Survival on the Internet: A Bizarre Start at Sea

[Su lv.9]: "Hold on! Answer me! What's going on over there? Don't scare me, bro!"

He sent several messages, but they all went unanswered.

The old sailor's image continued to flicker erratically between gray and light.

Taking a deep breath, Su Zhisu forced herself to calm down. There was no point in being anxious if she couldn't get in touch.

"We're barely able to protect ourselves right now, so let's deal with the immediate crisis first."

He continued to steer the Redemption, struggling against the increasingly turbulent currents.

The time passed into the afternoon.

The changes in the storm-affected sea area are becoming increasingly dangerous and unpredictable.

The seawater was getting darker and darker, and its unsettlingly viscous texture was getting stronger.

The polluted seawater is no longer ordinary; it's more like...

The "body fluid" of some living creature, or a highly concentrated sediment of strange power.

What's even more unsettling is that clear, turbulent energy currents, like blood vessels and nerves, gradually began to appear in the seawater.

There are mainly two colors.

One was a strange, dark red-purple power that he was familiar with, full of pure, intense erosion and alienation.

Thick and violent, like a writhing venomous python.

The other is a deep, violent, yet imbued blue turbulent current with a certain majestic "order".

Compared to strange and mysterious forces, they are more delicate and agile, stubbornly resisting and rejecting everything around them.

Two opposing energies entangled, collided, and tore at each other wildly in the inky black seawater.

In this opposition, they collided violently, but instead of exploding, they were silently annihilated.

They intertwined and clashed, quickly dimmed, and finally, with a "poof," vanished simultaneously.

At the epicenter of the annihilation, the surrounding temperature seemed to rise almost imperceptibly.

Finally, a small plume of extremely hot, reddish-black steam emerged, only to instantly merge into the downpour and disappear.

"Did the annihilation collision generate high temperatures?"

"Moreover... it seems that in each annihilation, a strange force always gains the upper hand?"

"The unknown blue energy was gradually consumed in the resistance."

"But this strange power is slowly multiplying amidst the erosion..."

"It seems that this sea area is itself a huge battlefield where two forces clash."

"The current storm is an outward manifestation of this escalating confrontation."

This speculation sent a chill down Su Zhisu's spine.

If the entire storm-filled sea area is a battlefield, then the owner of this blue energy in the southeast direction...

Just as his thoughts were racing, the private chat interface belonging to [Old Sailor lv.9], which had been silent for a long time, suddenly started popping up frequently.

A series of messages, filled with typos and jumbled symbols, appeared intermittently, like the final cries of a dying person, constantly refreshing the page!

[Veteran Sailor lv.9]: Watch out to the southeast!!!

[Old Sailor lv.9]: There's a giant monster!!

[Old Sailor lv.9]: It's a sea... iguana!!!

The last message had just finished displaying when the avatar of 【Old Sailor lv.9】, which had been flashing on and off, suddenly stopped, then went completely gray, plunging into a permanent, lifeless silence.

"!"

Su Zhisu's pupils suddenly contracted.

When the avatar turns completely gray, it means... the player is dead!

Or they may be completely blocked or expelled from the comprehensive network.

The former often accounts for the majority of the possibilities.

"The old sailor..."

Before he could even feel sorry for this "companion" he had never met, the last few words in his message pierced Su Zhisu's mind like an ice pick.

"The roaring creature... is it a marine iguana?"

He suddenly looked up and gazed out of the cabin, his gaze seemingly piercing through the increasingly violent storm, looking towards the source of all this strange change in the southeast.

"What kind of marine iguana could make an experienced survivor, using the online ID 'Old Sailor,' struggle with their avatar flashing in a near-death state, only managing to leave behind a few incomplete warnings despite their best efforts...?"

Just as Su Zhixu was processing this shocking information, suddenly, all the muscles in his body tensed up to the extreme!

"Awoooo ...

A terrifying roar, far clearer and more ferocious than before, suddenly erupted from the southeast!

It looked as if it would tear the entire ocean and sky apart!

This time, the sound was much closer...

Soon, amidst this roar, in the southeastern horizon between sea and sky, in that deep place "ruled" by the storm—

A magnificent and dazzling ice-blue beam of light, beyond description, suddenly shone brightly!

Reaching the heavens and the earth!

The beam of light tore through the leaden sky, pierced the inky black ocean, and illuminated the endless storm with a blue hue!

A cold, deathly blue light, seemingly capable of freezing the soul, instantly filled Su Zhisu's entire field of vision.

"this……"

"What...is this...?"

The Redemption was completely engulfed by the sudden, all-encompassing blue light.

Along with the churning, inky black seawater around it, and the two turbulent energy currents intertwined within it.

Almost instinctively, it urged the Redemption to accelerate even harder, trying to resist the enormous "traction" that was dragging the entire sea area southeast.

"We must get away from here! Get away from that direction immediately!"

The keel of the Redemption groaned under the strain, and the Night Watch Heart Flame swirled even more wildly on the surface of the ship, trying to break free from these invisible shackles.

But all is in vain.

The entire ocean seemed to come alive, transforming into a giant whirlpool that flowed towards its fixed source in the southeast.

Faced with this immense power of nature, all struggles seem insignificant and laughable.

The Redemption was like a fallen leaf, drifting aimlessly towards the blue light in the southeast.

"No... I can't break free at all..."

Su Zhisu clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turning slightly white from the excessive force.

"This is not a problem that can be solved by simply 'driving away' as an act of escapism."

The rules of this sea area have been changed.

"Since there's no way to escape, then we have no choice but to face it..."

He forced himself to calm down and took a deep breath of the air, which was heavy with moisture and had a strange ionized smell.

His gaze was sharp as a knife, piercing through the raging rain and locking onto the southeast.

That towering, icy blue pillar of light, like a pillar supporting the heavens in mythology, became the only source of light in the dim world.

icy!

violent!

It was filled with an inhuman majesty that sent chills down your spine!

Around the pillar of light, the inky black seawater boiled and evaporated violently, forming a huge cavity.

Countless strange, dark red and purple turbulent forces, like moths drawn to a flame, rushed toward the blue light, only to be annihilated upon contact, releasing even more red and black steam, causing the seawater temperature in that area to rise wildly.

"Is some strange force attacking that blue light?"

"Two forces are clashing..."

"No, it's more like that blue light is 'purifying' or 'suppressing' the strange power in this sea area?"

This discovery gave Su Zhisu a jolt.