Chapter 459: Bait Torpedo

Lin Xian had originally wanted to talk to Ding Junyi about the geothermal induction device and the gamma-ray problem he had encountered. However, before he could speak, he was attracted by Ding Junyi's words. His expression shook slightly, and he couldn't help but ask:

"Not a three-dimensional existence—what do you mean?"

"Don't be nervous. This is just a conjecture I generated during the process of researching ability items and the source of dark energy. Actually, based on a rigorous scientific attitude, I shouldn't have used this conjecture for discussion. After all, you tend to approve of the content I express to you. On a personal level, I am honored, but from a practical perspective, this guess currently has no verification, because for high-dimensional existence, all forms of power are unknown to us."

Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian and said seriously: "Since you are considering the various phenomena occurring after the Apocalypse Day in the direction of a higher civilization, I also boldly push the research direction toward this aspect. As far as the present is concerned, besides survival, humanity has one most direct but always unsolved question that has not been answered: that is, what is the true purpose of these strange entities attacking humanity and the Star Abyss devouring the Blue Star?"

Rumble.

The undersea earthquake came again. The tunnel buzzed, and the carriage vibrated. Lin Xian grabbed Ding Junyi's hand to steady himself. One minute later, the earthquake disappeared. The vibration amplitude was even greater than before, and the interval between the two was less than half an hour.

"This submarine volcano looks like it could erupt at any time." Seeing the earthquake stop, Lin Xian let go of Ding Junyi's hand and said in a deep voice.

Ding Junyi looked at the carriage and still said with a calm expression: "For ability users and us who possess heavy transport vehicles like the Infinite, natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis shouldn't pose too much of a threat to us. You are worried about the strange entity siege, right?"

Lin Xian nodded: "I came to you for this matter..."

After speaking, he immediately told Ding Junyi about the discovery of the energy-release port and his plan. Although it was about strange entities, Lin Xian still wanted to hear the thoughts of Ding Junyi, this biologist. However, looking at the posture of this earthquake, Lin Xian felt that time might not be enough. He might have to immediately activate the energy-release port to stabilize the device before dark.

Hearing Lin Xian's words, Ding Junyi's eyes lit up, and she nodded deeply: "If the geothermal nuclear energy converted by this induction device has a special attraction to strange entities, this plan should be effective... I only mean attracting part of the strange entity groups on Chasang Island. But what you said about increasing the release to attract the Great Ocean God to shift its target to the Garan Volcano and then carry out hunting in advance—this sounds..."

"I know," Lin Xian sighed with a solemn expression: "It's just a hypothesis. Anyway, this energy-release thing must be done. I don't hold much hope, but we can incidentally monitor and observe it. Maybe we can find something."

Lin Xian rubbed his trigeminal nerve. He could still see that damned countdown with his eyes closed. He was indeed treating this idea as treating a dead horse as if it were a living one; the primary plan was to save their lives first.

Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian with a hint of appreciation in her gaze. She greatly appreciated Lin Xian's style of never giving up in any situation and constantly leaving himself a way out. As a teammate and the person Ding Junyi admired, this gave her a special sense of security at all times in this apocalypse. This was also why she would calmly do research in the carriage regardless of the wind and rain outside.

"I am more concerned about three questions."

Ding Junyi said calmly: "First, what exactly is the attraction point of this geothermal nuclear energy to strange entities that it would attract so many large strange entities? Second, why would the Great Ocean God carry out hunting behavior? Third..."

She looked at Lin Xian: "How can you be sure that the Great Ocean God will leave after completing the hunt?"

Lin Xian's expression stiffened upon hearing this. Ding Junyi's words hit the key point. Yes, regarding the current siege, he was truly at his wit's end. Hanging alone on an island, the sky and the seabed were filled with dense strange entities. A slight carelessness would result in being reduced to ashes. The pressure brought by that World-class organism was like a giant stone pressing on his chest, not to mention the strange countdown before his eyes, and various strange things he still couldn't figure out.

"Not sure," Lin Xian sighed: "These are all from the previous observation records of the Foundation, but indeed no one knows what hunting is in this situation. We are like being trapped in a snake den now. What we can do is to try our best not to be marked by darkness and not be discovered."

