"Descend, accelerate and drop 200 meters."

"Okay." Hearing Monica’s voice, Lin Xian had no doubts and began allowing Viola to take over some of the fine controls, maneuvering Infinity to dive deeper.

Vroom vroom.

Just as they completed the descent, the water ahead suddenly shook violently. A fierce undercurrent tore the waters apart, and Lin Xian only heard a loud roar before seeing on the terrain scanner a cylindrical ’mountain’ hundreds of meters high sweeping past them from above.

A tentacle of the Giant Ocean God!

In an instant, everyone felt a tightness in their chest, Chen Sixuan’s nails dug deep as her face turned pale, almost choking.

Inside the cockpit, only Ding Junyu’s expression appeared relatively calm, but she was very tense, her eyes fixed on the instruments.

Outside the soundless deep dive stardust crystal porthole, the ink-like sea water was so thick it couldn’t be dissolved.

Infinity continuously descended into the trench abyss at six thousand meters, with twelve propellers silently rotating at the lowest frequency, breaking bubbles crushed by deep-sea pressure without a sound escaping.

The bizarre currents stirred up by the Giant Ocean God’s limbs made Infinity like a feather encountering turbulence, being pulled incessantly, relying solely on KIKI and Ryuji’s powerful telekinesis to hold Infinity steady, and Ryan’s management of Beifeng 09.

"Friction noise at seven o’clock port side."

Monica’s voice echoed again.

Lin Xian turned his gaze to the left, where, in the weak beam of the searchlight, a giant wall covered with a grey keratin layer was slowly sinking. Embedded in the wrinkles of the Giant Ocean God’s trunk were luminous bacterial colonies, flickering like breath.

Lin Xian gritted his teeth, controlled Infinity to hover as the giant wall descended, then proceeded into another patch of murky deep water.

The vehicle glided silently like a falling leaf pushed by the ocean current into the shadow of the mountain.

"There’s an upward vortex!"

Swish swish swish!

The next moment, jagged bone spurs swooped through the murky sludge, scraping against the pressure-resistant hull of the vehicle, emitting a faint metallic screech that immediately left hearts suspended in fear. If the pressure shell were torn, most inside would instantly be crushed into a blood mist by the water pressure.

Only a few minutes passed, but to Lin Xian, it felt like hours; he had never experienced such a thrilling scene. Facing the massive Giant Ocean God, their superpowers and all means were almost meaningless, thus escaping cautiously seemed the only option.

At this moment, two deep-diving devices continued threading through the abyss, as if floating on the brink of hell’s gate, a truly terrifying ordeal.

Splash~

[Current depth, 1790 meters.]

Viola’s voice calmly echoed.

Ten minutes later, Infinity and Beifeng 09 slowly emerged from an expansive murky ocean into deep waters. As Infinity’s searchlight finally illuminated the fissure at the cliff base, Lin Xian dryly asked Viola:

"Rescan the terrain."

[Sonar detected Galan Island Trench, consistent with hydrological intelligence; our current depth is 1790 meters, linear distance to cliff is 4782 meters. According to scan results, we’ve exited the Giant Ocean God’s range.]

Beep.

In the dark abyss, Infinity and Beifeng 09’s searchlights were tiny fireflies in the starry darkness, small and silent.

Upon realizing they successfully descended into the abyss beneath the Giant Ocean God’s heel and exited the monster’s range, members aboard Infinity and Beifeng 09 exhaled a deep breath, likely having spent a lifetime’s worth of cold sweat in those few tens of minutes.

"God, did we escape right under that monster’s nose?"

"This is unbelievable."

"Don’t rush to celebrate," hearing the communications begin to ease; though Lin Xian relaxed slightly, he remained cautious and said.

"Everyone, we might soon reach the super vortex array below this trench; it’s not a quick tourist route. You’ve seen how it was, prepare for steady action in each compartment!"

Lin Xian’s words immediately made hundreds tense again, quickly taking action after the recent tumult over the sea ridge.

Super vortex array - every word in this phrase seemed unsafe to everyone.

