Qin Siyang, who was piloting the Capsule Pod, said, "I refuse to believe it."
Hu Chan turned to look at him. "What?"
Qin Siyang stared at the lifeless sea. "Before the apocalypse, there were at least a few continents. Even in ancient times, there were isolated patches of land out at sea. How could an ocean this vast not have a single island?"
Silence settled inside the Capsule Pod for a few seconds.
When Hu Chan gave no response, Qin Siyang asked, "Holy Son Hu, why aren't you saying anything?"
Yet Hu Chan still did not answer.
Qin Siyang suddenly realized that it wasn't just Hu Chan who had gone quiet. Gu Yunzheng and the others in the back seats had fallen silent too.
The low hum of the engine vanished. The sound of seawater slapping the pod's walls vanished. Even everyone's breathing disappeared at that moment.
He immediately turned to look.
Hu Chan was still sitting in the passenger seat, but his entire body seemed frozen in place.
His eyes faced forward, his pupils unfocused.
Looking farther back, Qin Siyang saw that Duan Chongfang, Gu Yunzheng, and Old Johnny were all holding their previous poses.
None of them moved.
It was as though time had paused at that very instant.
Only Qin Siyang could still move.
"What's going on?!"
Qin Siyang frowned, his hand already resting on the Godslayer Spear.
But neither he nor his search tools detected any enemies.
"Could this be a Large God's effect?"
The next moment, the sea outside the Capsule Pod moved.
It wasn't the familiar tsunami he had seen before, but a sinking he had never experienced.
The entire surface of the sea slowly caved inward, with the Capsule Pod at its center.
Even though Qin Siyang's Capsule Pod was still moving forward,