CHAPTER 566: CHAPTER 287: BIZARRE DEEP SEA, ORIGIN OF NIHILITY!

Su Yu noticed that the resource map only showed land, but no oceans.

In truth, the ocean might hold even more resources than the land.

After all, given the extensive exploitation of the land over the years, there’s probably not much left.

With little human activity, the ocean should have more resources and greater development value.

This is why Su Yu asked why there were no plans for ocean development.

With the power and technology of the Mechanical City, developing ocean resources shouldn’t be difficult.

"The ocean?"

Hearing Su Yu’s question, everyone exchanged glances and said:

"In the ocean, there are numerous Radiation Beasts. There’s even Radiation Beasts above seven-star level..."

It seems they have considered ocean development, but after investigation, found the Radiation Beasts too numerous and powerful, so they decided to abandon it.

"Radiation Beasts above seven stars? You’ve investigated?"

Su Yu perked up at the news.

Radiation Beasts, generally, peak at six stars.

After all, seven stars require rituals, and Radiation Beasts, lacking wits and driven purely by instinct, have no means to perform a ritual.

In all the time that has passed, Su Yu has only ever seen one near-seven-star Radiation Beast, the Source Core Crystal Beast in the Radiation Land.

That creature is suspected to be one of the Ghost Emperor’s means of resurrection, with his consciousness in control, thereby having a hope of breaking through to seven stars.

And that hope is just a hope; it hasn’t actually broken through to seven stars.

Aside from that, Su Yu hasn’t seen any seven-star or near-seven-star Radiation Beasts.

Previously, Su Yu had also suspected that seven-star or even eight-star Radiation Beasts might exist in the ocean.

But having never truly explored the ocean, he couldn’t confirm it.

However, listening to Tie Long and the others now, did they really discover seven-star Radiation Beasts in the ocean recently?

"That’s correct..."

"Mr. Su Yu, I was just about to report this to you. The situation in the ocean depths is not just ordinary Radiation Beasts, but extremely strange and possibly not fit for development right now."

Tie Long quickly replied.

Su Yu immediately turned to him, awaiting his explanation.

The others also shifted their gaze to Tie Long, frowning.

Because earlier, Tie Long had only mentioned many Radiation Beasts in the ocean, unsuited for development, but said nothing of anything strange.

What’s going on?

"Yesterday, I went to the distant sea eight thousand kilometers away."

"Then, I dove underwater..."

Tie Long began his tale.

It turns out that during the discussions yesterday, someone also brought up the sea resources.

Thus, they proposed sending Tie Long to explore.

Because Tie Long passed Zhang Chenfeng’s creation trial and has the Galaxy Battle Armor, he can break through the air at ten times the speed of sound, his mobility second only to Su Yu.

So, the task of exploring the ocean was given to him.

He didn’t decline, setting out immediately and soon reaching the distant sea.

The distant sea showed no signs of any human activity, just a vast expanse of water.

As soon as Tie Long dove underwater, he attracted a large number of Radiation Beasts.

These Radiation Beasts were completely different from the land-based ones, mainly aquatic creatures mutated under the pollution of Ghost Energy.

They were numerous, and their strength was formidable, many were at the peak of six stars.

Luckily, with Tie Long’s eight-star strength and the Galaxy Battle Armor, even such a number of six-star Radiation Beasts couldn’t threaten him immediately.

Tie Long continued to dive until he reached a depth of over thousands of meters underwater.

At this depth, there was no light, only complete darkness.

Not only that, but the water here was also highly polluted, containing strong Ghost Energy, hindering all detection methods.

Even with his Spiritual Vision and the various visual modes of the Galaxy Battle Armor, Tie Long couldn’t see very far.

Carefully, he continued to dive another one to two hundred meters, suddenly encountering a seven-star Radiation Beast!

It was an octopus, incredibly huge, with a body length of dozens of meters, covered entirely with tentacles and eyes.

It formed a network with its tentacles, attempting to capture Tie Long.

After a fierce battle, relying on his eight-star strength, Tie Long successfully defeated the octopus and was about to kill it.

A seven-star Radiation Beast, sure to be a treasure trove.

However, seeing the unfavorable situation, the octopus immediately released Ghost Energy-filled ink, obscuring Tie Long’s sight completely, then made its escape.

Tie Long was helpless; not wanting to return empty-handed, he dived once more.

Gradually, he reached two thousand meters underwater...

Here, Tie Long unexpectedly shivered.

It seemed that he encountered something truly astonishing at two thousand meters underwater.

"Two thousand meters underwater, it’s extremely eerie."

"The water there contains large amounts of highly polluted Ghost Energy, seemingly no longer normal matter, but some kind of distorted energy mass."

"The environment there is thus extremely warped."

"I even had the illusion that I was not diving, but entering Subspace."

"In that environment, an overwhelming sense of deathly silence and loneliness washed over me."

"All my emotions seemed about to freeze, turning me into a living dead."

"At that moment, with some sanity remaining, I quickly ascended, trying to escape that dreadful state."

"In that instant of ascent, I vaguely saw numerous Radiation Beasts lurking deeper underwater."

"Each one more powerful than the seven-star octopus..."

"The number was... terrifying! Whether they were hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands?!"

"If they were provoked, I would surely die, and if they reached land, no living creature on land would survive..."