Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

The Bureau of Mysteries has been searching the world, concentrating its efforts on investigations and using various methods. They have obtained some useful information, such as finding the missing moving island.

The small island was dragged into the inner world, and since it was already a moving island, its existence in the inner world has made it even more unpredictable.

The barrier between the inner and outer layers was broken during the period of psychic dormancy, resulting in very serious regional paranormal phenomena in that triangular sea area. Countless planes and ships have disappeared or crashed in the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bureau of Mysteries has now narrowed down the area into the secret realm of the inner world to a few kilometers, and as a result, the fleet is gone.

The Secret Service's intention was to give the candidates for savior a try.

This thing seems to have been ordained by fate; it's extremely easy for someone else to mess it up. Otherwise, it wouldn't have attracted Zhao Hao and his thirteen-person group.

Now is the time for them to contribute.

This was, after all, the first operation, so the bureau was quite cautious. Of the thirteen people, five were sent, and the rest had important tasks of their own.

Zhao Hao, Prada, Ciro, the Black Giant Lincoln, and the High School Kid Sam.

The research fleet had it tough back then. The psychic energy in the Bermuda Triangle was chaotic, causing all kinds of traditional electronic products to malfunction, and even some sensitive psychic superconducting devices had problems.

And there are many sea monsters here!

That's right, there are psionic sea monsters in the surface world.

At first, it was fine; they were just some inconspicuous little things. Zhao Hao and his group were on a warship, so they weren't afraid.

After a few shots and a few torpedoes, these third-rate supernatural monsters either died or ran away.

However, the closer you get to the center, the more powerful and bizarre the monsters you encounter become.

This morning, the specially modified psionic metal warship encountered a deep-sea devouring octopus. It was a gigantic, octopus-like supernatural monster, amphibious in nature.

One of its tentacles was thirty or forty meters long and covered with hooks and suckers.

This thing suddenly launched an attack from the deep sea, and even the detection equipment did not detect it.

A giant, multi-clawed beast forced the warship to a stop on the sea surface, its tentacles of all sizes clinging to the warship and binding it tightly.

Ordinary soldiers have no ability to resist. Their psionic guns are like toys. When they hit the tentacles, it's like a cigarette. They are basically swallowed by the mouths on the tentacles in one go and digested into a bloody skeleton in a few dozen seconds!

It took Zhao Hao and his team a great deal of effort to finally drive it away. The giant tentacle alone must have weighed several tons!

This thing actually has a Bronze 1-star rating!

That means the Bermuda area; you can't raise this kind of monster anywhere else.

If previous research fleets had encountered this monster, they wouldn't have mysteriously disappeared; they would have been exterminated immediately.

Surprisingly, after the battle, Colt sent back information about the monster—the Deep Sea Devouring Octopus, a Bronze 1-Star Octopus monster with super regeneration and rapid digestion abilities.

The compilers of information are called Lovecraft.

This is clearly an alias.

Moreover, the data shows that the login time was seventy years ago, when psionic energy was still dormant.

Zhao Hao later learned from Colt that "Love Crafts" was a pseudonym, and the person's real name was Howard Phillips.

He was originally an amateur journalist and novelist, but by chance he got involved in the Deep Sea Kin incident.

Despite being an ordinary person, he survived in a situation that was extremely dangerous even for superhumans, and from then on became a mystical scholar and a superhuman.

Many of the written and visual materials he left behind are still valuable resources for the Extraordinary Organization to study strange creatures and their kin.

Given his psychic abilities at the time, he had made numerous encounters with the spirits and creations of the spirits, and even with extraterrestrial races. He was known as the person with the most profound research into the spirits of the deep sea.

But that was a period of psychic dormancy, and Howard himself ultimately only reached the level of a Dark Iron 4 psychic. He died at the age of 47.

According to reports, when he first became involved in the Deep Sea Mystic Kin incident, he ate something strange, and his final cause of death was that his intestines became abnormally activated and could not be suppressed. He claimed to have died of intestinal cancer.

