Lin Junyu's Drifting Voyage Across the Seas, the Terror of the Deep Sea, and the Technological Legacy of an Ancient Civilization

Lin Feng had been so absorbed in his book that he only caught a glimpse of it from the corner of his eye.

A battered fishing boat was drifting toward him across the sea.

"Snowflakes drift, the north wind howls, heaven and earth are a vast expanse! I've finally returned!"

At the bow of the battered fishing boat stood a crazed-looking man with disheveled hair and an unshaven face.

He held a trident harpoon, carried a straw hat on his back, and wore fishing shoes split wide open at the toes, exposing his big toes.

He hummed a tune Lin Feng could not understand, gazing at the land where Lin Feng stood with deep emotion in his eyes.

"Damn, what refugee fisherman is this? He looks miserable!"

Two hundred years. He had drifted at sea for two hundred years, and had finally returned to the continent he knew!

Did anyone know how he had spent those two hundred years?

Had anyone ever seen a lobster monster ten meters tall? Lin Junyu had.

Had anyone ever killed a Leviathan over a hundred meters long? Lin Junyu had.

Had anyone ever been tied up by a giant octopus with tentacles a thousand meters long? Lin Junyu had.

Back then, he had brought Zichuan Mingyue and Lin Weiguo to River Hill. They lived there for more than a decade as he raised Lin Weiguo to adulthood, settled down, and built a life in River Hill.

Over those dozen years, he had often used special methods to modify Zichuan Mingyue's body, allowing her to achieve a form of pseudo-immortality and live for a thousand years.

Afterward, he handed his plans and arrangements across the continent over to Zichuan Mingyue, telling her to explore the continent's ruins, draw maps, and wait for his return.

Once he had finished his instructions, he prepared to set sail across the sea.

At the time, he had been full of ambition. With his immense strength, exploring ancient civilization ruins in the deep sea should have been easy, shouldn't it?

At first, after leaving the continent, everything had been normal. The creatures were normal too—mischievous, adorable little shrimp and fish swimming through the water.

But as he sailed onward, he entered the deep-sea zones.

For the first time in reality, he saw a giant lobster monster ten meters tall. He had only ever seen such things while watching Ultraman before.

After that, everything overturned his imagination. All sorts of gigantic ancient creatures, who knew how many years old, lived in the deep sea.

His strength was simply insignificant before monsters that had lived for who knew how many tens of thousands of years.

So he cautiously explored the deep sea, constantly mapping it out.

After decades of exploration, he divided the deep sea into ten zones, from the innermost to the outermost.

The farther inward one went, the larger the ancient deep-sea creatures became—and the harder they were to kill.

Beyond the West River Continent, his exploration had also uncovered many scattered fragments of land, but none showed any sign of human life.

There were only strange-looking, vicious, and irritable monsters.

Over two hundred years in the deep sea, Lin Junyu explored countless ancient civilization ruins of varying sizes.

But the things inside had been eroded by seawater for who knew how many ages and were almost completely ruined.

Only the occasional ruins on land had been preserved relatively well. After exploring them, Lin Junyu finally came to understand some of the ancient world's secrets.

In his previous life, he had not finished reading the Zichuan novel, but he had seen many people's speculations about it.

What he discovered was more or less the same as those theories. In ancient times, this continent had possessed an extremely advanced high-level civilization, which could be called the civilization of humanity's gods. They had highly developed technology and were even fanatical about genetic research.

Within those ruins, Lin Junyu obtained vast amounts of technological knowledge passed down from the ancient civilization, including research techniques for all kinds of genes, methods for creating biochemically enhanced humans, and ways to revive monster genes.

Those technological inheritances were enough to show just how glorious ancient human civilization had been.

After obtaining the ancient civilization's technological legacy, Lin Junyu entered a long period of secluded study.

He frantically learned all kinds of knowledge. Whenever he was hungry, he went out to kill a fish or catch a shrimp, then froze it in the cryogenic chamber of a laboratory within the ruins.

The enormous size of a single fish or shrimp was enough to feed him for years.

The technological knowledge inherited from the ancient civilization was complicated and profound. It took him a full hundred years to learn and master it all.

Over the following decades, he used the resources left behind in the ruin's laboratory to create many things.

But the thing that satisfied him most was an artificial robot he had built, one that looked almost exactly like a human.

He uploaded all kinds of human knowledge and culture, behavioral habits and customs, the continent's martial system, including the Light Ripple Art, into its intelligent brain, which could grow and level up.

The artificial robot's strength depended on its energy supply. Until its energy ran out, it was an invincible existence.

Placed in the West River Continent's age of cold weapons, it was impervious to blades and spears, immensely powerful, and incapable of feeling fatigue. It was absolutely a terrifying weapon.

After using up all the resources in the ruins and mastering all the knowledge, Lin Junyu decided to leave. By his count, he had been away from the continent for more than two hundred years.

He wondered how things were going on the continent now.

So, after enduring countless storms and hardships, he finally returned to River Hill, the place from which he had set off two hundred years ago.

With his messy hair hanging loose, Lin Junyu began sprinting wildly across the beach after the fishing boat reached shore.

There was also a person on the fishing boat, wrapped completely in a black robe and sitting there quietly.

Just as Lin Junyu was sighing that the continent was still better, he ran into a young man staring at him with a strange look in his eyes.

"Hey! You refugee! I'm Lin Feng, naval commander of River Hill in the Luminous Empire. Where did you come from, and what are you here for?"

Seeing such a wrecked boat drifting in from the endless sea, Lin Feng became highly alert. For all he knew, it could be a demon spy who had sneaked across the border.

The peace between the Empire and the demon race had ended a century ago, and the entire continent had once again fallen into chaos.

Wars frequently broke out between the Empire and the demon race, so he had to stay vigilant.

"Ah! People! I can finally talk to people! I've been bored to death!"

Seeing the young man before him, Lin Junyu grew incredibly excited and immediately began babbling endlessly about all sorts of things he had seen at sea.

Watching the chattering, crazed Lin Junyu, Lin Feng had every reason to suspect there was something wrong with his head.

"Quick, quick, quick! Take me to Snow Moon Tower in River Hill City for a good meal! I haven't eaten anything decent in ages!"

Lin Feng was so speechless he almost laughed. No, I'm interrogating you. And you're thinking about food?

Fine, fine. Seeing how pitiful you are, I'll take you for a meal.

It seemed he had not been there in a long time either. He could use the chance to probe into Lin Junyu's background over the meal and see who he really was.

Lin Junyu grabbed Lin Feng and ran ahead, then suddenly seemed to remember something.

"Number 001, come after us once you've finished charging!"

The black-robed figure still sitting on the fishing boat immediately replied.

"Yes, Master!"

With that, Lin Junyu hurriedly dragged the utterly bewildered Lin Feng toward River Hill City.