At the same time.
Litai City Center.
Hu Sandao and Su Xiaosu's expressions were calm as they walked out.
Hu Sandao took out a clean handkerchief and carefully wiped the scalpel in his hand.
"Actually, I really didn't want this to happen."
Su Xiaosu shook off the blood on her fist. She remained silent and did not respond to Hu Sandao's words.
Hu Sandao saw that Su Xiaosu did not respond to him, so he continued, "By the way, Sister Su, do you remember that … I don't remember her name, but do you remember what that woman said?"
Su Xiaosu was confused.
"'Do you believe in God?' This sentence. "
Su Xiaosu remained silent.
Hu Sandao was deep in thought. He wanted to laugh, but he could not.
"To be honest, when I heard this sentence, I really had goosebumps."
"Although I know that this phenomenon is caused by the contraction of the erect hair muscles when humans feel cold, fear, or other stimuli …"
Su Xiaosu clenched her small fist. "Speak human language."
Hu Sandao shook his head helplessly. "Alright. Anyway, I'm a little concerned about why she said that. But she's gone, so there's no way to verify it. Maybe she just said it unintentionally. Who knows? "
The doctor did not explain too much.
When the two of them walked out of the psychological consultation center, it was raining heavily on the street.
In the distance, police sirens were ringing wildly.
Woo woo woo —
The evacuation alarm, which was used to warn the public to take shelter, was ringing wildly.
Hu Sandao and Su Xiaosu were slightly stunned.
What happened?
The soundproofing of the psychological consultation center was too good, right?
The commotion outside was so loud, but the people inside could not feel it at all?
The pedestrians on the street were in chaos.
They were running away.
Hu Sandao did not waste any time. He rushed into the heavy rain and grabbed a passerby who was holding an umbrella.
He asked, "Why are you running? What's going on? "
The passerby lowered his head and did not hide anything. He quickly said, "What the f * ck? Why are you still wandering around the street? Hurry up and hide! Just now, the emergency news broadcast said that there were two extremely vicious thugs in the city killing everyone they saw. It was very terrifying! Listen, all the police cars in the city have been dispatched. They're fighting! "
Hu Sandao was stunned when he heard that.
Thugs?
Fight it out?
Was it that intense?
"What does the thug look like?"
"I heard that one of the thugs is wearing a rabbit mask. It's the cute kind. I don't know what he looks like, but his body shape is pretty recognizable. Short, fat, stupid fat, very fat. "
Su Xiaosu's heart tightened. She quickly stepped forward, and her tall body directly blocked the rain for the two of them.
She pointed at her face. "The mask you're talking about, does it look like mine?"
Passerby A raised his head.
Not high enough.
He lifted his head again.
He lifted his head again.
Then …
He finally saw the mask on Su Xiaosu's face.
"Oh, they look alike! It feels like they are a complete set … Ah … Ah? Ah — Mom, I want to go home! "
Passerby A ignored his umbrella. When he saw the matching couple's mask on Su Xiaosu's face that was similar to Li Erpang's mask, he did not react at first.
But his voice was getting weaker and weaker. In the end, he was so scared that his scalp was numb and his face was pale. He ran away and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"It's Er Pang."
Hu Sandao said with certainty.
There was no one else with such obvious characteristics except for little Fatso.
Su Xiaosu clenched her fists.
Silent anger was brewing.
"Let's go."
Su Xiaosu was expressionless. She stepped on the rain and walked toward the direction where the police sirens were the loudest.
Thump, thump, thump.
Wherever Su Xiaosu went, the rain splashed and the ground seemed to be shaking.
Hu Sandao smacked his lips.
"Sister Su is very angry."
Hu Sandao thought for a while and shook his head.
"Looks like something big is going to happen."
…
…
Inside the half-length Buddha statue.
Irin looked at the scene in front of her. She did not know where to start.
There were too many people.
She roughly estimated that there were hundreds of people in the hall.
Other than some ragged people who looked like abducted victims, there were many people who were wearing full robes and looked like members of the Church of Dawn. They were in the same posture, kneeling on the ground and chanting in a low voice.
She looked again.
Irin realized that the number of missing people was much more than what Cao Anbang had reported.
It could be because Cao Anbang had concealed part of the data.
Another possibility was that what the Church of Dawn was planning was not just limited to Litai City. Maybe there were scattered cases of missing people outside of Litai City that had not been counted.
After all, in this era of advanced technology, it was not as simple as covering the mouth and tying the hands to take someone away.
"Embrace the dawn …"
"Embrace the dawn …"
Amidst the chanting of hundreds of people, a thin man in a long robe walked in from another entrance.
Irin looked down from above and squinted her eyes. She stared at the figure.
The man in the robe slowly walked to the high platform.
The moment the mysterious man in the robe appeared, everyone looked up at the mysterious man in the robe and fell silent.
The man in the robe said something in a low voice that Irin could not hear clearly.
