I told Lei Jijian in my mind that forcing a confession from someone like the driver would be completely useless and would only increase his temper.

Or rather, if I were to force him to say something, I even felt that this guy might just give up entirely.

If we have to remove the driver's heart again, we won't be able to handle it.

They threatened us with that thing, and I really didn't know what to do.

Or rather, I was quite hesitant about whether or not to tell him about this. If I did, and he had some ulterior motives and led us to some deeper place, wouldn't that be the end of us?

But the light outside is indeed getting dimmer and dimmer.

There hasn't been a single change.

The whole place became somewhat dim and dark, like being locked in a small, dark room.

At that moment, I thought of that strange businessman we met in the deep sea area before.

He locked us in that small room, and it took us a lot of effort to escape.

That guy was also trapped there and blown up.

If this weren't not the deep sea area, I would have mistakenly thought we were in the place where the curse of the Sea Town had occurred.

Because apart from their dilapidated appearance, the two places look remarkably alike.

At this moment, the girl frowned slightly. She leaned against the window, carefully observing the dark sky outside.

His eyebrows were furrowed in tension.

But at that moment, he expressed a completely different opinion from mine.

“Brother, do you remember? Last time when we came out of Blue Armor, we encountered a similar situation as we walked towards the shallower areas…”

The circumstances at the time.

The girl's words carried a hint of mystery, and his explanation left me somewhat puzzled.

What?

That time we went up to the front floor?

I remember that I was just running around using my wristbands and hardly paying attention to my surroundings.

But I remember that place still had plenty of sunshine.

At least it didn't have this dim feeling now; it was getting brighter and brighter. After all, we were gradually approaching the shallow layer back then.

"No, it was quite bright at the time."

It was right when I first arrived at Lan Jia's house...

Yes, that was around that time!

My heart skipped a beat.

I suddenly realized what was happening.

Yes, it did seem similar to now back then.

That feeling wasn't due to the light getting dimmer.

When we first arrived at the Lan family's house, we even thought that place was the exit!

But when they got there, they found that it wasn't an exit at all, just a place to stay.

In other words, nothing changed throughout the entire process; it was just that our perceptions were somewhat skewed.

It was only after we arrived at that place and heard Lan Jia's explanation that we realized it wasn't an exit at all. Rather, it was due to the refraction of sunlight that we mistakenly thought Lan Jia's place was the exit.

It's just that the refractive index changes at different levels.

Thinking about this, I froze on the spot.

The sunlight that was sometimes visible and sometimes dim made me feel like that place could escape directly from the shallow layer!

"You mean we've taken the wrong road, but now that we've arrived here, the rate of shortened lifespan has changed?"

I pressed on with my questions, and the anxiety in my heart transformed into a more complex emotion.

This place is really too eerie!

The girl nodded slightly and pointed to the light mist outside the window.

The fog here is made entirely of water vapor, not the kind of white fog you see in foggy weather.

"Brother, look, this one is clearly at a deeper level. I feel that the density outside is much greater than where we were just driving."

Upon hearing what the girl said, Lei Jijian seemed to suddenly realize something.

He immediately shouted it in his mind.

"Really? Master, this girl seems to be quite right!"

Otherwise, the driver wouldn't have been able to remain so calm for so long..."

I nodded. Indeed, if it really is due to the refractive index, then there would certainly be some changes.

Anyway, as long as the direction is right, that's fine!

I didn't think about it any further, and just breathed a slight sigh of relief.

After seeing clearly that the rocks outside and the nearby aquatic plants were similar to those before,

I finally realized that we hadn't gone in the wrong direction.

If we've gone the wrong way, then we've basically already ventured deep into some part of the ocean's interior.

That kind of place is beyond our reach; in other words, it might be some mysterious place even more terrifying than those sea scabies worms.

At this point, I didn't know where Lan Jia was, but I knew in my heart that finding him was the top priority.

Although the light was dim at this time, the blue glow from the bottom of the hovercar and the headlights were able to illuminate the road ahead a little.

The most eye-catching thing in our car was the wristbands on my and the girl's wrists.

At times like these, even a little bit of light can keep you from getting too agitated.

I had just breathed a sigh of relief, but after walking for a while, the driver in the driver's seat suddenly spoke urgently, breaking the original peace.

"Oh no, it's veering off course! The navigation is really off course!"

"This is it, damn it!"

My heart skipped a beat, and the anxiety I had just suppressed surged up again instantly.

"It's off course? How could that be?"

I glanced at the rocks outside, and the girl's comment about the sunlight dimming must be due to the refractive index here.

But if it's not a problem with the refractive index, what else could it be? I really can't think of any other reason.

The direction was definitely right, and if it were wrong, the surrounding scenery would have changed long ago.

The girl frowned slightly as she looked at the black vines outside.

"Yeah, brother, that rock was exactly the same as the one marked on Fatty Zhou's map, so how could it have veered off course?"

But no matter how much we spoke, the driver just kept his lips pursed and didn't say a word, only staring intently at the somewhat worn-out navigation screen.

It was as if this was his only hope.

At this point, Lei Jijian told me that this guy probably didn't want to talk to us at all; he just wanted to lead us to the wrong place.

To be honest, I'm more inclined to believe the driver.

After all, if he wanted to lead us astray, he would have done so long ago.