Shrouded Seascape

Chapter 773: Island

In the midst of the chaos, Charles finally located where the Haikors were being held. It was a prison cell, but there was a large hole in the wall of the cell, and Charles could hear screams coming from inside.

Charles crawled in through the massive hole and found a bloated, ghastly white woman moving slowly toward the Haikors inside.

The four-meter-tall ghastly woman still had a human form, but she wasn't much better compared to the other monsters. Something beneath her skin had stretched it taut, and the red veins all over her resembled creeper vines.

She had large and elongated eyes; her head was thicker than her waist, and it swayed from side to side as she moved forward. To make matters worse, anything that came within one meter of her would abruptly stiffen and freeze like a frozen statue.

From their skin that had rapidly turned deathly gray from healthy white, Charles presumed that they were deceased.

However, it seemed that Shindy was lucky enough. Shindy was in a corner of the room with his back against the wall. He was so scared that he had pissed his pants, but he was still alive.

All of a sudden, the wall behind Shindy disappeared, and he fell backward, landing outside the cell. When Shindy stood up and hurriedly retreated, Sparkle returned the wall, sealing the cell once again.

Charles climbed onto Shindy's face, dug out the fake eye from his eye socket, and crawled into the latter's empty eye socket. "Run! We have to return to the pier and leave the island before they realize what's going on here!"

Although confused, Shindy instinctively followed Charles' orders and made a beeline for the pier using the same path that they had taken to enter this facility.

To Shindy's shock, the monsters weren't attacking him, and he moved swimmingly toward his destination. Unbeknownst to him, a tentacled monster woven from spider silk was following him along the ceiling.

When Shindy and Charles arrived at the pond where they were disinfected, they found that the entire island was in chaos; it wasn't just the facility. The vibrant forest of purple was demolished by the monsters, and the entire island seemed to be in the middle of a collapse.

"Sparkle, retract your power. I'm sure the Foundation knows about the chaos here by now. Soon, they'll send their people over here. If you stay here, they might detect your presence, and the plan will fail by then," Charles said solemnly to Sparkle sitting next to him in the Governor's Mansion.

"They can't come here that fast, can they? How about I stay here for a bit longer? I'm worried that my brothers and sisters will tear that tall guy into pieces," Sparkle replied.

"This island is huge, and the outside isn't as dangerous as inside the facility. Hurry up and leave! I can't let you risk your life here; you're far more important than this guy!" Charles insisted.

Sparkle could only nod. "All right, then."

Unbeknownst to the father and daughter pair, Anna had appeared at the door of the room at some point. Anna was leaning against the door frame with her shoulder and was taking bites of a green apple in her hand.

"Gao Zhiming, can you tell me more about what Sparkle just said? What did she mean by 'brothers and sisters'?" Anna asked.

However, Charles didn't have the luxury of time to answer her questions. His nerves were stretched taut, and he felt like an arrow nocked against the bowstring as he focused all of his attention on moving the spider.

He looked around frantically, helping the panic-stricken Shindy avoid any risks.

The deafening sound of gunfire, the cracking of vine whips, the buzzing noises of laser weapons, and the whirring of combat drones—the loud and harsh discordant mixture of these sounds created an ear-piercing melody that reverberated throughout the islands.

Amidst the cacophony of noises, Shindy got closer and closer to the pier. His identity as a Haikor played a massive role in the ongoing crisis, as the people of the Foundation considered him a friendly unit and didn't attack him. In fact, they even provided him with cover as he retreated toward the pier.

When the chaos reached a crescendo, a violent tremor ran across the ground. The tremor was so violent that it threw Shindy to the ground. The earth-shattering shaking continued as the island made out of plants underwent a shocking change.

The bushes, tree trunks, vines, and every single plant that was a part of the island came alive. They took to the sky and rushed toward the experimental subjects.

The flashing red dots across the island's giant circular net lit up brightly, illuminating the entire island. The experimental subjects hiding in the dark were exposed, and they had nowhere to hide.

The experimental subjects were strong, but the Foundation displayed strength that seemed capable of sundering even the heavens themselves.

The experimental subjects were quickly suppressed except for a few experimental subjects lucky enough to escape early. It wasn't really a strange sight—the Foundation had long figured out their special abilities, after all.

It turned out that the plants throughout the island all belonged to just one entity. Clearly, the Foundation was prepared to handle a containment breach of any scale.

The massive deep purple tree trunks all over the island intertwined above the island, forming a towering human upper body. The towering figure raised his right hand and pointed at the distant Shindy. "Bring him over! There's definitely something wrong with that Haikor from the external department."

The nearby members of a mobile task force converged on the dumbfounded Shindy's location.

Soon, a large-framed man with a crew cut wearing the combat uniform of a task force dragged Shindy toward the towering figure made out of plants.

Shindy's head was drooping, and his arms were hanging limply at his side, but the large-framed man didn't seem to have noticed that yet as he threw the former to the ground.

Shindy collapsed in a heap, and the large-framed man finally noticed that something was amiss. He rushed toward Shindy's side and grabbed his head by the hair.

The large-framed man was stunned. Shindy's face had turned ashen gray, and he was missing an eyeball.

The large-framed man looked up at the towering figure. "Dr. C7! This guy is already dead!"

Several trumpet flowers instantly bloomed from the surrounding ground, facing Shindy's direction.

"What happened to his eyeball? There's something wrong with his eyeball! Level 3 alarm—lockdown is now in force throughout the entire island!

"No one is allowed to leave the island until that eyeball is found!" A thunderous voice echoed from above.

The booming voice had just reverberated throughout the island when the vines and tree trunks around the island rapidly intertwined with each other to create giant walls covered in flowers.

The colossal walls separated the entire island from the outside world.

The large-framed man pointed at the corpse before him and asked, "Doctor! What should we do with this corpse?"

"Hmph! It doesn't matter even if he's dead; send his corpse back to SITE 2, Captain Deya! Dr. Defia can pry out more information from a dead man's mouth than from a living man's mouth."

"Understood! Mobile Task Force: Behemoth, assemble! Take the target away! We're going to the airport!" the large-framed man shouted, waving his hand.

The nearby members of the Behemoth Mobile Task Force emerged from the crowd and picked up Shindy's corpse before leaving with their captain.

While the members of the other mobile task forces frantically searched the island for Shindy's missing eyeball, the Behemoth Mobile Task Force boarded a jet-propelled airship.

They climbed out of the giant purple net and headed for SITE 2.

Captain Deya pressed down on the bleeding wound in his stomach as he walked into the infirmary. He took off his clothes, which were drenched in his own blood and turned to the task force's doctor, saying, "Get out of here. I can handle this."

"Captain, how come you still like doing everything yourself without asking for help? At this rate, I'll be freeloading off everyone here. I'm just a doctor, after all," the task force's doctor grumbled.

When Deya glared at him, however, he immediately rushed out of the infirmary, even closing the door behind him.

Left all alone, Deya didn't proceed to treat his wound. He looked around briefly before locking the door, which the task force's doctor had closed out of consideration for Deya's privacy.

Upon confirming that it was safe, Captain Deya reached into his right eye socket and pried out the eyeball inside of it.