Thirteen hours had passed since Yang Yi and the others entered the Abyss.
During that time, Xiao Luo had kept sailing in the direction of the "Truth pointer," but Miskatonic University seemed to be extremely far away. They still had not caught so much as a glimpse of it.
Moreover, the Abyss Nautilus's senses, which rivaled a super radar in the deep sea, had lost their effectiveness in the Abyss. The detection range of the radar display was limited to ten kilometers, which was actually a very small range in the deep sea.
With his perception restricted, Xiao Luo could not go full speed either. In fact, he had been holding back as he swam. Otherwise, if he suddenly ran into something strange, he might not have time to react at all.
Over those thirteen hours, they had encountered several twisted masses of "unknown aberrant forms" and successfully avoided them all.
But they had no way of determining whether those things were living or nonliving. They very likely counted as both.
Because in the Abyss, the boundary between living and nonliving had already become blurred.
At Su Na's direction, Yang Yi had tested the Abyss's effects with some items and equipment, ending up with a pile of things that were difficult to describe.
For instance, the potion bottles paddling around here had grown legs. There were over a dozen of them, and they had already formed a little "school of fish" inside the Nautilus.
Then there was a Long-Legged Sardine that had been alive one second and turned into a root carving the next.
Although its appearance was exactly the same, its structure had become wooden, with even its internal organs perfectly reproduced.
In the Abyss, nearly all matter existed in this peculiar state. Because "Reason" was unstable, its form