Free Web NovelChapter 710: Chapter 565: Akusu Ruins, Mysterious Creatures
"Are we going to an even deeper place?" Fortuna was a bit eager to try.
"We are, but before that, we need a big oxygen resupply."
By now Liu Jun had more or less adapted to life on the seabed, but he still couldn’t help feeling immense pressure.
As for resupplying oxygen, for true top experts in the deep sea, it wasn’t difficult.
They had developed a whole new method for oxygen resupply.
They sent a bunch of simple-minded, Perfect Divine Object dolls who could ignore water pressure back and forth, transporting oxygen to the front line again and again for resupply.
After Liu Jun confirmed the position where he’d be stationing under the water pressure, he had his 153 divers form a conveyor belt... shuttling back and forth, constantly delivering supplies.
But this method also carried enormous risks.
If someone took the opportunity to make a move on you and cut off your oxygen supply team behind you—
The other side wouldn’t even need to kill you personally; you’d just end up drowning alive in the deep sea on your own!
In the histories of many ancient civilizations, quite a few Tier Ten powerful Emperors died to such betrayals, suffocating and drowning in the sea in sheer indignity.
It shows how powerful nature is; no matter how strong an individual is, they can’t resist it.
Deep-sea diving is a high‑risk sport; even for Liu Jun, the risk was no small matter.
During this period, his oxygen supply line had also run into a lot of accidents. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
They encountered several large deep-water currents that washed his diving team away!
If not for Liu Jun’s dive team being smart enough to find their own way back... he probably really would’ve lost that batch of Perfect treasures.
After all, ordinary dolls with the IQ of a two- or three-year-old, once they’re swept away, the number who can’t find the way back and get completely lost is countless.
Compass?
These dolls are so simple-minded that even if they have one, they might not be able to find the way.
And because of this one chaotic current, Liu Jun’s dive team delayed their delivery and cut off Liu Jun’s oxygen supply in the deep sea.
If his reserves hadn’t been large enough, he might have directly drowned from lack of resupply.
After all, the deeper the water pressure, the more oxygen you need!
For Liu Jun himself, the Heaven-Opening Divine Power he produced wasn’t enough to maintain the balance, to constantly block the even more terrifying Chaotic Water Pressure.
"In the end, it’s still that my resupply team is too small, only 153."
"The supply line is stretched too long. If I had tens of thousands of teams, a long supply chain, then even if some are swept away by currents, there’d still be backups to take their place." freёwebnovel.com
Liu Jun sighed inwardly; deep-sea diving really was terrifying.
No wonder the Emperor of the Wave Country, Bolin, once dove a million meters deep and burned through massive national power and resources.
It really was the whole country raising a batch of high-level elites to take turns diving!
Poor!
Still way too poor.
The supply line isn’t enough, the teams aren’t enough... the deeper you explore the seabed, the more you lament your own poverty.
But fortunately.
Liu Jun’s haul this trip wasn’t small either.
He’d picked up hundreds of Divine Objects, though they were all scattered parts.
Among them were three Perfect Divine Object dolls, dazed and confused... that he happened to run into.
They were remnants left behind after ancient top experts died, drifting here all this time, and after Liu Jun sweet‑talked them, they joined his dive team.
So now his dive team had 156 members.
This was the advantage of High Wisdom Divine Objects!
This batch of dolls...
When there’s wind and rain, they’ll go take shelter.
When they get lost, they’ll find their way home.
Otherwise, just that previous time when Liu Jun ran into a chaotic current and they were swept away and couldn’t be found, he’d probably not only fail to profit but even lose dozens of team members.
After a long sigh, looking back on these years of hardship, Liu Jun had indeed turned into a seasoned diver because of it.
Just then.
In the "sky," a hundred and fifty-six divers returned, carrying loads of Parallel Space-Time bread.
All these loaves were filled with Heaven-Opening Divine Power.
"In that case, let’s dive together." After bringing this hundred-plus team members with him, Liu Jun planned to start a formal dive.
Once they stabilized at some location, he’d then send the hundred-plus divers back out to reopen the supply line.
Fortuna glanced at these divers. "When they go to the surface to resupply, why don’t you have them probe for news about our city while they’re at it?"
Fortuna wanted to know what was happening in the Twelve Constellations cities.
After all, when they left, it seemed there were already outside visitors appearing.
Before God could speak, a mathematician nearby realized the Goddess of Destiny’s dumb streak was acting up again and explained:
"My Lady, the supply route has to be extremely hidden."
"That’s why we detour around to the other side and go straight up to the surface to resupply."
"If we resupplied at that newly built 1000‑meter city, and others discovered those dive teams, what would we do if they cut off our supply line?"
Fortuna gave an awkward laugh. "True, then we’d be stuck suffocating on the seabed, wouldn’t we?"
The logistics dive team routes had to be kept secret, secret, and more secret.
After a short rest, everyone started diving again.
One hundred thousand meters.
Two hundred thousand meters.
The water pressure kept increasing.
The number of various floating Divine Object "trash" around them was also extremely high.
The mathematician team Liu Jun had brought along had now turned into a trash‑picking crew, frantically collecting.
Seeing this, sometimes Liu Jun couldn’t help thinking, "Isn’t this basically one of those ’loot, fight, extract’ type games that were popular in my previous life?"
"Loot, fight, retreat... then sort the materials and prep for the next run."
But if you die, then you just become supplies for the next diver to collect.
After that fleeting sigh, Liu Jun’s team kept diving all the way down, and when they reached a depth of 370,000 meters, the Eternal Compass in his hand suddenly began to shake violently.
