The Sea Beasts began their invasion.
The brief period of peace disappeared once more.
This time, the Sea Beast invasion was extremely fierce.
But for the Ark crew, who had long been accustomed to this cycle, there seemed to be nothing to fear.
According to the Ark official, there were islands everywhere, and as long as they docked on the fragments of the Evil Land, everything could be solved.
The Sea Beast attacks were so fierce that the massive tsunamis were enough to engulf all the ships in Wen Xishu's memory, but such super tsunamis only caused some turbulence for the Ark.
Everything was proceeding step by step.
Wen Xishu crawled into the ventilation duct, traveling through it, preparing to use another method to enter the portal.
A few hours earlier, Horn had once again submitted a request to enter the fragments of the Evil Land.
"Great Captain, the Ark gave me a chance to survive. The Ark deserves my eternal service, but that place is too beautiful. Although I liked the last island, it wasn't suitable for me. I think the next island might be my dream place. Also, landing on the island itself is a contribution to the Ark, isn't it?"
Horn's request was obviously more detailed, but this was the main idea.
Horn's various backgrounds were already presented in the captain's office.
Over the years, Horn had been secretly planning, but most of the time, he was waiting. For the weak to defeat the strong, many times, strategies are meaningless; one must learn to submit and wait.
It was only when he met Wen Xishu that Horn felt the time had come. He then showed another side of himself.
But in the captain's eyes, Horn was a technical talent, committed to improving the Ark's technology, without causing trouble and accepting all arrangements obediently.
However, whether they were good people or troublemakers, they were all just consumables to the captain.
As long as he could hunt Sirius and gain its power... he wouldn't need any more talents.
If someone volunteered to land on the island, it was naturally a good thing.
After thinking for a short while, the captain approved Horn's request.
An hour later, Wen Xishu infiltrated the ventilation duct, using the Power of Hidden Dragon and the map drawn by Horn—starting along the complex ducts, silently bypassing the Ability Users' rooms, and approaching the portal.
Three o'clock in the afternoon.
The Sea Beast attacks were fiercer than usual.
According to Wen Xishu and Horn's interpretation—the next island was crucial, and Sirius needed to save itself, so it commanded the Sea Beasts to attack the Ark with unprecedented ferocity.
But it was all to no avail.
Because, under the arrangement of several Ability Users—the people landing on the island were already in place, and with the combined powers of all Ability Users and the captain, the portal to the mental world was opened once again.
This time, the captain couldn't afford any mistakes and spared no expense, arranging three Ability Users who were ranked among the top five in combat power on the Ark to land on the island.
All three were the captain's loyal death warriors. After entering Sirius' mental world, they would accept all arrangements of the world while cooperating with the error correction mechanism to eliminate all mistakes as much as possible.
Besides the three death warriors, there were several other Ability Users guarding the elevator, preventing anyone from escaping or attempting to enter the elevator.
Horn was in a wheelchair. The sea was rough, so he draped a particularly wide scarf over himself, hiding his hands under it, using a friendly smile to converse with the people around him.
Except for the three death warriors who remained silent, the other five people were talking. Realizing that Horn wanted to go to the island again, despite having been there once, made the other four feel more at ease.
This atmosphere was exactly what the Ability Users wanted to see.
Their mission was to ensure that those preparing to land on the island would behave themselves.
But they didn't know that Horn's hands were actually manipulating a controller. That controller was linked to Wen Xishu.
With enhanced powers, Wen Xishu's Power of Hidden Dragon made him even harder to detect.
Horn had long mastered multitasking, controlling Wen Xishu while gathering intelligence on his fellow travelers and observing the surroundings.
He even used Wen Xishu to make certain movements, signaling how Wen Xishu should proceed.
Wen Xishu understood Horn's intentions immediately.
The two cooperated seamlessly. However, to enter the portal unnoticed under the watchful eyes of so many formidable Ability Users...
Horn required another contingency plan.
Chaos began.
The people on the lower levels of the Ark started sabotaging it, setting off alarms. Although the Ark had achieved ecological circulation, this only meant that people's labor ensured the Ark's operation and their own survival.
If the lower-level people chose to strike or deliberately create sabotage, it would be a different story.
And this chaos had been planned by Horn six months before Wen Xishu arrived.
"There must be blood and flesh inside the bulkhead. Before the Sea Beasts launch their mental attacks, we will conduct large-scale sabotage... Then, everyone will enter a state of hallucination, just like what the Sea Beasts used to do to us."
"We will seize this moment to create chaos, blaming everything on the hallucinations."
"But don't be afraid. When you wake up, everything... everything will be over. The Ark will usher in a new order."
Horn recalled the words he had said six months ago.
Over the past six months, he had replayed this scenario countless times in his mind.