TYMIMA Chapter 106

【Tasman will welcome a month-long golden age. Are you looking forward to it?】

 

【The complete love story of the King and Prince Selarl—click to see!】

 

【A devoted believer’s wish fulfilled—why was he able to marry the king?】

 

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Tasman Pirate Nation’s internet was flooded with various blog posts, and people’s social media was filled with all kinds of romantic marketing.

 

Under the media’s promotion, everyone was looking forward to this fairy-tale beautiful love story proceeding smoothly.

 

Creak—

 

The door to Selarl’s office finally opened, and the High Tower and Ghost Eye members were granted an audience.

 

Selarl’s throat seemed to have been scraped with sandpaper, somewhat hoarse, but his posture remained condescending.

 

The audience process was very brief, essentially hinting that they should recognize the situation—from now on, Tasman would be jointly managed by him and the king, and in the near future, the king would focus on bearing the next generation, so Tasman Pirate Nation’s state affairs would be handled by him.

 

So if top guilds maintained their previous arrogant and flamboyant style, they probably wouldn’t meet Tasman’s expectations.

 

Adrian and Dream Witch remained noncommittal throughout, only smiling.

 

There were still 19 hours until the engagement ceremony.

 

The sky gradually darkened, as if a basin of ink had been spilled into the sea, with even the last trace of warmth disappearing.

 

On the map, Li Bang’s trajectory finally began moving again.

 

Lance stood up.

 

“I’ll go. I’m just an intern—even if I’m temporarily absent, it won’t arouse suspicion.”

 

“Too dangerous.” Adrian frowned upon hearing this. He knew Lance made sense, but having a newcomer complete a reconnaissance mission alone still worried him.

 

“I’ll accompany him. I’m also an intern.” Zhan Pingchuan smiled lazily and stood up with Lance.

 

Dream Witch’s gaze fell on the two of them and nodded: “Come back quickly and be careful.”

 

She believed that with her brother’s intelligence and son-in-law’s combat power, there shouldn’t be any problems.

 

So the others waited in the hotel suite while Lance and Zhan Pingchuan changed into dark clothes and left.

 

Only the stretch from the hotel to the shipwreck museum required wearing kelp tree bubbles, so they each took a bubble from the charging station and headed in that direction.

 

A hotel service person stopped them, looking them up and down: “Where are you going?”

 

Lance pointed diagonally ahead while Zhan Pingchuan wrapped his arm around Lance’s waist, smiling: “Taking my baby to look around the museum—he loves history.”

 

“The museum is about to close,” the service person said without moving aside.

 

Zhan Pingchuan winked at the service person and slipped him a thousand-yuan bill: “We’ll be back soon.”

 

The service person glanced around, and seeing no one noticed, quickly took Zhan Pingchuan’s money and stuffed it in his pocket: “The main thing is the situation is special—higher-ups don’t allow guests to leave the hotel area privately. But you don’t look like troublemakers, so go early and return early.”

 

“Thanks.” Zhan Pingchuan hooked Lance and led him outside.

 

Walking into the seawater, coolness immediately seeped in from all directions. Both sides of their bodies were surrounded by dense, endless darkness, as if ready to devour them at any moment.

 

Zhan Pingchuan remained silent, but his Adam’s apple bobbed forcefully.

 

However, the next second, his hand was grasped by a warm, soft palm.

 

He looked over in surprise and saw Lance swimming with a normal expression, his ten fingers gradually threading through his own: “Don’t be afraid, I’m with you.”

 

Such dark abysses and unknown fears—he had experienced them countless times already. He wasn’t afraid.

 

He even knew how to comfort someone who had rashly entered such circumstances, simply by letting them feel body warmth and support.

 

Zhan Pingchuan was momentarily dazed. Though these were perfectly normal words of comfort, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if on a more distant and longer timeline, he too had repeated them over and over until they were carved into his bones.

 

Click.

 

The flashlight beam lit up, illuminating a corner of the deep sea.

 

Zhan Pingchuan came back to his senses, his tense muscles gradually relaxing. He chuckled softly: “Thank you, baby.”

 

He didn’t try to be tough, nor did he think it was shameful for an Alpha to be protected by an Omega. He peacefully enjoyed Lance’s comfort.

 

Following the underwater transit map Chen Shun’an had given them, they struggled to find their way to the rear station of the palace.

 

The platform was indeed not in use, with only a solitary fluorescent lamp hanging from an iron post, weakly illuminating the small area around it.

 

Looking back, everything was pitch black. They had walked out a full two hundred meters, and the palace’s lights had completely disappeared.

 

Lance held the flashlight while Zhan Pingchuan felt around for the platform’s control valves. Finally, on a seabed covered with bleached coral fragments, he found a huge metal cover.

