Beneath the Deep Sea, Even If No One Knows Me

The Dragon Kingdom's Jiaolong deep-sea submersible was challenging the abyss when, ten thousand meters below the surface, it discovered the remains of a flag bearer who had stood upright for thirty years, along with a letter he had left behind. A ten-person squad had once fought off unknown monsters emerging from deep within the Earth's crust there. Every member of the squad had died.

The Dragon Kingdom searched every archive but found no record of them. The trail eventually led deep into the Shiwanda Mountains, where a charcoal mural dating back more than two thousand years and one of only ten surviving samples of “modified material” revealed the truth: for thousands of years, people had used their final inheritance to transform themselves, sinking into the deep sea to silently defend humanity's last line of defense. The ten sets of remains were scattered across the world's oceans, fought over and carved up by various nations. Only an unmarked stone monument stood in the South China Sea, with no names carved on it.

Beneath the abyss, the heartbeat deep within the Earth's crust has never stopped.