The thick fog still hadn't dissipated.
The clear field of vision was still only a meter or two away.
As the sun set, the dense fog made the entire space even darker.
It was as if a thick layer of gauze had been laid outside.
Eerie noises came from unseen depths outside, making one's skin crawl.
At the shooting club.
The whole Jim family was huddled together in the back, only Jim and Mike, along with Jim's sister Georgina, were standing next to Erin and John Wick, looking outside through the glass door and the floor-to-ceiling windows.
If the mysterious noises outside were ignored, the atmosphere was so quiet it was suffocating.
A voice, unable to restrain itself, broke the silence.
"Um..."
Everyone turned toward the source of the voice to see Georgina slightly shrinking back.
Erin and John Wick didn't speak; only her brother Jim did.
"Georgina, if you're tired, go rest."
"I'm not tired." Georgina hesitated before saying:
"I'm a bit worried about the safety of that priest! Could he..."
Jim's mouth twitched, thinking it was not the time to say such things,
Just as Jim was about to speak, John Wick cut him off.
"Father York never does anything dangerous."
"The God of Death," based on his understanding of the priest, continued, "And if Father decides to do something, he must be quite sure of it."
If Father York were here, he would sigh, "John, you really understand me."
This obviously reassured Georgina and Jim.
Jim relaxed, while Georgina, curious, stared at the dangerous dense fog outside, recalling the priest who had saved her life…
"He's that amazing?"
Before they could reflect further, Erin suddenly widened her eyes and said.
"Something's coming!"
This statement instantly set everyone off.
John Wick and Mike immediately grabbed their guns, with only Jim, who was a researcher, being a bit slower.
"Sister Erin, what did you see?" John Wick tensed up, ready for battle, and asked.
By now, he had accepted that some clergy members of the church possessed special abilities not held by ordinary people, and Sister Erin was also within the range he considered.
Because she was a deaconess under Father York.
What John Wick didn't see was the golden halo appearing in the depths of Erin's pupils.
"It's right in front, getting closer."
In her vision, a swarm of flying creatures, a mix of mosquitoes and scorpions, about the size of three palms, was flying toward them.
"Here they come!"
Before anyone could prepare, John Wick also spotted the swarm of flying creatures approaching the window.
These flying creatures, as described by Father York, were those scorpion-tailed beasts with a large poisonous sting on their tails, capable of killing with just a light jab.
The danger was palpable from the oozing poison on their stings, not just from the stings themselves, but also from the sheer size and density of the scorpion-tailed beast swarm.
Because ants in large numbers can kill an elephant, and they were no elephants.
"Go!"
Jim was already on edge, shouting at Georgina.
Understanding she couldn't hold them back, Georgina hurried to the back.
Bang!
A scorpion-tailed beast slammed into the window, crawling around like an ant.
One after another, making the window look like something that could trigger trypophobia…
"Sister Erin."
John Wick, holding an AUG assault rifle with the highest magazine capacity, looked at the sister. However, he found that, at some point, she was also holding a similar rifle aimed at the window, at those scorpion-tailed beasts.
He remembered the priest's words, shook his head, and moved closer to the sister, to cover her in case of danger.
"Wait!"
Only Jim yelled out.
"They seem to be phototactic creatures."
"Right! Georgina! Turn off the lights! Turn off the lights!" Jim suddenly shouted.
John Wick and Erin exchanged a glance, allowing the other to handle it.
Then, Georgina, going with the flow, turned off the lights.
Clearly, Jim's research judgment was not wrong. When the lights were off and the inside matched the color outside, the scorpion-tailed beasts on the window, although still crawling around, were obviously not as aggressive as before, gathered together, wanting to break through the window into the inside.
Moreover, with Erin's warning, when another creature similar to a pterosaur arrived, the dense swarm of scorpion-tailed beasts, as if facing a natural enemy, had already scattered.
And those creatures, as large as pterosaurs, also ignored them, chasing after the scorpion-tailed beasts.