The other people beside him, who seemed to be of lower status in the Church of Dawn, quickly walked to the edge of the hall. They held open flames and lit up a row of jars at the edge of the hall.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As the torches were lit one by one, the hall became even brighter. The flickering light from the torches projected everyone's figures onto the stone walls, which were constantly distorted. The entire scene looked very strange.
Other than the flickering flames, no one else spoke in the spacious hall inside the Pot-bellied Buddha.
Only the sound of breathing could be heard.
The whole place was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.
"What are they trying to do?"
Irin did not immediately make a move.
After all, it seemed that the most threatening person was the mysterious man standing on the high platform.
He might be the apostle.
Or he might not be.
Irin remembered that in another "future," the apocalypse had completely broken out and the eternal night had descended. The four horsemen of the apocalypse had walked the earth and spread the disaster. Only then did the Church of Dawn appear in the eyes of the survivors.
This religion was not a strange one. They used the food and resources they had scavenged from all over the place to extend a helping hand to every survivor who was still alive, absorbing them into the religion of Dawn.
They were unable to fight against the horsemen of the apocalypse. They were only in a corner of the apocalypse to survive.
While living on, spread some chicken soup for the soul to comfort them.
Irin remembered very clearly that their slogan was —
"Embrace the dawn."
But why did the Church of Dawn appear in advance?
It seemed that they had developed to a certain scale.
Without three to five years of planning, the half-body Buddha statue could not have been carved into such a mature scale.
And this was most likely just one of their strongholds.
Irin was one of the members who fought on the front line and did not have much contact with this organization that spread chicken soup for the soul.
But in his impression, the Church of Dawn was not such a strange organization.
What in the world happened?
What was the Church of Dawn planning?
In order to find the answer, Irin embarked on a journey and stood here at this moment.
Standing in front of them.
It was as if something in the dark was driving everything.
Just as Irin lurked in the dark and watched everything.
On the high platform, the mysterious man murmured something, breaking the dead silence that could be heard even if a needle dropped.
"# ¥% @ F * ck ¥# @% # ¥bea # KKKKK @ …"
What the hell?
Irin listened carefully.
But he found that he couldn't even understand a punctuation mark, let alone a word that the mysterious man was chanting loudly.
It sounded like some kind of ancient language. The pronunciation was obscure and inexplicable.
Just as the mysterious man on the high platform began to chant.
Below the high platform, everyone kneeling on the ground focused their eyes on the high platform at the same time.
Their empty eyes were filled with devotion and fanaticism.
"Ah … Ah … Ah …"
Everyone seemed to be echoing the rhythm of the mysterious man's mouth and shouting.
This scene gave Irin the feeling that a group of lunatics were communicating, communicating, and socializing in a way that normal people could not understand.
Irin frowned.
He felt that the atmosphere was getting weirder and weirder.
But he could not understand.
This feeling was very depressing.
It was like a good movie that had a layer of blurry mosaic added to it.
Just as Irin was considering whether to take action immediately or continue to observe and see what these people were up to, Irin's face changed slightly.
As the flames spread in the surroundings, the air was filled with a strange incense fragrance.
"It's incense!"
Irin had obtained a lot of information from Sheng Chunrou's video. When the incense was about to enter his nose, Irin had already reacted.
"The incense burning in those fire altars is the 'incense' that Sheng Chunrou mentioned in the video?"
Irin only inhaled a little. The smell was not too strong.
But just a trace of the incense made the scene in front of Irin slightly distorted.
The voice of the mysterious man was getting louder and louder. It seemed to come from the ears and also from the depths of the mind. It was getting clearer and clearer.
Suddenly.
The mysterious man raised his head and looked in the direction where Irin was hiding.
Irin was in the state of "Shadow Following" and had no sense of existence.
And from the angle of the mysterious man, it was impossible for him to see Irin at all.
But at this moment, he raised his head and looked at the shadow where Irin was hiding.
"Embrace the dawn."
In the obscure language, the mysterious man suddenly laughed in a low voice and said such a sentence.
In an instant.
There was a dazzling light coming out of the mysterious man.
Dazzling halos appeared one by one, like a miracle.
It was also like the legendary grace of God. It rippled around and lit up the whole hall as bright as day. It was very dazzling.
And the whisper seemed to become the sound of nature. It was like a poem played by instruments that did not belong to this world, making people unconsciously indulge in it.
Irin's pupils shrank.
The light … was very fast.
Irin had no time to react. The warm halos suddenly covered Irin's face and lit up all the shadows.
At this moment, Irin had nowhere to hide.
Irin only felt as if there was a boom in his head.
When he opened his eyes.
In front of him was the endless night.
The sky was full of stars.
Looking into the distance, the skyscrapers were cut in half.
The turbulent rivers were frozen into glaciers.
The steel bridges were twisted into fried dough twists.
Irin opened his eyes wide.
It was like a dream.
"This is … the apocalypse!"
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