Chapter 78: Mad Triangle (5)

Deep Sea Fish Hunting Specialty Broadcast

EP.78 Mad Triangle (5)

The Bermuda Triangle.

In Parang’s home planet Earth, there were countless urban legends about this mysterious triangular area.

The most famous ones were about disappearing planes and ships.

The legend goes that ships and aircraft that were communicating normally right up until they entered the Bermuda Triangle would suddenly have their communications cut off, and then sink to the bottom of the sea.

In the past, it was just seen as an ‘accident-prone area’, but when a journalist wrote a slightly mysterious account of a plane disappearance incident, it became a cult hit and instantly elevated the area to urban legend status.

After that, all sorts of absurd rumors sprouted up: ‘When I passed through the Bermuda Triangle, the portrait I was carrying suddenly aged’, ‘You can hear cries for help from underwater’, ‘Sea monsters live there’, ‘Descendants of Atlantis live there’, and even ‘There’s a black hole at the bottom’.

It’s portrayed as a place so otherworldly that it’s impossible to pass through by ship.

Given its overwhelming popularity among sea-related urban legends, it was a topic frequently discussed in Yu Parang’s gallery and broadcast chats.

‘Go to Bermuda once,’ they’d say.

The situation being what it is, even Parang, who doesn’t look at the gallery (or might not even know it exists), is aware of this demand to some extent.

And in Parang’s opinion, the Bermuda Hive and the surrounding Bermuda Triangle area are certainly worth exploring with the broadcast on.

It’s not just interesting, it’s also frightening.

After all, since this is clearly a public service broadcast warning people not to dive, an element of fear is almost essential for Parang’s broadcast.

As for the interest factor, well, the fact that they’re exclusively broadcasting the truth about the Bermuda Hive already takes care of that.

‘I do feel a bit sorry for the mystery journalists.’

Well, it’s not like Bermuda is the only mystery in the world.

Besides, once the truth is revealed, mystery enthusiasts might get even more excited.

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[ Host, when are you leaving, open your eyes open your eyes open your eyes open your eyes ]

“Huh.”

Parang, who had been lost in thought without realizing it, took a breath.

Despite priding herself on her broadcasting skills, she still makes these kinds of mistakes from time to time.

Though viewers seem to like even that, calling it a charm point.

Parang quickly gathered her thoughts and continued her commentary.

“Ah… Where were we?”

─ You said you were really going down now.

─ Ah, where was it

“Ah, I’m sorry. I’ll really go down now.”

─ 15

─ 15

─ 15 lololololol

An unidentified number appearing in the chat.

“Huh? What does 15 mean?”

─ Don’t know

─ The sea is really dangerous

─ open your eyes

“What the… Anyway, I’m really going down now.”

─ 16 lololololol

─ 16

─ 16

‘What is this, really…’

Putting her confusion aside, Parang really started to dive.

Down, further down.

And as the depth increased, viewers began to feel something was off.

‘Why are there so many monster fish?’

Even though the monster layer is said to be, with some exaggeration, half water and half monster fish.

This is… even so, it’s a bit too much.

It feels like almost five times what they usually see in Parang’s broadcasts.

If before they encountered one every 5 minutes, now they’re encountering one every minute.

And they haven’t even reached the hive yet.

Even viewers who know nothing about the sea beyond ‘it’s really dangerous’ can sense that something is wrong at this point.

So they’re frantically hitting the chat, asking what on earth is going on.

─ Why are there so many monster fish??

─ Viewer meetup lol

─ If it’s like this when we’ve only gone down 1km, how many will there be when we enter the hive

“Ah, it seems you’ve noticed. That’s right. There are quite a lot of monster fish in Bermuda.”

Indeed. In Bermuda, there are quite a lot of monster fish.

Quite a lot, a lot.

How many? The number of monster fish inhabiting the area around the hive is about five times that of other hives, and the number inside the hive is nearly ten times as many.

The reason for that is…

“It’s still a secret.”

─ Oh come on

─ Here we go again, we’re screwed

─ What’s with this time-limited explanation, damn it

“Now, now, don’t keep throwing tantrums.”

─ What are you gonna do if we throw tantrums, huh?

─ A viewer getting scolded by the host for throwing a tantrum, oh…

─ What do you mean ‘oh’, damn it

─ Isn’t this an ‘oh’ moment?

