Global Survival: I Got the D-Rank Personnel Simulator

After the elevator doors closed, it began moving downward. Lin Ye didn't find any buttons inside the elevator aside from the door close button, nor did he find any instructions. The entire elevator was like a sealed metal box.

The elevator descended rapidly, continuing for twenty minutes before it started to slow down.

Lin Ye aimed his rifle at the elevator doors, uncertain where this elevator would take him.

Once the elevator stopped and the doors opened automatically, Lin Ye stayed pressed against one side of the doors. But this time, there was no armed squad lying in wait to ambush him outside.

Lin Ye stepped out of the elevator. Outside was a circular corridor. The inner ring of the corridor had some metal doors, while the outer ring featured transparent walls similar to those in an aquarium.

But this wasn't an aquarium—it was the depths of the ocean. Beyond the walls was pitch-black seawater, and the corridor was lit by white lights strong enough to illuminate the nearby waters.

Lin Ye tried to close the elevator doors and go back up to the elevator lobby, but the door close button only seemed to operate the doors. There was nothing near the elevator to control it, and he couldn't even find a single piece of clutter around.

The transparent walls of the outer ring reminded Lin Ye of his experience at an aquarium before. Now he could only leave the elevator and start examining the situation in the corridor.

Lin Ye walked a full circuit around the corridor. He didn't see anything other than seawater beyond the walls, nor did he encounter any dangerous threats. He returned to the elevator without any trouble.

The elevator was still there, waiting—it hadn't returned to the lobby while Lin Ye was away.

He seemed to be trapped here.

Lin Ye could only try opening those metal doors. They weren't locked; a simple twist of the handle opened them.

Inside each metal door was a cramped space. Hanging from the ceiling was a set of fully enclosed diving suits that looked very safe.

Lin Ye opened a few more doors and found they were all identical in construction, each one hanging the same kind of diving suit.

'...So this is some kind of diving facility? Do I have to complete a deep-sea dive to get back up?'

Lin Ye had no desire to go deep-sea diving, but he couldn't just stay here waiting to die. Going outside might at least let him gather some useful information.

Soon, Lin Ye put on the diving suit. The suit had a built-in energy system that didn't impede his movement too much.

Lin Ye opened the door behind the diving suit compartment. Inside was a cylindrical space resembling a diving chamber, and the other spaces also connected to this chamber.

Before Lin Ye could figure out how to descend, the door behind him sealed shut. On the floor in the center of the diving chamber, a circular metal hatch appeared.

The hatch slowly opened, and surging seawater flooded the diving chamber. Lin Ye pressed himself against the wall, waiting for the water to engulf his body.

The transparent seawater quickly rose past Lin Ye's neck. When it covered his eyes, intense pain suddenly erupted across every part of his body that was submerged.

Just before he completely lost consciousness, Lin Ye only saw some black afterimages and a mass of white, flocculent matter.

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[Remaining Simulation Attempts: 9]

Lin Ye lay on the bed, the searing pain from his body fading in an instant. But the feeling of every part of his body being crushed still lingered in his consciousness.

'Was there a problem with the diving suit?'

'No, it must have been some kind of attack.'

Because it happened so suddenly, Lin Ye hadn't clearly seen what attacked him.

'The timing of the attack was a bit strange. It seemed to happen just when my eyes were submerged in seawater, and the parts that were attacked were exactly the parts submerged.'

'I kept watching the hatch. The seawater was clear—nothing other than water entered the diving chamber. But when my eyes went underwater, I think I saw something different.'

'It was like switching to a different perspective.'

'That suggests the attack is probably related to a perspective shift.'

Clear footsteps sounded in the corridor, and Lin Ye followed the overseer onto the ship's deck.

Lin Ye repeated the same process as his last simulation. He didn't try to save those D-Class personnel—he didn't want to bring along people who might attack him at any moment.

Besides, it would be hard to save them anyway.

Lin Ye dealt with the armed squad again. This time he was in much better shape than before; the parts he got injured weren't too critical.

Still, Lin Ye followed the same path as before, going to the employee dorm again. This time he was much faster, and by the time he finished treating his wounds, those strange fish still hadn't come for him.

Lin Ye waited in the room for a while longer, but the strange fish still didn't show up, and that noise from before didn't appear in the corridor either. It seemed some action of his had changed the strange fish's behavior.

'Maybe because I dealt with the wounds earlier?'

Lin Ye had no choice but to leave the employee dorm. This time, instead of going to the metal corridor in the middle, he chose a corridor on the right that he hadn't explored before.

However, the end of the corridor was blocked by a barricade built from clutter. There was no big gap in the barricade, but Lin Ye spotted a few openings in the middle that looked like firing ports.

Lin Ye started backing away. He wasn't sure about the situation inside. If there were still living people in there, they might be in the same state as that armed squad.

Before Lin Ye could retreat from the corridor, someone on the other side of the barricade opened fire at him. Luckily, he ran fast enough to avoid the bullets.

Their aim seemed pretty bad.

Lin Ye had to leave that corridor. Even if his marksmanship was excellent, he couldn't kill all the enemies on the other side through a barricade.

Besides, his ammunition was limited, and random shooting might attract monsters.

After that, Lin Ye explored the remaining corridors, but they all led to some unimportant places. He didn't find anything useful.

'Looks like I have to go downstairs.'

Lin Ye entered the middle corridor. This time, he didn't encounter that pitch-black sphere.

The elevator lobby had a total of ten elevators. Lin Ye carefully inspected the entire lobby but found nothing useful, nor any controls for the elevators.

'I can try a different elevator this time.'

Linye mentally numbered the ten elevators in order. In the last simulation, he had explored Elevator Number One. This time, he planned to explore Number Two next to it.

When Lin Ye approached, the elevator doors opened automatically. Inside Elevator Number Two, there was only a single button to open and close the doors.

Lin Ye took the elevator down. This time, the descent took thirty minutes before it began to slow down.

Once the elevator stopped and the doors opened automatically, Lin Ye quickly discovered that outside was the same circular corridor.