"Moving?"
Qi Chun piloted the still-smoking flying saucer, wobbling as he approached.
Like a fat fly with a broken leg.
"Bro, where are we moving to?"
"The sea around here has been dyed green by that monster's blood. Should we find a place with good feng shui?"
Qin Yu ignored him.
He stood at the bow, looking down at the rapidly sinking corpse of the Forest Black Goat.
From the massive wound.
Thick green fluid was still spurting out.
Sizzling.
It was strong acid.
And also high-energy fuel.
"Yao Qian."
Qin Yu didn't turn his head.
"Get the barrels."
"Huh?"
Yao Qian was busy repairing the overloaded shield generator and was taken aback by his words.
"What barrels?"
"This thing is dead."
Qin Yu pointed at the sea of green water all around.
"But its blood is still hot."
"The system just prompted."
"This is Titan Essence."
"Don't waste it."
"Drain it all dry."
Yao Qian's eyes instantly widened.
Just moments ago, she had been complaining about the foul smell.
Now?
Her gaze was as if she were looking at a pool of liquid gold.
"Drain it!"
"We must drain it!"
"Sister Ruobing! Stop polishing your hammer!"
"Hurry and bring out all the empty oil barrels from storage!"
"And that one... Elena!"
"Stop trying to look cool over there!"
"This is for our ship's air conditioning and hot water!"
Ten minutes later.
The once fierce and menacing battlefield.
Underwent a sudden change in atmosphere.
Transforming into a large-scale illegal oil extraction site.
Over a dozen thick hoses, like straws, were inserted into the massive, sinking corpse.
High-power pumps roared.
"Glug—glug—"
Thick green fluid was continuously pumped into the President's cargo hold.
Even Qi Chun wasn't idle.
The moment this fatty heard this stuff was valuable.
He didn't care if his flying saucer might explode.
He directly lowered the saucer to the sea surface.
Opened the bottom hatch.
And started frantically scooping with a large ladle (actually a type of grabber mechanical arm).
"We're rich, we're rich..."
"One barrel can trade for three premium female slaves... ah no, three tons of steel!"
Qin Yu held a cigarette in his mouth.
He didn't lift a finger.
He was the boss.
The boss only kills, he doesn't clean up the bodies.
He watched the gradually deflating monster corpse.
But his mind was on the stone slab in his arms.
That door.
That person holding five stones.
And that direction.
"East..."
Qin Yu murmured to himself.
"Underwater Garden."
That's right.
That's the place.
Last time we went, we blew that once-beautiful garden into ruins.
We left in a hurry back then.
Didn't search carefully.
Now it seems.
What's hidden there.
Is far, far more.
"Almost done!"
Yao Qian wiped the oil stains from her face and shouted excitedly.
"Brother-in-law!"
"The hold is full!"
"A full five hundred tons!"
"Enough for us to run at full power for half a year!"
By now.
That massive corpse.
Had been drained into a dry husk.
Completely sinking into the unfathomable darkness below.
"Let's go."
Qin Yu flicked his cigarette butt into the sea.
Turned and walked into the cockpit.
"Destination: Underwater Garden."
"Old Qi, if you can't keep up, just eat our exhaust fumes on your own."
"Got it, brother!"
...
Two hours later.
The sea had changed.
No longer that oppressive ashen gray.
Instead, it took on an eerie deep blue.
The water depth here.
Exceeded five thousand meters.
This place.
Was directly above the former [Underwater Garden].
"We're here."
Qin Yu stopped the ship.
Without dropping anchor.
The S-Class Engine maintained low-power operation, keeping the [President] hovering silently on the sea surface like a steel behemoth.
"Prepare for descent."
Qin Yu pressed a blue button.
[Mode Switch: Deep Dive Mode]
"Clack clack clack—"
A series of dense mechanical locking sounds rang out.
All openings on the [President]'s deck instantly sealed shut.