‘Why is the conversation flowing like this?’

Parang was dumbfounded, despite having led it this way, no, not just led, but paved the road and even put up signposts for it to flow in this direction.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Parang’s social awareness seems to drop to the level of a fish whenever the broadcast starts.

It’s because she’s still not used to people seeing her as a woman.

“If you keep saying weird things, you’ll really get scolded.”

As a result, as naturally as breathing, every single comment is a critical hit, without even giving a moment to breathe.

Today too, she wore a stupid expression while watching the exploding chat window.

And normally, as always, Parang would have been flustered, watching the chat window burn up, and then either posting an emoticon chat or taking some strong measure to suppress the chat, which would have been the typical flow.

But today, she couldn’t do that.

Crash!

In the midst of her squabble with the chat window, the space right in front of Parang shattered and a gate opened,

Kuwaaaaaaaaa!!!!

An monster fish shot out from inside at a terrifying speed.

As if the space itself had cracked like a broken window, the place where Parang had been standing just a moment ago had become nothing less than a 20-meter diameter monster gate.

─ Holy sh*t, that scared me

─ What was that??

─ Isn’t that a gate???

Parang had avoided collision with the monster fish by dodging to the side, as if she had expected it.

Though in reality, it wasn’t expectation but reaction.

Thanks to this sudden event, the burning topic in the chat window naturally shifted to the ‘gate’ right before their eyes.

After a moment of surprise, as befitting her broadcast where hunters make up the majority of viewers, people who could recognize what this was began to appear quickly.

─ This is a gate

─ I thought deep-sea gates would look a bit different

─ But what kind of gate opens like this??

The appearance of broken glass, the fact that a monster came out from inside, and the pitch-black interior where you can’t even make out what’s inside.

This is undoubtedly the appearance of the gates they see on the ground.

However, as one viewer pointed out, this gate had one thing different from other gates.

─ For real, what kind of gate opens like this

─ If something like this opens on land, wouldn’t it be an instant catastrophe?

─ Damn, now that you mention it opening on land, it’s creepy as hell

Generally speaking, a ‘gate’ is a phenomenon that occurs in a way that allows humans on the ground to deal with it sufficiently, kindly enough.

About a month before a gate opens, a crack forms in the air with a sound like… crack… crackle…

This is called a ‘fissure’.

By looking at the appearance and size of this ‘fissure’, you can roughly tell when the gate will open and what kind of monsters will come out.

Then, the grand gate system that Hunter Han Si-woo has built while establishing harems all over the world activates, evacuating nearby residents, deploying government-affiliated hunters, and the association issues a ‘gate subjugation request’.

Finally, at the scheduled time, the fissure gradually widens and eventually opens with a crash! clang! clang!, and hunters typically form a defensive line and engage in a defensive battle until the gate closes.

Well, whether they’ll engage in a defensive battle, go inside for a cleanup, or designate it as a dungeon and have the government manage it is a matter to be decided later, but typically, that’s how it goes.

The point is, this gate in front of them appeared ‘without warning’.

Without any sign whatsoever, just like that, in less than 5 seconds, it appeared and spat out monsters,

Kuaaaaaaaaa-!!

And it’s still spitting them out.

If something like this were to happen on the ground? It would be a disaster from that day on.

“How often and how widely do you think this gate appears?”

At Parang’s words, the viewers froze for a moment.

The answer is, ‘very often, very widely’.

From the depths of the Bermuda hive to just below the surface, and even up to the altitude where airplanes fly, these gates appear.

If you encounter a gate that appears like this, returning is out of the question.

Ships that encounter monster fish in invisible blind spots, or aircraft that encounter monster birds, are destroyed without a chance to react and sink to the bottom of the sea.

“This is the truth of the Bermuda hive. This is why ships disappear.”

After hearing Parang’s explanation, the viewers finally understood the truth of the Bermuda Triangle… yeah, right.

Instead, they went into overdrive and started throwing even more questions.

─ Why does this happen?? And only in Bermuda??

It’s a reasonable question.

Why does this bizarre phenomenon, which doesn’t occur anywhere else in the world, only appear in this specific place called the Bermuda Triangle?

Of course, Parang knows the reason for this too, and intends to tell the viewers.

Whether the viewers will have their questions resolved after seeing that truth, or whether they’ll have even more questions, is uncertain.

Parang smiled quietly and descended even further down.