I write obituaries for the gods

Xiao Fang's shouts disappeared, accompanied by electromagnetic noise. The speech signal was translated and turned into a deep male voice coming from the radio:

"tide Leina..."

The male voice called her name.

tide Leina immediately covered her mouth. She and Jiang Zhengge looked at each other, both of them showing the same astonishment.

That voice...

It's my brother's voice!

"Who is tide Leina?" Wu Hao shouted.

The next second, a violent impact struck—

"boom!!!"

The entire platform began to shake, followed by a violent feeling of weightlessness.

Most of the people inside the platform fell to the ground. Jiang Zhengge grabbed the handrail and shouted:

"Pull the platform back!"

“We can’t do it! We’re falling!” Xileina shouted. “The coordinates are messed up! Warp turbulence is affecting us!”

"Can you locate me?"

"Unable to locate! The Azure Radar is malfunctioning! All the Azure Energy has been absorbed by that entity!"

"Communication lost!" Wu Hao shouted. "We are currently..."

Before Jiang Zhengge could hear what Wu Hao was saying, a violent impact struck—

"boom!"

He only felt a sudden darkness before his eyes and then lost consciousness.

......

"Old Jiang..."

"Old Jiang!"

In his dazed state, Jiang Zhengge felt someone shaking him.

He slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was an anxious face.

It's tide Leina.

"Sizzle..."

A shot of combat endurance medication was injected into his neck, and his consciousness gradually cleared.

"Where...am I?"

With tide Leina's help, Jiang Zhengge sat up.

What came into view was a scene of utter chaos in the cabin.

A large hole had been torn in the bulkhead, and deep darkness flowed in from the outside, flowing like water in the dark.

Beside that patch of darkness, Jiang Zhengge saw a patch of bright red.

That is...

“That thing is hunting us,” Xileina whispered.

"That thing...?"

Jiang Zhengge immediately guessed what it was from tide Leina's eyes.

Multi-eyed Siren.

“The platform is damaged, and the escape pods detached during the descent,” Xileina whispered. “Many of my teammates were also thrown out during this process, and the Sirens killed them.”

tide Lena's voice trembled slightly.

"You need to take a look at this."

tide Leina helped Jiang Zhengge up, and the two walked together to the leak in the hatch and looked out.

The dark mudflats stretched out from beneath our feet, all the way to the distant horizon.

This is the bottom of the Black Abyss.

At the horizon, a colossal structure stands.

The thing looked like a refining machine, with its mechanical structure operating in a very orderly manner, and it didn't seem to belong to the subspace at all.

On top of that refining machine was a logo.

The moment Jiang Zhengge saw that symbol, his fist clenched slightly.

That's the foundation's logo.

......

Interlude: The Abyss, Still Gazing (Part 3) (Third and Fourth Updates)

"Waaah..."

Accompanied by eerie roars, tentacles flowed out of the abyss facility and flew in all directions.

On the mudflats between the platform and the facilities, Jiang Zhengge saw many wrecked deep-sea suits.

Those remains belonged to other members of the same department.

“That thing will absorb the Azure Energy, and they will have no way to resist,” Xileina said softly.

Upon hearing tide Leina's words, Jiang Zhengge raised his hand, attempting to use his spiritual knowledge.

But he couldn't do it.

“Without spiritual awareness, bullets can’t tear a path for us,” Jiang Zhengge said in a low voice.

Upon hearing this, Xileina fell silent.

At this moment, Wu Hao walked over from a distance, carrying a device that emitted blue light in his hand.

“The missile’s reaction core has been removed,” he said, placing it in front of Xileina. “What’s next?”

“We need to find the escape pod,” Xilena said. “Once we’re out, we’ll detonate the reactor core and destroy the facility.”

“It’s too dangerous to get close to that facility,” Wu Hao said.

