Ten minutes later...
[Oxygen supply system, remaining duration 40 minutes.]
Chu Tian opened his eyes as the electronic voice sounded.
His expression was extremely grim.
He had just compressed his divine sense into a thin line.
First, he probed upwards.
The compressed divine soul, in a straight line distance,
underground, it was still more than four thousand meters.
However, Chu Tian felt this was far from enough.
Because, he didn't see the ground...
Adjusting direction, it took ten minutes for Chu Tian to probe almost all directions.
All he saw in his divine sense was yellow sand.
It was as if this world only had sand as its material.
Moreover, Chu Tian discovered that they were still slowly sinking.
After about eight hours, they had sunk an unknown depth underground.
It was definitely more than four thousand meters.
Let alone the sand still flowing downwards, even if it stopped flowing.
It would be impossible to climb up.
As soon as they left the vehicle, they would suffocate.
What to do?
This was the greatest crisis Chu Tian had encountered so far.
Moreover, he wasn't even sure.
If he died here.
If he would truly be gone.
"Damn it... I didn't die on the battlefield, and I'm going to suffocate to death in this place..."
"If I had known... I should have fought that giant ant head-on... it would have been better than this humiliating situation!"
Old Yang slammed his fist against the chair in front of him.
Chu Tian was already in a bad mood, and he was still complaining.
Chu Tian's eyes glared, wanting to retort.
Before the words could come out.
The vehicle shook, and suddenly dropped a distance.
This time, Old Yang dared not move.
Instead, Chu Tian's eyes lit up, and he held back the scolding words for Old Yang.
Recalling what he had learned before, the phenomenon of quicksand appeared in his mind.
Sand encountered water underground, and the water pressure changed, causing the water to flow, thus the sand and water flowed together.
Or, there was a huge cavity underground, and a sudden collapse created a vortex like a sand漏.
But in the latter case, once the sand filled the cavity, it would no longer sink.
Now, they were still descending, which meant that below them, there was either an underground river.
Or there was a cavity.
Either way, as long as they reached the bottom, there was a glimmer of hope.
Thinking of this, Chu Tian stomped his foot heavily.
*Clang...*
The descending speed suddenly increased.
"Chu Tian, are you crazy..."
Old Yang's eyes widened.
Nie Yun and Dian Dian seemed to have been more severely jolted.
Both of them were still dizzy and hadn't spoken.
Ordinary people naturally couldn't compare to Chu Tian and Old Yang.
"Stop talking nonsense... hurry up and help!"
Chu Tian said, shaking vigorously.
To make it sway slowly.
The descending speed increased rapidly.
Old Yang gritted his teeth and followed him, shaking as well.
[Oxygen supply system, remaining duration 30 minutes.]
As the descending speed increased, the electronic prompt sounded again.
Chu Tian extended his divine sense downwards.
Within four thousand meters, he couldn't see the bottom at all.
This made his mood heavy, but he had no other options.
He could only increase his strength to shake the vehicle.
[Oxygen supply system, remaining duration 20 minutes.]
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[Oxygen supply system, remaining duration 10 minutes.]
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[Oxygen supply system, remaining duration 1 minute.]
Time was becoming increasingly pressing.
Chu Tian and Old Yang were covered in sweat.
This quicksand seemed to be bottomless.
In half an hour, they had descended a full five kilometers.
As the oxygen was about to be depleted.
Despair appeared in everyone's eyes.
[Oxygen supply system, ceased operation! Vehicle oxygen maintenance duration, maximum 3 minutes, please personnel inside the vehicle escape as soon as possible.]
Chu Tian was extremely frustrated. He had prepared so many things in his divine soul space.
Why didn't he prepare oxygen supply equipment?
Three minutes, only three minutes left.
Nie Yun held Dian Dian, cupping her little face and looking at her.
"Mommy... what's wrong?"
Dian Dian was still young and had no idea what was about to happen.
"It's nothing... nothing..." Nie Yun said, with tears streaming down her face.
Yet, she put on a smile and coaxed Dian Dian.
For a moment, everyone stopped talking, including Chu Tian.
He sat down directly.
Without the shaking, the descending speed slowly stopped.
Time passed second by second.
The only sound in the entire space was a rustling sound.
Suddenly, Old Yang pulled out the damaged military knife.
He looked up at Nie Yun and Dian Dian.
Nie Yun was startled, and Chu Tian also jolted.
He thought Old Yang was going to do something to Nie Yun and the others.
Then he heard him say, "I'll go first, you can live a little longer!"
As he spoke, he put the knife to his own throat.
"Uncle Yang..."
Nie Yun's tears gushed out.
"Old Yang... no, we can still be saved!"
At this moment, Chu Tian suddenly stood up.
Old Yang's body froze, and Nie Yun also turned to look at him.
Chu Tian's eyes flashed with excitement.
Just now, Chu Tian's divine sense, extended downwards, suddenly felt the resistance lessen.
His divine sense penetrated the sand below, sensing a vast void.
Because there was no obstruction from the sand, his divine sense at the furthest end instantly extended further.
