100: Deep Sea Base Crisis

[national destiny arena No. 3, officially opening!]

[dungeon Name: Subnautica]

[Background Introduction: Beneath the unexplored five-thousand-meter deep sea of humanity, lies a forgotten scientific research base of the old era. Rumor has it that secrets to opening a new era are buried there, and horrors from ancient times sleep within.]

[Mission Objective: Explore the base, uncover the truth, and survive.]

The cold system notification sounded simultaneously in the minds of Su Yuan and the twenty members of the Dragon Team.

The next second, the world spun.

Wang Yi only felt his vision go dark as an irresistible, immense pressure squeezed from all directions, as if it wanted to crush his internal organs. His eardrums buzzed, and his bones groaned under the unbearable burden.

When their vision returned, they were already in a strange environment filled with a metallic texture.

It was a massive circular main control room. The surrounding walls were covered with various instrument panels and screens that had long since gone dark. the air was filled with a strange smell of metallic rust mixed with the salty stench of seawater. Looking out through the massive circular porthole, there was only an endless, heart-palpitating darkness.

"This place... is five thousand meters under the sea?"

Li Bingyao's voice trembled slightly. Just standing there, she could feel the terrifying water pressure from the outside, as if an invisible giant hand was tightly clutching the entire base.

"Everyone, check your equipment immediately and report your physical condition!" Wang Yi, living up to his role as captain, reacted instantly and issued orders in a deep voice.

However, before his words could finish, a piercing sound of metal twisting suddenly came from deep within the base!

"Creeeeak— Screeeech—"

The sound set one's teeth on edge, sounding as if the metallic structure had reached its tolerance limit and could snap at any moment.

"Warning! Warning! Outer hull structure of Area 7 damaged! Structural cracks detected!"

"Water pressure overload! Airtightness decreasing!"

The red alarm lights at the top of the main control room flashed frantically. The piercing electronic sound instantly tore through the dead silence and shattered the small sense of security everyone had just established.

"What?!" The Architectural Engineer Zhang Wei's face changed drastically. He lunged toward a nearby console that was barely functioning, his hands flying across the keys.

A three-dimensional structural diagram of the base was pulled up on the screen, with one area flashing a lethal red.

"Damn it! It's the area connecting to the external pipes! This base is too old. With metal fatigue plus years of water pressure, it can't hold on anymore!" Cold sweat instantly broke out on Zhang Wei's forehead. "The cracks are expanding! In thirty seconds at most, seawater will come flooding in!"

Just as he finished speaking, a loud "bang" rang out, as if confirming his words.

A visible white water mist erupted from the end of a corridor, followed immediately by an overwhelming surge of black seawater!

"We can't block it! Quickly close the isolation doors over there!" Wang Yi roared.

But it was already too late.

The terrifying water pressure instantly crushed the long-dilapidated isolation doors. The bone-chilling seawater, like a beast released from its cage, surged into the base's interior with the force of a tidal wave!

The air pressure readings in the main control room began to drop frantically, and the oxygen concentration was falling below the critical value at a rate visible to the naked eye.

"It's over..." a young team member muttered in despair, his face pale.

In the global livestream room, the hearts of all Dragon Country viewers jumped into their throats.

Dragon Country National Destiny Operations Center.

The atmosphere was heavy to the extreme. General Lin Zhan stared fixedly at the screen, his fists clenched so hard they cracked.

"Little Su... is there a way?" Major General Li Guodong's voice was somewhat dry.

Everyone's gaze focused on the young man who had remained calm from the very beginning.

Su Yuan did not answer.

His consciousness had already sunk into the administrator system, opening the Gods Perspective.

In his field of vision, the entire massive deep-sea base was like a transparent model; every structure and every circuit was clearly visible.

The cracks that were frantically expanding were precisely marked by the system with red highlights. Even the length and depth of the cracks, as well as the fatigue of the metal, were turned into a series of data accurate to six decimal places.

"Trying to take out the Dragon Team this way? Too naive."

A cold smile curled at the corner of Su Yuan's mouth as his fingers slid rapidly across the virtual mall interface.

Soon, he locked onto an item.

[Item: Polymer Nano-Repair Foam]

[Price: 5,000 national fortune points]

[Effect: Can expand rapidly in high-pressure and low-temperature environments to fill and repair cracks in any material. Once solidified, its strength exceeds that of special alloys.]

"It's you."

Su Yuan did not hesitate for a second, directly consuming 5,000 national fortune points to exchange for twenty units of repair foam.

The next second, he issued an emergency mission directly to Wang Yi.

[Emergency Mission: Base Repair]

[Mission Description: Use the Polymer Nano-Repair Foam provided by the Administrator to repair all leak points in the base.]

[Mission Guide: Detailed coordinates and repair sequence have been sent to your tactical eyepiece.]

Inside the dungeon, Wang Yi, who was about to organize his teammates to forcibly seal the leaks, felt a sudden jolt in his mind.

A semi-transparent mission panel popped up. Simultaneously, in his tactical eyepiece's field of vision, a detailed perspective view of the base down to the millimeter appeared, with golden arrows clearly marking the precise location of every leak point and the optimal repair angle.

Immediately after, twenty high-tech metallic spray canisters appeared out of thin air in front of everyone.

"This is... support from the Administrator!" Wang Yi was surprised and delighted, immediately roaring: "Everyone, don't panic! Grab these things and do as I say!"

He grabbed a spray canister and shouted to the crowd: "Wu Qiong, you're the fastest, go to the three o'clock direction, the crack in that ventilation duct! Chen Hu, come with me, the main crack in the front needs strength to support it!"

"Zhang Wei, you're in charge of technical coordination; tell us which positions have the weakest structure!"

Orders were issued rapidly. The originally panicked team instantly found their backbone.

Wu Qiong activated Space Flicker. His figure flickered several times before appearing in an extremely tricky corner dozens of meters away. Facing the crack that was spurting water, he pressed the button on the spray canister.

"Pshhh—"

White foam surged out. Upon contact with the freezing seawater and metal, it instantly began to expand and harden at an incredible speed!

The crack that was leaking water was completely sealed by a silver-gray solid substance within just three seconds. No matter how the seawater outside battered it, it remained motionless.

"It works! This stuff is incredible!" Wu Qiong shouted excitedly over the channel.

Seeing this, the others' confidence soared. They immediately followed Wang Yi's command and rushed to their respective assigned areas.

Chen Hu used his terrifying brute strength to forcibly hold an alloy plate against the largest gap, buying time for Wang Yi's repair.

Under Su Yuan's precise, God's-Perspective-like guidance and the teammates' full cooperation, in less than five minutes, all leak points in the base were completely plugged by this miraculous foam.

The accumulated water inside the base was drained by the emergency drainage system, and the air pressure and oxygen concentration slowly returned to normal levels.

The crisis was averted.

The team members collapsed on the floor, gasping for breath. Everyone was covered in cold sweat, feeling the relief of having survived a disaster.

They looked at the walls covered in silver-gray substance, their faces filled with shock.

Just then, another alarm sounded, but this time, the sound was not as frantic, yet it was even more lethal.

[Warning: The main power system has short-circuited due to seawater immersion and has been forcibly shut down.]

[Backup energy startup failed...]

[Warning: Oxygen generation system has stopped. Estimated remaining oxygen duration: 59 minutes 58 seconds.]