Deep in the sea, dark and lonely, with almost no sound, it seems to be a forgotten corner of the world.

The oceans of this world are very different from those on the other side of the earth.

On the Earth's side, the average depth of the world's oceans is just over 3,000 meters, and areas with a depth of more than 200 meters are considered abyssal zones, and areas above 4,000 meters are considered abyssal zones.

The Mariana Trench, known as the Challenger Depth, is located in the western Pacific Ocean, with a total depth of only about 11,000 kilometers.

And on this planet, the average depth of the ocean is close to eight thousand meters, almost twice that of the Earth.

The depths of the sea are deep and lonely, and they are desirable.

"Captain, the Nautilus has descended to a depth of a thousand meters." The housekeeper opened her mouth and reported the real-time situation of the submarine to Su Xia.

At this moment, Su Xia was in the command cabin at the front of the top layer of the submarine.

The command cabin is not large, and there is a ring-shaped operating station in the cabin, which is full of all kinds of instruments and equipment, densely packed with more than 100 buttons of various colors, and is surrounded by display screens and dashboards.

Su Xia stood in front of the circular console, listening to the housekeeper's explanation, while learning the meaning of every button, every string of data, and every prompt on the console.

"Captain, the area on your left is the entire submarine's weapon control system area, and these buttons represent ......."

"The data on this display screen indicates the oxygen content in the submarine at the moment......"

"Here, the current water pressure and depth ...... are shown"

“……”

"Usually you don't need to pay attention to this, because with me, I will take care of everything inside the submarine for you, you just need to give instructions, but...... Intelligent systems are not entirely reliable, and if I have an abnormality one day, you will need to manually control the submarine, and then it will be too late to learn......"

Manual control?

Su Xia saw this dense button, and just thinking about it made her scalp tingle.

Such a large submarine, even if he grows three heads and six arms, it is impossible for one person to achieve manual control, at least there must be a team of helpers.

The voice of the housekeeper is everywhere and is part of the overall submarine intelligence system.

She can also project a virtual body in special cabins such as the command cabin, the captain's rest cabin, the missile control cabin, the canteen, the torpedo cabin, and the power reaction cabin.

She is positioned in a similar position to Hal.

It's just that Howl's body is a blurry red dot, and she is humanoid, wearing a white coat, glasses, and delicate facial features, looking like a young female scientist.

At this moment, she was standing beside Su Xia, explaining the use of each button to Su Xia hand in hand.

"This is the button to turn on the backup energy source, the yellow button represents the backup diesel engine, the red one represents the backup nuclear reactor, and the blue one represents the backup psionic drive, there are three backup energy sources in total......"

She is quite patient and has a gentle voice, like a tireless female tutor.

Su Xia's learning ability is quite strong, he is a scholar on the other side of the earth, he is extremely interested in cutting-edge scientific research and technology, and his receptivity and understanding ability are among the top among his peers.

There are many things that can be memorized just by explaining them once.

"We have dived to 1,200 meters, and we have broken away from the continental shelf in the southern part of the continent and are in the area of the continental slope." She explained it again and again, reporting on the situation of the submarine.

"Butler, have you found any deep sea units of the Cybland?"

"Not yet."

She replied: "The sea is deep and immense, and the probability of running into another submarine is very small in non-war times." ”

Su Xia nodded: "Then did you find any strange creatures?" ”

"Yes, I caught some psionic fluctuations, which should be mutated aquatic creatures on the bottom of the sea, and they don't pose much of a threat to us."

At about 200 meters under the sea, human eyes basically can't see sunlight.

Below a thousand meters of the ocean floor, it can be called a deep zone, because here, not only humans, but almost any living thing known to them cannot perceive the presence of sunlight.

This kind of underwater is cold and dead, full of unknowns, surrounded by invisible darkness, extremely oppressive, as if some terrifying creature is hiding in the surrounding darkness.

Many people feel an inexplicable sense of panic and suffocation as long as they look at the pictures of the deep sea, as if they will fall into the endless darkness at any time.

That's typical deep-sea phobia.

Even Su Xia has a little, but the symptoms are very mild.

The first time he felt this way was when he was in high school, when he happened to see a video about the Blue Hole in Dean, Bahamas.

The blue hole was deep and cold, like a giant mouth of the abyss, capable of devouring all living things around it.

And that blue hole is actually more than 200 meters deep.

And now, Su Xia was in a dark area of more than a thousand meters under the sea, and his whole person was floating in boundless darkness.

