The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

"Report! Starboard sonar malfunction!"

"The port side is malfunctioning too! Something... is attached to our hull!" the sonar monitoring officer shouted in alarm.

On the main screen, the originally clear image of the seabed echo was instantly replaced by a jumble of static.

Shen Ge frowned slightly as he activated his [Strange Eye].

In his view, on the pitch-black seabed, amidst the writhing flesh around him, layers of eerie, grayish-white, barnacle-like creatures had somehow densely covered the entire hull of the "Jiaolong".

These parasitic anomalies are emitting a peculiar energy fluctuation that not only blocks sonar but is also silently eroding the submarine's outer armor.

What made everyone even more uneasy was that in the darkness further away, a huge black shadow exuding a strong eerie energy was slowly approaching them.

"Surface! Surface immediately!" the captain ordered decisively.

The submarine's engines emitted a low roar as it began to climb toward the surface.

However, the attached "magical barnacles" seemed to have come to life. Their roots dug into the gaps in the alloy armor, generating a huge drag force that greatly slowed down their ascent.

"boom--!"

A deep, muffled thud came from beneath the hull, and the entire submarine shook violently.

"We've been hit! There's a huge thing down there!"

"It's that ship!" Yoona, who had been staring out the porthole, suddenly exclaimed.

Following the sound, everyone looked and saw, in the beam of the searchlight, an old cargo ship, rusty and seemingly salvaged from the last century, slowly rising from below them and sailing alongside them.

The cargo ship's hull was also covered with a dense mass of gray "psychic barnacles," and countless pale human hands stretched out from the gaps in the barnacles, waving unconsciously in the water.

A ghost ship that has been completely parasitized.

"Prepare for battle!" Shen Ge's tone remained calm.

Yu Tiexiong could no longer contain himself. He walked to the torpedo launch bay, stretched his limbs, and said in a deep voice, "Captain Shen, let me go and dismantle that wrecked ship."

Amidst violent tremors, the Jiaolong submersible struggled to break through the sea surface.

The rain poured down.

On the dark sea, the "ghost ship" appeared, blocking their path. This meant that their first "dive" had failed.

Before the captain could give the order, the hatch of the torpedo tube where Yu Tiexiong was located suddenly popped open.

His massive body was launched like a cannonball, tracing a rough parabola through the air before crashing heavily onto the deck of the "ghost ship."

Yu Tiexiong roared, his hideous, grotesque arm armor flashing with blinding, eerie energy. Each punch he threw smashed the monsters on the deck, formed from a fusion of barnacles and corpses, into a pile of mangled flesh.

However, just as he was wreaking havoc, the deck beneath his feet suddenly became soft and began to writhe like flesh and blood of a living creature.

Countless grayish-white tentacles shot out from beneath the deck and tightly wrapped around his legs.

The entire "ghost ship" was actually a gigantic, fused, and bizarre creature!
The Jiaolong's shipborne anti-monster machine guns attacked the bow and stern of the "ghost ship," and the scorching anti-monster ammunition belts swept across the hull of the "ghost ship," exploding into bursts of sparks mixed with blood, flesh, and rust.

Shen Ge's gaze passed over the "ghost ship" in front of him. He could sense that a strange energy aura, much larger than that of the "ghost ship," was awakening in the dark sea ahead.

That's their true destination.

"Yoona, go help him. Let's finish this quickly," Shen Ge said.

"Yes." Yoona's figure vanished instantly. The next second, she appeared at the top of the "ghost ship's" mast.

Her right hand rapidly turned to flesh and blood, and several sharp, rotting tentacles pierced down like lightning, precisely severing all the tentacles that were wrapped around Yu Tiexiong.

Freed from his restraints, Yu Tiexiong roared once more. He activated the maximum power of his ghostly arm armor, slamming his fists down onto the deck beneath his feet!
"Boom——!"

The terrifying power completely shattered the core of this bizarre, fused vessel.

The "ghost ship" emitted a strange swallowing sound, and the flesh and blood on its massive hull began to disintegrate inch by inch, slowly sinking into the dark sea.

The two worked together to dismantle the massive, monstrous heart at the center of the "ghost ship," then quickly jumped back to the "Jiaolong." Seeing that they had completed their mission, Shen Ge ordered the captain to open fire.

boom--

boom!
The fierce artillery fire instantly engulfed the entire "ghost ship," blasting its flesh and blood into a bloody pulp that spread throughout the entire sea area.

