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After agreeing to Colt's request, Zhao Hao instructed Elena and Qi Ye to "be careful of the American authorities, guard the gates and wait for my return" before setting off.

There's really nothing to be careful about. After all, if anything happens, Zhao Hao can come back instantly, and they can be teleported away directly through the Internet of Things barrier. You could say they can go anywhere in the world!

Zhao Hao teleported to the northern state of India, which was less than a kilometer from the front line of the battle against the Ganesha.

Before Zhao Hao could even approach Thor and Farina, he suddenly received a message from the magic mirror in his dream.

"Master, according to calculations, Halley's Comet is approaching."

Halley's Comet? Zhao Hao was taken aback.

How strange! How come we only just realized this comet was coming? That shouldn't be the case.

Shouldn't the arrival time of Halley's Comet have been calculated months, or even a year or two, in advance?

What's wrong? It seems like nobody has remembered this?

Chapter 503 The Mysterious Star Harley

Halley's Comet orbits the sun once every 76.1 years.

There are 31 records of observations of Halley's Comet in Chinese texts from 613 BC to the early 20th century, with the earliest being in 1057 BC.

The earliest records of Halley's Comet in China can be traced back to the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

"When King Wu attacked King Zhou of Shang, he faced east to welcome the new year. He reached the Si River and it flooded; he reached Gongtou and it crashed down. A comet appeared and gave its handle to the people of Shang. At that time, there was a comet with its handle in the east, which could sweep away the people of the west!"

The more accurate record of Halley's Comet is from 613 BC (the fourteenth year of Duke Wen of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period): "In the seventh month of autumn, a comet entered the Big Dipper." This is the world's first accurate record of Halley's Comet.

Since 240 BC (the seventh year of Qin Shi Huang's reign in the Warring States period), China has kept records of every return of Halley's Comet.

In the observations of the ancients, comets had long tails that resembled brooms, hence the name "broom star".

In Chinese folklore, the "broom star" is considered an ominous sign, as its appearance is often associated with periods of great chaos and disorder.

In 1044 BC, King Wu attacked King Zhou of Shang, establishing the Zhou Dynasty, but this caused immense suffering and loss of life. In that same year, Halley's Comet appeared in the sky.

In 770 BC, during the Spring and Autumn Period, when various states were constantly at war, people also saw the long tail of Halley's Comet in the sky.

In 212 BC, Qin Shi Huang built the Epang Palace, burned books and buried scholars alive, and conscripted a large number of laborers to build his mausoleum and the Great Wall. The suffering people also saw Halley's Comet in the sky.

Not only in China, but all over the world, there are records of ominous events occurring during the appearance of Halley's Comet.

For example, in 1066 AD, when the British were invaded by the Normans, this celestial body with a long tail appeared in the night sky...

After the psychic powers died down, Halley's Comet became just an ordinary comet over the past few hundred years, appearing once every seventy years or so, without anything particularly special about it.

But now, psionic energy has revived. And Halley's Comet is no ordinary phenomenon according to the records and research in the Otherworld.

If it were a typical psionic organization, they wouldn't really be able to pinpoint anything wrong with this comet.

All I know is that every time it appears, it causes chaos. Many bad things always happen.

Ancient organizations with histories spanning hundreds or even thousands of years have a much deeper understanding of Halley's Comet.

Organizations like the Papacy and the Song Dynasty imperial family have conducted some research on Halley's Comet.

For example, there have been many people who studied astronomy during the Song Dynasty over the past thousand years.

The most outstanding astrologers have all come to the Psionic Sea to observe what lies beyond this world. They want to know what is beyond this world.

These people often end up with madness and self-destruction.

As mentioned before, the earth beneath our feet is a giant cosmic egg, a state of unborn greatness. And those monstrous gods are like thieves or parasites, trying to take advantage of the situation, some even wanting to replace us.

Halley's Comet acts like a messenger for these parasites, accelerating their growth with each arrival.