“We don’t need to get too close. The reaction core will trigger a chain reaction of blue energy explosions. We just need to get far enough away when the explosion happens,” Xileina said softly.

“Then let’s prepare to move out,” Jiang Zhengge said in a low voice. “We have to complete our mission.”

......

Jiang Zhengge counted the number of people: currently, there are ten survivors.

Of these, three were from the first subject, and the rest were from the second subject.

He calmed his panicked teammates, had them quickly prepare, and then led the team off.

Soon, the remaining ten members of the deep-diving team began walking at the bottom of the Black Abyss.

Fortunately, the escape pod was nearby.

According to Xileina, the Sirens wake up approximately every ten minutes, and have already woken up twice before, each time killing a group of investigators who were left outside.

The group walked along the bottom of the abyss, passing by the remains of their teammates.

Most of them had been decapitated, leaving only their mangled torsos.

No one spoke throughout the entire process. Firstly, they were afraid of disturbing the presence in the darkness, and secondly, most of them were preoccupied and had nothing to say.

Soon, the group arrived near the escape pod.

There were several trails of blood on the ground, indicating that someone had broken free of the Sirens and come here.

However, it seems they were unable to escape successfully.

"..."

Jiang Zhengge opened the escape pod door, carefully stepped inside, and checked the control panel.

“It still works,” Jiang Zhengge said in a low voice. “Come on up.”

Everyone boarded the escape pod in an orderly fashion, with tide Leina being the last to board, standing at the pod door.

"Starting the engine," Jiang Zhengge said.

"Buzzing..."

The escape pod's engine started up, releasing the backup Azure Energy.

The charging efficiency is very slow, and most of the blue energy is absorbed by an invisible medium during the outflow process.

As the progress bar slowly filled, Jiang Zhengge felt a surge of anxiety.

At this rate, the window for the Sirens to awaken will soon be here.

"..."

When the progress bar reached 50%, a buzzing sound came from the foundation's facilities in the distance.

Jiang Zhengge turned his head and saw long, dark tentacles emerging from the facility and floating in the darkness.

As soon as they appeared, they locked onto the nearest blue substance: the engine of the escape pod.

"Get your weapons ready!" Jiang Zhengge whispered. "Prepare for an attack!"

He knew that a bloody battle was inevitable.

"Om——"

Tentacles roared in, baring their fangs and claws, twisting and flowing in the air.

Everyone jumped out of the escape pods, raised their weapons, and fired into the air.

"Da da da da da da!"

The dense barrage of bullets pushed back some of the tentacles, but it was completely unable to stop the overwhelming onslaught.

A tentacle tore through the hail of bullets, twitching rapidly in a twisted shape, and plunged towards the very front of the formation—

"Pfft!"

An investigator from the Second Division was stabbed in the chest and coughed up blood.

The tentacle instantly pierced through the investigator's body, then flicked into the air, moving at high speed like a bullet.

Its next target is Jiang Zhengge!

"......"

Instinctively, Jiang Zhengge wanted to activate his spiritual awareness and use a strong wind to blast it away.

When his reason realized that he couldn't use his psychic powers in the Abyss, it was too late.

The tentacles are almost within reach—

"boom!!!"

A gust of wind burst forth, instantly tearing the tentacle to shreds.

Immediately afterwards, the remaining tentacles exploded one after another, turning into a rain of black dust.

Jiang Zhengge turned his head and saw tide Leina stretching her hand towards the sky, her eyes gleaming with a ghostly blue light.

Dark blue...

Didn't the Sirens absorb all the Azure Energy? How did she use her psychic powers?

Jiang Zhengge's eyes widened slightly in surprise.

Could it be...

She did not use psychic knowledge?

Just as Jiang Zhengge was in shock, he saw tide Leina turn around and smile at him.

"Protect the escape pod!" she shouted. "I'll distract it!"

After saying that, Xileina picked up the reaction core and, accompanied by a gust of wind, rushed towards the facility in the distance!