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Inside the Hei Wu, the Evil Fallen are twisted amalgamations of humans and various creatures, the distortion giving them sowhat inhuman visages.
But distortion also brought forth great power.
The imnse Ark, having withstood countless artillery barrages, along with the naval fleet and the harbor’s defenses, initially thought the battle had ended.
But how could they understand what an indestructible scene was, or what a twisted region signified?
It was an independent black area, a mobile black area.
The strength of the black area lies in the twisted rules and powerful Evil Fallen.
For a cruise ship, the external rules, aning the environntal regulations of each sea area, are the spices of a bland journey.
The internal rules are complex, outsiders without tickets boarding this cruise would have their mories wiped imdiately.
Apart from the erasure of mories, the many areas within the cruise also have different rules.
Just as people describe it, a city upon the sea, this city’s various parts, each with different rules.
Overall, the distortion within the Hei Wu spread outward, but so far, no area beyond the Mist could compare with the level of distortion within the cruise ship.
It was indeed the most densely twisted place in the world!
Hundreds of fighter jets constantly bombarded from the sky. The harbor’s defense line also endured ongoing bombardnt, and the warships at sea continuously released depth charges.
Bombardnt from all angles did not damage the cruise. The only things capable of harming this massive vessel were a select few crew mbers aboard.
These crew mbers, if placed within the world Inside the Mist, each was a legendary character in their own right.
But if set loose in the World Beyond the Mist, they would be apocalyptic monsters. However, Wen Hao did not deploy these legendary crew mbers.
To confront the human firepower line ahead, the Ark did not need to show its full strength.
The waves surged tumultuously as if the ocean itself was starting to rage!
The carnivores below the deep sea had already been feeling fear these days, not just the people on land noticing the changes in the world, but marine creatures too.
Wen Hao picked up a mysterious horn, and the prolonged horn’s call was drowned out by the artillery, yet it penetrated to the deeps of the ocean.
In the seven hundred years, Wen Hao had accumulated many abilities, one of which was to control the tides and the monsters in the deep sea.
After the distortion descended, it beca difficult for people to notice what was happening at the bottom of the sea, and as civilization regressed, the ocean once again beca mystical.
The lifting of regional restrictions allowed many deep sea leviathans to arrive in new environnts as well.
The once proud sovereigns of the ocean, in an instant, beca prey. Various island countries were reporting sightings of sea monsters.
And the most terrifying of these creatures were gathered beneath the Ark.
At the call of Wen Hao’s horn, an enormous octopus extended its tentacles, resembling the ancient gods in Cthulhu mythology, with tentacles of untold length piercing the sea surface.
Amidst the endless artillery fire and mist, they penetrated through the thick hulls of warships! The nacingly huge tentacles of an octopus were one of the core sources of humanity’s fear of the ocean.
For thousands of years, human civilizations’ fears of the deep sea, and rumors of sea monsters, have always included giant octopuses.
Now, many saw tentacles so vast they seed to touch the clouds in the sky, and when they thought of the even more dreadful creature beneath the sea’s surface—
The terror of the deep sea seed to take physical form.
The powerful tentacles pierced through the warship’s hulls, and so even wrapped around the vessels, coiling, squeezing.
The horrific sea waves rushed forth. Hundreds of ters high, the waves seed like a shield from the ocean itself!
Rocket-propelled grenades, incendiaries, armor-piercing rounds... these fearso weapons seed so insignificant in the face of true natural wrath!
Atop the giant waves that soared hundreds of ters high, Wen Hao held a strange fragnt in his hand.
As the counterattack had just begun, if the hyper-gigantic sea beasts had overturned human imagination, then what happened next was a scene that left the brains of military strategists from various countries watching the battle from afar..pletely blank.
The hundreds of ters of waves were just the beginning.
In the next instant, seaquakes tens of tis more powerful arrived, and the last image humanity could see...
was the sea smashing into the sky, as if heaven and earth were reversing.
Warships were swallowed by the seawater, and the vast River Return Port...destroyed in an instant.
The Human Allied Forces, which had taken so long to prepare, were annihilated under the effect of a tiny fragnt.
Wen Hao’s rage was appeased.
Those who had hard his crew, all buried deep in the sea. The ultimate wave that could touch the sky, once it ca crashing down, not even Jin Ze Country could withstand it.
But what followed...these waters, like living creatures, obeyed Wen Hao’s command.
They did not spread out to engulf the world, but changed their physical trajectory as if...returning to the origin.
