bioinnovel Chapter 311 Giant ray!
Chapter 311 Giant ray!
295 seconds.
Without hesitation, Zhang Yan steered the Devouring Shark to rapidly dive towards the bottom of the basin.
He needs to reach the fragment location before the monster attacks.
The black scorpion collided with the giant eel from the side.
The particle cannon fired a scattered blue beam of light into the water, hitting the middle of the giant eel's body.
The effect was limited. Most of the blue light was absorbed by the dark red soft tissue, leaving only a scorch mark less than one meter in diameter on the surface.
But the impact caused the giant eel's body to deflect by more than ten degrees.
The giant eel emitted a low, resonant sound—not a sound, but a physical vibration of the entire seawater.
Zhang Yan's internal organs were numb from the shock.
The instruments on the Sea Devouring Shark flickered, indicating that the electronic components were being interfered with.
Sonic attack.
Zhang Yan gritted his teeth.
280 seconds.
The monstrous shark plunged into the surface of the sediment layer, and the deep-sea high-pressure water jet was activated, cutting downwards with an ultra-high-pressure water column thinner than a needle tip.
The sediment layer was cut open like tofu in front of the water jet.
Three meters, five meters, seven meters...
eight meters.
The water jet touched something hard that didn't belong to the seabed sediment.
The system notification flashed briefly.
The fragments of the Heart of the Creator are below.
However, it is encased in a high-density layer of natural mineralized rock, which cannot be cut by a water jet.
Manual peeling is required.
Zhang Yan cursed and opened the access hatch at the bottom of the cockpit.
The thousand-arm mechanism unfolds.
He leaned half his body out of the cockpit, his metal arm reaching into the narrow passage cut open by the water jet.
265 seconds.
The black scorpion was entangled by the giant eel's body.
The giant eel, over forty meters long, coiled around the black scorpion's body like a python. The mucus secreted by its dark red soft tissue was corroding the black scorpion's exoskeleton, and the integrity of its armor was decreasing at a rate of 0.3% per second.
The black scorpion's pincers clamped tightly onto the giant eel's "head," preventing the four-lobed meat grinder from approaching its core compartment.
The particle cannon fired continuously at point-blank range, each shot burning a crater into the giant eel's body.
But that thing regenerates incredibly fast—the scorch marks are filled with new soft tissue within three seconds.
Zhang Yan turned his attention back to his hands.
The robotic arm, with its fingertips measuring 0.001 millimeters in precision, works arduously under high-pressure water, peeling away the mineralized rock crust from the fragments layer by layer.
Your hands must not shake.
240 seconds.
A dull sound of rocks cracking came from the direction of the rift valley.
The first A+ grade...
The giant ray began to break free from the rubble.
Zhang Yan's hands didn't stop.
The five metal fingertips of the Thousand Arm work simultaneously, cutting along the lattice texture of the mineralized rock shell with micron-level precision.
The pressure at a depth of 3,200 meters made every movement three times more difficult than on land, but his hands were as steady as if they were welded to the control stick.
220 seconds.
One-third of the rock crust has peeled away.
A corner of the fragment was revealed.
Dark blue fluorescence seeped out from the cracks, blooming into a small, cool-colored halo on the dark seabed.
The same energy characteristics as the fragments in his pocket.
The sound of metal breaking came from the Black Scorpion's side.
Zhang Yan took a breath to glance at the system panel—the hydraulic lines of the Xuanxie's right pincer arm had been severed by the giant eel, reducing its clamping force by 41%. The armor's integrity was 72%, and it was still decreasing.
But the giant eel isn't having an easy time either.
The particle cannon at point-blank range burned a quarter of its head's soft tissue into charcoal, and nearly half of its keratinous teeth fell off.
It was frantically twisting its body, trying to break free from the black scorpion's grip.
We can hold on.
Give him two more minutes.
195 seconds.
The sound of rocks cracking in the direction of the rift valley grew louder and louder.
The giant ray's signal strength continued to climb beneath the rubble layer, as it forcefully smashed through the rocks pressing down on it.
Zhang Yan quickened his pace.
The temperature at the fingertips of the Thousand-Machine Arm began to rise due to high-frequency vibration, and the efficiency of the heat dissipation system declined under extreme water pressure.
do not care.
He used the tips of three fingers of his right hand to exert force simultaneously, forcibly prying it in along the largest crack in the rock shell.
The rock shell broke apart like an eggshell.
The fragments were fully exposed.
An irregular rhombus, about the size of a palm, with deep blue light patterns flowing across its surface.
In this depth, in this darkness, it shines like a small sun.
Zhang Yan's Thousand-Machine Arm gently gripped the edge of the fragment and slowly extracted it from the bedrock.
The moment the fragment was acquired, the Heavenly Craftsmanship Disc in the cockpit automatically activated.
Dark blue light spread from the surface of the disc, creating a visible energy resonance with the fragments.
A system notification popped up.
[Fragment of the Heart of Heaven (fifth piece) successfully acquired. Completeness is increasing... 87% → 92%.]
92%.
Zhang Yan stored the fragments in the system space.
I don't have time to look at more data.
170 seconds.
He retracted the boom arm, closed the operating port, and gripped the control levers again with both hands.
"Black Scorpion, break free."
He gave the order to retreat to the Black Scorpion.
The black scorpion's stinger pierced the giant eel's head at point-blank range, discharging at full power.
A 60,000-volt current spread through the seawater, causing the giant eel's body to convulse violently, and the muscles wrapped around the black scorpion to temporarily lose their contractile force.
Just this one second.
The black scorpion kicked backward with all six of its limbs at the same time, managing to break free from the giant eel's strangulation.
However, the broken right pincer arm could not be returned, and it remained inside the giant eel's body along with half of the hydraulic lines.
Zhang Yan didn't turn around and directly put the Black Scorpion into his storage space.
With the Sea Devouring Shark propelling itself at full power and nose pointing upwards, it rapidly ascended from the bottom of the basin towards the rift valley.
I've got the fragments.
Now he only needs to do one thing.
run.
145 seconds.
The rubble barrier in the direction of the rift valley was broken through.
It wasn't dug out slowly. The entire pile of rubble was overturned from the inside by a terrifying force, thousands of tons of rock were like a sand dune kicked away by a giant.
The giant ray rose from the rubble.
More than a dozen of its spikes were broken, and its body was covered with rock fragments and dust, but its main structure was intact.
As its flat, 30-meter-wide body slowly unfolded in the water, the resulting flow stirred up the sedimentary layers of the entire basin.
It emitted a low-frequency resonance.
It's not anger.
It is a marker.
It is locking onto the acoustic characteristics of the sea-devouring shark.
At the same time, the giant eel behind it recovered from the brief electric shock paralysis, its four petal-shaped head reopened, and it began to chase after the sea-devouring shark.
A giant ray is in front, and a giant eel is behind.
Both A+ grades moved at the same time.
Zhang Yan remained calm.
He knew before he came that retrieving the fragments was the first half, and getting out alive was the second half.
The ravenous shark doesn't venture into rift valleys.
The rift valley was mostly blocked by rubble, narrowing the passage to less than fifteen meters. Mechanical sharks could pass through, but so could giant rays.
Being chased by an A+ level enemy in a narrow passage is the dumbest choice.
He chose to go up.
The basin is a depression surrounded by trench walls that are over 100 meters high.
However, the sidewall is not completely closed—there is a gap formed by natural erosion in the southeast direction, about sixty meters wide, enough for a mechanical shark to pass through.