Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 276 Facing the Lord of the Abyss!

As the mechanical sound echoed from a corner of the sunken ship at the bottom of the sea, the message proactively provided by the Eye of the Mortal World quickly appeared before Shi Ming's eyes.

[Skynet Guardian!]

Danger Level: ★★★

[Skills: Death Ray, Skynet Descent, Ultimate Art]

[A creation of the King-class drifting ship No. 001, an unstable experimental subject lost at the bottom of the sea, and a cleaner of Skynet bugs.]

???

What is a three-part honorific name?

The danger level is three stars, which seems pretty serious.

The moment the red eyes lit up, Shi Ming keenly sensed immense danger. In just an instant, the Skynet Guardian's laser eyes, which resembled breathing lights, reached their brightest point, and a blazing laser beam shot out from one of the Skynet Guardian's eyes.

"Basalt Shield!"

Bang!
The intense light instantly vaporized the still, deep sea, sending up a massive amount of bubbling foam! Wherever it passed, the seawater wasn't separated, but rather evaporated directly, forming a steam channel that lasted for an extremely long time, ionizing countless violent bubbles and emitting a hissing sound of electric arcs.

Only then did Shi Ming understand just how high the "technological content was as high as three or four stories" really was.

This must be what the Eye of the Mortal Realm refers to as the "Death Ray".

The death ray was enough to kill any A-level sea beast, but when it touched Shi Ming's body, it was defended. Half of it was perfectly defended, causing a large amount of scorching steam to rise from Shi Ming's body, while the other half was reflected back, blasting the head of a robot away with a bang.

The hissing sparks ignited in the deep sea, then quickly went out.

The remaining rays struck the corroded metal of the sunken ship, and the residual energy quickly liquefied it, creating a gaping hole with melted edges, running from front to back, on the wreckage of the giant ship.

[Severely damaged.]

[Alarm, alarm, alarm!]

The headless robot beeped an alarm, seemingly seeking help, while the other was engrossed in analysis. In this brief moment, Shi Ming's attacks came one after another. Streaks of white light descended into the deep sea, freezing the damaged and intact Skynet guards in ice with a crack.

The ice is extremely cold and hard, and it connects to the seabed. Even the water pressure of the deep sea cannot erode or dissolve it in a short time.

Whew~ Shi Ming put away Da Han.

Sure enough it’s not simple!
"It's been submerged for so many years, yet it still has energy?" Shi Ming looked at the robot frozen in solid ice, filled with intense curiosity.

Skynet...

King-class drifting ship No. 001...

And this four- or five-story-high technology...

What is the connection between these three? In addition, the six king-class drifting ships on the endless ocean all have their corresponding names and their locations are mostly fixed and traceable. However, the mysterious King-class drifting ship No. 001 could not be found by Shi Ming even through his authority as a twelve-star honorary knight. Even its name was unknown. All that was known was that it was carrying out a unique mission at sea.

But no one has ever seen it.

Everything about it is a secret.

Also, why is it that robot, which has been lost here for so many years, can remain unharmed even by the B-level sea monsters that inhabit this ship, and cannot attract its attention, but only wants to kill me?

debug?

They even claimed the test was non-human.

You can't deny my race just because one of my stats exceeded the human limit, can you?
There were too many secrets, and no clues to follow. Shi Ming didn't have time to think about it for the time being, and his eyes started darting around again.

Although your attack was clean and efficient.

[But the Eye of the Mortal Realm must remind you that the moment you used the Black Tortoise Shield, the Abyss Lord, 137 nautical miles away, sensed your presence. It will never forget this powerful skill that withstood its attack, causing it excruciating pain and costing it a Vile Tentacle.]

But this time its rage is unimaginable, not only because you severed its tentacles, but more importantly because humanity used the Extreme Evil Sanctuary, fundamentally desecrating it!

[The movements of a Saint-level sea beast cannot be as accurately and completely as desired, since the Eye of the Mortal is currently only at stage two and cannot know everything. We can only detect that its malevolent tentacles are on their way, and calculations indicate it will arrive within 10 minutes.]

[The Eye of the Mortal Realm is analyzing the combat strength of both sides and quickly providing your win probability analysis:]

[A single malevolent tendril vs. you: 95% win rate]

[Ten Evil Tentacles vs. You: 53% Win Rate]

[Hundred Evil Tentacles vs. You: 11% Win Rate]

The Abyss Lord possesses a total of 1069 evil tentacles, making it difficult to determine how many of them were activated in a single attack.

Recommendation: Strategic retreat.

