Chapter 1124
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Chapter 1124 Mysterious Ashes
Death silence hung over the vast sea when two muffled thunderclaps suddenly erupted.
Shen Qingzhu, who had been sitting inside the exploration ship drifting with the ocean current, opened his eyes and looked through the porthole at the distant sea surface. He saw two figures, one white and one golden, break through a gap from nothingness, quickly soaring into the clouds, streaking across the sky, and disappearing.
“Michael?” Shen Qingzhu sensed the aura of that golden light, his eyes narrowing slightly.
Why had Michael come out? Who was he hunting down? What changes had occurred in Heaven?
A series of questions flashed through his mind as he ran to the deck and looked around. Besides the endless dark fog, nothing else could be seen. In this near-blind visibility, Shen Qingzhu didn’t even know where the ship had drifted to.
The ship began to accelerate forward with the increasingly turbulent water flow, and the surrounding temperature gradually dropped. In just a matter of seconds, it felt like being plunged into an ice cave.
“Something’s wrong…”
Shen Qingzhu frowned and snapped his fingers toward the sky.
Snap—!
A ball of intense fire suddenly appeared above the exploration ship, dispelling the surrounding darkness. With this firelight, Shen Qingzhu could barely make out the situation within ten meters of the ship.
His peripheral vision caught something beneath the ship, and his pupils contracted slightly.
At some point, the black seawater had turned blood-red. The once vast sea now seemed like they had entered some kind of mountain gorge, with towering rock walls on both sides. Cold air continuously seeped out from the mountain bodies on both sides, and strange corpses floated on the blood-colored river, emitting a nauseating odor.
This was definitely not a normal sea area!
Shen Qingzhu suddenly turned to look at the stern. In the hazy fog, he couldn’t see the path they had come from. He waved his hand forcefully, and the intense fireball hovering above his head instantly flew along the gorge, illuminating a corner of the fog they had come through.
He saw a huge spatial gap hanging quietly between the mountain gorge. Outside the gap was the normal sea area covered in fog. Beyond the gap was this cold world flowing with blood-colored seawater and floating corpses.
Shen Qingzhu’s face immediately darkened.
This gap must have been left by the two supreme gods who had broken through some space just now. After the gap appeared, the direction of the ocean currents in the surrounding sea area changed, actually carrying the exploration ship all the way in… If Shen Qingzhu hadn’t noticed the temperature change, in that pitch-black fog, he might not have discovered it even after ten minutes.
Shen Qingzhu stood at the stern, his gaze sweeping across the narrow gorge, his mind racing.
The distance between the mountains on both sides of the gorge was too short. Even if he controlled the exploration ship now, it would be impossible to turn the bow around in this terrain and sail back to the normal sea area.
He could choose to abandon the ship and use his ability to temporarily fly back through the gap, but without the ship as a foothold at sea, once his mental power was exhausted, he would passively fall into the seawater and wait for death…
The only method now was to wait until the exploration ship sailed out of this gorge and entered a wider body of water where they could turn around, then go full power against the current, passing through the spatial gap to return.
Shen Qingzhu looked toward the bow. There should be no fog in this unknown space; the fog from the outside world was pouring in through the gap and gradually thinning out. The visibility around was gradually returning, and he could vaguely see the situation ahead of the ship.
Gray-white snowflakes drifted with the cold wind, falling onto the exploration ship. Shen Qingzhu reached out to catch one, examined it for a moment, and realized it was a piece of burnt ash. His brow furrowed:
“What is this thing…”
Boom—!
A dull, massive sound came from the blood-colored seawater beneath the ship. Then, this exploration ship weighing several tons was violently flipped from the sea surface as if something had rammed it from below!
Shen Qingzhu’s pupils suddenly contracted!
…
“It’s been almost an hour already.”
Jiang Er’s form drifted in the sky of Heaven for a moment before landing back at the edge of the broken palace. Just as she was about to say something, she noticed that both Lin Qiye and An Qingyu were frowning deeply.
“What’s wrong with you two?”
“Jiang Er… don’t you feel like the sky is getting darker?”
An Qingyu stretched out his hand, pointing to the gradually dimming sunset in the distance. A darkness was climbing up from the horizon, from that entrance to hell rolling with magma, like nightfall after dusk. Under the gaze of the three, the light of Heaven was disappearing at a visible speed.
“How can this be?” Jiang Er’s brow also furrowed. “Didn’t the Seraph say there is no night here?”
“We were originally able to leave this place, but we failed; night shouldn’t exist here, but it has appeared.” Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed, his expression somewhat grave. “It seems that Heaven must have undergone some kind of change, and it’s definitely not a good thing…”
“Could it be related to the supreme god hiding in hell?”
“Possibly.”
As the three were speaking, the yellowish sunlight had completely disappeared, and endless darkness enveloped the sky of Heaven, emitting a suffocating pressure.
Above the sky, gray-white snowflakes fell one after another onto the land of Heaven. Lin Qiye reached out to catch one, his brow tightly knit:
“Ash? Where is this ash coming from?”
An Qingyu held a piece of ash in front of his eyes, a gray light flashing in his pupils. His eyes narrowed, and he immediately flicked the ash away from his palm, pinching the bridge of his nose with two fingers, seeming somewhat fatigued:
“Don’t touch it… it belongs to the Cthulhu deities.”
“What?”
Lin Qiye’s eyes contracted slightly, and with a wave of his hand, a gust of wind immediately dispersed all the ash hovering above the three of them.
“How could something from the Cthulhu deities appear here?”
“I don’t know… but I heard their murmurings from it. Although much weaker than in the fishing village, this kind of thing can only come from them.” An Qingyu shook his head.
Lin Qiye stood in place, light flickering in his eyes, as if pondering something.
“Could it be Odin…” he murmured.
When they were on the Pamir Plateau, Lin Qiye had heard the Queen Mother of the West speak about the truth of Odin. Now with the simultaneous appearance of these two major elements—supreme gods and Cthulhu—Odin was the only one he could think of.
“So what do we do now?” Jiang Er asked.
“We can’t stay here any longer.” Lin Qiye spoke firmly. “We don’t know when the Seraph will return, and now that things from the Cthulhu gods have appeared, continuing to stay here could lead to unknown variables… We have to take a risk.”
Lin Qiye’s gaze penetrated through the increasingly dense ash snowflakes, landing on the gap leading to hell at the horizon.
