bioinnovel Chapter 440 Deep Sea Cleave!
Chapter 440 Deep Sea Cleave!
Central Pacific.
The coordinates were locked in the middle of the high seas, beneath an unmarked expanse of deep blue.
Looking down at the sea from 3,000 meters above, it was calm and waveless, displaying a uniform deep blue color. Zhang Yan did not lower the plane's altitude. Instead, he stood up in the cabin, picked up his suitcase, and walked towards the rear door.
The pilot's slightly nervous voice came through the headset.
"Brother Yan, the wind speed in the target sea area is normal, but the satellite shows an unidentified heat source below, and the energy fluctuations are very... strange."
"understood."
The hatch opened, and the airflow from high altitude rushed in, bringing a biting chill.
Zhang Yan leaped down.
The sound of the wind filled his ears as he free-fell from three thousand meters until he was a hundred meters above the sea before activating the White Tiger.
The metal behemoth spread its limbs in mid-air to catch its falling master, then retracted its limbs and slammed heavily into the sea.
The water splashed open and then closed again.
The White Tiger's thrusters ignited underwater, propelling it to maximum speed as it plunged into the 3,200-meter-deep trench. Inside the cabin, the system interface flickered wildly, the temperature was minus two degrees Celsius, and the water pressure was soaring.
Zhang Yan stared at the sonar image in front of him.
There was a signal source there, very weak, with an extremely low frequency and intermittent signal.
He spoke in a low voice.
"Lamp light".
When the white tiger reached the bottom of the trench, its searchlight illuminated the way ahead, revealing a huge man-made structure embedded in the rock wall two hundred meters away.
It was a deep-sea submersible, its outer shell twisted and deformed, showing signs of damage from the inside out.
Next to the submersible is a light indicator.
She stood on a flat seabed, surrounded by seven dark red metal pillars forming an irregular circle.
Each pillar is topped with the same symbol as the battering ram, pulsating at an extremely low frequency. At the center of the ring is a fist-sized black metal sphere—the core of the battering ram.
Tōki wasn't wearing a deep-sea suit, and her body was slowly deforming under the pressure of three thousand meters of water. Black patterns, the same as those of the pseudo-familiars, appeared on her grayish-white skin, but her expression was calm, even smiling.
She held up a remote control, her thumb pressed on the red button.
Zhang Yan had the white tiger stop at the edge of the circle.
The communication channel was working, and the sound of the lights entered the cabin, accompanied by the static of bursting bubbles.
She looked at the mecha in front of her.
"You've arrived, forty-seven minutes earlier than I expected."
Zhang Yan's voice was indifferent.
"The remote control is fake."
The smile on Deng Yin's face deepened.
"unimportant."
Her gaze fell on Zhang Yan's chest, where the light of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart shone through the gaps in his tactical uniform, appearing dark blue and flickering steadily.
The light source opens.
Do you know what this ring is?
Zhang Yan didn't answer, but just looked at the energy readings of the seven metal pillars. The values were low but stable. This was not a weapon, but rather the base of some kind of... ritual.
The lamp guides the question and answer itself.
"It's an anchor point, not the kind you use to seal, but an anchor point used to tear open a crack."
She released the remote control, and the thing floated in the water and slowly sank.
The lamplight was directed at him.
"I don't need to blow up your Sky Anchor. I just need to open a door here, a very small door, so small that your bulky mechs can't squeeze through, but big enough for one of its fingers to stick in."
Her body began to glow, not the dark cyan of the Heart of Heaven, but a pure and pitch-black light. The seawater around her began to flow backward, forming a slowly rotating vortex.
The sound of the lamplight became hollow.
"The existence outside the door requires coordinates, and the people inside the door can also provide coordinates, as long as they pay a high enough price."
The price was herself.
She is using her life and the core of the breaching hammer to establish a temporary communication channel with the entity outside the door, and then using this channel to channel in a portion of its power.
Zhang Yan did not speak again.
The white tiger took a step forward.
The lamplight was directed at him.
"Too late, the signal has already been sent, at most thirty seconds~"
She didn't finish her sentence.
The white tiger reached its speed limit underwater, compressing a distance of 300 meters into 0.3 seconds.
The metal behemoth's right claw slammed directly onto the lamplighter, creating a crater ten meters in diameter along with the seabed beneath her feet.
Under the immense force, the lamp's body completely collapsed, its skin shattered and its bones crushed, and black patterns burst out from the wreckage, rapidly spreading in the water.
The fist-sized hammer core slipped from her hand and tumbled in the water as it sank to the bottom of the pit.
The white tiger did not retract its claws, but instead pressed them into the deep pit, continuing to apply pressure.
The system indicator light has been reset to zero, indicating a complete reset.
Zhang Yan stared at the deep pit. The debris was being dispersed by the ocean currents, the black patterns were dissolving, there was no residual energy, no decay reaction, and no self-destruction.
She died, completely and utterly.
But the seven metal pillars are still there.
Their pulsation frequency is increasing.
Zhang Yan muttered to himself.
"It's too late."
He pressed the communication button.
"Qin Xiao, the coordinates have been confirmed. She is 3,200 meters deep in the ocean. The light source has been cleared, but her ritual has completed the final step."
Qin Xiao's voice immediately cut in.
"What ceremony?"
"Weak points in dimensions".
There was a moment of silence on the communication channel.
Zhang Yan spoke.
"I need support, all available forces, from the seabed, immediately."
Before he could finish speaking...
The seven metal pillars on the seabed exploded simultaneously; this was not an explosion but a disintegration caused by an energy overload.
The dark red fragments spread in the water but did not dissipate; they were drawn together by some kind of gravitational force towards the center of the ring.
There was nothing there.
At least Zhang Yan's sensors showed that there was nothing there.
But he could sense it.
The divine heart in my chest was pounding violently. This was not a warning, but a resonance, extremely faint but indeed resonating.
Something was on the other side of the door, peering through the crack that had just been torn open.
Zhang Yan closed his eyes.
He no longer relied on sensors and sonar thermal imaging, but directly allowed his consciousness to sink into the depths of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart, establishing the most fundamental resonance with the entire gate network.
Here comes the scene.
This wasn't something he saw with his eyes, but rather something projected directly into his consciousness. He saw the door, and at the corresponding node of the massive barrier existing in the dimensional interlayer, a tiny crack appeared.
The crack is widening.
On the other side of the crack is absolute darkness, and something is moving in the darkness, very slowly but unstoppably.
Then he saw the eye.
Countless eyes were embedded in a giant tentacle, the surface of which was covered with suckers. At the center of each sucker was an eye, which was grayish-white with a pure black pupil.
It saw him.
Across the dimensional barrier, across the water pressure of three thousand meters deep in the ocean, across the not-yet-completely-closed crack... it saw him.
Zhang Yan suddenly opened his eyes.
The cabin was filled with alarms, and the external camera of the Sea Devouring Shark transmitted images.
The cracks on the seabed have expanded to a diameter of five meters, and darkness is pouring out of the cracks and spreading rapidly in all directions.
Then tentacles emerged.