Fortuna, who had been a little drowsy, instantly perked up. "The compass is shaking, the city of the Akusu undersea civilization is close!"
"Looks like our luck’s not bad." Liu Jun nodded slightly, also getting a bit interested, hoping there would be a large amount of supplies in this ruin.
Dive, move.
Dive, search.
After that, the days grew complicated and monotonous.
Liu Jun began cultivating at this late-stage Tier Ten water-pressure realm, while Fortuna led the team around scavenging everywhere.
"Damn, the needle’s a bit broken—no, wait, it’s their city ruins that are broken. The coordinates can’t be locked precisely, the damn thing just wobbles..."
"Hard to find, seriously hard as hell to find!"
In the blink of an eye, another three years passed.
The diving transport teams were re-established, and began repeatedly surfacing to deliver oxygen.
Liu Jun also managed to cultivate to the level of Tier Nine, Seventh-Layer Divine Spin.
When he opened his eyes again, he heard Fortuna shouting in his ear, "Found it, finally found that city, I’m exhausted."
Fortuna could understand human speech, and after finding the ancient city she didn’t recklessly lead the team out, but instead went to get God to sit in town.
"Then let’s go."
Liu Jun had been bored out of his mind on the seafloor and was just itching to move a bit.
Following the current, they arrived at the coordinates.
It was a ruined city, exposed in the Chaotic Sea Water, with a somewhat rough and barbaric style—columns, patterned floors, Divine Halls, and strange flying boats.
The undersea civilization of Akusu, the Imperial City.
In the city, over the ruins, crawled densely packed little sprites, each one a strange component—tiny jumping gears, lines...
"Yiyiya ya!~"
"Wuwu~~"
These adorable gear creatures swam through the seawater, making strange sounds.
This scene, down in the deep sea, carried an indescribably harmonious yet bizarre atmosphere, making the dead stillness of the Chaos seem to pulse with life.
Fortuna’s eyes lit up. "So many, so many consummate Divine Objects... there are way too many."
Seeing these pure little kids, Fortuna was practically bursting with excitement.
They have brains!
This proved that each one was a peak Divine Object at the consummate Tier Ten level, the most precious inheritance left behind by ancient super-giants after their deaths!
If these could be sweet-talked into joining the Guard, how much would that boost their strength?
Just at a rough glance, there were over five hundred, densely packed together to form this children’s playground.
Fortuna was overjoyed. "Knew it, hunting for ancient city ruins is the strongest way to get rich. Once you find one, tricking these pure little kids is child’s play, isn’t it?"
Liu Jun walked into this city and couldn’t help but marvel at the uncanny workmanship of the ancient ruins. "All gears... looks like this ancient nation specialized in the gear series Divine Objects."
The Nation of Waves—their army’s main cultivation was the soldier-boy puppet series.
Here, specializing in gears wasn’t strange at all.
Soon, Fortuna transformed into an "evil big sister," and started sweet-talking these little brats.
In the blink of an eye, she became their big-sis leader.
Behind her trailed a bunch of dazed, innocent Divine Objects, chattering away, babbling, hopping and bouncing.
"Hurry up, let’s bring the stuff back." After reeling them in, Fortuna couldn’t help starting to pack things up for the trip home.
"Your Excellency, come out."
God suddenly spoke.
"Your Excellency? Who?" Fortuna froze, not reacting for a moment.
"How did you discover me?" At this moment, within that crowd of children, a fair-skinned man appeared.
He looked very much like someone from the World of Gods—two eyes, one nose, one mouth, tall, short hair. He looked like a tall, handsome man of the yellow race.
There was no particular aura about him; he just stood there quietly.
"Who are you?" Fortuna’s expression grew serious as she spoke.
Even she wasn’t stupid enough to miss that something was off; this person clearly gave off the feeling of possessing High Wisdom.
And ever since they had left beyond the domain, they had never seen any species exactly identical to the human race. The fact that he now appeared as a pure-blooded human could only mean this appearance was a disguise.
"Who am I?"
The man answered his own question. "Too much time has passed. Who I am no longer matters. If you insist on calling me something, Akusu—that is my name."
"Akusu?" Liu Jun gave him a look. Even if the other party was a million-meter-level mastermind behind the scenes, now that he had floated up to this layer, Liu Jun wasn’t nervous.
First strike on first meeting; no matter how fierce the other guy was, he’d still take a loss.
But Liu Jun clearly felt that the other party was not a living person...
"Akusu?" God was somewhat surprised. "You’re a Divine Object? How did you come to have such High Wisdom?"
Liu Jun paused for a moment, then said meaningfully, "The Akusu Sea Region—following it all the way down, the supplies are plentiful, its resources in all respects not inferior to many top-tier sea regions."
"Yet there are no Vassal States here founding nations to mine this pit... was that your doing?"
A place rich in resources but with no one coming to mine it could only mean one thing: the accident rate for divers here was high; the risk-to-reward ratio didn’t balance.
It belonged to an ultra-dangerous level sea region.
When Liu Jun had come to station here earlier, he had of course guessed as much.
After all, the better sea regions had long since been carved up.
The fact that no one had built bridgeheads here for deep-diving operations meant this sea region harbored some super terrifying existence.
But clearly—
God specialized in dealing with these terrifying forbidden zones.
"Rest easy, I bear no malice."
Akusu thought for a moment, then revealed a gentle, kind bearing, and said, "I am merely a city spirit... a forgotten one in this ruin, nothing more."
