It's the thousands of people who are fighting to drink the sewage in the drainage canal.
The people at the front knelt on their knees, stretched their hands into the sewage as if they had found treasures, and then carefully picked up the green and yellowish "soup" of corruption, and poured the "soup" into the water without hesitation.
Drink it all in one gulp.
People who finished drinking didn't feel sick at all. Instead, they looked very satisfied. They would raise their hands and salute to the drainage ditch where the sewage flowed, and said something pious...
"Thank you my Lord for this gift!"
"My Lord is generous!"
Waiting for words about thanking "my Lord".
Leon and Ada, who were secretly observing from the platform, saw the depraved scene below and were able to confirm that this incident was definitely inseparable from a certain evil god in another space.
And don’t doubt that it’s the hell plane?
The employee levels of the two of them are enough to access most files. Among them, the files on the hell plane have been classified as "Hera (second) level" by the company, which is even lower than some anomalies on earth.
Besides, there is also the existence of D-1999, so when encountering the situation of crazy believers, the two instinctively rule out the hell plane.
Leon, who confirmed that his judgment was correct, immediately uploaded what they saw to the company's network and the Krieg 087 Group, and applied for the elite support of the 087 Group to destroy these corrupted "believers" in front of them.
Group 087, which had no communication delay, responded to Lyon within a few seconds of receiving the application.
A combat battalion equipped with heavy firepower is expected to arrive at the location where he and Ada are located in fifteen minutes.
Moreover, the leader of the 087th Regiment also stated that follow-up troops will be sent to blockade Area 04.
Knowing that the 087th regiment had started taking action, Leon took back his cell phone and continued to observe below.
He didn't know how these people were corrupted, but Lyon guessed that the "vaccine" developed by the plague doctor should have worked.
Otherwise, the fallen believers would not choose to hide underground and adopt a step-by-step approach to "pollute" the entire city.
Suddenly, Ada poked Leon with her right elbow, reminding him to pay attention to the direction diagonally to the left.
Leon turned his head slightly and looked around, and saw a believer who had finished drinking the sewage and was wearing a sheriff's uniform. He was about to raise his hand to salute, but was stunned for a few seconds.
Immediately afterwards, the Sheriff jumped up and danced, shouting extremely excitedly to the believers around him:
"Hahaha! My Lord has answered! My Lord has answered my prayer! I have received my Lord's reward!"
The Sheriff shouted, his body also mutating.
The unhealthy skin color became paler, and several green pustules appeared at the corners of the mouth.
The back of the right hand rotted rapidly, and there were also slender, milky-white tentacles that were wriggling through the rotten skin.
If he were a normal person, he would rush to the hospital for a check-up to get rid of the parasite-like tentacles.
But the believers whose minds had been corrupted and who could drink the "bunch soup" not only did not think that the sheriff's mutation was so morbid, but all of them showed envy.
It seems that they also want to obtain such a mutation.
At this time, Leon and Ada saw another "person" who was at least three meters tall, flowing sewage towards the sheriff whose body was mutating.
The "man" was bloated and huge, wrapped in a black robe, and his right hand was completely rotten, holding a scimitar that emitted a strange green light.
However, the handle of the scimitar is more like being closely connected with the "person's" right hand and cannot be separated.
The man in black robe came closer, waved the scimitar in his right hand at the magistrate and the believers, and said loudly in a nasally thick voice:
"Let us congratulate this companion for gaining the attention of our Lord!"
"Congratulations!" the believers responded loudly.
"As long as everyone is pious enough to my Lord, sooner or later they will get my Lord's attention and blessings!" the man in black robe continued.
"My Lord has mercy!" the believers cheered again.
Leon and Ada on the platform could not directly see the face of the man in black robes due to angle problems, but it was not difficult for them to guess that the other was the culprit or one of the culprits that caused the corruption of this group of people.
After all, evil gods from different spaces need some kind of medium to directly enter the real world, such as the group of believers in front of Lyon.
"Okay! Everyone, be quiet first!" The man in black robe motioned to the believers to keep quiet.
After the atmosphere in the drainage channel became quieter, the man in black robe said: "I have some bad news to inform everyone.
That is, our existence has been exposed and we can no longer secretly recruit more companions, so we can only take radical methods to let our Lord come to our side and lead us to teach us the true meaning of human life!"