River Return Port did not even have a single wreckage left behind, beneath the calm sea buried a chaotic battlefield, but above the surface, as if nothing had happened.
Only the enormous cruise ship, intact, lood over the sea.
The long duration of human firepower...had caused it no harm, and the mont the monsters on the cruise ship made a move...
The allied military front of the nations...shattered completely.
This overwhelmingly vast disparity in combat strength left everyone who had witnessed this battle stunned.
They all thought the next second would be Jin Ze Country’s mont of great crisis...these monsters would vent their fury upon humanity, but soon...sothing incomprehensible to the monsters happened.
The massive cruise ship...turned around.
It did not head towards the Mist, nor did it continue towards Jin Ze Country.
Humans did not know the intentions of this ship full of monsters.
The universe is a dark forest, every civilization a hunter ard with a gun, who must tread without making a sound, even breathing carefully; they must be cautious.
Because all around in the forest are hunters just like him, if he discovers another life, there is only one thing he can do, shoot to eliminate the other hunter.
In this forest, any life that reveals itself will soon be eliminated; such is the image of cosmic civilizations.
This is the famous Dark Forest Theory.
In the eyes of humanity, the creatures from within the Mist are another civilization, and their existence can only an the annihilation of their own.
Would a tiger discuss peace with a rabbit? This group of people clearly had stronger powers...but why did they not choose to continue their advance?
Standing on the topmost deck, Wen Hao looked at the sun, letting it sting his eyes.
"The weather here is really nice, cough cough cough...this sunlight...is truly comfortable," said Liu Bingshu, a core crew mber.
Liu Bingshu was always sickly, but his power was enough to destroy human civilization.
For he represented sothing humanity had never truly conquered—Disease Demon.
All sorts of viruses gathered within Liu Bingshu’s body, and if he wished, he could infect a city with an unprecedented, bizarre disease concocted from a mix of many viruses, ensuring both an alarming infection rate and fatality rate.
"Yeah, the sun inside the Mist can sotis rise to over ninety degrees—outrageous. I’ve almost forgotten what a normal temperature feels like, hahahaha," Jiang Zhu, a huge man with purple muscles, said.
Jiang Zhu too had imnse strength, indispensable over the ocean; he could control another thing humanity never truly conquered—climate.
Or to put it another way, Jiang Zhu’s power was Calamity. Thunder, tsunami, gales, torrential rain, snowstorms...he could summon them, lasting a very long ti and covering a vast area.
"Are we just going back like this? This world is a juicy piece of at, so tempting," said the third person speaking, a woman with an eyepatch.
Her na is Li Xin. Although she looks like a beauty, after the Evil Fallen Transformation, the most accurate thing to say is... Li Xin is a rmaid, not a beauty.
It’s just that her fish tail is hidden by clothing around her waist. One wouldn’t notice she’s non-human just by looking at her face.
Li Xin also possessed a powerful thing that humans never conquered—desire.
The forr Li Xin was a problem crew mber who could provoke two unrelated and hardly interacting crew mbers to co to blows in an instant. She appeared intellectual, but in reality, she was the wildest and most aggressive.
Wherever she went, if she wished, she could draw out the deepest desires of people.
By comparison, Wen Hao, who controlled the seas, seed rather unremarkable.
But combined, these elents ford a mariti empire enough to scare any force.
When Jing Wu initially contacted Bai Wu on Black Gold Island, he ntioned this cruise ship and asked Bai Wu to look for it. Bai Wu laughed it off and pretended to agree.
In fact, as an island, Black Gold Island had encountered this cruise ship before.
However, the forces of Black Gold Island could do nothing about the cruise ship.
On one hand, they couldn’t board it, on the other, this ship was like the vessel ant to save the world after the supre god destroyed humanity, as portrayed in the religious culture of the Fuyue Twin Islands.
Calamities, human disasters, diseases, were enough to bring the world to the brink of destruction.
In the end, the endless ocean would inundate everything. Just like in the Book of Revelation where the supre god destroys humanity.
Jing Wu didn’t care about these things, but although he was stronger than everyone on the ship, including the captain, he was not stronger than the ship itself.
The crew mbers and the captain, along with the ship itself, were essentially one and the sa.
This was a special area. Battling with any one person on board was akin to battling the entire crew.
Jing Wu had extraordinary power, but he might not be able to suppress all the creatures on the Ark, especially at sea.
The Evil Fallen were restricted by their region and couldn’t move, but it was not the Evil Fallen that moved, it was the region itself.
Such a region—Jing Wu would not want to beco its complete enemy.
