"Wen Shifei!" Jiang Li's voice was like a taut bowstring, carrying suppressed anger and questioning, suddenly shooting towards the figure still sitting in the control chair, "You knew he would come?! Those things outside, are they following us?!"
Wen Shifei's hands finally left the virtual keyboard that was dancing wildly.
Slowly, with an almost graceful composure, she swiveled her seat to face us again. Her cat-like eyes, like blue steel, reflected a cold and eerie light beneath the frantically flashing red alarm lights. Facing Jiang Li's questioning and the intense murderous intent that permeated the room, her face showed no trace of panic. Instead... a trembling smile, almost morbid and filled with extreme excitement, emerged!
"Of course," she said softly, yet her voice strangely pierced through the cacophony of alarms, clearly penetrating everyone's eardrums with a cold, all-controlling certainty. "How could that venomous snake, Chen Si, let go of the carrier of 'entropy'? And how could he let go of any ship that dared to salvage 'treasure' from his 'sunken' graveyard?"
Her fingertips, like playing a piano, lightly brushed over an inconspicuous scarlet button covered with a transparent protective cover on the edge of the console.
"Otherwise," Wen Shifei's lips curled up into a sharp arc that could freeze a soul, and a cold light flashed in her blue steel cat eyes. "Why do you think I converted this 'Albatross' into... a mobile 'neural pulse' transmission tower?"
Before he finished speaking!
Her index finger, with an elegance and determination like a death sentence, pressed the scarlet button hard!
Buzz——!!!
A terrifying buzzing sound that could not be "heard" by the ears, but was like billions of red-hot steel needles piercing the cerebral cortex at the same time and directly affecting the depths of the soul, instantly exploded violently with the submarine as the core!
That wasn't a sound! It was a pure, highly concentrated storm of neural impulses directed at specific mechanical logic circuits and mental connections!
Scarlet alarm lights flashed like spilled blood, splattering and swirling wildly across the Albatross's cramped command cabin. A piercing synthesized alarm mingled with the approaching shriek of the mechanical Submariner's engines, sounding the prelude to a deep-sea hunt. On the main screen, the crimson blips representing the Abyss Stalker-III, like a school of sharks scenting blood, loomed just the final three hundred meters from the virtual outline of the submarine's hull. The cold metal seemed to sense the chill of death emanating from the cutting arms and suction bombs carried by those underwater killers.
"Fisheye! Lock onto the sector with the highest target density! Ice Claws! Prepare to fire sonic jammers! Old Gun! Preheat the close-in pulse cannon! Maximum power!" Jiang Li's roar, like the howl of a wounded lone wolf, instantly drowned out the clamor of the alarms. Blood seeped from the bandage on his forehead, but his eyes burned with desperate ferocity. The pulse pistol in his hand shone brightly with a dazzling blue light, the muzzle pointed fixedly at the fastest, scarlet dot of light in the foreground on the screen! Even through the thick pressure hull, one could almost see those hideous mechanical tentacles, like giant deep-sea squids, tearing through the water and entangling themselves!
"Received! Sector B7-C3, target density peak!" Fisheye's voice trembled with a crack, and his fingers left afterimages on the console.
"The jammers are loaded! The launch channel is ready!" Ice Claw's voice was as cold as iron, but his eyes were fixed on the rapidly shrinking distance numbers on the screen.
"The pulse cannon is 90% charged! Damn! They are too fast!" The weapon operator code-named "Old Gun" had veins bulging on his forehead and beads of sweat rolling down.
A suffocating feeling of despair, like icy seawater, filled every corner of the command cabin. Fifty Abyssal Divers! Enough to rip a small research submarine like the Albatross into shreds ten times over! Conventional weapons were powerless against such a large and rapid attack!
At this critical moment, everyone's nerves are stretched to the limit!
Wen Shifei pressed the scarlet button.
Buzz——!!!
Not a sound.
It's a feeling.
It was billions of red-hot, high-frequency oscillating steel needles that ignored physical barriers and the pressure of the deep sea. They erupted and spread instantly from a modified core device deep within the hull of the "Albatross" at a violent speed exceeding the speed of light!
Inside the command cabin, all the bright electronic screens instantly erupted in blinding snow and garbled text! The cold, dark blue light gave way to a blinding, chaotic white! Several suspended holographic operating interfaces shattered like glass struck by a sledgehammer, instantly exploding into countless splattering points of light! The red alarm light overhead spun wildly, like a screaming chicken with its neck strangled. The light flickered madly a few times, emitting a few short, death-defying whistles of electricity, and then—completely extinguished!
Darkness! Absolute, suffocating darkness that swallowed everything in an instant!
“Ahhhh!” “My head!!” “What the hell?!”
After a brief moment of dead silence, the team members let out a series of painful groans and screams! Even Jiang Li groaned, suddenly covering his forehead with his hand. His body swayed, and the light of the pulse pistol in his hand instantly dimmed! Although the invisible pulse storm's main target was the underwater mechanical water ghost, the aftermath of the leak was still like an invisible hammer, hammering down on everyone's nerves! Severe pain, dizziness, and nausea instantly swept over everyone!
Lying in the icy cold of the medical cabin, I felt it most clearly! The terrifying pulse storm, like a literal tsunami, instantly penetrated the shielding layer of the cabin wall! The dormant golden lines on the back of my neck suddenly erupted with a dazzling golden light, as if being plunged into boiling oil and cold water! The golden light stream beneath my skin rushed and swelled wildly! A cold, vast will, filled with a raging rage at being offended by an ant, suddenly awakened in the depths of my consciousness like a dormant volcano forcibly detonated!
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