Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead-Chapter 537 - 264: Doomsday Prophecy

Fortunately, the two were not combat personnel, and subduing them did not take much effort.

Colonel Johnson and the survey station administrator Pei Taiheng, perhaps because of their relatively safe professions, had lower Inspiration Value, and upon awakening, their consciousness was clear.

After regaining clarity, the two did not show any aggressive intentions but instead held their heads and groaned in their seats. It took them two or three minutes to gradually recover, after which they looked at Wu Chang and his team, asking:

"Who are you? New members of the investigation team?"

Wu Chang gave Lei Huo a look, and Lei Huo, who knew the situation of the script best, stepped forward to explain the events happening at the Night Island survey station to the two.

Lei Huo’s information was detailed, and his family upbringing equipped him with a formal tone that was apparent at serious times, making it clear that he came from an official background.

This allowed the two, after a simple exchange, to develop trust in Lei Huo.

For Johnson and Pei Taiheng, it was as if they awoke from a long dream. To them, the nightmare of their spirit and the reality of their body were both dreamscapes; they could only vaguely remember some fragments.

With Lei Huo’s information, the foggy memories of the two gradually became clearer, and they matched the details Lei Huo mentioned, which further convinced them of the team’s identity, putting down their guard.

Seeing the two gradually come to, Wu Chang asked:

"Colonel Johnson, do you remember what happened initially at the survey station?"

On the mention of the incident that day, Johnson couldn’t help but shiver, and Pei Taiheng averted his gaze, none of them willing to recall that past.

As a seasoned soldier, Johnson had a more steadfast Will; he adjusted for a moment before speaking about what happened at the Night Island survey station.

Although Johnson was one of the last to arrive on the island, his military rank was the highest at the survey station, also making him the military person in charge there.

The team he led was exactly the one Wu Chang saw in his grievances.

When they landed on the island, the survey station had basically figured out the Rules of Night Island, and the investigation of the Underwater Ruins had reached its final stage.

For this reason, he allowed Wells, who was in the rear and lacked action capability, to join the team.

To put it nicely, this was the final sprint stage of the Underwater Ruins archaeology.

To put it negatively, it was to gold-plate and pick peaches.

But not only did they fail to gild the gold, they almost lost their lives inside.

Before Johnson’s gilding team even entered the survey station, two members were lost on the road, and after entering, strange events occurred frequently.

Outside the survey station, inexplicable shadowy figures began to flicker, and from time to time, investigation team members fell victim to being dragged into the darkness by these shadows.

Hiding in the survey station wasn’t necessarily safe either; the team members residing there began to experience hallucinations, with odd characters appearing before them and having nightmares at night.

In their dreams, they became creatures with fish heads and human bodies, wandering around the ruins, waiting for something in the deep sea to awaken.

They could hear some indistinct murmurs in their dreams but forgot everything upon waking up.

Though they couldn’t clearly see the characters in their hallucinations or understand the whispers in their dreams, both greatly enhanced the Inspiration among the team, accelerating the decryption of lost texts and murals in the ruins.

With the assistance of the locals from the Naru tribe, they quickly understood the background of the ruins.

The underwater ruins were a Divine Hall built by the Naru tribe’s ancestors, enshrining not a God, but a concept known as death.

The Naru tribe’s ancestors had a fanatical reverence for death, believing that after death, the soul could find eternal peace, merging with the world and becoming a part of it.

Every deceased member of the tribe would come to Night Island in their dying moments, believing that in a near-death state, the soul would merge with the Will of the world. Utilizing this brief melding period, they could pierce through the future through the world’s Will, leaving prophecies for the tribe.

However, after conducting one particular prophecy, the Naru tribe’s Divine Hall of Death was submerged by seawater.

With progress in decoding, the investigation team members were like energized with high spirits, no longer rejecting hallucinations and nightmares. Some even began actively pursuing such feelings, trying to comprehend and listen to them. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

During the second week of the sprint phase, some could no longer distinguish between reality and dreams, with the first changes appearing among the theologians and archaeologists in the team.

They seemed to truly become fish-headed people, consuming only raw, unprocessed fish and shellfish, and refusing vegetables and meat.

Even during wakeful hours in the day, they began to exhibit sleepwalking states, attempting to harm other members or themselves, but as long as they decrypted information about the ruins, they regained normalcy and exercised 200% focus.

To prevent them from truly causing harm, the investigation team would restrain these members who fell under a spell, confining them in specific rooms.

When progress was once again made in the sprint phase, more than half of the team had been confined in isolation rooms.

Through further exploration and decryption of the ruins, they learned the secret behind the sinking of the Divine Hall of Death to the seabed.

The catalyst for the incident was the death of the Naru tribe’s High Priest.

According to the record in the documents, during the period of the Divine Hall of Death, the average lifespan of the Naru tribe was less than thirty years, but the High Priest of the Naru tribe lived up to 150 years.

Long life, in a Naru tribe that revered death, was a very sad thing. He witnessed the glorious death of over five generations of tribesmen, yet he waited endlessly for his own glory.

Until one day, the High Priest felt his solidified Life Force begin to flow, and he summoned his seventh successor to witness his death and prophecy, recording it on the prepared tablets.