Seven thousand meters under the Pacific Ocean, the warning light of Luo Jie's diving suit flashed red for the third time.
"Oxygen level 5%, surface immediately!" The research vessel's anxious call came from the headset.
He ignored it, his searchlight sweeping over the half-hidden metal objects in the coral reef. The thing looked like a severed octopus head, with eight alloy tentacles inserted deeply into the seabed, and strange blue lines floating on the surface of the central sphere - exactly the same as the wreckage of the Pioneer that crashed in Bermuda last week.
"This is the third piece." Luo Jie reached out to touch the sphere, and his protective gloves suddenly dissolved. A pinprick-like burning pain came from the fingertips that touched the metal, a string of binary codes flashed before his eyes, and an inhuman guttural sound sounded in his ears.
At the moment of cardiac arrest, a dazzling blue light exploded outside the diving cabin. The thirty-meter-long giant octopus smashed into the rocks, and human teeth were embedded in the suction cups on its arms and legs. Its one-eyed pupil is split into a hexagonal grid, which is clearly a mechanically constructed compound eye.
"Warning! Gamma ray burst detected!" The headset beeped sharply.
