Capítulo 735: Chapter 372: Sea Demon Landing
An unnatural, damp wind blew in from beyond New York Port.
At first, this commonplace sight would not be taken by anyone as an on: on the Brooklyn Bridge—that landmark that keeps getting destroyed in disaster flicks and monster movies—the morning rush-hour traffic was still crawling along, drivers leaning on their horns and cursing, the radio babbling about weather and traffic, and nobody noticed that the distant horizon of the sea had gone dark.
…No, not gone dark. It was rising.
A wall of water taller than any skyscraper was slowly—almost gently—rearing up beyond the horizon. It didn’t thunder or roar, it simply pressed forward in silence, like the whole ocean was lifting itself up onto tiptoe.
The first scream ca from a tourist on a ferry. They all raised their phones toward that ever-taller wall of water. Seen from afar, people still thought it was so rare teorological phenonon, until that wall of water ca closer and closer without the slightest sign of collapsing—until sothing inside the wall moved.
A colossal thing, beyond any doubt.
Its surface color called to mind pale rock; from the shadows beneath the water erged a multi-jointed, many-limbed deformity of a body, like a spider or an octopus. The layers upon layers of folds all over it were clammy and cold; when the giant beast’s head slowly erged from behind the water wall, tens of thousands of seagulls shrieked and took flight, scattering like rain or snow.
The Monster did not roar. It only breathed.
That sound of breathing ca from several miles away, yet seed to press right up against the back of everyone’s skull. Deep, wet, reeking of seabed silt and rot, and of sothing older still…
It lifted its limbs, seawater cascading from its pale body like waterfalls. The Monster’s full form was finally exposed under the sunlight; it was moving toward Manhattan Island with a slow yet utterly relentless gait. Each rise and fall of its limbs gouged a huge whirlpool into the surrounding sea, then heaved it up again.
Joggers in the parks stopped running, office workers in their towers spilled their coffee, a stroller tipped over by the curb. Everyone was looking up, mouths agape, staring in the sa direction, yet unable to make a sound.
After the sudden silence ca a tsunami of terror, as everyone broke into panicked running, screaming, or sobbing.
The beast was so enormous that what looked like a slow movent actually crossed hundreds of ters at a ti. The breakwaters collapsed under its feet—not swallowed by waves, but simply stomped down into the sea, as easily as crushing a soda cracker.
At last, one limb descended like a tower fallen from the heavens, driving straight into the most expensive stretch of land on earth.
The air was compressed, torn, utterly pulverized; the glass curtain walls of modern high-rises exploded in the vibrations, and older brick-and-mortar buildings, unable to withstand the pressure, began to crumble from within.
In the end, the Monster made landfall, raising waves even along the streets: a circular wall of seawater and pulverized concrete surged outward from it, pouncing on the entire city; and in the distance, a mass of fleeing people and jamd-together vehicles…
*
A few minutes earlier, Cen Dongsheng had pulled open the helicopter door, ready to jump straight down and take a look, but Great Sister stopped him.
“Dongsheng, let’s stay here and enjoy the show for a bit.”
Sister Zhi Zhen’s face held a faint, ambiguous smile.
“Right now isn’t the ti for us to make our entrance.”
“…You know what’s going to happen next?”
“Have you forgotten?” she asked back with a smile. “You’re the one who told . You’ve gone on and on about this topic several tis already, and one particular ti really stuck in your mory…”
Cen Dongsheng turned the thought over and imdiately caught on.
“‘Sea Demon Landing’… so today is that day.”
“Exactly.”
“Ti really flies.”
…
In the era when human society was transitioning to an entirely new order, there occurred eight major supernatural catastrophes, later collectively known as the “Eight Great Disasters,” scattered across the globe.
The causes of the “Eight Great Disasters” varied. Not every incident had an Evil God Ghost King or so powerful sorcerer pulling strings behind the scenes, but from the First Wave to the Second Wave, they were indeed the events that left the deepest mark on human thought and the erging social order.
