Staring blankly at Lin Qi, Diogo's expression suddenly darkened. "So after all that, you want to take people away from me? Impossible! I will never hand these people over to you!"
Lin Qi raised both hands and shouted, "Devout believers, are you willing to follow me—follow a servant of the Dawn God—and leave this place? Tell me what is truly in your hearts! As long as you are willing to follow me, you will surely receive salvation!"
Countless people roared madly. Though they had already been starving to the brink of death, after so long under the blessing of the dawn's divine light, they had recovered some strength. They raised their voices and used every last ounce of strength to roar at the top of their lungs, "Leave here! Leave here! Leave here!"
An old woman who had fallen into a hysterical frenzy suddenly snatched up a stone and hurled it at Diogo. "You damned thing! You killed my five sons, took away my seven daughters, and swindled me out of my very last copper coin!"
Diogo had never imagined it—not even in his most absurd nightmares—that an old woman who was unarmed and too weak even to tie up a chicken would dare attack him! In the Dragon Abyss, something like a weakling provoking the strong simply could not happen!
Thus, the stone smashed viciously into Diogo's forehead. With a clang, it bounced away, but Diogo's face abruptly turned incomparably ugly.
More people began roaring from every direction. They screamed hysterically and bellowed at the top of their voices, venting all their rage with every scrap of emotion and strength they possessed. They denounced Diogo and Arthur for all manner of crimes, grabbing everything around them that they could lift and hurling it with all their might at Diogo