About twenty minutes passed.
After Eugenis finished washing himself—turning roughly three hundred cubic meters of Seawater into a life-forbidden zone and contaminating another two thousand cubic meters—he put on a thick, multi-layered padded coat and met Han Dong on the deck.
The Coral was crossing the floating ice field and would not officially dock for another three hours.
Han Dong also told Eugenis about what had happened in the passageway.
The latter's expression did not change much, though he frowned slightly.
"I didn't expect something to come greet us before we even landed. Since you were the first one Nicholas encountered, it was most likely drawn here by you."
"Me? What exactly was that thing? I clearly saw it with my own eyes just now, and my domain had completely locked onto it.
I caught up to it in less than a second, but it vanished outright... as if it had evaporated into thin air. I had only encountered something like this when dealing with Green."
Eugenis scratched at his eyeball with a finger as he spoke softly.
"A Possession Monster, an entity that can use an outer shell while existing directly in a state of consciousness.
The reason you could see it just now was that it deliberately let you see it through consciousness projection... It was clearly interested in you.
Many of these things came to our world back then. With insufficient intelligence, a large number of aberrations were unknowingly possessed, resulting in the massive leakage of internal secrets... This was one of the main causes of the large-scale calamities that followed.
Even now, a small number of possessed beings still remain in Antarctica, confined here.
In their pure consciousness state, they cannot leave the membrane shrouding Antarctica.
However, the one you encountered just now was likely a