??Chapter 243: Chapter 243 The Singing Voice in the Sea_1
Chapter 243: Chapter 243 The Singing Voice in the Sea_1
“Hum~ Hum~ Hum~”
The humming sound ca from the dark end of the spiral staircase…
The voice carried a hint of childishness, accompanied by the ceaseless tide of the sea waves, like a beautifully improvised piece of music.
So with insufficient willpower appeared dazed, their bodies moved to walk downstairs, wanting to see who was making the music.
Although Qin Chuan and the others were not affected, they did not notice it right away.
Because the voice was indeed that of a child, and moreover, the lody was one they had sung on the train.
“Is this sothing imitating and stealing the voice of a child?”
Standing at the bottom of the staircase, Colin ca to his senses and guessed that perhaps sothing had been ssing with the people in the team in secret while they were at sea.
The thods were covert and unknown, and with so many people present, he was unable to look after each one, so it went unnoticed.
“Looking at it now, it was fortunate we didn’t act separately earlier, or who knows what problems might have arisen.”
Colin inwardly exclaid how close it was, and seeing people walking toward the stairs with a dazed look, he did not hesitate, his body billowed with flas, emitting warmth that directly burned away the invisible influence in the air.
It was precisely at this mont that so ca back to their senses, their eyes regaining clarity.
The eerie humming did not cease…
However, as Colin took action, the others imdiately realized sothing was wrong.
Qin Chuan, who had been sitting on the ground, imdiately leapt to his feet, “What kind of ghost is singing downstairs?”
“Seems like it’s outside the door?”
“Feels like sothing is singing through the door crack…”
Everyone who listened felt a chill run down their spine.
“Colin, what do you think we should do about this…”
Hu Zheng looked to Colin for advice; he felt the threat didn’t seem significant, and it seed manageable, but for specifics, he needed to see what Colin had planned.
‘What to do?’
Colin did not respond imdiately, glancing downstairs, flaring his nostrils, and vaguely envisioning in his mind: about three ters outside the lighthouse, in the water, a group of dark figures were singing with their heads poking out, like dumplings floating in a pot.
These figures did not emanate a particularly strong presence; if they really wanted to take action, they could easily be dispersed.
But…
“There’s no need to bother, let them continue singing if they want to,” Colin said casually, waving his hand. After all, their influence had beco very weak here and could easily be dispelled, and with the protection of the “Firebearer,” they wouldn’t even dare to co ashore.
Seeing the others were still sowhat uneasy, he thought for a mont and explained, “As long as we don’t go into the sea, we’ll absolutely not encounter any danger. They dare not co ashore, and besides, even if we leave later, we won’t need to go outside, so there’s no need to risk opening the door. Let’s just rest here for now…”
As he spoke, he himself sat down on the stairs.
Seeing Colin’s confidence, everyone else breathed a sigh of relief and followed suit, finding places to sit down.
If they couldn’t refuse, they might as well enjoy the mont…
At this point, possibly because Colin and the others were not succumbing, the voices outside slightly changed…
The music also turned into so modern pop tunes.
“Is this… Xia Liufang’s voice?” Qin Chuan looked at Xia Liufang nearby in astonishnt. She clearly wasn’t speaking at the mont, and even if she did, she couldn’t hum this pleasantly.
Xia Liufang remained silent, not speaking. Actually, she herself didn’t think it sounded quite like her. Her voice, when coming from soone else, felt different because of the dium it passed through—one being internal and the other through the air—sounded sowhat off.
However, Qin Chuan and the others didn’t have this issue; in their ears, it was the sa person…
“Xia sis, can you sing this beautifully?” soone curiously asked after listening for a few minutes.
“Hehe, to tell the truth, the one outside does sound quite nice, but if I were listening normally, I would imdiately know sothing’s off because, although Xia sis has a nice voice, her actual singing back in college was simply… uh!”
Hu Zheng hadn’t finished speaking when he suddenly felt a hand grasp his throat from behind.
Then, Xia Liufang’s icy voice ca through: “Didn’t your family teach you not to judge others?”
“Cough, cough… Sorry, my bad,” Hu Zheng hastily begged for rcy, and Xia Liufang finally let go of his neck.
A few more minutes passed, and the singing outside suddenly stopped, leaving everyone sowhat puzzled. But it was precisely at that mont when a clear, bright firelight suddenly flickered erasing all the eerie feelings.
Soone was curious about the object on the small platform, but Colin sat in the middle of the stairs, obviously not wanting to let them go up, which put an end to their curiosity.
After about ten seconds of firelight flickering, the strange singing resud. But with Colin’s assurance, everyone was not worried anymore and listened to the singing while waiting for “daylight.”
Ti slipped by unnoticeably for three to four hours, but daylight still didn’t co.
“These sea creatures seem really good at singing; if there’s ever a chance, capturing a few to use as music players wouldn’t be a bad idea…”
Sitting in the staircase, Colin idly mused, then took out a watch to look at it, before raising his head to look outside—
9:57 AM.
This ti was by all accounts supposed to be daylight, but sadly, this place didn’t operate by normal standards.
Its “daylight” might be different from what is generally understood as daylight…
However, almost two hours later, as it was about to reach twelve o’clock, the singing in their ears stopped and the weirdness in the sea vanished, Everyone thought it was another normal “flicker.”
But unexpectedly, at that mont, the lighthouse began to tremble slightly. Colin realized sothing, turned around, and saw on the not-so-high platform that a large amount of fla erupted like a volcano.
The visually intense heat of the flas, which didn’t ignite the do, passed through unaffected, converging a hundred ters above the lighthouse, and in ten seconds, ford a massive fireball over sixty ters in diater, like the sun itself.
The vibrant orange-red fireball emitted a vast amount of light, bringing daylight to the pitch-black sea.
The dark green sea boiled and bubbled under the illumination of the firelight…
Under its brilliance, Colin and the others finally saw the stealthy watchers that had been hiding below the surface of the sea; they didn’t co above water, but their shadows beneath the waves were enough to send chills down one’s spine…
Many of them exuded a presence not inferior to the “Deep Sea ssenger,” and so were even stronger!
But at that mont, the ones who were startled weren’t Colin and his group, but those underwater shadows. As soon as the fireball appeared, they swam frantically towards the depths of the ocean, desperately trying to escape.
And at that very mont, the giant fireball in the sky suddenly contracted and expanded like a beating heart.
A ring of light, like ripples on water, emanated and spread outward…
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