The battle ended, and the torrential rain gradually subsided.

However, the stench of decay in the air grew stronger and stronger.

"Captain Shen, look at that sea..." The captain's voice carried a hint of uncontrollable horror.

Following the direction of his finger, everyone looked and saw that at the horizon, a vast expanse of "mysterious corals," emitting a faint phosphorescent glow and writhing like flesh and blood, was spreading out, dyeing the entire sea area a sickly dark red.

The Coral Sea is decaying.

This is the "stomach" of the "deep-sea wriggling nest".

Shen Ge frowned. He had a bad feeling about this. According to the intelligence received by the Information Department, the "Deep Sea Creeping Nest" should be on the seabed.

But now...

However, before Shen Ge could figure it out, the "Jiaolong" suddenly began to shake violently. The "strange tentacles" and "strange barnacles" wrapped around it seemed to be dragged by the dark seawater below, forcibly pulling the entire "Jiaolong" to dive sharply.

Like an out-of-control elevator, the Jiaolong was dragged down at high speed. To prevent the seawater from washing the Jiaolong apart, Shen Ge had to use his Ghost Domain to envelop the Jiaolong and absorb most of the impact damage.

Even more terrifying, a violent, eerie storm suddenly erupted from the originally dark seabed.

The Jiaolong submersible struggled to descend to the bottom of the abyss amidst layers of eerie energy storms.

Outside the porthole, the "rotten coral sea," writhing like flesh and blood, grew denser and more eerie, stretching from the surface all the way to the seabed.

Under Shen Ge's protection, which kept the "Jiaolong" submersible in the Ghost Domain, it gradually stabilized. Shen Ge then instructed the captain to lead everyone back to their posts.

After comparison by information personnel, the data confirmed Shen Ge's conjecture.

These are not real freak corals, but rather the enormous and bizarre "deep-sea wriggling nest" with its countless nerve endings and massive digestive system.

The eerie energy they emitted caused the submarine's detectors to sound piercing alarms, and the ship's hull was subjected to tremendous pressure.

In other words, when the Jiaolong submersible actually entered this area, it had already entered the mysterious space of the "deep-sea crawling nest".

Previously, whether they were "surfacing" or "diving," they were actually in a strange space, affected by the eerie energy of the "deep-sea crawling nest." According to sonar detection, their target was directly beneath this polluted sea area.

Finally, after a rapid descent lasting 40 minutes, penetrating several layers of viscous flesh and blood, the Jiaolong submersible was stopped by a lump of flesh and blood.

Below is a horrifying and suffocating scene.

A gigantic, bizarre heart, composed of countless twisted fleshy tentacles and pulsating ganglia, floats silently in the center of the "nest".

Each of its throbbing causes violent surges in the surrounding seawater, and each pulse transmits immense, eerie energy through its thick blood vessels to the entire "Rotting Coral Sea".

"Report, Captain, conventional detection methods have completely failed." The captain looked at the chaotic, blood-red data on the screen with a grave expression.

"The ship's outer armor is being slowly eroded, and the energy readings are continuously decreasing. We... seem to be 'eaten'."

Although the captain could obtain information through the detector, it was not as direct as Shen Ge's "mysterious eye". Only now did they realize that the "Jiaolong" had been eaten by the "Deep Sea Creeping Nest" and that they were in the "stomach wall" of the "Deep Sea Creeping Nest".

Inside the cabin, even the experienced crew members couldn't help but show signs of tension.

Being swallowed alive by a high-level monster is an experience that would send chills down the spine of any monster warrior.

But Shen Ge was not surprised that they had been "eaten". Instead, according to global reports on the Ghost Organization, the only confirmed "Ghost King" in the "reality" is in the Amazon rainforest, and the second most confirmed is the Ghost King under Sakura Island, which is currently undetermined.

So how did the "Deep Sea Creeping Nest," which was clearly at the sixth level of detection, suddenly jump to the level of the seventh-level Ghost King?

Theoretically speaking, a typical seventh-tier Ghost King would pose no threat to Shen Ge, as his eighth-tier Ghost Energy Erosion could completely overwhelm the opponent.

But the problem now is that although the huge, monstrous, heart-like thing in front of him is "beating," Shen Ge's eerie eyes see that it is empty!

This is very "weird"!
"Stand by, maintain maximum defense." Shen Ge's voice broke the silence in the cabin as he looked at Yun'er and Yu Tiexiong.

"I'll go in and take a look."

