The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

There was no weirdness seen around, but the system detected shielding reactions and weird energy reactions with an intensity above level 5. Coupled with the weird energy black fog that permeated the surroundings, the absence of weirdness was itself very weird.

Shen Ge stood on a small boat in the center of the lake. The strange black fog around him was slowly gathering. As the distance got closer, the strange black fog gradually became thicker and connected with the gloomy sky, forming a giant black egg that tried to slowly swallow Shen Ge.

"Gulu."

"Gulu."

At this time, Shen Ge heard a strange and unique swallowing sound. The sound was very loud, like two thunderbolts suddenly exploding.

What surprised him was that the sound did not come from the whirlpool channel at the bottom of the lake, but rather came from the black fog in all directions.

The drum-like swallowing sound gradually became smaller, and then became a bit like a fish blowing bubbles, accompanied by the sound of the bubbles bursting.

"I didn't see anything weird, but I could sense the weird energy and hear the weird sounds..." Shen Ge felt something was getting more and more wrong.

There was still no change on the surface of the lake, not even a ripple, let alone the sound of bubbles bursting.

At this moment, the lake water suddenly condensed into several water tentacles, rolling towards Shen Ge at an extremely fast speed. Although Shen Ge dodged sideways, he was caught up by the water tentacles due to the limited space on the boat.

Fortunately, Shen Ge was used to condensing an invisible barrier for defense, so the water tentacles failed to wrap around his body and were blocked by an invisible barrier.

But these were tentacles formed of water after all. The moment they touched the invisible barrier, they spread to both sides and bound Shen Ge's condensed defense.

The next second, Shen Ge felt a huge force pulling him towards the bottom of the lake, but at the moment when the water tentacles bound the invisible barrier, Shen Ge amplified his own strength. With a fifty-fold increase in strength, the water tentacles did not drag him into the water as they wished.

Although if the water tentacles had not appeared, Shen Ge would most likely have wrapped himself with an invisible barrier and then gone down to the whirlpool channel at the bottom of the lake to investigate, but if the other party wanted to actively pull him in, the situation would be different. At least he could not rashly go into the water until he was sure it was safe.

The water tentacles failed to pull Shen Ge down, but seemed to be pulled out of the lake. But the strange thing was that Shen Ge did not see anything strange being pulled out of the water when he pulled, but instead the surface of the lake bulged up. It felt like the "Slime" in the magic world.

"Wait, could this lake be a spirit?" Shen Ge felt more and more that this lake was a huge monster. Combined with the strange giant mouth that could lead to the "future" he saw on Sakura Island, this "familiar" feeling became more and more obvious.

Shen Ge, who had amplified his strength, successfully suppressed the strange power. The next second, there was a loud "splash" and a "water wave" was pulled out from the bottom of the lake by Shen Ge.

The tilted huge waves caused the boat to slide downwards. Seeing this, Shen Ge condensed an invisible barrier in the air to escape from the boat. Just as he expected, the entire "lake" turned into a huge water-shaped monster, which looked like a transparent octopus.

The water octopus formed by the lake water controlled dozens of water tentacles under its body to attack Shen Ge at the same time. Shen Ge raised his ghost-killing revolver and fired a series of "bang bang bang". The ghost energy bullets hit the top of the water tentacles and "bang" exploded with a ball of water splash.

"Gulu——"

After a dozen of the water tentacles of the water octopus were broken, a huge mouth opened on its body and emitted a deafening sonic attack.

But unfortunately Shen Ge was immune to sonic attacks. As soon as the water octopus opened its mouth to launch a sonic attack, his silent domain dissolved the sonic waves, and not even a splash of water was made.

Obviously, this monster had no consciousness. Even after the sonic attack was resolved, it was still roaring with its mouth open. Shen Ge took the opportunity to pull the trigger and fired several monster energy bullets into its mouth.

The penetrating power of the ghost-killing revolver allowed the ghost-energy bullet to pass through the water octopus's mouth, creating several splashes of water on its back.

Then, Shen Ge retracted the silent strange domain and directly deployed the invisible strange domain, using the "heart-digging" to lock the opponent's heart.

Since the body of the water octopus is very turbid, it is impossible to see the internal condition of the body. Shen Ge does not know whether it has a "heart" or not. However, he has not encountered a monster without a heart so far. He can only spend some time and use his magic to lock it.

