Chapter 39: Fog Area

Chen Feng coughed a few times and wiped the rainwater from his face. "The stench of blood is too strong here. It's not a good place to talk. Follow me."

He staggered upright and swayed as he walked toward a hotel building just outside the Fog Area.

"Let's go," Lu Yunping said, jutting his chin at Han Ning.

The building was leaning precariously, one side of its wall covered in spiderweb-like cracks, but the main structure was still mostly intact.

The three men and the lizard waded through the murky, stagnant water. They scaled the hotel's slippery exterior ledges, vaulted through a shattered window into the second-floor corridor, and made their way up to a guest room on the fourth floor.

"Snow Cake, go keep watch at the door," Han Ning instructed in a low voice, patting Snow Cake's wet head.

ROAR! Snow Cake didn't follow them inside. Instead, it obediently lay down by the doorway, its eyes vigilantly scanning the surroundings.