Some people say that going deep into the ocean floor is like entering a world on another planet.

Because, in the depths of the ocean, there is no light, no one can see each other, and the creatures here are all very casual, strange, ugly, unprovoked, deformed, and terrifying, like monsters from another world.

"What's in the depths of the ocean?" Su Xia thought about this occasionally.

Probably without SpongeBob SquarePants and Squidward.

If one day humans were to explore the entire ocean floor at will, there would be many amazing discoveries.

"Butler, how deep are we now?"

"One thousand two hundred and fifty meters." The housekeeper replied patiently and said, "Captain, you can call me by my real name."

"Do you have a name?"

Su Xia was surprised for a moment, and then she was relieved, after all, Hal has a name, and it is normal for this housekeeper to have a name.

The housekeeper smiled and replied, "You can call me Sarah." ”

"Sarah? Sounds weird. Su Xia said.

"The name comes from a famous deep-sea explorer." Sarah's voice was gentle, and she spoke of the origin of her name.

She was a well-known female explorer who loved to explore the depths of the ocean on various planets, published many books, and even wrote books that were selected for inclusion in the imperial education system, and she was highly respected.

She has experienced countless perils in her life, encountering life-and-death crises on many planets, but each time she has been able to save the day.

Therefore, she has also become a spokesperson for courage and luck.

Olox Technology got her authorization to name the intelligent housekeeper of its submarines after her, hoping that she could bring luck to every deep-sea explorer.

"Is she still alive?" After listening to the narration, Su Xia felt a burst of sincere admiration, and suddenly wanted to meet this legendary explorer.

"It should be alive, probably close to 100 years old." Sarah replied.

The planet is incommunicative, so she, like Hal, cannot update the information in the stars in real time.

All the information she knows now is what she brought with her when she left the factory.

……

At this moment, the time has come to more than six o'clock in the morning.

Outside, the sky is cloudy.

When Su Xia was seriously studying submarine technology, the news of him in Conch City had spread all over the world, setting off a wave of discussion.

Even on the other two continents, there are countless people wondering what kind of creature can save their lives after provoking the mechanical race again and again?

"Masked Geek, it's not the first time I've heard that name."

"It is said that he may be the Iron Fist Golden Wolf who disappeared three years ago."

"The automatons have suffered at his hands again."

"Hey, why do you say 'again'?"

“……”

Subsequently, another news quickly swept through the major platforms.

The shock brought by this news is no less than the news of the mask monster before, and even more so.

"Oh my God, the people at that media company upstairs have been killed!"

Frightened people took to social media for help and posted bloody pictures.

The images show some extremely bloody scenes, with the media company's materials scattered all over the place, splattered with blood, and rolling heads and headless corpses everywhere.

The strong smell of blood, in this early morning, was dispersed with the wind to every corner of the world.

Soon, more and more similar news came out.

Many media companies were killed overnight, even the employees who were resting at home died, and even the families of the employees were not spared.

And the headquarters of these media companies are in flames, billowing smoke into the sky.

Blood and fire are entangled in the cruelty of death, bringing infinite horror to people.

Someone panicked and approached the Enforcement Bureau to report the crime.

However, what they didn't expect was that it was the City Law Enforcement Bureau who started this killing!

Many of the enforcers were still streaked with blood, and looked horrifying, like executioners who had just returned from hell.

Seeing that someone reported the case, instead of accepting it, they laughed: "We killed the people, let's go back, it's no big deal!" ”

"It's time to eat, it's time to drink, it's just a matter of dying, don't affect the mood of going to work today!"

After this news came out, there was another sensation!

Many people are aware that behind this bloody incident, there must be the shadow of the automatons.

If it weren't for the permission of the mechs, how could the enforcers of these cities dare to be so arrogant?

"Alas, I'll just say it, in the peaceful days of the past few years, those news media have gone too far, and they dare to make up anything for the sake of traffic, and sooner or later they will cause trouble, and now it's really ......"

Many sighed, as if they had expected this scene for a long time.

It's nothing to fabricate fake news about humans, but to dare to fabricate it on the head of the mechanical race, and it is the head of that Lord Mercer, isn't this looking for death?

Some people feel that they have killed too much and should not harm their families.

There are also people who think that if you kill well, you should use heavy codes in troubled times.

Those who make traffic money with their conscience, and those who eat human blood steamed buns, if one is counted as one, they should all be killed!

"The mechs are so angry this time, most of them have something to do with the masked monsters."

"Several failures have made them lose face."

