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As they spoke, the fleet of bee ships they were in approached Xiao Ce's warship, which had been pushed out of the mist.

Since we are not far from the fog, the cold fog does not seem to have completely dissipated.

The salty sea breeze, carrying an indescribable sense of death, brushed against Yin Pan'er and Xiao Yue's faces. They followed several fully armed and tense-looking naval soldiers up the rope ladder to the deathly silent warship where Xiao Ce was.

The deck was deserted, with only the damp traces of lingering mist. The massive cannon barrels silently pointed to the sky, and ropes lay scattered everywhere; everything seemed incredibly strange and oppressive.

"Search separately! Be careful! Report any findings immediately!" the fleet captain ordered in a low voice.

The elite soldiers quickly dispersed, their movements swift yet their footsteps extremely light.

Yin Pan'er's heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to burst out of her chest.

Although it seemed calm and breezy on the bee boat, once we actually got on board...

The deathly silence on the warship intensified Yin Pan'er's unease.

Ignoring the worried look in the fleet captain's eyes, she and Xiaoyue headed straight for the cabin where she and Xiao Ce had been.

The closer Yin Pan'er got to that place, the stronger her ominous premonition became; it was a feeling as if her heart was being squeezed by an icy hand.

The heavy hatch was closed but not locked, yet a deathly silence permeated the space between the doors.

Xiaoyue rushed forward and forcefully pushed open the hatch.

"Your Highness?! Da Lei?!" Xiao Yue's voice, filled with panic and uncertainty, sounded particularly abrupt in the unusually quiet cabin passageway.

The moment the door opened, Yin Pan'er almost stopped breathing.

Inside the cabin, Xiao Ce lay sprawled on the carpet beneath the porthole, his eyes closed, his face flushed with an unnatural redness, his brows furrowed, as if he were struggling with some kind of pain even in his unconscious state.

The burly Lei, like an overturned iron tower, sat on the ground with his back against the cabin wall, his head drooping and his heavy arms hanging limply at his sides.

Both of them seemed to be in a deep coma, showing no reaction to the sound of the door opening.

"Your Highness!" Yin Pan'er exclaimed in surprise, all her fear instantly turning into concrete, helpless panic.

She rushed to Xiao Ce's side without hesitation, her trembling fingers immediately reaching for his carotid artery. The strong, powerful, and though slightly fast, pulse beneath her fingertips eased her tense nerves for a moment.

"She's still alive! She's alright, she'll have a pulse from now on, she should just be unconscious..." Yin Pan'er said excitedly and with trembling voice, then shouted to Xiaoyue, "Quickly call the medics! We need to check and support them here!"

Xiaoyue immediately realized what was happening, turned around and ran outside shouting, "Help! Help! Medics!"

Yin Pan'er confirmed that Xiao Ce's condition was normal, and then quickly checked on Da Lei's condition.

It was confirmed that, like Xiao Ce, he was in a deep coma rather than suffering a fatal injury.

She looked up and around the cabin. In the distance outside the porthole, there was still the edge of a vast white fog. It was the first time she had been so close to that fog.

Just looking at that wall of mist gave me a very unreal and eerie feeling.

Just then, Xiaoyue arrived with a medic.

The medics were quite professional; after examining her, they looked at Yin Pan'er with a somewhat strange expression.

After seeing his expression, Yin Pan'er asked curiously, "What does that expression mean?"

The medic said to Yin Pan'er, "Acting Officer Yin, these two gentlemen seem to have no other problems. Their vital signs are perfectly normal. They seem to be..."

Seeing the medic's hesitant manner, Yin Pan'er roughly guessed what the medic wanted to say.

Do you think they're in a coma?

After hearing Yin Pan'er's words, the medic gave an awkward smile and looked at her with some doubt: "Acting Medic Yin, is your judgment also like this?"

Yin Pan'er smiled at the medic and then said, "That's right... that was my assessment too..."

Yin Pan'er had actually studied some medical methods.