Zhao Hao and his group's mission is to enter the ocean of the underworld through the Bermuda Triangle to find the moving island. They will likely have to come into contact with the monsters described in Howard's files...

"Captain, the hull damage is minor and will not affect our continued navigation. However, our radar system and psionic-assisted propulsion system have both failed..."

After the great battle, Zhao Hao and his men had much less to do, but the sailors and soldiers on the ship were busy. They had to take stock of the manpower losses, check the condition of the ship, and carefully search every corner to make sure that the giant octopus that swallowed people didn't leave anything behind.

That giant octopus was, after all, an extraordinary monster; its tentacles could grow large or small, and it invaded many places through various pipes and other means.

Many sailors went missing at the time, swallowed up by it silently.

Some were even sitting on the toilet... leaving behind only a large pool of blood.

If Zhao Hao hadn't summoned Xiao Ruan to protect those ordinary sailors, several more might have died.

After all, it's a bronze-level monster. If any parts it left behind were left behind, they could become a hidden danger, so we need to investigate from the beginning.

Although they had all undergone rigorous selection and training, the sailors and soldiers were finding it unbearable to watch their comrades being devoured by the giant tentacles.

Zhao Hao was worried that this warship might not be able to support them as they entered the waters of the Inner World!

Fortunately, the psionic device used to locate the secret passage was not damaged, so it did not affect the continuation of the mission.

However, that very night, some sailors indeed succumbed to the pressure and suffered mental breakdowns.

In a place like Bermuda, he mutated that very night, killing three sailors in his dormitory. He was then cornered by the others who arrived later and was eventually killed by the Black Giant Lincoln.

The research vessel had never encountered a monster of this magnitude—the deep-sea octopus—leading to a severe underestimation by the Bureau of Mysteries. Many sailors suffered mental damage upon encountering the monster.

Then that night, another abnormal sailor mutated and killed his roommate. Now, Zhao Hao and his friends were more worried about the people on the ship.

"What should we do? Should we turn back? There's still time," Xiluo advised.

Indeed, if they return to port now, these sailors and soldiers will receive psychological guidance and psionic protection as soon as possible, and the aftereffects will be much less.

If we delay for a few days, we might not be able to make a living later.

However, after the message was reported using extraordinary means, a swift approval was issued: Disagree. Finding the secret passage is the primary objective; everything else is secondary. The mission cannot be abandoned unless the five candidates are in danger. Necessary sacrifices are acceptable…

The warships had no choice but to continue sailing, but unfortunately, the weather turned against them, and it started snowing and raining! The temperature plummeted within a few hours.

Chapter 364 The corpse in the extreme cold

When I received the reply from above, saying that it was necessary to make a sacrifice, it was already dusk.

Zhao Hao and the other four didn't know what to say. The captain and colonel seemed to have made preparations beforehand and were ready to die. It was just a pity for the ordinary sailors who were unaware of the danger.

Unexpectedly, less than an hour after dinner, before the stars had even appeared in the sky, an unusually strong cold front and freezing rain suddenly struck.

This is naturally highly unusual, as the ship is currently located deep within the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle is located east of the Gulf of Mexico in the Sargasso Sea of ​​the North Atlantic—the only sea in the world without a coastline. Strictly speaking, it is just a specific area enclosed by several major ocean currents.

The climate here is mild and humid, a typical subtropical maritime climate.

How could such a place suddenly become so cold?!

The cold was severe; the temperature plummeted in just two or three hours, dropping from midday in the height of summer to midnight in the dead of winter, and it was accompanied by strong winds and icy weather.

At first, the warships were still able to move, but after an hour or two, the sea surface had already begun to freeze over! As the ships moved, the cracking sound of the thin ice breaking could be heard.

After three or four hours, the boat could no longer move. The ice had formed too quickly and was too thick, freezing the boat in place.

Although the operation was very well prepared, no one expected to encounter such an extreme cold wave in a place like Bermuda.

