National destiny: Starting with a coffin, building an aircraft carrier is broadcast live globally.

He stood up from the deck chair and glanced in the direction where Luigi and the others had said there were buildings and people.

Whether they are living people or NPCs...

He now needs to consider the timeline.

【The Abyss】isn't exactly upright to begin with, yet it can crawl around on land, and on its ship are a bunch of superhumans, plus several bizarre animals. This setup...

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with "friendly" at all.

It's more like a hidden boss that randomly spawns on the world map and slaughters passersby without warning!

If the "Past Days" timeline they are in is in the past, and the players in that world are still alive, wouldn't their ship be directly treated as a newly opened world boss, and countless players rush to conquer it?

Therefore, driving straight out in the Abyss is not a good choice.

We need to find a way to integrate discreetly.

The reason they came from the Ghost Sea to this sunny grove of trees can be traced back a bit further in time.

......

"Let's go down and take a look."

After making an arbitrary decision.

【Abyss】The cilia on the surface of the ship vibrate at high speed, forming a layer of compressed bubbles around the ship, which envelop the entire ship.

"call--"

Silently pushing aside the seawater, it began to slowly sink.

The process was incredibly smooth; apart from the surrounding light getting dimmer, almost no change could be felt.

Depth 1,000 meters... 3,000 meters... 5,000 meters...

When the depth exceeds 10,000 meters—

"Captain, the rate at which bio-energy is being consumed is almost catching up with the automatic recovery rate of the [Bio-energy Module]."

Going further down the line, they're just burning through their existing inventory.

He gave a casual "hmm" but still didn't call for a stop.

He had anticipated the depth of this sea area, after all, even Sean and Ivan couldn't reach the bottom.

"13,000 meters deep..."

Esther stared at the numbers displayed on the screen, his tongue somewhat tied.

Even knowing that the Abyss can ignore water pressure, the sheer depth of the Abyss, combined with the deep darkness outside, is enough to suffocate any diver.

Although each jump was only a tiny bit, the blue bar of the bio-energy bar did indeed begin to decrease.

"Captain, shall we continue?"

"Don't rush."

His gaze remained fixed on the unfathomable darkness.

"That should be about right."

It seemed to confirm his words.

Just as Klaus was about to say something, a faint light suddenly appeared in the pitch-black field of vision.

...The point of light got closer and closer, and it got bigger and bigger.

"A depth of 18,000 meters..."

Esting was pressed against the transparent bulkhead, his face squashed flat.

"Idol, that thing looks like... a brand?"

Let the Abyss slowly approach that single point of light.

On the white background, a running green figure was drawn, with four eye-catching characters next to it—

[Safe Exit]

"..."

"..."

Silence is the abyss tonight.

Ivan rubbed his eyes:

Am I drunk?

At a depth of 18,000 meters underwater, a lit emergency exit sign can be seen.

"Looks like it's a real historical site! Wuhu... a deep-sea themed escape room!"

The explorer was secretly excited.

But that wasn't the captain's focus.

"Esting".

"Here, idol!"

Listen to your surroundings.

Esting projected his mental energy and reported two minutes later:

"Without fish, there are no living things at all!"

No living organisms?

That's good.

"call out--"

Set 【Heart of the Sun】to maximum brightness.

A gentle, bright light dispelled the darkness, revealing the seabed of the Ghost Islands to the uninvited guests.

"This...this is..."

It is a city.

A silent city sleeping on the seabed.

Countless towering buildings stand silently, like a forest of tombstones made of steel.

Most of them were already dilapidated, some were broken in half, and some had twisted steel bars exposed. The streets... the places that could barely be identified as streets by the streetlights that had just peeked out were covered with silt and debris.

The former prosperity is now just an outline.

The emergency exit sign was hanging on the exposed wall of a building that appeared to be relatively intact.

"My God..."

A city... sunken at the bottom of the sea?!

[Holy crap! Atlantis?]

[What kind of mess have we gotten ourselves into? This is a lost civilization!]

[The emergency exit in front is so ironic...]

"It's unbelievable that the building could be preserved so well under water pressure of 18,000 meters..."

The engineer exclaimed in amazement.

What kind of building materials are these? I wish we could take them back. He looked at the captain expectantly.

Renyi stared at the eager engineer for a moment, then gave him a disapproving look.

Such a large city has sunk here; how could it be lacking in good things?

Staring at a few broken bricks is so pathetic!

This lost city is certainly shocking, but according to Ma Junyang, this sea area is the remains of a world, and what we see here is just the tip of the iceberg.

His gaze returned to the "Emergency Exit" sign.

The building where the sign is located has a circular structure with an empty center, forming a huge, bottomless atrium.

He freely maneuvered the [Abyss] to travel directly above.

Then, like a helicopter landing, it slowly and vertically sank into the building from the middle.

The light from the [Heart of the Sun] illuminated the inner ring of the wall.

One layer, and another.

Countless neatly arranged stores swept past from bottom to top, like long-abandoned honeycomb grids.

Just as everyone was watching in amazement—

"Bang--!"

【Durability -200】

The abyss slammed solidly into the hard ground.

Caught off guard, the crowd stumbled and fell.

"Is that the end?"

Nathan sprang to his feet with a somersault and clung to the transparent bulkhead.

"It seems like there's no water down there?!"

I glanced at the panel casually.

As expected, bioenergy stopped being consumed and began to slowly recover.

It seems that regardless of whether the aged fumes outside can still sustain carbon-based life, it is indeed air.

"Then what are we waiting for?"

Upon hearing this, Ivan's eyes lit up, and he grabbed his axe, ready to rush out.

"I'll go scout ahead!"

"very good,"

Just as his hand touched the hatch, the captain smiled and said:

"We happen to need a sample to test whether the air here contains any unknown pathogens or chronic toxins. Please go outside for five minutes, and if everything is fine, we'll go out."

Ivan: "..."

"well,"

Aurora shook her head helplessly.

"Ivan, the boss hasn't given any orders yet. We can't always rush in to do everything."

she said.

A hand was gently raised, and a soft white light emanated from the palm.

The purification halo silently penetrated the cabin, and wherever the white halo passed, the dust in the air seemed to settle down.

A few seconds later, the halo dissipated.

"There is some mold and inert gas in the air, but it doesn't affect us much."

He nodded to everyone and said:

"You can go out now."