Were they attacked by something like that?

Everyone fell silent, seemingly aware of the problem.

"Heh," A frivolous laugh broke the silence. It was the young master, his face handsome and clear. He looked at the creature on the door, shrugged, and said, "No one actually believes such things exist, right?"

"Everything in the mission is something that truly happened in the past, and everything that appears can be traced back to its source in reality. You're not rookies; you should know if what I'm saying is true." The young master said, "Moreover, the physical structure and form of this creature clearly don't match the real world. This place…"

He looked around and continued, "Should be similar to a church, or a place with priestly functions. It's undoubtedly man-made, and the people who built it were human groups who lived by the sea for a long time."

"Throughout the long river of history, early people relied on the mountains when near them and the sea when near it. For the original inhabitants here, the ocean was their livelihood."

"When the fishing was good, everyone could survive. When the fishing was poor, they could only endure hunger."

"Over time, they would inevitably develop a distorted worship of the ocean, even the mysterious deep sea."

"In their imaginations, they would attribute natural disasters, bad sea conditions, shipwrecks, and other ominous events to the anger of the ocean, which would then be given emotions and personified to some extent."

"Because people need something extremely powerful to carry their worship," he added faintly, "More precisely, to carry their awe and fear!"

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear comes from the unknown."

"The ocean, the deep sea, is one of the few unknowns on this planet."

"That's the original intention for them to build this building. They should be performing sacrifices to the ocean god here, praying for safe return and abundant catches."

The young master's speech-like words seemed to be full of captivating magic. His elegant and natural demeanor was like a ray of light, tearing apart people's fear of this unknown creature.

After all, to deal with ghosts, one could end the instance by helping them fulfill their wishes, such as revenge, or escape.

But if this bizarre, unimaginable creature on the stone door appeared in the mission, everyone could only wait for death, unable to do anything.

This thing should only exist in the imaginations of novelists, or in myths.

Slowly, someone opened their mouth. It was the little loli, who hadn't said much. She looked at the young master and slowly said, "So you mean… this thing doesn't exist, but was only imagined by the people who lived here at the time to project some kind of need?"

As she said the last few words, her eyes glanced, almost imperceptibly, at the silent woman hiding in the shadows.

She sat there calmly, like a statue.

"That's right," the young master nodded, "It's similar to the totems evolved in early hunting and fishing tribes, mostly taken from things they couldn't conquer, wind, fire, thunder and lightning," he paused, and added, "And ferocious beasts like lions, tigers, and wolves."

The young master's words made everyone change their thinking. Several hidden glances began to examine the silent woman. Was what the woman said earlier… really true?

Or was it all just a temporary fabrication for some purpose?

Although at first glance, the logic seemed self-consistent, a deeper investigation revealed many loopholes. The time, place, people, and events were all unclear, and even the encounters were ambiguous, based only on an unbelievable recording.

Moreover, the woman claimed that she couldn't provide details due to the need for confidentiality.

Of course, her current explanation was… she forgot.

Maybe she didn't forget, but all of this was fake!

She wanted to lead everyone into a misunderstanding.

There was no shipwreck at all, she wasn't a member of any secret organization, she was just a pitiful creature trying to survive in the mission.

After all, this was Nightmare, a place that devoured people without spitting out bones.

The moment they met her, she was stubbornly insisting that everyone leave as soon as possible, before exploring the terrain or encountering any danger.

This would have been unimaginable in previous missions.

Moreover… the woman said she had been here before. If she had been here, she would not have ignored such a conspicuous building as this church, and as long as a preliminary search was carried out on the building, she would not have ignored this stone door.

But at least before the stone door was discovered, the woman showed no familiarity with the place. The stone door was found by others through searching.

Some also guessed that it was possible that the woman was a madwoman, a newbie who was frightened by everything after entering Nightmare for the first time, and everything after that was crazy talk.

A large amount of information, whether true or false, or of unknown origin, was injected into everyone's brains in a short period of time, and they needed to make a decision as soon as possible.

The young master glanced at his side, as if inadvertently, and found that Jiang Cheng was whispering to Fatty, and his face was completely without any thinking or tension.

On the other hand, Fatty seemed to be having so much information injected into him that his brain was about to explode.

He didn't have time to be distracted by this at the moment, because his more important goal was the silent woman. He didn't need to say everything completely, he just needed to plant a seed.

"Doctor," Fatty widened his eyes, swallowed, and whispered, "Do you mean that what this man who looks better than you just said is all a lie?"

"Is it to provoke… no, instigate this old woman and the team's relationship, forcing her to spill everything?"

"Tsk," Jiang Cheng glared at Fatty with dissatisfaction, obviously because of his inappropriate remarks just now, but after a while, he still squinted and explained, "That's generally the idea, but it's unrealistic to make her spill everything. Just get as much as you can, at least enough to make everyone think it's enough to dispel her suspicion."

"So…" Fatty's huge body began to tremble, his eyes glancing at the stone door, "That… that thing on it, does it really exist?"

Jiang Cheng also looked at the stone door, but didn't directly answer Fatty's question, just saying faintly, "At that time, we hadn't discovered this door yet."

Fatty blinked in confusion, then suddenly froze, and then his face darkened.

The doctor was right, at that time… they hadn't discovered this door yet, let alone this mysterious creature on the door.

So… was he saying that… how did the woman know there was something in the sea, and even made up a scene of being attacked by an unknown creature in the sea?