The girl with white hair and red eyes is serious about revenge

It’s okay…I’m not going back to Akihara anyway…Perlis muttered to herself and closed the logbook.

In any case, the people on this ship most likely encountered an incident related to the black power and disappeared without a trace.

This means...the information given by [Cang Huang] is true, and Haiwu Island is definitely related to the black power.

Be careful next time and be ten times more alert.

Thinking so, Perlis stood up and prepared to leave the captain's room and go to the deck to provide a signal to Aoi.

But at this moment, the door of the captain's room was broken open again——

"Well!"

Perlis quickly pulled out her butterfly knife and threw it towards the door.

“Deng——”

The butterfly knife stabbed straight into the wall beside the door, in front of the person who rushed in.

But when Perlis looked carefully, she found that the person who rushed in was actually Aoi!

7) Sea Mist Room (Part 7) -Added Update-

Don't want to imitate a fish?

After hearing the "rules" spoken by Ayane, Perlis felt an inexplicable chill down her spine and her hands trembled slightly.

She instantly thought of the kind of people that Watari Kazuharu and Furukawa Watari had mentioned in the story told by Cang Huang:

"The guy who worships fish".

When hearing Ayane's words, almost everyone was stunned for a few seconds. They all opened their mouths slightly, but most people felt puzzled, and a few even found it a little funny.

"Ms. Ayane, why are you imitating a fish?" A soldier asked with a smile, "I don't want to be served on a plate tonight."

Suddenly, the soldiers in the tent burst into laughter, and the tense atmosphere before the battle dissipated a lot.

But Perlis glanced towards the tent entrance with an expressionless face and found that the fog outside was becoming thicker and thicker.

This is not right... Haiwu Island must have a connection with the mysterious realm...

Perlis and Aoi looked at each other and found that the latter had the same expression on her face. They both withdrew from the crowd and looked closely at Miss Ayane in front of the tactical board.

Ayane did not interrupt the soldiers' laughter, but looked at everyone with a smile. After they consciously quieted down, she continued:

"A relaxed atmosphere is a good thing, but please be cautious when carrying out your mission in the small town of Ankamouth."

Having said this, Ayane turned the tactical board over, revealing the words on it:

"Please follow these rules during your mission. Personal safety is the first priority. I sincerely hope that you will be able to return here after the mission is completed."

Ayane's words made the soldiers who had previously tried to find joy in misery calm down a lot. Most of them straightened their minds and began to carefully read the rules on the tactical board.

It seems... this rule is very important... Perlis looked at the tactical board and read the series of rules:

"Ankamouth Township Code of Conduct."

“One, don’t imitate a fish.”

"Second, Haiwu Island is always shrouded in fog, and visibility is low. A team of three needs at least one person to lead with a lantern. Please be sure to count the number of people regularly and don't lose them. If you unfortunately lose the person holding the lantern, please immediately find a lighted house in the town, enter and draw the curtains."

"Third, if you find someone missing from the team, please don't panic. Stop exploring immediately, return to the camp, and report the missing person's name and location."

"Fourth, Ankamouth does not have fresh water resources. If you find water of unknown origin in the town, do not drink it. Please drink the fresh water you carry with you. If the water in the kettle is stained black, please do not drink it and return to the camp immediately."

"Fifth, fish are aquatic creatures and cannot survive on land. If you see a walking fish, please pretend you didn't see it and return to the camp immediately to report."

"Sixth, most of the residents of this town are natives of the Misty Strait. They have religious beliefs, but there is no orthodox church. If you see a church in this town, please pretend that you didn't see anything and return to the camp immediately to report."

"Seventh, Ankamouth is a small town built by humans. There will be no shellfish inlaid on the walls, and no algae will cling to them. If you find obvious traces of algae and shells on the walls of the building, please do not enter. Immediately pretend that you saw nothing and return to the camp."

"..."

After reading this series of rules, Perlis felt that the air on Sea Mist Island was getting colder and colder, which made her subconsciously shrink her shoulders and exhale a breath of white air.

These rules obviously don't have any horror elements... but they look very strange... they don't seem to be rules that conform to common sense at all...

Perlis looked at the series of strange rules in the code of conduct and felt like she was reading the nonsense of a madman.

For example, in the second point, why do we have to look for the houses with lights in the town after we lost the lantern bearer? Can't we just go find our teammates? Even if the fog is thick, the lights are still very obvious.

The opposite is the third one. If a teammate is lost, why not just look for them directly? Instead, why do we have to go back to the camp to report?