The layer of Titanium Alloy Armor Plates clamped down tightly.
The original ship.
Transformed into a fully enclosed deep-sea submersible.
"Old Qi."
"You stay up here and keep watch."
"If anyone dares to approach."
"Blast them to bits."
"Understood!"
Qi Chun's confident voice came through the intercom.
"Brother, go ahead without worry."
"I'll keep an eye on your wives for you... Ouch!"
It sounded like someone had slapped him.
"Descending."
Qin Yu ignored the joker.
He pushed the control lever hard.
"Gurgle—"
Huge bubbles churned.
The [President] dove headfirst.
Plunging into this deep blue sea.
...
One hundred meters.
Five hundred meters.
One thousand meters.
Light disappeared.
Only the searchlights at the bow.
Like two sharp swords.
Pierced the darkness of the deep sea.
Three thousand meters.
The pressure here was enough to crush a tank into a pancake.
But the [President]'s hull didn't even creak.
S-Class Alloy.
That was the hard truth.
Finally.
They reached the bottom.
The searchlights swept across the seabed.
This place.
Had once been a colorful coral sea.
Covered in those bewitching blue-purple flowers.
But now.
Gone.
Only scorched earth remained.
Broken tentacles everywhere.
Charred rocks everywhere.
That was Qin Yu's masterpiece from last time.
"Tsk tsk."
Li Ruobing pressed against the porthole, looking at the scene outside.
"Did we go a bit too hard last time?"
"This place looks like it's been nuked."
"No survivors?"
"No."
Qin Yu stared at the radar screen.
The waveform on it.
Was steady.
Unnervingly steady.
Deathly silence.
But beneath this silence.
Something seemed to be hiding.
"Yao Qian."
"Activate active sonar."
"Maximum power."
"Scan!"
"Okay!"
Yao Qian's fingers flew across the controls.
"Hum—!!"
An invisible pulse of sound waves.
Centered on the [President].
Instantly spread in all directions.
Like firing a shot.
In a dark room.
Every echo.
Would reveal a position.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
The screen was filled with green noise.
That was feedback from the seabed rocks.
"Nothing there, brother-in-law."
Yao Qian frowned.
"Within a ten-kilometer radius."
"Not even a single fish."
"Did that black goat eat them all?"
Qin Yu didn't speak.
His intuition told him.
Something was wrong.
Since that stone slab pointed here.
This place couldn't just be an empty grave.
Moreover.
He touched the [Kiss of Death] behind him.
The gun was trembling.
Very slightly.
That was excitement when facing a powerful enemy.
Or perhaps... a warning.
"There's something."
Qin Yu's voice was heavy.
"And it's a big one."
"Bigger than that black goat just now."
"Much bigger."
"What?!"
The atmosphere in the cabin instantly froze.
Elena's mechanical hand clenched suddenly, emitting a crisp sound.
"Bigger than a Titan?"
"What is that?"
"I don't know."
Qin Yu narrowed his eyes.
He stared intently at the pitch-black ruins outside the porthole.
"But I can sense it."
"It's here."
"Watching us."
…
Just then.
[Ding!]
A line of blood-red warning suddenly popped up on the system.
Without any warning.
[Warning!]
[SSS-Class Abyssal Creature reaction detected!]
[Distance: 0 meters!]
Qin Yu's pupils contracted sharply.
0 meters?!
Right in front of us?!
"Where?!"
Li Ruobing turned around abruptly, raising her hammer as she scanned the surroundings.
The cabin was empty.
Apart from the few of them alive.
Not even a fly could be seen.
"Not inside the cabin."
Qin Yu suddenly looked down at his feet.
Through the specially made transparent floor panel.
He gazed into the bottomless trench on the seabed.
"Below."
"It's… below."
[Target locked: Abyss Watcher · Gaze of the Deep (Severely Injured Form)]
[Level: SSS-Class (Abyssal Titan)]
[Status: Lurking / Observing / Extremely… Fearful?]
