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Chapter 197 Deep Sea Fear

On January 26, 2001, a huge fog suddenly rose outside Philadelphia Harbor.

All electronic communication devices within the fog-shrouded area are rendered inoperable.

[More than half an hour later, the fog dissipated on its own, but after it cleared, everyone and everything in the dock area shrouded in fog fell into a coma, without exception.]

[A day later, all 348 security guards and workers in the dock area, after being unconscious for a day, died one after another. The cause of death... is suspected to be drowning.]

Drowning?

Upon seeing the word "drowning," Erin's brow furrowed slightly, and he accelerated the downward movement of the mouse.

As the mouse slides down.

A dozen faded photos, along with several short videos showing different scenes, were imprinted on Erin's eyelids.

After glancing at the corpses in the photo, which looked as if they had been soaking in seawater for a long time and had turned white all over, I realized that...

Erin clicked on one of the videos.

The video appears to have been filmed in a hospital ward.

Three middle-aged men of similar age, with slightly rough skin, lay on three hospital beds in the ward.

For the first few seconds of the video, everything seemed perfectly normal.

But in the next moment.

The Latino man on the middle bed suddenly began to convulse, and then seawater began to gush from his mouth and nose, quickly soaking the sheets...

soon.

The Latino man, who was convulsing, then quieted down.

And the gushing seawater from his mouth and nose gradually stopped gushing out.

"Is he/she dead?"

Looking at the man in the video who had fallen silent, Erin immediately realized that he was dead.

After the Latino man in the middle bed died, the middle-aged men in the other two beds soon developed similar symptoms.

finally.

Not long after, the two of them "drown" on their hospital beds due to the surging seawater from their mouths and noses.

and many more!

Even though it's through a video, why am I so sure that the liquid gushing from those guys' mouths and noses is "seawater"?

That feeling of making a judgment naturally in your brain at a glance, without needing to confirm it.

Is this... some kind of information pollution?

With a narrowed eye, Erin quickly recalled the "rotten" smell emanating from the mutated "Kingpin" from before.

Is it another monster resembling "Kingpin," or...?

I don't know if the incident happened just a few days ago, or if this case involves too many people and has too many cases for S.H.I.E.L.D. to compile.

There are many similar videos in this folder.

After briefly browsing through a few similar videos, Erin's attention fell on the last photo in the folder.

It was a photo of a ghost ship almost completely swallowed by the thick fog.

After staring at the photo for a few seconds, Erin suddenly felt a wave of drowsiness wash over him.

"ha······"

After a sudden yawn, Erin's eyelids felt as if they were weighed down with lead, and she seemed about to fall into a deep sleep.

Between sleep and wakefulness.

Erin felt as if he had entered a pitch-black deep sea, and his body was rapidly sinking into this dark depths, sinking... and sinking further.

Pu has only one mouth.

Glug, glug...

Mouthfuls of salty, fishy seawater were suddenly poured into Erin's mouth.

Gibberish...

As a string of bubbles appeared and rushed upwards, an almost endless pressure surged from all directions and quickly fell on Erin.

A pitch-black environment...

A futile struggle...

Add to that the ever-increasing pressure...

It quickly gave rise to negative emotions such as depression, despair, and fear, as well as the deepest despair!

In this endless despair.

Suddenly, a faint green light appeared in front of Erin.

Immediately afterwards, an enormous sunken ship suddenly appeared in Erin's sight.

It was a very large cruise ship.

Under that eerie green light, the entire massive cruise ship also took on an eerie green hue.

The ship's hull was covered with a large amount of algae and shellfish...

Behind the cruise ship, in the ghastly green seawater illuminated by the eerie green light emanating from it, the vague outline of a colossal creature began to emerge…

Just as Erin was staring at the outline of that enormous thing.

The enormous creature behind the sunken ship seemed to have also noticed Erin's "gaze".

next second.

A giant tentacle, resembling an octopus, suddenly emerged from the ghastly green waters behind the sunken ship, churning the seawater and rapidly attacking Erin.

"This is·······"

As the giant tentacle drew closer, Erin was shocked to discover that the disc-shaped objects on the octopus's tentacle were not the octopus's suckers, but... giant eyeballs.

When Erin's gaze fell upon those enormous eyeballs, the hundreds and thousands of eerie eyeballs on the octopus's tentacles also fiercely locked onto "Erin".

The moment Erin was locked onto by those hundreds and thousands of enormous eyeballs, a chilling feeling suddenly swept over him.

"I...saw...you..."

As a faint murmur echoed in Erin's mind, the enormous creature behind the sunken ship emerged from the shadows with a seemingly slow yet incredibly rapid speed.

It was a terrifying creature beyond human comprehension, impossible to describe in normal language.

It is a terror from the deep sea that exceeds the limits of human imagination!

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"what!"

Almost at the very moment that enormous creature completely surfaced.

With the Joker's "Intuition" amplified, and under that almost rebellious, frenzied warning, Erin's consciousness was instantly "awakened" by that hint of fear.

"call······"

"call·······"

Sitting in front of the computer, Erin was breathing heavily, her whole body almost drenched in cold sweat.

Large beads of sweat rolled down Erin's face.

Tick-tock...

The drops fell onto the computer desk in front of Erin.

"That was...?"