Among them, the “Sea Demon Landing” in New York Manhattan and the “Yin Soldiers Crossing” in Zhonghua Tianhai City happened earliest and had the most profound impact, almost single-handedly determining how the two great powers of China and Arica would approach supernatural power, and what sort of social order would follow. Compared to “Yin Soldiers Crossing,” which eventually had the Philosopher King show up to clean up the ss, the aftermath of the “Sea Demon Landing” was that nearly half of the United States holand fell, and the remaining territory still under human control sank into prolonged resistance and fragntation.
What Sister Zhi Zhen called “that incident he kept bringing up over and over” naturally referred to the forr. Cen Dongsheng rembered “Yin Soldiers Crossing” vividly, as it was the experience that changed his life; as for the “Sea Demon Landing”… he actually only knew it from the news reports and post-event coverage back then.
But either way, a global tropolis that once held “center of the world” status being struck by a Monster of irresistible, act-of-God scale—an event like that ant any old-era regi of information control had completely failed. From that point on, the turmoil and upheaval that would sweep across the world beca unavoidable.
*
Screams and shouts rippled out like dominoes with the Monster’s approach, passing from one seaside building to the next, from block to block.
Tens of thousands of people had already died without a sound in the cracks split open in the earth, or were pinned beneath rubble from collapsing buildings. Farther away, people still tried to push through jam-packed streets and flee this city about to beco Hell; yet in the Monster’s wake, amid the shattered ruins, a sliver of life still remained.
The Monster paid no mind to this swarm of people smaller than ants, lumbering forward to the sound of its dull, thunder-like breathing.
Survivors hid in nearby buildings and basents, subway stations were packed to bursting; the streets that had been churning with crowds were now deserted, littered with high heels, ties, and briefcases, like the set of an apocalypse.
Hiding their bodies, people tilted their heads up to watch the passing giant cast its shadow between the high-rises, like nightfall arriving ahead of schedule; and…
They saw specks of starlight gathering in the sky above Manhattan from all directions—that was one figure after another equipped with unknown flight gear, leaping and gliding through the concrete-and-steel jungle in outlandish outfits, of all different ethnicities.
Soon enough, so of the survivors recognized the identities of these eccentrics. Because even before the “Sea Demon Landing,” this country was already in a state of rampant chaos; the undercurrents beneath the stage had almost surged into full view. There were Demons parading themselves in public, and there were groups trying to hog the spotlight by playing at the comic-book superheroes of fiction.
“Look!”
“It’s the ‘Saviors’!”
“Told you they really existed!”
This group of people shouted in excitent, gazing up in fervent expectation at the bizarre figures flying toward the Monster.
*
“But the ‘Sea Demon Landing’ is only the first phase of this disaster… or rather, it’s not the main target we have to deal with.”
An Zhizhen handed him a thick stack of files.
“In my estimation, the first group to step up and try to stop the Sea Demon will most likely be this Curse Forbidden Master organization called the ‘Savior Legion.’ Their superior body is an erging religious group known as the ‘Cosmic Gate’…”
“I know the ‘Cosmic Gate’—it was founded by one of the two Special Grade Curse Forbidden Masters in the United States. As for this subordinate group… you’re saying they literally call themselves Saviors?”
“That’s right.” An Zhizhen laughed. “Once people accidentally gain power far beyond the norm, they start developing a God complex—it’s a very common phenonon, isn’t it? If I’m being honest, I’m one of them too.”
Cen Dongsheng: “…”
Great Sister was a smart person, and smart people naturally had self-awareness. Unfortunately, she understood herself a little too well, leaving him with no room to even crack a joke.
“But they can’t win.”
Cen Dongsheng looked over the materials in front of him and silently nodded.
From what he could sense, the Monster’s presence clearly exceeded the scope of a re Divine Power Mage, edging close to the realm of Special Class; whereas on paper, this “Savior” organization—called a legion though it was—was nowhere near as organized as the Special Team. It was just a motley assortnt of low-level Curse Forbidden Masters, and they even recruited ordinary people.
If nothing unexpected happened, their only possible fate was to beco the Monster’s feed—and that was most likely exactly what the “Cosmic Gate” lurking behind them, and its leader, the Special Grade Curse Forbidden Master Marshall Applewhite, self-styled “Savior of the New Era,” had in mind.
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