Intelligence War

Lieutenant Stephen was still alive? Zhang Yuanqing sat in his office chair, his face filled with shock as thoughts churned furiously in his mind.

The Petrel had vanished in 1900. Sea Monsters had never appeared again in the southern waters of the Irish United Nations. Lieutenant Stephen had been contaminated by the Demon Seed and was one of its controlled targets.

During World War I, Stephen Simpson, who should have died in 1900, appeared on the battlefield, looking exactly the same as he had fifteen years earlier.

The plot and clues from Horror Cruise flashed rapidly through his mind, merging with the files and attachments from Irish naval headquarters. A hazy truth gradually emerged.

"So, the truth behind the Petrel's disappearance was that the mutated Lieutenant Stephen slaughtered the crew and Spirit Realm Walkers aboard the cruise ship, then fled with the Demon Seed." Zhang Yuanqing felt a chill run down his spine. "The Demon Seed could let an ordinary person defeat a peak level-six cardinal after mutating?"

He exchanged a glance with Guan Ya. Both wore grave expressions.

What exactly was the Demon Seed?

And an even more terrifying fact was that Stephen was most likely still alive in the real world—and so was the Demon Seed.

The "Demon Seed" in the Horror Cruise instance dungeon was probably a replica generated by the Spirit Realm, not the real Demon Seed. The Spirit Realm had merely recreated that piece of history as an instance dungeon.

"This is starting to sound like a ghost story," Zhang Yuanqing remarked.

If Stephen Simpson was still alive, what rank was he now?

He had definitely become a Spirit Realm Walker. An existence so deeply contaminated would surely qualify to receive a Role Card. He might even be one of the major figures in the