My whole family was brutally murdered? I awakened the thug system and went on a killing spree.

It wasn't natural light; it was a dark purple fluorescent light coming from below.

There is more than one light source. In the perception of gravity, the seventeen vibration sources now have a visual correspondence—seventeen huge clumps of biomass emitting a dark purple fluorescent light, which are located at the bottom of the trench and surround a larger light source.

Master node.

Qin Meng saw it.

Through the last hundred meters or so of high-density fluid, and through the encirclement of seventeen unidentified creatures, he saw the thing that had been constantly modifying the Earth's gravitational constant.

A pillar.

Pure black, about thirty meters in diameter, it pierces vertically from the rock strata at the bottom of the trench and extends upwards for nearly two hundred meters.

The surface of the pillar was covered with high-dimensional runes of the same origin as those on the Judge. The density of the runes was many times higher than that on the Judge, covering almost every inch of the surface without leaving any gaps.

At the top of the pillar—about a hundred meters away from Qin Meng—there was a spherical object.

It is about ten meters in diameter.

The sphere's color repeatedly switched between black and dark purple, with the switching frequency perfectly synchronized with the master node's energy pulses.

That's the heart.

That ball is the source of the entire modification command.

Qin Meng stared at it for three seconds.

Then he turned his attention back to the seventeen guards.

Big.

Very big.

Even the smallest one, according to gravity sensing estimates, is the size of three aircraft carriers side by side.

Qin Meng recalculated the largest one, because the initial figure was so large that he thought the engine had malfunctioned.

No malfunction.

The largest one is over 400 meters long.

A deep-sea behemoth. A massive deep-sea creature, weighing tens of thousands of tons, that has been modified by higher-dimensional energy.

Seventeen heads.

They stand guard at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 10,000 meters deep, as gatekeepers for the abyssal royal court.

Qin Meng's black hole engine emitted a deep roar.

This is not a warning.

It's about ordering food.

The seventeen giant beasts spotted Qin Meng when he entered the last hundred meters.

It wasn't a visual discovery. There's no light at this depth.

The behemoths sensed an anomaly in the gravitational field—an object with a mass far exceeding that of a normal carbon-based life form was approaching from above.

The reactions vary.

The closest one moved first. It was something that looked somewhere between an eel and a snake, 230 meters long, with its body covered in thick, keratinous scales.

Dark purple fluorescence seeped from the gaps in the scales, leaving long trails of light in the high-density fluid.

It opened its mouth.

Its mouth is forty meters in diameter.

There are no teeth in the mouth; instead, there is a ring of inward-curving bony barbs, arranged in seven dense layers.

The surface of the barbs has been eroded by high-dimensional energy, and each one glows with a dark purple light that is the same as that of the master node.

The giant eel charged forward at a speed that shouldn't exist in a high-density fluid.

Its body wriggles in the thick liquid, and the friction between its keratinous scales and the high-density fluid generates a large amount of heat, causing the density of the liquid around it to drop briefly, forming a low-resistance channel.

A smart way to swim.

Qin Meng did not dodge.

In this medium, dodging consumes far more energy than taking a direct hit. Compared to a giant eel, his size is like a soybean and a water pipe, but his mass is not measured that way.

The giant eel closed its mouth.

The seven barbs simultaneously pierced the boundary of Qin Meng's gravitational field.

Qin Meng was swallowed up.

From the outside, the scene looks normal – a tiny prey being swallowed whole by a giant predator, which fits the basic logic of the deep-sea food chain.

But starting with the giant eel, the logic breaks down.

Qin Meng stood on the inner wall of the giant eel's mouth. Seven layers of barbs pierced his body, the deepest one penetrating a millimeter into his skin.

One millimeter.

For someone with 2,700 points of physique, this penetration depth is roughly equivalent to a mosquito bite.

Qin Meng reached out and grabbed the barb that had penetrated the deepest part. He pulled it out.

The barb was ripped off the inside of the mouth, along with a large chunk of muscle tissue and purple blood.

The giant eel's body convulsed violently.

