Hard-Shell Tower

"Clang, clang!" Two loud crashes rang out, sounding as if something had collided.

"Waaah!" A mournful cry followed the two crashes. The voice was loud, but it did not frighten anyone in the slightest. Instead, it sounded like it came from a frail, gentle animal.

"Again? That guy is throwing things around again..." The voice was filled with indescribable sorrow. "When will these days ever end? I really want to go out and play..."

"Whew..." Li Ziming gradually regained consciousness. As his awareness returned, the Skull Hand slowly loosened its grip on the weapon.

"I... damn!" Li Ziming had already suffered some internal injuries from being crushed by the water pressure in the current. Even after waking up, his body had not fully recovered. Although the distance he had fallen was not high, the impact still caused him further injury.

"Who's there? Who's outside..." The first "who" was shouted with some authority, but by the end, it was as if all that authority had been exhausted by that one word. The rest of the sentence sounded exactly like a cat with its fur standing on end. "I'm warning you, I'm the daughter of Great Knight Neptune! I-I'm not afraid of you!"

"Neptune's daughter?" Li Ziming froze for a moment. But wasn't the Hard-Shell Tower supposed to be underwater? Confused, he looked around and discovered that a layer of bubbles had somehow formed around him. "What's going on?" Li Ziming felt as if he had overlooked something—something very important to him.

"S-sorry... Are those people outside still there?" Shirahoshi asked timidly. "It seems they've left. I wanted to hear about the outside world..."

"Aren't you afraid I'm a bad person?" Li Ziming asked with an amused smile. Feeling the injuries inside his body, he casually spat out a mouthful of blood