"Are we the torpedoes?" Lin Xian asked in confusion.

Ding Junyi adjusted her glasses: "For a professional organization like the Foundation, the action plan will definitely not rely on experience or on-the-spot reactions. If it were an evacuation plan, there would certainly be precise action parameters. Suppose we launch torpedoes, it wouldn’t entirely depend on random improvisation, would it?"

Upon hearing Ding Junyi’s words, Lin Xian froze for a moment, instinctively wanting to ask more but caught Ding Junyi looking at him calmly, then he frowned and understood the context.

"Smart."

Lin Xian’s brows relaxed, and he immediately activated the Mechanical Heart to open the watertight door ahead, then quickly made his way toward the torpedo bay.

He had an odd thought at that moment, eager to validate it.

Soon, Lin Xian arrived at the torpedo bay. Looking at the dozens of large torpedo launch tubes densely packed, he directly utilized mechanical superpower to access the information of all the torpedo tubes and opened the panel, then approached the nearest one and took out a mobile terminal to attempt data export.

Beep beep.

After a period of waiting, Lin Xian completed the data analysis. It was then that he saw a piece of strange data flash on the screen, and his eyes immediately lit up.

"Indeed!"

These strange data were nothing else but preset launch parameters for the enemy-attracting torpedoes. Each launch coordinate had been pre-determined, indicating the submarine’s action route was fixed or predetermined, definitely not a gamble on the ocean floor.

This discovery suddenly opened Lin Xian’s mind. He had previously wondered about the Holy City’s activities in and out of Sea Rock Island, questioning whether they were all essentially suicide squads daring to venture into the heart of the Monster Tide with a one-way ticket?

But now, it seemed not to be the case. The Holy City people not only knew how to enter but were also clear on how to leave the island, all based on the Foundation’s experimental data monitored at the Offshore Base on Yuniya No.1.

"All the enemy-attracting torpedoes are preset with launch data, indicating they are very knowledgeable about each release port and the territorial waters of large Abnormal Bodies. At least, they have all this hydrological information of the sea area, hence they know how to leave, which might be an opportunity for us!"

Ding Junyi stood silently behind Lin Xian and said, "Even if we’ve confirmed this, there are still two problems."

"First, how to confirm this path? If we infer only based on these fixed coordinates, the result could have a large deviation. Now, with such a high biological density in the Sea Rock Island sea area, a reckless venture to sea would have almost zero survival rate."

"Second, this is the submarine’s action path. We are a train group, while the Hawk Sea Group is a surface fleet, obviously our vehicle cannot achieve this."

Lin Xian summoned a batch of PX05 robots to help him export the preset data for each torpedo, while turning back to Ding Junyi to say, "Having an escape path in such an area is already an unlikely event. The deep water conditions are strange and hard to discern. This Foundation and Holy City must have something special about using a fixed path. Let’s find it out, compare it with the regular hydrological information of the nearby sea area, and maybe we’ll gain something. Otherwise, there’s still a former Foundation safety supervisor here."

"Moreover," Lin Xian turned around and said to Ding Junyi in a serious tone, "Who said we can’t go underwater?"

Upon hearing this, Ding Junyi’s eyes showed a mix of surprise and eagerness. She paused briefly, then directly said, "Thrilling."

"Deep sea?"

"You."

Lin Xian felt awkward.

Ding Junyi bluntly stated, "I can help."

Looking at Ding Junyi’s expression, Lin Xian cleared his throat promptly, "In what way?"

"Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes." Ding Junyi’s glasses glistened under the torpedo bay’s lights, "Give me some time, I should be able to make it bloom."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian’s eyes brightened, "Alright, then..."

Rumble!

Just as Lin Xian was about to finish speaking, a violent tremor suddenly erupted, and the Black Water in the underground Deep Water Port shook furiously. The nuclear-powered submarine docked at the shore swayed unpredictably, with its interior trembling violently.

Inside the torpedo bay, Lin Xian grabbed the unsteady Ding Junyi, then extended four spider stabilizers from his back to steady himself in the corridor, feeling the unprecedented shaking outside, his face sank as he immediately said,

"So soon?"

Lin Xian felt an ominous foreboding. There were still several hours before nightfall, yet the situation seemed to have reached a point beyond control. He initially intended to monitor the changes at the release port and then try to use his mechanical superpower to stabilize the geothermal core device, including dealing with the upcoming night.

But the current shaking instantly gave Lin Xian a sense of foreboding, suggesting that the underwater volcano might have reached some critical point.

19:32:45

Watching the countdown in front of him, Lin Xian’s mind raced. What did this represent? Could the current disaster be wholly unrelated to this countdown?

"If an eruption occurs, tectonic movement will release energy at all release ports," Ding Junyi hurriedly told Lin Xian.

"Including the geothermal vent we’re at!"

Rumble!

At 3:06 PM, beneath the ocean ridge southeast of the continental shelf near Sea Rock Island, lava spewed along the ridge fissure, tearing the seabed into a web of dark red cracks. Large quantities of sulfur-rich boiling water collided with magma, sprouting a brown-yellow smoke column obscuring the sky, while bubbles like boiling liquid glass rolled upwards, instantly carbonizing countless Abnormal Bodies, sea monsters, and water bugs into black mist as they passed.