The ice layer vaporized!
Seawater instantly boiled and evaporated!
The entire trench floor transformed into a massive high-pressure steam boiler!
The insane collision between extreme cold and extreme heat even tore visible cracks in the spatial barrier!
"This is impossible!!"
A desperate roar echoed from the sky—the Executive Officer.
"You dare detonate Stellar Data in the Underlying Code Zone?! The Server will crash!"
"Crash your ass!"
Qin Yu braced against the violent steam currents.
His tactical trench coat billowed straight back.
The intense heat from the Micro Star's eruption perfectly neutralized the lethal cold of the Absolute Zero Field.
The alarms blaring from his S-Class Armor, which had been on the verge of collapse, instantly ceased.
Not only that.
The blinding stellar white light directly illuminated the horde of Deep-Sea Aberrations surging up from below.
These monsters, accustomed to absolute darkness and extreme cold, had never witnessed such a spectacle.
A wave of hundred-million-degree heat slammed into them.
The front row of over a hundred S-Class Aberrations didn't even have time to scream before being instantly charred to ash!
The remaining monsters thrashed their tentacles wildly, blinded by the intense light, tearing into each other within the boiling seawater.
Chaos erupted instantly.
"Hah—"
Qin Yu let out a long, hot breath.
He hoisted the [Netherworld: Death's Kiss] with one hand, its barrel aimed directly at the disorganized tide of monsters below.
Dark purple Spiritual Energy once again gathered frantically within the chamber.
"Ladies."
Qin Yu's voice in the comm channel sounded like a death sentence being pronounced.
"Temperature's comfortable."
"Visibility's clear."
"Time to get to work."
Li Ruobing's eyes snapped open.
The temperature display on her armor had returned to normal levels.
Seeing the monsters below being boiled into disarray, a cruel, wild grin curled at the corner of her mouth.
"Hahahaha!"
"Exhilarating!"
The thrusters on Li Ruobing's back erupted with dazzling flames once more.
Swinging the Berserker Pipe Wrench, now glowing red-hot from the intense heat, she charged headfirst into the monster horde.
"Die, you bastards!"
"Crunch!"
An Aberration the size of a truck had its head smashed apart by her wrench.
Green slime, before it could even splatter, instantly vaporized in the surrounding heat.
Elena followed close behind.
Her S-class mechanical arm completed its charge mid-air, transforming directly into a High-Frequency Plasma Blade.
"Valkyrie Corps! Meat Grinder Formation!"
"Kill!"
Dozens of top-tier supermodels with blonde hair and blue eyes now transformed into the most cold-blooded butchers.
Their dark golden armor weaved back and forth through the boiling trench.
With every swing of their blades, swathes of monster corpses plummeted into the Abyss.
Freed from the suppression of the regional rules, these women—armed to the teeth by Qin Yu with top-tier resources—displayed terrifying combat prowess.
"Boom!"
Qin Yu wasn't idle either.
The gunshots from [Death's Kiss] rumbled like muffled thunder.
Each bullet, imbued with "Spiritual Energy Detonation," unleashed a small-scale energy storm wherever it struck the densest clusters of monsters.
Wherever they passed, destruction was absolute.
S-Class Symbiotic Beasts?
Deep-Sea Scavengers?
In the face of overwhelming firepower and equipment, they were all just fucking target practice.
"Feels good to beat a drowning dog, doesn't it?"
Qin Yu quipped over the comm channel while firing.
"Boss, this is even more thrilling than being in bed!"
A red-haired Valkyrie severed a thick tentacle with a single slash, roaring excitedly.
Elena kicked a monster away with a spinning kick, then turned to look at Qin Yu, her eyes blazing.
"Once we get the fragment, I request an extra four hours of training!"
Qin Yu laughed heartily.
"Fine! I'll satisfy you all!"
The team moved through this boiling Abyss like a scorching blade.
With overwhelming force, they pushed downward frantically.
One thousand meters.
Two thousand meters.
Three thousand meters.
The monsters grew fewer and fewer.
The color of the seawater also shifted from pitch black to an eerie deep blue.
"Brother-in-law!"
Yao Qian's excited voice came through the communicator again.
"The signal source is right below you, five hundred meters down!"
"Radar shows there's an Absolute Vacuum Force Field there!"
"The fifth fragment is inside!"
Qin Yu's eyes sharpened.
"Everyone, cease fire!"
Qin Yu abruptly raised his hand, and the entire team instantly halted in the seawater.
Below, there were no more monsters.
The light from the Micro Star gradually dimmed.
On the seabed not far beneath them.
A Hexagram Altar constructed from pure Data Stream stood silently.
At the center of the altar.
Floated a palm-sized crystal fragment emitting a faint blue glow.
[Item Name: Sea Soul Crystal Mother (Fragment · Final)]
That was this world's final Underlying Code.
And also the lifeline the Executive Officer would die to protect.
Qin Yu stowed his Sniper Cannon.
His body slowly descended, landing at the edge of the altar.
There were no traps.
Nor any guards.
Because the Executive Officer had bet all his chips on the Absolute Zero Field and those monsters.
He never dreamed that Qin Yu actually held a Micro Star in his hand.
"It's over."
Qin Yu strode toward the center of the altar.
Just as his hand was about to touch that crystal fragment.
The Data Stream above the altar suddenly went berserk.
The Executive Officer's distorted human face once again forcibly squeezed into this Space.
Only this time.
There was no trace of the arrogant superiority in his voice.
Only utter fear and pleading.
"Qin Yu! Stop!"
"If you take the final fragment, the rules of this sector will be completely reset!"
"You have no idea what lies behind this!"
The Executive Officer's image flickered wildly.
"We can cooperate! I'll give you half of my Administrator Privileges!"
"Do you want supplies? Women? Power?"
"I can give you all of it! Don't touch it!"
Qin Yu's hand paused mid-air.
He looked at that panicked human face, a mocking curve lifting the corner of his mouth.
"Cooperate?"
Qin Yu dug at his ear.
"Weren't you pretty arrogant up there earlier?"
"What? Now that you've played all your cards, you're starting to act submissive?"
The Executive Officer gnashed his teeth, his voice trembling.
"Qin Yu, don't force me into a desperate fight!"
"Do you think breaking the barrier means you can survive?"
"The Truth is something you low-level players simply cannot bear!"
Qin Yu didn't even glance at him.
His right hand reached out without hesitation.
Directly grasping that faint blue [Sea Soul Crystal Mother] fragment tightly in his palm.
"What the Truth is, I'll see for myself."
Qin Yu lifted his head, his eyes defiant.
"As for you."
"Go die."
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