Qianyuan: My crew comes from the world of anime.

"..."

His seemingly rational analysis cannot conceal his madness.

The reality was—on the switched-off radio channel, only his furious roar could be heard:

"Screw the government offices, I'm done with this."

"Alien... I'll show you what a 'heretical speedrun record' really looks like!"

On the other side, even though Levi was wearing a high-pressure diving suit weighing over ten kilograms and carrying a box of belongings weighing tens of kilograms, her speed of movement underwater did not decrease at all.

It took her six hours to slowly deactivate the mechanisms on her way there, but she returned to the return capsule in just half an hour.

"..."

As a green light illuminated, Takemi Takao pressed the button to open the hatch as agreed.

However—Levy was the only person in the return capsule.

Takemi asked somewhat uneasily, "Where is the captain?"

As Levi removed her high-pressure diving suit, she muttered under her breath:

“That guy, Alo, must have ditched me to do something dangerous. That’s just his personality—once he’s in a desperate situation, he becomes incredibly crazy.”

Takemi: "..."

Hearing this complaint, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then why didn't you force him to come back with you?" Wu Jianmiao asked, hands in her pockets. "With your strength, you should be able to drag him back by force, right?"

Levi: "..."

"You don't want to?" Wu Jianmiao asked curiously, "Because you don't want him to think you're not easy to control, and you're afraid he'll be afraid of you because of your violence?"

"..."

"You're overthinking it. That man is far more dangerous than you imagine..."

Revy: "Don't talk nonsense!"

She blushed quickly, as if her secret had been exposed, and hurriedly showed the wound on her elbow, saying, "I came back because I was injured."

This was a rather lame excuse for her, intended to shut Takemi Miyo up.

Everyone on the ship had a secret they didn't want to tell...

"Let me see..." Wu Jianmiao looked very interested when she saw the wound.

"Hmm~ What bit you? The wound looks like it just wants blood, and the teeth marks have a straw-like structure..."

"It didn't change color or smell... the wound is quite clean."

Seeing that Wu Jianmiao was almost touching her, and that she was looking at the wound with a shining expression, Levi said with some disgust, "Can you hurry up and treat it for me?"

Takemi: "Of course... I can also guarantee that you won't even see the scar after a week. By the way—would it be convenient for me to draw a vial of blood for research? I want to see if it will cause any abnormalities."

Levi: "..."

What could she do but nod?

This ship is getting weirder and weirder.

A madwoman wielding dual pistols, a female doctor who becomes cruelly excited at the sight of corpses and wounds, and a captain who becomes recklessly audacious when alone...

I feel like we probably won't be able to recruit any normal people in the future.

At the same time, after a tooth-grinding cutting sound, the mechanism behind the red door was exposed to Luo Tianming's eyes. The entire edge of the energy circuit was cut open. He put his hand through the hole, stuffed the alien relic inside, and then manipulated the destruction of the red door.

"..."

Then, he walked up to the 'Sky Artifact' and picked it up.

This thing is so light that you wouldn't even notice such a strange effect in something so light.

Luo Tianming has an 'alien artifact storage box' in his hand, which can temporarily suppress the influence of the artifact to a level that does not affect the surrounding area.

This was likely developed by scientists from the Alliance through reverse engineering of artifact storage cabinets found in alien ruins.

However, in terms of convenience, it is still very different from alien technology.

……

Luo Tianming did not put the Sky Artifact inside; he did not intend to hand over this seemingly harmless item to the Alliance.

Just like he said—this is the least dangerous of the five artifacts, and there is no danger in it even if he is wearing a diving suit and holding it.

The truly dangerous ones are the remaining four...

He tucked the 'Sky Artifact' under his arm and opened the next door leading deeper into the world.

This time, Luo Tianming finally entered the deepest and most central part of the entire ruins—the artifact storage room.

Six seemingly disparate mechanisms perfectly block the path to the artifact storage cabinet. To obtain the artifact, one must unlock these six mechanisms...

Sizzle—!

Sparks from the plasma cutter emanated around the artifact storage cabinet... Luo Tianming was no longer in the mood to unravel the surrounding mechanisms.

He came to the ruins to make a fortune, not to play a game of tag with aliens.

"..."

As the last board fell, he immediately deactivated the mechanisms surrounding the storage cabinet.

But when he saw the artifact's true form exposed in the seawater, Luo Tianming was so frightened he almost peed his pants.

Because—inside the storage cabinet lies the fifth divine artifact, one that the Alliance is currently unaware of—the 'Faraday Artifact,' second only to the Nasonov Artifact.

Everyone is familiar with Faraday's name; he was the founder of electromagnetism. The reason this alien artifact is named after Faraday is because of its unique characteristic: it releases an EMP explosion with a radius of 8 meters every 15 seconds.

EMP is a powerful electromagnetic pulse capable of destroying any nearby electrical appliance or electronic component. If it's even slightly more complex than a light switch, an EMP can completely overload it—hence, the EMP is often referred to as the 'atomic bomb' of the information age.

Upon seeing it, Luo Tianming froze for three seconds—then took eight seconds to take out the 'Artifact Storage Box' and, in the last second before the EMP erupted, stuffed it into the box.

He almost... all the electronic components on his body would have caught fire and been destroyed.

It took him a while to confirm that the safe deposit box had worked.

"..."

The reason this thing is considered the second most dangerous is because of its EMP release capability, which poses a deadly threat to any submarine and diving suit.

Moreover, once this thing is exposed to the air, it will release a large amount of lightning, and getting struck by it is no joke.

The alliance had never had any information about this artifact before, so it seems we can go back and give them a surprise.