"Sacrifice the heretics! For our Lord!" the believers shouted in unison.
"Hahaha! Okay!" The man in black robe looked up and laughed, then slowly turned around and looked around at the believers.
This move also allowed Leon and Ada to gradually see his face clearly.
The face of the man in black robes was covered with abscesses, and there were even white maggot-like parasites that sometimes burrowed out of the skin, crawled a certain distance and then burrowed back into the flesh.
Although unrecognizable, the mask's screen was still scanning, and through the facial contours, the identity of the man in black robes was still analyzed, and there was a 56% probability that it was Philsi Dharani.
Brief information about Phils Doroni is also automatically displayed on the right side of the mask screen, making it easier for Leon and Ada to browse.
And this Phils was the director of the District 04 Public Security Department who took the initiative to retire two months ago.
This discovery confirmed that Ada's judgment was equally accurate and that there was indeed a problem with the top management of Area 04.
"Everyone!" Phils, who looked around at the believers, became even more enthusiastic and said:
"My companions hidden in various parts of the city have already begun to take action, preparing to let more ignorant people see the truth, so we cannot fall behind! Prepare to go to the surface with me!"
"For my Lord!!"
"But before that..." Phils suddenly raised the scimitar, pointed the tip of the blade towards the platform, and said with a dark smile:
"Everyone needs to first get rid of the culprit who is hiding there and afraid to show up, disrupting our plans and exposing our existence."
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After hearing what Phils said, the believers stood up one after another and looked in the direction pointed by the blade, and found Leon and Ada who had appeared at an unknown time.
Upon counter-observation, the two men realized that they had been exposed. Not only did they not panic, they also responded with a tacit understanding.
Ada, who was half-crouching, immediately pulled the trigger and shot a high-energy red beam towards Phils' eyebrows.
Leon stood up quickly, took out two small grenades from his previous tactical bag, removed the ring, released the safety, and threw them vigorously towards Phils and the direction where the believers gathered the most.
But there was a sound of "Buzz—!"
The beam of light that was the first to escape was about to penetrate Phils' eyebrows, but was offset by a barrier emitting green light, unable to harm Phils at all.
"Boom! Boom!"
Instead, two expensive small plasma grenades emitted a deafening explosion, flashing blue light, successfully wrapping Phils, and shattering and scorching the believers near the explosion.
"Walk!"
"Um!"
However, Leon and Ada had no intention of checking whether the grenade had killed Phils. Instead, they were very aware of current affairs and evacuated the platform.
They are "mortals" after all. No matter how skilled they are, they cannot defeat two people against a thousand, so retreating is the best option.
"Chase!!"
Many reacted believers shouted loudly, rushed to the platform by taking the elevator or climbing the stairs, and then rushed into the tunnel, chasing Leon and Ada, and they were bound to "sacrifice" the two people who disrupted the plan.
Lose".
On the side of the drainage channel, the smoke from the explosion quickly dissipated.
Phils, who can generate psychic barriers to withstand high-energy beams, is naturally not afraid of plasma grenade attacks.
Phils raised his left hand that seemed to have been replaced by an octopus tentacle, pulled down the hood of his black robe, completely exposing his swollen head, and stared at the platform above with his cloudy eyes.
At this time, the strange green light of the scimitar growing together with his right hand suddenly intensified, causing Phils to shift his gaze from the platform to the scimitar.
"Yes...my Lord, yes...I understand, yes, I will let you step into reality again..."
Afterwards, Phils muttered to himself about the scimitar in a pious tone.
It seems that the fallen former administrator is conversing with the so-called "my lord" through a machete.
After Phils finished talking to himself, a believer whose body was equally severely corrupted asked in a trembling tone:
"What does my lord...mean?"
"Since there are already many friends chasing those two bugs, the remaining people and I will go to the surface to prepare for the ceremony to summon our Lord to come."
"yes..."
After finishing the conversation, Phils led the remaining hundreds of believers to the end of the drainage channel.
...
Leon and Ada...
"Ta! Ta-ta!" The pulse gunfire sounded loudly in the tunnel.
"Pah! Pah!" The shellless pulse bomb hitting the wall exploded in a small scale, collapsing a large number of debris and fragments.
It sounds like there is a lot of commotion and the situation is critical, but in fact, the two people have never appeared in the eyes of the believers from beginning to end.
The believers in a state of madness just pulled the trigger forward randomly in an attempt to vent their anger.