Ding Junyi heard this, put her hands in her pockets, and said very calmly: "Using geothermal nuclear energy to attract and observe the Great Ocean God's hunting behavior—I don't know what the essential purpose of this Foundation is. However, they did such things and built such a large base and geothermal induction device. It couldn't have been an experiment based purely on conjecture. There must be a clear purpose. Such long-term observation shows that they achieved or are achieving one of their expected goals. Finally, the situation we encountered is the same situation they would encounter. But they all evacuated safely. Doesn't that mean this action is still relatively safe? At least, in this base, it is relatively safe?"

Lin Xian shook his head: "The activation of the Garan Volcano was something they didn't expect, which is why they evacuated. This place is no longer safe. Once the volcano erupts, we cannot stop it..."

He stated his point of view directly, but stopped suddenly before he could finish, his gaze sharpening slightly.

"Wait," Lin Xian looked at Ding Junyi: "What did you say in your last sentence?"

Ding Junyi adjusted her glasses: "I said, the situation we encountered is the same situation they would encounter."

Lin Xian's expression shook violently upon hearing this. He suddenly thought of something and said:

"Smart, Director Ding!"

After speaking, he ran directly out of the carriage.

Watching Lin Xian's back, Ding Junyi smiled inexplicably, then followed him off the train, following Lin Xian all the way toward the monitoring hall of the submarine base.

At this time, in the monitoring hall, Kiki and the others had already transferred all the monitoring devices set up at the energy-release port. The seawater below was dark and turbid, but on the biological radar monitoring screen, many red dots of various sizes could be seen swimming.

"Lin Xian!"

Seeing Lin Xian come over, Kiki immediately called to him: "The control valve of the energy-release port has been connected. It can be activated at any time."

"The stability axis of the Deep-3 geothermal heat induction device has shifted. This is caused by the magma in the geothermal well exceeding the danger height. Looking at this situation, we don't even have 12 hours left." Ryan was also standing in the monitoring hall at this time, accompanied by Vanessa. Besides them, other core members of the Falcon Sea Group were outside moving supplies and the remaining weapon equipment unloaded from the sea group.

The nuclear submarine base became much livelier all of a sudden. Among the hundreds of people in the Falcon Sea Group, there were many children and women, and even a mecha squad built by Azir and the mechanical engineers in the team. Many people who were disabled in the disaster were equipped with mechanical prosthetics, which improved their mobility.

"We must open the energy-release port as soon as possible. Maybe it can alleviate it a bit."

Lin Xian nodded. Seeing Qian Dele, Shu Qin, and others were all here, he didn't stop his pace and said directly to Kiki: "Open it immediately. Kiki, Ryan, you watch it. I'll go down and take a look."

Unexpectedly, Lin Xian didn't seem to care about opening the energy-release port and walked hurriedly toward the submarine deep-water port below. Kiki was stunned, wanting to call Lin Xian back, but then saw Ding Junyi following behind Lin Xian, so she took back her words and sat down directly, operating the system to start releasing energy.

"Lin?" Ryan pressed his sunglasses, also feeling somewhat puzzled at this time.

"We open it directly. He has other things to do," Kiki didn't hesitate and started remotely opening the seabed energy-release gate directly.

Clang, clang!

As Kiki's fingertips slid across the holographic interface of the console, tens of kilometers away, beneath the waters of Chasang Island southeast of Haiyan Island, a mechanical vibration sound suddenly came. Beneath the vortex creature's corpse and the seabed, the dark energy-release port gate was being torn open by orange-red cracks.

The alloy gate, several meters in diameter, shattered amidst the screeching of hydraulics. The accumulated geothermal nuclear energy turned into a molten gold torrent and gushed out. The high temperature instantly vaporized the surrounding seawater. The expanding bubble cloud swept across the cliff like a nuclear explosion. The moment the radiation reading soared, the majority of the vortex creature's torso and a large number of strange entity corpses around it were scorched and melted, bursting out gray-brown seabed dust!

The nuclear energy flow hit the seabed, forming a radial dust storm. The orange-red light pierced through the pitch-black waters, illuminating thousands of sea worms in the vortex. At this moment, a hundred-meter-high steam column suddenly rose along the coast of Chasang Island. The boiling seawater washed the charred corpses of strange entities onto the reefs. Everyone in the submarine base could only see a bright white color on the monitor at this time, with no image signal at all.

"Look!" ===== CHAPTER 460 =====