One by one, decaying corpses rose from the ground, their hollow eyes fixed on the stunned people.
Panic erupted again, and this time there was no sign of it subsiding. People rushed out of their homes, fleeing in terror.
After rushing out, the townspeople discovered with horror that these moving corpses were everywhere in the town. The terrifying scene was not just happening in their own homes.
These corpses moved slowly and seemed frail, but the townspeople dared not confront them, fearing that if they were injured by these corpses, they would turn into zombies, just like in the movies.
Some townspeople wanted to leave this devilish town, only to find that once they stepped out, or drove their cars out of town, they would return to the town before going very far. They had no way to leave at all!
Wen Wen narrowed his eyes, looking at the town where panic had escalated. He knew he had to take action; if this continued, something serious would happen.
The Abomination Demon's goal was not only to kill all these townspeople but also to make them suffer the greatest fear and deepest despair before they died. Such widespread, uninhibited extreme fear might give birth to other terrifying things.
After thinking, Wen Wen landed in front of a woman screaming in a corner and, using the ability of his Mind Controller, Rodney, to avoid Tao Qingqing, said to her, "Everything you see is an illusion. This town is also an illusion."
"Illusion, all an illusion..."
Under the Mind Controller's ability, the woman believed Wen Wen's words. However, she was not expelled from the illusion like Wen Wen, which proved that the method of telling them the truth to help the townspeople escape was completely infeasible.
"If this doesn't work, then we'll have to gather all the townspeople in one place for protection. We can't let them run around like headless flies in the town."
Wen Wen snapped his fingers, and dozens of figures in black clothes and black hoods appeared before him.
These figures were all puppets, created by Wen Wen commanding Xu Hai to use the corpses of human-tiger hybrids. Their original strength was about Disaster-level, and even as puppets, their strength surpassed that of ordinary people.
To distinguish them from the monsters in the containment facility, they wore black uniforms similar to camouflage, carried various modern firearms, and if their masks were not removed, they would be mistaken for a special forces unit, not monsters.
Wen Wen did not summon the monsters from the containment facility. Letting them out would only create deeper panic, and in the illusionary town, puppets without the ability to think were more useful than those monsters. Even if they died, Wen Wen wouldn't feel bad.
"Find every living person in this town and gather them in the town center. Do not let them get hurt."
After Wen Wen gave the order, these dark figures darted out and began to guide the townspeople.
Seeing these puppets in their panic, the townspeople felt as if they had found their backbone. With little resistance, they cooperated with them to move to the town center, mistaking these puppets for rescue personnel from the federal government.
Wen Wen remained in his original position, maintaining contact with each puppet, hoping the Abomination Demon would come out and disrupt his plan to gather the townspeople, thus giving him a chance to catch the creature.
But strangely, the Abomination Demon never appeared throughout the entire process.
"If I put the townspeople in the center for protection, its revenge will not be achieved. It should want to stop me, unless... this does not affect its act of revenge." A shadow fell over Wen Wen's heart, but the action of gathering townspeople had to continue.
The puppets were swift, and the town was not large. In just over ten minutes, most of the townspeople had gathered in the streets at the town center, numbering several thousand.
Under the pacification of the puppets, they sat on the ground, their expressions fearful and uneasy, afraid of encountering any more terrifying things.
Wen Wen activated the ability of the Archangel Michael and landed in front of the townspeople, saying with a friendly demeanor, "Fellow townsfolk, listen to me, you must remain calm."
Under Wen Wen's appeasement, the townspeople gradually calmed down, and their panic was no longer as intense as before.
Wen Wen cleared his throat and continued, "I know this town has encountered very terrifying things, and everyone has experienced unimaginable grief, but please believe that I will protect your safety. After things are over, you can return to a new... a new, what the hell!"
Wen Wen stopped his speech because he saw purple-black gas seeping from the ground. Within this gas, there seemed to be countless distorted faces.
Wen Wen was very familiar with this aura; it was the unique aura of the Abomination Demon. It had amplified its unique aura through some unknown method and released it from underground, spreading it among the crowd.
By the time Wen Wen discovered it, all the thousands of townspeople gathered at the town center had been infected by this strange aura!
An old man in his sixties stood up unsteadily, his eyes flashing with a sinister purple light. He picked up a brick and smashed it at an old man beside him, saying fiercely as he hit, "You old fossil always take back your moves when we play chess. I've tolerated you for a long time."
On the other side, a seemingly honest young man pulled off his belt and strangled the woman in front of him, pulling with all his might, "You bitch, you borrowed two thousand yuan from me, and you always say you're short of cash. You've been short for five years?"
"You heartless man, you went to see your mistress behind my back."
"Your family raises chickens in the yard, it stinks!"
Not only adults were affected, but a young child chewing on a lollipop poked the candy stick into his mother's ear...
Everyone seemed to have gone mad, recalling all sorts of old grievances and carrying out bloody revenge.
The Abomination Demon was a monster born from the townspeople's hatred and resentment. Its aura would cause ordinary people to perceive any minor friction as an irreconcilable hatred, and this hatred demanded blood as repayment.
Wen Wen gritted his teeth and said to those around him, "Knock them out!"
Tao Qingqing and the puppets attacked these townspeople together, but these townspeople were now impossible to knock out. Even if their heads were swollen or their necks broken, they remained perfectly conscious and held onto their grudges, fixated on revenge.
"If this continues, there might not be many survivors here. The people present can only control a hundred people at most, and there are thousands here!"
Wen Wen let out a long sigh, a trace of ruthlessness appearing in his eyes. "Since that's the case... there's only one way. Although it will cause them some harm, it will at least save their lives!"
"Abomination Demon... I will make you hate yourself for being born into this world!"