Chapter 248 Dreaming
Chloe's heart skipped a beat and she had a very bad feeling. She pushed the lookout aside and rushed to the window to observe.
Unknowingly, the airship was already quite close to the Martha Islands, and those busy ports and ships were exposed to Chloe's eyes.
She was a superhuman with much stronger vision than an ordinary person. Even without a telescope, she could tell something was wrong below—there were indeed people coming and going on the island, all in an orderly manner, but as the lookout had just said, those people didn't look right.
Too big.
The proportions seemed weird no matter how she looked at it, so Chloe quickly took the telescope and looked down carefully.
The sailors were unloading cargo from the ship, the patrols of the Pirate King's Court were shouting and maintaining order, the natives of the archipelago were selling snacks and drinks, and everything was normal.
There is only one thing wrong: the people who did these things were not humans, but fishmen.
Chloe's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints and kept trembling.
She moved the telescope and looked towards the distant outpost, where fishmen were standing guard with scimitars. In the distant market, fishmen were selling sea fish and vegetables - other fishmen were carrying baskets and shopping, bargaining as they picked and chose.
Turn to the other side, murloc, turn again, murloc, murloc, only murloc.
The whole island is full of fishmen, not a single human!!!
"What is the name of this island?"
"Tula Island"
Tula Island, a not very important island. There are more islands in the Martha Islands. Maybe there is a problem here, this thought came to Chloe's mind.
There must be no problem with other islands!
The people on the airship quickly unanimously decided to visit other islands first. They headed to another nearby island at a faster speed as if they were escaping.
"They are all fishmen."
Chloe muttered to herself, and the people on the airship looked at each other.
In silence, the airship changed direction and headed for the next island.
Strictly speaking, the speed of the airship was not slow, and was even faster than that of a ship. It didn't take them much time to travel across most of the Gem Bay, where all the important islands were.
Every island is very "normal" and there is nothing strange at all - except that fishmen have replaced humans to live on the island.
The fish people worked hard, drank, gambled, cheated, and made loud noises.
It can be said that as long as the appearance is changed, no one will feel anything unusual. This is exactly what Gem Bay should look like.
This made the Fire Moths even more confused. Chloe even performed several brief purification rituals to prevent them from being contaminated and having hallucinations in their eyes, mistaking humans for fish-men.
But after all the trouble, the island was still full of fishmen, and there were no humans at all.
The people on the airship fell silent.
The scene before their eyes was too disjointed. There was really no difference between those fishmen and humans. They were completely unaware of the problem, but what they saw were horrible monsters. The sense of disjointedness was so weird that it made people feel cold in their hearts.
These people have all seen mermen, both alive and dead, and most of them have even performed dissections on them. Once these monsters come ashore, their combat effectiveness is pitifully low, and they are just a joke in front of an army equipped with hot weapons.
But when they saw the fishmen on the island acting like humans, they shuddered and felt an inexplicable fear rising from the bottom of their hearts, pulling them into the dark and cold abyss.
If they were just monsters, no matter how hideous or disgusting they were, Chloe would not be afraid. But these beings on the island below, are they really monsters? Or are they humans?
Chloe couldn't tell.
Looking at the expressions on the fishman's face that were no different from those of humans, Chloe felt an indescribable sense of fear. When the boundary between monsters and humans became blurred, even normal behavior would become terrifying.
Chloe took several deep breaths before she managed to calm herself down. She turned around to look at the others, only to find that they were standing there in a daze with fear on their faces.
Chloe's eyes became fierce, and she hit and kicked several people to wake them up. They were too frightened, and their wills were broken. The overflowing wills at this time were likely to be contaminated by the Sea of Unconsciousness.
Those who are not firm enough are easily contaminated, while those who are too firm contaminate reality.
"Wake up! It's not the time to sink yet—Castel is still waiting for our news!"
After they came to their senses, they all broke out in cold sweats.
They were cultists of the Fire Moth sect, and they had actually lost their minds. This strange situation was truly beyond their imagination.
"Chief, what should we do? Should we go back and report the news first?" The lookout said with a grim expression. He was the first to notice the abnormality, and he was also better at perception and was particularly sharp, which was the reason why he was chosen as the lookout.
However, this sensitivity also harmed him. He was out of control for the longest time and was therefore most polluted. Although he was still a mortal and the impact of the pollution was not as great as that of a transcendent, it still made his condition extremely bad.
"No, we can't go back. Castel doesn't have much time left. We must investigate something!" Chloe gritted her teeth and stared at the ground. "Write the current findings into the black box and find a place to descend. I want to go to the ground and take a look!"
"chief!?"
Several people were shocked. Although there were only fishmen with little combat power below, there were too many of them. Even if she was a transcendent, she would be killed by the numbers! "Then do you have any good ideas?" Everyone was stunned.
Chloe's tone softened: "Look at our current altitude. They can definitely see us from here, but those monsters didn't react at all. I just used a telescope to see that many fishmen were looking across the sky, but they didn't stop at us at all!"
Several fire-chasing moths looked at each other with strange expressions.
These people were all selected by Chloe as subordinates who are knowledgeable about secret history.
Knowledge related to secret history is extremely dangerous and often does not improve combat effectiveness much, so few people choose it. However, the advantages of this direction are reflected at this moment.
One of them hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: [Into a dream]? "Yes, it's very much like [Into a dream]." Chloe nodded.
Entering a dream is a very common occurrence during a mutation. The reality of this world is not stable, and if one's will is strong enough, it has a chance of penetrating the high wall of reality.
And [entering dreams] is the most common manifestation of this situation.
Whenever a change occurs, ordinary people are most likely unable to perceive it. They cannot discover the changes in the Sea of Consciousness and cannot recognize the occurrence of the change.
Therefore, there are often mortals who, after being affected by the mutation, stubbornly believe that everything is still "normal" for them. Their will interferes with reality, forcing them to live a normal life in the mutation.
But why do the following people perceive themselves as mermen?
(End of this chapter)
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