Yang Yi realized something was wrong when his private message to Balie failed to send, and immediately headed back.
But in his field of vision, the pitch-black sky above Steam Island in the distance suddenly lit up.
It was not the light brought by the Light Theft skill, but a dark red, almost exactly the color of blood, cast down from high above. The black fog over the sea rapidly dispersed, and the seawater grew murky, gradually shifting toward a familiar state.
It was the scene he had seen when reading the Book of Dissolution before. The seawater was gradually turning into a thick, bright-red mire.
"What has Su Na cooked up?"
Yang Yi reflexively thought of Su Na and was just about to contact her when he received a message from Zhang Zhi, saying an abnormal incident had suddenly occurred on the south side of Steam Island. A strange man had appeared, and a special force was dissolving and corroding that area of space.
"Why the south side?"
Yang Yi was puzzled, because the port where the Nightmare Star usually docked was on the north side. It was also a port with more of an official Steam Island affiliation, where quite a few Twisted Warships were docked.
He examined the photo closely.
The Newspaper was in the picture, but it looked different from before. The tree was gone, and beside it was...
"The Eden?"
Yang Yi recognized it at a glance and discovered that the two ships had actually separated.
There was also someone standing on the Eden's deck.
He had a familiar pair of iridescent eyes and a skeletal body stripped of all flesh and skin. He stood on the deck on his one remaining leg, arms outstretched, as though performing some kind of ritual...
"This man is..."