The Sea God's Descent (Part 2)

This bizarre situation was something no one had ever seen before. Everyone was momentarily stunned and at a loss, and instinctively fell silent.

Even Jiang Chun was stunned, unsure whether to take this opportunity to rush into the sea and figure out a solution, or to grope his way out in the dark and rescue the two children and the elderly man first.

But what can we do after rescuing them in the dark? We can't exactly take them into the water, can we? Or maybe we can steal a speedboat?

Just as Jiang Chun hesitated, the waves on the beach suddenly became turbulent, and several speedboats were capsized before they could react.

Many gang members on the beach were also caught off guard and were swept away by the waves, which reached their chests.

In an instant, the sky darkened, the stars and moon disappeared, and everything became pitch black, with a raging wind rising.

Amidst the deafening roar of thunder, lightning flashed across the distant sea. In that light, those with keen eyes spotted a colossal creature striding towards the shore from the sea.

"It's... it's the Eight-Eyed God!" The young man with the earring, who had just been silenced by "Brother Hui's" glare, couldn't help but shout out, his tone a mixture of fear and excitement.

The gang members who had come with "Brother Hui" were in a bit of a commotion. Amidst the continuous thunder and lightning at sea, more and more people could see the eight-armed, mountain-like figure clearly. It seemed that the giant waves that had just hit the beach were stirred up by this giant.

Even if you haven't experienced the previous Montamira mass hallucination incident, every Myanmar knows about it.

Rumors are circulating widely online, in the news, on various TV programs, in newspapers and magazines, and even in rural areas. There are so many channels for information dissemination and so many people discussing it that it's impossible for anyone not to know about it.

So in an instant, almost everyone was convinced that this was the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant illusion" that had appeared in Montamira.

But now, looking at it, the giant, seemingly moving very slowly but incredibly fast from the sea, amidst lightning and thunder and churning waves, as huge as a mountain, didn't feel unreal at all; it was as real as could be.

Even from a great distance, the oppressive feeling was suffocating, as if a mountain was moving towards you.

Recalling how "Brother Hui" had just torn up the little boy's picture of an Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant, and the words spoken by the man on the beach with a heavy accent but a very clear meaning, they naturally connected everything together—the "Eight-Eyed Eight-Armed Heavenly God" had truly descended!

Unbeknownst to anyone, their phones were still ringing with a rhythmic "thump! thump! thump!" sound, drowned out by the thunder and roaring waves, and their attention was no longer on it.

From the moment the lights went out, to the waves rising, to the darkness falling, to the lightning and thunder, to the giants striding across the sea, the entire process took only two or three minutes.

In the brief moment they were distracted, the giant had already reached the seashore. Its enormous body, hundreds of meters tall and as high as a mountain, caused a violent shaking of the ground the instant it landed, causing most people to lose their balance and fall to the ground.

The giant, with an air of utter contempt, stepped over their heads without stopping, flattening and crushing trees and rocks wherever his massive feet landed.

Meanwhile, large amounts of seawater kept falling from its body, soaking the people below as if they were being baptized by a torrential rain.

The moment they were stepped over, those who looked up at the giant felt a chill run down their spines, their bodies lose their balance, and they felt as if they were falling from the sky.

At the same time, a sense of fear, seemingly emanating directly from the body and the depths of the heart, swept over everyone, leaving them paralyzed with terror.

The gang leader, "Brother Hui," who had just been shouting that he "never believed in ghosts and gods" and that "I am the biggest ghost and the biggest god," was in the worst state. He was slumped on the ground, trembling all over, and his pants were already soaked before the seawater from above drenched them.

Fortunately, it was dark around them, and no one paid any attention to him; everyone was absorbed in their own fear.

Even the two children and the elderly man felt fear, but the impact on them was much, much less than on the gang members around them. In their hearts, seeing the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant" evoked even stronger feelings of awe, excitement, anticipation, and joy than fear.

Apart from a certain bald man hiding in the distance, the only one among all those affected who felt differently was Jiang Chun.

Amidst the lightning and thunder, when the sea giant first appeared, Jiang Chun and the others saw something different.

In his view, the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant" was much larger than what others saw, almost reaching the sky, and behind it was a huge moon slowly rising from the sea, shining behind the giant as if it were one with it.

Jiang Chun was so engrossed in watching that he unconsciously knelt on the ground. As the giant crossed the sea and passed overhead, he couldn't help but close his eyes.

