The sea west of Guam and east of the Mariana Islands.

The blazing summer sun shines brightly on the water. Except for the occasional leisurely seabird soaring low in the sky, everything looks like normal.

At this time, somewhere in the sky a hundred meters above the sea surface, as the air twisted and shook, after a long roar of energy fluctuations, a slender and upright figure quietly appeared.

Looking at the blue and undisturbed sea water below, and overlooking the faintly visible islands at the junction of the sea and sky, the expression on Zhou Qi's face was extremely solemn in the face of some beautiful scenery.

The sea below is where the Mariana Trench is located.

Analyze based on previously collected information. All of this suggests that the cause of the rapid collapse of this mission world is inevitably linked to the group of contractors who arrived here first in the tango wolf!

Finding this team of contractors and learning the truth from them has become the key to the success or failure of this trial mission!

The long body was suspended in mid-air for a moment, and Zhou Qi sent out a wisp of divine thought and swept towards the timer that was constantly jumping backwards in the blood crest. From this point on, there are less than 30 hours left before the deadline for the completion of the first mission objective.

Compared to the vast ocean, even the huge hunter mecha is just a drop in the ocean. If you want to find the whereabouts of several contractors from the deep bottom of the sea, it can be regarded as a real needle in a haystack!

It seems like a lot of time left for yourself, but it is actually very urgent!

Zhou Qi took a deep breath of air with a faint salty smell, and then took away the flying wings behind him, and his body fell from the sky in a flash!

Splash!

The last moment, the warm lip fragrance of Mori Mako still lingered in the corners of his mouth, and the next second, his body was already wrapped in cold seawater.

The moment he entered the water, with a flash of inspiration between his fingers, the water escape charm was already blessed on his body. Zhou Qi suspended in the water for a while, and after briefly adapting to the environment, according to the direction marked by the tactical computer, his feet swung smartly, like a swimming fish, and dived headlong towards the depths of the trench, and the destination was directed to the challenger abyss!

As the depth of the dive continues to increase. The light coming in from the surface of the sea fades away. Endless darkness crept in like night. When the surroundings were completely plunged into darkness, Zhou Qi instantly had a feeling that he was falling from the void.

Even if you can't see your fingers around, some of them just keep decreasing with the surging water pressure and temperature. Zhou Qi was not worried that he would lose his way. Long before he met Asako Mori last night, he successfully hacked into the base's database through a tactical computer.

Although it is claimed to be the deepest place on Earth, the Mariana Trench has been explored more than once. Even James Cameron, the great director who directed Terminator 2 and Titanic, used a deep-sea submersible to reach the deepest part of the trench. Through nearly 100 years of continuous exploration and research, countries have left behind extremely detailed information. Especially after the invasion of the giant beasts, the human world has paid more attention to this place than ever before.

Based on previous research, he customized the route of the dive early. And navigation was set up with the help of the artificial intelligence system of the tactical computer. Just proofread the direction you are heading in at the right time.

When Zhou Qi dived to a depth of more than 200 meters, the buoyancy of the seawater from the air bag formed by the water escape charm had disappeared, and was replaced by a sudden increase in pressure from the top down.

The sheer pressure of the water increased the speed at which he could dive. At this point, the gap between the contractor and the normal person is truly revealed.

Without the help of any equipment, the limit depth of a normal person's dive is about 45 meters. At this point, the pressure formed by the seawater is equivalent to about twice the strength of the atmospheric pressure.

In the French movie "Blue Sea and Sunny Day", the heroine Fiore once created a world record of 169 meters with the help of balanced diving (counterweight diving, rising by buoyancy valve)! However, when he reached 170 meters, he could not bear the pressure and died.

Of course, this is also thanks to the effect of the water escape charm as a cheat.

A strong constitution, plus the special effects of spells. In the same amount of time from the moment he entered the water to the time he descended to a depth of 200 meters, Zhou Qi almost fell to a depth of 1,000 meters in the blink of an eye!

Zhou Qi quietly dispersed the psychic sense in all directions, and according to the navigation settings of the tactical computer, this was the first node he had arrived. At the same time, it also means that the trip is exactly one-tenth of the way.

At the moment of the effect of spiritual sense, within the scope covered by the divine sense, countless large and small energy points were like stars in the night sky, and they appeared in a unique field of vision.

From this time until a depth of 3,000 meters, the deep-sea marine life is most active. Among them is a large octopus that can easily tow a submarine with its tentacles.

In this regard, Zhou Qi is full of expectations to meet such a two-headed big octopus. If you grab a head for yourself, it is estimated that few people will be able to taste such a superb thorn.

