The corridors inside the shipwreck were already filled with seaweed and shellfish, with even corals growing in the corners, creating a dilapidated scene.

It was as if the shipwreck had been torn apart from a long-lasting tranquility.

"..."

Perlis glanced around, then followed the rope left by Furukawa Wataru through the corridor, swam up the steps covered with seaweed, and reached an area similar to a bridge.

As soon as she emerged, she saw a tall figure struggling with something——

——It’s Furukawa Ferry.

He threw the anchor hard, and the huge object weighing dozens of kilograms flew out in an instant with a burst of bubbles and hit the thing at the other end of the room.

Perlis took a closer look, and her pupils shrank immediately:

She had never seen such a monster.

It was a hunched black humanoid figure, with a pitch-black exoskeleton all over its body, and countless black spikes growing randomly on its body, mixed with countless coral-like things. Black fin-like hard tissue grew out of its arm joints, flapping slightly, helping it to move quickly in the ocean.

Its head made Perlis's fear reach its peak.

——It has a black skull covered with irregular edges and corners, and countless waving black tentacles grow out of its eye sockets.

What the hell is this! ?

"boom--"

While Perlis was stunned, the black monster nimbly dodged the anchor thrown by Furukawa Tou and suddenly attacked the captain with its fangs and claws.

Furukawa Wataru showed no fear at all. He just clenched his fist and, seizing the right moment, struck the monster that was charging towards him.

"boom--"

A shock wave burst out from the sea water, showing the power of that punch.

Despite this, the dark monster was not injured at all. Instead, blood oozed out of Furukawa Wataru's fist, quickly dyeing the surrounding sea red.

"Gu..."

A string of bubbles came out of Furukawa Wataru's mouth, and he jumped back two steps, as if trying to avoid the monster's next attack.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!!!"

Without any warning, a series of sharp cries came out of the monster's mouth, and then it suddenly swung its long bone claws towards Guchuandu.

At this moment, a red light flashed and accurately met the monster's figure -

"Boom-"

A low explosion sounded underwater, creating a series of bubbles. Perlis looked in surprise at the place where the butterfly knife met the monster's claws, where sparks were coming out.

Its claws... What material is this? Before Perlis could think about it, she quickly bounced back, leaving a trail of red light.

The monster seemed to want to pounce at Perlis, but at this moment, Furukawa Wataru pulled hard, using the iron chain wrapped around his wrist as a force point, and threw the anchor at the other end of the room towards the monster.

"boom--"

The massive anchor struck the monster from the side, nailing it hard into the rotting hull.

Before Furukawa Tou could take advantage of the situation, the monster screamed and swung out its claws, fiercely knocking away the more than ten kilograms anchor and regaining its freedom.

Just as it was about to attack Furukawato, it suddenly turned its head, and its eye sockets filled with tentacles met a flash of red light from the unsheathed sword.

"bass--"

The monster used its claw to block, but the pitch-black iron claw was still shattered by Perlis's unsheathed Iai Slash and broke violently.

Nothing is impossible to cut off from things marked by the [Red Thread].

"..."

At this close moment, Perlis made eye contact with the dark monster.

The ominous inhuman creature stared at Perlis with its tentacle-filled eye sockets, and the few muscles on its face twitched.

Then, under Perlis's gaze, the monster twisted its expression into a twisted one -

——It laughed.

“....!”

Perlis' pupils shrank, and the strange smile condensed in her bloodshot eyes, making her at a loss.

The next second, the dark monster turned around without hesitation, grabbed the rotten ship wall, tore a big hole in the wall with its undamaged claws, and rushed out.

Perlis came to her senses and kicked out suddenly, trying to catch up, but found that the monster swam straight into the dark abyss and disappeared.

He actually escaped like this...? Perlis frowned, realizing that things were not that simple.

The monster is very powerful...its body is very flexible and has terrifying maneuverability.

What on earth was that? Why was it... That ominous smile appeared in front of Perlis' eyes again, and she suddenly felt cold.

"Huh..." Perlis suppressed the countless questions in her mind, she put the pitch-black sword back into the scabbard, turned around, and swam back to the broken bridge.

Then, Perlis saw Furukawa Watari at the other end of the bridge. He had already put the huge anchor behind him and was holding a huge box.

The stern-looking Furukawa Wataru nodded slightly at Perlis, then pointed upwards, indicating that he should leave here and stop exploring.

Perlis also nodded to Furukawa Watari, but pointed downward, indicating that she should stay for a while.

Whatever was beneath that abyss, Perlis thought she needed to take a look.

"..."

After making sure that Furukawa Wataru had left, Perlis swam out of the shipwreck ruins along the big hole made by the monster, and then swam towards the deep sea rift.

At the same time, Perlis quickly drove the factor bracelet to absorb the flow of factor energy floating in the ocean, ready to rely on the cracks to shuttle back to the "Blue Reef" at any time.