Some people realized that this time the killing was probably just because the autonmen were holding their breath and trying to find a suitable excuse to vent.

And those unscrupulous media just hit the muzzle of the gun.

Of course, it can only be said that they deserve to die.

Even if you don't hit it this time, you will hit it one day, it's just a matter of time or later, and sooner or later you will die.

"By the way, on the side of Conch City, have the mechs chased after them again?"

"I heard that the masked monster escaped again."

"No, someone saw the masked monster being forced into the sea, this time it's probably dangerous, the entire coastline is blocked, he can't keep floating on the sea......"

Not long ago, many dock employees saw the picture of Su Xia being chased into the sky above the sea.

Someone took the risk of taking some blurry photos, while others took a few short videos.

"The masked monster's ability to fly is achieved by relying on psionic energy to control metal plates, and his psionic energy will always run out."

"At that time, he will surely fall into the sea."

As a result, he now has only two paths to choose from...... Either fall into the sea and drown, or surrender to the mechs. ”

On various platforms, there are people analyzing the situation of the masked monster this time.

Among them, Luo Xi, the head of the Southwest Mercenary Union, said: "The sea area is the base camp of the mechanical deep divers, and the mask monster has no possibility of escaping this time!" ”

"Brother Luo, what you said is too absolute." Someone stood up against it, named Wang Shi, who was the head of the Heihe Mercenary Union.

The two mercenary unions are considered large forces, and they are second only to the Zero Point Tavern.

They are both mercenary unions, and they have many internal connections, and they used to have the same views on many things, but today they actually have differences on the matter of masked monsters.

"Brother Wang, don't you agree with me?" Rothy said on the platform.

"Brother Luo, the masked monster can't be looked at with common sense, he himself is a representative of miracles." Wang Shi said.

"What miracle?" Luo Xi said disdainfully, "He's just lucky, the previous few times the mechanical clan didn't take him seriously, this time he just started to get serious." ”

"Brother Luo, you seem to have a problem with masked monsters?"

"No, it's just a personal opinion, Brother Wang, aren't you also expressing your opinion?"

"Hmm."

The two spoke tepidly, seemingly just discussing the issue.

However, some people have noticed that the views of these two people are not neutral and have their own biases.

Wang Shi is obviously biased towards the masked monsters, thinking that the masked monsters can escape.

And Rothy seems to have an opinion about the masked monster, and every word is derogatory.

"It's strange, Luo Xi is the head of the Southwest Mercenary Union, and what he says represents the entire union, so there shouldn't be such an obvious bias...... Could it be that he was beaten by the masked monsters? ”

"It's true that the bias is too obvious for the leaders of large organizations to say that."

Many people are puzzled and smell something unusual.

At this time, someone provided a few pieces of gossip: "It is said that this Luo Xi knows Wang Teng and has a private connection. ”

"Huh? The Southwest Mercenary Union is a formal organization, how can it have a connection with a scumbag like Wang Teng? ”

It is well known that Wang Teng and his various mercenary organizations are illegal, brutal and bloodthirsty, and each member is a heinous felon, living by looting and killing, which is not officially recognized.

The mercenary union, on the other hand, is a real formal institution, and each member has a registered status.

"Could it be that Luo Xi wants to take over Wang Teng's mercenary organization?"

"It's impossible, the Southwest Mercenary Guild is not his Luo Xi alone."

"Maybe he received some benefits from Wang Teng?"

“……”

There was a lot of discussion and different opinions.

This morning, except for the two mercenary unions, the heads of the other major organizations also expressed their opinions one after another.

The leader of the Flame Death Squad said, "The Masked Monster is a brave man. ”

The head of the Northern Navigation Club said: "The war is finally over, the world is rarely peaceful, and the mechanical clan is an important force in maintaining world order, and the masked monster's approach is to set off a new round of strife, I don't know how many people will die because of him...... If I were him, I would give up resistance and contribute to world peace with my life. ”

The head of the wilderness investigation team smiled: "Huh? Are the bones of the nautical club members made of seawater? Why is it so soft? ”

The vice president of the Aurora Research Institute stood up and said: "What Chief Liu said is not right, no matter how hard the bones are, they can't compare to steel." ”

“……”

This morning is quite exciting, and the major organizations that used to be neutral have actually shown a certain bias today.

Some people are biased towards Su Xia, while others are biased towards the mechanical clan, as if they are standing in their own lines.

This situation has to make people think about it a lot.

What's wrong with these neutral organizations?

(End of chapter)