This game is so weird!

A little while later, the brand-new wooden fish ran to the seaside again.

Before the group of anglers could even ask, Muyu excitedly shouted.

"Guys, the underwater world is absolutely gorgeous!!"

"The clear water and colorful underwater world are much more interesting than snorkeling on some islands! I wonder if they could release a VR mode; that would be amazing."

"oh!!!"

"It's not a scam after all?"

Wooden Fish continued, "Moreover, I didn't suffocate in the sea until I was finally eaten by the fish, at which point my vision became slightly darker, so there must have been a diving oxygen setting."

"Brothers, if we can't catch fish, we can go into the sea to fish for them!"

After saying that, it was as if a new world had been opened. Everyone got excited. Regardless of whether they wanted to go fishing or not, they could at least take a stroll in the sea.

Without waiting for anyone to call on them, two or three players nearby dived into the sea and disappeared with the surging waves.

"puff!"

"It's safe. The character can swim, and visibility gradually decreases after 20 seconds of diving, but they didn't die until 50 seconds. And the underwater world is absolutely gorgeous!"

A female character emerged from the sea, loudly relaying intelligence.

Upon hearing this, the others who were still fishing couldn't stay still any longer and rushed towards the sea.

"Shall we go too?"

Mokuyu came to Ermiao and Yeyu's side. After the two put the fish and bait into the storage box and planted the fishing rod on the beach, they ran into the sea together.

The world on the screen shattered into blue the moment the wooden fish entered the water.

It's not the blue of the sea, but the warm, permeating blue of light filtering through the water. The light has a shape in the water; you can see it slanting into the deep sea like countless transparent pillars, with plankton floating inside, as tiny as gold dust.

Further down, the coral reefs replaced the previous underwater landscape.

Not the kind of hard, branching coral ornaments. The coral here is like breathing grass, soft flowers, and flowing, expansive colors. The purple ones are like feathers, opening and closing with the movement of the water; the orange-red ones are like the sun rising from the seabed, their tentacles shimmering with firefly-like lights; and there's another kind, a bluish-white, spreading across the rocks in large patches, looking from afar like someone has laid out a starry sky on the seabed.

The fish passed by on the screen without making a sound.

Their silver scales don't reflect light in the water; instead, they absorb light—absorbing the surrounding light and transforming it into stripes on their bodies.

A flat fish with yellow edges swam past the screen of the wooden fish, glanced at him, rolled its eyes, and then slowly turned a corner and disappeared into the purple coral reef.

Deeper inside, something is glowing.

It's not lamplight, not sunlight, it's the light of living organisms themselves.

A dandelion-like creature hovered in mid-air, its transparent canopy pulsating with a deep blue light. With each contraction, a halo of light rippled outwards, spreading into the darkness before slowly fading away. Its tentacles drooped down, as thin as silkworm threads, their tips glowing intermittently, as if sending some ancient signal.

The seabed is not flat.

Further on, the ground suddenly collapsed, forming a huge rift valley.

The edge of the rift valley was covered with red, shrub-like organisms with stiff branches that swayed against the undercurrent.

The wooden fish swam to the edge and peered down from a rock—it was pitch black below, but within the darkness were scattered points of light, some far away, some near, some large, some small, some still, some moving slowly, as if leaking in from another universe, carrying some strangeness that did not belong to this world.

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle——————"

"Gurgle!"

Just then, a strange noise interrupted the wooden fish's observation.

Turning my head, I saw a strange grayish-brown crab crawling on Er Miao's face.

The crab's body is round and plump, covered with a patterned hard shell. Some ominous red spots, like cysts, are scattered all over its body, and the unusual red color occasionally shimmers slightly.

What's even more ominous is that the spider-like, segmented long legs are firmly gripping Er Miao's head, while the hard pincers are swinging up and down, trying to tear a piece of flesh off Er Miao's body.

"Gurgle!!!"

Seeing that the wooden fish had finally noticed her, Er Miao shouted even louder, but the shouts were distorted in the water and only a few bubbles remained.

Won't you drown if you shout like that in the water?