But the water octopus obviously did not intend to let Shen Ge get his wish. When the "Heart-Digging" strange energy covered it, its big mouth closed, and the entire water ball body formed a hard strange energy that hardened the water surface like a solid wall of iron, making Shen Ge's "Heart-Digging" unable to penetrate the target's body for the first time.

"Tsk, quite interesting." Shen Ge increased the release of his strange energy, trying to break through the water octopus's defense, but the opponent's strange energy was as strong as his own.

"Hardened, right? Okay!" Shen Ge clenched his fist, and with the help of the power increase that had dropped to more than thirty times but had not yet disappeared, he punched hard at the copper wall and water wall in front of him.

wow-

The collision between Shen Ge's strange power and the water wall defense of the water octopus produced a strong strange power distortion reaction. The distorted strange power made the originally calm lake surface roll up huge waves like a tsunami, forming water tornadoes that rolled around, and were torn apart by the distorted space, turning into heavy rain and falling down!

Shen Ge's strange energy was dropping rapidly, and it seemed that most of it was consumed. But in the end, it was this water octopus of the same level as him that exhausted its strange energy first.

Wow!

However, as the water octopus's strange power was exhausted, Shen Ge, who was about to take advantage of the victory, lost his target because the water octopus completely "fell apart" and the water waves filled the lake back.

Shen Ge looked at the lake water under his feet and released his strange energy to detect it again, but found that the lake surface had returned to the state before the water octopus appeared.

"Good guy, if you can't win, just retreat, right?" Facing the lake that was gradually returning to calm, Shen Ge didn't know what to do with the lake water for a moment. He couldn't just go find a few pumps to drain it, right?

Shen Ge waited on the lake for nearly half an hour. After the water octopus disappeared, the lake became calm and no strange traces were seen. However, the intensity of the strange energy could be detected and it was affected by a shielding effect similar to "no exit". In other words, there was no change in the system's detection scan, as if the water octopus had never appeared.

Now Shen Ge only had one choice left, and that was to enter the whirlpool channel at the bottom of the lake to find out what was going on. This had been his original plan, but after being disturbed by the sudden appearance of the water octopus, he was unsure for a moment what the weird or strange person hiding in the dark was planning.

As if to stop him from entering, the water octopus appeared and kept dragging him towards the vortex channel. As if to want him to go in, the strange black fog kept hindering his progress.

What does this mean?
Play hard to get?

Is it so elaborate to play weird?

But in line with the custom of "since we are here", we have already reached the entrance of the vortex passage. If we don't go in and take a look, it would be like going to the West Lake for a tour. Even though we know that the West Lake vinegar fish is a scam, we must order one to make it complete. Thinking of this, Shen Ge stopped struggling and decided not to leave the strange domain. When he encountered the obstruction of the strange energy black fog on the lake, he increased the release of strange energy and forcibly condensed an invisible barrier to open a path to the vortex passage.

After Shen Ge jumped into the vortex passage, he found that this place was very similar to the high-level strange throat leading to the tail that he had to go to every now and then. Combined with the water octopus...

If we regard this area as a huge fusion weirdness, the water octopus is the head, the vortex channel is the throat, and the weird body below is it, which seems to make sense.

After passing through the long and narrow whirlpool, I fell into a dark place. It felt soft when I stepped on it, just like stepping on strange internal organs.

As a frequent visitor to the strange belly, Shen Ge was naturally very familiar with this feeling, so he took out the strange energy flashlight, turned it on, and shone it around.

Going down is an unobstructed "abyss". Blood-red corrosive liquid constantly seeps out of the "flesh walls" surrounding the passage. When the defensive invisible barrier deployed by Shen Ge touches it, white corrosive bubbles immediately "sizzle" and emerge.

Shen Ge then noticed that in addition to the red liquid seeping out of the cracks in the flesh wall, there were also a number of thumb-sized white things. When he took a closer look, he saw that they were all white flesh worms.

Shen Ge had seen this flesh worm before in the body of a high-level fusion monster, so it was certain that the "mutation" in Donghuan Lake was related to the fusion monster.

"System, scan the surroundings." Shen Ge said.

[Consume 100 system points and now start marking targets containing sly energy within 10 kilometers——]

[Mark successfully. 】

This time the system did not prompt that it was affected by a similar "cannot exit" shield. It was obvious that the world inside this vortex channel was different from the outside.

Looking at it this way, assuming that the previous guess is correct, the water octopus is a strangely fused head, the vortex channel is the throat, and the body is below... then what is preventing Shen Ge and the system from conducting detection and scanning is this strangely "fused" outer skin.

