Xie Te was a deep-diving member.
Unlike Yu Xin and the others who had gone down in the first group, he came from the surface of the Supernatural World. In fact, most members of Tianyu Ancient Village's deep-diving exploration teams came from the surface.
A small portion were natives of the Netherworld.
And among them, the natives of Demon Port were exceedingly rare. There were only twenty or thirty of them in total.
This was normal.
Demon Port's population was not very large to begin with.
The ordinary residents there would not choose to join Tianyu Ancient Village. They only accepted temporary employment, or at most signed long-term contracts to become professional sailors.
But people like that—
Tianyu Ancient Village naturally could not trust them.
So they could only focus on wandering children and orphans who had lost both parents.
And they could not be too old.
They had to be adopted while they were very young, then gradually trained.
Yet—
Demon Port was extremely sensitive to its population flowing outward, because many of its natives possessed an extremely strange connection to the Nether Sea. It was precisely through this connection that Demon Port could stand on the Nether Sea Shore, irreplaceable.
Therefore, even when children lost their families, the port would step in to raise them.
It strongly resisted and resented outside forces collecting children.
Thus, after all these years, even Tianyu Ancient Village had not collected many local children to train as its own sailors.
In short—
The main force of Tianyu Ancient Village's sailors still came from the surface.
The constantly increasing depth made Xie Te breathe slightly harder. Even in a specially made diving suit, he felt an intense constriction that involuntarily made him want to gasp for air.
It was not just the water