Dominator and the Water City

The Tian Kong was neither a gloomy, overcast day nor a bright, sunny one, but rather a common sky that was hard to describe.

The sky is so clear that the sun is not visible; it is neither too bright nor too dark—just right—and this is called daytime.

Beneath the sky of what appears to be common, unremarkable daytime lies a Ruined city shrouded in silence.

"What kind of Monster is that?"

Sitting in the back seat of the car, looking out the window at the receding scenery, Young Feather looked on with lingering fear.

"Honestly, I've never seen anything so disgusting."

"I don't know, but strictly speaking, those Monster should be classified as Sapper."

While concentrating on driving, Bai Zhi casually gave a reply.

"I mean, where did all those Zombie in the Residential Building go? It seems they were dragged to the top floor by those 'Sapper,' or maybe the Zombie were the Raw Material to be transformed into those 'Sapper'..."

"Raw Material? Sapper? Why?"

Young Feather was quite taken aback.

"The Residential Building we're in has 24 floors, and we're on the eighth floor. We couldn't see the whole thing from inside, but after we came out, we noticed something in the Tian Kong above the Residential Building's roof... We call that thing Levitation above the roof the Dominator."

With a wry smile, OriginDeficit began to explain.

"Based on our speculation, and considering the situation inside the Residential Building, those 'Sapper' were created by the Dominator Levitation above the buildings."

"No, that's not something; it's a human being in a deep sleep."

While keeping his eyes fixed ahead, searching for a way out of the Residential Complex, Bai Zhi began to speak.

"My eyesight is better than yours, so I can clearly see the general appearance of the person Levitation above the building. It's a genuine human male, around 27 to 28 years old, wearing dark brown casual clothes, and is fast asleep."

"... Humans?"

Looking up at Bai Zhi driving in front of him, OriginDeficit was completely taken aback.

"If we're talking about humans, why would we be Levitation at such a high altitude?"

"I'm not an encyclopedia, why do you keep asking me?"

With the sharp screeching of car tires against the ground, Bai Zhi drove straight through the guardrail at the entrance of the residential area and onto the main street.

"Also, please note that it's not just our Residential Building that has humans floating above it; there are also sleeping humans floating Residential Building. That's why I rushed to leave this small area immediately..."

Bai Zhi's voice suddenly stopped, and the car braked sharply to a stop on the side of the road.

After a moment of silence, Bai Zhi turned around and asked his three Teammate in a very serious tone.

"Excuse me, which way do I need to go? The sidewalk?"

... He was met with silence.

To be honest, before making the decision to drive out of the way, Bai Zhi had imagined what the streets would look like.

Or perhaps it's a scene of hordes of Zombie roaming the streets, with the wreckage of overturned and blocked cars everywhere. Or perhaps it's a deathly silence, an empty wasteland where no living souls can be seen, with scattered Zombie lining both sides of the street.

But no matter how vivid his imagination was, he never imagined that the scene before him would be so absurd and inexplicable... and he bet no one could have guessed it.

--Because all that appeared before them was water.

It was as if the land beneath the entire street had vanished and been filled with a massive amount of seawater; what they were seeing before them was the very image of Venice, the Water City.

Even more incredibly, they could even see the shark's dorsal fin leisurely gliding across the water's surface...

"Get off the bus, now we can't even walk on the sidewalk."

With a sigh, Bai Zhi opened the car door and stepped out first.

Perhaps because all the Zombie in the entire neighborhood had been drawn away by the "Sapper" over there, there were no Zombie around them at the moment.

"The water is a bit murky, and while it's not very wide, it's at least 100 meters deep, and the water level is several tens of centimeters lower than where we are now... I think this thing is just ridiculously outrageous."

After crouching down by the water to observe for a moment, Young Feather's face involuntarily darkened.

"It seems like all the main streets are like this; we can't even walk anymore. What should we do?"

Can you swim?

Bai Zhi glanced back in the direction he had come from and raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Just treat this like a swimming pool. It's only about ten meters wide at most. To be honest, it's not safe here. Who knows when those 'Sapper' will catch up? Even Security Door can't withstand their pipes, let alone a car. Let's get to the other side of the road as soon as possible."

"But there are sharks underwater... I feel like this Dungeon is getting weirder and weirder."

Yuan Que pressed his temples hard, his face showing a headache.

"Also, it wasn't just sharks. I also vaguely saw dozens of strange fish, about the thickness of Chopsticks, in the water. If I remember correctly, they should be Amazon Piranha... Well, if we're fast enough, that shouldn't be a problem."

After thinking for a moment, OriginDeficit.

"It's only a few meters wide. As long as we swim fast enough, we can get ashore before those piranhas can react."

"I can not swim."

Ink-Stained Crystal spoke calmly.

"It would be even better if we had a boat."

"Don't joke around, this is a city, where would you find such a thing..."

OriginDeficit could finish his somewhat speechless sentence, he was slightly dumbfounded to see two rubber boats slowly drifting towards him from the traffic light intersection ahead.

"... Is this the boat you called?"

With a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth, OriginDeficit turned to look at Ink-Stained Crystal.

"Have no idea."

As she watched the rubber boat slowly drifting towards them, Ink-Stained Crystal's eyes flickered slightly.

"My original intention was to go to the Residential Building and get a few large bathtubs, since the street is only a few meters wide."

"But you just casually mentioned it, and two rubber boats showed up. It just doesn't feel right..."

Young Feather looked Ink-Stained Crystal up and down, a thoughtful expression on his face.

"... Would you like to try again and see if you can summon one...?"

"If you keep dawdling, those 'Sapper' will catch up."

Reaching out, Bai Zhi grabbed the two rubber boats that floated past him and pulled them ashore. Turning to the other three, he spoke with a hint of helplessness.

"There are priorities. Can we discuss those matters after we've settled down?"