"We’re this deep in — fear doesn’t seem to mean anything now."

Chen Sixuan’s complexion had improved considerably; she sighed and looked at Lin Xian: "We can only continue boldly forward."

"It’s okay, those who survive calamity earn blessings later; we’ve passed the most dangerous times." KIKI tapped the sonar detector with her finger: "As long as that monster doesn’t suddenly turn to chase us, we should have no worries."

Lin Xian nodded. That was indeed his thought; this sea region’s major concern was that Giant Ocean God. Initially, he believed if the island explosion achieves the effect of feigning from another direction, they might casually avoid the Giant Ocean God, without facing it directly.

Now the terrifying monster was right before them, slipping away beneath its nose, eliminating fear of encountering the Giant Ocean God after entering Jingyuan Vortex Channel.

With this realization, Lin Xian had no hesitation, directly informing Ryan to accelerate, with both deep-diving devices heading into deeper abyss.

The depth gradually reached 2200 meters underwater, Infinity’s beam couldn’t illuminate the bottom nor the edges in the deep darkness.

"According to coordinates, we should be near the Jingyuan Vortex Channel, but there’s no response?" KIKI operated the computer, comparing with Viola’s coordinate data.

[Sensors now detect ocean current speed of 8-9 meters per second here; comparing thermocline variations and environmental factors, a large submarine current likely exists.]

Viola’s analysis remains calm [I suggest deploying a small unmanned deep-dive drone for multi-directional exploration.]

"Detector? Do we need to search?" KIKI asked.

"No need."

This time, Lin Xian’s voice came, standing by the porthole, his gaze directed at the deep sea outside, he spoke

"It’s right before us."

These words brought everyone’s eyes to the porthole; Ding Junyi was puzzled, especially considering they were at two thousand meters underwater, where light is absent. More importantly, how could a submarine current be ’seen’?

But since these words were spoken by Lin Xian, Ding Junyi immediately dismissed doubt, quickly joining him at the porthole. However, the next instant, this calm scientist’s pupils contracted, revealing an expression of sheer astonishment.

Meanwhile, in the rear compartments, including Ryan, Erica, Azir, Gedi aboard Beifeng 09, they too leaned to the porthole, staring outward in surprise.

Infinity and Beifeng-09’s searchlights were devoured by the boundless darkness, but further ahead, faint light began appearing in the black abyss, becoming more extensive, vast, as if it was a limitless bioluminescent sea.

What unfolded outside the porthole was not a dark void, but a fluid galaxy composed of countless geothermal luminous microorganisms, stretching for hundreds of kilometers, akin to a shattered galaxy poured into the trench.

Luminous microorganisms were drawn by currents into dense strands, visually illuminating the previously invisible underwater super vortex into a massive abyssal galaxy, like an eye of the ocean. From afar, one could intuitively feel the vortex array’s terrifying flow rate.

Everyone silently witnessed this, seemingly beholding a splendid cosmos; no one imagined seeing such a sight in the deep sea. These luminous microorganisms let them clearly see a vast super underwater vortex, extending into the distance like a colossal rainbow bridge underwater!

"Should I say it’s too beautiful or too terrifying?" Monica quietly gazed out from the nuclear power compartment, her eyes subtly fluctuating, finding the situation strange. The colossal galaxy vortex seemed to carry death-like splendor while embodying nature’s horrifying might, compounded by the world-class catastrophic creature threat behind, many watched this with incredibly complex emotions.

"A visible deep-sea undercurrent." KIKI glanced at Lin Xian: "Lin Xian, doesn’t it feel like a rainbow bridge coming to rescue us?"

Boom boom boom!

Intense tectonic activity caused dense bubbles to rise from the trench bottom, signaling Galan Volcano truly beginning to roar, ocean stirring, and mantle lava, like a golden-red giant python, breaking through seabed rock layers, while supercritical steam mixed with sulfur fumes blasted into a kilometer-high ring tsunami wall!

Lin Xian felt the enormous vibration of the waters, promptly ordering

"Viola, enter the vortex, everyone prepare for impact!"