At this moment outside the Convenience Store, in the Student Cafeteria, only the three incandescent lamps in front of the store were still flickering; the rest of the area had been completely devoured by darkness, with only writhing, ghastly white mist remaining, as if countless tentacles were writhing and twisting.
Within that pitch-black domain, the sound, "sash sash sash," akin to groups of Sand Worms moving about, was incessantly heard, making one's skin crawl.
"Puff! Puff… Puff!"
As the last three incandescent lamps went out, the entire first floor of the Student Cafeteria succumbed to boundless darkness.
Eventually, the slowly stirring heads finally revealed themselves from deep within the mist, and figures stepped through the mist to just outside the light at the entrance of the Convenience Store, lingering like ghosts and specters...