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Seeing the serious expressions on Odin's face, Xiao Ce smiled and said, "Isn't that because we have General Odin and the others? They're professionals..."

After listening to Xiao Ce's words, Yin Pan'er smiled.

Xiao Ce smiled at Yin Pan'er, then said nothing more, simply taking her hand and saying, "Don't worry. We'll definitely go in safely and come out safely..."

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, Yin Pan'er then said, "I believe you..."

They didn't interrupt them while they were talking.

They went straight to the deck, and by this time, they had already steered the warship away from the fog.

As the sun began to set, it dyed the sea a golden-red hue, which reflected onto the distant white wall of mist stretching across the sky, forming an eerie halo and adding to the unsettling feeling of impending doom.

By this time, the warship escort team had already adjusted their formation.

Alongside their warships, some special beehives were already ready.

These beehives have all undergone lightweight optimization, and their hulls have been painted light blue...

Each ship has only three crew members.

On Xiao Ce's ship were him, Odin, and Yin Pan'er.

Even Da Lei and Xiao Yue were on another ship.

Odin watched as the sun gradually set.

Odin put his finger in his mouth and then whistled loudly.

Upon hearing the whistle, the first group of bee boats began to enter.

They drove in along the predetermined route...

Following the second fleet, and waiting until the third fleet had all entered, Odin then piloted the beehive into the rest of the way...

They entered that fog once again.

A sense of oppression and despair washed over me, but perhaps because I had just entered, there was only a slight vibration.

The vibration didn't actually cause any discomfort...

Yin Pan'er gripped Xiao Ce's hand tightly, while Odin, standing beside her, was intently piloting the beehive...

Although they were in a squad, once they entered this area, they couldn't actually see where their other teammates were at all...

...

At this very moment, in a secret room on Lost Island.

Flashing lights appeared on their screens again, and a man from Xiao Kingdom walked up to the man who called himself the director in the secret room.

Upon reaching the director's side, before Xiao Guoren could even speak...

The director nodded: "I see, you don't need to say anything."

After hearing what the director said, Xiao Guoren nodded and then said, "Okay, Director, what should we do next?"

After hearing Xiao Guoren's words, the director lightly tapped his fingers on the table in front of him.

"Can you pinpoint which ship Xiao Ce is on?"

Xiao Guoren said to the director, "Reporting to the director, this is impossible... Moreover, this time they've gone mad. The small boats they're using... are extremely fast, but their defenses are practically nonexistent... If we make even the slightest commotion, they'll all capsize at sea, their ships destroyed and everyone dead... They've gone completely insane..."

The director said to the Xiao people, "Do you think our Sea God can activate it again? He needs to accumulate energy, and besides, the sun has already set; the Sea God's accumulated power is insufficient... not enough to sustain it..."

After hearing the director's words, Xiao Guoren nodded and then said to the director, "Then we can launch an attack... an audio attack. The power is sufficient..."

After hearing what the man from Xiao's side said, the director nodded and then said, "I know what you mean... but look at the speed and trajectory of these ships... can we intercept them all?"

After hearing the director's words, Xiao Guoren shook his head...

As he looked at it, a bewildered expression on his face, he said to the director, "Director, do they know something...?"

The director nodded: "Clearly, that person is indeed extraordinary..."

Xiao Guoren said to the director, "Shouldn't we launch a counterattack? Judging by their speed, they'll be approaching our island soon..."

The director said to the Xiao Guoren, "Go and calculate, what's the maximum number we can intercept?"

Xiao Guoren asked a few staff members standing nearby.

They answered, "At most half..."

"Wait... why are there suddenly so many signals..."

They discovered numerous signal points at the edge of the fog.

"Where did they get so many small boats..." the director exclaimed.

The people from Xiao Kingdom standing nearby were all staring intently at the monitor, which was now almost completely filled with glowing dots...

What they didn't know was that these weren't ships at all.

Instead, after they entered, they were subjected to agreed-upon fire support...

However, their system has its limitations; it only detected things, but didn't detect what those things were.

After seeing the screen filled with light spots, Xiao Guoren immediately said to the director, "Director... what's going on?"

The director waved his hand and said, "Forget it, what's the point of intercepting them... no need to intercept them anymore..."

"Besides, didn't we have orders? That fundamental order is that we cannot harm that person named Xiao Ce... There's nothing we can do to stop it... Let's just leave it at that..."

After hearing the director's words, Xiao Guoren nodded: "Then let's do nothing?"

The director nodded: "That's right. After they land, once the sun rises tomorrow and the sea god has gathered its strength, we can figure out a way to drive them away..."

After hearing the director's words, Xiao Guoren had no other words to say and could only nod in agreement...

...

Meanwhile, at sea, everyone was on edge...

However, nothing happened. The low-frequency sound was present, but it was completely different from the sound that had put them to sleep...

Although no danger was encountered, Odin felt increasingly uncertain as he got to know the situation.

"Mr. Ce... what exactly is going on?"

After hearing Odin's words, Xiao Ce smiled, and his expression relaxed considerably.

Because things have developed to this point.

Xiao Ce had already guessed it; it was exactly what he had imagined and guessed...

There are people here who don't want him to die.

Xiao Ce said to Odin, "Don't worry, didn't you say we can only come in after they approve..."

"Clearly, we've been accepted..."

Odin found Xiao Ce's words somewhat unbelievable.

However, once you're inside, you can't judge things by common sense anymore...

Sure enough, after their beehive had been traveling at high speed for half an hour...

Unable to contain her excitement, Yin Pan'er said to Xiao Ce, "Your Highness, look... the coastline..."

