Taoist priests in the supernatural world

Chapter 35 Eastern Talisman Paper, The Hive Transformation

Inside the room, Alice and Lisa were whispering about their next move.

The two had made up their minds to steal the virus samples from the Umbrella Corporation and then expose the whole thing, letting the whole world know what they were up to.

Lisa works for an international environmental organization.

The two had met by chance once before, and after exchanging a few words, they discovered that they both disapproved of the shady practices of the Umbrella Corporation.

One is an internal security guard at the company, and the other is an external investigator. Their positions are different, but their ideas collide.

"That's what we'll do," Lisa said in a low voice. "We can't delay any longer. If we let them continue their research, something terrible will happen sooner or later."

Alice nodded.

"Once this starts, there's no turning back."

Both of them understood that this was no joke.

Umbrella Corporation is not an ordinary company, but a true multinational behemoth. It has a presence in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, defense, and arms industries.

The company has countless subsidiaries on the surface, and it is even more secretly connected with countless political and business figures.

Going against such a behemoth, it wouldn't be surprising if you lost your life.

That's why they felt even more strongly that someone had to step forward and expose this.

"Let's go for a walk," Alice said to Lisa.

"it is good."

The two left their residence and slowly walked towards the church.

The distant tolling of bells and the soft melody of sacred music in the church somewhat calmed the unease in their hearts.

Lisa hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help walking toward the confessional.

She is a believer.

At times like this, she instinctively wanted to come here to find an answer.

The confessional was dimly lit.

After Lisa sat down, she remained silent for a moment, subtly expressing her unease, before asking again:

"If we are doing the right thing, God will bless us and justice will be served, right?"

On the other side of the partition, there was a few moments of silence.

Then, Huang Bai's voice came.

What you consider justice may be the unspoken rule in the eyes of some people.

"Moreover, judging from your current appearance, this trip is unlikely to go smoothly."

Lisa paused for a moment.

"Facial features? What are you talking about?"

Alice frowned, a strange feeling rising in her heart.

Is this Eastern mysticism?

Or is this priest spouting some new nonsense?

The next moment, the small door to the confessional was suddenly pushed open.

Huang Bai's face did indeed appear outside, with a serious expression and two crookedly drawn yellow talismans in his hand.

"Would you two like to buy some talismans?"

"Authentic Eastern lucky charm magic, one hundred US dollars per sheet."

He handed the talisman to the two of them, speaking as naturally as if he were selling holy water.

Lisa's expression changed immediately.

"You liar!"

"You, as a priest, are selling this kind of thing in the church! You are blaspheming God!"

She was a devout believer and couldn't stand this kind of thing. In her opinion, Huang Bai wasn't honestly serving God, but instead bringing those Eastern superstitious things into the church; it was simply outrageous.

Huang Bai wasn't angry; he simply handed the talisman forward a little further.

"Buy it or not is up to you; I'm not the one who'll lose out."

Alice stared at the two talismans, her mind inexplicably wandering.

She couldn't explain why; even though she thought it was absurd, the thought of what she was about to do made her reach out as if possessed.

"Give me two."

Lisa looked at her incredulously.

"Are you really going to buy it?"

Alice bent down and handed over the money, finding it a little funny herself.

"Buy it for peace of mind."

Huang Bai handed her the two talismans, and a smile finally appeared on his face.

"Good taste."

"These two lucky charms will bring you some good luck."

After saying that, he didn't give them a chance to back out and slammed the door shut.

Alice looked at the talisman in her hand, unable to articulate what she was thinking.

On the other side of the door, Huang Bai turned and walked deeper into the church, but his eyes slowly darkened.

"It's about to start."

In the following days, Huang Bai simply stopped pretending altogether.

He went to the casino several times in a row, not only by himself, but also with bodyguards and a large group of strong followers, making it seem like a cult leader was on a tour.

"Yes! Six o'clock!"

"leopard!"

"I won again!!"

At the gambling table, the believers shouted until they were almost hoarse.

They followed Huang Bai's lead and won almost every bet, multiplying their capital several times over. Eventually, everyone's gaze towards Huang Bai changed.

They believed in him before, more or less because of his status as a priest.

Things are completely different now.

Now they really treat Huang Bai as a prophet.

One hundred million US dollars.

Huang Bai looked calmly at the pile of chips.

"not bad."

