This lake was already strange enough, and in the darkness of night it became even more mysterious.
Instinctively, Luo Feng felt a sense of pressure.
“Hm, it is night now, and with this thick fog, visibility is very low. I will wait until tomorrow morning and investigate properly then,” Luo Feng said calmly. Rather than rushing in blindly, he preferred to wait for daylight.
That night, Luo Feng walked along the lakeshore.
A lake with a radius of over a hundred li would normally take a very long time to circle, but with Luo Feng’s speed, even walking while observing, he covered more than half the perimeter in under an hour. Along the way, he found nothing unusual. After that, he sat cross-legged in the grass, closing his eyes to rest and recover his energy.
Soon, the night passed.
The next morning, the sun rose.
Luo Feng stood in the grass and looked at the lake. The lake ahead was still covered in a thick layer of fog, and the deeper one went toward the centre, the denser the fog became. However, outside the lake, on the surrounding wasteland, there was not a trace of fog at all.
“As expected, it is the same in both day and night. This lake is always covered in fog.”
“During the day, visibility is clearly better than at night.”
Yesterday, even with Luo Feng’s God of War level eyesight, he could only see about a hundred metres. An ordinary person would probably struggle to see five metres. Now, with the sun rising, Luo Feng could see about two hundred metres. But honestly, for a God of War level expert, two hundred metres was just a step away.
“Let’s go in and take a look.”
A hexagonal shield floated in front of him as Luo Feng jumped onto it.
Standing on the shield, he quickly flew deeper over the lake surface.
Fog filled the air. Within this vast lake, aquatic plants grew densely, and strange cries echoed from time to time. The water surface churned violently, making it impossible to see what was beneath.
“No wonder it is a lake over a hundred li in radius. There must be many aquatic beast monsters inside,” Luo Feng thought in alarm.
Earlier, when he travelled through the river underwater, that kind of river depth and width would not normally contain very powerful aquatic beasts, so he had moved quite easily.
But a lake like this was different.
It was hard to say.
Moreover, aquatic beast monsters were notoriously troublesome. The ocean was the territory of monsters, and its vastness had given rise to countless strange and powerful creatures. Even God of War experts were reluctant to enter the sea, and would not easily enter large lakes like this.
Swoosh!
Luo Feng flew forward rapidly, the lake surface beneath him constantly surging.
Suddenly, crackling sounds rang out.
Blue lightning suddenly flared up.
Crackle, crackle.
Countless bolts of blue lightning instantly lit up the sky above the lake, twisting and darting like electric serpents. Caught off guard, Luo Feng barely managed to dodge the first strike, but the dense, overwhelming lightning struck him directly under the chaotic barrage. It was not that his reaction was slow, but that the lightning twisted unpredictably in midair, fast and patternless.
“Not good.”
Luo Feng felt his entire body go numb, his mind even briefly dizzy.
His body dropped straight from the air.
A fall of twenty metres would normally take about two seconds.
“Hm?” Luo Feng suddenly snapped awake.
At that moment, he was only six to seven metres above the water surface. At the same time, strange roars echoed as long, green scaled serpent-like monsters shot out from the water. These creatures had lightning crackling along their scales, and some even had single horns on their heads. All of them opened their bloody maws and lunged.
“Get lost!” Luo Feng roared.
Six streams of lethal light erupted from his body.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.
Six throwing knives instantly swept through the aquatic beasts below, even tracing arcs through the air, piercing through multiple monsters. The beasts let out miserable screams, while the surviving ones angrily released more lightning bolts, filling the air like electric snakes.
At the same time, Luo Feng controlled his flying knives and stepped onto his shield, rapidly rising back into the air. Fortunately, the lightning attacks were no longer as coordinated as before, allowing him to escape.
“Good heavens, I almost died there.”
Hovering fifty metres above the water, Luo Feng realised his forehead and back were covered in cold sweat. He had faced great dangers before, even fighting high-level lord-class monsters head on. Yet today he had nearly died here. If he had reacted even slightly slower, those monsters would have crushed his head in a single bite.
“Electric eel type aquatic monsters?”
“Iron wire electric eel.”
“One horn electric eel.”
