They were everywhere.
After the landing team moved away from the coastal shallows and advanced into the interior of Holy Land Island, the hair-raising scene finally unfolded before everyone's eyes.
It was as if figures formed of pitch-black muck were visible everywhere, as though they had been "embedded" by the surrounding environment into various places—on the ground, the walls, beside the roadside boulders, and even on tree trunks. They had entirely merged with the things that had engulfed them, resembling a myriad of bizarre and horrifying sculptures frozen on this island void of living people. Each "sculpture" exhibited a posture of struggle that told onlookers one fact—
"They" were once alive.