Now that he had heard what the medic said, it was as if he had reached an agreement with Yin Pan'er...

Yin Pan'er finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, Yin Pan'er asked the medics, "Are they poisoned?"

The medic shook his head: "It shouldn't be; all bodily functions are normal..."

But at that moment, their fleet captain walked over.

First, they inquired about the situation of Xiao Ce and Da Lei.

He breathed a sigh of relief upon learning that Xiao Ce and Da Lei were also unconscious.

"Acting Manager Yin! People have been found in other cabins! They are all unconscious! There are no obvious external injuries!"

The news quickly spread, and the entire warship, from the captain to the ordinary sailors, including the experienced adventurers and the core crew brought by General Odin, was found in their respective cabins or posts, all without exception, in a deep coma!

Upon hearing the commotion, Yin Pan'er asked the fleet captain who had come to report, "Is he asleep? Or unconscious?"

The fleet captain was taken aback by Yin Pan'er's question.

The fleet captain asked Yin Pan'er, "Acting Yin, is there a difference?"

After hearing the words of the fleet captain, Yin Pan'er had a different reaction...

The fleet captain was momentarily at a loss for words. A medic accompanying him said, "They're probably all unconscious..."

Just then, Xiao Ce, who was unconscious, suddenly gasped for breath, let out a suppressed groan, and his eyelids twitched violently a few times.

Upon seeing this, Yin Pan'er's heart leaped into her throat, and she quickly grasped his hand again.

"Your Highness! I'm here... Are you alright...?"

Xiao Ce seemed to have broken free of invisible shackles, and suddenly opened his eyes!

In those deep eyes, there was initially a deep sense of confusion and exhaustion, as if they had just struggled out of a mind-numbing, boundless nightmare.

Xiao Ce's pupils dilated slightly, then quickly focused. When he saw Yin Pan'er, whose face was streaked with tears and filled with surprise and worry, the deep weariness in his eyes slowly faded, replaced by a sharp light that seemed to have escaped death.

"Pan...Pan'er?" His voice was hoarse, weak as if from a hangover, but he was clearly still lucid. "You...how did you get in? Has the fog...receded?"

As he spoke, Xiao Ce looked suspiciously at Yin Pan'er and the people around him.

Xiao Ce looked wary; after all, someone who shouldn't be there had appeared...

Clearly, none of this is real.

Seeing Xiao Ce's expression, Yin Pan'er knew that Xiao Ce thought this was an illusion...

Before Yin Pan'er could speak, another commotion came from the side.

"Uh..." Da Lei also groaned, shook his head which felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead, and opened his eyes as well.

His rugged face was filled with the bewilderment of someone who had survived a disaster. His eyes quickly swept around, finally settling on Yin Pan'er and Xiao Ce, who had already woken up.

He rubbed his temples hard, his voice low and confused: "Damn it... Your Highness! Your Highness?"

As he spoke, Da Lei looked at Yin Pan'er with suspicion, because under normal circumstances, Yin Pan'er and Xiao Yue beside her should not be here!

As he spoke, he tried to stand up. His burly body was still swaying slightly, but his mobility was rapidly recovering.

Just then, Yin Pan'er seized the opportunity and began to speak.

The scene they saw when they were on the warship outside.

Yin Pan'er explained in great detail, and he looked around slowly and deliberately.

Although I remain vigilant, the sensations emanating from my surroundings feel very real.

Moreover, at least they didn't do anything to harm him.

As Xiao Ce spoke, he glanced at the limp Da Lei and tried to stand up.

Seeing Da Lei's expression, Xiao Ce managed a weak smile and teased, "Da Lei, look at what Nuomi was bragging about! Didn't you just pat your chest and say you'd cut off all your inner demons? Look what you've done, you've fallen for it too!"

Da Lei's dark face flushed red for once, and he said in a gruff voice, "Your Highness, that's... that noise is eerie! It's not a demonic influence! That buzzing sound is like a hundred thousand flies having a conference in my head! I've never seen anything like it in my life... I just saw you suddenly fall asleep, and I felt like I'd been hit over the head... I just fell asleep too..."

