As night falls, the Ranhuo Mall is still brightly lit, and the town, decorated with colorful lighting crystals, shines with gorgeous neon lights under the night sky.

Magnificent and thriving, this is the Ranhuo Mall today.

However, since some time ago, an atmosphere of uneasiness has spread in the mall. This uneasiness does not come from within the mall, but from the outside world, from the evil things that people have become accustomed to.

"President Sean, has the evil spirit in the wild really become so violent?"

In the Di-numbered private room of the Gourmet Tian Restaurant.

Dishes with enticing aromas have been served. Under normal circumstances, these big businessmen would rush to get the dishes even without caring about elegance, because this gourmet restaurant is so delicious that people can't help but linger, but it is also so expensive that it is unforgettable.

But today, eleven big businessmen from different regions were able to resist the delicious food that was so close to them. Or, in other words, one thing was more important than the food.

With solemn expressions, they looked at a man with brown curly hair and wearing gorgeous orange-red robes.

——Sean, the vice president of the Bai Ri Chamber of Commerce, comes from the Burning Earth Core Realm.

The one who couldn't wait to ask was another vice president of a large chamber of commerce.

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"Look at me like this, is it possible to joke?"

Sean smiled bitterly.

There was an unconcealable fatigue in his eyes, which came from both his body and his mind.

Their caravan suffered heavy losses during this cross-region journey. Half of the guards were killed, and almost everyone else was injured. Even most of the extremely valuable cargo had to be abandoned with great reluctance.

This was the worst loss he had ever suffered since he started his business. Even if he lost most of his life savings, it might not be enough.

Sean's heart was bleeding.

If he hadn't hoped to get some resources from these 'old friends' to make up for his losses, he wouldn't have attended the banquet at this time.

No matter how delicious the food was, it could not heal the pain in his heart.

He didn't want to talk anymore. He just picked up the food, put it into his mouth and bit it hard, as if he was biting those evil spirits and wanted to drink their blood.

Seeing his look, the other Chamber of Commerce bosses all fell silent.

Asking a few more questions and expecting different answers is just because they still hold on to a glimmer of hope.

At this point, all hopes were shattered.

You can't have illusions in the first place. When the team of the Bairi Merchants Guild entered the oasis, all the members were injured and their armor was torn. Many people witnessed the tragic scene. The Burning Oasis is small in area, and there are many people coming and going. The news of the Bairi Merchants Guild's accident has spread throughout the oasis.

"But why would Guixie be so violent? What does he look like?"

Evil and strange are synonymous with chaos and violence. Even the knowledgeable businessmen find it hard to imagine how violent creatures can get even more violent.

They can only wait for President Sean to answer their questions.

Sean sighed. He was silent for a while before finally speaking, "The fog-repelling props we use can suppress Guixie's recovery ability while dispelling the fog. Isn't that right?"

The businessmen nodded.

Without fog-repelling equipment, not only will evil spirits swarm in, but those evil spirits also have extremely strong recovery abilities. Even if half of their bodies are destroyed, they will recover after a while.

These are common sense that all the new awakeners know, but to say that they have actually seen them? That's rare. Any rational person will avoid such common sense that is like seeking death.

"The bright torches can curb most of the recovery ability of the evil spirits. The high-level fog-repelling evil spirits used by our Chamber of Commerce can make the evil spirits feel like they are stepping into an oasis, with almost no recovery ability."

"However, starting about half a month ago, we encountered more and more evil spirits along the way. At first, we didn't find them difficult to deal with, but gradually, things became more and more wrong. Many times, we saw the evil spirits fall down, but after a while, they quickly got up. The granulation tissue on the broken limbs of the evil spirits grew rapidly, and they recovered in a few breaths."

Recalling that scene, Sean's face turned pale.

Their team's fog-repelling devices were still effective, and the number of evil spirits attacking them was not large enough to form a wave. However, those evil spirits, whose vitality was already extremely tenacious, had become extremely terrifying under the blessing of their terrifying recovery power.

Faced with a four-star disaster monster, even if he, the Sixth Sense, took action personally, it would take a lot of effort to kill it quickly.

As time passed, they encountered more and more evil spirits, and their recovery speed became faster and faster, making it increasingly difficult to move forward.

"If we delay in the wild for another ten days or so, I'm afraid our daytime caravan will be wiped out."

Speaking of this, Sean still felt a lingering fear.

After a pause, he continued, "Moreover, the evil spirit we encountered is still within the coverage of the fog-repelling evil spirit. If we really enter the gray fog and face the evil spirit directly, I'm afraid..."

After listening to the description of the vice president of the Bai Ri Chamber of Commerce, more than a dozen other big businessmen looked at each other in bewilderment.

Everyone is aware of the seriousness of the problem.