The situation was moving towards a better outcome, which relaxed everyone.
Only Erin showed a hint of inexplicable disappointment in her eyes; she still didn't get the chance for real combat training.
The priest had said that feedback from real combat was better than any training for making greater progress, which required actual combat experience.
Now, it seemed, with the situation changing, she still didn't get the chance for actual combat.
Thinking this, Erin looked outside at the dense fog that only allowed visibility for about ten meters, watching the cruel hunting scene in the air, and found herself missing her priest.
However, the priest she was thinking of at the moment was parked on the side of a road, looking through the car window at a supermarket on the other side, his lips twitching.
"It seems like it's the stage where scorpion-tailed beasts are attacking the supermarket?"
"In this parallel world, is the plot reversed?"
Father York didn't have time to ponder this point. He looked at the supermarket being attacked by some remaining scorpion-tailed beasts and was somewhat speechless.
It was nighttime now.
According to the information revealed by that world enveloped in dense fog with no light, its composition was similar to Earth's atmosphere.
But being perpetually covered in white fog means no photosynthesis, indicating very few edible plants, so most of these creatures must be carnivorous. Like the flying insects on Earth, such as these scorpion-tailed insects, are clearly phototactic creatures.
Now, what appeared before his eyes was a supermarket that was lit up.
Lit up was one thing, but it also had spotlights.
"This is purely seeking death."
Father York couldn't help but chuckle, of course, he also knew why the supermarket had become like this.
The reason was that some fools misunderstood the smart person's words.
The smart person, namely the male lead, realized that these scorpion-tailed beasts were phototactic and quickly shouted for the lights, lights.
But the male lead somewhat overestimated the intelligence of the people in the supermarket; they thought he meant to turn on the lights, and so they turned on all the lights.
"How could they not be stupid to become followers of a cult leader, led by her..."
Watching the supermarket window being breached by a large swarm of scorpion-tailed beasts, Father York shook his head and drove away.
It would have been okay not to see, but having seen it, it was necessary to take a look.
At the same time, he was quite curious whether the cult leader really had some ability.
To have the developments in the movie just as she said, sacrificing the male lead's son, the devil would spare them,
and God's wrath would be retracted.
After all, things turned out exactly like that; after the male lead shot his son, the world returned to normal...
At this moment, the supermarket was in complete chaos.
The scorpion-tailed beasts, being phototactic and preying on Earth's birds and some flying creatures, were easily frightened and agitated, beginning to attack the people in the supermarket.
But just as the people in the supermarket were dodging and in disarray, the middle-aged cult leader suddenly went crazy, shouting loudly.
"Look! Look! What now! Where are the people you placed your hopes in? I've said it before, the noises outside were created by the devil!"
In her mad screams, staring at the scorpion-tailed beasts flying around the lamps and spotlights, her face flushed red.
"Repentance! What we should think about now is repentance! Whips and bats are our punishment! We are punished for probing into secrets forbidden by God!
..."
Her words dropped one after another, full of seduction.
But she didn't notice the priest who had already gotten out of the car outside.
She didn't notice the scorpion-tailed beasts, which had been flying chaotically around the lamps and spotlights, had noticed her.
She didn't notice that the scorpion-tailed beasts, which were attacking the people inside the supermarket, suddenly exploded in place under her incredulous, widened eyes.
She noticed nothing and continued to scream madly.
"We see the earth's lips opening! We now see the lewdness of the nightmare! Rocks will not block them, the tree of death will not cover us! How will the world end? What can stop the apocalypse?"
Her words made Father York, walking towards the supermarket entrance, smile slightly.
If this counted as the apocalypse, and he resolved it so easily, what kind of apocalypse was this?
When the space rift was closed by him, the matter would end.
All that was needed was to wait for dawn, for the first rays of the sun to dispel the fog, and when the sunlight shone, the fog dissipated, all the monsters would surely disappear at that moment.
Step by step, Father York, using telekinesis, crushed one after another scorpion-tailed beast attacking the people inside the supermarket, letting the remaining beasts fly towards the still-shouting cult leader.
