sinovels Chapter 291 The Devout Domingo
Chapter 291 The Devout Domingo
A sudden change,
Panic spread throughout the Raccoon City safe zone.
Especially the defenders on the perimeter, seeing the plants growing wildly outside the mycelial defense wall, were filled with unprecedented fear.
Under their watchful eyes, the originally dry bushes grew wildly to two or three meters tall in just over ten minutes, and their color was not a normal green, but a strange blue-green with a fluorescent glow.
Furthermore, this eerie spread has extended into the safe zone over time.
The green belts built in the city are now overgrown with weeds, and the flower branches in the flower beds are swollen and thickened, with dense pores sprouting from their leaves.
The survivors watched in horror as the plants in front of their houses grew into unrecognizable shapes within minutes.
Screams erupted one after another.
Some people even ran towards the city hall with their children in their arms.
Of course, some people also stood at the doorway with machetes, cutting down the wildly growing vines.
Night Owl stood at the window on the second floor of the city hall, his face ashen as he looked at the sudden turn of events before him.
He had just received seven reports of anomalies, each containing the same information...
It refers to the uncontrolled growth of plants around and inside Raccoon City.
"Brother Xiao, the exterior walls of three residential buildings in the South District have been completely covered by vines, and the residents are requesting an emergency evacuation."
"The mutated vegetation on the outer perimeter of the mycelial wall in the East District has already come into contact with the wall. The mycelial wall itself has not been damaged, but the plants are climbing up the wall."
"West District—"
That's enough.
Night Owl angrily interrupted the report.
"Tell all area managers not to actively cut down those plants, but only to use them for defensive isolation."
He wasn't sure if his judgment was right, but his intuition told him not to provoke anything before he understood the situation.
However, less than a minute after he gave the order, another piece of bad news came from the monitoring room.
"Captain Xiao, come to the control room immediately!!"
Without hesitation, Night Owl rushed to the monitoring room in three quick steps.
When he saw the huge screen in the monitoring room, he froze.
On the giant screen, two enormous black outlines appeared on the horizon southwest of Raccoon City.
The outline moved very quickly.
It was none other than the two giant octopuses that they had previously detected landing on the west coast.
As the drone's camera zoomed in, the outlines and details of the two giant beasts gradually became clearer...
Its shell was jet black, its tentacles were so thick they were suffocating, and the tentacles had countless rotating eyeballs on their suckers.
Just one glance is enough to make your sanity plummet.
Of course, that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that these two giant octopuses, each a hundred meters tall, are moving in the direction of their Raccoon City.
"It's all over, it ......"
Everyone in the monitoring room felt they were getting closer and closer to death.
Night Owl stared intently at the screen, the veins on the back of his hand bulging slightly.
He glanced back at the communication equipment in the corner... it was still static, and he couldn't contact Lin Fan.
What should I do?
He knew that news of the giant beast's appearance could not be kept secret.
After all, the two octopuses were so large that even from tens of kilometers away, survivors standing on high ground in Raccoon City could see the two slowly moving black shadows on the horizon with the naked eye.
As if confirming his thoughts, the appearance of the behemoth quickly attracted the attention of the survivors in Raccoon City.
The enormous black shadow immediately caused panic to spread throughout the safe zone.
The plant mutation was scary enough, but now two monsters that are hundreds of meters tall have appeared?
Panicked crowds surged toward the city hall, a cacophony of cries, curses, and prayers filling the air.
Raccoon City, which was once thriving, is on the verge of spiraling out of control.
However, at that moment, a voice rang out in the square.
"Do not be afraid! That is not the destroyer!"
From the crowd, a middle-aged man dressed in a black robe stepped forward.
It was none other than Domingo.
A former papal bishop, now a key figure in the "Church of True God" in Raccoon City.
Behind him followed seven or eight former clergymen, all dressed in black robes, each with a kind of... almost fanatical calm on their faces.
"That is the incarnation of the true God!"
Domingo opened his arms wide, his voice booming, "Our long-awaited protector has finally arrived!"
Someone in the crowd shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about? That's clearly a monster!"
