"What happened?"
"What... what is that? What's rising from the seabed?"
"Why is the camera shaking so badly? I'm getting dizzy."
"The Norwegian Kraken? Pacific Rim? Atlantis? Stop shaking the camera, streamer! I'm dying to see!"
"Is the streamer showing us a movie? That shaky camera reminds me of Paranormal Activity."
The enormous shape that had suddenly appeared on the livestream wiped away everyone's annoyance with the shaky footage. One by one, the viewers held their breath and watched intently.
But the camera kept shaking, and no one could tell what they were looking at. Then a deafening sound came through the livestream, making the viewers at their computers jump.
"That was loud! Good thing I had the volume all the way down, or it would've woken my daughter."
"What did it just shout? Odin? Does that mean this huge creature has something to do with Northern Europe? Is there anything this big in Norse Mythology?"
"A serpent? I think Jormungandr is the only creature in Norse Mythology that's this huge. But that can't be right. Didn't it die? Weren't the Norse Supernaturals the ones who killed it?"
People were naturally afraid of enormous creatures. But with a screen between them and the creature, and its gaze turned elsewhere, all they felt was awe, as though they were watching a blockbuster full of special effects. When that creature was right in front of them, looming overhead and capable of swallowing them whole at any moment, all that remained was boundless fear.
That was how Zou Ziming felt. Faced with the behemoth, his heart seemed to stop. Fine beads of sweat gathered on his forehead and trickled down as mounting tension and terror nearly swallowed him whole.
Only when he realized the Great Serpent hadn't noticed a tiny insect like him,