He couldn't just sit and wait to die. Before the submarine's energy was completely exhausted, he had to take the initiative and find the true heart of the "Deep Sea Creeping Nest".

"Captain Shen, let's go too." Yun'er and Yu Tiexiong stepped forward.

Shen Ge shook his head: "Something's not right here. Although it's strange that the tumor's heart is inside the 'stomach,' I'm certain that the tumor's heart is empty. You guys stay on the ship and protect this place. I'll go inside and take a look."

"Yes!" they both responded in unison.

Shen Ge walked to the thick alloy bulkhead, stretched out his right hand, and gently placed it on it.

The [Invisible] trait is activated.

Shen Ge's figure seemed to pass through water ripples, directly merging into the sturdy alloy hull, and then emerging from the fleshy stomach wall on the other side, the whole process being silent.

When Shen Ge fully entered the body of the "Wriggling Nest", the ground beneath his feet was a soft, swampy, viscous "digestive fluid" of varying depths, emitting a pungent, sour smell and bubbling with eerie purple bubbles.

The top of his head and all around him were countless "nerve bundles" of varying thicknesses, swaying like vines in a tropical rainforest, weaving through his flesh like tentacles.

The air was filled with a high concentration of eerie energy, and every breath felt like inhaling scalding, thick fog.

Just then, the surrounding bizarre digestive fluid suddenly surged violently.

Dozens of monsters, resembling enlarged leeches, suddenly sprang out of the liquid and pounced on Shen Ge.

They are completely black, covered in sticky mucus, and have densely packed ring-shaped teeth in their suckers at the front.

The parasitic type of weirdness—"Weird Energy Acid-Eating Worm".

They are the permanent residents of this "stomach," and are specifically responsible for breaking down the various prey devoured by the "wriggling nest."

Shen Ge simply snapped his fingers, and the "collapse" of the invisible ghostly domain directly "embedded" these giant insects back into flesh and blood, causing them to explode into clusters of blood flowers with a "poof poof poof".

Shen Ge identified the direction and followed a relatively thick nerve bundle, heading towards the deeper part where the strange energy flowed more concentrated.

However, he soon discovered that the real trouble was not these internal parasitic anomalies.

"Rumble--"

The entire space of flesh and blood suddenly began to writhe and contract violently and rhythmically.

The ground beneath his feet rose high, and the nerve bundles above his head hung down like giant pythons, completely squeezing and closing the flesh-and-blood passage he had just traversed.

Immediately afterwards, an even more intense contraction suddenly struck!

An irresistible force, like a flash flood, surged from behind Shen Ge. The digestive fluids beneath his feet formed a colossal wave that instantly engulfed him.

With her formidable strength, Shen Ge steadied herself immediately, remaining as solid as a rock amidst the raging torrent.

An invisible barrier from the strange realm condensed around him, forming a separate space that isolated the surrounding digestive fluids.

After enduring wave after wave of the bizarre digestive fluid, the raging torrent gradually subsided.

Shen Ge stood on a relatively stable fold of flesh, activated the [Strange Eye], and saw that the entire flesh space was filled with chaotic and violent strange energy.

Shen Ge quietly observed the patterns of this "living maze." He discovered that although each peristalsis changed the structure of the passage, all the flowing digestive juices and flashing nerve bundles ultimately pointed in the same direction.

Shen Ge followed the direction where the strange energy was most concentrated.

Along the way, various parasitic and bizarre creatures tried to stop him, but he casually wiped them away.

After walking for about ten minutes, he came to a huge blood vessel channel that was extremely wide and resembled an underwater tunnel.

The walls of the tubes here are no longer soft flesh and blood, but rather a translucent layer of keratin. Through the walls, one can even see the eerie blood flowing inside, containing terrifying and bizarre powers.

The area is teeming with strange creatures, resembling giant seahorses covered in thick, bony shells, floating around the passageway.

They are not foreign parasites, but rather a regular, bizarre mutation formed from the "wriggling nest's" own tissues.

The moment Shen Ge appeared, these strange creatures simultaneously lit up their single eyes, and dozens of high-intensity strange energy erosions instantly sealed off Shen Ge's escape space.

"Interesting." Shen Ge raised his hand, and an invisible, condensed hand grabbed all the dozen or so fifth-tier monsters in front of him.

puff.

Squeeze it to burst.

"I should have brought a weird sleeping bag and some local specialties for Li Xiang to take back." (End of Chapter)