Chapter 309: Dawn Breaks
“I… I’m still alive?”
“It’s the Guardian God!”
“Great, the Guardian God has finally come.”
“We’re safe now, right?”
The civilians present, after a brief shock, gradually became excited.
After all, under such strong promotion by the officials, few people didn’t know Lu Bai, the “Guardian God”.
Moreover, in the previous pitch-black environment, the civilians had already despaired, thinking they were going to be taken out by the anomaly.
Now not only were they alive, but the “Guardian God” was right beside them. With such emotional ups and downs, no one really heard what Lu Bai said.
Of course, when people excitedly approached Lu Bai, under the influence of his titles, they would feel like they couldn’t breathe, but their excitement made them temporarily ignore it.
Looking at the surging crowd before him, Lu Bai had to press his hands down first, signaling everyone to quiet down.
Once the crowd’s reason returned a bit, he chuckled and said: “Everyone, don’t be afraid. The nearby anomaly has been handled by me.”
At least the Spirit Bomb could still be used on them; no need to destroy his persona.
Before his words finished, cheers rose from the crowd again.
However, good times didn’t last long.
Amid the excitement, the crowd couldn’t help but notice the sense of oppression brought by those titles.
Aura is something mysterious, yet it truly exists.
Because Lu Bai was currently wearing his three titles without changing or hiding them, people could even smell the strong bloody smell.
His originally harmless smile started to look increasingly chilling.
If they didn’t know Lu Bai was the humanity guardian god promoted by the officials, this sense of oppression would seem more anomalous than the anomaly itself.
For some reason, the civilians present gradually grew tense, their smiles visibly stiffening.
Someone even leaned back, carefully retreating a few steps.
Lu Bai naturally quickly noticed this, but he was too lazy to hide the titles again.
He simply borrowed a mobile phone from a white-collar worker in front of him, then turned and left.
After watching Lu Bai leave, the civilians present finally dared to breathe heavily, feeling a lingering fear inside—even though they didn’t know exactly what they were afraid of.
……
After some time, the high-level officials and staff who had been unconscious at the Temporary Command Center also woke up one after another.
Lu Bai used the borrowed mobile phone to learn about the current situation at the Containment Center, then increased his speed toward the next area with anomalous activity, conveniently resolving the Death Fighters along the way.
However, a sudden change of circumstance directly disrupted his plan.
While driving with [Act Under Cover of Darkness], he unintentionally looked up and discovered that, at some point, a crack had appeared in the night sky above, trembling slightly.
“Is this some kind of anomaly too?”
Lu Bai looked up at the sky, muttering to himself.
Due to the distance, it was hard to accurately judge the length of the crack, but he could vaguely sense it was alive.
After hesitating for a moment, Lu Bai raised his hand and condensed a car-sized Spirit Bomb, throwing it toward the crack.
However, to his surprise, the Spirit Bomb he threw got closer and closer to the crack, seemingly about to hit it, yet it couldn’t actually strike.
It wasn’t stagnating in place, nor deflected by some power.
The Spirit Bomb was still flying toward the objective under Lu Bai’s control, with no reduction in speed, but it just couldn’t truly hit.
This phenomenon gave Lu Bai an inexplicable déjà vu.
He could sense something was off, but couldn’t find the reason; this disordered perception was maddening.
Lu Bai frowned, slowly raising his right hand, with blue-white light emerging from his palm.
He prepared to throw another Spirit Bomb to try.
But he didn’t get the chance.
Because the crack in the sky suddenly split open.
No, more accurately, it didn’t split open…
It opened!
It was clearly a massive eye embedded in the sky.
This eye wasn’t pretty; it looked somewhat ferocious, like the eyes of a middle-aged man who hadn’t slept for two days straight, with the whites clearly covered in bloodshot veins.
Besides that, the moment this eye opened, the sky lit up.
The world seemed to shift from deep night to dusk in an instant; Lu Bai even saw the fiery clouds stretching across the horizon.
Not only that, even the area he had blackened with [Ink Black] was dispelled after the eye opened, seeing light again.
It was worth noting that the blackness wasn’t erased directly but gradually faded.
……
Several fully armed soldiers stood on the rooftop of the Temporary Command Center, looking at the eye in the sky, their mouths involuntarily gaping open.
“What’s going on?”
“What is that thing?!”
“Quick, go notify the Captain.”
In fact, with such a big commotion, no notification was needed; the high-level officials already knew.
The high-level officials, who had woken up not long ago, leaned by the window, gazing at the scene in the sky, equally shocked beyond measure.
Having dealt with anomalies for so long, this was the first time they encountered one that could even twist celestial phenomena.
“What sequence should this anomaly be given?”
Probably numbed by the successive changes of circumstance tonight, Captain Mao, amid the shock, even had the mood to consider this.
Unfortunately, no one answered him.
“What should we do now?”
Someone asked this question in an almost dreamlike tone.
Unanimously, everyone present turned their gazes to Minister Zhang.
In the past, no matter how tricky the situation, Minister Zhang could always come up with an effective plan.
Whether attack, analysis, or even abandoning some people.
At least once the decision was made, they knew what to do.
But now, Minister Zhang was also lost.
He didn’t know what meaning humanity’s struggle still held.
Facing an anomaly that could even control the alternation of day and night, hiding anywhere was useless.
Minister Zhang turned around, meeting everyone’s gazes, and shook his head with some difficulty: “…Let’s contact Master Lu first.”
……
“Day as awake, sleep as night.”
Lu Bai didn’t hold much hope and casually threw the half-condensed Spirit Bomb in his palm toward the eye in the sky: “The eye of the Candle Dragon, huh?”
At this, he unconsciously smiled.
“No wonder it felt somewhat familiar.”
It was a power that could control time, like [Flash Time].
But compared to [Flash Time], which could only pause time for 0.5 seconds, the power of the Candle Dragon’s eye could be said to be time itself in some sense.
Lu Bai pondered for a while but really couldn’t think of any way he could influence time.
“Things have come to this; better take out the Death Fighters first…”
