The Abyssal Sea Research Department was located in the Peaceful Sea, one of the ten great inner-ring seas and widely recognized as the most peaceful sea.
The address Research Institute 3154 had given Lin Yuan was on Peaceful Island in the Peaceful Sea, so Lin Yuan had assumed the Abyssal Sea Research Department would be a building on the island.
Only when he arrived did he discover that the Abyssal Sea Research Department was actually a Giant Ship moored beside Peaceful Island.
Of course, a ship was merely what the structure fundamentally was. Its appearance had absolutely nothing to do with a "ship."
From the outside, the Abyssal Sea Research Department looked like a thick, cylindrical tower plunging straight down beneath the sea.
Bai Ling, beside him, also told Lin Yuan that, in her Inspiration, the bottom of the Abyssal Sea Research Department was a sharp spiral drill bit.
The entire ship, or rather, building, resembled a sharpened pencil.
This "pencil" stood roughly three hundred meters tall, spanning the Shallow Sea and the Main Sea.
Interesting. It looks just like a drilling rig. Could it have been... built specifically to drill into the hard seawater of the Abyssal Sea?
Lin Yuan speculated inwardly.
As he pondered this, he had already reached the Abyssal Sea Research Department's open entrance.
A middle-aged man in a white suit, his hair meticulously groomed, was already standing there.
Seeing Lin Yuan arrive, the man stepped forward to greet him.
"Hello, hello! You must be Captain Zero, the one Researcher 3154 mentioned!"
"I'm Mei Qian, senior researcher and head of the Abyssal Sea Research Department. I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
"Come, let me show you around our research building!"
"All right. Sorry for the trouble, Minister Mei." Lin Yuan reached out and