Survival on the Internet: A Bizarre Start at Sea

The moment Su Zhisu regained consciousness, the suppressed feeling of fullness suddenly overwhelmed the coldness and came through clearly!

At this moment, every cell and every wisp of his spirit seemed to be frantically pumped with energy, like a balloon being inflated and about to burst!

The absence of any warnings about mental pollution proved that the moonlight was indeed pure and free of any strange power, but it was precisely this "purity" that made it all the more dangerous.

It doesn't care whether the recipient can bear it; it just pours it in on its own.

"Guide...the flow towards the Moon Well..."

Su Zhisu endured the throbbing pain that felt like it was about to burst and immediately activated the strange power within his body.

The pale moonlight streamed through the passage and onto the altar at the bottom.

The runes on the altar lit up again, this time in a mix of green and white.

Almost at the same time that Su Zhisu began to guide it, Cthulhu also moved.

She pressed her hands together, and the enormous, invisible "atmosphere" around the altar, generated by the chanting of tens of thousands of people, seemed to be summoned, suddenly turned around, and all rushed towards Su Zhisu!

"Buzz—!"

Su Zhisu was startled.

At that moment, his senses were amplified infinitely.

He "saw" the circulation of energy throughout the entire Atlantis energy network, just like blood in the human body's blood vessels;

They "heard" every subtle change in the syllables of the residents' chanting, even the sound of their blood flowing;

"Sensed" the spatial tremors caused by Dagon's frenzied attacks outside the echoing rift.

An illusion of being in control of everything arises spontaneously.

Power surges forth, perception is boundless, as if a mere gesture could stir up tides and shake the stars.

Wake up, little brother!

[This is an illusion, a temporary 'pseudo-fourth-tier' state achieved with the help of the inhabitants of Atlantis and the moonlight.]

Cthulhu's thoughts arrived at just the right time, carrying a hint of weariness.

[Hurry, little brother. This state, like the infusion of moonlight, cannot last too long.]

Su Zhisu calmed her mind and focused all her attention on guiding the moonlight.

He, who was at the center of the pale pillar of light, began to rise slowly.

It wasn't flying on its own, but rather being lifted up by the immense lunar energy, flowing upstream along the pillar of light, like a fish swimming against the current in a waterfall.

His position continued to rise, passing through the dome of the temple's lower level, ascending vertically along the passage, and finally hovering at the location where the three stars had originally been.

The instant he arrived at this location, Cthulhu's enormous green eye above the temple suddenly began to shrink and deform.

The enormous eyeball transformed into a condensed green stream of light, tracing a graceful arc before disappearing directly into Su Zhisu's hand—into the amber crystal that had just been embedded in the altar's groove, which had been automatically removed!

The amber crystal trembled violently, and the illusory image of R'lyeh inside it became wildly entangled and merged with the injected green light, making the crystal itself extremely hot, almost burning to the touch.

Su Zhisu was in a strange state: the cold moonlight was washing over her body, but she felt unbearably hot inside.

He gritted his teeth and, relying on the powerful control granted by his "pseudo-fourth-tier" state, began to slowly guide the pillar of moonlight that enveloped him downwards.

The pale moonlight obediently changed direction, flowing downwards along the trajectory of his "rising" body, and pouring straight into the Sea Moon Altar below.

The altar shone brightly in an instant, and all the runes flashed wildly, further transforming and channeling the moonlight energy, which finally turned into a thinner but more condensed beam of light that blasted into the moon well below, which had already stopped moving!

"Boom—!!"

A muffled thunderous roar echoed from the depths of the Moon Well, as if some ancient mechanism had been restarted.

At this crucial moment of energy infusion, Su Zhixu's vision suddenly blurred.

The hallucination occurred.

In the pale moonlight, the outline of a huge city suddenly appeared.

The city defied conventional description; its buildings were composed of twisted geometry, its stones exhibited a biological, writhing quality, and its towers leaned at impossible angles.

The entire city was shrouded in a morbid green glow, emanating a maddening whisper.

R'lyeh!

The phantom of R'lyeh, the very place Cthulhu coveted and where his true form resided, was now so close, it seemed almost within reach.

Even more bizarrely, this phantom city began to slowly and distortedly rotate around its center point.

As it rotated, the city began to shrink and collapse inward, as if being swallowed by an invisible vortex, and the end of the vortex... was none other than Su Zhixu's body!

[Little brother, calm down! Maintain the guiding state!]

Cthulhu's voice emanated directly from the amber, carrying an unprecedented seriousness.

This is the inevitable phenomenon resulting from the resonance between R'lyeh's illusion and Atlantis!

[The coordinates of the R'lyeh illusion are being 'calibrated' and 'synchronized' through your connection with the Moonbeam!]

[Your sister assures you through an "old contract" that she would never harm you! Please remain conscious and keep the passage open!]

Old contracts.

This is a name that Su Zhisu once saw on Cthulhu's panel.

He took a deep breath, forcing himself to ignore the distorted R'lyeh phantom that was getting closer and closer, as if it were about to devour him.

He focused all his energy on guiding the pale moonlight.

The agonizing interplay of heat and cold within my body, the dizziness from sensory overload, the mental stress brought on by hallucinations…

He suppressed them all.

however--

Just as Su Zhixu stabilized his condition, at the very moment R'lyeh's phantom spun and contracted to its limit, about to merge with his body—

"Snap—!!!"

A crisp, heart-stopping cracking sound came from the highest and farthest reaches of the sky, yet it seemed to shatter deep within everyone's soul.

Immediately afterwards, the entire Atlantis experienced the most violent and terrifying tremor since its construction!

It wasn't the previous shaking, but the wailing of the entire spatial structure!

Outside the vertical passageway at the top of the temple, the incredibly sturdy coral rock and reinforced glass dome teetered precariously!

Looking up, one could clearly see that the entire sky above Atlantis was beginning to show countless dark red cracks!

In the center of the crack, a huge hole is rapidly expanding, and strange, dark red seawater, churning with rampant pollution, is surging in like a burst dam!

"The sky... has cracked?"

Lilia gasped in shock.

Kyle Crane jumped to his feet, looked out of the hole, and his expression changed drastically.

Beyond that hole, an incredibly large shadow was forcibly probing into the shattered "sky" with a giant claw covered in scales and twisted tumors.

Wherever the giant claw passed, the space was polluted and corroded, emitting a terrifying hissing sound.

Dagon!

It actually forced its way through the surface of the Echoing Crack, the "sky" of Atlantis!

Within the echoing rift, Cthulhu's furious scream, like a red-hot steel needle, pierced deeply into Su Zhisu's mind:

【Damn Dagon!!!】

Stay away from my brother!!!

The giant claw tore through the sky, carrying a strange and intense power, and slammed down on Su Zhisu, who was suspended in mid-air, maintaining guidance and completely unprepared!