Chapter 466

Kong kong kong!

Water pressure, collisions, and metallic clangs filled the entire Infinite Train carriages; the pitch-black seawater was murky, and outside the windows, the massive black-and-white banded sea serpent’s body gradually grew slimmer as the descent continued.

In the deep water, countless bioluminescent plankton emitting emerald-green light began to appear densely, making it clear that the train was descending rapidly.

“Ryan, we’re descending too fast—if we hit anything, the pressure hull could deform.”

“At this speed, if we plunge straight into the Super Vortex Array, we might all disintegrate!”

Behind the Infinite Train, the deep-sea nuclear submarine, loaded with hundreds of members of the Falcon Sea Corps, descended at a steep angle, its ballast tanks fully flooded, reaching maximum descent speed; alarms blared throughout the vessel, but Ryan no longer hesitated—he fixed his gaze on the target on the monitor and gave a decisive order.

“Ignore everything else—stick close to Lin. We only have one chance!”

Hong long long!

The continental shelf trembled, the seawater boiled, the submarine base collapsed in vast sections; boiling magma from the geothermal wells completely submerged and consumed the release unit of the Deep-3 Geothermal Heat Intake Device; lava surged into the base’s corridors and laboratories, everything burning and exploding.

The sky had turned pitch dark; the black canopy merged almost seamlessly with the churning sea surface, making it impossible to distinguish night from ocean.

On the Infinite Train, the nearly vertical descent tightened every nerve; the high-speed plunge caused the train’s special metal pressure hull to emit metallic groans, with continuous “teng teng teng” crisp sounds, and everyone in every carriage held their breath.

Phase One: descend to 2260 meters beneath the Abyssal Cliff.

Phase Two: enter the Subsea Super Vortex Array of the Still Abyss Passage.

If the Infinite Train and the nuclear submarine survive being torn apart by water pressure or underwater monsters during Phase Two, Phase Three is to ride this deep-ocean current and break out of the Haiyan Island waters.

Yet now, the Infinite Train, marked with a Level 4 designation, had become a lighthouse in this pitch-black sea, drawing every monster from the Lidao and the deep ocean alike toward it.

So what Lin Xian had to do was trigger a high-energy geothermal wave by detonating the geothermal heat device—clearing the anomalous entities while using a larger “lighthouse” to divert their attention, then using the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Errors’ dimensional bubble to perform a “disappearance” magic trick amid millions of sea monsters.

Lin Xian knew his plan was extremely bold, and achieving such a perfect outcome might be nearly impossible—but there was no time for hesitation; detonating the geothermal well was the most viable option. At this moment, Ding Junyi’s words made Lin Xian’s heart skip.

Bloom?

Don’t tell me the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Errors is going to malfunction now.

“What do you mean by ‘bloom’?!”

Ding Junyi said nothing; she simply raised her hand and guided a tendril to bring the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Errors before Lin Xian. He looked—and saw that the purple luminescence within its stem had become far more brilliant than before, and at the tip of its uppermost leaf, a white bud the size of a fingernail had formed.

This bud was clearly different from the one in Star Abyss No. 5; its petals seemed to flow with geometric shards of light, like projections of some dimensional space. In Lin Xian’s vision, the bud’s petals were slowly unfolding. He fixed his gaze on its center—and saw only pure black. Merely looking at it, he felt an inexplicable sensation: the black center was expanding, as if pulling him in, and deep within that darkness lay countless points of light, like galaxies.

13…

12…

At this moment, Lin Xian did not notice that the time on his watch had begun to slow; he himself began sinking into the darkness, and his vision flooded with flashing images.

A colossal explosion that shook heaven and earth, a giant mushroom cloud illuminating the sea, writhing sea monsters, the colossal shadow of the Black Ocean Deity in the azure sea, a super vortex of black whirlpools, screams inside the Infinite Train, the ticking of a clock, a metal die endlessly repeating the numbers 5 and 6, the retinal countdown reaching 00:00:01—and then blood washed over everything…

Si!

Lin Xian snapped back from the dark hallucination, took a deep breath, and looked at his countdown timer.

15…

14…

What’s going on?

Before him, the strange bud of the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Errors was slowly opening, and at the same time, Ding Junyi’s voice came through.

“A more mature or higher-level state of a calamity plant—I don’t know what effect activating it will produce.”

Lin Xian frowned at Ding Junyi: “What do you mean? Can we use it now or not?”

“Yes.”

“Good!”

“Lin Xian!!!” Lin Xian grabbed the cultivation chamber of the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Errors as Kiki’s shout came through his headset: “We’re about to plunge into the Abyssal Cliff!”

【Danger: I detect a massive number of biological signals outside the corridor.】

13, 12…

Lin Xian’s heart sank: “How many?”

Drip—Wei’ola synced a sonar image onto Lin Xian’s power armor’s holographic display; after the circular scan path, the entire screen turned blood-red!

Kong kong kong!

The Infinite Train struck a violent underwater current; the entire train shuddered violently. Beneath Lidao lay a steep underwater slope, and in the Abyssal Cliff region, a narrow seamount valley existed—where massive ocean currents suddenly accelerated, sucking seawater directly down into the abyss.

It was precisely because of this natural terrain and current environment that the former Federation had built a secret submarine base here, allowing direct, silent access to the 1000–1200 meter deep layer.

“This is bad!”

“What do we do? Should we fight our way out?”

At this moment, Xiang Ningjing, Qian Dele, and others transmitted urgent voices.

“I can freeze a patch of seawater to create a descent environment—once we enter that vortex, we might shake them off,” Ryan’s voice also came through the comm channel.

“Lin Xian, we’re 300 meters from exiting the corridor!” Chen Sixuan shouted.

Drip, drip—the watch’s “nightfall” alarm rang incessantly.

“Ignore it—everyone, brace for impact! Ryan, just stay close to the Infinite Train!”

9…

8…

7…

In Car 3, Lin Xian shouted and grabbed the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Errors’ cultivation chamber, flying toward the cockpit as his power armor adjusted its thrusters downward.

At that moment, several green vines seized Lin Xian and the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Errors, stabilizing him; Ding Junyi controlled the vines like extensions of her own limbs, swiftly approaching and speaking coldly to Lin Xian:

“I’ll help you!”

Ge ge ge ge!