As for the fourth point, Perlis had some idea: the black pollution might mean that a substance similar to black water was infiltrating. Who knows what would happen if one drank such water.

But the fifth one... "Fish are a kind of aquatic creatures" and "walking fish" are all strange descriptions and concepts that make Perlis feel so strange that she feels an indescribable sense of weirdness.

The explanations for the 6th and 7th items are similar. The explanations in the first half are very deliberate, as if to emphasize something. The actions in the second half are all "return to the camp", which does not seem to be a normal way of dealing with things.

If these rules were told to Perlis by an ordinary person, she would probably think it was all nonsense. But the person standing in front of her was Miss Ayane, a figure in the palace and the frontline commander of this operation. She was unlikely to tease the soldiers present with these absurd things.

It felt like something was twisted... After Perlis finished reading a series of rules, Ayane picked up a basket full of treasure bags, walked up to the soldiers, and asked them to take one each.

"This contains the rules you need to follow if you are separated from the main force. It is not appropriate to show it to you now. Please wait until that happens before opening the treasure bag."

Ayane said as she walked in front of Perlis and Aoi, a slight smile on her face:

"Of course, I sincerely hope that you won't encounter that situation."

"Thank you for Miss Ayane's blessing~" Aoi picked up a treasure bag in a hurry, and the tension on her face was gone. "By the way, there are only two people, Junbai and I, and your rules say a three-person team. Does this mean..."

Before she finished her words, she heard a rough voice:

"I'll join your team."

The man was a soldier in armor, looking quite fierce. He was a head taller than the other soldiers, with a thick stubble on his face.

"Let me see what the [Blade of Babel] is made of."

"You two, this is Captain Haruto Kitajima, one of the commanders of this operation," Ayane introduced them with a chuckle, "He is looking forward to lighting the lighthouse with you two."

"I'm here for the traitor Miyamoto Jun," Kitajima Haruto curled his lips in disdain, "The Evil Spirit of the Iron Guard, that guy's head is mine, you better follow me."

What a fierce Oirat... Perlis looked at Haruto Kitajima's fierce face and felt that he would not be an easy person to get along with. She was about to refuse, but Aoi nodded with a smile and said:

"Okay, then you're welcome to join us."

"Aoi," Perlis pulled the corner of Aoi's clothes, "Will he..."

"It's okay," Aoi nodded confidently and put her mouth close to Perlis's ear, "I know him, he's quite capable in combat, so you don't have to worry about him when we fight."

Thinking about it this way...it seems like a good deal. Perlis once again looked at Haruto Kitajima's muscular body, wondering how many times it would take to tear him apart if it was the black monster in the shipwreck ruins.

Never mind, Aoi’s vision is correct, he should be quite reliable.

So, Perlis nodded in tacit agreement. Seeing this, Ayane smiled softly and announced in her dreamy and ethereal voice:

"If you have no further questions, please get started."

......

7) Sea Mist Room (Part 8)

After a brief preparation, the Dila assault team dispersed on the beach at noon that day and rushed to their destinations.

As the team carrying out the main mission, Perlis and his team need to go to the lighthouse located in the heart of the town of Ankamouth, light the light, and provide the exact coordinates for the "Ice Ocean".

Infiltration missions should be carefully planned and executed. According to Perlis's understanding, the residents of the Misty Strait area are not hospitable hosts, but rather have a very evil religious color. In addition, Thebite may have ambushed troops here, and there may be [Iron Alliance Guards] stationed here. It is obviously not a wise move to start a war here at random.

So, she naturally led Aoi and Haruto Kitajima forward in a concealed manner, passing through the bushes from the shallows, and found a dilapidated stone road covered with moss among the scattered dilapidated stone buildings. Based on the somewhat rotten road signs on the side of the road, they confirmed that this road led to the town of Ankamouth.

However, when Perlis led the group through the path with a lamp and stepped onto the streets of Ankamouth, she discovered something very incredible -

——No one.

A faint mist shrouded the town, mixed with scattered fallen leaves blowing across the streets. The town was bleak, dilapidated, and deserted.

The midday sun was blocked out by thick sea fog, and the entire street was empty, yet not as shabby as an uninhabited area—clothes were hung on the stone benches by the street, baby strollers were abandoned in front of the shops on the roadside, and a few open newspapers were scattered next to the newsstand in the neighborhood.

It feels like a living town, but there is no trace of people.

"How weird..."

Aoi stood on tiptoe and looked around, trying to find any trace of human beings, and shook her head in disappointment.

"That shouldn't be the case... According to previous intelligence reports, there should still be records of ships docked at the port of Haiwu Island. How come there is no one there?"

