The young master breathed his last and died.

The Fatty frantically shook the young master, but his limp body showed no signs of life.

The Fatty understood the young master's unfinished sentence. His dying wish was to return to the meteorite.

The Fatty lay on the young master's body and cried for a long, long time. The "miracle" of the young master's resurrection in the Gak'yeh God Kingdom did not happen again.

The Fatty wiped away his tears, picked up the corpse with all its broken bones, and threw it into the crevice in the meteorite.

The corpse disappeared immediately upon touching the darkness inside the crevice, as if swallowed in an instant. This bizarre phenomenon reminded the Fatty of "water droplets," scaring him into retreating.

After absorbing the corpse, the meteorite seemed to become unstable and began to shake violently. The unknown light sources in the underground fortress also began to flicker intermittently. The vibration gradually spread to the surrounding rock, and the surrounding stone walls began to shake violently as well.

Not good, it's collapsing! The Fatty sensed the danger and quickly ran towards the fortress exit.

The vibration spread to the underground passage and showed no signs of stopping.

The Fatty ran for his life, but the violent shaking followed closely behind.

The Fatty emerged from the cellar, and the shaking spread to the ground, like an earthquake.

All the buildings in the Stone City began to collapse and disintegrate. Stone houses, centered on the cellar, began to collapse one after another. The stone palace and giant statues were not spared from this disaster—the Stone City's center of power was ultimately destroyed in a pile of rubble.

The Fatty ran wildly. The Stone City's walls behind him cracked and collapsed. The stone slabs under his feet bulged and broke. Small stones from the collapsing buildings struck the Fatty's body, causing his skin to sting, and drawing blood in several places.

The Fatty finally ran out of the Stone City. Everything behind him had just turned into ruins. Even the seemingly indestructible pyramid had been reduced to nothing in the shaking.

Reaching the vicinity of the submarine, the Fatty took a deep breath, threw off the oxygen tank and other excess baggage behind him, and ran towards the submarine with his last bit of strength.

Rouyi had already opened the submarine's hatch. The Fatty jumped in.

As soon as the Fatty entered the submarine, he said anxiously, "Quick, run! This place is going to collapse!"

The shaking became more and more intense, spreading from the island to the water.

Jennifer quickly operated the submarine, accelerating to maximum power, and rushed towards the vortex.

Driven by the vortex's thrust and its own engine, the submarine escaped at an extremely high speed, almost being torn apart by the enormous force.

Fortunately, because the submarine surfaced extremely quickly, traveling almost along the outer edge of the vortex, it did not spin at high speed.

At this moment, the bubble space where the Stone City was located vibrated sharply, contracting rapidly from the inside out. The bubble space became smaller and smaller, and the vortex also began to collapse.

The submarine was like a person walking on a red carpet. Behind the red carpet was an abyss, and a force in the abyss was rapidly pulling the end of the red carpet. The red carpet constantly fell into the abyss, and the red carpet in front of the person became shorter and shorter.

Although the person was moving forward, they were not actually traveling much distance. If the person walked slowly, they would be pulled into the abyss along with the red carpet.

Therefore, only by moving faster than the rate at which the red carpet fell could they escape unscathed.

The submarine's speed happened to be slightly faster than the speed of the spatial collapse behind it.

The people on the submarine were not having a good time. Although the submarine did not spin, preventing them from becoming dizzy, the sudden acceleration subjected them to several g's of force in an instant.

In the pitch-black deep sea, they could only feel the thrust and see nothing. After a period of dark, lightless navigation, the submarine finally crossed the "light panel."

After a jolt, dazzling light and various strange marine creatures reappeared before their eyes.

The monsters in the mysterious sea seemed unaware of the danger. Giant octopuses were still preying on smaller fish in the deep sea; huge sea snakes were swimming around, seemingly showing off their strength; and the ugly merfolk at the bottom of the food chain curiously chased after the submarine, but were unable to catch up, and could only watch helplessly as it sped away.

The high-speed submarine also gave those creatures that wanted to prey on it no chance. Before they could react, the submarine had already sped past.

...

The vortex began to be rolled up and compressed little by little, eventually collapsing into a singularity along with the bubble space, completely disappearing in the ocean.

Those monsters that had thrived and survived for thousands of years in the mysterious sea within the vortex were also completely erased from existence along with the spatial collapse.

The submarine successfully escaped before the "red carpet" completely fell into the abyss.

...

As the instruments and equipment returned to normal, the submarine finally emerged in the North Atlantic.

The five people in the submarine spent the last leg of their journey through the mysterious sea in a suppressed atmosphere, barely speaking to each other.

The usually talkative Fatty had also become taciturn, perhaps lost in the grief of losing the young master again, or perhaps confused by Jennifer's kiss.

After witnessing so many bizarre events, Jennifer was also slowly digesting what she had seen and heard.

The most sentimental was Rouyi. She had gathered everyone with the hope of securing a chance of survival for the young master, but in the end, she had "returned" him to the meteorite.

The submarine surfaced, and waves rolled on the surface of the sea. Petrels flew back and forth in the sky, and schools of dolphins leaped out of the water. Rouyi opened the submarine's hatch, stuck her head out, and admired the magnificent beauty of the ocean.

"If only he could see this world again."

A tear slid from the corner of Rouyi's eye.

...

After the submarine surfaced, it began exchanging air between the inside and outside.

Later, the submarine's hatch was opened, greatly improving the efficiency of air exchange, and fresh air poured in from the outside.

Breathing in the fresh air, the oppressive atmosphere inside the submarine was relieved.

"Ah... this is..."

The leather scroll in Lidecha's hands was slowly turning black and brittle, and flakes of leather were falling off with a rustling sound.

The low-oxygen environment in the bubble space had effectively preserved the leather scroll, but due to negligence, Rouyi and Lidecha had forgotten to seal and preserve it. The leather scroll came into contact with the humid air in the marine environment and rapidly oxidized and deteriorated.

Lidecha rubbed the remaining fragments of the shrunken leather scroll, intending to salvage some of the pages, but the already decayed and rotten leather scroll completely turned into fragments after being rubbed.

Rouyi and Lidecha watched with heartache as the Stone City's history turned to ashes, lamenting that the history of the Stone City, like these ashes, had disappeared with the wind.