At eight in the morning, on a street in the North District of Yangcheng.
Zhang Yi walked down the street with a gloomy expression, followed by several burly men.
“Archbishop Zhang, where should we look? There's absolutely no movement right now, and those people aren't showing themselves,” a burly man in black clothes with small eyes said.
After the battle at the subway station, they had been deployed here to work under Zhang Yi.
The ranks of these people were based on the hierarchy within the Church of the Earth Mother, which was divided into the Supreme Pontiff and the Six Archbishops.
Below them were the Earth Priests who formed the combat force of the Church of the Earth Mother, and these men were the lowest-ranking Earth Priests.
“We have enough manpower now. For now, we'll just wander around the city to assess the situation. Besides, we're not ordinary people; walking for ten days or half a month straight won't tire us out,” Zhang Yi said, looking left and right as he tried to find a target.
Hearing this, the group of burly men beside him could only follow suit.
Traveling in this manner, the group was incredibly conspicuous in the already tense Yangcheng.
In a corner of the street, a plainclothes agent noticed the group looking around.
He immediately walked toward them, and as he did, four inspectors stepped out from the side.
Drawing their pistols, they followed behind the agent and shouted, “You guys over there, what are you doing acting so suspiciously? Stop right now and show your ID cards!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
However, before they could even get close, Zhang Yi merely glanced at them, and an invisible barrier materialized.
The four inspectors were instantly blown apart by the impact of the barrier, chunks of flesh scattering everywhere.
The surrounding pedestrians froze at the sight. Even the agent, who was leading the way and preparing to take them in for questioning, came to a dead stop.
His face turned pale, his eyes widened, and a bead of cold sweat trickled down his forehead.
“Ah! Murder! Run!”
Someone screamed, and the surrounding pedestrians scrambled to flee.
Just as the agent was about to run, a burly man suddenly appeared behind him and grabbed him by the neck.
“Hehehe, kid, don't bother running. Did you really think we didn't know you were an agent?” The burly man dragged him over to Zhang Yi.
Looking at the terrified agent, Zhang Yi suddenly smiled. “I was just wondering where to find one, and now the opportunity has delivered itself right to my door.”
He always felt that after being absorbed by the Earth Mother, his brain didn't seem to work as well as before. In the past, he could easily come up with several schemes off the top of his head.
Now, he had turned into a reckless brute.
“Could it be that there are too many memories inside the Earth Mother, and they've made me stupid?” With this thought in mind, he plunged his hand into the agent's head to read his memories.
A moment later, the approximate locations of the heads of the Yangcheng Security Bureau, the Inspector Bureau, and the garrison appeared in his mind.
Splat!
Pulling his hand out, the agent collapsed, his eyes rolling back.
“Let's go. Since we can't find them here for now, it's time to take control of the local authorities. With their manpower, things will be much easier for us.” Zhang Yi walked toward the city center with an easygoing expression.
The burly men followed behind him. Any inspectors or agents who occasionally crossed their path along the way were casually slaughtered.
Against a pack of monsters, their firearms were nothing more than useless sticks.
Just as the Church of the Earth Mother was preparing to seize control of Yangcheng...
Meanwhile, by a riverbank in the suburbs of Yangcheng.
“Is this a crystal?” A middle-aged beggar in his thirties looked curiously at the crystal lying in the weeds before him.
He reached out and gently touched the crystal.
Buzz!
In the next instant, a massive influx of memories surged from the crystal, causing his body to convulse.
Within the crystal, a large amount of black mist materialized out of thin air. From the black mist, the consciousness of the Lord of Evil flooded into the beggar's body.
The beggar's eyes flashed with a faint purple hue, and his convulsing body came to a halt.
The Lord of Evil looked at the riverbank before him, a bizarre smile spreading across his face. “Haha, hahaha! Thousands of years! It's been thousands of years, and I'm finally out! You couldn't seal me forever, you old bastard!!!”
He read the beggar's memories. In this era, demons had vanished, mages were extinct, and the supernatural had gone into hiding.
It seemed as though everything had faded away with time, leaving a world ruled solely by ordinary humans.
The more memories he read, the more exaggerated the smile on the Lord of Evil's face became. “To think there isn't a single supernatural being here. It seems Destiny has decreed that this King shall rule the world once more!”
But in the next second, as if remembering something, his smile vanished. “This King's other five powers are scattered nearby, but why hasn't the Power of Rules appeared yet? Is it still sealed?”
“Forget it. I'll retrieve my other powers first.” He turned and walked toward the nearest source of power.
Over there lay his techniques.
In his current state, he possessed only his consciousness and lacked even a shred of supernatural power.
His only capability was the ability to absorb back the powers sealed within those items.
Just as he was walking toward the location of his techniques...
Five hundred meters up in the sky, a three-meter-wide, invisible moth was drawn to him.
Beneath the moth's wings grew two pairs of large green eyes, specifically designed to detect individuals with special abilities.
“There's something strange about this guy. He was just an ordinary human a moment ago, but after touching that crystal, a surge of black mist appeared in his body.” At the center of the moth was a woman's head, with antennae growing from her forehead.
Having found her target, the human-headed moth focused her mind, using the Earth Mother as a relay station to send a message to all members of the Church of the Earth Mother in Yangcheng.
Meanwhile, over ten kilometers away, Buck was dressed in a trench coat and wearing a black mask.
Vroom! Vroom! Vroom!
Beneath him, he revved the motorcycle's engine hard, tearing down the street at two hundred kilometers per hour, as if terrified that no one would notice him.
“Huh? Why is there another target now?” Buck had originally been heading toward a zoo, but another target had suddenly appeared in his mind.
It was also approaching the zoo.
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