Domingo turned to the man, his eyes resolute, and filled with the most devout madness.
"When the end of the world comes, the old world order collapses."
Your guns and cannons can't stop the zombie horde, and your science can't explain the mycelial wall.
Who built the walls that protect us?
Who gave us a safe home?
Upon hearing his words, the previously chaotic crowd fell silent.
Seeing this, Domingo continued with a devout expression:
"That great one has never left us. His messengers are right beside us, and today... the true God himself has come here, not to destroy us, but to save us!"
"It was our piety that moved this most authentic deity..."
With that, Domingo turned to face southwest, knelt down on both knees, and clasped his hands together in prayer.
At the same time, all the clergy behind him knelt down in unison.
Then, some survivors in the crowd who had previously participated in the "Church of True God" prayer activities also knelt down hesitantly.
"This madman..."
Night Owl stood at the second-floor window, watching more and more people kneel down below, his scalp tingling.
He doesn't believe in any true god.
They even disliked Domingo as a person.
If it weren't for Lin Fan, he would have even wanted to kill this charlatan.
But he also knew that a faith was needed in the chaotic community, so he turned a blind eye to some things.
However, to my surprise, this old man is getting more and more outrageous. Even at a time like this, he still...
"Um?"
However, just as Night Owl was scoffing at Domingo's actions, a scene unfolded that shattered his worldview.
As Domingo knelt in prayer below, the two enormous creatures that had been moving toward them in the distance suddenly stopped at the same time.
Immediately afterwards, a deep, piercing hum came from afar.
The sound didn't resemble any animal's cry; it was more like some kind of... response.
Then, to his disbelief, the two enormous creatures slowly changed their direction of travel.
They deviated by about thirty degrees from their original route heading straight for Raccoon City, bypassing Raccoon City and moving deeper into the North American interior.
Seeing this unbelievable scene, the Night Owl was dumbfounded.
Not only him, but everyone in the monitoring room was staring at the screen in disbelief.
How... is this possible?
Those two monsters actually managed to avoid them?
This bizarre turn of events left everyone in the settlement with expressions of disbelief.
Only Domingo and a few core clergy members, watching the massive figure change direction, wore expressions that said, "I knew it."
Those survivors kneeling on the ground began to tremble at the sight.
They were not afraid, but excited.
"God...God has heard our prayers!"
"God bless you!"
Someone in the crowd shouted, and then even more people knelt down.
They knelt and prayed devoutly in the direction of the two giant beasts...
The owl leaned against the window frame, watching the scene below, its lips twitching.
He wanted to say it was just a coincidence, but after thinking about it, this coincidence... wasn't it too much of a coincidence?
However, before he could even come to his senses, an even more outrageous scene unfolded before his eyes.
As the two giant octopuses veered off course and disappeared into the distance, the rampant blue-green mutated vegetation in the area they passed through began to slow its growth.
Furthermore, the vegetation in the direction of Raccoon City is also visibly declining.
The vines that were climbing the mycelial wall stopped their upward momentum, and the expanding lawn ceased to grow.
This scene was as if an invisible hand had pressed the pause button.
This miraculous turn of events caused the kneeling survivors downstairs to cheer.
"..."
Night Owl remained silent for a long time, then turned around and happened to see Lin Jianguo, who had arrived at some unknown time.
At this moment, Lin Jianguo stood by the window, arms crossed, looking through the window at the two huge black shadows on the distant horizon that were gradually moving away.
"Mr. Lin... what do you think?"
Lin Jianguo's face was expressionless.
He was silent for a few seconds, then said, "Just consider it a miracle."
"Huh??? You know them?" Night Owl looked at Lin Jianguo with a blank expression, feeling that there was something more to what the other man was saying.
"I don't know him. I'm just guessing."
Lin Jianguo, however, told a lie without changing his expression.
After the owl left, Lin Jianguo stood alone by the window, watching more and more survivors kneeling on the ground below, praying devoutly towards the southwest.
He remained silent for a long time before muttering a sentence.
"What on earth is that brat up to?"
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