"Is it the ground? Or something else?" Shen Ge had a bad feeling in his heart. This situation was very similar to the situation where the Monster Organization cultivated the Ghost King in Sakura and South Korea.

It’s only been less than half a month since I arrived in Dajing, and my house has been robbed by a monster organization?
But if you think about it carefully, it is unlikely. After all, not to mention how much manpower and material resources it would take to train a Ghost King, the time it takes to train him is enough to make it impossible for the Special Policy Department to be unaware of it.

You have to know that the current Rong City branch is not the same as it was two years ago. They can prevent even common strange events in advance. It doesn't make sense that they can't find any clues about such a big thing as cultivating the Ghost King, unless this Ghost King was secretly cultivated by the Rong City Special Policy Department.

But in Shen Ge's opinion, this possibility is lower than not discovering the existence of the Ghost King during the previous investigation of East Ring Lake. After all, the previous East Ring Lake incident was not "closed", but the area was blocked off for further investigation by Quanlongshan Base, and Shen Ge was also tripped up by a series of things and had no chance to continue the investigation.

You must know the most crucial point, the headquarters of the Weird People Association, Rongshan Mental Hospital, is right here on the East Ring Lake. Combined with the experience of exploring Rongshan Mental Hospital several times in the dream world, then the sudden appearance of a long-hidden ghost king in this place... doesn't seem to be a big deal?
Since he had to investigate anyway, Shen Ge simply stopped thinking about it and continued walking deeper into the "abyss" to try and see if he could find the "bottom" first.

However, Shen Ge had been walking for nearly two hours, but there was still no sign of reaching the bottom. The biggest difference along the way was that more and more blood was seeping out of the flesh wall, and the white worms wriggling in the flesh wall were getting bigger and bigger, from the size of a finger at the beginning to the size of a palm now, like a white brick embedded in the flesh wall.

Just as Shen Ge continued to walk forward, suddenly, in addition to the flesh walls around him, even the "ground" began to slowly wriggle.

"Gulu——"

"Gulu——"

As a deafening swallowing sound was heard, the entire passage began to move, and the flesh walls and the ground began to move visibly, "leading" Shen Ge to the abyss.

"Have you finally noticed my presence?" The main reason why Shen Ge did not adopt the three-characteristic covert method to enter from the beginning was that he wanted to use himself as bait to verify whether Donghuan Lake really became a high-level fusion monster, which is equivalent to there really being a ghost king under Rong City.

But after walking for such a long time, there was no movement or reaction from the other party, but he didn't expect that the other party suddenly woke up, as if he was going to be eaten by the stomach.

"Okay, the conveyor belt is open, so we don't have to walk." Shen Ge simply gave up resisting and let the flesh wall move forward with the invisible barrier.

Then, the speed became faster and faster, and Shen Ge had the illusion that a roller coaster started from the top and then suddenly dived from the top.

After sprinting for two or three minutes, suddenly—

"puff--"

Shen Ge felt like he had fallen into a slimy pool. Fortunately, there was an invisible barrier blocking him, preventing him from being swallowed by the disgusting corrosive sticky substances. However, he had to continuously inject strange energy to reinforce the invisible barrier, so that the strange energy was exhausted in an instant.

Shen Ge had no choice but to take out a spiritual apple and eat it in this disgusting environment to replenish his strange energy and prevent the sticky substance from penetrating the invisible barrier and swallowing himself.

Just as Shen Ge was still thinking about how to escape, it was as if a floodgate had opened below, and he and the sticky substance in the pool instantly poured out.

"..."

This is too much!
Shen Ge thought that he was expelled by the fusion monster in some indescribable way, but the next second he found himself falling rapidly from a high altitude.

If this is weird, it's also devastating!

Below, there are ruins, collapsed buildings, and a desolate apocalypse. Not to mention humans and living things, not even a single creature can be seen.

Boom!
With a loud bang, Shen Ge was smashed into the ruins. Fortunately, in order to avoid this situation, he borrowed the strange arm guard that could release strange energy inflatable cushion from Fang Mingyue.

During the previous trip to the dream world, Shen Ge found many inconveniences due to the lack of the Red Mist Armor. So before entering the dream world to transfer Cheng Shengnan back from Dajing, he deliberately "borrowed" several pieces of strange energy equipment from Fang Mingyue and other strange agents.

These strange equipment do not affect their combat effectiveness, and are basically functional equipment such as "Strange Arm Guard Inflatable Pad".

I didn't expect it to be useful during the transfer process, but it is useful here. (End of this chapter)