 

Zhan Pingchuan exerted force with both arms, lifting the heavy metal cover. White sand flew up, fish scattered in alarm, revealing a smooth black screen inside.

 

Following Chen Shun’an’s instructions, Zhan Pingchuan opened the long-sealed switch, pressed the rusty buttons, and input the startup code into the device.

 

In an instant, clusters of lights ignited, and an ingenious, magnificent bubble track appeared before their eyes, like a giant dragon adorned in gold armor, extending into the dark distance.

 

Lance discovered that the builders had cleverly utilized the bubble’s characteristics, using jet devices as power sources. This not only avoided seawater resistance but also reduced friction between the transport and bubbles to zero.

 

In a sense, the underwater transit could reach airplane speeds at its fastest.

 

No wonder Chen Shun’an’s round trip was so quick. The woman who designed and built this entire transportation system was indeed excellent and great.

 

Zhan Pingchuan opened the location map again and found that Li Bang was almost approaching Wonderland Trench.

 

The two didn’t dare delay and immediately boarded the bubble transport, set their destination, and pressed the start button.

 

A whirlwind rose suddenly, the bubble trembled, and in a flash shot out like an arrow from a bow.

 

The powerful G-force kept them from sitting upright for a long time. Scenery flashed by on both sides, and the deep blue seawater was stretched into threads.

 

After about twenty minutes, the bubble transit stopped. They jumped off the platform and saw ‘Wonderland Station’ carved in several languages on the standing iron post.

 

This was already the edge of Wonderland Trench. Continuing forward, they would find the terrain getting lower and lower, the seawater getting colder, with occasionally strange and ugly deep-sea fish swimming past, startling them with spine-chilling fear.

 

The map showed that Li Bang had stopped.

 

The closer they got to Li Bang’s position, the less they dared to turn on their flashlight. Given that Li Bang had invisibility abilities, to prevent being tracked instead of tracking, Lance took a deep breath and muttered in a low voice: “Eh, how come someone drew such a handsome and mighty portrait of the Outer God?”

 

In the chaos, black mist parted like Moses dividing the sea, receding to both sides. From the depths of Lance’s Spirit Realm system, two ghostly blue beams of light shot out.

 

“Kiu” (Who?)

 

Lance gained unparalleled vision in this world. Darkness and abilities all had nowhere to hide before his eyes, as clear as if he’d turned on 4K blue light.

 

“Baby, what did you say?” Lance’s voice was too low and mumbled for Zhan Pingchuan to hear clearly.

 

But Lance carefully made a silencing gesture toward him.

 

Because Lance saw that right in front of them, one meter away, was a terrifying underwater cliff. Broken coral and blind fish were unconsciously tumbling down, falling into the abyss.

 

At the bottom of the abyss was the center of Wonderland Trench, where there was an iron door covered with moss and mottled rust stains. Li Bang, along with the masked white-robed figure and over ten underwater guards, stood before the door.

 

An underground city!

 

Li Bang stepped forward, took out a crystal ore, and pressed it against the underground city’s door.

 

The iron door rumbled and slowly opened, revealing a dark opening.

 

Strangely, seawater didn’t pour in. There seemed to be an invisible barrier between the underground city and the outside world—though close at hand, they seemed separated by vast distances.

 

Li Bang turned and made a gesture for the white robe to proceed.

 

The white robe didn’t move, so Li Bang signaled to the dozen or so guards. The guards entered first, leaving only two people outside with crystal ore to wait. Then Li Bang entered, and finally the white robe stepped forward.

 

He still carried that long iron box in his hand.

 

Seeing the rust-green iron door about to slowly close, Lance didn’t hesitate and immediately pulled Zhan Pingchuan to leap down the underwater cliff.

 

He swam rapidly downward, the bubble on his body violently trembling from the water current’s impact. Before long, their feet finally touched the ground.

 

Two guards stood firmly outside the door, but because the seabed was pitch black, they hadn’t noticed Lance and Zhan Pingchuan’s presence.

 

Only by entering the underground city could they know what Li Bang was really doing, but getting past these two people would be extremely difficult.

 

Lance simply made a decisive decision, drew the Black Mamba’s Fang, and stealthily approached the two.

 

The flashlight beam flickered, illuminating two rapidly approaching figures. The guard’s scalp tingled: “Who’s there!”

 

But the next second, Lance’s kelp leaf gloves had already passed through his bubble, and the Black Mamba’s Fang slashed viciously across his neck!

 

Blood gushed out, staining the entire bubble red.

 

At the same time, several silver threads stabbed toward the other guard. The silver threads pierced the bubble, continuously compressing inward. The guard watched the distorting bubble in terror but couldn’t see Zhan Pingchuan’s ability at all.