According to the records of the Song Dynasty imperial family, each time Halley's Comet arrives, it awakens the evil gods, their retinues, and creations that have long since invaded the world. It is known as the ominous star that cleaves the sky.

According to papal records, before the psychic resurgence, each appearance of Halley's Comet brought something that didn't exist in the world before. This was known as the conjunction of celestial bodies.

However, at that time there were many extraordinary beings and various powerful gods, who always managed to minimize the impact.

However, over the thousands of years since humans began to keep written records, the accumulation of knowledge has led to quantitative changes, resulting in phenomena such as extraordinary creatures, bizarre creations, strange monsters, and extraterrestrial life.

In the end, in order to protect the survival of ordinary people, the powerful figures had no choice but to separate the inner world specifically to house these things.

The arrival of Halley's Comet might very well lead to a situation similar to the one before the psychic resurgence. Only this time, there won't be any gods.

Such a big thing shouldn't have been left unmentioned.

Putting everything else aside, didn't those astronomers do any research?

What exactly is interfering with everyone's consciousness?

In Eastern fantasy novels, there is always a certain cultivator whose spiritual awareness is clouded by the impending tribulation, causing them to inexplicably fail to detect things they should have sensed beforehand, and then they die.

Is all of humanity being deceived?

……

On the front lines of the battle against the Ganesha Cult, there were many figures that Zhao Hao was familiar with.

After all, Zhao Hao was a veteran who had fought and bled for America.

Like Ash the Chainsaw Man who has lived for hundreds of years after time travel, like the Winchester brothers who seem to have the shadow of some angels from heaven behind them, like the monster hunter Grimm who has the legacy of Grimm, like the famous exorcists Warren, like Blade the vampire hunter who was one of the members of the Extraordinary Ones who raided the Great Pyramid of the Snake People...

Originally, the number of people that Amei was supporting in India was not large; it was just a token gesture.

After all, Tianzhu was one of the many children of Da Ying, and Amei had no interest in helping someone else's son through a difficult time.

Unexpectedly, they're incredibly strong here. The coalition forces are no match for them at all!

The combined efforts of the United States and the United States, along with the Security Council, intensified and continuously increased manpower, which barely managed to contain the outbreak.

However, they did suffer considerable losses in the early stages, losing many superhumans. Elite mid-to-high-level superhumans like Marina were even trapped in enemy-occupied territory.

Zhao Hao briefly showed his face at the frontline command post of the Mysterious Bureau, indicating his arrival. He then declined the frontline commander's suggestion to lead a team and plunged headlong into the territory occupied by the Ganesha Cult.

The Ganesha religion worships the elephant-headed god, and this strange being is likely a disguised form of some kind of evil god in this world.

It's possible that it initially turned out this way because it intended to usurp the divine status of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of the Indian pantheon. However, at that time, the gods of this world still existed, and India was an ancient kingdom, so it didn't succeed.

In fact, He not only tampered with things in India, but also caused trouble in the Song Dynasty, and almost succeeded.

His followers in China took advantage of the then-flourishing White Lotus sect to spread the belief in the elephant-trunk Maitreya. Drawing on their experience in causing trouble in India, they did a pretty good job, secretly stealing a lot of faith and offerings... If it weren't for the fact that cracking down on the White Lotus sect was something every emperor in China had to do, he might have actually succeeded.

When the time comes, the Eternal Mother will appear, Maitreya with an elephant trunk, red will fade and blue will emerge, revealing the true homeland of emptiness~

Therefore, this Ganesha is not a mere figurehead, nor is he like the Serpent Father, whose true form can only stand by helplessly in a distant land beyond this world. His power truly operates within both the inner and outer worlds. He is the kind of mysterious god who, thousands of years ago, managed to penetrate the Sea of ​​Spiritual Energy and arrive in this world.

The areas now occupied by the Ganesha are shrouded in a very faint layer of special spiritual energy.

