Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 249 Contact
"You've all seen [Entering a Dream], right?"

Almost every sudden change involves a [dream entry]. For example, during the sudden change that shocked the continent decades ago, many people fell into an eternal dream of their own making.

Chloe had heard about the situation that time. In the ruined city, countless citizens were still continuing their lives. They wore neat clothes, went to work, eat, and sleep, and were completely unaware that they were already dead.

The city is dead, but its residents still stubbornly believe that they are still alive.

This stubbornness interfered with reality, making reality acknowledge that they were alive - this certainly did not allow them to truly survive, but it also prevented them from dying.

It is said that even now, there are still people who have turned into bones and are still immersed in their dreams and unable to wake up.

[Entering a dream] has happened many times, but it has never been as strange as it is now.

First of all, [entering a dream] can only allow them to continue moving, but it cannot change the fact that their bodies are decaying. The people who [enter a dream] during the mutation are nothing more than moving corpses. Although diving into the Sea of Unconsciousness may reveal their lost souls, they will quickly decay the moment they discover that they are dead.

The murlocs under the airship did not look dead at all. Their flesh and skin looked no different from those of the murlocs on the battlefield.

If Chloe were to say, this situation was more like the fishman entering a dream.

But how is this possible? Are all the people in Gem Bay murlocs?
Even if Gem Bay is really a kingdom of monsters, how could these fishmen live completely like human society?
Apart from anything else, do murlocs need boats? Why are there so many boats parked at the docks?
What's more, the shape of the dock is wrong. This is not a dock that amphibians would build. Only humans would use this kind of dock.

The banshees are true sea creatures. The docks they built on the island have a large number of slopes for landing from the water. This is normal. Only docks built by humans will pay more attention to the convenience of ships and ignore the need to land directly from the water.

There are countless details like this on the island. The various houses and buildings were not designed for merfolk. Some of the doors were crushed by the huge bodies of merfolk.

But judging from how familiar they are with this place, it is definitely not a case of usurping power. This place is obviously their home.

So this can’t be [entering a dream].

Everything became more and more confusing. Several Fire-Chasing Moths who had been studying secret history for many years frowned, but they were helpless. Such a strange situation had never happened before.

"So, we still have to go down and take a look." Chloe sighed: "Let's go down."

In the end, everyone agreed to Chloe's plan to go down and take a look, but they disagreed with letting her go down herself.

"You use [Self-binding] to command from the airship, and I'll go down to check. You can see the real-time situation from up there, and you can use telepathic communication to command me if you run into any trouble. If you go down by yourself, we won't have any good solutions if we run into any problems."

The lookout stood up, and his proposal was supported by the remaining people. Chloe thought for a while and compromised.

She is the chief of the Fire Moths. This organization has experienced too many sacrifices. Their environment has always been so harsh that it does not tolerate mistakes. They even have a complete set of procedures for how to sacrifice and who to sacrifice first.

The fire moths have long realized that life is only the price they must pay in the pursuit of knowledge, and it is not even the biggest price.
The airship sailed to an open space far away from the crowd, then slowly descended, and a rope ladder was thrown from the crew cabin to the ground.

After the lookout was ready, he took a deep breath and walked towards the cabin door. The others patted him on the shoulder as a farewell ceremony.

Chloe picked up a bolt-action rifle, loaded the bullet into it, walked silently to the window, and turned on [Self-binding].

The light quickly faded from her eyes. Simultaneously, the power of her mind enveloped the others, who, now possessing a high-altitude perspective, moved in different directions. The Fire Moths had practiced this scenario many times before. When a nymph used her ability, the coordinated efforts of several others could unleash it to its full potential.

Each person occupies an important location, observes details and reports any anomalies. The extraordinary person takes a comprehensive view of the overall situation, summarizes all situations and makes a judgment.

Put them together and you can efficiently grasp all situations within your ability.

The lookout climbed down and after landing on the ground, he quickly lowered his body, trying not to be seen by people in the distance.

"At 200 o'clock, meters away, there is a house with only one murloc inside. The area around here is relatively safe."

"clear."

The lookout carefully moved in the indicated direction, and soon he successfully approached the house.

He took out the loaded musket from his waist.

Zeus has already climbed the gun technology tree to the bolt-action rifle, but when used at close range, it is not really much stronger than the black powder musket. At this distance, the difference between advanced and backward is not that big.

The famous gun Abe Kiri is just two steel tubes and gunpowder bullets. Strictly speaking, it is not much different from a musket, and it can still knock down an enemy with two shots.

After slightly concealing his rifle, the lookout knocked tentatively on the door.

"It heard it and stood up. These monsters can interact!"

"It feels more like a dream."

"Yes, people in dreams can also react to the outside world to a certain extent. Ah, it's opened!"

The lookout took a few steps back, his trembling hands tightly gripping the rifle hidden under his clothes.

The fish-man monster opened the door and looked outside with some confusion. Then his eyes fell on the lookout: "You knocked on the door, what's the matter?"

"It asked me!? It spoke!!!" the lookout shouted to the others in his mind.

For a moment, several people couldn't help but hold their breath. It can even talk!?
Everyone here has seen the dissected bodies of murlocs. To be honest, almost no two murlocs are alike, and the insides of the bodies are a mess. Some even have no internal organs. But they basically have one thing in common: this monster has no structure for making sounds.

In other words, it is impossible for the merman to speak!

But the fishmen in front of the lookouts could not be fake. When they watched them from the air before, they thought that these fishmen were lip syncing. After all, people in the [dream] were also like this, just pretending to be alive.

But now.
"Uh, what's your name?"

"Fabian." The fishman's eyes were full of doubt. He hesitated for a moment before responding.

Whether it's the expression or the tone, everything is exactly the same as that of a human!
(End of this chapter)