"..."

As Perlis sank deeper and deeper, she gradually came to the top of the deep sea crack. This was the dividing line between light and darkness. The light that pierced through the sea surface was swallowed up by the darkness in the deep sea crack and could not penetrate.

Down there, there's a place where light can't reach.

"call..."

Perlis took a deep breath, staring into the abyss, her slender body floating among the ocean currents.

She held the butterfly knife tightly in her hand, and after getting ready, she focused her spirit and lit up the halo in her eyes.

——Nothing.

The abyss beneath the crack in the seabed was shrouded in darkness, but at this moment it seemed unusually quiet, as if everything that had happened before was just an illusion of Perlis.

How could this happen...? Perlis scanned the abyss and found that the abnormal factor energy flow in the previous ocean current had disappeared. Everything indicated that this was just an ordinary seabed crack, just a little deeper and darker.

The monster clearly went in, so there shouldn't be nothing here... Staring at the abyss, Perlis kept thinking.

But the next moment, Perlis noticed that something had changed.

When she looked up, she found that it was already pitch black in front of her.

"Um!?"

Perlis looked around and found that she was surrounded by darkness.

The darkness extended to the end of the field of vision, and there were constant strange roaring sounds in the air, like electromagnetic interference.

what happened?

Perlis did not move, but took a deep breath, causing a halo to light up in her bloodshot eyes, and looked into the depths of the darkness.

Then, at the end of that dark world, a huge eye suddenly opened—

"Om-"

The moment she looked into the giant eyes, Perlis immediately closed her eyes. Despite this, she still felt two lines of warmth gushing out of her nostrils.

What followed was countless hysterical whispers passing by my ears:

"Immotharos...Immotharos...Immotharos...Immotharos..."

Perlis didn't hesitate. She turned her bracelet violently, and then fiercely slashed forward with the butterfly knife.

"Om-"

The crack tore open, and Perlis suddenly drilled in and opened her eyes, but found that she was not back on the "Blue Reef", but still suspended above the crack in the seabed.

But what was different from before was that the sea around her was now surrounded by countless dark strips.

“Gurgle..!?”

When Perlis looked carefully, she found that they were extremely dark tentacles with a slippery luster and countless pitch-black barbs between the layers.

And those tentacles were surrounding Perlis, almost swallowing her body.

"...!"

At the critical moment, the halo in Perlis's bloodshot eyes suddenly lit up. She slashed the butterfly knife hard, trying to cut open the crack -

——But nothing happened!

How could this be...! Perlis glanced around in panic and found that all the factor energy flows were blocked.

She didn't think or hesitate, but decisively placed the butterfly knife across her wrist and slashed it fiercely -

"Shhh-"

The crimson factor shield broke, mixed with crimson blood, splashing in the ocean current and dispersing like mist.

The surging sea water and the pressure from the seabed instantly acted on Perlis, causing her brows to frown and she almost fainted.

"Well..."

Perlis did not dare to neglect it. Facing the high-concentration factor area created by the shattered factor shield, she suddenly condensed the red line and then drew it fiercely -

"bass--"

This time, the red cracks opened, broken and barely, but completely enough for Perlis's slender body to squeeze in -

"Zizi-"

Amid the overflowing electric arcs, Perlis's figure disappeared instantly above the ocean rift.

At this moment, the tentacles also suddenly contracted, squeezing the sea water where Perlis was to the extreme, leaving almost no gaps.

"boom--"

Strong shock waves burst out from the depths of the ocean current, making the waves above the current more ferocious.

After that, the tentacles silently flowed back into the deep sea rift along the shadow, sweeping away the ruined remains of the shipwreck.

The world under the ocean current returned to its usual state, calm and peaceful.

......

4) Gaze from the Abyss (Part 10)

"bass--"

At the side of the Blue Reef, the soaked Perlis jumped out of the red crack and fell on the deck in a mess.

“Ouch… it hurts…”

Perlis rubbed her pure white hair that was wet by water and breathed deeply. It was obvious that she had not yet recovered from what had just happened.

She struggled to get up, staggered to the side of the boat, looked out to the sea in the distance, and found that the half of the sunken ship floating on the sea had disappeared.

What was that just now...

Perlis tried to recall, and instantly felt a sharp pain on her forehead.

She used all her strength to condense the halo in her eyes, and the factor energy arc jumped on the wound on her wrist little by little, and soon the wound was mended, leaving only a little blood mixed with sea water.

We need to get them away from this sea area immediately...

By the way, where are Aoi and Furukawa Wataru...?

Perlis raised her head, trying to find the boat on the sea.

At this moment, a stream of hot air rose from the sea next to the Blue Reef. Aoi, with golden eyes, pulled Furukawa Wataru up and stepped on the deck:

"You go and organize the raising of the anchor, I'll go to the sea to find Pure White! If you really can't help it, you don't have to wait for me!"

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