The damp, gloomy environment almost never had a bright, stable light source. A cold, mournful air permeated everything, and the water here was outright poison to mortals.
Its excessive acidity was secondary. The main issue was that the water here was not dihydrogen monoxide... but some kind of hydrogen-helium compound. It was half the mass of ordinary water and completely undrinkable for living creatures.
Well, if even the so-called "water" was this absurd, then the environment and physical laws here were even more outrageous.
The thermometer Long Yuqiong carried had exploded outright. The lowest temperature in Layer Abyss, absolute zero, was minus 275°C.
But absolute zero in Boundary Abyss was...
Boundary Abyss had no absolute zero.
The absurd hydrogen-helium compound of Boundary Abyss could not serve as a reference standard at all. They could only use the water they had brought from Layer Abyss as a reference.
Then they watched helplessly as the purified water poured into a container rapidly froze, fused with the surrounding air molecules, and then grew arms and legs... Wait, how had it become taller than a building when it stood up?!
The three of them had planned to boil water for a meal, only to nearly get eaten by the water instead.
But top players were still top players, and elites were still elites.
That brief failure and frustration did not leave them utterly discouraged, because the mindset that had truly driven their success and strength was still with them.
Compared to ordinary players, the greatest advantage of professional players was not their skilled controls or greater talent, but their understanding of games and systematic way of thinking. They were fundamentally different from players who played purely for entertainment.
Even Boundary Abyss natives could not possibly compete with the game-world problem-solvers who had clawed and