As soon as he finished speaking, April began searching the nearby corpses for keys without waiting for anyone else.

Most of the bodies were floating halfway in the water, but quite a few had sunk to the bottom of the cabin. As she felt around for keys, April asked, “Did you bring any [items] that store oxygen?”

“No.”

Lin Yu answered calmly.

April frowned. “Do you even know anything about the Pure Abyss? Then I’ll handle the underwater part. Those people should have keys on them.”

“My [portable oxygen tank] can probably keep me active for three hours a day. That should be more than enough time to find the keys.”

As April spoke, Lin Yu shook his head again. “I don’t need those. I can stay active underwater for over sixty minutes on a single breath.”

April stared at him in disbelief. “How long?”

“Sixty minutes. One hour. I trained specifically for it,” Lin Yu reiterated.

April blurted out in shock, “What are you, some kind of monster? That’s way beyond the world record for holding your breath underwater!”

“If the record hasn’t changed, it’s twenty-four minutes and thirty-three seconds,” Lin Yu replied calmly. “But before I joined this Game and improved my Physique through some unusual foods and potions, I could only manage about fifteen minutes. It’s only thanks to all sorts of buffs that I can last sixty minutes now. This ability also comes in handy in my everyday life.”

He was both bragging and understating the truth.

The brag was that Lin Yu could only stay underwater with the help of an [item]. His Physique alone wasn’t enough.

If he really had to hold his breath, he estimated he could manage about thirty minutes at most. After all, he had never done any special training to increase his oxygen capacity.

The understatement was that he didn’t just have to come up for air after an hour. If Lin Yu wanted to, he could stay underwater forever.

Even so, an hour was enough to leave April utterly stunned. “Aren’t you a ‘Reporter’? What do you mean, it comes in handy in your everyday life?”

“I go underwater to catch fish sometimes,” Lin Yu replied calmly.

“You live by the sea? Then why aren’t you a ‘Fisherman’?” April asked curiously.

Lin Yu shook his head. “I’m not a ‘Fisherman,’ and I don’t live by the sea. I just sometimes need to catch fish to eat.”

He didn’t explain further and headed straight for the trapdoor.

“Besides, we don’t need to waste any damn time looking for some key.”

As he spoke, Lin Yu braced himself against the ladder leading upward and positioned himself directly beneath the slanted trapdoor.

“Thud!”

Lin Yu slammed his head hard against it.

“Bang!”

The metal trapdoor creaked, then flew open under the impact.

“Come on. I told you, we don’t need a key.”

Lin Yu turned to look at April and beckoned her over.

Watching Lin Yu’s straightforward, brute-force approach, April froze for a moment before nodding and following him.

“Okay, I’m coming.”

She had already seen Lin Yu’s speed and strength, but watching him smash open a metal door with his head had once again shattered her expectations of what he could do.

Her poor first impression, based on labels like “unprofessional,” “First-Tier,” and “possibly a nepotism hire,” began to fade.

A considerable number of Death Game Players, especially members of the Marauders, were firm believers in “straight-up strength.”

They placed particular importance on physical fitness and close-quarters combat. Many Players even believed that anything capable of improving their physical abilities was invaluable, which had kept the prices of related [items] highly inflated.

The famed Deputy Chief of the Marauders’ Yanjing branch, Fish, had once said something deeply insightful: “The Death Game is like a rugby match. If your stats are strong enough, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know any techniques. Even if you have only the intelligence of a silverback gorilla, if you really are a silverback gorilla, you can still win the championship.”

At that moment, April suddenly understood the weight behind Fish’s words.

“No wonder Deputy Chief Fish recommended him. Calling him a nepotism hire doesn’t do him justice. He’s a real beast.”

April sighed, then climbed up the ladder.

Of course...

Even after seeing how capable he was, April had no intention of simply following Yayu’s orders from then on.

Yayu might be strong, but at the end of the day, he was only First-Tier.

She still had to take responsibility for leading the way. If nothing else, she certainly knew more about the Pure Abyss than Yayu did.

After climbing through the trapdoor, the two of them emerged onto the deck.

This was Lin Yu’s first time seeing the Pure Abyss in all its vastness, or rather, its sky and sea.

He had been here once before wearing Fluoxetine’s face, but that had all been inside the Divine Kingdom. The experience was completely different from this one.

It was probably the middle of the night in the Pure Abyss. The sky was as black as velvet, without a single star. Only a crescent moon hung high overhead, casting down a clear, silvery-white light.

The surrounding sea reflected the faint moonlight, its churning waters stretching beyond sight. The tides rose and fell like a succession of mountain peaks.

Far off in the distance, a few other ships were still just visible. But clearly, no one had noticed the sunken merchant ship yet.

April saw Yayu looking around and asked, “Notice anything?”

“No. I’m just taking in the scenery,” Lin Yu said, shaking his head.

In truth, he was simply committing the surroundings to memory and considering whether to set a temporary anchor point here. That way, if anything happened in this [dungeon], he could use the “anchor point” to teleport.

The Heart-Mind Teleportation Gun couldn’t transport him between worlds, but within a single world, it had virtually no range limit.

Take Earth, for example. If Lin Yu could set an anchor point in Antarctica, he could steal a couple of penguin eggs to drop into his instant noodles every time he had a bowl.

“What a weirdo,” April said right to his face. The remark wasn’t particularly hostile, but it certainly wasn’t polite. “You’re actually in the mood to admire the scenery.”

She took out a pair of strange-looking oversized goggles, the kind worn by jet pilots in the last century, and settled them over her eyes. Then she said, “Go ahead and take your time looking around. I’m going to find the lifeboat.”

As she spoke, April walked along the slanted deck and soon reached its edge.

“Found it. The lifeboat is still here, just as I expected.”

Without any surprise, April reached out to pull the ropes securing the lifeboat.

But the moment she moved, a muffled sound rose from below.

“Uuuuh...”

April had just sensed that something was wrong when, in the next instant, a Tentacle burst through the surface of the water and shot straight toward her!

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