Arriving outside the treehouse, Juxi was immediately overwhelmed by the crowd in front of him.

He saw everyone rushing in one direction as if there was something exciting to see.

So Juxi found someone who hadn't gone and asked them.

"Excuse me, what are so many people going there for?"

"What did you say?"

"I mean, what are they going there for?"

"Oh... nothing, just to see the sea."

"To see the sea?"

"Don't you know?"

"Know what?"

"Those who live on the top floor have seen it. They say there's a colorful sea not far away!"

Upon hearing this, Juxi suddenly remembered the colorful ocean he had seen before. It seemed like he had encountered a similar scene in his dreams.

"Please tell me the details!"

Juxi's serious expression moved the person, but they knew little about it and only gave some superficial information.

However, now that Juxi knew what was going on, he followed behind the crowd. Before he left, he made sure to say hello to Yu Nai and asked them to take care of the library.

As Juxi looked into the forest, he couldn't tell if it was an illusion, but he vaguely felt that this place seemed much larger than Earth.

The view from the ground was extremely wide, and the horizon was far, far away, giving a sense of vastness.

"Everyone, be careful!" Yukari grabbed Juxi from behind and said, "The safety issues here are still unclear, even the analysis of the species is ongoing. In short, it's not something that can be resolved in a short time."

"Oh..." Juxi casually agreed, not really paying attention to the statement.

"Hey, pay attention!" Yukari slapped Juxi's butt hard, startling him as if he had been electrocuted. It was a punishment.

"With so many people, we don't need to worry about anything, right?" Juxi explained with a grievance.

"Don't need to worry?" Yukari was furious, and continued, "The natural environment here is completely different from Earth. And don't get me started on the living space size. This habitable planet is thousands of times larger than Earth!"

As soon as she mentioned the size being thousands of times larger, Juxi gasped, "Th-there's so much? But Yu... I mean, I will be careful."

Yukari took a deep breath, seemingly not wanting to recall something, and paused before saying, "Sigh, if only you knew. We are currently operating on an unknown territory. You see, the unmanned submersible went down to about forty thousand meters, and yet, there was still no bottom in sight! And around the thirty thousand-meter mark, we discovered strange giant creatures."

"Giant creatures?" Juxi was inexplicably interested, "Are they bigger than whales?"

"Whales? Haha, I know about that. One whale wouldn't be enough for that thing to eat." Yukari waved her hand, urging him to move along.

"Well, I will pass on this information, but don't blame me if it causes panic." Juxi repeated this several times.

Yukari pulled her hair in frustration, "Alright, nothing will fall on your shoulders, as long as you relay the message properly."

Although she said so, Juxi still felt worried. He was afraid that he didn't have enough capability.

While Juxi was lost in thought, staring out at the sea, a hand suddenly tapped him from behind. "Juxi!!!"

"......"

Juxi felt dizzy for a moment, as if his head was setting off on its own.

At the same time, the notebook that had not been put back emitted a faint light, and a small line appeared below, catching Yu Nai's eye... attempting to reestablish neural connections.

"Re... re... lease," a muffled voice trembled in the storm, "Save, you're the only one who can... prevent... death!!"

"Yukari sis~!!"

Just as I turned around to search for that dark figure, she had already been gone for a long time.

"Yukari..."

"Don't get... lost..."

I had no expression on my face, but my heart was in turmoil because... Yukari's voice sounded so distant, and what about saving, was it trying to convey some information to me?

Looking at the raindrops falling rapidly from the sky, they suddenly seemed to slow down.

"Why did she tell me all this?"

I asked the other me, who was always needed but now nowhere to be found. He must not be able to interfere with this illusion!

"Juxi, wake up!" "What should we do? The medical staff are busy rescuing the injured, they don't have time for us!"

Yuanhui and Yukari sis were anxious and at a loss, and all they could do was worry. I struggled to get up and tell them.

"I'm fine, go to the stern..."

Yuanhui blocked me with his arm and said, "Are you sure? Judging by your current condition, I think you should go with Yukari and the others to the lower deck and rest for a while."

"I'm not disabled to the point of needing someone to take care of me at the bottom. Come on!"

I gestured for him to hand me the weapon, Yuanhui reluctantly pursed his lips and handed me a pistol, saying, "Don't push yourself..."

I nodded expressionlessly at him, then waved at Yukari sis.

"You guys go down and wait for us, we'll be back soon. Before that, do not open the cabin door!"

