'Ten minutes? You never miss a chance to make things harder for me, do you?' John thought, shaking his head in annoyance.
He felt a strange, tingling pressure against his skin, like thousands of microscopic needles trying to find a way in. Thanks to his Hacker Mind passive ability, the hallucinating horror of the fog slid off his consciousness like water off a duck's back.
However, as he looked back at his friends, his expression darkened. He was safe for now, but he knew the story would be very different for them.
The discovery of the cores had provided a glimmer of hope, but the reality of the fog's toxicity weighed heavily on John's mind. As he stood at the edge of the area, he reread the system warning one more time.
[Warning: Your Hacker Mind negated all mental hallucinations from the fog!]
