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This person is like a regulated prescription drug.

Nathan thought to himself.

The drug is potent and fast-acting, but its side effects could fill an entire A4 page, and each one is potentially fatal.

The emotion he had just begun to feel...

Any one sentence can leave you speechless and unable to express your opinion!

Nathan cleared his throat, just about to discuss the proper intervention for post-traumatic stress disorder—

"Splash!"

The sound of water breaking came from the side of the boat; the person who had been waiting had arrived.

"Boss! Give me a hand! This guy... isn't coming up!"

Almost instantly, Renyi snapped out of his lazy state, straightened up abruptly, and rushed towards the ship's side with Nathan beside him.

"!"

Nathan was pulled off balance and nearly did a front flip, but luckily he was quick and managed to grab the cable.

"Dear Captain, could you please give us a heads-up before the next takeoff?"

If this happens a couple more times, my heart rate will really become irregular.

Without turning his head, he kept his eyes fixed on the churning sea and replied:

"Hmm? Sorry."

The perfunctory tone indicated that he hadn't listened to a single word.

Nathan: "..."

I understand now. The captain's gentleness and humanity... are fluid. This ability to manage emotions with such ease is truly beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Less than fifty minutes ago.

Wearing a cool suit of mecha, Ivan, holding Xiao Jiu, jumped into the sea in a perfect fish-dive pose.

His and Xiao Jiu's task was to find a special creature, like the [Heavy Armored Naked Fish] from the previous two chapters, that carried a battery pack. They didn't need to kill it; they could just lure it up.

Despite Klaus's repeated admonitions and instructions—

"This is just an emergency version; there are no blueprints, it's all handmade."

But in Ivan's view, with his Lv4 [Deep Sea Barbarian] rank and the equipment he had, wasn't that like having the King and the Queen—a royal flush?!

So he and Xiao Jiu turned the underwater world into a playground, plunging headfirst into the dark currents.

Four thousand meters.

Water pressure poses no threat whatsoever to Luna titanium alloy.

Xiao Jiu used several anemones as a flail, smashing them around wildly. Ivan followed behind, throwing straight punches at anyone he didn't like. A Lv5 sword-kiss shark was knocked crooked and slunk away.

Continue descending.

Six thousand meters, seven thousand meters... There wasn't a single mutated creature or even a bright spot around us.

Until the bottom of eight thousand meters.

The freezing temperature was insulated by the Luna Titanium Alloy Armor, and the terrain was not like the pitch-black seabed scattered with shipwrecks or covered with strange algae that one might imagine.

Instead, towering metal pillars covered with hard, iron-gray plants and strange, bottomless fissures are everywhere.

Ivan swam to a small hill.

Gently brushing away the gray sand on the surface, a silver metal plate without any rust was revealed underneath!

This is?!

Is this the kind of ruins the boss is looking for?

He was about to dig up a larger area of ​​sand to see if it was the ceiling of some building underneath when Xiao Jiu's tentacles were three points faster than his.

"call out--!"

This usually incompetent mascot slipped right through the gap!

"Nine dollars and ninety cents!"

In desperation, Ivan shouted.

But he forgot he was underwater and forgot he was wearing a helmet. His roar was completely muffled by the helmet's overly soundproof design, causing him to see stars.

What if they get lost...

Wouldn't the eldest brother be heartbroken?

Ivan frantically gripped the edge of the crack with both hands, using all his strength to try to pry open the gap that was only the width of a palm.

"Crunch...creak..."

The usually quiet seabed has become lively again with the arrival of a demolition team.

"...Open...for me..."

As Ivan exerted his strength, his veins bulging.

He forcibly tore open a half-meter-wide gash in the ruins that had been dormant for countless years!

But before Ivan could even go inside and check the situation...

"Splat!"

Ivan disgustedly picked at the octopus legs stuck to his mask.

As a massive object moved within the rift, a powerful current of water gushed out, and a pair of scarlet bright spots shone in the darkness.

Back on the sea.

He leaned half his body out of the ship's side and caught Xiao Jiu as he scrambled aboard.

As Ivan was in the water, a surprisingly large black shadow was indeed visible, struggling violently, stirring the seawater into a small whirlpool.

"If it won't come up, you come up first."

Ivan's faint voice came from inside the helmet, filled with a sense of wanting to cry but having no tears:

"No way, boss! It won't allow it, I can't get up there!"

This bizarre battle of logic didn't last long.

Klaus, carrying the Newton, rushed out, letting Ivan grab the wrench. Sita and Aurora followed closely behind. The five of them used the Newton as a tug-of-war rope, engaging in a physical duel with Ivan and the underwater object, using the ship's side as a fulcrum.

"One, two, three—Go!"

As the [Deep Sea Shadow] tilted, Ivan's lower body finally detached itself from the sea surface inch by inch.

Fortunately.

He was not injured.

The Luna Titanium Alloy leg armor plates are currently intact, but they are gripped by a giant pincer covered in rust and barnacles.

Just this pair of pliers is as big as a truck cab, and it's covered with jagged serrations.

Thanks to the strength of the equipment.

The bite that could have severed him in half was stopped, but Ivan became an unfortunate bear who had stepped into an oversized bear trap, unable to pull his leg out or drag it away.

[Whoever wears this armor looks like a sardine! It even comes with handles...]

[I have to say, this equipment has decent physical defense!]

[Haha, everyone was just rushing to wear the new gear, but this time it's buy one get one free—a super cool accessory is included!]

[Ivan essentially baited the spot with his own body this time, and caught a big one.]

"It's too heavy...we're at a disadvantage..."

Klaus gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words, afraid that letting out this breath would dissipate his strength.

The creature below, whether crab or something else, had a weight advantage, and at this moment, [Deep Sea Shadow] was almost tilted at a 45-degree angle by the pressure.

This can't go on.

Hang in there.

He left a sentence to hold on, then used the wrench as a springboard to lightly land on Ivan's shoulder, who was suspended in mid-air.

He stepped onto the clamp that was holding his right leg, as steadily as if he were taking a walk on flat ground.

【Lv8 Steel Fist Emperor Crab (Special)】

[Review: This creature has a terrible temper when it wakes up, and is considered to possess all the best genes of various crab species. It has the strength and defense of a coconut crab, the lifespan of a giant spider crab, the roe of a bread crab, and... the deliciousness of a Chinese mitten crab! PS: It's very afraid of light, and even more afraid of heat.]

Good heavens, so this is the kind of emperor he is?

And that seemingly suggestive statement: afraid of light, even more afraid of heat.

It seems like setting off a firework with a [Flare] would perfectly solve the problem, but the issue is...

They're outside now, and he doesn't want to experience the 360-degree microwave treatment.

"Click...click..."

A faint cracking sound could be heard.

Looking down at Ranzi, several fine cracks spread out from the point of stress where the Luna Titanium Alloy Armor was bitten.