Chapter 98 Chapter Ninety-Six

Silas woke up suddenly. He didn't know what woke him up, or how long he had been asleep.Am I dreaming?He sat up, half lying on the straw mat, listening to the peaceful breathing of the sleeping people in the Opus Dei Activity Center building, and the occasional soft voice in the silence translated from the people praying loudly in the room below. voice.These familiar voices should have brought him some comfort. Yet unexpectedly he became suddenly wary. Silas stood, only in his underwear, as he walked to the window.Is someone following me?The small courtyard downstairs was empty, just like the scene he saw when he came in.He listened carefully, but heard nothing.So why am I feeling uneasy?Silas learned early on to trust his instincts.Long before he went to prison—when he was a kid wandering the streets of Marseilles...and before Bishop Aringarosa gave him new life, he knew to trust himself intuition.He peeked out the window when he vaguely saw the outline of a car hidden deep in the hedge.On its canopy, a police emergency alarm is installed.At this time, the floor in the corridor made a "creaking" sound, and the door latch was suddenly pulled open.

Silas reacted instinctively to this.Before the door was knocked open, he had already rushed to the opposite side of the room, quickly slipped to the door, and hid inside.The first police officer who came in rushed in like a storm, shaking the gun in his hand from left to right, and carefully inspected the seemingly empty room.He hadn't had time to figure out where Silas was.Silas had hidden his arms behind the door.The first officer to come in turned to fire, and Silas ducked hastily.The bullet missed and whizzed past his head.Silas wrapped his arms around the officer's shins and pulled his legs towards him, pinning him to the ground.Unexpectedly, his head fell to the ground.Following the first officer who came in staggering to his feet, Silas kicked him down, leaped over the officer's writhing body, and rushed into the hall.

Silas was almost naked, and he dragged his pale body down the stairs.He knew he was betrayed, but who?He stumbles to the break room: sees more police pouring in through the front door.So he immediately turned around and rushed to the inside of the hall.Women-only channel.Almost every building Opus Dei builds has such a passage.Silas sprinted down the twisting, narrow hallway and into the kitchen like a snake. The terrified kitchen workers scrambled to avoid colliding with the naked albino.Silas knocked bowls and silverware all over the floor, then dove into a corridor next to the boiler room.He finally saw the door he was looking for, and a glimmer of hope finally appeared before his eyes.Silas sprinted out the door as fast as he could, into the rain, and jumped to the lower level ground, but by the time he noticed the oncoming police, it was too late.The two big men collided, and Silas' broad, bare shoulders pressed hard against the man's chest, causing the man pain.He forced the officer back to the sidewalk and beat him on the head violently.The police officer's gun went off, and the "bang bang" sounded incessantly.Silas heard many people running from the hall shouting.By the time the officers showed up, he had rolled to one side and quickly picked up the misfired pistol.Someone shot him on the stairs, and Silas felt a sharp pain under his ribs.He was furious, raised his gun and shot at the three policemen, blood spattered all over the ground in an instant.

At this time, a black figure appeared from nowhere, looming behind him.The man grabbed Silas's bare shoulders angrily, hands as if filled with demonic power.His roar echoed in Silas' ears. "Sylas, don't shoot!" Silas shot back a few times, and their eyes finally met.When he found that it was Bishop Aringarosa who had fallen, he couldn't help crying out, terrified.