Seeing the room fall silent again, Shen Xixi suddenly changed the subject. "But you do have a point. It's far too dangerous to keep chasing after them, and there really isn't much point in it."
"So you're willing to stop?" Rabbit asked happily.
"No. I'm planning to join the Deep Sea Hunters and go out to sea with them," Shen Xixi said.
The Deep Sea Hunters were not a profession, but a newly established player organization. Unlike those guilds and chambers of commerce, the Deep Sea Hunters were only a temporary organization and had no intention of lasting for long. In fact, every player who joined them hoped the Deep Sea Hunters would disband tomorrow.
They had been founded under the leadership of the Guardians, a mysterious human organization that had only recently emerged. Their members included not only players, but also ordinary people with professional training. Yet regardless of who they were, everyone joined the Deep Sea Hunters for the same purpose: to stop the thing in the Underground City from destroying the world, no matter the cost.
That cost included the members' lives. In a sense, this was a suicide squad, representing humanity's unyielding spirit and courage to fight to the end, while carrying humanity's last hope.
Shen Xixi had actually considered joining the Deep Sea Hunters before. But at the time, she did not think she had enough courage to face the Lord of R'lyeh, let alone attack him, because he was using Zhang Heng's body.
That was why she had chosen to investigate and crack down on the groups that had sprung up like mushrooms after rain. It was only when Li Bai and Rabbit exposed the truth that Shen Xixi realized she had been running away all along, numbing herself with actions that only appeared