"It really is dark underwater."
Yang Yi grumbled inwardly as he swam forward, relying on his helmet searchlight and the large searchlights in the diving workroom for illumination.
This was his first dive, and it felt strange. His heart began pounding for no apparent reason, and it took more than ten seconds to settle down.
Then he looked around. The sea felt deathly silent, without a single fish in sight. Only the thruster on his back made the sound of rushing water.
The two robots followed behind him, swimming toward the same target.
Up ahead, large numbers of Drowned Dead had gathered, crowding around the hull breach.
There were quite a few along the way, too.
Yang Yi raised his underwater tactical rifle and tried aiming.
These Drowned Dead were peculiar. Underwater, they looked like suspended corpses, seemingly motionless, yet they slowly drifted toward living people. What propelled them was a mystery.
Yang Yi fired.
Whoosh!
A harpoon shot out, striking a Drowned Dead in the stomach over ten meters away.
An electric current then activated, traveling down the harpoon cable. The Drowned Dead convulsed all over before abruptly bursting apart.
After killing one, Yang Yi retrieved the harpoon via its cable, while a fair amount of foul blood mixed with corpse fragments drifted toward him.
"Good."
Yang Yi was very satisfied with the rifle's performance. Its range was long enough to keep him outside the Drowned Dead's blast radius.
The weapon could hold one harpoon, three Miniature Torpedoes, and one Current Bullet.
The Current Bullet was a special magazine used with the harpoon. It discharged electricity, transmitting the current through an insulated cable to strike a distant target directly.
It was also simple to use. He only needed to hold down the trigger after firing the harpoon, and it