Pain. This creature can feel pain.

Qin Meng dropped the barbed wire. He wasn't there to fight. Fighting was too time-consuming; every second underwater depleted his anaerobic metabolic reserves.

He tried a different approach.

The black hole engine's power was increased to 40%.

The gravitational field switched from defense mode to feeding mode.

The muscle tissue inside the giant eel's mouth began to peel away towards Qin Meng.

First comes the mucous membrane layer, then the muscle layer, and finally the skeletal structure.

The biological tissue, eroded by high-dimensional energy, was pulled out of its original position by the gravitational field, torn into fragments, and swirled and gathered around Qin Meng's mouth.

The antimatter furnace is started.

meat.

The meat of a deep-sea behemoth with extremely high energy density. The taste is awful—filled with a fishy stench and an indescribable salty-bitter flavor, hardly better than those mud monsters from Japan. But the energy content—

[Consumes high-dimensional modified biological tissue, Physique +3]

Qin Meng ate the giant eel from the inside out.

The giant eel went berserk. Its 230-meter-long body thrashed wildly in the deep sea, churning the high-density fluid into whirlpools.

It tried to expel, crush, and digest the foreign object inside its body—but its stomach acid couldn't even peel off Qin Meng's skin, and the peristalsis and squeezing of the stomach wall was a joke.

Qin Meng ate and moved forward inside its body. He ate from its mouth to its esophagus, from its esophagus to its stomach, from its stomach to—

No, that's not right. He suddenly stopped.

Eating this way is too slow.

Chewing and digesting piece by piece is efficient in air, but underwater it is a time-limited operation.

His remaining anaerobic endurance—estimated by the engine's hood—was forty-seven minutes.

There are also sixteen giant beasts and a main node in the middle.

There's no time to eat it piece by piece, inside and out.

Qin Meng changed his approach.

He stopped eating and instead invoked absolute mass.

The entire mass of the giant eel, consisting of 2,700 points of physical strength, is concentrated in its stomach, and the gravitational field switches from "attracting biological tissue" to "attracting everything".

Stomach wall, internal organs, bones, blood vessels—all substances in the giant eel's body are simultaneously pulled by a gravitational force in one direction.

Heading towards Qin Meng's direction.

The effect was spectacular.

The giant eel's 230-meter-long body began to collapse from the inside. Its muscles were torn from its skeleton by gravity, its blood was pulled out of its blood vessels by gravity, and its internal organs were ripped from its abdominal cavity by gravity.

All tissues simultaneously converged, squeezed, and compressed towards the stomach area where Qin Meng was located.

There is a layer of water in the middle.

The high-density seawater acts as a natural pressure-transmitting medium within the giant eel's body cavity. The gravitational field radiates outward from Qin Meng's location, and the seawater evenly transmits this gravitational force to every corner of the giant eel's body.

With a seawater density of 120 grams per cubic centimeter, combined with a gravitational field of 2,700 points of body strength, what level of compressive force would be applied to a 230-meter-long deep-sea creature?

The answer is: enough to roll it into a ball.

From the outside, the giant eel's body contracted rapidly within three seconds. The originally thick and slender serpentine creature was squeezed from both ends toward the middle by an unseen force, as if it were being gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand.

Scales burst, bones broke, internal organs and muscles mingled together, compressed into a dense mass under extreme pressure—

meatball.

A purple, steaming, high-energy deep-sea meatball, about two meters in diameter.

Qin Meng opened his mouth.

Something two meters in diameter cannot fit into a normal human mouth. But he is not a normal human.

The black hole engine opened a temporary gravitational funnel at the back of the mouth, and the meatball was torn into pieces by gravity and poured into the esophagus along the funnel.

It took eleven seconds from the moment a 230-meter-long, 10,000-ton deep-sea behemoth was locked on to be devoured.

[Consuming high-dimensional modified organisms, the antimatter furnace is full of energy, Physique +8]

Qin Meng's anaerobic endurance jumped from forty-seven minutes back to fifty-two minutes. He replenished it by eating.

Sixteen remain.

They are all awake now.