449: Chapter 449 Strange Man

District 21, near Moriarty Town, New Mexico, United States of America.

August 12, 2056.

9:10 AM.

On the rooftop of a building.

A strange man stood there, motionless.

He had a buzz cut, yellow skin, and a resolute face.

His clothes were peculiar, somewhat resembling a Huaguo Taoist robe, but the patterns on it did not conform to Huaguo style.

In his right hand, he held a not-so-straight wooden staff, taller than a person. At the top of the staff was an embedded, fist-sized, blue-glowing gem.

This was very likely a magic staff.

The wind on the rooftop was strong, making his Taoist robe flutter.

Soon after, another person appeared on a different rooftop far away, dressed very similarly to the first man.

Quickly, a second, then a third...

Within half an hour, a total of 6 such people appeared, distributed in different locations within District 21.

They seemed to be waiting for each other's appearance.

Then, one of them slowly raised his magic staff and pointed it towards the sky.

A beam of blue light shot out from the gem on the staff, flying off to an unknown destination.

Immediately after, the second person also raised his magic staff and pointed it skyward.

Another beam of blue light shot out, intersecting with the first.

Then the third person, the fourth person...

The six beams of blue light seemed to attract each other, eventually converging into a single point.

The light from that point grew stronger and stronger, and the light point gradually expanded, turning into a sphere of light.

The Citizens in District 21 had already noticed the strong light high in the sky and squinted as they looked up.

The light was too intense to see clearly.

The light sphere grew larger and brighter.

The ground was completely covered by this light, and even the sun's rays appeared incredibly dim.

At this moment, the staff of the FBS District 21 sub-bureau had realized the problem.

They immediately dispatched helicopters to investigate what this light sphere actually was.

However, the helicopters crashed directly after taking off, plummeting to the ground.

“Ah~”

“Ah~”

The helicopter crash became the fuse, and the Citizens completely panicked.

Everyone screamed and scattered in all directions.

The base immediately descended into chaos.

“Hello! Hello!” The director of the District 21 sub-bureau found that the phone was also out of service.

“Someone! Quickly go and inform Colonel Felix, ask him to immediately send people to maintain order.” The director shouted.

“Yes, sir!” A staff member ran out in a hurry.

“Boom~”

A bolt of lightning shot out from the light sphere, striking the ground.

“Ah~”

A fleeing man was instantly struck and fell directly to the ground.

“Boom~”

“Boom~”

Another two bolts of lightning shot out.

“Ah~”

Two people were struck simultaneously and fell to the ground, unmoving.

“Boom boom boom boom~”

The lightning became increasingly dense, continuously attacking the people on the ground.

“Quickly hide inside the buildings!” Someone shouted.

Those near buildings were lucky; they pushed open doors and ran inside.

But the people in the plaza were in an awkward situation; they didn't have enough time to escape and were struck one after another, then fell to the ground.

“Sir, look there!” A subordinate rushed directly into the director's office, pointing to a distant rooftop and shouting.

The director strode to the window and looked in the direction indicated.

It was too far, and the light was too strong to see clearly.

He picked up binoculars from his desk and looked again.

It was a person!

“So, someone is behind this.” The director understood.

Knowing what was happening made things easier.

“Immediately send people over there and take him down for me!”

“Yes, sir!”

Soon, a team of six, fully armed, ran out of the office building.

They avoided open areas, slowly approaching from behind the buildings.

When they had to cross a road, they would wait for a gap and quickly rush across.

After 20 minutes, they finally reached the bottom of the building.

The director breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

As long as they entered the building, more than half the battle was won.

Soon, several people reached the rooftop.

“Don't move! Hands on your head, squat down immediately!”

Well, it has to be said that these people were also quite something. At a time like this, they still had to say something like that.

Wouldn't directly opening fire have a higher success rate?

“Boom~”

A bolt of lightning flew over, and the person who spoke was directly struck down.

“Bang bang bang~”

The other five panicked and immediately opened fire.

“Buzz~”

A circular energy shield suddenly appeared in front of the Taoist-robed man, blocking all the bullets.

“Boom boom boom~”

Several more bolts of lightning shot over, and the remaining people directly fell to the ground.

“FUCK!” The director was furious and threw everything on his desk.

“Someone! Go tell Colonel Felix to deploy the tanks and flatten that building for me!” The director yelled.

“Yes, sir!”

20 minutes later.

“Reporting, sir, Colonel Felix said the tanks are malfunctioning and cannot be started.”

“What?” The director was shocked.

This was a complete disaster now.

People going over would be electrocuted.

Planes couldn't fly over, and tanks couldn't get through either.

What to do?

I've got it!

“Someone, send another dozen or so people over, with explosives. Blow up that building for me!”

If tanks couldn't get through, he would use people to blow it up.

“Yes, sir!”