Shrouded Seascape

Chapter 895: Turn of Events

It was a strange and bizarre dream, but Roy didn't immediately go looking for Anna. He looked around his cabin and found a porthole. He pushed it open and peered outside.

The outside world seemed to describe the word "chaos" perfectly. It was pitch-black, and there seemed to be something within the abyss-like darkness that made Roy instinctively look away from it.

For some reason, he couldn't stare at it directly.

"Where am I? And why is it so dark here? If it's night, there ought to be stars in the sky, so where are they? Are they missing because they're not part of Anna's dreams?" Roy pondered over his questions for a few seconds before setting them aside.

He had no time to think over anything at the moment, as he had a limited amount of time to gather as much information about Anna as possible.

Roy carefully approached a door and pulled it open gently. He immediately froze upon seeing what was outside. There was an indescribable cluster of fluorescent green tentacles riddled with green eyeballs inside a room the size of a classroom.

However, Roy was more horrified by the monster's behavior compared to its appearance. The horrifying monster was actually using its tentacles to stack wooden toys on top of each other.

Roy backed away slowly and closed the door as gently as possible. He was beyond pallid, and his mind struggled to process what he had just witnessed.

"Is the anomaly they gave me really controllable? Wait, what if it's out of control now?" Roy reached the only conclusion that could explain the sight he had just seen. Everyone's dreams were made out of their past experiences, so how come there was a monster in Anna's dreams?

"Could that thing actually be real?" Roy shivered at the thought of it alone. No way. There was no way that monster existed in reality. Perhaps the monster was a manifestation of some trauma Anna had experienced some time ago.

Roy knew that his explanation was forced, but he had no choice but to believe it and calm himself down. It didn't matter whether the sight he had witnessed was real or not, as he just had to report it to the headquarters upon his return to land.

Roy turned and soon found another door. He approached it slowly and carefully opened just a crack in the door, but his pupils immediately constricted to needle points.

The room beyond the wall was massive, but it was filled with nothing but a mountain of human corpses.

The confident and calm Roy quivered like an aspen tree as he closed the door with trembling hands. He turned to the final door in the distance, and fear crept into his heart. The urge to leave immediately pervaded his mind.

He wasn't inside an ordinary human's dream. Roy felt like he had fallen into someone's trap.

The confidence that he had just moments ago had vanished completely. He had invaded someone's dream, so he was supposed to be in control of this dreamscape, but now, he felt like he had stepped into a horror movie.

Anna's dream was far too bizarre compared to the dreams of ordinary people. To make matters worse, Roy had yet to find Anna herself.

However, Roy didn't leave. His spirit as a professional drove him forward. This was going to be his final mission, and he wanted his record to remain pristine at the very end.

"Find Anna and deduce her motives through her behavior inside her dream. For now, I'm not going to alter her dream to obtain more information. I'll just do that next time."

Having made up his mind, Roy stood up and gathered his courage to move forward. He walked up to the final door, but he didn't even push it open. He put his right eye over the keyhole to peek inside.

A tentacle covered in black scales slid past the keyhole, and the sight of it sent a shiver down Roy's spine. When the obstructing tentacle finally moved away, Roy clapped his eye on an eerie scene.

The ocean was on the other side of the door, and two horrifying-looking monsters were entangled with each other in the ink-green seawater.

One of the monsters seemed to be an octopus covered in black scales with a massive blood-red eye grafted onto its body. The mere sight of it made Roy quiver in fear.

The other monster was a wriggling clump of flesh made out of deformed organs, bizarre-looking appendages, and writhing mechanical parts. The two monsters were wrapped around each other in a fight.

Their monstrous maws gaped, and they tore at each other's flesh with their razor-sharp teeth.

Roy's mind couldn't quite process the sight before him, and before he could even begin to comprehend it, the monsters turned and attempted to engulf the other with their maws.

Their teeth shattered, and blood splattered in the air. One of the two monsters seemed to have emerged victorious as it tore off the maw of the other monster and devoured it in one fell swoop.

"W-w-what are these?! W-w-where's Anna? Where's the dreamer? Where's Anna? Could it be..." Roy trailed off, and he began trembling uncontrollably.

Just then, the two monsters came to an abrupt halt. One of them turned, and their bright yellow eye with a cross-shaped pupil glared fiercely at Roy through the keyhole!

"This is bad! She noticed me!"

The dreamscape collapsed in an instant. When Roy came to his senses, he found himself back in the storage room.

Having no time to think, Roy grabbed the bottle in his hand and ran toward his domicile, but before he could even get there, an alarm reverberated, startling everyone from their sleep.

"The High Priestess has ordered everyone to assemble on the foredeck!"

Thirty minutes later, everyone on the Narwhale gathered on the foredeck, and they stared at the woman before them with confusion and trepidation.

The majority of them were wondering about the reason behind the sudden order to assemble, but neither Wang Sheng nor anyone else dared to speak. They could clearly see that the High Priestess was in an extremely bad mood.

Anna's chest rose and fell as she breathed in ragged pants. She was so furious that she felt like a fire had engulfed her heart. Right now, all she wanted to do was to find the person daring enough to invade her dream and tear them to pieces!

Anna had lost her special abilities and had become a mere human, but as a former Dioite, she had enough experience to tell if someone had invaded her dream. In addition, there was no way that terrified gaze belonged to her dream.

In other words, there was a traitor on her ship, and she had to find them, regardless of their employer. Having burned that gaze into her mind, Anna walked among the crowd and scanned the faces of each individual.

Anna got closer and closer to Roy as she examined the crown. When her gaze swept across Roy's slightly lowered head, she paused in her steps and said, "Raise your head."

Roy was instantly nervous upon hearing that. After a brief yet seemingly endless one second, Roy raised his head, and his eyes showed no other emotions except for a pleading that bordered on begging.

"High Priestess, can you resurrect my daughter first? If you bring her back to life, I'm willing to give you everything—everything that I have! T-there's only one thing I want to say to her.

"I want to tell her that I was wrong and that I was sick. I should have gone to the hospital and worked with the doctors for my treatment. If it weren't for my stubbornness, she would still be alive today!"

Anna stared at Roy's desperate face and revealed an exaggerated grin. "That was a very convincing act; you almost had me fooled."