There are many believers, but their composition is too mixed, and most of them are civilians.
Only the Sheriff, with less than ten people among them, remained sane and tried to track down Leon and Ada.
However, the moment the Sheriff led the believers around the corner...
"boom-!"
The detonation of another plasma grenade directly physically "purified" more than a dozen believers, and completely eliminated the slight possibility of the believers catching up with Leon and Ada.
...
"boom......"
Even though the two heard a faint explosion coming from behind, their running speed did not slow down.
They didn't slow down until they reached an area only one step away from the ground. After passing a corner, they stopped for a while on the road.
"Huh...huh..."
The two of them regulate their breathing rhythm.
Ada was guarding the rear with a gun, while Leon took out his mobile phone and found that the red cross logo he least expected to see was displayed above the channel for contacting the company.
This means that they, and even the whole of Arcadia, have lost contact with the outside world, and it also means that something has happened to the relay station that Krieger is responsible for guarding.
Leon, aware of this, switched to the communication channel with the Krieg 087 Regiment.
Sure enough, the latest information provided by the 087th Regiment stated that both the relay station and their station were under heavy firepower.
Due to Lyon's reminder, the 087th Regiment, which had prepared for battle in advance, suffered moderate losses in terms of personnel, and the artillerymen of the 087th Regiment also launched a more violent counterattack.
However, the relay station was seriously damaged and they will continue to be disconnected from the company until repairs are completed.
After seeing this information, Leon's expression became extremely solemn.
The 087th Regiment encountered heavy firepower and shelling...
Only the UNSC 203rd Infantry Division stationed on the far west side of the metropolitan area has the ability to carry out artillery strikes.
The 087th Regiment also stated that what they eliminated was the artillery battalion of the 203rd Division, and they also learned that the 203rd Division was also in chaos.
The UNSC infantry were unable to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, and were in a state of mutual suspicion and fighting. They even encountered self-destructive biological weapons attacks.
The entire metropolitan area of Arcadia was also plunged into chaos.
As for the Krieger Combat Battalion responsible for connecting Leon and Ada, the air vehicle was damaged due to the artillery bombing of the 203rd Division, so it could only rush to Area 04 by ground vehicle, so it could not arrive on time.
Moreover, the location where the 087th Regiment is stationed is under attack from UNSC soldiers, peace officers and civilians who are obviously hostile.
After receiving this information, Leon knew that he and Ada were temporarily isolated and helpless, but it was nothing compared to the situation of the 087th Regiment.
After all, the two of them have escaped the pursuit of the believers, and when they return to the chaotic surface, they don't have to worry about the possibility of being pursued.
"How is the situation?" Ada asked at this time.
"..."
Leon did not answer, but took over the vigilance work and handed the phone to Ada so that she could be directly informed of the current situation.
Ada quickly read through all kinds of information, returned the phone to Leon, and continued to rush towards the surface, and said worriedly:
"Lyon, the current situation is far beyond our expectations, especially with the presence of Phils, who is suspected of possessing psychic powers. It is impossible for the 087th Regiment alone to persist until the company's support arrives."
"Don't underestimate Krieger. When the combat camp arrives in Area 04, we can try to behead that Phils.
Besides, we disrupted the plan of those scumbags, which shows that those scumbags are much more panicked than we are.
Also, I believe that the support sent by the company should be troops specialized in dealing with different spaces. Even if we fail, they will not." Leon said calmly.
While the two of them were talking, they had climbed the ladder to push open the manhole cover and successfully returned to the surface streets of Area 04.
Moreover, this street is home to their temporary residence, the Blue Resort Hotel, and there are people coming from all directions...
"Ah...Help! Help!"
"That Sheriff is crazy! Crazy!"
"Run quickly!"
"Ta! Ta-ta!"
Screams and roars, and occasional gunshots.
The streets were filled with people hurriedly fleeing. One of the police officers actually shot a civilian's thigh and even forced the civilian with a broken leg to drink a whole bottle of green "soup."
Traditional vehicles on the ground collided with each other, causing complete traffic jams. Airships in the sky no longer obeyed the rules of the waterway and tried to escape from the city by increasing their altitude.
Under the gorgeous night sky with twinkling stars, the entire city was filled with fire. Disorder and chaos dominated, and it no longer looked like a tourist attraction in the past.