 

Finally, the bubble burst suddenly. The silver threads ruthlessly penetrated through, and before the guard could even scream, he stared wide-eyed in terror and slid toward the seabed.

 

The iron door was nearly closed. Lance snatched the crystal ore from the guard’s hand and immediately called Zhan Pingchuan.

 

When they checked into the hotel, the front desk had attached a special Bluetooth device to their phones, allowing them to use communication functions freely underwater.

 

Zhan Pingchuan quickly understood Lance’s meaning. He answered the call and then rapidly slipped through the gap in the iron door.

 

The iron door slammed shut with a thunderous sound.

 

“Vi tromp as min denove……” (You deceive me again)

 

The Outer God’s voice came from his consciousness. Chaos rapidly twisted, and Lance’s brain felt sharp pain.

 

He gritted his teeth and held his temples, looking up and gasping, his gaze unconsciously sweeping over the rust-stained text on the iron door.

 

The pain suddenly disappeared.

 

Through Lance’s eyes, He saw the words on the iron door—Portus exilis (Gate of Exile)

 

“Ili ka kuwa hapa……” (So it’s here)

 

His tone was distant and profound. He didn’t withdraw his gaze, nor did he focus his energy on Lance anymore.

 

Lance finally recovered. His eyes were cold and fierce as he gritted his teeth: “You bastard, what is this?”

 

“Eniru……” (Enter)

 

He didn’t answer, only commanded.

 

“If you don’t tell me, I won’t go in,” Lance said coldly.

 

Inside the underground city, Zhan Pingchuan nearly stepped on a flowing jelly.

 

He quickly dodged to the side, carefully concealing his S-level aura and hiding in the shadows.

 

Actually, he was a bit confused. The underwater cliff was so dark that he could barely see anything—why did Lance dare to directly bring him jumping down? And how did Lance know the Tasman people were below?

 

Moreover, when he saw the flashlight beams of those two guards, he had originally wanted to carefully observe the surrounding environment, but Lance had already swiftly rushed over to slit their throats.

 

Fortunately, his ability didn’t require close combat, so he could immediately keep up with Lance’s rhythm. Otherwise, if the other fish had started shouting, it would have certainly alerted Li Bang nearby.

 

Lance seemed to possess even stronger vision than his own, Zhan Pingchuan suddenly thought.

 

Drip!

 

The water droplet falling from the stalactite interrupted Zhan Pingchuan’s thoughts. He knew this wasn’t the time for answers, because Li Bang and that rumored boyfriend were standing at the end of the corridor.

 

Zhan Pingchuan quietly crept closer, hiding his figure behind the jagged rock walls.

 

“…Don’t come any closer, begin.”

 

He heard the white-robed figure with a veil whisper.

 

“Yes, Messenger,” Li Bang respectfully replied.

 

Zhan Pingchuan frowned.

 

Messenger? What a cheesy title.

 

Li Bang took out a black cube from his body, adjusted it a few times, and aimed it outside the corridor.

 

Zhan Pingchuan sniffed the air lightly, smelling the salty fishy scent of seawater—obviously the corridor led to the open sea as well.

 

Sizzle—

 

With two short bursts of electrical sound, voices suddenly came from the black cube!

 

“Ryan, save me!”

 

“Ahhh, it hurts so much, I can’t take it, let me go!”

 

“Don’t touch me, don’t mark me! Ryan!”

 

“Ryan, where are you? Please save me!”

 

The speaker emitted fearful and painful cries from a very beautiful young male voice. He seemed to be forced, calling out to his lover.

 

Zhan Pingchuan frowned tightly, feeling very uncomfortable listening to it.

 

The cries of pain and pleas continued, the speaker’s voice echoing throughout the corridor. The torment felt as if it was happening right next to his ear, scraping against his eardrums.

 

Are they sick?

 

Zhan Pingchuan couldn’t understand at all.

 

The underground city only had mutant plants and beasts. Li Bang had come here tirelessly following Selarl’s orders just to play a criminal recording?

 

Was he expecting the mutant beasts to learn something from it?

 

Was this performance art or some special fetish? Could Tasman have made a new breakthrough in underground city research?

 

“It didn’t come out,” the white robe suddenly said.

 

“Don’t worry, our prince said it will come out,” Li Bang said with confident determination.

 

Sure enough, as soon as Li Bang finished speaking, the bubbling green seawater suddenly rippled greatly. The currents stirred into whirlpools, and swimming mutant beasts scattered in all directions.

 

Water splashed instantly, and a tall figure resembling a human leaped out.

 

A slender purple-black fish tail swayed in the green seawater, its sharp tail fin cutting through the water, steadily lifting it to the surface.

 

Water droplets slowly flowed down its strong and firm chest, its dense and light hair emitting a faint glow.