Qin Yu was momentarily stunned.
Fearful?
An SSS-Class Titan.
Fearful?
Afraid of whom?
Afraid of me?
"Interesting."
A cold smile curled at the corner of Qin Yu's mouth.
His previously tense nerves.
Relaxed slightly.
Since it's afraid.
That means.
This thing is a coward.
"Come out!"
Qin Yu activated the external loudspeaker.
His voice, transmitted through the seawater.
Became muffled yet vast.
Like thunder.
Exploding in the depths of the sea.
"I know you're there."
"Stop hiding."
No response.
Only the occasional dust rising from the ruins.
"Won't come out, huh?"
Qin Yu gave Li Ruobing a meaningful look.
"Ruo Bing."
"Blow up that trench for me."
"Roger that!"
Li Ruobing didn't care about any Abyss or not.
As long as Qin Yu gave the order.
She'd dare to blow up even the heavens.
She walked to the weapon control console.
And pressed the launch button.
"Take this depth charge!"
"Whoosh—"
A torpedo with a blue tail flame.
Shot out from the belly of the [President].
Straight into the bottomless trench on the seabed.
Five seconds later.
"Boom—!!"
A muffled roar.
The entire seabed shook.
Sand and mud churned.
The seawater turned murky.
But.
The red dot on the radar.
The one representing the SSS-Class Titan.
At the moment of the explosion.
Vanished.
Not dead.
It fled.
Like teleportation.
Directly from right below.
It jumped five kilometers away.
Hiding within an even more complex coral graveyard.
"Ran pretty fast."
Yao Qian stared at the radar.
A bit dumbfounded.
"Brother-in-law."
"This monster's movement speed…"
"Exceeds 800 knots."
"That's teleportation, right?"
"And…"
Yao Qian adjusted her glasses, her expression odd.
"Its energy fluctuation readings show."
"It just now… seemed to be scared out of its wits?"
"The values spiked and then plummeted."
"That's a typical myocardial infarction response."
Qin Yu laughed in exasperation.
A dignified Abyssal Titan.
Scared into teleportation by an ordinary depth charge?
"This thing."
"Is a mouse."
Qin Yu concluded.
"Its name sounds impressive."
"Turns out it's just a pervert who only dares to peep."
He gripped the helm again.
"Chase it."
"The more it hides."
"That means whatever it's guarding is even more important."
The President's engines roared to life.
It surged toward the direction where the red dot had vanished.
Pressing forward.
...
Deep within the ruins.
No trace of the original garden remained.
Giant stone pillars had collapsed.
Forming a natural maze.
The President weaved between the pillars.
Like a shark gliding through water.
"There!"
Elena suddenly pointed toward a patch of shadow on the right.
"It flashed just now!"
"It's an eye!"
"A huge eye!"
Qin Yu jerked the helm.
The searchlight swept over.
Only the tip of a massive, scale-covered tail was visible.
With a swish.
It slipped into a dark, rocky crevice.
And disappeared.
"What the hell..."
Li Ruobing threw her hammer to the ground.
"Is it that cowardly?"
"I even saw its ass!"
"It doesn't dare show its head?"
"SSS-grade?"
"More like an SSS-grade deserter!"
Qin Yu didn't speak.
He stopped the ship in front of the cave entrance.
The opening wasn't large.
Just enough for the President to poke its nose in.
But inside was pitch black.
Bottomless.
And full of twists and turns.
No one knew where it led.
"It won't come out."
"And we can't go in."
Qin Yu stared at the cave entrance.
His brow furrowed.
This Deep-Gazing Eye.
Though timid.
Possessed extremely keen perception.
And incredible speed.
If they gave chase.
In this complex underwater terrain.
The President couldn't possibly outrun it.
Moreover.
If they pushed it too hard.
Even a cornered rabbit will bite.
If an SSS-grade Titan truly fought for its life.