Wen Hao looked into the distance and said,
"This world is very beautiful... but none of it belongs to us."
"Then let’s take it by force, Laoda. These people are very weak anyway," Li Xin was eager to act.
Wen Hao shook his head,
"Let’s wait and see. We don’t have to land, even on these seas, the breeze here is milder, almost like it was seven hundred years ago."
"Cough cough cough... Captain, aren’t you being too rciful?" Liu Bingshu was worried.
"We’ve shown great strength, but what if they provoke us again?"
What to do? Destroy humanity? Return to the Mist?
Of course, Wen Hao was not willing to return.
All the people on this ship were from Sheng Country, and seven hundred years ago, the citizens of Sheng Country were the first to endure the distortion for this world. He could refrain from landing for now, but there was no reason for him not to enjoy this gentler world.
"If they co once, we’ll eradicate them once. If they keep invading..."
Wen Hao didn’t finish what would happen if they kept invading, but the crew mbers below could hear the tone.
They even began looking forward to the foolishness and provocation of these humans, aggravating the typically calm but exceptionally ruthless mariti emperor when truly angered.
The colossal Ark, to the astonishnt of the military leaders of various nations, headed for the distant horizon.
Humans didn’t know how to handle this, and suddenly soone among them regretted...
If there hadn’t been that bombardnt, would River Return Port have a different outco now?
Reality offers no hypotheticals, and quickly, these individuals reached a consensus at the transnational warfare council.
They decided to use satellite surveillance on the Ark galith and, at the sa ti, designate the sea area it occupied as a forbidden zone.
"The world is experiencing human mutation everywhere, we’ll gather these mutants and use mutation to fight mutation, use monsters to defeat monsters," the leader of Fuyue New Island proposed.
The leader of Aulora Island said,
"We can give it a try. Most of these monsters aren’t humanoid, they must be very tired...we might even take the opportunity to organize again..."
"Enough already. Don’t you think we are being too arrogant?" The chief of Johnson Island thought they should not continue the offensive.
But the military commander from inan said,
"Arrogant? Let’s not forget the intelligence we currently hold, unknown to the average person. Do you not know either? This ship could very well be the source. If we resolve it, we might be able to solve all the mutations. Tiwise, it’s all started after it erged from Hei Wu, right?"
"Deeply agree."
"I think so too."
"That’s right."
"We definitely shouldn’t let them go."
National leaders and top military officials all agreed with this view, and those few who disagreed could only be overruled by the majority.
Thus, the latter part of the conference turned into a suicide eting, as a bunch of people discussed how to assemble mutants and how to annihilate that damned Ark with the help of technology.
The plan was put into action quickly.
The claim that the Ark brought mutation, and that this monster-filled galith held the source of mutation, beca accepted without question.
Because the sudden onset of bizarre mutations and rules was inexplicable to all nations.
They desperately needed a lifesaver, a combat directive to face it all.
And indeed, it was only after the appearance of the galith that the subsequent mutations occurred, so humanity could only pin their hopes on destroying the galith.
There were more than a few who believed more details needed to be confird, but no one realized the consequences that would ensue once the idea of destroying that galith translated into action.
Nations soon began to recruit soldiers and assemble forces in preparation to destroy the Ark.
During this ti, the focus of the world’s elites was on the sea. They believed that once the enemy at sea was dealt with, everything would return to normal—an unfounded notion, but what else could they think?
Naturally, they overlooked so impending calamities on land.
The World Beyond the Mist, which had been calm for seven hundred years, was about to face two great disasters.
One invoked by humans, one by the mutants.
These events were yet to co, they needed a bit more ti, but during this interval, within the sea Inside the Mist...
A chanical ship bearing the emblem of the Eye of Colossus from chanical City was sailing toward the area beyond the Mist.
The man on the ship fiddled with a wristwatch that enabled Spirit Possession to transform a person into an Evil Fallen, basking in the sunlight. He was looking forward to the upcoming journey.
On another side, in a distant sea area, there was also a man setting out to sea.
This man’s setup was rather pitiful, as he planned to conquer the sea region with a re wooden raft.
Especially since the man had his eyes closed, seemingly unable to see for so reason. If anyone witnessed this strange scene—
They probably wouldn’t pity this suicidal man, but rather the very cute little cat on his shoulder.
This was a strange cat, with a proud deanor, looking at the clear blue sky and endless sea without fear, only pride and serenity.
Before the two great calamities beyond the Mist arrived, the two most powerful humans inside High Tower, as if by so telepathy, chose to set out to sea at the sa ti.
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