—some men, some women.