Chapter 36 Dangers

Two hours later, as the green light on the return capsule sounded again, Levi and Takemi immediately donned their high-pressure diving suits.

After pressing the button... Luo Tianming reappeared before them, and after de-silencing the radio, Wu Jianmiao's concerned voice came through the channel:

"How are you? Are you hurt?"

Luo Tianming: "Don't worry, everything is fine..."

Levi's impatient voice came through the channel: "How much longer do we have to wear this stuff? It's so stuffy and heavy... It's okay in the water, but wearing this thing in the air is so cumbersome."

Hearing her complaint, Wu Jianmiao, who was physically weaker, tried to move—but she was already panting after taking less than 10 steps: "No... I can't, I feel like I'm having a hard time just walking to the infirmary."

"We need to figure out a way to deal with that thing quickly, or I feel like I'll be worked to death."

Luo Tianming: "..."

He glanced at the 'Sky Artifact' in his hand—the Faraday Artifact was safe and sound in the storage box, but this guy had immediately emptied the oxygen from the submarine.

It's also quite troublesome to deal with; you can't just hang it outside the submarine and drag it around... The alien artifact isn't that sturdy and simply can't withstand the submarine's powerful dragging force, otherwise it wouldn't have been so easily dismantled in the original "The Abyss".

Disassembling the 'Sky Artifact' yields a substance called 'Oxygen Stone,' which can produce 5000 units of oxygen per second, but generally no one uses this to produce oxygen.

Because oxygen is a very dangerous and extremely reactive substance; even a slight collision, such as dropping it on the ground, can cause a violent explosion.

A thumb-sized oxygen stone can cause an explosion equivalent to a TM62 anti-tank mine, which has an eight-kilogram charge and can send all three of them flying in an instant.

"..."

After considering its potential harm, Luo Tianming felt that this thing was a "hot potato," making it difficult to know where to start.

Just as he was starting to feel the situation was getting difficult, the entire ship suddenly went into overdrive with a red alert of the highest level!

Beep—!

The death-defying siren blared, instantly sending the three people present into a frenzy.

With lightning speed, Levi, dragging her heavy diving suit weighing over ten kilograms, hopped and skipped to the bridge to read out the alarm:

"It's a 'surfacing warning'! The red light on the altimeter is on!"

"..."

Luo Tianming knew that this was a passive alarm system set up by the submarine. They were more than 1000 meters underwater, so the 'surfacing warning' meant that the entire submarine was surfacing.

For a regular submarine, this would just be a risk of exposure, but it's a different story on Europa.

Europa's surface is covered by a thick layer of ice, several kilometers thick. If the Nautilus were to surface rashly, it would certainly collide with this ice.

As for who will win... is that even a question?

The ability to surface is a rare occurrence for Europa's submarines.

The submarine has water pumps inside that regulate the water level in the compartments to determine whether the submarine should surface or submerge. This part rarely malfunctions.

unless--!!

Luo Tianming looked at the 'Sky Artifact' in his hand; it was this thing that was causing the trouble.

He almost forgot... one of its abilities is that when exposed to air, it causes the water pumps to stop working due to lack of air, thus causing a large amount of water inside the submarine's bulkheads to be expelled.

In the game, nothing will change, but in reality, a submarine whose water pump fails and causes a large amount of water to be discharged will rise to the surface quickly!

Now this thing has really become a "hot potato"—he can't keep it, and he can't throw it away either…

Now, the only solution he can think of is to store the Sky Artifact away. The artifact storage box is obviously not an option, as it contains something even more deadly.

The only thing he could probably store this thing on his person was his journal.

The only option now is to take a gamble!

Luo Tianming took off his sleeve inside the high-pressure diving suit, grabbed the captain's log in his arms, took a deep breath, and immediately crawled out of the diving suit. Before all the air in his lungs was sucked out, he slammed the log onto the 'Sky Artifact'.

With a flash of white light, only a logbook remained on the ground.

Luo Tianming was helped by Wu Jianmiao to put on an oxygen mask and wait for the entire submarine to return to normal.

"..."

About ten seconds later, the water pumps, which had regained air, started working frantically, and the Nautilus's ascent was finally stopped.

The submarine's air circulation system gradually returned to normal. Only when Wu Jianmiao took off her mask and there was no oxygen shortage warning from the submarine did she remove the oxygen mask from Luo Tianming's face.

Her cold fingers parted to examine Luo Tianming's eyelids.

"..."

"Okay, no problem—I didn't see any blood vessels, and your pupils weren't dilated. It seems you were lucky this time; the momentary lack of oxygen didn't affect your cerebral blood vessels."

Then she flicked his forehead with her finger: "Don't be so silly next time. It's a good thing you don't have any cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases, otherwise your cerebral blood vessels would burst immediately if you lack oxygen."

Luo Tianming: "..."

"Also, it's normal to feel some pain in your lungs... The outside environment was almost a vacuum just now, and your alveoli almost burst for a moment. Luckily it only lasted a few seconds... Otherwise, I would have become the first doctor in history to treat a suicide patient who suffered lung damage from removing their spacesuit helmet in a vacuum environment."

Luo Tianming: "..."

He dared not breathe too hard now, his alveoli must be congested with blood as Miaomiao had said. Although he felt a little dizzy, he still held the journal in his hand.

Turning the page—I found no damage...that's good.

In fact, what he had been worried about was the safety of the journal. He didn't know what would happen if it were burned or soaked in water.

But given that it seems to be able to survive in this vacuum, very few things could possibly destroy it.

Turning to the next page, the notebook in my palm suddenly radiated heat—!

He flipped to the latest page and saw the "[Limited Task - Submit Artifact]" message flash briefly, indicating that it could be completed.

"……%"