Lu Chen slowly woke up from his confusion, feeling that he was wet from the corner of his mouth to his chest. It seemed that he had just opened his mouth slightly, causing the saliva to flow out.
His mind is still buzzing, and Lu Chen's strongest feeling right now is thirst - after drooling so much, it's normal for his mouth to be dry.
The surrounding environment should be dark, and it seemed that something was being burned. Lu Chen smelled something like burning leaves, but it was mixed with some strange... smell. It seemed to be the smoke of some kind of wood being burned.
Taste.
There were also buzzing voices all around. Lu Chen thought there was something wrong with his ears at first, but he later confirmed it after listening to the incident for a long time - it seemed that Lu Chen had never heard these voices.
language, and it even sounds like it rhymes.
"Good believers!" a voice shouted, and the buzzing spell suddenly stopped.
"The Lord has given us holy revelation, and He said: 'I give the destiny of this world.' The Lord has also given us instructions: 'I am omnipotent and omniscient.'" The voice began to sound almost excited.
He chanted a bunch of incomprehensible lines in a tone of voice, and after each line, the people around him repeated it in low voices.
Lu Chen's blood ran cold when he heard this - isn't this just a gathering of extremist religious elements! How did I get here? Am I dreaming?
When Lu Chen rejected the reality, the meeting was still in progress. He heard the voice loudly saying, "The Lord has issued a call. We are about to leave the world and enter His kingdom. We will meet again with those who have ascended to the kingdom of heaven - in
Under the glory of the Lord, share eternal life!"
"Share eternal life!" Fanatic shouts echoed in the space. Lu Chen took the opportunity to rub on the ground, and the black cloth covering his eyes was rubbed off a little.
A woman with her hands tied was dragged into the center of the crowd. The crowd gathered around a mound, and on top of the mound stood the sturdy camping manager.
Now, the camp manager was shirtless and oiled, with strange red and blue stripes painted on his body. He looked fanatical, his eyes were red, and his voice was extremely loud. And the woman who was dragged to the stage... looked exhausted and looked almost
I have completely given up the idea of living.
"Those damn unbelievers, they rejected His call and grace. But the Lord is still loving - He gives everyone the opportunity to enter His Kingdom of Heaven." The administrator stretched out his arms, "Now, take the unbelievers with you.
Come up!"
Lu Chen, who was lying on the ground, was dragged up the slope. Also dragged up the slope with him were Mu Zhiran and a dozen other unknown strangers.
"Go and reform them." Although the camp administrator said "probation" to the woman whose hands were tied, what he did had nothing to do with "probation".
The camp manager raised his foot and kicked the woman hard in the face. She was kicked like a rag doll by an unknown person, and her face was covered with a black cloth like Lu Chen.
middle-aged man's body.
The middle-aged man who was hit in the face obviously wanted to struggle, but his hands and feet were tied tightly - he struggled for several times and couldn't escape.
"Change him." The bald man raised his voice, stepped on the woman's face with his foot, and shouted loudly, "Change him!"
The people surrounding the mound started shouting together, their voices getting louder and louder. And the woman who was stepped on suddenly began to tremble.
She seemed to be having an epilepsy, shaking more violently and more frequently.
The believers stopped shouting, and the administrator let go of his feet - he took a few steps back, and then suddenly raised his hands, and the surrounding believers shouted again.
The end of epileptic seizures may occur quickly or slowly, but it seems that this woman's seizure did not last too long...she gradually stopped convulsing.
Several big men who were also shirtless grabbed the iron chain around the woman's neck and pulled her off the mound like a dog. The administrator strode up to the middle-aged man and pulled her away.
The black cloth fell off his face.
Lu Chen couldn't see the specific scene, but... the man who was still struggling just now had obviously undergone some drastic changes.
The administrator laughed, untied the rope from the middle-aged man, and handed him a sharp kitchen knife.
The middle-aged man holding a sharp weapon looked a little confused. He looked at the knife in his hand, and then looked down the slope - among the tied people, there seemed to be his relatives.
"Run!" Suddenly, a hoarse shout came from down the slope. It sounded like a woman's voice, "Master, run!"
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then looked in the direction of the sound.
The woman who shouted was right next to Lu Chen. Her shout made the middle-aged man on the stage look in Lu Chen's direction - revealing a face with a dull expression and dull eyes.
Lu Chen watched with his own eyes as the elder brother slowly raised the knife in his hand, and then slowly and resolutely cut his own neck with the knife in front of his wife.
Cut it horizontally, from left to right, without hesitation with the knife. The force was so great that it even cut directly into the bone.
Then it fell straight to the ground like a towering tree that had been cut down.
The eldest sister next to her who shouted at the top of her lungs didn't say a word at first, but Lu Chen could see from the corner of her eye that her eyes suddenly turned red as if by magic.
"The unbeliever has been converted. His sinful soul will ascend to the kingdom of the Lord and will be provided with after paying for his sins." The administrator continued his "sermon", "The Lord said: 'Whoever believes in me will receive
Eternal life. Those who do not believe will fall into nothingness forever!'"
The administrator continued to shout, while Lu Chen, who was lying on the ground, fell into an unextricable shock.
Is this a controllable collapse infection?! That tied up woman, is she the source of the infection?
Lu Chen is still paralyzed and unable to move at all. According to his recollection, what was covering his mouth and nose at that time was probably some kind of anesthetic mixed with sevoflurane and several other volatile anesthetic drugs.
.
Now that the effect of sevoflurane has passed, other types of anesthetics have not been completely metabolized. It is almost impossible to move - it is even difficult for Lu Chen to maintain his squinting state.
"Repent, you unbelievers!" the administrator loudly began to preach again, "The Lord is merciful - bring his companions to the altar!"
The two young men dragged the red-eyed eldest sister beside Lu Shen and walked to the mound, while the surrounding believers sent "blessings" to the eldest sister.
There was even an aunt among them who happily patted the eldest sister's leg and said, "You and your man will meet again in the kingdom of the Lord soon! Be happy!"
The woman whose face was bruised and swollen after being kicked was dragged up to the "altar" like a dog again. The administrator raised his hands again, "Go and influence her!"
"Boom!" A dull gunshot completely broke the sound of the surrounding believers repeating "indoctrination". The administrator's head disappeared - more than ten meters behind him, red and white liquids were everywhere.
Those believers were killed one after another by bullets from the sky. There was no warning, no arrest warrant, and the attackers did not even accept surrender. Lu Chen saw with his own eyes that a young believer who raised his hands and shouted "I surrender" was shot with bullets.
A hornet's nest.
As for the eldest sister who was dragged up to the "altar", she broke her own wrist directly and then untied herself.
She used all her strength to crawl to the headless administrator who was still twitching, and then used her teeth to tear down the flesh piece by piece from the corpse.