Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 221 Monsters! The sea is full of monsters!

In the ancient palace.

On the golden throne, Zeus slowly raised his head. He was stunned for a moment before realizing what had happened.

"I, I'm back?"

"what?"

Zeus scratched his head. This situation was really strange. He took a few deep breaths and tried to analyze the situation.

"This return is somewhat strange. In the past, apart from my own initiative, the only way I could be forced to return was by my body dying."

"Well, returning after death is perfectly normal. I never doubted it before, but later I discovered that a dead body could also return to life. This proves that 'death' itself isn't necessarily a necessary condition for return."

"What happened before this return?"

Wake up from the shelf, look for clues in the house, sneak onto the deck, check the figurehead and then it's gone.

Wait, Zeus suddenly frowned. After looking at the figurehead, he did another thing.

At that time he breathed a sigh of relief, and subconsciously looked around, and found that he was on the sea, not in the port.

Is this so unique? I just looked at the sea, and this is why I have to return?
"No, it's not just this time. I seem to have been forced to return to the Golden Throne once again." Zeus narrowed his eyes and remembered.

He had previously arrived at the scene of Chloe's ceremony to summon the evil god. After talking with Chloe for a while, Chloe determined that he was an outer god and did something to him, so he was forced to return.

What did she do?

It seemed as if he was gradually getting sleepy, and then he returned without knowing why.

Well, thinking about it this way, if the reason for passive return is not death, then could it be that the body has lost consciousness?

No, he also fell into a coma after signing the symbiotic contract with Ash, but he did not return directly. When he woke up again, he thought he was back in the palace.

It should be some similar situation, such as losing control of the body?

Zeus felt that he was close to the truth. This loss of control should be a very serious situation and difficult to resolve on his own. If it was a coma that could be resolved on his own after a short period of time, he would not be forced to return.

If that were true, he wouldn't be able to descend into the body of the worker Hughes again!

Zeus felt his heart pounding. He took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and turned to look at the body of the worker Zeus.

The worker, Hughes, stood motionless like a puppet, not meeting his gaze.

it is true!
A hint of excitement flashed in Zeus' eyes, and he remembered something else. He still had the body of a white-robed priest, which was exactly the same as the worker Zeus's current state!
He immediately shifted his gaze to look at the white-robed priest, and sure enough, the body was motionless.

"I see, I see." Hughes muttered to himself, smiling. "This body is also under some kind of control. Perhaps, just like the worker Hughes, it has seen something it shouldn't have."

What's in the deep sea? Hughes doesn't know, but he's sure there's something strange going on.

In Castel, the deep sea is full of pollution and monsters. Even a powerful creature like the Banshee has been forced ashore. But on the Black Pearl, everything is so calm. This in itself is not right!
The Black Pearl is in the Ocean of Storms after all. According to Zeus's calculations at the time, with the speed at which the Pollution Serpent was advancing, the entire Ocean of Storms should be full of monsters by now. It doesn't make sense that the Black Pearl can live so peacefully.

Could it be possible that it could run to the Lightless Sea?
Zeus immediately turned his head to look at the body of Lord Zeus, and soon he raised his head from the long table in the cathedral.

Something strange happened in the sea. This is a very important clue. Next, he can
"My Lord? Is my Lord here?"

Nini's urgent voice suddenly rang out in the mind link.

Xiusi's heart tightened and he quickly replied.

"What's wrong?" "Great, Lord. We've been trying to contact you for a while, and we thought something had happened to you!"

"Also? Did something happen?"

Nini's voice paused for a moment, and when it sounded again, her voice was a little trembling.

"My Lord, the monitoring post on the coast just reported to us that the sea has suddenly turned upside down, and fishmen and sea urchin monsters are pouring out!"

Zeus stood up and it was the sea again!
He just lost control after taking a look at the ocean's shell on the Black Pearl, and when he came back here, the ocean changed again. It was hard not to connect these two things together.

What exactly happened in the ocean?
"Where is it?"

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"Nini? What's wrong?"

"Everywhere."

Hughes swallowed.

"All our observation posts have sounded the alarm. The enemy is pouring out from the entire coastline. Their numbers are countless, like a rising tide. We are surrounded."

Xius' pupils shrank instantly.

Jeremiah stood at the bow with a gloomy face, staring into the distance motionlessly.

He has been standing here all night.

Ken and the sailors also looked haggard, with dark circles under their eyes. They were busy all night searching for the bodies that fell into the sea and trying to salvage them, but in the end they found nothing.

The corpse mysteriously jumped into the sea and then sank.

After a whole night of tossing and turning, Jeremiah ordered the ship to turn around and return to Blood Harbor. The sailors breathed a sigh of relief. Only Ken knew that Jeremiah had not given up and he would never give up.

His guess was correct. Jeremiah was going to the port to get some iron cages, trawl nets and other things for salvaging and then come back to salvage the items.

Finding a needle in a haystack is just a legend, but Jeremiah is actually somewhat confident. He roughly knows where the strange corpse fell, which is near the original volcano of Castel.

He had read Ken's records when he was casting the line to the seabed before. The original location of Castel was not an ordinary seabed, but a whole flat seabed. The depth there was not deep, so there was really some possibility of salvaging it.

No, not maybe, I can definitely get it out, definitely!!

Jeremiah gnashed his teeth, his face grim, like a drowning man trying to grasp at the last straw.

Soon, the Black Pearl approached Blood Harbor. Jeremiah hurriedly directed the sailors to lower the small boat to the harbor, which could be used to transport the cage later.

He paid no attention to the sailors' pointing and puzzled expressions below.

At the dock, many people were gathered by the sea, discussing something in low voices, with nervous expressions on their faces. Even a few tax officials came over.

Jeremiah was in no mood to waste time talking to these people. He squeezed his way through the crowd and prepared to leave the port.

But as he walked through the crowd, a sentence that floated into his ears made him stop.

"Why is the sea level so low? It's like it's leaking out."

(End of this chapter)