Chapter 92 The Grand Finale (Part Twelve) The banquet officially begins! ...
Deafening explosions echoed one after another, and terrifying sound waves swept in from the direction of the gate. The thick, lingering gray fog was swept away with a shriek, and then replaced by screams and groans.
In the hellish surroundings, Seventh String seemed to hear some beautiful music, his eyes slightly narrowed, his face full of rapture: "—This will be the first prelude I offer to the Lord's banquet!"
"Now, the banquet begins—"
As soon as the seventh string finished speaking, a strange tremor swept across the dock, and the aroma of baking and the fragrance of flowers spread, mixing with the smell of gunpowder and blood, turning into a nauseating stench.
After saying that, Seventh String seemed to have forgotten about "Dong Shiwu" and simply threw her aside, walking straight into the black door. He even attached a trace of spiritual power to himself and focused most of his energy on the mine.
The earth trembled, and the mushroom cloud from the explosion shot into the sky. What was blown away by the explosion was not only the dock walls, but also the strange and frenzied magical atmosphere that had always lingered over the dock.
While Dong Shiwu couldn't see it, Du Yu could see it clearly. Among the miners scrambling to escape and get away from the blast zone, some of them, as they ran, lost their stubbornness and, as if waking from a dream, their thin, distorted faces showed surprise and panic.
"Help--"
"No, don't come any closer!"
"What kind of monster is that?!"
The terrifying explosion not only brought with it a cloud of black ash, but also attracted the corrupted creatures lurking deep within the gray fog. Pairs of scarlet eyes lit up one after another in the distance, and in the next instant, some monsters appeared out of thin air inside the dock!
A miner, helping his companion, had just escaped the aftershocks of the explosion. The relief in his eyes hadn't faded yet when, in his panic, he ran straight into the feet of a corrupted creature. The two of them only had time to let out one last scream before they were swallowed whole by the monster.
The explosion was likely more than just a simple one. Du Yu's eyelids twitched; in her perception alone, she sensed over a dozen corrupted creatures, and she even detected traces of a [Twilight]-level corrupted species among them! In addition, many powerful auras cast their gazes, seemingly very interested in this suddenly exposed mine.
To her, these corrupted creatures were nothing more than small fry that could be dealt with in a few rounds. For a well-trained superhuman, they wouldn't easily die unless ambushed.
But for these ordinary people who have never undergone combat training, let alone have superpowers, and whose mental strength is not even high, it is impossible to escape from these corrupted creatures. Some of them who are slightly more mentally sensitive will go crazy just by looking at these monsters.
Plans, fragments...
Du Yu pursed her lips, the various plans she had made before flashing through her mind, only to be instantly ignored. Without much hesitation, she opened the forum with her mind and issued a command in the task group chat of the [Task Area]:
[Florence Dock Mission Team]
[Bishop D: The Holy Grail's priority has decreased; save the person first.]
"Huh, they actually changed the mission objective?"
On the edge of the lower city, next to an abandoned factory, Qin Xinhong, who had been lying in wait there for several days after escaping the police department's sweeping crackdown, raised an eyebrow when she saw the newly updated mission information.
She joined the so-called "Lord of Listening" church only to find out about Cat Beard and Bian Shaoyan, but the evil god church was not a place that was easy to enter and leave. She had long been prepared to die for this reckless act.
Anyway, Bian Shaoyan is dead, so her greatest hope for living has been fulfilled.
Seeing a new mission pop up in the mission area, Qin Xinhong signed up because she was interested in many of the items on the exchange list, and learned some inside information about the Furensa Wharf.
It doesn't matter how those idiot bald men and tycoon lackeys die; even if their brains fall out, Qin Xinhong will still applaud. But there are nearly ten thousand ordinary people among them!
The original plan, while aimed at obtaining the Holy Grail, also indirectly saved these miners.
But now the dock has been suddenly bombed, attracting many degenerates. Not to mention the Bald Man and those evil god cultists, they won't care about the lives of passersby when they start fighting!
On one side is the life of an ordinary person, and on the other is a mission personally issued by the gods. A smart person would know what to choose, but Qin Xinhong hesitated for a moment. Just as she rushed halfway and was asking in the chat how to minimize the gods' losses, the gods' spokesperson changed the mission.
Mercy may still need further observation, but at least this is a deity who cares about the lives of ordinary people—that's enough, and it's already quite rare.
Even without the power to manipulate minds and unable to get too close, Qin Xinhong dared to accept the mission, naturally she had her own methods. With a low shout, her strong body was launched like a cannonball, so fast that it almost exceeded the limit of what the naked eye could capture, only a red light could be seen disappearing into the distance.
In just a few seconds, Qin Xinhong traversed hundreds of kilometers, her figure flashing red as she appeared directly at the mine.
She was already fast, but there were even faster ones on the scene—a distorted spatial gate gradually closed, and several figures jumped out from it. Without saying a word, they each ran towards different Fallen Ones, leading them to more open areas.
Besides them, there were several strange fellows among the miners who should have been ordinary people, their bodies radiating a faint pink glow and enveloped in a layer of light.
These people were led by an ordinary-looking middle-aged woman who wisely refrained from getting involved in the battle between the superhumans and the fallen.
The abandoned area was abandoned because the concentration of smog was too high, and long-term survival would easily lead to pollution. The Gentlemen's Guild did something, somehow managing to forcibly isolate most of the smog pollution, but now that half of the dock wall is gone, even the best measures are useless.
Wang Erqi led the new believers in using the inlaid "Divine Revelation Pearl" to heal the miners who were either injured or corrupted.
Besides the main gate and city walls, the interior of the docks was also heavily targeted by the explosions. The apartment buildings were almost completely destroyed, and explosions continued to occur.
The gentlemen would naturally notice the strangers in the mine, but today's events were truly outrageous. More than half of the stationed personnel had been blown up, and the remaining people were either investigating the explosion or defusing planted bombs, so they had no energy to meddle in the miners' affairs.
Du Yu didn't know what the Gentlemen's Club members were thinking, nor was she interested. Seeing that Cat Whiskers and the others, who had made preparations in advance, had taken control of the situation, Du Yu pulled her attention away from the miners and began to survey the surrounding environment.
Even though everything looks normal to the naked eye, from the "perspective" of the spirit, everything around still seems a bit eerie. The spirit world seems to contain something, like a starving beast hiding behind a curtain, drooling over the chess pieces on the chessboard.
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Author's note: So sleepy... I can now sleep 25 hours a day.
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