They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 307 The House of the Abyss
This thing seems to suppress supernatural abilities.

Ria continued to stare at the creature's face, not because he was interested in its face, but because he noticed that half of its face had a metallic sheen, like a bionic mechanical fishman.

"What's your name?"

Ria questioned it, and the creature remained motionless and wary for a long time. Only after confirming that Ria's supernatural abilities had been restrained and would not pose a threat to it did it lower its weapon.

“My name is Ermagana, which means ‘newborn fish’ in our language.”

"Then your family must be very proud of you."

"Proud... I wish they really liked me."

Emigana thought of something unpleasant, probably because it felt that Ria was no longer a threat to it, so it told him some things that had been hidden in its heart.

"To be honest, when I see you, I think of my mother."

Ria: "Huh?"

“My mother was a human like you, but my father was not. After my mother accidentally entered the territory of her tribe, they fell in love and gave birth to me, and I was hated by both of them.”

"At first, I looked like a human, but as I grew older, my body became more and more like my father's, but I was not as strong and handsome as him at all."

But that was a long time ago. Later, some disasters occurred; my mother died, and my father took me and fled to the abyss's refuge. Our bodies were cursed and gradually decayed. To survive, the medical technology here became extremely advanced, and all the people of our tribe became cyborgs.

Erigana choked up a little: "My father hasn't seen me in a long time. I always thought they had no feelings, just a group of machines that lived to survive."

They gather together for breeding purposes, but otherwise they ignore each other. I usually try to speak, but nobody pays attention to me.

Listening to its words, Ria felt inexplicably sorry for the creature.

It is a hybrid of human and supernatural beings, and its emotions are like those of a normal person, but its environment means that Emigana cannot enjoy normal human affection at all.

"This may be a bit presumptuous of me to say it, but is the dean you mentioned of the same race as your father?"

“Yes.” Emigana nodded.

The dean entrusted the experimental subjects to a group of hybrids for care, probably thinking that only they could understand what humans were thinking.

"There will always be people who appear inexplicably inside the abyss. You appeared not long ago, and even longer ago, there was a group of people who called themselves investigators. They taught us human language and human civilization, and then told us the name given to our race by the outside world."

Emigana rolled his bulging eyes: "They seem to call us—"

"The Deep Diver".

Seeing that Ria remained unmoved, Emigana continued pointing at herself: "Don't let my appearance fool you, I look like I'm only a teenager. I've actually lived for a very long time. For our kind, as long as we're not killed, we can live indefinitely. Isn't that amazing?"

“Indeed.” Ria nodded.

"Why are you so cold? Most of the other test subjects shout and yell when they see us. Your behavior makes me think we're very familiar with each other."

Don't you think I look terrifying?

"I don't think so. You're probably considered young in your tribe, so why would you have concerns about your appearance?"

"They all say I'm ugly." "Don't listen to their nonsense, they're uglier."

"Thank you, I suddenly feel confident."

Erigana cheered up. It suddenly realized that the experimental subject wasn't as dangerous as the director had said. Apart from being difficult to raise and not eating anything, everything was perfect.

Thinking this, it continued to introduce itself to Ria: "Let me tell you, I'm an intern at the best hospital in this waterway. If you have any illness, just come to me... The teachers here are all professors, and treating anorexia is a piece of cake for them."

"I'm really looking forward to the day I recover."

Ria patted its shoulder, then glanced back at the room behind it.

The piece of raw human flesh, mixed with blood, was still emitting its own odor; its stench could be smelled from a distance. But instead of feeling disgusted, Ria's mouth began to involuntarily produce saliva.

The young man blinked, his expression remaining perfectly normal.

But in contrast, his nerves began to tighten.

What is going wrong?
What Emigana said was true. Ria had indeed begun to develop a strange fondness for raw human flesh, and normal food tasted like cardboard to him, much like those supernatural creatures that ran rampant indiscriminately.

He wasn't the only one who entered the abyss; there were others too. If everyone ended up like that, it might eventually lead to a scenario that no one wanted to see.

"Experimental subject... that's a very bad name."

Ria began to feel hostility toward the so-called dean. He himself was hard to die from and could go without food, but others probably couldn't.

If ordinary people get involved this time, then farces like "cannibalism" could very well happen. No matter what kind of experiments these deep-sea divers want to try, the result will inevitably be that they all become "exploited resources".

In such a crisis, only an idiot would sit idly by and wait to die.

"Emiragana, do you know who these humans are?"

Ria asked the human-deep hybrid beside her, while Emigana thought for a long time.

"I remember several people fell to different places. You guys are better off, especially you. You're not as scary as the dean said. Maybe it's just that it's always been prejudiced against humans."

But there's another terrifying person inside. Do you know who Hephaestus is? He infiltrated! He infiltrated!
Oh, abyss!

Almost immediately upon discovering the thing, its kind rushed to capture Hephaestus's clone. The Deep Ones were fully armed, fearing that if they were late, something terrible would happen.

Unexpectedly, the clone did not resist. Instead, it happily bound itself and demanded the same treatment as everyone else.

All the hospital directors outwardly agreed, but inwardly they were all thinking about finding a time to ask the head of the hospital, who was also the mayor, to kill that guy.

Perhaps the submission of the recommendation letter through the various levels was too slow, as the mayor has not yet responded. However, Ermagana thinks this is unlikely, or even nonsense.

In its eyes, the mayor is omnipotent, and nothing that happens in this developed city can escape the mayor's knowledge.

It and its wife ruled the city together, and all the citizens loved it as much as they loved their own gods.

The original tribes are long gone. Since they were forced to flee into the abyss ruins, this is the only home for the survivors.

(End of this chapter)