Fortunately, the pressure vanished as quickly as it came, disappearing without a trace in just a few seconds.
"What... just happened?" someone gasped, bewildered and uncertain.
"Was I imagining things?"
"What happened?"
"My God, what was that? I felt like the sky was about to collapse!"
"Did you feel it too?"
"So it wasn't an illusion? Was that some new weapon? Were we hit by a sonic attack?"
Everyone spoke at once.
Before they could figure out what had happened,
Boom!
The second wave of pressure descended.
If the first had felt like someone squeezing their hearts, this time it felt as though Mount Tai, towering a hundred thousand feet high, had crashed straight onto their souls!
It was the absolute suppression of a higher order of life!
Thud!
Inside the Command Center, swathes of staff collapsed limply to the floor. Some even wet themselves on the spot, and the pungent stench of urine spread.
An elderly technician clutched his chest, suffering a heart attack on the spot. He fell to the floor and convulsed violently, but no one could spare him any attention.
Everyone was struggling to fend for themselves.
That terror, etched deep into their genes, left their minds blank.
The residential districts of Shengdun Underground City were in even greater chaos.
Whatever they had been doing, millions of people were immediately pinned to the floor by that pressure, unable to move.
Among the crowds, however, some fanatical believers emerged from their brief terror with wild joy blazing in their eyes.
"A miracle! This is a miracle!"
"The Lord has descended! The Lord hasn't abandoned us!"
"Merciful Lord, Your devout servants have finally lived to witness Your coming! Sob..."
In the nauseating underground city, thousands upon thousands of believers struggled to roll over and frantically kowtowed toward the