# 1967
Chapter 1954: One Hand Holds Up the Sky
"They're attacking!!?"
In the Cangnan City shelter, an exclamation rang out from the crowd.
Zhao Zhengbin, who had been sitting alone in a corner of the hall in a daze, snapped back to his senses and immediately opened his phone. Several live streams had already been pushed to the top of the trending topics.
Just as he was about to click into a live stream, a figure rushed to the big screen and cast the live broadcast onto it.
Everyone turned to look in confusion.
On the screen, a figure was running wildly with a phone in hand, heavy breathing echoing through the live stream. The distant scenery was shaking and receding. Under the dim sky, a damaged shelter floated alone on the surface, and a large number of terrified figures poured out of it in a swarm.
【What's going on?? The shelter's broken?】
【Look at that cloud in the distance, is it moving?! Seems like it has tentacles too?】
【This should be the northern suburbs of Beibin City, right? Also in northern Great Xia!】
【I knew it wasn't an earthquake! The enemy really attacked! They even broke through a shelter!】
【Wait, if they really attacked from the north, why are the shelters in Tianhe City all fine?】
【They broke through this shelter... was it just a coincidence?】
【Does it matter if it was a coincidence?! They're already attacking! We're all in danger!】
【Beibin City is still far from us... Where's the Night Watch? Why aren't they stopping the enemy?】
【Could they already be dead?】
【Are these people idiots? Running outside like that? Can they run faster than gods??】
【Easy for you to say. When people are scared, they don't think that much. It's instinct... Sigh.】
【It's over, three gods surrounded them. These people are going to be wiped out.】
【...】
As the live stream's popularity continued to rise, a sense of panic spread through everyone's hearts. The closer the shelters were to the northern cities, the more severe the panic manifested. In the shelters of Beibin City, some people had already started demanding that the shelters be opened so they could flee.
On the other side of the hall, Su Zhe, who had been staring intently at the screen, had a grim expression.
The situation the Night Watch had feared most had finally emerged...
More terrifying than a powerful enemy was chaos from the rear... The situation Great Xia faced was already extremely dire. If the shelters started causing trouble, they would be caught between two enemies.
What was the Night Watch's Public Relations Department doing at this time??
How did a live stream causing such panic get so much traction?
He immediately took out his phone and dialed, directly contacting the head of the Public Relations Department. He was, after all, a member of the [Devil] squad and had a relatively high rank in the Night Watch.
Su Zhe waited nearly ten seconds before the call was answered.
"Hello? Who's this?" A man's voice came through the phone. The environment was filled with busy running and keyboard clicking sounds, and his tone was somewhat hurried.
Su Zhe was stunned, then opened his mouth and said, "[Devil] squad, Su Zhe."
"What's the matter?"
"Is this Deputy Director Qian? Have you seen the live stream online?"
"I have."
"Since you've seen it, why haven't you shut it down yet? If this continues, everything will fall into chaos." Su Zhe's tone was stern.
"Mr. Su, this isn't as simple as you think." The man spoke helplessly. "Great Xia's arrangements have been thrown into disarray. All hands at headquarters have been mobilized. Our Public Relations Department wasn't left with many people either.
You know how fast things related to the Night Watch spread. And there are too many people broadcasting from the scene, basically all starting at the same time... Every second, nearly a million people flood the live stream. By the time we wanted to shut it down, the viewer count had already exceeded ten million.
At this scale, if we forcibly shut down the live stream, the situation will only worsen..."
"That's still better than now!" Su Zhe frowned. "Do you want the public to watch their compatriots being slaughtered on the big screens? That kind of panic will only be more terrifying!"
The man paused, then said, "There's another reason..."
"What reason?"
"Secretary Min called me... He said to let us trust Commander Lin."
Hearing this, Su Zhe froze in place.
Before Su Zhe could understand what those words meant, an exclamation rang out through the hall!
The crowd that had fled the shelter had been blocked by the three gods. One of the gods slowly raised both arms, and the damaged massive shelter floated back up into the sky... slowly moving above the people on the surface.
...
"Yes, yes, yes!"
In the suburbs of Beibin City, [Chaos]'s eyes were locked on the live stream, his lips stretching happily from ear to ear. "This is the effect we want!"
Beside him, Nephtys glanced at Him and said coldly, "Had enough fun? We should continue advancing. Otherwise, those annoying fellows will catch up..."
"The backlash isn't strong enough yet... We need real blood to ignite the fear deep in their hearts." [Chaos] said unhurriedly. "Let's use the shelter that was supposed to protect them... to crush these pitiful ants."
As [Chaos]'s words fell, the sky god Nut and the wind god Shu raised their hands simultaneously. The shelter floating on the surface continued to rise, slowly moving forward...
The massive shadow covered the earth. Before such a gigantic structure, the people who had run barely a kilometer seemed as small as ants. In their terrified pupils, the underside of the shelter—capable of crushing the earth—was reflected. Their legs trembled and they collapsed to the ground.
"No... We好不容易才逃出来的... Why must we die here??" The middle-aged woman clutched her child tightly, her pupils trembling.
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die!!"
Among the crowd, several people suddenly shouted and turned to run desperately into the distance... But no matter how fast they ran, they couldn't escape the shelter hovering precariously in the sky.
As the two gods released their hands, the shelter in mid-air came crashing down to the earth!!
Inside the shelter, all the civilians felt a powerful sense of weightlessness. People huddled in corners covered their heads. Screams and wails rang out simultaneously!
Even the military personnel who had been struggling to maintain order couldn't suppress a flash of despair in their eyes...
Falling from this height, like an out-of-control elevator plummeting to the earth, almost no one could survive.
The little boy lay dazed in his mother's embrace, his hands wrapped around her neck. In his confused and terrified pupils, the rapidly enlarging black shadow was reflected.
At that moment, the people watching the live stream also gasped and instinctively closed their eyes.
Whoosh—!!
Just as the shelter began to fall, a golden streak of light instantly streaked across the sky!
Snow-white wings flapped vigorously. A figure draped in a Crimson Cloak, moving at near-teleportation speed, hovered to a stop beneath the shelter. One palm pressed against the mountain-like underside of the shelter, forcibly holding it in place less than a hundred meters from the ground!
The terrified crowd, who had closed their eyes in fear, carefully opened them... Only to see the deep red cloak dancing wildly in the wind. A single figure had raised one hand, holding up a piece of the sky.