179: Chapter 179 Deep-Sea Decapitation: Whoever Touches the Divine Needle Dies

System prompt popped up.

[Lucky Critical triggered.]

[10x multiplier activated.]

[Reward quality jump.]

[Obtained SS-rank vehicle equipment: void sea-suppressing anchor chain.]

[Effect 1: Lock onto large targets within a ten-kilometer radius for three minutes.]

[Effect 2: Negate one instance of space engulfment.]

[Effect 3: Can be used in scenarios involving deep sea rifts, void turbulence, and space gate collapses.]

Mio's projection almost pressed against the panel.

"Give it to me!"

Shen Wanxing was scared and shrank behind Shen Wanbing.

Mio immediately changed her tone.

"I meant, install it on the Sea Scale."

"This thing is the insurance policy for snatching the sea-stabilizing needle."

"Without it, once the Deep Sea Royal Court rift opens its mouth, half the ship could be gone."

Chen Chen put the anchor chain into his ring and walked towards the third-floor dock.

"Install it."

Inside the third-floor expansion bay.

Copper Hammer was waiting with several engineering NPCs, his face still stained with oil.

Seeing the SS-rank equipment, his Spirits lifted.

"This chain... tsk, it's tough enough!"

Mio rolled her eyes at him.

"Don't go banging on it with your wrench."

Copper Hammer was unconvinced.

"What's wrong with me tapping it?"

"If you knock it off by half a millimeter, we'll all go feed the fish during the dive."

Copper Hammer immediately took back his wrench.

"Then you do it."

The void sea-suppressing anchor chain was installed on the bow of the Sea Scale.

Twelve dark silver locking rings clicked into the hull, and gray-blue runes emerged on the surface.

The Ghost Fortress synchronized its connection to the traction protocol.

The deep-sea diving module was also pushed into the Sea Scale's power well.

After Mio took over the master control, the water pressure protection cabin beneath the remnant ship of the Sea Scale opened.

"Diving module connected."

"Bow anchor chain stabilized."

"Sea Scale current diving depth: three thousand meters."

Shen Wanbing looked at the Radar.

"The treasury coordinates are below two thousand seven hundred meters."

"Enough."

Yi Chang stood by the dock and handed Chen Chen a temporary access chip.

"I will stabilize the city."

"But you had better come back quickly."

Chen Chen took the chip.

"Is someone causing trouble in the bottom hold?"

Yi Chang calmly opened her data pad.

"Jiang Yanyue will teach them how to behave."

Jiang Yanyue heard this from afar and lazily raised her blade.

"Or maybe they won't have the chance to be people again."

Shen Wanxing shrank her neck upon hearing this.

Qin Hongye cut in from the high tower channel.

"The black fog suppression circle outside the city is normal."

"Three small teams tried to sneak out, so I broke their legs."

Jiang Jiuyou sat at the sub-command console and directly started the diving sequence.

"Stop chatting."

"Deep sea entrance opening."

Beneath the Floating City, mechanical arms released some of the fixed locks.

The Sea Scale, carrying the Ghost Fortress, slowly descended, passed through the water pressure protection cabin, and entered the Black Sea rift.

The seawater pressed down.

The shield surface flickered continuously.

Inside the first-floor carriage of the Ghost Fortress, the lights switched to cold blue.

Su Xiaoqi sat on the ground holding three large bags of roasted meat, uncontrollably excited.

"Brother, are there really many delicious things down there?"

Mio's projection floated beside her.

"You'd better not eat indiscriminately."

"The blood pollution of the Deep Sea Royal Court is very heavy."

Su Xiaoqi blinked.

"Is it not okay even if it's roasted?"

Mio paused for a moment.

"It's not a question of whether it's roasted or not."

Blood Rose leaned on the sofa, wearing Chen Chen's black coat over her red suspenders, her shoulders and neck still carrying the redness from the heat.

She looked at Jiang Jiuyou.

"Commander Jiang, going on a mission right after leveling up, can you stand steady?"

Jiang Jiuyou didn't look back, her hands switching diving postures on the sub-command console.

"At least better than you, who turned into a puddle first."

Blood Rose laughed out loud, but ended up pulling her waist and took a soft breath.

