Global Survival: I Got the D-Rank Personnel Simulator

‘Why would they build these diving facilities in different locations?’

Lin Ye entered the circular corridor. He didn’t understand why the organization had established this kind of facility. If he couldn’t figure out what happened underwater earlier, then he’d just have to die again.

The specifications of Circular Corridor Number Two were identical to Circular Corridor Number One. Beyond the transparent walls, there was still pitch-black seawater, with nothing else visible.

The interior of the metal door was also the same as before. Lin Ye put on the diving suit, but he didn’t rush to enter the diving chamber. Instead, he started thinking about what to do next.

‘This is a completely sealed space. In this simulation, I can only enter the diving chamber. The question is, what should I do in the next simulation?’

Lin Ye didn’t have the ability to destroy the elevator. And even if he could, he wouldn’t be able to climb back. After choosing to explore Elevator Number Two, he could only enter the diving chamber and complete a deep-sea dive.

‘If I can’t find new information in this simulation, then I won’t explore these elevators in the next one.’

Lin Ye only had ten simulation attempts. If all these elevators led to similar places, his attempts simply wouldn’t be enough.

‘Besides, there has to be a place where the elevators are controlled here. If there are still survivors there, then no matter how I explore, the elevator will stop at these very dangerous locations.’

Lin Ye still couldn’t confirm if there were such survivors here, but the locations where these two elevators stopped had raised this doubt.

‘It seems that next time, I’ll have to deal with the survivors in that corridor. Too bad that armed squad didn’t have any grenades—if they did, it would be much easier to handle… though, it seems like there’s cooking oil in the cafeteria…’

Lin Ye didn’t know if Molotov cocktails made with cooking oil would work well. He had never made such a thing.

After thinking for a while, Lin Ye finally entered the diving chamber. The metal door behind him closed automatically, and the same circular hatch appeared at the bottom of the diving chamber.

The hatch opened, and seawater flooded the diving chamber. This time, Lin Ye lay flat on the ground, letting his head touch the water first.

Soon, the seawater covered Lin Ye’s eyes. He concentrated, staring at the hatch, but nothing changed.

The colorless, transparent seawater held no black afterimages or white, flocculent substances.

‘Was I wrong? Was it just a coincidence before, unrelated to my field of vision?’

Lin Ye didn’t get up. He stayed lying on the ground, staring at the hatch, until the seawater filled the entire diving chamber. Still, nothing strange appeared.

‘Maybe conditions are different in different spots. The situation at Diving Chamber Number One was likely more dangerous than here. Maybe it was just bad luck earlier.’

Seeing that the hatch didn’t close automatically, Lin Ye had no choice but to approach it. Outside the hatch was pitch-black seawater, with nothing strange in sight.

Lin Ye passed through the hatch, which didn’t close behind him, making it impossible to simply swim back into the chamber.

‘So, what am I supposed to do? Go down and collect oil?’

Lin Ye could only leave the hatch. His field of vision was limited; he could only see the areas illuminated by his light.

‘At least I don’t have to worry about getting lost.’

Lin Ye continued descending, moving away from the light source into a dark area.

After swimming for about five minutes, Lin Ye suddenly hit a hard surface. But everything around was pitch black, and he couldn’t see his surroundings at all.

He had to turn on the headlamp of his diving suit. It wasn’t safe to do so, but he had to figure out why the organization had built this diving facility.

A white beam of light illuminated a small area. Lin Ye looked around and suddenly realized that beneath him might not be the seabed, but some kind of white, flat surface.

There was no sand, gravel, bumps, or depressions on the surface. Everywhere the light touched was the same.

Lin Ye chose a random direction and started moving forward, wanting to see if he could find the edge of this flat surface.

Of course, it was also possible that this was indeed the seabed—just that the seabed here was different from elsewhere.

Lin Ye walked for thirteen minutes before he noticed that the surface beneath him began to curve, sloping downward.

As Lin Ye moved forward, the curve grew more pronounced, until the surface finally bent completely inward, forming something like a cliff.

‘What the hell is this?’

Lin Ye tried to imagine the full structure of this surface in his mind, but the area he had explored was too incomplete to be certain.

Staring at the pitch-black seawater below, Lin Ye didn’t return to the diving chamber. Instead, he swam down along the slope.

After swimming for another ten minutes or so, Lin Ye suddenly spotted a pitch-black gap in the slope. He started swimming along it, and soon realized the gap was oval-shaped.

‘…Could this be the skull of some Giant Creature?’

Lin Ye stopped. If this really was the skull of a Giant Creature, then continuing down would only lead him to more bones. Plus, he needed to conserve oxygen to swim back to the diving chamber.

Of course, if he could find important information here, he might not need to return to the chamber. Going back might not even let him open those metal doors anyway.

Lin Ye thought for a few seconds, then swam into that oval-shaped gap. If this was truly an eye socket, then he could check the Giant Creature’s brain, where some useful information might remain.

Based on the skull’s structure and the position of the eye socket, Lin Ye swam straight toward the brain chamber of the Giant Creature. The light was very noticeable in the pitch-black seawater. If anything alive was nearby, it would definitely notice the light.

Lin Ye was already prepared for battle. Firearms couldn’t be used in the deep sea, but the diving suit had an energy system. He could use the heavy metal parts of the suit to attack enemies.

After some time, Lin Ye finally entered the brain chamber of the Giant Creature. The internal structure of the chamber was extremely complex, with many partitions and cavities.

Relying on his astonishing understanding of biological structures, Lin Ye quickly found the correct path and swam straight into the depths of the brain chamber.

He wasn’t worried about getting lost, nor was he afraid of encountering dangerous things. On the contrary, he was worried that there would be nothing at all, leaving him to die meaninglessly from oxygen deprivation.

From the moment he left the diving chamber until now, Lin Ye hadn’t encountered a single living thing. Everything around him was dead silent, with not even noticeable ripples in the seawater.

‘Ahead should be the deepest part of the brain chamber. I hope I can find something useful.’

Just looking at this skull, Lin Ye couldn’t tell what the organization was doing here. It couldn’t be that they were hunting deep-sea Giant Creatures, could it?

Lin Ye suddenly stopped swimming. The light beam illuminated the deepest part of the brain chamber. The core area of the Giant Creature’s brain wasn’t very large—only about a hundred square meters.

On the inner walls of the core brain chamber, densely packed strange symbols were carved. These symbols were not runes, but something Lin Ye had never seen before.

Even the system didn’t translate the meaning of these symbols, which suggested that these symbols might be completely meaningless.