As a professional hypnotist and fortune teller.

Erin quickly realized what she had just experienced.

"Lucid dream," or rather, in that instant, Erin, with his extraordinary inspiration, directly connected with an unknown being because of that photo of the ghost ship.

In that instant.

Through my dream, I sensed the ghost ship in the photograph, and...

The terrifying entity behind the ghost ship.

Taking a deep breath to calm himself down, Erin thought with a somewhat grim expression.

"...What exactly is that thing behind the sunken ship?"

If it weren't for the clown's almost rebellious and insane warning from "Intuition," and the terrifying stimulation that felt like facing death, which aroused Erin's survival instinct, he would have been in trouble.

If the shackles from the "deep sea" are broken.

Perhaps, at this moment, Erin will have to confront the entity behind that ghost ship!

Erin had a strong premonition.

If he hadn't seized the opportunity to regain his senses in that instant, it might not have been so easy for him to do so again.

"Curiosity really killed the cat!"

After letting out a deep breath, Erin realized for the first time that being too curious was really not a good thing.

Especially for someone as spiritually gifted as him.

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"Slurp, slurp..."

At this moment, the little monster that had followed Erin into the study seemed to sense its master's palpitations and unease. It stuck out its big tongue and kept licking Erin's palm, as if trying to soothe the unease in its master's heart.

Feeling the warm, damp touch of the little monster in his palm, Erin's mood calmed down a bit. He gently rubbed the monster's large tongue and whispered:

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Although what just happened was too bizarre, Erin wasn't scared to death by a strange "nightmare".

of course.

Having learned from that lesson...

Erin also realized that he shouldn't carelessly look at the strange information provided by S.H.I.E.L.D.

Some ordinary supernatural events, or mutated monsters, are fine.

What if we were to encounter another event like the ghost ship incident, or a creature similar to, or even more terrifying than, the monstrous figure behind the ghost ship?

Then, it's unlikely that Erin will be able to escape from places like "Deep Sea Dream" again.

"We need to be careful with the information we've received from S.H.I.E.L.D. now."

"Hmm, let's do a divination to see if there's any danger before opening any folders!"

"With my current spirituality, and with the help of divination rituals, even beings of higher status than me cannot shield me from their senses..."

After setting up an early warning device to prepare for the next step of reviewing the documents.

Erin recalled once again the sentence that had echoed in his mind after he saw the countless eyes on the octopus's tentacles.

"I...saw...you..."

After recalling that sentence.

A strange sense of irritation rose in Erin's heart.

This feeling is not right.

Could it be that...?

After that terrifying being saw me, what kind of mark or curse did it place on me?

Thinking about this...

Erin immediately used the ability of the paper doll to try to transfer some unknown curse that might exist on him to the paper doll.

but······

The paper doll, which had been imbued with Erin's Stand ability, showed no reaction.

"No response. Am I just imagining things?"

Looking at the unresponsive paper doll, Erin felt a sense of doubt, and even wondered if she was overthinking things.

But the idea was rejected by Erin as soon as it came to mind.

"No... it's not necessarily that I'm overthinking it. It could be that the level of that gaze or curse is too high, something that my paper doll substitute simply can't handle."

Thinking about this...

Ailin emptied his mind, closed his eyes, and, through that mysterious connection, activated his spirituality, quickly entering the Balance Space.

What Erin didn't know was...

As he began to leap into the Balance Space, a transparent and illusory figure was faintly wrapped around his spirit body!

It was a strange being, resembling an octopus, exuding an indescribable aura.

Beneath that twisted, writhing body, tentacles continuously wrapped around Erin's body.

It seems to exist, yet it also seems not to exist.

This phantom didn't seem to intend to do anything to Erin; it simply lingered around Erin's soul, marking something.

But just as Erin's spirit, through that mysterious connection, leaped into the Balance Space.

The mysterious balance space seemed to sense an unfamiliar aura and trembled slightly.

Immediately following, the white mist that surrounded the River of Destiny, flowing slowly like mercury, appeared.

Suddenly, it shone brightly, spreading a tidal wave of illusory light.

Followed by.

Countless silvery-white mists, like a silver river falling from the heavens, instantly rushed towards Ailin, who was being drawn in by a mysterious force.

The white mist that descended from the heavens, like a giant white python, instantly swallowed Erin's spirit body.

Under the white mist composed of the fog of fate, Erin's spirit seemed to have undergone a mysterious baptism, faintly glowing with specks of silvery-white light.

"Um·······"

Erin, who was initially startled by the sudden appearance of the long river of white mist, soon felt an extremely comfortable sensation that made him want to groan.

at the same time.

As the white mist serpent swept over him, Erin vaguely saw the eerie phantom coiled around his spirit body.

The moment Erin saw that eerie phantom, his heart skipped a beat.

"There really is something there..."

But before Erin could even feel fear.

The eerie phantom, like ice and snow under the blazing sun, was quickly disintegrated and melted away under the onslaught of the giant white mist serpent, without any chance of resistance.

It vanished completely.

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At the same time.

In a huge trench deep in the Pacific Ocean.

A terrifying being, beyond description, seemed to have suffered a severe blow and suddenly let out a terrifying wail.

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(Typo, please send first and I will correct later)

(End of this chapter)