However, until he descended all the way to a depth of 3,500 meters, the expected thorn never appeared. At this time, the sea is already very cold, and the temperature only stays above freezing, only between 3 and 5 degrees.

After walking in the icy currents for an unknown amount of time, when Zhou Qi finally passed through the tenth node, the depth at this time had reached 10,000 meters below sea level!

Just at this time! The temperature of the cold sea suddenly increased! In just a few seconds, the boiling point has been exceeded!

Feeling this sudden abnormality, Zhou Qi was not surprised and happy! Look at the route set by yourself, less than a kilometer ahead is the final destination of this trip, the Challenger Abyss!

As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Qi raised his hand to make up a water escape charm. Continue to dive with the heat flow.

At this time, judging from the data displayed by the tactical computer. The pressure around is about 155 times that of land! The most strange thing is that the temperature of the sea has exceeded 450 degrees Celsius!

Looks right. Zhou Qi secretly exuded his spiritual sense to the extreme.

As a striking sign, once the hot spring is discovered, which has been named the black chimney by the researchers of the Mariana Trench in the past, it proves that the Challenger Abyss is not far away!

It's close! It's closer!

-10400 meters!

-10700 meters!

When approaching -10900 meters!

In the seawater, a sticky substance completely wrapped Zhou Qi's whole person like glue!

It's finally here!

Zhou Qi did not have the slightest panic in his heart. It appears that this is the liquid sulfur layer described in the data.

Under such pressure, sulfur does not exist in a solid form. Instead, it is always in a viscous liquid state!

Beneath the liquid sulfur layer is the Challenger Abyss!

A moment later, at the moment when he pierced through the layer of liquid sulfur that was nearly 100 meters thick! It's like the dawn of the sun! A faint red light underneath a deep crack fell unusually dazzlingly under Zhou Qi's eyes!

This faint red light is so dazzling in the deep seabed, and the weird blood red can't help but make people feel like they are falling into a yellow spring!

Zhou Qi's face froze! His hands and feet slid for a while, slowing down slightly, following the viscous gelatinous fluid in the seawater, approaching the red light!

At the moment of arriving at the mouth of the Challenger Abyss Rift, in the rift about 2.5 nautical miles long and more than 8,000 meters wide, a vortex wormhole that emitted bursts of intense radiation fluctuations as the faint red light continued to flicker, came into view!

Meow a! It's no wonder that in the original work, these Void Dire Beasts were called Kaiju Beasts! It turned out to be sauce purple!

From a distance, the wormhole in front of you looks like a chrysanthemum that has been magnified countless times! (Well, it's not flowers and plants, you know!) ）

Zhou Qi pursed his lips and followed the rift in the trench. The information returned by psychic detection showed that nothing unusual had occurred.

Odd! Could those guys have made it through?

Along the way, he used the spirit sense to detect the energy changes around him all the time, even if the tango wolf turned off the engine, but the nuclear power reactor in its body could not escape his own eyes.

Could it be that the information I got from Dong Xie was wrong?

Looking at the wormhole, Zhou Qi pondered. Carefully recalling every detail since meeting Dong Xie and others, even including every conversation!

No!

According to the situation at that time, in the face of a threat to his life, there was no need for Dong Xie to lie!

Besides, after that, he could be regarded as saving his immortal Ma Zi's life. Judging from the feelings that this person showed to Su Jin, even if he had concealed and misled before, then after Su Jin was counterattacked by the Doom Guards. I will inevitably tell the truth to myself! I still have a drop of confidence in watching people at this point!

There is only one possibility, and the contractors not only passed through the wormhole, but also made a lot of noise inside!

That's right. Otherwise, how could they give up such a big interest in exchange for a tango wolf from Dong Xie? The Eight Achievements are borrowed from the sturdy design of the tango wolf in order to dive into this 10,000-meter-deep seabed!

As for trying to get through the wormhole, it's even simpler. In the original work, didn't the protagonist Raleigh hold the half-dead brontosaurus and drill through together? These guys have mechs in hand, and they must have made a difference before they enter the mission world on their own!

In that case, let's go and have a look! Which grandson did it!

As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Qi no longer hesitated, his body flickered, and he had already thrown himself towards the wormhole!

Originally, he was going to get a piece of the flesh and blood of the giant beast from the demon refining pot and wrap himself in it before drilling into it, but he didn't expect that the moment he approached the edge of the wormhole, the spiral-shaped wormhole suddenly reacted!

With a dazzling flash of red light in the center! The moment the wormhole opens and closes! In the next second, a strong suction force has come out of it!

Zhou Qi's body seemed to be grabbed by an invisible thug, and under the strong traction, it disappeared into the dazzling red light in the blink of an eye!