 

The seawater seemed to part for it eagerly, making way. It opened its eyes covered with a pale yellow membrane, repeatedly tilting its head, using its ears to search for its lover’s whereabouts.

 

Its voice was low and ethereal: “Sandro, don’t cry…”

 

In an instant, Zhan Pingchuan felt a bone-chilling sense of oppression.

 

He had experienced this oppression before in a friend’s illusion—the first time he felt near-death fear. That powerful S+ mutant beast seemed like an invincible existence to humans.

 

There was such a powerful creature in this underwater underground city!

 

“It’s out!” Li Bang shouted excitedly.

 

The guards were on high alert, raising their rare lead ore weapons and retreating.

 

The white robe and Li Bang also quickly stepped back.

 

The green sea space was still too vast. They couldn’t guarantee the monster would react quickly and avoid the Thornfish Cutting Net, so they planned to lure the monster onto the corridor, leaving it nowhere to escape.

 

Li Bang continuously held the loudspeaker to lure it, Sandro’s sobbing cries echoing up and down the corridor.

 

The powerful and terrifying mutant beast indeed jumped onto the corridor following the sound. Its hard and beautiful scales rubbed against the corridor’s gravel, making a rustling sound.

 

It moved forward while using its webbed hands to feel along the stone walls, leaving angry scratches on them.

 

“Sandro, my lover…”

 

Zhan Pingchuan finally heard the mutant beast’s words clearly. Not to mention how shocking it was that the mutant beast could speak English—the content of these words was even more like a thunderclap, leaving him stunned on the spot.

 

He knew Sandro was the king’s name, and the king had hidden in the underground city for a whole year.

 

“Messenger! Quickly!”

 

Li Bang shouted loudly. The white robe suddenly shook his arm, and the long iron box opened wide. He swiftly took out a heavy machine gun-like weapon from the box, shouldered it, and aimed at the mutant beast’s heart!

 

It was already 7 PM. A sumptuous and delicious dinner was served to Sandro. The attendant happily informed him: “Prince Selarl specially instructed to prepare you a light meal today.”

 

Sandro glanced indifferently at the cups and plates before him, said nothing, and turned back to his chamber.

 

Tomorrow was approaching. He didn’t know what plans High Tower and Ghost Eye had. If he eagerly summoned them today, it would surely arouse Selarl’s suspicion, but he was too anxious and worried about sudden changes.

 

He clenched his fingers uneasily.

 

While thinking this, his fingertip suddenly hurt, pulling back his attention. Sandro then noticed the fruit knife on the bedside table hadn’t been put away, and he happened to be gripping the blade.

 

After the pain passed, he clearly saw blood beads overflowing from the wound. The blood beads flowed more and more, until they dripped from his fingertip down to his wrist.

 

The red stung his eyes, and his heart suddenly tightened, producing a bad premonition.

 

Ryan!

 

In the underground city, Ryan was tirelessly calling Sandro’s name.

 

However, the white robe’s finger pulled the trigger. The heavy machine gun made clicking sounds. Swoosh—

 

A white light shot out, suddenly spreading in the air, forming a large white shining net.

 

The net was as light as a feather, barely stirring any wind, yet it rushed toward the mutant beast with overwhelming force!

 

The mutant beast was still feeling its way with closed eyes in the narrow corridor, chasing that painful voice. Its unhealed tail fin anxiously swished the debris on the ground, unaware that death was approaching.

 

Li Bang’s eyes showed excited madness. He knew he was about to witness the fall of an S+ mutant beast—Selarl would lose an invincible enemy!

 

The Thornfish Cutting Net rapidly closed the distance to Ryan, almost touching Ryan’s skin. Suddenly—

 

The space between the cutting net and the mutant beast rapidly distorted. The scene there spread like water ripples, spinning. Soon the spatial tolerance reached a critical point, and a terrifying rift tore open in the transparent air!

 

Spatial system S-level third-tier ability【Void Realm】!

 

The rift rapidly expanded, covering the entire corridor, emitting a chilling cold wind.

 

Almost simultaneously, the Thornfish Cutting Net shot straight into the rift and disappeared. The edges of the rift quickly closed under the interference of rare lead ore, as if nothing had happened.

 

The surroundings fell silent, only the strong and dazzling pale blue light in Zhan Pingchuan’s palm remained.

 

Once using abilities, the S-level aura could no longer be hidden. Zhan Pingchuan had to shake his hand to disperse the ability.

 

He casually walked out, patting his pants leg with a smile: “Such dirty tactics, bullying someone who can’t see?”

 

Fortunately, as a progressive young man of the new era, he could accept the fact that the king and the S+ mutant beast were a couple in just a few seconds.

 

However, due to unfamiliarity with his abilities, he could only pray that the broken net had fallen into space, shoulder to shoulder with the sun.

 

 

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