There was a vague, inexplicable sense of connection in my heart, but this connection did not come from the giant; rather, it came from somewhere extremely far away.

The connecting pathways seemed to be scattered across the entire beach, everywhere, like stars, each shining individually, connected by starlight, converging into a galaxy.

After an unknown amount of time, everything calmed down.

The searchlights were turned on again, the dim lights in the cabin were restored, and the flashlights in the gang members' hands were back to normal.

Some people seemed still trapped in fear, clutching their heads and muttering to themselves, while others looked around blankly, wondering if what they had just seen was real or not.

The moon and stars were shining brightly overhead, the night sky was clear, and the clouds and fog had dispersed, showing no signs of the impending storm.

The giant footprints left by the giant have disappeared, and the trees and boulders that were crushed and destroyed are intact. It seems that there was no giant at all, and it was all an illusion.

But as soon as the thought crossed their minds, they noticed that they were soaking wet, and there was water all around them. The motorboats that had been overturned by the waves were real, and the people who had fallen into the water were still struggling to swim to shore.

So is this true or false?

But regardless of whether what they saw was an illusion or reality, the intense fear they felt just now still affected the subsequent behavior and thinking of almost everyone.

Suddenly, a member of the gang stepped forward and grabbed "Brother Hui," who was sitting on the ground, trying to pull him up. However, "Brother Hui" was limp as mud and could not be lifted up no matter what.

Another gang member nearby swung a machete at him, yelling in Burmese, "What are you doing? You're trying to harm our boss!"

The person being dragged couldn't dodge in time and was slashed on the shoulder. "Brother Hui" also fell back to the ground. The person who was slashed clutched his arm and cursed, "What's wrong with you? I was trying to help Brother Hui up."

However, no sooner had he finished speaking than another person next to him knocked the man who was stabbing him down, and then chaos erupted as a fight broke out.

Some people were fighting with their companions, while others threw down their weapons and ran to the side. The young man with the earring, who had been glared at by "Brother Hui" earlier, stared blankly in the direction of the sea and suddenly burst into laughter.

"Eight-Eyed Eight-Armed Heavenly God! There really is Eight-Eyed Eight-Armed Heavenly God! I saw him! I saw him! He descended upon the world to cleanse sin! I will wash away my sins! I will offer my soul! I will..."

He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, because he saw a disheveled, shirtless man wearing extremely loose linen trousers and barefoot walking towards him step by step.

Then a sudden thought flashed through his mind. He remembered that this man was one of the Chinese tourists who had been sunk into the sea by "Brother Hui." He had been on that boat at the time and, although he hadn't done anything, he had witnessed the whole thing.

He's not dead?

How is that possible?

The young man with the earring recalled some legends circulating by the sea recently, as well as what that person had just said: after he declared that the "Eight-Eyed Eight-Armed Heavenly God" would bring down punishment, the "Eight-Eyed Eight-Armed Heavenly God" really did cross the sea and arrive.

The young man with the earring instinctively knelt down, but Jiang Chun glanced at him indifferently, and he realized something. He stumbled to his feet and ran away, muttering to himself as he ran, "This is the Sea God, the Sea God has come ashore..."

As Jiang Chun reached the door of the cabin, several Burmese men rushed towards him with various weapons, their faces fierce. Some of the machetes even had blood on them, suggesting that a fight had just taken place.

However, their target was not Jiang Chun, but "Brother Hui," who was slumped on the ground, his eyes vacant and in a state of mental dementia. He was the one who seemed the least afraid of ghosts and gods and the most fierce and tough, but he was the one who was most deeply affected by fear after the "illusion of the Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant" appeared, and he still hasn't recovered.

When the group of people arrived and saw Jiang Chun, they were stunned for a moment and subconsciously slowed down, clearly hesitant.

Jiang Chun glanced at the little boy and girl standing beside the old woman at the door of the wooden house. Although in a sense, this "Brother Hui" was their father's killer, he still didn't think the two children should have seen such a scene.

So Jiang Chun waved his hand forcefully at those people. After they understood, they carefully stepped forward, grabbed "Brother Hui" by the collar, and walked backward.

At this moment, "Brother Hui" seemed to understand something and suddenly woke up. He looked up at Jiang Chun, who was coldly staring at him not far away, and finally recognized him as the Chinese tourist he had drowned earlier. In an instant, his face turned ashen.

So it turns out that people can really be resurrected after death; so it turns out that the "Eight-Eyed God" really exists; so it turns out that his self-proclaimed fearlessness was a joke; so it turns out that his subordinates were not truly loyal to him.

