111: Reverse Devil's Throat

"Vroom—"

Accompanied by a low roar of engines, three massive mechas, buoyed by the seawater, slowly sailed out of the hangar and officially entered the perilous, pitch-black deep sea.

"Whoa! This feels amazing!" Chen Hu's loud, excited voice rang out through the communication channel. "I can't feel any water pressure at all! Moving around is just like being on land! No, it's even more flexible than being on land!"

He controlled the heavy titan mech, swinging a giant power gauntlet in the water and creating a powerful undercurrent. This feeling of breaking free from shackles and having his power fully unleashed made him want to let out a roar of satisfaction.

Wang Yi's thor mecha was much quieter; he was skillfully testing the mecha's various functions. The ultra-high maneuverability provided by the vector thrusters allowed him to complete all sorts of incredible turns and evasive maneuvers in the water, like a true deep-sea dragon.

"Don't be careless, get familiar with the controls first," Wang Yi reminded calmly. "This thing is different from any vehicle we've ever driven before; treat it as an extension of our bodies."

"Roger that, Captain!"

Under the guidance of Su Yuan's Gods Perspective, the three mechas formed a standard triangular assault formation and steadily advanced toward the ruins of Atlantis.

Along the way, they encountered harassment from quite a few deep-sea monsters, but these small fry—who weren't even fit to carry the Megalodon's shoes—didn't even have the qualifications to be stuck between the teeth of these three steel behemoths.

Chen Hu's titan mech didn't even need to use its weapons; just by charging through at full throttle, it could smash those monsters into a pile of meat paste.

This crushing advancement filled Dragon Country's livestream room with a joyful atmosphere.

"Hahaha! Awesome! So satisfying! This is how our Dragon Team should look!"

"Before it was humans fighting monsters, now it's Gundams clearing out minions. They're not on the same level at all!"

"I feel bad for those little monsters for a second. They didn't check the almanac before heading out and ran into three Iron Overlords."

"To the person above, don't get happy too early." Su Yuan looked at the area marked in deep red as a danger zone on the system map, his eyes calm. "The real test is just beginning."

A massive, incredibly deep sea trench lay across their path.

This trench was bottomless and over ten kilometers wide; looking down from above, it was like a hideous scar on the face of the Earth Goddess. On the system map, its name was—'Devils Throat'.

"Captain, an abnormal gravitational field detected ahead!" Zhao Zihan's voice came from the Hawkeye Submersible. "We are being pulled down by a massive force!"

Even without her saying it, Wang Yi and Chen Hu felt it too.

Their mechas felt as if they had fallen into an invisible quagmire. The engine power had been pushed to 120%, but their forward speed was getting slower and slower, and they even began to slide uncontrollably toward the dark abyss below.

"What the hell is this?!" Chen Hu roared, overloading the mecha's engine. "Move for me!"

The thrusters behind the titan mech sprayed a piercing blue tail flame. The powerful thrust allowed him to barely stabilize his form, but he still couldn't advance even a fraction of an inch.

Inside the cockpit, ear-piercing alarms blared in unison.

[Warning! Ultra-strong gravitational source detected! The hull structure is under excessive load!]

[Warning! Engine power overload! Mandatory shutdown expected in thirty seconds!]

"It's no use! Captain! This suction is too strong! Our engines can't hold up at all!" Chen Hu shouted anxiously.

In the Dragon Country Operations Center, everyone's hearts were in their throats.

"What's going on? How can there be such a strong gravity in the trench?" Li Guodong's eyes widened, a look of disbelief on his face.

"It's a defense system," Su Yuan explained, revealing the truth. "The defense system of the Atlantis civilization. This isn't just an ordinary trench; beneath it, a whole set of gravity arrays has been laid out. Any unauthorized target will be torn to shreds by this force and dragged into the ten-thousand-meter abyss."

"Then what do we do? Can we go around it?" Lin Zhan asked hurriedly.

"We can't go around it," Su Yuan shook his head. "This is the only passage into Atlantis. If we want to get through, we can only force our way in."

"Force our way in? How? The mecha engines are about to burn out!"

"If the engines won't do, then we'll give them an 'anti-gravity' BUFF." A hint of a smile appeared at the corners of Su Yuan's mouth.

He opened the system mall and quickly locked onto an item among the dazzling array of goods.

[Special Service: Regional Gravity Correction]

[Effect: Can offset or reverse gravitational field effects within a designated area for ten minutes.]

[Price: 8,000 national fortune points.]

The price was not cheap, but the effect could be described as heaven-defying.

"Xiao Su, you have a way?" Seeing Su Yuan's expression, Lin Zhan knew he must have found some black technology again.

"Mm." Su Yuan nodded. "Just a small matter of physical rules, it's not a big problem."

He didn't explain much and directly consumed eight thousand national fortune points.

"Activate, Gravity Reversal Compensation!"

Just as the mechas were about to be dragged into the abyss, an invisible lifting force, diametrically opposed to the trench's suction, acted out of thin air around the three mechas, forming an invisible protective layer.

Wang Yi and the other two, who were struggling with their mechas in the cockpits, suddenly felt the mecha bodies lighten dramatically.

That terrifying suction that felt like it was going to pull out their internal organs vanished without a trace in an instant.

In its place was a strange sensation, as if they were being pushed upward.

"Eh? The suction... is gone?" Chen Hu was stunned. He looked at the various parameters on the dashboard that had instantly returned to normal, his face full of confusion.

"It's not gone, it's been offset." Wang Yi reacted immediately; he could clearly feel the energy field around the mecha resisting the gravity. "The Administrator has made a move!"

"Holy crap! The Administrator is awesome!" Chen Hu cried out excitedly.

"Stop the nonsense!" Su Yuan's voice rang in their minds. "This 'Gravity Reversal' only lasts for ten minutes. Everyone, push engine power to the maximum and charge through at full speed!"

"Roger!"

Wang Yi roared and slammed the control stick forward.

The thor mecha's vector thrusters erupted with an unprecedented bright light, like an arrow leaving a bow, turning into a streak of blue light and charging toward the opposite side of the trench!

Chen Hu and Zhao Zihan followed closely behind!

Under the shocked gazes of the audience worldwide, the three Dragon Country mechas, like three divine dragons swimming against the current, braved the terrifying gravity that was enough to tear apart an aircraft carrier. With an indomitable and resolute posture, they forcibly crossed this death chasm known as the 'Devils Throat'!

In the livestream room, after a dozen seconds of silence, the bullet chat completely exploded.

"What did I just see? Anti-gravity flight? Is this a sci-fi movie?"

"This is too ridiculous! That's gravity strong enough to suck in mechas! How did they do it?"

"Dragon Country! It's Dragon Country again! Just how much black technology are they hiding!"

"I'm already numb, seriously. Now, even if I saw the Dragon Country contestants flying out of Earth in their mechas, I wouldn't be surprised."

Meanwhile, the Dragon Team, having successfully crossed the trench, had already spotted that legendary lost city.

On the other side of the trench, upon a vast seabed plain, countless massive crystal obelisks emitting a soft blue light stood silently like mute giants, forming an incredibly spectacular wall.

And behind that wall, a deep-sea city so magnificent it was beyond words loomed indistinctly.

"Is... is that Atlantis?"

Even with Wang Yi's firm mental state, he couldn't help but feel his mind sway when he saw this miracle-like sight.

However, before they could recover from the shock, those seemingly beautiful obelisks suddenly lit up with a dangerous red light.