Chapter 2830 Forlevia Went Missing
In fact, even Levi could not believe it initially. He thought what Dr. Erebus had described was too exaggerated, and nothing in the world could be that powerful.
He was only convinced after Craig made the confession and told him the true reason for terminating Project Atlantis.
Most of those people who were being escorted by Erudia and her allies to the Shelters to take cover were also not fully convinced of the existence of such immense spiritual energies. The only reason they obediently went along with the evacuation was that they would rather play it safe than take a risk.
They chose to trust their leaders, as the leaders had always shown that they cared for the people and did what was best for them.
The rest of the world was not as trusting, however. They had serious doubts about the claims of the impending doom. Most of them thought it was a lie that Erudia came up with to justify their act of taking Dr. Erebus away. They were certain that the people of Erudia wanted to keep all the secret technology and discoveries of the Lab of Gods to themselves.
They believed the powerful super-spiritual ley line was a myth fed to them to divert their attention.
They reasoned that if Lab of Gods had discovered and was in possession of such an immense energy source, they would not have lost to the Defenders of the Galaxy in the first place.
The super-spiritual ley line was projected to be so terrifyingly powerful that the claim became unreal. No one could believe there exist such powers that the world could be turned topsy turvy by a mere mythical spiritual energy.
On the other hand, those who believed in Erudia’s claims were caught between a rock and a hard place. Even though they were convinced a disaster was heading their way, they could do nothing. They had no safe havens to retreat to, and all their existing emergency response systems were simply not planned for a disaster of such scale. As such, they, like the doubters, did nothing as well.
In the end, eighty to ninety percent of the world’s population were still living life as normal.
At the same time, a few of the more intelligent entities began to do their own investigations into Erudia’s claims.
Zarain was one of those.
They had no doubts that Erudia and Dr. Erebus were telling the truth. As such, they immediately sprang into action.
For starters, they wholeheartedly supported Black Hawk and Levi’s quest to avert the disaster.
Next, they mobilized the Defenders of the Galaxy to activate their disaster preparation plans. In the case that Black Hawk and Levi failed to intercept the two aircraft and the catastrophe could not be stopped, they would be fully prepared.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Zarain actually had many secret defensive bases that were as secure as Erudia’s Shelters.
As they knew Lab of Gods very well, they could totally understand Dr. Erebus and his team’s viciousness. If Dr. Erebus decided to take revenge, he would stop at nothing. Zarain was not surprised he chose to use such a mode of revenge, despite knowing it would lead to massive destruction and a total wipeout of humankind.
They were more fearful than Erudia and her allies of the consequences of Dr. Erebus’ revenge. As such, they activated their disaster preparation plans immediately after the international conference.
Stress and fear were mounting as the seconds ticked away and the fateful time got closer.
Craig and his team were saddened that the rest of the world chose not to take any precautions. However, there was nothing they could do if the doubters chose not to believe them. They had already given them the grave warnings and shared whatever information they had.
On the other hand, Forlevia, who was with her mother, also encountered trouble. The fighters of the Ancient Clan ambushed them with the intention of taking Forlevia away.
Knowing Forlevia was formidable and that they might not be her match, they did not confront her directly. Instead, they resorted to despicable means and captured her family.
Forlevia was caught off-guard by their sneak attack. Seeing her mother and relatives were in their hands, she had no choice but to go with them.
The people from the Ancient Clan put on a pair of special handcuffs on her to restrain her, then hurriedly bundle her away.
Those fighters were not weaklings, and they could have managed to take Forlevia down in a face-to-face confrontation if they teamed up against her. However, that would take too much time and effort on their part. They had already used up some of their internal energies in their bid to stall Levi earlier, so they decided to resort to underhanded tactics with Forlevia.
After Forlevia was captured by the Ancient Clan fighters, they released Zoey and her family. Their target was solely Forlevia. They had no intention of stopping Zoey and her family from taking refuge in the Shelters.
Zoey was devastated by the unexpected twist in the event. She tearfully left the evacuation site and went after Forlevia instead. Her daughter was more important to her than her own life, and she knew she could not live on should anything untoward happen to Forlevia.
No one, not even Levi, had seen the Ancient Clan’s action coming.
