210: Undersea volcanoes, alien pioneers, aerospace fighters

Comrade Yang Dian, of course, didn't know that because he was in a hurry and didn't avoid the so-called airspace, which scared people into preparing to flee.

At this moment, he had already arrived in the waters between Xiyu and Min River Zhangzhou, closer to the Zhangzhou area.

Standing high in the sky, he glanced left and right, and Comrade Yang Dian frowned again.

"Approximately 60 kilometers from Zhangzhou, and about 105 kilometers from Xiyu."

"Here?"

Looking down at the deep sea beneath his feet, Comrade Yang Dian took a deep breath and, without further hesitation, transformed into a streak of light and plunged directly into the sea.

Following the cold seawater all the way down, Comrade Yang Dian then discovered that a bottomless seafloor crack had appeared here at some point.

Wisps of hot air surged up along the crack, making the already complex underwater area even more turbulent.

In addition, the marine ecosystem in this area was exceptionally rich.

Sea slugs swaying as they swam, sea lizards that could evolve into Godzilla in movies, jellyfish with mutated eyes, giant lobsters with one claw bigger than a human after mutation, colorful moray eels, schools of sharks, never-before-seen mutated creatures...

"The seabed, especially a resource-rich seabed like this, is indeed a Treasure Trove..."

After tidying up the items in his spatial wristband, Comrade Yang Dian filled it with a few cubic meters of water.

Then he turned his body, first tying up a mutated giant lobster, then catching a mutated jellyfish, and finally throwing several unknown mutated creatures into the spatial wristband.

After all this, he turned his body and sank towards the seafloor crack that had appeared at some unknown time.

The crack was very deep and V-shaped, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.

The crack exposed on the seabed was less than 3 meters wide, but the deeper he descended, the wider it became.

By the time Comrade Yang Dian had penetrated nearly a thousand meters into the crack and vaguely saw a red glow at its bottom, the distance between the two sides of the crack had already expanded to nearly thirty thousand meters!

"Is this the planetary anomaly mentioned in the investigation report?"

"Under certain special reasons, the expansion of the planet is silent."

"Although the Earth's diameter is increasing, its surface area is also growing."

"However, the newly added areas either suddenly appear as a mountain peak in the deep mountains and old forests, or a certain seabed area silently expands by a few points."

"Therefore, the planetary changes have had almost no impact on humans or continental plates."

"According to the statistics from the Oceanographic Bureau, this area in the middle of the Min-Taiwan Strait definitely did not have this submarine volcanic cluster before."

"So, this submarine volcanic cluster also belongs to the newly 'expanded' area?"

Sinking above the magma-churning submarine volcanoes, he turned his head and surveyed the murky waters around him, Comrade Yang Dian let out a long breath:

"A wondrous world..."

Amidst his emotion, Comrade Yang Dian followed the faint guidance and arrived at a volcano with a circumference of about 10 kilometers and a crater diameter of about 300 meters.

"Is the Fire Flame Turtle here?"

He flew around the volcano twice; the guidance clearly pointed here, but Comrade Yang Dian couldn't find any trace of the Fire Flame Turtle.

"Could it be inside the magma?"

Frowning, he continued to descend.

Sinking into the crater, looking at the golden-red magma inside, churning as if about to erupt, Comrade Yang Dian twitched his mouth, then wrapped his hand in Qi and blood and extended it into the magma.

"Hiss, hiss~"

Although his Qi and blood were rapidly consumed in the golden-red magma, Comrade Yang Dian still breathed a sigh of relief.

The consumption wasn't fast.

At this rate, he could swim in the magma for about 30 minutes before his Qi and blood ran out.

That is, including the time to go down and come back up, he could search in the magma for 15 minutes.

"It's still a bit unstable."

He muttered, then swayed his body and began to ascend.

A moment later, he returned to the surface, Comrade Yang Dian took out his confidential phone, opened his contacts, and then opened the AI page.

"Xiao Mei, Jingwei, Yutu, Yinghuo, Gonggong, Xiaoshuai..."

His finger slid across the screen twice, and after seeing a certain avatar, Comrade Yang Dian stopped the screen from sliding and tapped the avatar with his finger.

With a soft 'beep,' the call connected, and a somewhat mechanical voice emanated from the phone.

"Hello, esteemed Interstellar Pioneer, Martial Arts Grandmaster, Deputy Director of Fuzhou Paranormal Management Bureau, Comrade Yang Dian."

"I am Tiangong, the artificial intelligence of Huaxia Tiangong Base. How may I assist you?"

Comrade Yang Dian was stunned after hearing Tiangong's address:

"When did I get the title of Interstellar Pioneer?"

Tiangong's voice remained unchanged:

"Your grand feats on the Alien Planet are now widely known."

"After discussion by the Wen Organization, you will be awarded the Interstellar Pioneer Medal and a certain number of meritorious rewards in three days."

"Therefore, I address you as Interstellar Pioneer."

Upon hearing this, Comrade Yang Dian couldn't help but curl his lips.

The Interstellar Pioneer Medal, he liked it.

Meritorious rewards, he liked them even more.

'I wonder how many meritorious rewards the higher-ups will give me, enough for me to buy how many heaven and earth treasures...'

The thought flashed and disappeared, and Comrade Yang Dian shook his head again.

'Now is not the time to think about being an Interstellar Pioneer.'

He reined in his wandering thoughts and spoke into the phone again:

"I have found traces of the Fire Flame Turtle, located 60 kilometers from Zhangzhou Binhai Volcanic Scenic Area towards Penghu North Island, on the seabed."

"There is a crack on the seabed, leading down to a volcanic cluster, which is suspected to be a newly 'expanded' area of the Earth after the Qi Revival."

"The Fire Flame Turtle should be in one of these volcanoes."

"I want to enter the volcano to search for traces of the Fire Flame Turtle, and I need a mecha with extremely strong heat resistance that can penetrate deep into the magma."

The artificial intelligence on the other end of the phone paused for two seconds, then Tiangong's voice rang out in Comrade Yang Dian's ears again:

"Esteemed Comrade Yang Dian, your request has been approved. Please wait at your current location."

"In 13 minutes and 37 seconds, an aerospace fighter will arrive at your location with the Crimson Mecha."

As soon as Tiangong finished speaking, Comrade Yang Dian looked up at the sky.

He didn't have to wait long before he saw a brilliant white star light up from The West, flying towards him at an incredibly exaggerated speed.

13 minutes and 37 seconds later, an aerospace fighter, nearly 150 meters long and painted in bright white, precisely hovered in front of Comrade Yang Dian.

Then, a robotic arm extended from its perfectly sealed wing, holding a wristband, and came before Comrade Yang Dian.

Comrade Yang Dian took the wristband and 'looked' inside.

As expected, wasn't there a five-meter-tall Crimson Mecha inside the wristband?

After receiving the item, Comrade Yang Dian nodded to the pilot, who was sitting in the cockpit and looking at him.

The pilot, receiving the message, raised his hand to his head and saluted Comrade Yang Dian.

Then the robotic arm retracted, and the aerospace fighter, with a slight hum, ascended a hundred meters into the sky, spewing a brilliant blue tail flame, creating bursts of sonic booms as it flew towards the firmament...