He saw water.
It was an underground river.
"There's an underground river channel below!"
"Following the river channel, we will definitely be able to get out."
Chu Tian became excited. It seemed his previous decision was indeed correct.
"Really? How far is it?"
Old Yang also became excited, and Nie Yun also showed a smile.
But Old Yang's question made Chu Tian pause.
Next, his expression changed.
Yes, how far?
He knew too well that the end of his divine sense was four thousand meters away.
And the air inside the vehicle was running low.
It could only last for another two minutes.
Even at the previous descending speed.
They would need at least twenty minutes to get out of this sea of sand.
Who could hold their breath for twenty minutes?
Old Yang and Nie Yun saw the change in his expression.
They immediately felt something was wrong.
They couldn't just sit and wait to die; they had to think of a solution.
The descending speed must be increased.
Speed up... speed up... Chu Tian's mind worked at lightning speed.
"Old Yang..." Chu Tian looked at him.
"Whatever method you have, speak quickly!"
He saw the light in Chu Tian's eyes.
Chu Tian pulled him to the middle of the Paramount vehicle.
He had him stand on the left side of the vehicle.
"You use your Force Resonance, exert force in place, all your strength must be converted into thrust!"
"The point of thrust must be here!"
*Crack...* Chu Tian forcefully broke off the seat blocking Old Yang.
He pointed to a spot, which was the hardest part of the vehicle's sheet metal.
Old Yang didn't know why Chu Tian was doing this.
He knew that when using Force Resonance, exhaling after exerting force would greatly increase oxygen consumption.
However, seeing Chu Tian's determined gaze, he knew time was running out.
No matter what, he could only try his best.
He placed his hands on the spot indicated by Chu Tian.
Chu Tian moved to the other side.
His hands pressed on the roof of the Paramount vehicle.
Now, the vehicle's front was facing downwards, still descending at a slow speed.
"Old Yang... get ready, I'll count to three, and we'll exert force together!"
Chu Tian glanced at him.
"Okay..." Old Yang responded.
However, Chu Tian looked at them and didn't start immediately. He climbed to the top,
which was the last row, pulled over the seatbelts, and fastened them for Nie Yun and Dian Dian.
Then he took out a rope and secured Old Yang to the back of the chair.
Only then did he return to his position and also secured himself with a rope.
He looked at Old Yang and thought: Success or failure depends on this.
One... Two... Three... Start!
The fascia and muscles within the two men's bodies writhed violently.
The same starlight dots lit up.
*Bang...*
A muffled sound, and they were both thrown back.
However, the Paramount's body, surrounded by sand, suddenly rotated.
The descending speed increased rapidly, but the next second it stopped again.
Chu Tian was excited.
It's feasible...
Old Yang looked at Chu Tian and also showed an excited expression.
"Increase the force, continue!"
Old Yang shouted excitedly.
*Bang... Bang... Bang...*
Continuous sounds came from inside the vehicle.
If one were to look from the outside now, the Paramount's head-down body.
Was slowly rotating.
The speed was increasing.
Old Yang and Chu Tian, using the method of Force Resonance,
without dispersing any force to the vehicle's body.
They were like two small steel balls inside a perpetual motion gyroscope.
One on the left and one on the right, turning the Paramount's body into a drill, rotating in the sand.
Chu Tian was fortunate that there were two of them in the car, himself and Old Yang.
He was also fortunate that Old Yang had trained himself like that before.
Otherwise, without either of them, they wouldn't have been able to generate opposing forces simultaneously.
If the force shifted, it wouldn't be able to rotate.
Time passed second by second, and the vehicle's rotation speed increased.
The descending speed also increased crazily.
The oxygen inside the vehicle had been depleted thirty seconds ago.
Nie Yun and Dian Dian were held by the seatbelts.
Their eyes were red, already congested.
They desperately reached out, trying to grasp something, but couldn't.
Old Yang, on Chu Tian's other side, gritted his teeth.
All the veins on his body bulged.
His eyes were also red, symptoms of severe oxygen deprivation.
Chu Tian knew he was the same.
Still two hundred meters... one hundred meters... fifty meters...
The colors in front of Chu Tian had turned bloody.
His ears were ringing, and he could no longer hear the sound of each impact.
His vision also began to blur, a sign of severe oxygen deprivation and impending suffocation.
Suddenly, the vehicle felt lighter.
*Boom...*
The Paramount Marauder, rotating fiercely, shot out from a huge dome.
Along with the yellow sand, it plunged into the sand pile below.
At this moment, with the immense impact force and severe oxygen deprivation, Chu Tian's vision went black again.
But his last thought was, they were saved!
If, the Paramount Marauder's air system could still operate normally!
Below, they could only leave it to fate.
Along with him, Old Yang, Nie Yun, and Dian Dian also fainted!
[Detected normal air outside the vehicle, activating natural ventilation system...]
After the Paramount had rolled countless times and finally stopped.
An electronic voice echoed through the vehicle.
*BEEP... ZZZT...*
The ventilation holes of the Paramount's sealed body were opened.