At first, Kong Yan and the other two had not realized what had appeared on the other side of the wormhole. But after hearing Jiang Bing's shout, they immediately understood what it was.
An eye—an eye more than two meters in diameter!
At last, they understood where that feeling of being watched had come from.
Where had this monster come from?
It could actually survive in space!?
And the instant they had met that eye's gaze, they had felt a profound malice—a malice rising from the depths of their hearts, from their very bones, a completely instinctive malice!
The owner of that eye was undoubtedly an intelligent creature, and its place in the food chain far surpassed that of humans.
The way it looked at the four of them was even more cold and merciless than the way humans looked at ants!
"Static... static... static..."
The submersible's ascent had now completely stopped, as though it had suffered a mechanical failure. There was no sound from the communicator either, only a static-like hiss.
Everything around them was pitch-black. Only the glow of the wormhole and the submersible's lights illuminated this tiny patch of space.
The entire submersible hovered twenty meters in front of the wormhole, stared down by that terrifying giant eye.
"Old Kong, what's going on!? Mechanical failure!? Emergency release—we'll surface on our own!" Jiang Bing shouted. "Don't look at that eye!"
Her teeth clattered as her entire body trembled. That feeling of being watched by a higher being on the food chain, that feeling of being prey, filled all of them with a fear born from biological instinct.
Kong Yan was drenched in sweat. He fought down the urge to look up, lowered his head, and rapidly checked the submersible's equipment and wiring as he shouted, "There's no mechanical