Shrouded Seascape-Chapter 1126. That Thing

After a while, Anna got tired and spat out the bloody tongue in her mouth. She glared fiercely at the flesh tentacle and exclaimed, "Now bring me back!"

The eight mouths on the flesh tentacle opened at once. "I'm sorry, Anna, but I can't do that. First of all, you're far safer on the surface world than in the Subterranean Sea, and I want to keep you out of danger's reach."

"Secondly and lastly, I'm on the surface world as well."

Charles turned his gaze to the side. Compared to the lush green peaks here, the place where he was located appeared to be more barren. If the surface world on this side was full of life, then the surface world on this side was dead.

"Bullshit! You're on the surface world? Then how come I haven't seen you yet?" Anna was convinced that Charles was lying to her.

Hearing Anna say this, the huge deformed tentacle slowly wriggled. More and more eyes drilled out of it, looking in all directions with strong curiosity, absorbing the knowledge of this world.

Upon hearing Anna's words, the giant flesh tentacle writhed, and more eyes emerged from within it. The eyes were filled with intense curiosity as they looked around. Then, they narrowed slowly.

It seemed that the answer Charles had been looking for was right here.

"Yes, that's exactly what I find strange. That thing doesn't exist on the surface world where I am from.. This is problematic."

"Goodness..." Anna muttered, looking quite irritated as she paced back and forth on the lake surface while kneading her forehead. "Just what exactly have you been doing? You've yet to lose that recklessness of yours after all this time?"

Charles didn't answer. The giant flesh tentacle grew, and eyestalks emerged from beneath the flesh, rising upward. The grotesque flesh tentacle transformed until it eventually became a hideous giant tree made out of flesh and blood.

To make the sight even more bizarre, deformed appendages with eyestalks were growing out of the tree's trunk, making it appear particularly healthy if it weren't for the fact that it appeared to be made out of flesh and blood.

"I'm talking to you! Do you hear?!" Anna exclaimed sternly.

The eyestalks froze and descended to look at her on the ground. "Sorry, I got distracted. I'm listening now."

"I don't care where you are right now; I want you to bring me back NOW! I don't want to stay in this damned place for even a second longer! I've had enough of this fragile human body."

Anna's anxious voice echoed throughout the blood-red lake, sending ripples in all directions.

Grotesque cracking noises similar to bones shattering at once echoed as the massive tree swayed slowly. "Sorry, Anna, but you can't come back here. I've seen fragmented scenes of the future. If you come back here, you will meet an extremely tragic fate. I don't want you to suffer that fate."

Anna's face distorted fiercely. She opened her mouth, seemingly to curse and vent her frustration, but in the end, she only let out a soft sigh, saying, "You told me that you don't want others to decide your fate, but aren't you doing the same thing to me right now?" fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

Charles' eyestalks were staring at the starry sky and the earth at the same time. "Those matters can wait, my love. First of all, we need to understand what's really going on here. Your concerns are trivial compared to this one."

Compared to saving the humans on the surface world and the humans in the Subterranean Sea, sending Anna back to the Subterranean Sea was an incomparably trivial matter.

Just then, Charles' eyes widened as he realized something, "Ah! I finally understand. Time on the surface world and time in the Subterranean Sea flows in opposite directions. We're both at the other end of the line, but you're in the past.

"The gap between us is a thousand years. It seems that humanity's fate has already been decided."

Charles instantly realized what was going on by merely observing the surface world.

Anna adjusted her mindset and softly said, "A thousand years later, some disaster will happen here, forcing the IMF to flee to the Subterranean Sea to become the first-generation Foundation.

"I assume that's what's going to happen, but what does that have to do with us? You're thinking too far ahead."

The giant tree swayed again, generating cracking noises. "No, that's not the case at all. This is related to both of us, and it is related to everything in the world."

Since time was flowing in reverse, it meant that he had succeeded. He was indeed destined to become a true higher-dimensional being that 005 had mentioned.

Anna frowned, feeling that Charles wasn't exactly mentally stable at the moment.

"How is it related to both of us? Explain," Anna asked.

Charles' tone of voice began to sound inquisitive as he replied, "I'm not sure. I just have this feeling. Give me a moment; I need to see more before I can give you any explanation."

The eyestalks attached to the giant tree rose once again, and they were transfixed on the round moon hanging in the sky. For some reason, the tree started bending and withering; its eyeballs caved in, withering like flowers.

Once the eyeballs had disappeared completely, the huge moon in the sky changed color, and it eventually transformed into an eyeball with a yellow pupil.

The moon-sized eyeball turned to look at Earth. The moon-sized eye opened, and as soon as it did, it saw every piece of knowledge on Earth and assimilated it at the very same moment.

Then, all the mouths on the giant tree opened. "I see. I completely understand it now. So that's what this is all about."

At this moment, Charles saw himself. He saw himself standing in a crater. The two Charleses were connected. He saw through the laws of the world as well as his true position.

It wasn't just the two Charleses. The Charleses from other planes reached the same conclusion. As soon as they did, their thoughts synchronized, and they all began moving upward.

He had always thought that he had reached the end, but he was mistaken.

His current self was just a small part of the tentacle.

As soon as Charles' words fell, the "branches" of the tree split open, and the tree bloomed with extremely brilliant and dazzling "flowers." At this moment, Charles seemed to have transformed into a different kind of existence.

Every human being on Earth looked up at the sky, and their breathing quickened as their hearts pounded wildly against their chest.

Their sanity decreased rapidly, and extreme panic began to seize everyone's hearts. As they stared at the eyeball in the sky, they felt like the apocalypse was nigh.

There weren't many beings capable of stopping what was about to happen, but fortunately, Anna was one of them. "Hey, Charles! Calm down! Are you planning on destroying Earth? I have to remind you that your past self is still here!"

Anna's words had yet to finish echoing in the air when time itself came to a halt before rewinding rapidly. The "flowers" on the tree closed and retracted into the flesh tree; the shriveled and withered eyeballs were restored, and the bright moon returned to normal.

Time rewound to three minutes ago when the massive eyeball in the sky had yet to appear, thus leaving no one with any memory of having ever seen it.

Then, the tree began to disintegrate, melting rapidly like a candle.