He immediately recognised several electric eel species below. There were over a hundred types of electrically charged aquatic monsters in the world, and they often lived in groups. The ones attacking him were clearly a pack of electric eel type beasts. Electrically charged monsters were among the most feared by human warriors.
Powerful electric monsters, especially when attacking together, could even stun a God of War instantly. In that stunned state, even a God of War could be eaten alive.
That would be a truly unjust death.
“Be careful. There are countless monster species, many with special abilities. One careless move and you are done for,” Luo Feng reminded himself.
He continued flying cautiously at fifty metres altitude, hearing strange noises constantly coming from the lake below.
Clearly, the number of aquatic monsters here was astonishing.
Suddenly, a terrifying roar exploded near his ears.
At the same time, an unimaginable force slammed into his body, forcing him to drop uncontrollably.
“Damn it, another aquatic monster attack.”
Luo Feng desperately tried to stabilise himself with spiritual force, but his body still kept falling.
Below him, the lake formed an enormous vortex. At its centre was a “black hole” like structure. Under the white mist, it looked extremely unclear, but it was violently pulling everything upward.
Even Luo Feng’s near high level God of War spiritual power could not immediately break free.
“A big one!” Luo Feng smiled slightly as he looked down.
Two SS grade flying knives shot down instantly into the vortex.
Clang, clang.
A sharp, baby-like crying scream suddenly echoed through the sky. The sound was so piercing that Luo Feng instinctively covered his ears. Blood mixed into the churning water below, and the “black hole” disappeared completely, along with the suction force.
The flying knives returned to him.
“Very strong monster. My flying knives only barely pierced its outer flesh before being blocked by bone,” Luo Feng thought.
A monster that roared like a baby when panicked, yet had such terrifying suction power, what kind of creature was it?
There were far more aquatic monster species than land monsters. Land monsters alone already numbered over ten thousand types. It was easy to imagine how diverse aquatic monsters were. Most warriors operated on land, so Luo Feng, like most of them, did not know many water-based monsters.
“Keep going. I want to see just how strange this lake really is.”
However, he raised his altitude again to eighty metres, with six flying knives floating around him.
Eventually, Luo Feng landed on a sandy beach.
“Finally, I have reached the island in the middle of the lake.”
He was sweating slightly. Along the way, he had encountered many shocks. Apart from the electric eel group that nearly killed him, he had seen two massive aquatic beasts fighting and even witnessed a hundred-metre-long dragon-like creature feeding.
In short, the number of powerful aquatic monsters in this lake far exceeded expectations.
This was not normal.
“Where things are abnormal, there must be something wrong,” Luo Feng muttered as he looked at the dense forest ahead.
The island looked like a primitive jungle, filled with towering trees and lush vegetation.
“Hm?”
He suddenly rose higher into the air again.
Looking down at the island, it was completely shrouded in fog, while the surrounding lake waters were filled with terrifying aquatic monsters.
Something is wrong.
This island is too quiet.
Too quiet.
Since arriving in the Australian continent, Luo Feng had never encountered such silence. Even in barren wastelands, there would always be monsters. Yet here, on this fog island, there was not a single creature.
No flying monsters, no land beasts. The entire island was dead silent, while only the surrounding lake teemed with powerful aquatic beasts.
“This island is strange.”
“Something is not right.”
Luo Feng felt an unusual chill rising in his heart. A completely silent island, with not a single living sound, filled him with an inexplicable fear.
He landed back on the beach and did not enter deeper.
“The lake is strange, and the island is strange,” Luo Feng suddenly smiled faintly. He placed his right hand on his communication watch and pressed and held.
Beep.
The watch activated.
“My communication watch is on. Li Yao, you should be here soon,” Luo Feng murmured.
Meanwhile, in Paris Base City, inside a spacious room, one of the men at the laptops suddenly exclaimed.
“Madam, it is connected. The target phone is connected.”
“What?” Vina, who had been frowning, immediately brightened.
“It is connected. The location coordinates have been confirmed,” the blond man said quickly.
“Send it to sir immediately,” Vina ordered.
“Yes,” the blond man replied excitedly, immediately transmitting the coordinates to Li Yao on the Australian continent.