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After hearing Song Mingyu's assessment, Su Li unconsciously tapped her knees with her knuckles.

The islands that rise and fall periodically—this illogical phenomenon was like a thorn in his mind.

"Natural laws? Or perhaps..." His gaze swept across the dark sea outside the porthole, "...that there are living creatures lurking on the seabed?"

"It seems necessary to go into the water and take a look."

Su Li glanced at her teammates, then nodded to Sun Lili and Song Mingyu. "The three of us, go down and check things out. Make some preparations."

Such dangerous exploration work is something that space exploration experts like Sun Lili naturally wouldn't hesitate to do.

Then it was Song Mingyu, the team's biological expert, who was asked to sense and identify the signs of life.

The three of them prepared their diving suits and stocked their personal inventory with plenty of oxygen cylinders. Better safe than sorry.

Stepping off the train, the three arrived at the seaside. The other three stood on the shore, with Sofia setting up her gun, ready to support Zuli at any moment.

"Then we're going down!" Su Li gave a thumbs-up to the trio in the distance.

Then, with a sudden leap, he plunged into the water.

Countless bubbles floated past her eyes, and then, illuminated by the sun's rays, the dreamlike azure seabed appeared before Zurich.

Su Li looked around at the seabed, which was full of colorful corals. The colors on these corals came from the coral polyps themselves. When the coral polyps died, what was left was golden coral, which was the sand on the beach where they had just been playing.

Zuli quickly glanced around; the sea was teeming with diverse life, making her feel as if she had stumbled upon a tropical coral reef from a documentary she had watched before.

The entire coral reef was about 100 meters long, and the three of them quickly swam over the 100-meter mark and reached the edge of the seabed.

Sure enough, a cliff appeared at the edge of the coral reef. On this side of the cliff were colorful coral reefs teeming with diverse life; on the other side, there was nothing at all.

A large number of particles float in the seawater, making it appear murky under the sunlight.

The seawater, initially azure at the surface, gradually turned deep blue and then black as the depth increased. Eventually, nothing could be seen at all, as if it were a bottomless abyss.

Be careful, I'll lead the way.

Su Li gave some instructions via mental link, and then swam towards the cliff first.

Around the cliff, there was a powerful ocean current that rose and fell continuously, but Su Li managed to stabilize herself using her magical energy and strong physical abilities.

Zuli clung to the cliff face, slowly diving downwards. The cliff's color grew increasingly monotonous, changing from a seaweed-covered green to the color of rock. It was too dark below; Zuli couldn't see the bottom at all.

From Zurich's perspective, the island looks like a giant tower, stretching straight from the seabed to the surface.

Su Li approached the edge of the cliff, tapped on it, and found that the cliff felt somewhat like limestone.

Song Mingyu swam over, placed her hand next to the 'rock layer', closed her eyes, and carefully began to sense it.

A moment later, Song Mingyu opened her eyes.

[Full of life, this island is alive!]

Song Mingyu always brings bad news.

Zuli felt immense pressure.

This thing is alive! Such a big island, and it's alive!

Consider this: of the many islands we've seen, how many of them are actually alive?

In Su Li's mind, tens of thousands of tentacled octopuses appeared. With a wave of its claws, countless thousand-meter-long tentacles whipped her team into a two-dimensional world.

Now he's really going to become a mobile game character.

"Is there any specific news?" Su Li asked hurriedly.

Song Mingyu pondered for a moment, then said, "The life force inside is extremely...chaotic, like countless lives intertwined, forming a new life. I suspect this creature is some kind of gregarious organism."

[This outer layer is a structure they secrete, similar to a stratum corneum. Their true form is inside.]

Sun Lili also placed her hands on the rock wall, closed her eyes, and focused on her inner self.

A few seconds later, she withdrew her hand with a strange expression. [That's odd. I didn't sense anything. Either the creatures inside don't have minds, or they can block out thoughts.]

Su Li looked up at the deep sea, took out a fire elemental fragment from her inventory, activated it with magic energy, and threw it into the water.

The fire elemental fragments glowed red and drifted downwards. Su Li followed the light of the fragments to observe the cliff below.

When the elemental fragment lights had drifted down about 200 meters, Su Li suddenly realized that the cliff below had disappeared.

So, this isn't a cliff, but a floating island?

Zurich told two people about her discovery.

After discussing it, the three decided to go around to the bottom of the floating island to see what was going on underneath.

The three of them swam downwards and soon arrived at the spot they had just seen.

Swimming through the gap, Su Li arrived at the bottom of the floating island. She looked up at the top of the floating island.

Looking up, Su Li was stunned.

The floating island looked like a bottomless box. Zuli and the others were currently at the bottom of the box, peering inside.

Below the floating island was a roughly conical groove. The top of the groove was no longer covered by a layer of keratin, but rather by clusters of writhing spheres of light. Most of these spheres emitted a pale purple glow, pulsating like hearts. A small portion of the spheres had lost their luster and turned black.

At the center of all the light spheres, at the very top of the conical groove, there is a thick, root-like or blood vessel-like structure that shimmers with a purplish-red light and extends downwards.

Su Li approached a ball of light and began examining its surroundings.

There are still some stratum corneum around the light sphere, but the color of these stratum corneum is even more unsightly.

Su Li picked up the greatsword, aimed it at a ball of light, and then glanced at Sun Lili.

Sun Lili immediately understood Su Li's plan. [Teleportation preparation complete!]

Using her greatsword, Su Li cut off a palm-sized orb of light. Beneath the orb were numerous blood vessels-like structures, which looked extremely disgusting. Then, Su Li cut off some keratinized skin.

Fearing that the items in her inventory would become unusable, Su Li simply hung them all on her waist.

Having completed the task with bated breath, Su Li breathed a sigh of relief. Whether Su Li had cut too little or the other party simply didn't care, the living floating island didn't react at all.

After collecting the samples, and with nothing more to investigate, the three swam towards the sea.