Depend on!
The information from the Eye of the Mortal World progressed very quickly; in just a moment, Shi Ming had read all the information.
He smashed the unstable ice, which was unstable due to the high pressure, with a punch, quickly retrieved the headless Skynet Guardian, and was about to forcibly retrieve the second Skynet Guardian when the robot, which was still trapped in the ice, turned into an invisible object that could penetrate the ice layer. Then, a bright Skynet descended from the sky, instantly covering the entire sunken ship and the surrounding seawater area, trying to capture Shi Ming in one fell swoop.

A jarring electronic sound.

"Undestroyable, initiate program, capture."

"The net of heaven has descended."

Can it transform into an information feed?
interesting!
But I don't have time to waste with you. Zero-entropy weapons are the bane of all fancy gadgets! Including silicon-based creations like yours! With a hiss, the Great Cold was unleashed once more. The network that descended from the sky didn't seem to be a physical entity, but rather a network entirely composed of information. Even the seawater, frozen solid, couldn't stop its convergence. However, the robot's body had already solidified again. Shi Ming was prepared to destroy the source of the trouble, even though this might greatly diminish the robot's research value, it was a last resort.

The blade flashed.

Endless layers of solid ice rapidly took shape. Shi Ming traversed through the ice, his Great Cold strike precisely targeting the robot's heart, from which a chilling aura erupted.

The intact robot wanted to activate the skill "Ultimate Art" at the last moment, but it was forcibly stopped by the inevitable fragmentation. It was then instantly gathered up by Shi Ming and put into the warehouse.

Ultimate art? That sounds like a self-destructive skill.

How could I allow you to carry out your plan so smoothly?

Hopefully, it can still be pieced together.

The source of the trouble has been resolved, and the information flow network that appeared above the sea has disappeared without a trace. The entire battle took less than three seconds, which can be described as clean and efficient.

Shi Ming looked at the sunken ship.

It is suspected to be an auxiliary vessel of the King-class drifting ship No. 001 when the drifting era had just begun. Now it is completely decayed, and its former secrets are nowhere to be found. Only the two highly technological robots have been preserved.

Shi Ming activated the Third Law with all his might, destroying the strange underwater shipwreck with a single strike.

The giant ship disintegrated into tiny fragments.

This is to prevent other information transmission technologies and recording instruments that may be on board from being used to record their current situation. The enemy and friend of 001 are unclear. If it notices them, or if they find some clues about them after recovering the shipwreck, there may be other troubles.

Shi Ming has little affection for forces that are quick to "eliminate" others; his principle is to eliminate all trouble that can be prevented.

Having done all this, the Sun Shooter activated its maximum power and traversed the depths of the boiling sea.

What follows is still a game of cat and mouse.

……

……

……

On the edge of the boiling sea, the Universiade has already begun ahead of schedule.

Meanwhile, Shi Ming was still traveling at high speed.

This location is approximately 137 nautical miles from the center of the Boiling Sea. It will take the Evil Tentacle about ten minutes to arrive. This speed is not much different from the current speed of the Sun-Shooting Technique.

The game of cat chasing mouse will end with the mouse escaping.

……

The silence in the deep sea is unimaginable.

bass--

Suddenly, Shi Ming felt a strange sensation descend upon him without warning; an evil, terrifying, and indescribable pollution rose up from behind him. The impenetrable darkness of the deep sea solidified in that instant, becoming so dense it seemed to flow.

An indescribable shadow was cast directly upon the sun.

Shi Ming turned his head to the side.

His gaze swept far behind him, the shadow seeming both distant and close at the same time.

It was a twisted mass that had already descended like a dark cloud pressing down on the city. The powerful pressure made him feel suffocated instantly. This feeling was also accompanied by an unstoppable pollution. Just one glance made him feel as if countless insects were trying their best to burrow into his body through every hole and every pore.

It was an eye, 300 meters in size, wrapped with countless evil tentacles, indifferent to everything.

Hula~
Its eyes have already spotted its prey.

With a flick of its pupils, thousands of malevolent tentacles proliferated and expanded wildly within them. The outline, originally three hundred meters long, instantly grew to over a thousand meters in length. Embedded on the chaotic and complex malevolent tentacles were tiny pupils, seemingly formed from the collapse of solidified nebulae, densely packed together.

Chaos, eeriness, evil!
Shi Ming's body stiffened.

Mudd!

This isn't the arrival of evil forces! It's the actual entity that's come directly!

【incredible!】

[This was not a miscalculation by the Eye of the Mortal World! Enraged to the extreme, the Abyss Lord unleashed 1000 malevolent tentacles, and at the last moment, used a special method to directly descend upon his true form!]

Your body should have begun to be corrupted, but thanks to the nine-headed dragon pattern, it barely withstood the corruption.

In three seconds, its big eyes will make intimate contact with you.

[Shi Ming vs. Yuan Zhu: Win Rate...]

[0.1%?]

A lamp was taken out of the warehouse by Shi Ming.

(End of this chapter)