In Zhao Hao's eyes, this place was just like the territory of the undead race in Warcraft, the whole place was dark and gloomy.

Entering these areas will gradually expose you to the influence of these psionic energies. Enemies weaken while you strengthen, creating a powerful ebb and flow effect.

The deeper you go, the denser this psionic energy becomes. This is equivalent to some kind of extraterrestrial psionic invasion of this world.

If an ordinary person were here, even without encountering anything unusual, things would change within a day or two at most.

Mental problems arise, spirituality begins to change, cognition becomes distorted, and physical abnormalities occur, etc.

Zhao Hao has already seen quite a few bizarre and unbelievable creatures.

The most bizarre one is a Bengal tiger that incorporates some crocodile features; it's a very ferocious 5-star Black Iron tiger.

Zhao Hao tried to control it with his mental clone, but he couldn't. It was like a completely malfunctioning machine; even if you knew how to operate it, you couldn't.

However, Zhao Hao was able to observe the world through its eyes. All he could see was a thin mist, the trees had turned into bone, the ground had become writhing flesh and blood, strange voices were telling him something, and strange shadows would occasionally flash by in inconspicuous places.

The ground seemed to be a river of blood, formed by countless tiny tributaries, flowing towards a distant area...

This is already deeply corrupted. In the end, the flesh, blood, spirit, and soul of this crocodile-tiger will all belong to the elephant-headed god.

Seeing that it was about time, Zhao Hao took out one of Mariana's personal belongings—a pair of stockings.

It's not that he's a pervert; it's that to accurately find someone in this kind of environment, you need some clues.

Finding someone is easy by using the "scent" on these personal items.

Zhao Hao took out a piece of paper, casually tossed it, and it shattered in the air into countless tiny paper butterflies, each the size of a fingernail.

Zhao Hao held up the stocking: "Go find it!"

Catalyzed by psionic energy, the paper butterflies multiplied several times over, spreading outwards in all directions in an overwhelming manner.

Zhao Hao sensed it and frowned slightly.

The elephant-headed god's rate of erosion of the spiritual energy within the domain far exceeded Zhao Hao's expectations. These paper butterflies could only last forty minutes before disintegrating...

Chapter 504 Elephant-Nosed Maitreya and Nasus

Although she was trapped in the territory of the Ganesha religion, Mariana was not captured by Ganesha's terrifying long-nosed priests.

Even at the beginning, Malelina wasn't too worried about her situation.

After all, cats are best at surviving in dangerous places, and she felt that she could easily escape.

However, she was careless, or rather, everyone initially underestimated this suddenly appearing elephant god.

After the first day, Marina began to feel something was wrong. Her feline instincts told her that she wasn't feeling well.

She hesitated, wondering whether to abandon her plan to investigate and simply run away. But she genuinely didn't sense anything amiss.

This hesitation lasted until the next day, when she finally realized something was wrong.

Wisps of mist began to appear in the distant forest, the sun in the sky was somewhat hazy, the tree bark seemed to have become even darker, and the ground beneath our feet had a strange color.

Such a drastic change in the environment is certainly not a good thing.

She planned to leave, but she found herself trapped.

Whether it was the sun in the sky, the strangely twinkling stars, one's own sense of direction, or the strange objects that guided the way, everything failed.

She tried for a day, but failed to escape the enemy-occupied area as she had imagined. Instead, she encountered increasingly stronger enemies and had to find a place to hide temporarily.

With each passing day thereafter, her condition worsened.

The trees began to look strange, and sharp teeth grew on the edges of the grass blades on the ground.

The ground was no longer soil; it resembled oily skin, secreting a disgusting, greasy substance.

The fog grew thicker, and at night there were strange cries from some unknown source...

Marilena hid in a tree hollow, breathing heavily and suppressing her urges.

She was holding a small black cat statue in her hand, and she was praying with trembling hands.