"Damn it, it's getting hotter and hotter." Caesar tugged at his collar and shook it slightly, feeling as though he could no longer bear the intense heat. "Chu Zihang, do you mind if I take off another layer?"
"As long as you don't take off your underpants, be my guest." Chu Zihang had also stripped off his combat suit just like Caesar. As the Trieste plunged deeper, the surrounding temperature soared. The combat suit's thermal insulation was now working against them, driving both men to despair.
By this point, the Trieste was immensely close to the depths of the Abyssal Valley. Beneath the hull lay an expanse of intertwined bright gold and crimson radiance. The ocean floor looked as though it had been cleaved open by a giant sword descending from the heavens, leaving behind a continuous network of thousands of ravines stretching for a thousand miles. Bubbles continuously surged from the trenches, and boiling blood coated their surfaces. The magma river resembled a gigantic sword piercing right across the floor of the Abyssal Valley, and the relentless heat and bubbles were precisely the sight of the ocean acting as a master blacksmith quenching metal.
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