In the monitoring room on the second floor of the casino, a blond middle-aged man stared blankly at the screen, his hair disheveled as if it had just been pulled.

He is the owner of this casino, Donald.

At this very moment, Huang Bai emptied the cash pool of his casino in one fell swoop.

In other words, the casino is about to go bankrupt from winning so much money.

"Casinos...can go out of business too?"

Donald muttered to himself, his whole body almost numb.

At that moment, the secretary hurriedly walked in with some documents.

"Mr. Donald, is 'The Art of the Deal' still being published?"

Upon hearing this, Donald became somewhat more sober.

"Yes, of course we'll go."

"If we don't make a quick buck now, we'll never have another chance."

After receiving the money, Huang Bai didn't sit idle. He immediately began purchasing supplies, guns, and water on a large scale, and also took the opportunity to push for the entire community to dig basements.

Gradually, an apocalyptic atmosphere began to permeate the community.

Most outsiders treated it as a joke, but the people on Huang and Bai's side took it more and more seriously, as if a real natural disaster was about to strike.

The end of the world is near.

At least that's how they themselves feel.

Before long, things indeed went back to the way they originally planned.

Alice and Lisa's plan was accidentally leaked, and someone infiltrated the Hive in an attempt to steal the virus sample. During the process, the virus test tube ruptured, and the Hive's central system, "Red Queen," immediately activated the emergency plan, releasing nerve gas to kill all the researchers in the laboratory.

In the midst of that chaos, Alice also accidentally inhaled the virus.

When she woke up again, she was lying in a villa on the outskirts of Raccoon City, her memory almost completely blank.

Inside the room, Alice slowly opened her eyes and looked around blankly.

"Where... am I?"

She couldn't remember anything.

A wedding photo of her and another man hangs on the wall, with two crooked yellow talismans pasted next to it.

Alice stared at the symbol, momentarily stunned.

"What is this?"

Before she could think any further, the front door was suddenly kicked open.

boom!

A group of heavily armed men rushed in.

"Alice, I need your cooperation."

The person in charge spoke quickly, briefly explaining the situation as he led her outside.

Something happened at the Hive base. The Red Queen shut down the system and killed everyone inside. Now they must go to the Hive, forcibly shut down the Red Queen, and find out what caused the malfunction.

Alice was still dazed, but she had no choice but to follow them.

Soon, the group set off for the base.

What awaited them was a disaster that no one had anticipated.

……

The first basement level of the villa.

The altar stood tall, filled with the fragrance of sandalwood and swirling smoke. The black altar on the altar was sealed with white talismans, and the offering table was laden with nuts and wine, with offerings such as the heads of oxen, sheep, and pigs nearby.

Huang Bai sat cross-legged in front of the altar, his hands forming hand seals, and he muttered scriptures for raising ghosts.

The yin energy within a radius of several hundred meters was continuously drawn in, gradually gathering into a cloud of blue above the altar.

The yin energy was gradually swallowed up by the altar, and the offerings on the altar also quickly dried up, decayed, and finally turned into ashes.

The entire basement looked gloomy and strange, almost like a different world from the nearby church with its melodious sacred music.

Wow!

The altar trembled slightly, and five figures flew out.

The leader was a Yaksha, with red hair and a blue face, carrying shackles, and exuding a ghostly aura.

The other four are ordinary evil spirits that have been gathered recently. Although they are not as fierce as the Yakshas, ​​their malevolent aura is still quite astonishing when they stand together.

"Greetings, Lord."

Huang Bai did not speak immediately, but closed his eyes and used his divine sense to sense the location of the two talismans in the distance.

The talisman he sold to Alice earlier was certainly not a true lucky charm. It was imbued with a very faint trace of yin energy and was specifically used for location tracking.

At this moment, the positions of the two talismans were moving rapidly.

Moreover, judging from the route, it's clearly going deeper underground.

"We're almost there."

Huang Bai opened his eyes and his gaze fell on the ghosts in front of the altar.

"Let's go."

"Snatch people."

The most important thing about this operation is not how many zombies are killed or how many monsters are cleared, but the core data of the T-virus and the artificial intelligence Red Queen.

Once you have these two things, you can do a lot of things afterward.

As soon as Huang Bai had a thought, his soul left his body.

A cold wind swept by, and both the people and ghosts in front of the altar vanished.

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