As the cold notifications rang out one after another beside his ears, Zhou Heng slowly opened his eyes, though he paid little attention to the routine ban warnings on his retinas.
He knew perfectly well.
Through the Virtual Reality and Falsehood-tier talent that Pure Color had activated at any cost, he should now have successfully slipped free and descended once more into the Novice Village safe zone where everything had first begun.
Moreover, judging by the prefix of the system notifications, this was a special Novice Village called "Obossis New Land."
Judging solely by this Novice Village's ancient name, if his guess was correct, the underlying template for this continent should have originated from the technological civilization of "Obossis," renowned in the Ancient Era-a glorious civilization whose climb up the technology tree had brought it infinitely close to that "Master of Technology."
"Did I just spawn right on the bottom of the deep sea?"
"But... what exactly is going on with this body of mine right now?"
After initially adjusting to the darkness around him and instinctively sensing his own condition, Zhou Heng raised his eyebrows slightly, looking around at the pitch-black, high-pressure seawater with a hint of confusion in his gaze.
Something was wrong.
Very wrong.
According to the red warning the system had just displayed, if all his attributes, all his classes, and even all his passive skills had been completely sealed and reset to zero by the Novice Village's ironclad laws the instant he entered this area, reducing him to a level 1 mortal too weak to truss a chicken...
Then why, as he stood on the seabed ten thousand meters below the surface, did he not feel even the slightest trace of the terrifying deep-sea pressure capable of crushing steel flat? Why could he still breathe