181: Chapter 181 The Deep-Sea Body Opens the Door, the Iron-Skinned Man Kneels Down

Chen Chen stood up and picked up the Rift-Sky Gravity Ship-Slayer Blade.

Jiang Jiuyou's fingers paused.

"You're going out?"

"It's locked."

"Perfect."

Shen Wanbing immediately pulled up the water pressure data.

"Depth is two thousand seven hundred meters."

"Even with Deep Sea Adaptation, the external pressure exceeds the endurance limit of a normal constitution."

Chen Chen pushed open the side door of the cockpit.

"Normal?"

Shen Wanbing didn't try to persuade him further.

She tossed him a temporary underwater communication clip.

"Stick it behind your ear."

Chen Chen caught it and casually pressed it on.

Blood Rose leaned against the doorframe, her red lips parting slightly.

"Master, come back alive."

Su Xiaoqi shouted immediately.

"Brother, bring its head back! I want to use it as a pot!"

Shen Wanxing muttered to herself.

"Won't that pot be poisonous..."

Chen Chen did not look back.

The cabin door opened.

The high-pressure seawater was briefly held back by the shield.

The next second, Chen Chen stepped out of the Ghost Fortress.

The pressure of the two-thousand-seven-hundred-meter deep sea bore down on him.

Fine white steam rose from the surface of his skin, and the blood in his body roared; his 217 points of constitution withstood the pressure.

After the territory passive Deep Sea Adaptation took effect, most of the movement loss caused by water pressure was negated.

Chen Chen rolled his shoulders, gripped the golden ship-slayer blade, and walked towards the giant bronze door.

The Dismantler's mechanical voice noticeably stuttered.

"Detection error."

"Pure carbon-based organism entering the deep sea without protection."

"Re-detecting."

"Detection error."

"This does not conform to logic."

A voice came through the communication clip behind Chen Chen's ear.

"Logic?"

"You won't have to calculate for much longer."

He stomped his foot.

The seabed bedrock cracked.

His entire body surged forward, propelled by the compression of the Gravity Domain.

The main cannon on The Dismantler's chest charged rapidly.

"Executing extermination."

A gray-white beam shot out.

Chen Chen raised his blade to block.

The Gravity Collapse on the Rift-Sky Gravity Ship-Slayer Blade directly deflected the beam, and the gray-white energy grazed his shoulder and surged into a distant fissure.

He arrived in front of The Dismantler in an instant.

[Absolute Control: Gravity Field activated.]

Twenty-five times the gravity pressed down.

The Dismantler's six-meter-tall mech sank on the spot.

The bone armor emitted a series of cracking sounds.

Its knees smashed into the seabed bedrock, and its mechanical arms were warped by the anchor chain.

The Dismantler's electronic voice became sharp.

"Gravity anomaly!"

"Joint load exceeded!"

"Core stability dropping!"

Chen Chen stood before it and raised his blade.

"You kneel quite quickly."

Red light suddenly lit up on The Dismantler's chest.

Mio shouted in the channel.

"It's going to self-destruct its core!"

Shen Wanbing reported the count simultaneously.

"Energy surging!"

"Detonation in ten seconds!"

Jiang Jiuyou locked on immediately.

"Can the secondary cannon interrupt it?"

Mio roared back.

"Don't shoot! It will blow up the sea-stabilizing needle!"

Chen Chen raised his left hand.

206 points of Mental Power condensed into a thin silver thread, drilling directly into the inverted cross on The Dismantler's chest.

The Dismantler's entire body convulsed violently.

"Intrusion."

"Mental-type intrusion."

"The unit lacks mechanical interfaces; cannot explain..."

Chen Chen clenched his five fingers.

The silver Mental Power tore open its energy transmission nerves.

The red light dimmed instantly.

"If you can't explain it, then shut up."

The blade fell.

The golden blade light slashed across the bone mech's neck.

The Dismantler's head flew up, was swept half a circle by the deep-sea current, and then pulled back to Chen Chen's feet by the anchor chain.

The mech's remains knelt in place, the core in its chest cracked, and gray-white energy leaked out bit by bit.

Of the twelve gray-white warships, six remained.

Just as they were about to retreat, Jiang Jiuyou had already retaken control of the firepower.

"Want to run?"

"Third round, full ship targeting."

The Sea Scale's secondary cannons fired in a volley.

The remaining six gray-white warships were blown up one by one.

The last one tried to rush into the giant bronze door but was held back by the aftershock of the void sea-suppressing anchor chain; Qin Hongye shot and blew up the bridge, followed by a shot from the secondary cannon.

The deep sea returned to silence.

Su Xiaoqi jumped up in the carriage.

"We won!"

Blood Rose stretched.

"Half-step Tier 6, is that it?"

Mio reminded immediately.

"Don't get cocky, the seal on the sea-stabilizing needle is about to give out!"

Shen Wanbing also spoke urgently.

"Chen Chen, the outer anchoring of the sea-stabilizing needle has broken."

"You must manually make contact to re-bind it!"

Chen Chen stepped on and crushed The Dismantler's remains, bent down to pick up the bone mech's head, and casually tossed it into his storage ring.

"Shen Wanxing."

"Loot it later."

In the carriage, Shen Wanxing almost blacked out.

"At a time like this, you're still thinking about me looting corpses!"

Chen Chen had already walked to the golden giant pillar.

The sea-stabilizing needle spanned the giant bronze door, most of its outer seal had peeled off, and there were ancient patterns on the pillar, with circles of golden light spreading along the seabed fissures.

The High Priestess reminded in the channel.

"Don't pull it out!"

"It's pinning the door right now!"

"You can only take control first, don't pull it out!"

Mio was also anxious.

"Right, take over the permissions first."

"If you pull it out, the door will open completely!"

Chen Chen reached out and pressed his hand against the sea-stabilizing needle.

A system prompt popped up immediately.

[Detected pseudo-artifact fragment: sea-stabilizing needle.]

[Current status: seal damaged, anchoring authority leaked.]

[Force takeover?]

Chen Chen did not hesitate.

"Take over."

The golden light crawled up along his arm.

The Deep Sea Royal Court fissure began to shake.

A dull knocking sound came from inside the giant bronze door.

Once.

And again.

Shen Wanbing's Radar map was instantly covered in red.

"Something is approaching from behind the door!"

Jiang Jiuyou lowered her voice.

"Energy level?"

Shen Wanbing's hand paused for half a second.

"Exceeds Tier 5."

Mio's projection flickered unsteadily.

"Chen Chen, retreat quickly!"

"This isn't the outer guard of the treasury."

"This is a patroller from inside the door!"

Chen Chen's palm remained pressed on the sea-stabilizing needle.

The giant golden pillar suddenly contracted.

The giant pillar that originally spanned the seabed shrank into a golden short rod over a meter long, falling into Chen Chen's palm.

The High Priestess froze in place.

"You... you pulled it out?"

Chen Chen looked down at the sea-stabilizing needle in his hand.

"It shrank on its own."