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"For countless ages, the Deep Ones have built their mythical cities in the depths of the sea, hiding them from the outside world."
"Some folk tales about the ocean mention strange jewels, huge stone artifacts, and peculiar underwater structures."
"Some believe that the legends about mermaids may have originated from them."
"They worship their leaders, the father god Dagon and the mother goddess Hydra, and in serving them, they also worship the great."
Suddenly, Bai Liu froze, her eyes glazed over.
His entire aura began to become frantic.
Just when Jiang Xiao and the others thought that Bai Liu had touched on something "unspeakable," the latter raised her eyebrows.
"You think you're so great, huh? Cthulhu!"
Cthulhu!
Cthulhu!!
Cthulhu!!!
These three words resounded in Jiang Xiao's ears like a thunderclap, making his eardrums ache and his heart clench.
An invisible, mysterious, and terrifying energy seemed to penetrate the air and strike deep into Jiang Xiao's soul.
It was as if a thunderbolt had exploded in Jiang Xiao's mind, instantly stirring up countless ripples.
Jiang Xiao felt his consciousness being pulled by an invisible force, rapidly falling towards an unknown and profound world.
Before his eyes appeared chaos, stars shattered, the universe collapsed, and all order seemed to lose its meaning in the face of the word 'Cthulhu'.
Soon, Jiang Xiao's mental state deteriorated to the point of madness.
His eyes were glazed over, and a wild laugh involuntarily crept onto his lips.
In his hazy state, he seemed to have come into contact with the most beautiful things in the universe.
It was a beauty that transcended human comprehension, an extreme, wild, and unrestrained freedom!
But this beauty was fleeting, quickly replaced by an unfathomable fear.
Jiang Xiao felt as if he were being watched by countless unseen eyes.
It was a gaze from the abyss, cold, ancient, and full of greed and cunning.
His body began to tremble uncontrollably, and sweat poured down his forehead like rain.
He tried to break free from this state, but found that his will was bound by some invisible chains, and he could not move.
"Dad! Dad! What's wrong?!"
Shi Shi's anxious, tearful voice seemed to come from afar, but to him it sounded as indistinct and distant as a voice coming from underwater.
Jiang Xiao wanted to answer, but he discovered that his vocal cords had also lost their function.
He tried to reach out and grab Shi Shi, but found that his body had already turned into 'nothingness'.
His vision began to blur, the whole world was spinning, and he felt as if his soul was being drawn into an endless vortex from which he could not escape.
Just then, a blurry figure appeared in his field of vision; it was Bai Liu.
Jiang Xiao tried his best to grab that hand, but it seemed like an illusion; his fingers passed right through the other person's palm.
His consciousness was plunged into darkness once again, a darkness that could not be described in words, as if the entire universe was silent in this darkness.
However, in the depths of this darkness, Jiang Xiao sensed a faint light, a warm and familiar feeling.
He swam toward the light with all his might, knowing that it might be his only hope.
If we can't catch him, then his fate will be the same as that of the doctor and Professor Peng.
Finally, his fingers touched the light, his consciousness began to return, and he heard Bai Liu and Shi Shi's anxious calls again.
"I'm fine."
Jiang Xiao spoke with difficulty, his voice hoarse and weak, but at least he had returned to reality.
He knew he had just experienced a mental ordeal, and it was all because of those three words—
Cthulhu!
Extremely scary!
If nothing unexpected happens, Cthulhu is the root of everything and the culprit.
But is this being, whose mere mention of His name nearly caused his soul to perish, truly someone he could deal with?
He looked down at the "light" he had grasped.
Is it it?
Jiang Xiao originally thought that it was a depth charge with almost "infinite" power that saved him under certain conditions.
Unexpectedly, the clown mask was obtained from Pennywise.
Finally, Jiang Xiao regained full consciousness, and the anxious voices of the crowd became normal and clear again.
"Jiang Xiao, what just happened? You seemed to have gone mad, your strength was rapidly draining away, and even your life force was dissipating at a fast pace!"
It had to be Bai Liu who immediately summarized Jiang Xiao's state of mind.
"That's terrifying!"
Jiang Xiao shook his head, unsure how to explain to them everything he had just experienced.
"It's like a dream."
"You know perfectly well that the unparalleled beauty before you is actually an abyss, but you can't help but willingly fall into it. That feeling is hard to describe."
"Huh? But then again, why do you all seem so normal?"
Shouldn't this be true?
Well.
The group exchanged glances, and finally Bai Liu sighed and spoke.
"That's because they didn't hear those three words; you were the only one there who could hear them."
"Oh, I almost forgot..."
These three words are not only impossible for a normal person to say, but even if they were said, a normal person wouldn't be able to hear them.
Only Bai Liu, a master whose soul carries the weight of the Nine Star Strange Tales, could withstand the pressure and utter those three words unscathed.
Unfortunately, Shi Shi and Wang Dayong were both a little weak, so they couldn't hear.
Jiang Xiao was much weaker than Bai Liu, but much stronger than Wang Dayong and the others.
It falls right in the range where you can hear those three words, but can't bear the consequences of hearing them.
"Pooh!"
Jiang Xiao spat and cursed his bad luck!
Chapter 616 The Deep Ones' Plan
In Jiang Xiao's mind, scenes of disaster flashed by rapidly, like a movie montage.
He finally understood that behind all these disasters, it was indeed a tragedy caused by human greed and ignorance.
The ocean, the widest and deepest expanse on Earth, was once home to deep-sea divers.
They built a magnificent civilization in the deep sea, isolated from the human world, quiet and mysterious.
However, with the progress of industrialization, humans are dumping more and more wastewater into the ocean, and the pollution is becoming increasingly serious.
The recent wastewater, in particular, is extremely polluting, causing enormous casualties to the Deepdivers and severely impacting the entire species.
The high priest among the Deep Ones, as the spiritual leader of his people, felt his anger and grief reach their peak as he watched his people fall ill one by one due to the pollution.
He decided to pray to Cthulhu, the supreme deity they worshipped.
They hope to gain the power to take revenge on those who destroy nature and harm their home.
Under the high priest's prayers, the dark forces in the deep sea began to stir, and Cthulhu's hazy will awakened.
Suddenly, all sorts of viruses appeared in the world, spreading and mutating at an alarming rate.
Even the zombie virus, an abstract concept that seemed to exist only in fictional stories, has become a reality and swept across the world.
He looked at the deep-sea creature before him; its enormous eyes seemed to pierce through to the heart, and its trembling gills and smooth skin silently spoke of the sorrow and anger of the deep sea.
"What should we do?"
Jiang Xiao's voice was weak, but it was filled with confusion and helplessness.
Bai Liu was silent for a moment, then spoke slowly.
"We must find a way to quell the anger of the deep-sea divers and make up for the damage that humanity has done to the ocean, otherwise this disaster will never end."
Shirayuki is very strong, but at the same time, he is also self-aware.
They simply couldn't handle Cthulhu; that thing was many dimensions higher than them.
The Deep One inside the vessel seemed to sense the movement outside. Its huge, bulging eyes suddenly started to move, staring intently at Jiang Xiao and the others.