Today is a full moon, so the coastline is faintly visible...

Due to different pre-set routes, the other teams arrived at different locations.

Their group, including Da Lei and his men, all landed here.

They've already broken through the fog here...

The hull of the beehive suddenly shuddered, and a dull groan broke the absolute silence; they had run aground.

Under Odin's command, they disembarked together.

Xiao Ce held Yin Pan'er's hand tightly as they disembarked.

The sand beneath my feet wasn't the soft sand I'd expected, but cold and hard. The gravel was a glaringly pale white under the moonlight.

Xiao Ce carefully helped Yin Pan'er step onto this unfamiliar land, feeling a strange sensation under her feet.

It lacked the elasticity and warmth that land should have; instead, it was a cold, hard, and absolutely silent deathly expanse. Every step was silent, as if one were walking on a thick layer of sound-absorbing velvet.

"Your Highness, it's so quiet here..." Yin Pan'er subconsciously lowered her voice, a natural reaction to the environment.

The low-frequency hum that had tormented people to the point of wanting to die disappeared the moment it was blocked by the mist.

Instead, there was a more thorough and profound silence. There were no waves crashing on the shore, no chirping of insects or birds, and even the wind that whistled through the cracks in the cliff seemed to have been sucked out of its sound.

The air was heavy, like solidified glue, pressing down on everyone's chest.

Odin, being the first to disembark, was also the one who noticed the unusual situation...

Odin's boots stomped silently on the eerie "white sand."

He bent down and grabbed a handful; the fine, dust-like substance flowed through his fingers without making a sound.

"Damn it, what the hell is this?" he cursed under his breath. Because it was so quiet, everyone could hear him clearly...

Xiao Ce did not respond to Odin, but instead looked around.

The view of the bay before us was even more eerie.

The seawater was not a clear azure or a deep blue-black, but a lifeless, murky leaden gray.

The water surface was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the dark and indistinct sky without a single ripple.

In the distance, the colossal, mythical wall of mist still stood, appearing even larger and more menacing under the full moonlight, yet clearly distinct from the deathly stillness of the nearshore waters.

Inside the giant wall was a churning chaos, while the seawater near the shore was frozen like a stagnant pool.

Just then, not far behind them

The bee boat that Da Lei and Xiao Yue were riding also followed closely behind and docked.

Da Lei rushed to Xiao Ce's side in a few strides. His tense nerves relaxed slightly after seeing that the two were unharmed, but his eyes remained sharp as he warily scanned the silent dead zone.

After Da Lei stepped forward, he took a deep sniff and frowned: "This smell... is very strange! The salty smell of seawater mixed with a strong rusty smell, and a... cloying sweetness of dust mixed with stale decay?"

Xiaoyue sniffed, her little face scrunched up: "Master, Your Highness, Brother Lei is right, it's fishy and cold... it goes straight into my lungs when I inhale it..."

At this moment, Xiao Ce smelled it, and it was indeed as Da Lei had said...

Just as they were talking, the last ship in their fleet arrived.

The ship carried the most experienced adventurers, and even they were still shaken after disembarking...

"The journey has been surprisingly smooth..."

The smooth journey made them feel somewhat unreal at this moment.

After hearing their story, Odin asked them about their experiences.

Their experiences were exactly the same as Odin's.

Xiao Ce looked at Odin, then at everyone else, all of whom were checking their surroundings.

Xiao Ce then addressed the crowd, saying, "Gentlemen, haven't you all seen this situation before? Haven't you all been here before?"

Everyone shook their heads: "It didn't seem to be like this before..."

After one adventurer said this, the others nodded in agreement.

Even Odin finally said, "Mr. Ce, when we came here before, it didn't seem like this... It was eerily quiet... Completely different from what we've seen before..."

Everyone nodded.

Xiao Ce said to the group, "Could we have come to the wrong place?"

Odin initially shook his head firmly, saying no, but after looking around, he suddenly became less certain and uncertain.

The crowd's gaze passed over the frozen bay and the pale "sand" and turned to the deeper surface of the earth.

This eerie white "gravel" mudflat extends inward, connecting to a low, twisted black rocky slope at the edge of the field of vision.

The rocks were jagged and strange, with an unusually smooth surface that gleamed with a metallic sheen in the pale moonlight.

No common green vegetation could be seen in the crevices of the rocks, only some dark brown, withered, twisted vines that resembled dead bones, adding a touch of eeriness to the night.

"Perhaps it's because we landed in a different place; after all, we haven't really explored this land before."

They chatted amongst themselves, and some adventurers took out compasses-like objects to examine them.

But clearly, there was no result; the compass needle was spinning wildly as if it were mad...

At that moment, Odin also glanced at it and realized that the compass was useless.

“We are still on the edge. What you all said is right. You haven’t seen it before, so maybe your landing points were different,” Xiao Ce said slowly.

His voice seemed to echo faintly in the deathly silence, but it was quickly swallowed up by the invisible stillness all around.

As he spoke, he walked to the water's edge and tentatively touched the leaden-gray seawater with his finger.

A bone-chilling cold instantly shot up from my fingertips! That was definitely not the temperature of normal seawater!

Even more bizarrely, his stirring fingers only created a few faint, almost invisible ripples on the water's surface before it instantly returned to its chilling smoothness. It was as if some unseen force had frozen the water's surface?

Weird...

“Let’s walk along the coastline,” Xiao Ce said, shaking off the lingering coldness on his fingertips as he stood up.

"Try to avoid those black rocks. See if you can find any trail markers..."