It's not like everyone is preparing for an Arctic expedition and has brought warm clothes. Wearing short sleeves in this kind of weather, almost everyone is shivering from the cold. Even with warships running at full capacity to provide heating, it's hard to withstand the cold.

Not to mention people, even the exposed parts of the warships, such as the hulls, were covered with a thick layer of frost, and some windward spots had even formed ice!

“This can’t go on!” said Duncan, the Black Giant.

He saw that the sailors were huddled together and trembling, and their expressions seemed off, so he knew they were on the verge of collapse.

First came the sea monster, then a comrade suddenly went mad, mutated, and started killing people, followed by inexplicable, severe, and frigid weather. The double blow to their bodies and minds left most of the sailors numb and listless, some even with a hint of madness in their eyes.

"This blizzard came out of nowhere, but we're stuck on this frozen sea and the ship can't move! Are we supposed to go down and become an icebreaker to break through the ice?" This idea of ​​Xiluo's was something that couldn't be tried unless absolutely necessary.

Putting everything else aside, although everyone is already a Bronze-level superhuman and is impervious to heat and cold, this blizzard is obviously problematic. Sending the major combatants to do hard labor and break the ice is a long shot. If they waste their strength and spiritual energy clearing a path for the warship, there might be some trouble!

Besides, even if they managed to break through the ice, where would the ship go? With the blizzard raging, all navigation and positioning methods were useless; the ship had no idea which way to go.

But this can't go on forever; these people can't hold on any longer.

Even if it's a necessary sacrifice, if the sailors all die or their extreme emotions erupt and become distorted, how can the few of us still sail the ship away?

I never expected this operation to be so fraught with difficulties. Even when other research fleets entered the Bermuda Triangle, they encountered their share of troubles, but not nearly as many as this! This is just too difficult!

However, before Zhao Hao and his team could come up with a solution, something even worse happened.

Someone died, and then came back to life...

Charlie was a veteran sailor who had served for eight years. Relying on America's maritime dominance, he had been to almost every sea in the world and had tasted girls from all over the world.

However, he stood out in the selection process and thought he would be promoted and made a fortune, but he didn't expect to be assigned to some kind of scientific expedition.

It's just a scientific expedition, does it really need to be so rigorous?

Charlie's files, medical insurance, driver's license, school records... all his information was taken away.

From an ordinary person's perspective, Charlie has essentially disappeared from this world, or rather, there is no trace of him left behind; one could even say that he never existed.

There are nearly two hundred sailors like Charlie. They are all single, with no family or friends, and have served in the military for many years, meeting all the standards and demonstrating excellent performance.

It was a "necessary sacrifice" chosen by Amy's superiors.

He didn’t realize how dangerous this “scientific expedition” was at first. Although the level of secrecy was very high, he had been exposed to similar missions before, as most of the sailors on the ship had similar experience.

Charlie thought it was just another "scientific expedition" to the waters of a "dangerous country".

Unexpectedly, the ship ended up in Bermuda!

What sailor hadn't heard of Bermuda?

The Amis were already quite superstitious, and the superstitious atmosphere was even stronger among the sailors.

Faced with such irresistible natural power, everyone feels insignificant and subconsciously seeks spiritual refuge and reliance. Therefore, they become more superstitious.

They were terrified of legendary, dangerous waters like the Bermuda Triangle.

But could the soldiers disobey orders? They had no choice but to bite the bullet and go.

The sailors were already on edge, but after two days at sea, they were suddenly attacked by some strange creatures.

Later, it was attacked by an indescribable giant water monster.

Although the officers claimed it was some kind of mutated giant octopus, what kind of octopus has tentacles that are thirty or forty meters long, can shrink, enlarge, and extend, and has barbs, suckers, sharp teeth, and a big mouth that can swallow people whole?

Firearms, including the strange firearms that had never been seen before and were issued for this mission, and even the ship's machine guns, could not break through the skin of those tentacles!

What kind of octopus is this?!