Silent Crown

Chapter 530 The Lightless Sea

It was late at night, and a guard stood on the edge of the cliff holding up a storm lantern, lighting the raging sea.

The ocean tide was coming with heavy rain and thunder on its back. A storm was sweeping across the sea, and the air was full of the sticky and cold water vapor. The guard found it difficult to breath normally.

Though it was raining heavily, it was silent. Countless rain drops dropped into the raging seawater. The sea had turned into something horrible, like a monster.

A fog permeated the air of the region. The whole sea was tumbling, as if there was a huge creature stirring the water. The hurricane swept across the sea and blew towards the cliff, creating scary sound. Seeing this, the guard was in a daze. Soon, he felt a bit dizzy and fell down.

He felt extremely cold, which made his mind clear again. He screamed aloud. Suddenly, a man reached out a hand and grabbed him by his collar and pulled him up. He then fell back down on the ground. The cold rain dropped on his face, and he looked pale and began to breathe heavily. His looked at the man lifelessly and said, "I...I…"

"What is wrong with you? Were you petrified?" the man said. "I called your name for ten minutes and you did not reply to me. If I did not come up, you would have already…"

Recently, many guards had encountered this.

"I just came out to have some fresh air, I never thought…" the guard murmured. The man patted his shoulder and said, "You go back and take a rest. Someone has just shipped some food here, and the cook made some soup. You should drink it. I will stay here."

The guard nodded and backed away. He said with great gratitude, "Niven, be careful, Old Gai jumped off the cliff yesterday."

"You should go back now." Niven waved his hands. He quickly laid a waterproof blanket in a cave and lay down on it. Then, he took out a lighter and lit his pipe. He breathed in the warm and wet smoke and finally felt a bit warmer. He relaxed a bit and stared at the sea and the sky in awe.

He looked at his watch and realized it was exactly midnight. F*ck the twelve o\'clock. He spat.

As a member of the Fifth Department, he had been doing the hardest and dirtiest work for years. He had retired from the navy, and spent the next ten years travelling all over the world and living in bad environments countless times. Still, he never thought Anglo would become like this.

In the past, the Cloister of Cavern was a famous holiday paradise with a pleasant climate, but now, all the hotels and roads had been flooded by the dark wave. What was left was the Cloister of Cavern that was still sitting in the mountain.

When the fog shrouded Anglo, half of its territories in the coastal area had been flooded. Currently, no one really knew if the islands located in the deepest part of the fog were still there or not.

According to the emergency regulations of the Fifth Department, the current situation in Anglo meant that this city was already in a very dangerous state.

All the institutions around the world had gone into silent mode. Apart from some specially appointed members, everyone needed to gather at the fixed place at the fixed time; everyone else would be treated as traitors.

Currently, around four hundred experienced experts who had known a lot about devils and catastrophes had gathered here. They had been staying in the Cloister of Cavern for over a week.

They were still very disciplined, but some of them were beginning to become a bit worried. In fact, they were all carefully selected elites, and among them were musicians and people with lots of talents. Most importantly, they were very courageous and determined, and would not easily freak out.

This time, things were rather different. Apart from the bad environment and the shortage of food and water, the sea posed the biggest threat to them. They had not seen light in nine days.

The lightless sea seemed to have a sort of magic power. At this point, more than ten people had been lost. A few days ago, four corpses were spotted floating on the sea. Those who came back alive all went insane, and some of them even had to be quarantined.

Two of them had killed themselves. One cut his wrist and drew some graffiti with his blood on the wall. The graffiti was washed away, and later the man who cleaned it also went mad and was soon quarantined.

"F*ck." Niven spat again. He was a bit afraid. Anglo had already became a living hell, and he had no idea what would happen next if he continued to stay there.

The storm was still sweeping across the sea and pouring rain, but it was very quiet. He was a fisherman\'s child; when he was young, his father never allowed him to step onto the boat, or even to touch the net.

He stared at the sea, terrified by this quietness, and finally understood his father.

The deep sea was just like a uterus, where a disaster was growing.

"How scary this is." He sighed and crawled under the blanket. He stared into the distance, and from time to time, he had an urge to walk into the darkness. If he indeed walked into the darkness, he might become part of it, a tiny part of it…

Instantly, his urge disappeared, since he practiced the Decerebrate Rigidity surgery on himself. In fact, few spies would perform this sort of surgery on themselves. After the surgery, other musicians could no longer read his mind, but the surgery was not easy to do. Still, he never regretted the decision he had made, and now he could calmly watch this atrocious monster-like sea.

He began to smoke his pipe and play sudoku. The visibility was now less than three meters, and the water quality had deteriorated so much that even the fish could no longer live in it.

There is no point in continuing to guard this area!

Suddenly, a cold water drop fell on his forehead. He was alarmed and looked up. Then he saw the rock above his head trembling, as if an earthquake was happening. For the first time, he saw a scary scene in the spot where the dark sea met the dark sky.

The sea was raging and the dark clouds were getting closer and closer to the sea. It seemed like the sky and the sea were going to become one.

All at once, he heard the sound of a siren. An enormous iron and steel-made ship was sailing across the sea.

Around the ship, the distorted music theory collided with the twisted reality, creating a huge swathes of sparks.

The ship was sailing fast. Seeing this, Niven was shocked.

The wave was trying to stop the ship from moving forward, but it failed, as did the rain and the reefs. The head of the ship was already broken and cracks were crawling all over its body.

Suddenly, the ship bumped into the cliff. The next moment, the searchlight on the ship lit and targeted Niven.

The light was so bright that Niven could not even open his eyes. He then heard someone walking on the deck and getting closer and closer to him.

The man stopped in front of Niven and lowered his head to watch him. Niven felt he was in great danger.

Niven jumped up and took a dagger from his shoes, trying to cut this man\'s throat. But he felt a sudden pain, and when his mind was clear again, he found he was lying on the ground and his dagger had been taken away by the man.

The man sighed and threw a ring to Niven.

There was an emblem of the Royal family on the ring, and a unique code on the inner side.

Obviously, this man was not a musician. Although Niven could not read his aether wave and the code of his Alchemy Array, he was sure about this man\'s identity.

Against the bright light, Niven saw the man\'s white hair. It was just like a burning metal.

"Your name?" the man asked.

"Niven," Niven said. "Niven Taylor."

"Good boy, now, Niven, just calm down." The man reached out his hand and pulled Niven up from the ground. He patted Niven\'s shoulder gently and said, "Take a breath and go see your official, and do not forget this ring."

This man looked at Niven rather seriously, his eyes like the lightless sea, dark and deep.

"Tell them I have come."