"Maybe it's an ambush by the Thebites," Perlis looked around, with circles of light flashing in her eyes, "Follow me closely."

In Perlis's opinion, the current situation was the worst one: if there really was an ambush, with the enemy in the dark and us in the light, the possibility of accidents would be even greater.

Although Perlis was confident that she could defeat any Iron Guard, it would be an amateurish act to relax her guard without knowing the means.

"..."

Perlis held a lantern and led Aoi and Kitajima Haruto on the street. The fog was shrouded in mist, and the windows of the surrounding stone buildings were mostly dark, making Perlis feel that countless eyes were staring at her.

The architectural style of the town was different from those Perlis had seen in Donglin Island. The buildings here were mainly made of large stone slabs stacked together. The technique was very rough, but it was very surprising in some scattered corners. The architecture of the entire town was like some kind of chimera, with the characteristics of different civilizations randomly stacked together, which gave it an indescribable sense of weirdness.

According to the map she got from Ayane, Perlis tried to identify some key landmarks in the town, trying to find the church at the back of the town. But she couldn't see anything clearly - the deeper they walked into the town, the closer Perlis's vision became to an indescribable fog, and even the buildings on the street became gradually blurred.

"There is a strong murderous aura," Kitajima Haruto pressed the hilt of the knife at his waist, his eyes constantly scanning the windows on the street, "There is someone in the fog."

"I didn't feel anything," Aoi said in a relaxed voice, "Don't be nervous. The Thebites won't show up that easily."

Aoi subconsciously wanted to pat Kitajima Haruto's shoulder, but the latter dodged away with a look of vigilance in his eyes.

"What do you want to do?" Kitajima Haruto's voice was extremely threatening. "I'm warning you, Federal, don't touch me."

"Wow, that's easy, easy," Aoi spread her hands with an innocent look on her face, "I didn't mean that..."

"I see, the source of the murderous intent is you..." Kitajima Haruto took several steps back and kept a certain distance from Aoi, "Federal people... you have other ideas, right? Maybe you have colluded with the Thebits and want to give me as a gift to them..."

He is very irritable...Perlis looked at Haruto Kitajima's somewhat distorted face, and suddenly an idea popped up in her mind: Should we get rid of him?

As soon as this thought came to her mind, she was startled and quickly suppressed the feeling.

What’s wrong with me…?

Perlis covered her chest, surprised that she would have such a violent and terrifying thought. This was totally unlike her usual thoughts.

She immediately performed a self-diagnosis, letting the red veins flow through her body, and soon discovered the source of the problem—

--Air.

Since she didn't know when, Perlis subconsciously began to breathe through her mouth - once she tried to breathe through her nose, she would feel a slight suffocation.

At the same time, every time she breathed through her mouth, she felt a slight stinging pain on both sides of her neck, as if something was cracking with the frequency of her breathing...

Her lungs were rising and falling more and more slowly, as if they no longer needed to process air, as if something else had taken over the lungs...

Is it related to the fog? Perlis shone the lantern around and found that the light of the lantern was increasingly difficult to penetrate the fog, as if it was wrapped by something...

Wait...Breathe through your mouth...Something stings on both sides of your neck as you breathe...A thick fog surrounds everything...

The first rule of Haiwu Island is...Don't imitate fish...

"...!"

Realizing something crucial, Perlis immediately turned to the two of them and spoke in a sharp voice:

“Stop breathing through your mouth, use your nose, feel the pulse in your lungs.”

The moment she said this, Aoi froze. She covered her neck with her hands, as if she realized something, and took a deep breath with her mouth tightly closed.

"It's hard to breathe..." Aoi's voice was a little muffled, "Is it because of the fog...?"

"This fog is creating an environment that is not suitable for your lungs to breathe, making you subconsciously start breathing with organs that don't exist," Perlis' voice was equally muffled. "Humans don't have that organ, but fish do."

"It's the gills."

"..."

As the words came out, the three of them froze in place, shocked by the sudden abnormal phenomenon.

From the moment we enter the town, we are gradually imitating the way fish breathe? Then, the people who have been living here all the time, wouldn't it be possible...

Before Perlis could finish her thoughts, she heard Kitajima Haruto let out a short, quick laugh:

"Heh, what's the harm in breathing through my mouth? Can I really grow gills? Even if I do, the Thebites will still be killed. It won't affect me."

He laughed hurriedly at Perlis and Aoi, then drew the katana from his waist and swung it wildly twice.

"If you're scared, just go back to the camp. Aren't you allowed to go back according to the rules? I'll go find the Thebits myself!"