"Hey, has anyone seen Wilt?"
After escaping the safe house, Annina looked around but couldn't find Wilt. She asked with slight anxiety, after all, he was a comrade who had fought alongside her.
"At times like these, you still have the energy to care about him?" Gool said sarcastically. "I'm afraid he's already died under the muzzles of the Taotie."
Tof, standing beside him, said calmly, "We don't have time to look for Wilt now. The nuclear strike is getting closer, and the helicopter picking us up is already here."
As he spoke, Tof looked up towards the distance.
Following Tof's gaze, a transport plane was flying towards them.
As the transport plane grew closer.
*Boom!*
A laser beam descended from the sky, piercing directly through the transport plane. The violent explosion instinctively caused Tof and the others to step back a few paces.
"Well, looks like we'll have to find our own way out now."
The Taotie clearly didn't want them to leave so openly. As Gool's voice fell, several Taotie aircraft suddenly appeared in the sky, flying overhead and opening fire on them.
Fortunately, they reacted quickly and hid behind cover, thus avoiding being riddled with bullets.
On the command ship in the air.
"Humans are so arrogant, thinking they can deceive us with such low-level tactics."
The Taotie commander on the command ship looked at the intercepted telegram with disdain, but the smile on his face soon disappeared.
"If they use nuclear weapons... it will indeed pose a certain threat to the command ship. Tch, these Earthlings are really willing to go all out, aren't they? Are they playing mutually assured destruction?"
In the city, at the Sacred Dragon Cathedral.
The once spacious plaza had become extremely crowded due to the large number of refugees gathered there. The Taotie aircraft flying overhead from time to time, the constant explosions, fear, death, restlessness, and unease, all vibrated on the most sensitive nerves of everyone present. Su Tan Novel Network.
Fortunately, this cathedral was under the protection of the Sacred Dragon, and Taotie and danger would not dare to step foot here. At least, that's what the believers and priests said, and it turned out to be true. The Taotie seemed to be repelled by some mysterious force, unable to enter the cathedral's vicinity even by a single step, regardless of the weapons they used.
Even knowing they were safe here, under such extreme pressure, breakdown was only a matter of time.
Once people break down, they tend to do outrageous things. And this was America, where guns were free, a magical country where the number of firearms alone exceeded the total population.
These guns were useless against the Taotie, whose technology far surpassed Earth's.
Useless against the enemy, but very useful against their own people.
Guns couldn't kill Taotie, but they were still accurate when aimed at their fellow countrymen.
And so, there was a man who couldn't bear the pressure and was about to vent his frustration.
"Hey! You, yes, you."
A man holding a semi-automatic rifle approached a female university student. The dark muzzle was pointed directly at her head, and he said with a hint of ferocity, "Get up and have some fun with me."
The female student had never seen such a situation before. She was completely terrified, crouching on the ground with her head in her hands, trembling, unable to utter a few words for a long time. It wasn't that there weren't any justice-minded hot-blooded youths wanting to be a hero, but upon seeing the gun in the man's hand and the heavy body armor he wore, they immediately lost their nerve.
Just as the man was about to take further action against the female student, a large hand was placed on his shoulder from behind.
"My friend, this is not a place where you can act as you please."
The man turned his head and saw a priest in a white robe, with a kind, squinting gaze, holding a Sacred Dragon Codex in his hand, standing behind him.
Instead of appreciating the priest's kind advice, the man retorted, "Old man, get out of the way."
"Is that so? It seems you don't intend to cooperate properly."
The priest slowly opened his squinting eyes, and a golden light emanated from the Sacred Dragon Codex, entering the priest's body.
Then, the priest's body began to swell at a visible rate. In just a few seconds, the previously thin and frail, kind priest transformed into a burly, muscular man over two meters sixty tall.
Looking at the intimidating, muscular priest before him, the man's defiance remained. He directly raised his gun and pointed it at the priest's head, saying, "Do you really think I'm afraid of you? Believe it or not, I'll shoot your head off."
As soon as the man finished speaking, the old priest's kind smile reappeared. He then grabbed the gun barrel and applied a gentle force.
To everyone's shock, the rifle, as if made of paper, de-formed at a visible rate. Then, to the man's astonishment, the old priest snatched the rifle away and, with a strong grip, crushed it into a metal disc.
The man still wanted to say something, but the old priest didn't intend to give him the chance. Before he could open his mouth, he delivered a resounding slap.
With a powerful palm strike landing on the man's face, the man's head spun like a launched top, rotating dozens of times in less than three seconds, his neck twisted like a pretzel.
After dealing with the man, the old priest's body gradually shrunk back to its original size. He smiled kindly at the terrified female student and asked, "Child, are you alright?"
The female student was completely stunned and didn't answer the old priest's question. The priest didn't get angry. He looked around at the shocked refugees and said, "This is a sacred place protected by the Sacred Dragon. The reason you are still alive is also the blessing of the Sacred Dragon. Therefore, for the sake of your lives, please do not do anything out of line."
A threat, a naked threat. But with the previous example of the man, the freedom-loving citizens of America dared not even fart in response to the old priest's warning.
The old priest nodded with satisfaction and slowly walked into the cathedral, skillfully picking up a new white robe from the hanger by the door and putting it on.
Inside the cathedral, there were a group of believers, all wearing white robes and white hoods like the priest. They were kneeling devoutly before a giant statue of the Holy Lord, chanting praises for the greatness of the Sacred Dragon.
The priest walked slowly onto the stage, turned to face the giant Holy Lord statue, and slowly bowed his head, clasping his hands in front of him to pray to Bai Qi.
Bai Qi saw all of this through the statue.
In recent days, Bai Qi had traveled between various churches through the statue, performing minor miracles. Coupled with the cooperation of the Taotie, he had gained a large number of believers and harvested a considerable amount of faith.
Now, seeing the old priest praying to him, and with the US government about to launch a nuclear strike on the area in two hours, he could take this opportunity to harvest another wave.