Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

While the experts from the Beautiful Country were still arguing endlessly over the naming rights of the deep-sea island.

The Challenger had already reached the center of the island, hundreds of meters away from the monolithic stone.

They dared not proceed further.

Because around the stone, the seawater was in a bizarre, frozen solid state, seemingly held in check by some peculiar power, both were deeply afraid that if the Challenger entered that range, it would also be rendered motionless.

Though they couldn't approach, merely watching from afar was extraordinarily shocking.

In front of this stone, the Challenger appeared remarkably insignificant, a feeling of being in the shadow of a monumental presence filled both Barnes and Kerana.

Barnes craned his neck, gazing at the towering stone, amazed, "This stone is too high, there are no visible seams or cement traces; how was this constructed to stand unfazed in the deep sea?"

"It's almost like alien technology; perhaps it's built by Mars people."

Kerana concurred, the stone before them resembled a whole crystal, white on one side, black on the other, with countless runes engraved on its surface.

These runes glowed and flashed, emitting multicolored halos, each rune unintelligible to them, yet that didn't stop them from photographing them through the camera; how to study these runes would be a task for ancient text experts.

"Let's check the other side of the island."

At this moment, Olvera's voice came through the headset communication channel, conveying a new task for the two; tracking the Sea Monster was now secondary, the priority was to understand the island.

"Understood."

The Challenger ascended in height, heading to the opposite side of the deep-sea island.

But upon arrival, what they saw made their pupils contract.

Here the island emitted a continuous rise of toxic gas, within it, a submerged, twisted architecture could be seen.

The architectural style was completely different from what they had seen before.

Each building constructed from jagged, massive stones painted in pitch black, engraved with dizzying carvings and twisted talisman script.

The architecture lacked symmetry or elegance, instead exuding bizarreness, the entire group of buildings enveloped in strong, unclean malice.

Besides these eerie architectures, there was no vegetation growth at all, only unfathomable pits on the ground, bubbling ominously, seemingly the source of the toxic gas.

"What place is this?"

On the research vessel, Olvera was filled with confusion, that an island could simultaneously exhibit such contrasting ecosystems.

One side lush and vibrant, the other lifeless and desolate, two ecological styles appearing on one island was something Olvera, who had studied ocean ecology all his life, had never seen.

"The architectural style here is grotesque, never seen anything like it on Blue Star."

"I don't know why, but watching those bizarre twisted structures, I feel very uncomfortable, my eyes are sore."

"Do you guys feel the same, or is it just me?"

"These buildings make me uneasy."

Each expert was astonished, merely seeing those buildings through the screen would arouse a subtle discomfort in their minds.

Roar!

Before the research vessel could reach any conclusion, a peculiar roar echoed amidst the turbulent deep-sea waters, shaking the entire strange architecture.

The next moment, a dark figure shot out swiftly.

It was a Sea Monster about nine meters long, seemingly startled by something terrifying, desperately fleeing outward.

"That's the bait fish we've been tracking."

Barnes shouted, recognizing the Sea Monster had a shiny tracking device around its neck, the one they had attached.

"It seems to be avoiding something; perhaps there's an even more powerful creature inside."

As soon as Kerana spoke, in the darkness, an enormous, grotesquely thick claw, bigger than a train by several times, suddenly reached out, grabbing the fleeing Sea Monster and crushing it into a bloody pulp.

Ah!

Barnes and Kerana were instantly speechless, scared stiff by the sudden scene.

Seeing that monstrous claw emerging from the darkness, an intense fear swept over their entire beings.

It was an ancient human genetic response, a primal fear of carnivorous beasts, with the genes warning the host to stay away from such dangerous predators.

But what Barnes and Kerana felt was encountering a terror beyond those predators by a thousand times, a fear so extreme it rendered them speechless.

The next moment, two beams of red light flickered in the darkness, apparently the eyes of the monster opening, an enormous shadow surfaced within the dark, approaching the Challenger.

"Retreat quickly, Challenger, what are you waiting for, leave now!"

The communicator blared with Eller's anxious shouts.

Barnes and Kerana snapped out of it, their stiff bodies regaining strength.

"Fake, quickly, let's go, move fast."

"Challenger, full speed ahead, accelerate, speed up more."

Both of them pulled up the control lever, although they had intended to continue observing the island, the sudden crisis made them forget everything else.

The Challenger moved forward at high speed, but it was still too slow.

The construction of the Challenger wasn't designed for speed, even at maximum speed, under deep-sea pressure, it couldn't go very fast.