Chapter 263
The neon lights of the bustling night-time pedestrian street flickered, and between the towering high-rises, traffic flowed endlessly as crowds bustled back and forth. The shops along the street were brightly lit, their dazzling array of goods neatly arranged in the display windows. However, this normally harmonious “night market” was shattered by a “monster” that fell from the sky.
Shen Ge was still fully encased in his Red Mist Battle Armor. Earlier, to evade the sky-filling bizarre mist tornadoes and flying debris, Little Seven had converted all the corrosive blood—except the part protecting Shen Ge’s body—into tentacles. As a result, right now he looked like some kind of mutated spider-octopus monster.
After a brief moment of silence, panicked screams erupted from the crowd. The sounds of running and cries for help rose one after another. Some people ran blindly into shops, while others stood frozen in place, completely petrified.
Although Da Jing had already experienced one bizarre disaster, most of those who went through it had either been turned into monsters by parasitic-type anomalies or had died in the catastrophe. The survivors, without hesitation, chose to leave this “dangerous” city.
Therefore, the majority of people on the street only knew about anomalies and strange individuals from the news, and the news, naturally, had been processed to a certain extent to avoid scaring children.
You could say most of the people here were experiencing a bizarre incident firsthand for the very first time. Anyone who wasn’t paralyzed with fear had a pretty strong psychological constitution.
At that moment, voices rose from the crowd: “Quick, call the Special Policy Department!”, “Report it!”, “Find the Anomaly Operatives!” Some people had already dialed the Special Policy Department’s dedicated reporting line.
On an adjacent street, pedestrians fleeing in panic caused a multi-car pile-up. A slightly overweight, balding, middle-aged man scrambled out of the driver’s seat, tumbling as he ran. Seeing the red monster in the distance made his scalp tingle. He thought to himself that he really couldn’t stay in this damn city of Da Jing any longer; he needed to move his whole family to Rong City tomorrow. If nothing else, that place had the Great Celestial Dynasty’s top-ranked duo of Anomaly Operatives, “Shen Tan,” stationed there, giving an immediate, absolute sense of security!
And that man was none other than Tang Laoya, whom Shen Ge had previously saved on the anomaly plane. Unfortunately, he had no idea that the monster before him was the very source of his “sense of security.”