"Fine, your mouth is still as sharp as ever."

Shen Wanxing hugged her blanket and shrank beside Shen Wanbing.

"Sister, are we really going to touch the deep-sea monsters later?"

Shen Wanbing stared at the Radar.

"First, snatch the sea-stabilizing needle."

"If there are corpses, we'll talk then."

Shen Wanxing whispered in a breakdown.

"Don't arrange my nightmares so calmly..."

Chen Chen sat in the pilot's seat, his hand resting on the control stick.

Seawater struck the shield, data jumping constantly.

[Depth: 800 meters.]

[Depth: 1300 meters.]

[Black fog infiltration detected.]

[void sea-suppressing anchor chain preheating progress: 23%.]

Jiang Jiuyou reported.

"Fleet Link stable."

"The Sea Scale's secondary guns can fire, but the underwater trajectory will be skewed."

Mio added.

"Don't use the main gun recklessly."

"Firing the main gun in the rift will push us off course due to the recoil."

Chen Chen looked at the Radar in front.

"As long as it can hit, it's fine."

Shen Wanbing suddenly raised her hand.

"Turbulence is coming."

In the next second, the Ghost Fortress shook violently.

Seawater mixed with black fog slammed into the shield, and the shield value dropped continuously.

Jiang Jiuyou quickly lowered her posture.

"Port side deflection."

"Sea Scale sinking fifteen meters."

Mio followed by taking over the hull.

"Right side fracture zone under pressure!"

The roasted meat in Su Xiaoqi's hands almost flew out, so she quickly hugged it tight.

"My food!"

Blood Rose reached out and pressed the sofa armrest.

"This deep-sea travel service is too poor."

Shen Wanxing closed her eyes and grabbed Shen Wanbing's sleeve.

"I regret it."

Chen Chen raised his hand, and his Mental Power pressed along the connection between the Ghost Fortress and the Sea Scale.

206 points of Mental Power spread out, and the shield vibration immediately subsided.

Mio looked at the data and couldn't help but mutter.

"Using your Mental Power as a stabilizer is such a waste."

Chen Chen didn't reply.

Shen Wanbing suddenly zoomed in on the Radar projection.

"Penetrated to the outer gate of the treasury."

The screen jumped a few times.

The deep-sea turbulence was peeled away.

A giant bronze gate hung above the seabed rift, the crack already one-third open.

In front of the giant gate, twelve gray-white mechanical warships were arranged in a ring.

The hulls were hung with bone gears and inverted cross flags.

On the deck of the central warship, a tall figure draped in bone mecha was standing in front of the gate.

He extended his mechanical arm, his palm pressing against a giant golden pillar spanning the seabed.

The outer seal of the giant pillar was peeling off layer by layer.

The High Priestess's voice tightened.

"He has already touched the sea-stabilizing needle."

Mio warned immediately.

"Let him dismantle it for another three minutes, and the outer anchoring will break."

Jiang Jiuyou's fingers landed on the fire control key.

"Distance seven kilometers."

"Still a bit short of the anchor chain range."

Chen Chen looked at the bone mecha on the screen, his tone steady.

"Accelerate."

Jiang Jiuyou pulled the propulsion to the max.

The Ghost Fortress dragged the Sea Scale and rushed out into the deep sea.

The preheating value of the void sea-suppressing anchor chain jumped rapidly.

[76%.]

[89%.]

[100%.]

Chen Chen raised his hand.

"Anchor chain preheating."

On the bow of the Sea Scale, the twelve dark silver locking rings lit up one by one.

Shen Wanbing locked onto the target coordinates.

"Target: Bone mecha unit in front of the giant bronze gate."

Jiang Jiuyou connected to fire control.

"Anchor chain ready to fire."

The channel of the Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court was suddenly forcibly accessed.

A voice with metallic noise came through.

"Unknown territory unit, stop approaching."

"This place has been requisitioned by the Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court."

"Retreat thirty kilometers, and you can avoid being dismantled."

Blood Rose raised an eyebrow.

"Yo, quite arrogant."

Su Xiaoqi raised the meat slice.

"Brother, he said he wants to dismantle us!"

Chen Chen pressed the communication button.

"Whoever touches my things."

"Dies."