188: Chapter 188 What a huge wire!

Li Taiping looked up toward the void.

In a place invisible to the naked eye, secret ripples were vibrating.

The wine glass in the captain's quarters vibrated gently, ripples spreading across the surface of the red wine.

Su Mei also sensed something was wrong; the smile on her face faded as she asked tentatively and doubtfully:

"It's here?"

"Yeah."

Li Taiping replied with only a single word.

In the next second, the sky over the entire Mofeng Mountain and Sea turned completely black.

All light was swallowed up.

The torches, searchlights, and rune lamps on the thousands of warships in the fleet dimmed all at once.

Someone looked up.

Then, his mouth slowly fell open.

"What... what is that?"

More and more people looked up.

Outside the "Many Children, Many Blessings".

Shen He stood on the deck, the wine bowl in his hand shattering with a crack.

Shen Xiu was about to curse, but after looking up, his neck froze.

In the sky.

An island.

A Floating Island, hanging upside down beneath the black clouds, was slowly emerging.

It was too big.

So big that the thousands of warships beneath it looked like a pile of floating wood shavings.

The bottom of the island was covered in black rock layers.

Between the rock layers, deep red cracks pulsed with light, as if something were breathing inside.

Hundreds of thick chains were wrapped around the entire island.

Each chain was dozens of meters thick, its surface carved with ancient runes.

Thunder and lightning snaked along the chains.

Crack.

A bolt of purple-black lightning struck down, and a patch of the sea in the distance instantly exploded; the seawater was forcibly compressed into a black mirror-like surface by the light of the electricity.

"Floating Island..."

Bing Yu poked half her head out from the balcony door, her nine tails all bristled.

"It really is... it really is the Black Tide Sovereign's nest..."

Before she could finish, she immediately covered her mouth.

He Yushui looked down at her: "What did you just say?"

Bing Yu's eyes darted around: "I didn't say anything."

"Do you think I'm deaf?"

"Maybe it was the wind."

He Yushui: "..."

What time is it, and she's still playing dumb.

Li Taiping walked out of the captain's quarters and onto the third-floor balcony, his gaze landing on the Floating Island.

The moment that island appeared, he felt four completely different powers.

Thunder.

Levitation.

Gravity.

Corrosion.

It was as if the rules of this sea area had been temporarily changed.

Li Taiping frowned slightly.

He had thought it was just an Epic-peak boss to be killed for rewards and to clear the dungeon before entering the Survival Eerie Sea.

Now it seemed this stage wasn't that simple.

Boom—

The Floating Island vibrated slightly.

With it as the center, an invisible air pressure spread in all directions, and the entire sea area suddenly sank a notch.

Crack! Crack! Crack—!

The black seawater beneath their feet actually made a sound like steel cracking.

A second-rank warship couldn't withstand the pressure, and its hull bent on the spot. The Survivors on the deck were forced to their knees, their foreheads bleeding from the impact.

The public channel instantly exploded.

"The sea! The seawater is collapsing downward!"

"This is fucking seawater! Seawater you can stand on! The density is already so ridiculous, and it can still be compressed further?"

"I hear the sea surface making noise! Like an iron plate cracking!"

"Is this reasonable? Is this really reasonable?"

"Don't ask, this world has never been reasonable!"

"I can't breathe!"

"Help... help me..."

Someone's voice stopped abruptly.

Fortunately, they weren't dead, just unconscious.

More and more people lay flat on the deck, as if a mountain were pressing down on them, their bones making faint creaking sounds.

Some had bleeding nostrils, some saw black spots, and some clung desperately to the railings, their fingernails peeling back, yet they refused to fall.

Shen He's knees slammed onto the deck. He gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.

"Don't panic!"

"Get down!"

"Turn on all hull reinforcement functions!"

Shen Xiu was also pressed into a hunch. He stabbed a blade into the deck to support himself and roared at those nearby.

"Whoever dares to call for a retreat, I'll hack them first!"

After roaring, he himself almost coughed up blood.

This pressure wasn't even aimed at them.

It was just the aftershock.

It was just a breath the island took before opening its eyes.

But just this one breath had already made tens of thousands of Survivors unable to stand.

Fear began to spread.

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