The boss of the Gilded Chamber of Commerce said, "You don't have to worry too much. No matter what disaster happens in the Falling Star Cave, it is not us who will bear the brunt of it, but the Burning Chamber of Commerce and the Falling Star City. Let's just wait and see how they respond."

"Eat your food."

After talking for so long, the bosses couldn't help it anymore. No matter how serious the disaster was, they couldn't let themselves starve.

Hey, why does this dish seem to be missing a lot?

…

The entire Burning Oasis was still peaceful and tranquil, but the caravan that had just arrived here encountered a violent and evil force, and as a result, suffered heavy losses, and not just in the daytime caravan.

For this reason, several caravans that had originally planned to set off decided to hold back and wait and see how the situation developed before making their next move.

The big businessmen did not just sit there and wait. They hired some mercenary groups with whom they had business dealings and sent them out of the oasis to investigate the situation.

After this investigation, I found that the situation was indeed very tricky.

No, it's trickier.

When we first walked out of the oasis, the situation seemed slightly normal, but when we went dozens of kilometers deeper into the gray fog, the bright lanterns seemed to have lost their effect, and one after another, strange and evil creatures, like sharks smelling blood, pounced on us.

The mercenaries tried to break out for a while, but had to give up and return to the Burning Oasis in embarrassment.

The situations encountered by several large mercenary groups are similar.

Their losses were not great, but that was because they returned in time. If they had traveled far like the caravan, passing through thick gray fog for dozens of days, encountering increasingly intense evil attacks, the mercenaries dared not imagine what would have happened then.

"Let's wait for the Burning Chamber of Commerce to find out the situation. They must be investigating. It's best for us to hold back now."

"Stay still? This guild leader is still waiting to ship these treasures back. If we leave them alone, we will lose thousands or even tens of thousands of Ghostly Crystals every day!"

"If the area with the most severe disaster is nearby, can we find a way to break out?"

"It's not impossible to break out, but according to Vice President Bai Ri, they encountered a similar situation in the Inter-Domain Zone. Unless we can figure out the scope of the disaster, a hasty breakout would be tantamount to suicide."

"I don't think so. To put it bluntly, it's still a matter of strength. We just have to fight our way out."

Although many people clamored to explore and break out, in reality, the top leaders of the major chambers of commerce still stayed honestly in the Burning Oasis. What they did most was to entrust mercenaries or send guards of their own caravans to go into the wild to find out the situation.

Compared to the ghost crystals lost in a day, one's own safety is naturally more important.

What's more, if we jump in without finding out the truth, and suffer the same fate as Vice President Bai Ri, wouldn't the loss be even greater?

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Just as the major chambers of commerce had expected, Fang You was organizing people to enter the gray fog area to find out the situation, although he had some vague guesses about the cause of the disaster.

At the same time, he also hurried to arrange the construction of the city wall of the Burning Oasis.

At this time, the Burning Oasis had only been upgraded to a Level 2 Oasis - in order to ensure secrecy, he could not use rituals to impart a large amount of experience to the oasis - and the actual area occupied by the mall was two circles smaller, and the amount of city wall construction work was much smaller than that of the Sparking Oasis.

However, Spark Oasis now has a population of over a million and has no shortage of workers.

What about the Burning Oasis? Aside from the various chambers of commerce, mercenary groups, and idle awakeners, there are only a few hundred people affiliated with Xinhuo. These people also have to take care of the chamber of commerce operations, mall patrols, and other matters. Not many of them can spare time for construction.

The defensive ritual of Wan Mu Sheng Xu is rather troublesome to engrave.

As a result, after two months, this 100-meter-long wall has not yet been completed.

Now, Fang You secretly dispatched a group of elites to the oasis, and hired some idle awakened people who stayed in the oasis to move bricks, which gradually improved the construction progress.

He even possessed Xiao Huan and went deep into the gray fog area to capture a few evil spirits, and sent them to the base for Yin Ling to study.

We have indeed discovered some things.

Yinling held one hand under her chest and held a pointer in the other, pointing at the diagram of the strange structure she had drawn.

"The exact reason is still unclear, but..."

"Let's first talk about Guixie's recovery ability. Before, Guixie was amplified by the gray fog, which was equivalent to adding a buff to the venue. We use the bright light lantern to remove these gains and restore Guixie to normal."

"But now, Guixie has gained a permanent benefit, or enhancement. The strong recovery ability is only the most obvious external manifestation. There are also three other points:..."

One is the sense of smell. The evil spirits are more sensitive to human smells. This is why, under the influence of the lantern to drive away the fog, more and more evil spirits are still attacking the Chamber of Commerce.

The second is alienation. Under the influence of unknown factors, the evil spirits may mutate and become the top evil spirits of the same level, or even evolve into higher-level beings.