At these depths of several thousand meters.
It could easily trigger a seabed collapse.
And bury them all.
"We need a plan."
"To lure it out."
Qin Yu stroked his chin.
His eyes glinting.
"Lure?"
Yao Qian leaned closer.
"With what?"
"Meat?"
"If it were greedy, it would've snatched the black goat's corpse earlier."
"It's not greedy."
Qin Yu pulled out the Ocean Soul Crystal Mother Fragment No. 2 from his pocket.
Its blue glow.
In the dim cabin.
Was especially piercing.
"It's not greedy."
"But it craves this."
"Or rather."
"It fears this."
The system had just hinted.
It was the Deep-Gazing Eye.
Its duty was surveillance.
Surveillance of what?
The rules of this sea area.
The movements of these fragments.
Now all the fragments were in Qin Yu's hands.
It feared Qin Yu.
But couldn't stay away from these fragments either.
This was instinct, etched into its genes.
"Yao Xue."
Qin Yu suddenly called out to his first wife, who had been silent all along.
"Here."
Yao Xue was organizing the medical kit.
Hearing her name, she looked up.
Her cool, clear eyes.
Held a trace of inquiry.
"Do you have any medicine."
"The kind..."
Qin Yu gestured.
"That can excite someone."
"Make them lose their senses."
"Or..."
"Become extremely aggressive?"
Yao Xue paused for a moment.
Then.
From the very bottom of the medical kit.
She pulled out a small vial.
Containing a red liquid.
"This is extracted from the pituitary gland of a Frenzied Rage Shark."
"Just one drop."
"Can make a blue whale go into heat for three days and nights."
"Or turn a sea turtle into a rabid dog."
"The side effect is zero intelligence."
"Any living creature."
"That catches its scent."
"Will go mad."
Qin Yu took the vial.
And smiled.
A cruel smile.
"Good stuff."
"Since it likes to play hide and seek."
"I'll turn it into a wild cat in heat."
"Yao Qian."
"Load this bottle of medicine."
"Into the torpedo warhead."
"No explosive fuse."
"Use the kind that... atomizes and sprays."
"Got it!"
Yao Qian immediately took the bottle.
And ran off to modify the torpedo.
This kind of destructive work.
She was best at.
Five minutes later.
A special torpedo was loaded into the launch tube.
Qin Yu aimed the bow at that dark, gaping rock crevice.
"Rat."
"Time for your medicine."
"Fire."
"Whoosh—"
The torpedo silently slipped into the cave entrance.
After penetrating several hundred meters.
It didn't explode.
Instead, it emitted a "hiss" sound.
Red mist.
Instantly spread through the narrow cave.
Following the water current.
It surged toward the depths.
One second.
Two seconds.
Ten seconds.
The entire seabed.
Remained deathly silent.
Li Ruobing was growing impatient.
"Useless?"
"Is it expired?"
Before her words faded.
"ROAR————!!"
A deafening roar.
Erupted from deep within that cave.
This sound.
No longer held the previous fear and evasion.
It was filled with frenzy.
Filled with chaos.
And...
Utter rage.
The entire seabed ruins trembled.
That massive stone pillar.
Shattered directly.
"It's coming!"
Qin Yu yanked back the control stick.
The President lurched backward.
The next second.
"BOOM!!"
The cave entrance exploded.
Debris flew everywhere.
A gigantic tentacle covered in eyes.
Shot out from the dust cloud.
Followed by.
An enormous, suffocatingly large body.
It wasn't bloated like the Black Goat.
It resembled a mutated giant octopus.
But on each of its tentacles.
Grew a massive eyeball.
Especially in the center of its head.
That primary eye.
Was a full ten meters wide.
At this moment.
That eye.
Was webbed with red veins.
A sign the drug was taking effect.
It had gone mad.
It no longer wanted to hide.
It only wanted...
To tear apart everything in its sight!
"Now that's more like it."