Once he started talking, it seemed he was about to pour out the extremely uncomfortable experience he had just had.

After calming down, Xiao Ce had managed to recall most of what had happened...

He seemed to have just drifted off to sleep...

"It must be that low-frequency sound..."

Xiao Ce muttered to himself, then turned to Yin Pan'er beside him and asked, "Pan'er, what about General Odin and that group of adventurers?"

Yin Pan'er said to Xiao Ce, "They're all unconscious, just like you..."

As soon as she finished speaking, a naval soldier ran over and said to Yin Pan'er and the fleet captain, "Acting Officer Yin, Captain, General Odin, and the other adventurers have all woken up..."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ce went straight to Odin's command room without saying a word.

Odin was clearly also pondering what was happening, and his body was adapting...

“Mr. Ce…” Odin’s voice was terribly hoarse.

He pushed away the water glass the medic tried to offer, staring intently at Xiao Ce: "We... got out? When? How did we get out? This can't be something I'm imagining in my mind, right?"

His barrage of questions was delivered with disbelief. According to his pre-calculated ocean currents and monsoon winds, being "sent" back outside the fog was simply impossible!

He couldn't even believe it was real...

Xiao Ce nodded to Odin, a faint smile playing on his lips: "Just a short while ago. We didn't come out on our own; to be more precise, we were 'thrown' out."

Yin Pan'er chimed in, her voice trembling slightly: "We saw your ship, as if it were pushed out of that grayish-white boundary by an invisible force, and then... it just floated motionless on the sea."

Da Lei clenched his fists, making a cracking sound: "Damn it! That sound is too eerie!! This ghostly noise, although it doesn't make you feel uncomfortable, it's a constant buzzing sound that seems to drill into the cracks of your bones, and you can't defend against it at all!"

Odin listened, and the muscles in his face twitched. He closed his eyes, as if trying to recall and process the terrifying feeling.

sound?

The thunderbolt's words immediately put Odin into thought, and then something occurred to him.

“It’s not poison…it’s a sound…” Odin suddenly spoke, his voice deep and certain.

"That low-frequency sound is everywhere, like countless cold hooks constantly pulling and tearing at your nerves. It amplifies... the exhaustion and despair, the suffocating feeling of never seeing the light in the deep sea. This is not ordinary hallucination, this is... forced mental breakdown."

After hearing General Odin's words, Xiao Ce smiled and then said, "General Odin, it seems we're thinking the same thing..."

General Odin nodded, then abruptly looked up at the fleet captain, his voice heavy with unwavering authority: "How is the ship? Propulsion system? Control system? Instrument readings?"

The captain immediately straightened up and replied, "Reporting to General Odin! The ship's propulsion system is intact, and the control system is also intact! All equipment was in normal working order when we boarded the ship for inspection; there were no signs of human intervention or forced entry! Moreover, this system was always switched off... just like when you entered that ocean current..."

Then the captain asked General Odin, "General Odin...you didn't launch the ships, did you...?"

After hearing his captain's words, Odin gave a bitter laugh and said, "Of course there's no future. Not only is there no future... we know nothing, we're unconscious..."

This result sent chills down the spines of even experienced naval officers.

"As expected!!!" Xiao Ce snorted, his eyes flashing even colder as he looked at the misty area in the distance that still stood like a pale, giant wall.

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, Odin asked curiously, "Mr. Ce, what do you know?"

Xiao Ce smiled at Odin and said, "Do you remember what you said before you followed me?"

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, Odin looked at Xiao Ce curiously.

"Mr. Ce? What do you mean? What did you say?"

Xiao Ce said to Odin, "You said that only those who are permitted can enter this island..."

Odin nodded, and then the adventurers came over. They had heard what the two were saying.

The adventurers said to Xiao Ce and Odin, "We used to encounter extremely painful mental torment and illusions..."