"Wait... stop..."

Yukari sis's voice, interrupted and intermittent, seemed to want to tell me something, but she gradually disappeared from the bow under the tug of Chiyori and Shinobi.

"Alright, the troublesome people are gone. Let's go to the command center first!"

After gesturing to keep up, the two of us immediately climbed to the top along the ladders on both sides and looked through the glass window of less than twenty inches - no one was inside. I tensed up for a moment.

"Quick, turn on the cameras!"

Yuanhui quickly activated the surveillance, and the attire of those pirates in the surveillance footage was all unkempt, not a single... wait, there it is!

"Next to that pirate-looking guy, there's also an officer wearing the regular military uniform of the Alliance!"

Upon hearing Yuanhui's words, I immediately turned on the audio monitoring device... crackle.

"Sssss... today we... sssss!!"

"Damn signal!"

I forcefully tapped the device, and finally it started working properly.

"We entered the ship's interior through the ventilation ducts, wait!"

That officer suddenly looked up and gazed in our direction, revealing a rough, bearded face in front of me.

"Your people are too careless, be careful, there's someone in the control room!" The big man slowly raised his gun and shattered the screen of the camera.

You bastard, I vented my anger fiercely on the machine, fortunately *they didn't notice what they were saying?

"Just in case, send two people to the monitoring room, we must not leave any survivors!"

The situation is not good, they are coming towards us.

"Why are you still standing there? They have more people, run!"

The moment we were about to leave, we were hit hard and passed out.

"Hold on...the right...moment... someone will come to save you soon, they are coming!" (Yukari's voice, like that of the Abyss)

When I regained consciousness, we were already detained in a spacious dark room.

The constant impact of seawater on the outer wall suggests that we are in a cabin on the first level of the bow.

"How could the Allied forces be here? I'm curious!"

As regular soldiers of the Alliance, we should have no connection with those pirates who are just a mob, and we should even consider them terrorists.

But the reality is right in front of us—an imposing big man in a blue uniform of the Allied forces is in front of us, lighting up a cigarette, and standing kindly with the pirate leader. Behind us are the barrels of two submachine guns— the situation is really bad!

"It doesn't matter, for the dead, you don't need to know!"

The middle-aged man sprayed hot air on my face and threw the cigarette butt on the ground.

"Act, get rid of him..."

Crack! At a critical moment, there was a violent shake in the upper cabin of the ship... it's the assault team!

Boom! With a loud explosion, the iron door in front of the ship's bow was forcibly blown open.

"Darn it, take everyone..."

The big man commanded the pirate leader and the two lackeys to tie us up. The two lackeys chose Yuanhui first, so I quickly used the butterfly knife hidden inside the back of my pants to grind off the rope.

"Hey kid, the rope we pirates made is much stronger than the little yarn rope you guys have!"

After struggling desperately for half a day but yielding no "results," the old man walked proudly to my side.

"Are you sure?"

"Well...ugh!!"

As the second word jumped out, I stabbed the butterfly knife hidden behind my back into his chin. Until his death, he couldn't believe the fact that he had been stabbed, but as the big man said, dead people don't need to understand anything anymore.

At this point, they still didn't pay attention to me, and I had already taken out the gun from the pirate leader's waist and aimed it at the two lackeys who were tightly binding Yuanhui.

Bang! Crack!

The two lackeys fell to the ground with the sound of gunfire. Only the officer of the Allied forces, who had just reacted, looked at me in horror and steadily backed away towards the blasted opening in the ship's hull.

"You're still retreating? If you retreat any further, you'll be snatched by the sharks!"

As I said that, I aimed the gun at his head, and he put his hand into the chest of his uniform, fumbling.

Click...click...

No bullets left, are these pirates really so poor? They always run out of bullets so easily?

"Hehe, no bullets, huh, kid?"

After seeing the drastic change in my expression, that guy took out a dagger with a wicked smile and approached me, and in my hands, there was only a butterfly knife left, with fresh blood flowing on the blade.

"Kid, you better be careful," the old man raised the tip of the knife with an ominous look. "Today, none of you will be able to walk out alive!"

The waves are getting bigger and bigger, and some special forces are preparing to forcibly enter the room. It seems like his time is up.

"Do you know, dragging this out won't do you any good!" I reminded him, hoping to prevent him from deluding himself.

"Oh really?" The big man suddenly threw the dagger into the sea, then walked towards me... Does this mean he's surrendering?