Yinling said this needs further research.

The third is pollution. These evil bloods are more polluting than before, and the evil's attacks can also cause pollution. In other words, once the awakened are injured by the evil, it may lead to an increase in their own pollution.

And this is the most fatal to the awakened.

"Not bad, you have come up with so many results in such a short time. You are quite capable if you don't slack off."

Fang You approved.

However, Yinling didn't buy it and rolled her eyes at him.

"You make it sound like I'm always slacking off. I have the ability to slack off, but do you have the ability to approve it, sir? Humph."

Come to think of it, apart from being extremely lazy to go out and often asking students to do her work for her, Yinling doesn't really slack off...right?

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Fang You did not hide Yin Ling's latest research results and announced them directly in the Burning Oasis.

"No wonder I've been having auditory hallucinations these days. It turns out that I was hurt by the alienated evil spirit before!"

Sean from the Bairi Chamber of Commerce murmured, his face turning even paler.

But people do not share the same joys and sorrows. Compared to the pale faces of a few people, more awakened people are excited, and they are excited that they have seen a ray of hope in the disaster.

After all, this is not their hometown, and with the super power of the Burning Chamber of Commerce in front of them, most people are in a very relaxed state of mind.

The worst that can happen is waiting.

Wait the party will never lose.

Until one day, a Chamber of Commerce boss received a message from his hometown and his face suddenly turned pale.

"What? A similar situation has also occurred in our Everfrost Region?"

Eternal frozen earth, blazing core, dim ruins...

One major domain after another issued warnings, and even a real big shot in the Broken Sea came forward and sounded the alarm.

The cause is still unknown, but this disaster may have affected dozens or hundreds of domains, and also triggered a historical disaster in the Broken Sea.

In other words, the Broken Sea will suffer even more severely.

"But it's not just the Broken Sea. The area most affected by the unknown disaster is the Inter-Realm. I'm not making this up. It's said that a giant from the Broken Sea personally investigated and came to this conclusion."

"No, according to rumors, the three-star island master of the Seven Star Alliance used powerful astrology to see the secret and proved that the unknown influence spread along the inter-domain land to each domain."

"It's actually that person, who is said to be above myth?!"

"There must be other giants who have taken action, but we just don't know about it. This also shows the seriousness of the matter."

"There is another question. Since the Inter-Region Zone was the hardest hit, then, wouldn't this Burning Oasis, which is very close to the Inter-Region Zone, be...?"

Moreover, their own nest is facing the threat of disaster, and the Oasis executives can no longer remain indifferent.

The owner of the third star island also pointed out the fact that the disaster was gradually intensifying.

I can't sit still!

"We must break out as soon as possible."

"I have decided not to take any bulk cargo and only organize a small number of experts to return."

"Let's go today. If we don't leave now, it will be even harder."

The Gilded Chamber of Commerce team, the strong men of the Quiet Night Court, and the elite men of the Dawn Legion, all of these forces no longer hesitated, and after purchasing a batch of recovery supplies, they plunged into the vast gray fog.

The entire oasis seemed to have become much more sparse all of a sudden.

However, in less than half a day, gray fog rolled in outside the oasis, and one team after another, dozens of people, rushed out of the gray fog in a panic and returned to the oasis.

Also coming here were some terrifying evil creatures that were biting their tails.

"Help!"

A strange evil being hundreds of meters tall jumped out from the gray fog.

This evil creature has the body of a black-armored dragon, the arms of a four-armed giant demon, and the head of a three-headed troll. It is very unique and the Fire Warriors have never seen it in the evil encyclopedia.

But they responded quickly and immediately opened fire with the strange crystal cannon.

The orchid-colored energy beam penetrated the giant monster, destroying its two heads and half of its body. However, the next moment, in the eyes of the crowd, the flesh buds on the monster continued to spread, and it recovered in a moment, biting the caravan not far away with a ferocious aura.

Puff——

A strong man who was already in a miserable state suddenly became dazed, and when he came to his senses, half of his body was gone.

He staggered to the ground, and a few seconds later his body was destroyed by the evil black flames.

No one could break out.

They didn't even reach the inter-regional area before they had to turn back due to pressure.

"I even saw a seven-star world-destroying evil from afar!" said a blind awakener tremblingly.

"A caravan was completely wiped out, and the message they sent out before they died was... the end of the world!"

“Gurgle~!”

"We can't leave the oasis anymore, but at least it's safer to stay inside. These alienated evil spirits won't get close to the oasis."

Those who held this idea did not rejoice for long before a big merchant from the Broken Sea brought bad news.

In their place, hundreds of oases disappeared within one day.

At the same time, a loud rumbling noise was heard outside the Burning Mall, and a head as big as a building emerged from the wall-like gray fog.