His eyes nearly burst from their sockets!
Carson stared in horror at the widening crack in the submarine's starboard side, his hands and feet turning ice-cold.
As a highly educated man, he knew all too well what would happen if the submarine broke apart. The enormous pressure difference between the inside and outside would first slam them against the wall farthest from the breach. Then the water pressure a thousand meters below the surface would crush their bones in an instant, flattening them into meat patties. But before that, their skulls would shatter first, spraying their brains like jam...
Except for Roman, who had already put on a diving suit, none of them would die with their bodies intact!
Bang!
The next instant, the submarine's wall burst apart. Amid the flying fragments, the Attendant and Aislin screamed at the top of their lungs. Yet in his daze, Carson realized that no water had rushed in. He was still standing exactly where he had been.
With no time to feel relieved, he immediately looked toward the breach, only to discover in astonishment that a thick bubble had appeared around the submarine at some point.
Carson froze, then instinctively looked at Xia Lun.
Xia Lun was still leaning against the back of his recliner, perfectly composed and utterly unruffled.
"Ailot, I haven't finished my deductions yet." Xia Lun raised an eyebrow. "What's the rush? I imagine the Gatekeeper would very much like to hear me finish, wouldn't it? This bubble is the Gatekeeper's doing."
The Gatekeeper? Carson's throat bobbed. Trembling, he peered outside through the crack in the submarine's wall.
Although they were now deep within the abyssal ocean, strangely enough, there was still light here.
Through the shimmering bubble, light gleamed across millions of magnificent pink crystals. Those countless angular crystals