"Gurgle—"

Before Er Miao could make another sound, her body stopped struggling and floated quietly in the water.

emmm...

Seeing the strange gray crab clamp down on Er Miao's thigh with one pincer, seemingly about to turn and crawl towards him, Mu Yu mourned for his friend's death for a second, then turned and swam quickly towards the surface of the sea. As he passed a school of fish, he even caught a small, unsuspecting fish.

What a piece of trash! It can't even beat a crab.

A little fish that looks like a dart dared to run right into my face. I'll take you back and smash you to pieces as compensation for my emotional distress.

Thanks to the ocean for its gifts!

When Er Miao returned to the beach, the storage box they brought was basically filled with their catch of fish and various shells and seaweed seeds. The number 348.5pt on the side panel made Ye Yu and Mu Yu jump around the box with joy.

"I was terrified! I saw a glowing seashell on the seabed and was about to scoop it up when a fat crab suddenly jumped onto my face. I couldn't get it off no matter what I did, and it was all dark around me. All I could see on the screen were crab legs."

"I was almost scared to death! Isn't this game a scam if it doesn't have a horror game label?"

"Hahaha, did it end up getting pinched to death by a crab?"

Hearing her two friends laughing, Er Miao replied irritably.

"I was suffocated. I shouted 'Muyu' for ages before it finally responded. The last two shouts made the screen go black for a second, and then it just disappeared."

"After resurrecting, I was notified in the lobby that I had lost 10 biomass. I was required to either retrieve the body or increase the mission objective by 10 points before I could join the pioneer base. What a loss."

"Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!"

Ye Yu and Mu Yu laughed even harder after hearing this. After finally calming down, Mu Yu said to Er Miao, "It's okay, we caught most of them. Catching fish in the sea is too fast."

"These fish are acting like they've never seen people before, they're just sitting there dumbly, not running around much, hahaha... Shall we go catch a couple more times and try to finish the beginner quest before bed?"

"No way! I want to fish from the shore. The water is too scary. I'll wait until I have the equipment."

Er Miao's face turned green after hearing this.

The surface water and shallow water are fine.

Once you reach the rich, fish-rich areas on the seabed, the light suddenly dims, and you can't see anything at all under the cover of giant seaweed and corals. You can easily be ambushed by aggressive creatures and have no way to fight back. You can't even communicate with each other, and you might even drown.

What kind of extreme survival challenge is this?

"There seems to be a small, glowing thing near my body. It looks quite valuable. You can go take a look if you have time."

"Watch out for that dead crab."

"Once I get the equipment, I'll definitely roast it and eat it! I'm going to the store to give the game a review first."

"Okay, okay, I'll go and rate one too in a bit."

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SDM Game Review: [Negative] The graphics are excellent; the ocean waves and vibrant seabed are incredibly captivating—the purple feather corals in the coral reef area and the eerie blue bioluminescence in the glowing rift are wallpaper-worthy screenshots! However, the gameplay is too hardcore: I dived into the dark area to collect glowing shells, only to be attacked face-to-face by a red-spotted crab. Unable to call for help underwater, I could only swim aimlessly and eventually suffocated (and even after reviving, I lost 10 biomass). UI cues are urgently needed: an oxygen bar, underwater communication tools, and a monster encyclopedia! The fishing gameplay is also terrible; the controls rely entirely on random button presses, the fishing line breaks easily, and there's no item information—I don't even know what the big-eyed fish I caught is called. [Personal Rating: 4/10] As a demo, the flaws don't outweigh the merits; the development team should implement information cues as soon as possible.

SDM Game Review: [Positive] Fishing in the sea is so much fun! The fish are so stubborn and don't run away. You can easily catch fish with a simple scoop in the coral reef area (it's so satisfying to catch dartfish with a wooden fish)! It's a pity there's no status information display. After diving for 50 seconds, the visibility suddenly turns dark and you die very quickly.

SDM Game Review: [Positive] The graphics are stunning! The underwater light pillars, plankton, and blue and white corals creating a starry sky are breathtaking, but the lack of light sources and weapons makes it unfriendly to those with thalassophobia.