He wanted to see if this cult leader really had some special ability, or if she was just lucky, encountering a coincidence.
Buzz! Buzz!
The supermarket, due to the mysteriously exploding scorpion-tailed beasts, fell into a strange silence.
Only the cult leader was still shouting.
"Repentance! Only through repentance can God see our determination to change!"
Her words attracted the people inside the supermarket, including the male lead, who stood in the aisle between the shelves, looking at the cult leader shouting in the open space, with a hint of hesitation.
Because he saw some scorpion-tailed beasts flying towards the cult leader, their tails already showing the juice-covered stingers...
This woman was a familiar figure in the area; before the fog, she was just a somewhat odd woman who owned an antique shop in town, nothing special or possessing any special abilities, just someone who often spoke nonsense, yet a few people believed her.
Thinking this, the male lead intended to warn her, but before he could, from the crowd still in a good state of mind and not yet plunged into deep despair for psychological support, someone shouted out.
"Hey!! Mrs. Kamodi! Be careful! Danger!"
Careful? Danger?
The shouting cult leader subconsciously looked towards the shelves behind her based on the source of the sound.
As a result, she immediately saw a group of monsters with bared stingers and claws flying towards her.
At this moment, these ferocious monsters were already close at hand, leaving no time for her to react.
The cult leader, known as Mrs. Kamodi, tensed up, her instant stiffness only allowing her to watch helplessly as the scorpion-tailed beasts extended their stingers towards her.
The distance between them narrowed, her pupils filled with the tiny stingers, leaving no other gaps.
Fear struck, paralyzing her.
"God..."
Mrs. Kamodi involuntarily whispered, just as she was about to close her eyes and await death in that moment, in that slow-thinking moment of fear, she noticed that several stingers suddenly stopped in mid-air, just a few centimeters away.
"This..."
Before she could express strong joy, thinking it was God's arrival, saving her life,
The scorpion-tailed beasts frozen in the air exploded at that moment, their filth directly splashing onto her ecstatic face.
This scene stunned everyone in the supermarket, all wearing faces of hesitation, but not much surprise.
Because they had already seen many people escape danger in such situations.
"Yes!"
Only Mrs. Kamodi ecstatically said, "God!! God saved me! You all saw it!!!"
"This is a miracle!! I am..."
However, as she spoke, Mrs. Kamodi noticed that the people in front of her were not looking at her, but were wide-eyed looking in a certain direction, her left side behind her, their faces incredulous.
"..."
Mrs. Kamodi instinctively stopped herself from speaking, stiffly turning to look behind her left side.
Because she heard steady footsteps approaching from behind.
As she turned around, a tall and burly man appeared before her eyes. The man walked slowly out of the dark fog, pushing open the supermarket's main door, carrying a certain sacred, inviolable aura, making the despair-inducing dark fog behind him seem like a background without presence.
"This... this..."
Mrs. Kamodi was stunned, her mouth open, pointing but unable to speak a word, her eyes only on the man in front of her, as if seeing something, her face blank and at a loss.
This made Father York slightly raise his eyebrows; the test was not intended to let the scorpion-tailed beasts sting this woman.
Because everyone has their rights, and because he is a spokesman for God, a true priest, after all, he also got the result that this woman was just an ordinary person.
And no matter what, this desperate fog was indeed a test of human nature, many people would have various thoughts, falling into madness was an inevitable process and outcome.
Human nature simply cannot withstand testing.
In the movie, after the cult leader died, the store manager, who followed the male lead out and didn't make it into the car, was let in by the people inside; otherwise, he would have died at the hands of the widow spiders.
With the current situation, he believed many people's mental states had not yet collapsed, meaning the events in the movie were already severed from the start.
Father York looked around at the stunned crowd, fallen into a kind of eerie calm, just watching him, including the male lead holding his child, and said with a smile.
"Is this supermarket still open? I want to buy a bottle of water…"
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