The reason he was always anxious, restless, and unsettled despite accumulating so much wealth and enjoying so much pleasure was because those things weren't what he truly needed or wanted. What he truly desired, he had already lost in his childhood.

It turns out that those he directly killed or indirectly caused to die, whom he thought he didn't care about, were actually all remembered by him.

Then he realized he was going to die.

In that instant, he suddenly realized the truth, and a wave of despair, grief, fear, and terror washed over him, causing him to burst into tears.

But his former subordinates, who were dragging him along, showed no mercy.

However, for his subordinates, killing "Brother Hui" did not relieve their fear; their hell had only just begun.

In the distance, on a high platform some distance from the beach, Xiang Kun, who had already put on his clothes and shoes and retrieved his phone, was gazing thoughtfully in the direction of the cabin.

All of that was naturally his doing, or more precisely, a large-scale augmented reality illusion created by him and Alice.

Xiang Kun has undergone tremendous changes compared to when he created a large-scale mass illusion in Montamira a few months ago. Not only has he completed dozens more Blood-Drinking Sleep Periods, but his understanding and mastery of the "Super-Sensing Item System" has also reached a new level. More importantly, he now has Alice as a super support.

Moreover, Xiang Kun now has a more comprehensive understanding of the origins of "Mutated Creature," the potential dangers, and the possible threats from other "Mutated Creature" and other related forces. It's essentially like having access to a "full map." With Alice's control over the digital world, he can have a relatively certain range of control over the impact of his actions, and he won't be as hesitant as before.

Regardless of whether Jiang Chun was a linker in Xiang Kun's secondary Emotion-Infused Object network, whether he was "one of their own," or whether he was a "Mutated Creature," Xiang Kun would not have stood idly by at that time—the little boy who drew the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant" reminded him of the Little Chubby Girl.

Xiang Kun had many solutions, but after "Brother Hui" spat on the painting of the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant," he decided to let "Barbie Warrior" return to Myanmar.

This time, the emotional projection of the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Wooden Carving" was used for large-scale remote projection. This was no longer Xiang Kun's doing alone, but Alice's assistance.

Previous experiments have shown that the closer the target audience's emotions are to the corresponding emotions before emotional projection, the more easily they are influenced, and the better the effect of emotional projection.

Therefore, before the "Barbie Warrior" emotional projection was officially launched, Xiang Kun and Alice conducted a "warm-up" of the group's emotions.

Xiang Kun was in charge of controlling the weather, creating small-scale thunderstorms, showers, and giant waves. The temperature and humidity of this coastal area with its abundant moisture were perfect for him to carry out these operations this season. With the large number of "Super-Linked Object" that had been deployed and arranged in advance, achieving the desired effect was easy and effortless.

As for Alice, the influence of related electronic devices within the area is practically standard procedure.

Controlling everyone's phones and playing a simple melody simultaneously to further influence emotions and unify the atmosphere is a tiny bit of a trick Alice has gleaned from analyzing Nana's "songs of Emotion-Infused Object" over this period of time.

After all, for Nana's "Song of Emotion-Infused Object" to work, Alice needs to use the "Super-Linked Object" scattered all over the world to achieve it, and she naturally has the advantage of analyzing this ability.

However, for now, the simple melody she's controlling on her phone is far less effective than the emotional impact of Nana's songs created through "Super-Linked Object." But as a warm-up before the arrival of "Barbie Warrior" and to help create an atmosphere of terror, it's perfectly adequate.

Therefore, when the "Barbie Warrior" finally arrives and fear sweeps through, the effect of this semi-realistic, semi-emotional sensory illusion is far stronger than that of Montamira.

The moment the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant" set foot on land, several people were linked to by the Level 2 Emotion-Infused Object Network.

Another unexpected gain was that after being affected by the fear projection of the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Wooden Carving" once again, Jiang Chun seemed to have changed again. His connection in the secondary Emotion-Infused Object network became tighter, and he seemed to have developed a certain mild sense of connection and association with the surrounding "Super-Linked Object" through the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Wooden Carving".

Based on his experience of "developing" Little Chubby Girl and Little Apple in the "Super-Sensing Item System," Jiang Chun's encounter with the projection of fear and the illusion of "Barbie Warrior" once again should be seen as a further refinement of his cognitive system regarding these phenomena and his own changes. He has developed a theoretical framework that is self-consistent and can be applied to some extent.