bioinnovel Chapter 111 Reversing the Devil's Throat
Chapter 111 Reversing the Devil's Throat
"Buzz—"
With a deep engine roar, the three massive mechs, lifted by the buoyancy of the seawater, slowly drove out of the hangar and officially entered this perilous, dark deep sea.
"Wow! This feels amazing!" Chen Hu's excited voice rang out over the comms. "I can't feel any water pressure at all! Moving around is just like being on land! No, it's even more agile than on land!"
He piloted the heavy Titan armor, swinging his massive powered gauntlets across the water, creating a powerful undercurrent. The feeling of breaking free from constraints and having his power fully unleashed made him want to roar with exhilaration.
Wang Yi's Thor mech was much quieter; he was skillfully testing its various functions. The vector thrusters provided extremely high maneuverability, allowing him to perform all sorts of incredible turns and evasive maneuvers in the water, like a true deep-sea dragon.
"Don't be careless, familiarize yourself with the controls first," Wang Yi calmly reminded him. "This thing is different from any vehicle we've ever driven before; think of it as an extension of our bodies."
"Roger that, Captain!"
Guided by Su Yuan's god-like perspective, the three mechs formed a standard triangular assault formation and steadily advanced towards the ruins of Atlantis.
Along the way, they encountered many deep-sea monsters, but these insignificant creatures, who weren't even worthy of carrying the Megalodon's shoes, weren't even qualified to be a piece of their teeth in front of the three steel behemoths.
Chen Hu's Titan mech didn't even need to use its weapons; just by going full speed ahead, it could smash those monsters into a pile of minced meat.
This overwhelming momentum filled the Dragon Kingdom's live-streaming room with a joyful atmosphere.
"Hahaha! Awesome! So awesome! This is the kind of team we, the Dragons, should be!"
"Before, it was humans fighting monsters; now, it's Gundams clearing out mobs. They're on completely different levels!"
"I feel sorry for those little monsters for a second. They didn't check the almanac before going out and bumped into three Iron Mongers."
"Those ahead, don't get too excited yet." Su Yuan looked calmly at the danger zone marked in deep red on the system map. "The real test has only just begun."
A colossal deep-sea trench lay across their path.
This trench is bottomless and over ten kilometers wide. Viewed from above, it resembles a hideous scar on the face of the Earth Goddess. On the system map, its name is—"Devil's Throat".
"Captain, an abnormal gravity field has been detected ahead!" Zhao Zihan's voice came through the Eagle Eye underwater drone. "We're being pulled downwards by a tremendous force!"
Even without her saying it, Wang Yi and Chen Hu sensed it.
Their mechs seemed to be stuck in an invisible quagmire. The engine power was already at 120%, but the speed of their movement was getting slower and slower, and they even began to slide uncontrollably into the dark abyss below.
"What the hell is that?!" Chen Hu roared, overloading the mecha's engines. "Get the hell moving!"
The thrusters on the back of the Titan armor spewed out blinding blue flames, and the powerful thrust allowed him to barely maintain his balance, but he still could not move forward an inch.
Inside the cockpit, piercing alarms blared incessantly.
[Warning! Extremely strong gravitational force detected! The machine's structure is under excessive load!]
[WARNING! Engine power overload! Forced shutdown expected in 30 seconds!]
"No! Captain! This suction force is too strong! Our engines can't handle it!" Chen Hu shouted anxiously.
At the Dragon Kingdom Operations Center, everyone's hearts were in their throats.
"What's going on? How can there be such a strong gravitational pull in the trench?" Li Guodong stared wide-eyed, his face filled with disbelief.
"It's a defense system," Su Yuan revealed the secret. "The defense system of the Atlantis civilization. This is not just an ordinary trench; beneath it, there is a complete gravity array. Any unauthorized target will be torn to pieces by this force and dragged into the abyss thousands of meters deep."
"What should we do? Can we go around it?" Lin Zhan asked hurriedly.
"There's no way around it." Su Yuan shook his head. "This is the only passage into Atlantis. If you want to get through, you have to force your way through."
"Force our way in? How? The mech's engine is about to burn out!"
"If the engine isn't working, then let's give it an 'anti-gravity' buff." A smile appeared on Su Yuan's lips.
He opened the system shop and quickly locked onto an item among the dazzling array of goods.
[Special Service: Regional Gravity Correction]
[Effect: Can neutralize or reverse the gravity field effect within a designated area for ten minutes.]
Price: 8000 National Fortune Points.
It's expensive, but the results are phenomenal.
"Xiao Su, do you have a solution?" Lin Zhan could tell from Su Yuan's expression that he must have found some kind of advanced technology again.
"Hmm." Su Yuan nodded. "It's just a minor physical rule, no big deal."
Without much explanation, he directly consumed eight thousand national fortune points.
"Activate gravity reversal compensation!"
Just as the mechs were about to be dragged into the abyss, an invisible lifting force, completely opposite to the suction of the trench, appeared out of thin air around the three mechs, forming an invisible protective layer.
While Wang Yi and his two companions were battling it out in the cockpit, they suddenly felt the fuselage lighten abruptly.
The terrifying suction that threatened to pull out their internal organs vanished without a trace in an instant.
Instead, there was a strange feeling as if they were being pushed upwards.
"Huh? The suction... is gone?" Chen Hu was stunned. He looked at the parameters on the instrument panel that had instantly returned to normal, completely bewildered.
"It's not gone, it's been neutralized." Wang Yi immediately realized. He could clearly feel the energy field around the mecha resisting gravity. "The administrator intervened!"
"Holy crap! The administrator is awesome!" Chen Hu exclaimed excitedly.
"Stop talking nonsense!" Su Yuan's voice rang in their minds. "This 'gravity reversal' only lasts for ten minutes. Everyone, engines at maximum power, full speed ahead!"
"receive!"
Wang Yi roared and slammed the control lever.
The Thor mech's vector thrusters erupted with unprecedented light, and like an arrow released from a bow, it transformed into a blue streak of light and rushed towards the other side of the trench!
Chen Hu and Zhao Zihan followed closely behind!
Amidst the astonished gazes of audiences worldwide, the three Chinese mechs, like three divine dragons swimming against the current, defied the terrifying gravity capable of tearing apart an aircraft carrier, and with an indomitable and resolute attitude, forcefully crossed this insurmountable barrier known as the "Devil's Throat"!
After a few seconds of silence, the chat exploded in the live stream.
"What did I just see? Antigravity flight? Is this a science fiction movie?"
"That's outrageous! That's gravity strong enough to suck in mechs! How did they do that?"
"The Dragon Kingdom! It's the Dragon Kingdom again! Just how much advanced technology are they hiding?!"
"I'm numb to it, really. I wouldn't be surprised if I saw a Chinese athlete flying off the planet in a mecha now."
Meanwhile, the Dragon Team, having successfully crossed the trench, had already spotted the legendary lost city.
On the other side of the trench, on a vast seafloor plain, countless enormous crystal obelisks, emitting a soft blue light, stand silently like giants, forming a magnificent wall.
Behind those city walls, a magnificent deep-sea city, too magnificent to be described in words, looms in the distance.
"So...that's Atlantis?"
Even with his resolute character, Wang Yi couldn't help but feel a wavering in his heart when he saw this miraculous sight.
However, before they could recover from their shock, the seemingly beautiful obelisks suddenly lit up with a dangerous red light.