The survivors gathered around Lin Ye. With the information provided by these survivors, Lin Ye quickly figured out their situation.

Two days ago, a thick fog suddenly blanketed the city, and a large number of citizens went missing in the mist. Those who survived could only hide inside buildings, afraid to go outside.

But the inside of the buildings wasn't safe either. Some monsters had emerged from the fog and attacked this prison.

The prisoners and these people were all survivors who had been lucky enough not to be dragged into the fog by the monsters. They were all trapped in this corridor.

Yesterday, the prisoners suddenly turned hostile and locked everyone else inside the cells.

‘...Why does this feel like it’s straight out of some horror movie I’ve seen?’

Lin Ye suspected this place was likely a dream world—some kind of defense mechanism of a Dreamrealm creature’s nest.

“What do we do now? There’s no food here, and a lot of people are injured.”

Jeffrey and a few prison guards gathered around Lin Ye, and the other survivors looked to him as well.

“We fight our way out. I’ll take point. Anyone who can handle a gun, help me cover the rear. Those who can’t, help the injured. The infirmary has medical supplies for treating wounds, and the cafeteria has food stockpiles.”

Lin Ye looked around and spoke in a very calm tone.

He didn’t say anything particularly stirring, but the survivors noticeably steadied themselves.

That’s just how humans were—once someone took the lead, half the battle was won.

The survivors began gathering supplies. Lin Ye hadn’t brought much weaponry—just one rifle, two pistols, several spare magazines, and a knife.

The prison guards moved aside the debris blocking the end of the corridor, and Lin Ye opened the door leading to the outside.

Beyond the door was another corridor, which connected to a check-in area, which in turn had corridors leading to other sections.

From the guards’ descriptions, Lin Ye had already grasped the general layout of the prison.

There were no monsters in the corridor. Lin Ye walked at the front, followed by several armed guards, with the remaining survivors trailing behind them.

They quickly approached the check-in area—a somewhat open space.

Dozens of corpses were piled on the floor of the check-in area. Lin Ye signaled for the survivors behind him to stop. The state of these bodies was very strange—they looked like they had been dragged here from somewhere else by something.

Just then, a faint sound came from one of the corridors across the check-in area, like the noise of something being dragged.

Lin Ye pressed himself against the wall and peered down that corridor. Several arm-thick long worms were dragging five corpses into the check-in area. After piling the bodies inside, they turned around and crawled back the way they came.

‘What the hell are these things?’

Lin Ye didn’t step out from the corner. Those bugs were stacking bodies here for some purpose—there had to be something wrong with these corpses.

“You guys shoot the heads of those bodies with me. Anyone with poor aim, don’t waste the bullets.”

Lin Ye turned and whispered to the guards.

“Why shoot the bodies?”

Jeffrey didn’t understand why Lin Ye didn’t just lead them straight through. If they opened fire here, they might attract more monsters.

“No time to explain. If you want to live, just listen to me.”

Lin Ye didn’t elaborate. He walked out from the corner and fired at the bodies on the ground.

The guards followed suit, shooting the heads of the corpses. Lin Ye had just saved their lives; they weren’t about to refuse him now.

As they stepped out from the corner, some of the bodies began to twitch. Like pseudo-humans, they rose from the ground in all sorts of bizarre postures and lunged at Lin Ye and the others.

Fortunately, Lin Ye and his group had already opened fire on the corpses in advance. Soon, all the bodies were down. White long worms burst out from the corpses, springing like loaded coils, and launched themselves at Lin Ye and the others.

Lin Ye swept his rifle across, popping each leaping worm, covering the floor with dark green liquid.

Now Jeffrey understood why they had to shoot the bodies.

If they had just walked through here, those corpses would have suddenly risen and attacked the middle of the group, throwing everything into chaos. They would have all died here.

“Follow me! Guards, cover the rear! Everyone else, move!”

After clearing the check-in area, Lin Ye led the charge into the corridor leading to the infirmary. The guards handled the rear, and from the corridor where the long worms had been transporting bodies, chaotic footsteps echoed.

The entire group began moving quickly. The guards fired backward as they retreated. A flood of silhouettes surged into the corridor, all moving in bizarre, unnatural ways.

Lin Ye ran while observing his surroundings. This corridor had windows leading outside, but through them, only thick white mist was visible.

Shadows seemed to pass through the fog, but no one knew what they were.

There were no monsters ahead in the corridor, but as they rounded a corner, Lin Ye noticed a corridor covered in spider webs.

These were white webs about a meter in diameter, with no spiders in sight.

This corridor led straight to the infirmary, but Lin Ye didn’t turn into it. Instead, he kept running along the main path.

Just from the size of the webs, he could guess the spiders’ size—definitely not something his group could handle.

If it weren’t for the survivors behind him, he might have taken a look.

After passing the corner, the corpses suddenly stopped in their tracks and gave up the chase. These monsters seemed to have their own territories—or maybe those spiders were just too tough.

Lin Ye didn’t stop. This was likely some kind of spider’s domain, and they needed to get out of here as fast as possible.

The spiders didn’t come out to attack them. Lin Ye successfully led the group to the prison cafeteria.

The cafeteria covered a good two hundred square meters. As soon as Lin Ye entered, he heard movement overhead. He looked up and saw the ceiling was covered in a thick swarm of pure white moths.

“Fall back! Watch the ceiling!”

The survivors retreated into the corridor, and the guards joined Lin Ye in firing at the moths that were squeezing into the passage.

Each moth was about half the size of an adult human, with pure white backs and black patterns on their undersides.

The cafeteria was swarming with moths. It wasn’t until they ran out of bullets that they managed to clear the ones that had been frantically lunging at them.

“Don’t go in yet. Wait for the dust to settle.”

Lin Ye led the group to pull back further, putting some distance between them and the corridor now filled with floating moth dust.

“Cough, cough. Should we open a window?”

One guard standing at the front coughed twice. A moth had broken through their line of fire, and he had accidentally inhaled some of the dust.

“No. The fog is everywhere outside, and there could be harmful gases in it.”

If it weren’t for the lack of food and no other place to stay, Lin Ye would have abandoned the cafeteria altogether.

“Give me a jacket. I’ll go in and bring the food out!”

The guard who had inhaled the moth dust spoke to Lin Ye.