【Anomaly File: B-57】
【Alias】: Spitting Furnace
【Physical Description】: A heavy bronze vessel with two handles and three legs.
The entire body is cast from an unknown high-melting-point composite alloy, with a large number of micro-carved inscriptions on the exterior.
It went missing from a containment base approximately two hundred years ago and is now suspected to be in the possession of the People of the Abyss.
【Containment Behavior and Anomalous Properties】
A furnace capable of spitting fire. Once the lid is opened, it sprays a directional jet of high-temperature flames reaching up to a thousand degrees Celsius.
Testing indicates that the flames do not follow conventional combustion rules and can continue to burn in a vacuum or under high-pressure water.
The cost of use is that it is extremely hot.
【Countermeasures】
Due to its lack of a modern fire-control radar locking system, the attack trajectory is extremely easy for high-mobility units to dodge.
【Utility Potential】: High
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【Anomaly File: B-58】
【Alias】: Spitting Bottle
【Danger Level】: B-rank
【Physical Description】: Appears as a white, narrow-necked porcelain vessel approximately 35cm tall.
The material is fragile, but it slowly self-repairs if shattered.
It went missing from a containment base approximately two hundred years ago and is now suspected to be in the possession of the People of the Abyss.
【Containment Behavior and Anomalous Properties】:
A bottle capable of spitting water. Once the lid is opened, it sprays liquid at a directional flow rate of approximately 100L/s. (Note: A fixed water cannon on the roof of a main battle fire truck is about 30–60 L/s.)
The liquid is corrosive and extremely dense; its impact pressure can easily crush conventional carbon-based organisms.
The cost of use is that it is extremely heavy.
【Countermeasures】
If encountered in a skirmish, the best tactic is to bypass the direction of the water spray and use high-explosive rounds to directly destroy the Anomaly and the user.
【Utility Potential】: High
After reading these two brief files that were rife with absurdities, Ren Yi couldn't help but marvel in his heart.
Well, then. Truly worthy of the bottom of the Deep Abyss; he had certainly seen something new today.
But why did this feel so much like deja vu?
"Don't you dare put on airs in front of me! If I don't smash your trashy furnace into scrap metal today, I don't deserve to call myself a resident of the Deep Abyss!"
In the plaza, a man holding a white porcelain bottle roared in anger.
Opposite him, a woman in red stepped onto the thick alloy deck, her eyebrows arched in fury and her hands on her hips. The words coming out of her mouth were even more scorching than the fire from her furnace:
"You think I want to waste my time here with you? When we got married and started a life together, you hid a private stash to go out and fool around!"
"You don't do a single chore at home! All you know how to do every day is hold that trashy bottle and spray water everywhere! I can't live like this for another day!"
When the surrounding crowd heard this, a burst of extremely cheerful heckling immediately erupted.
"Ooh! How did we get onto the subject of chores?"
"That's not cool of you, man! How embarrassing!"
So, while they were fighting quite vigorously, in reality, they were a couple of wasteland spouses suffering from the ravages of marriage?
Using the most violent Anomalies to settle the most mundane domestic disputes—this was very Deep Abyss.
Ren Yi was quite enjoying the drama.
The woman in red tossed her hair.
"Anyway, the 'New Era' is coming soon! Who the hell wants to keep living this miserable life with you!"
"Divorce! I'm getting my divorce certificate today and regaining my absolute single freedom here at the bottom of the Deep Abyss!"
"What a coincidence! I was thinking the same thing! Today, only one of us leaves here alive!"
Upon hearing the words "New Era," Ren Yi, who had been happily watching the drama, suddenly paused.
New Era?
Why was it the New Era again?
He had heard this term many times before from the Lord of the Sky Lake City and Evans.
However, it seemed even the People of the Abyss firmly believed in this so-called "New Era."
No wonder the entire bottom of the Deep Abyss was filled with this sense of frantic, end-of-the-world revelry—a "drink today and worry about tomorrow later" attitude.
It was because all of them firmly believed that the so-called "New Era," which could reshuffle everything and allow for a fresh start, was already close at hand.
Boom—!
Just as Ren Yi was lost in thought, the wasteland couple on the field had finished their trash-talking and officially began their brawl.
This time, the combat scene was much more brutal and grounded than before.
The massive furnace rolled across the ground, each impact accompanied by a violent burst of flame that scorched deep pits into the steel floor.
The husband, meanwhile, moved like lightning, the white porcelain bottle in his hand acting like a free machine gun, frantically spraying water bombs with a series of "bang bang bang" sounds.
The water bombs slammed into the bronze furnace, creating a booming sound like a heavy hammer forging iron.
By the end of the fight, both of their Anomalies seemed to be running low on stock.
They simply abandoned their "magic treasures" and engaged in the most primitive form of hand-to-hand combat.
Just as the atmosphere reached its peak with this spousal brawl and the surrounding crowd cheered, a commotion suddenly broke out at the outermost edge of the crowd without any warning.
The originally airtight wall of people was forced open as if by a pair of invisible giant hands, and the crowd quickly split apart.
However, the couple in the center of the plaza had clearly reached a boiling point.
Their eyes were bloodshot as they choked each other, tore at clothes, and scratched at faces. Completely immersed in their own marital grave, they didn't notice any abnormalities in the external environment at all.
Even the "Sword-man," who was watching the show with great interest, was busy whistling at the arena and paid no attention to the people walking over.
In the next instant.
Behind Baldy Zhang and the woman in red, who were locked in a frantic struggle to deliver a fatal blow, the void suddenly distorted abruptly.
Without any warning or sound.
Two "black holes," each about the size of a manhole cover, tore open in the air behind them.
"Eh? What..."
The woman in red was the first to notice something was wrong. She felt a massive, irresistible suction force suddenly pull at her from behind.
"You bitch... stop playing dirty, what the—?!"
The husband wanted to take the chance to counterattack, but he was horrified to find that he was also being pulled backward uncontrollably.
The two who had been entangled together were now like two ants caught in a flushing toilet.
No matter how they struggled, they couldn't stop themselves from falling backward.
In just a few seconds.
Amidst their startled, wretched screams.
They and their Anomalies were pulled apart by two opposing suction forces.
Then, with smooth precision, they each vanished into the black holes behind them.
Hum.
The air vibrated slightly.
After swallowing the living people, the two black holes instantly closed and disappeared into the air.
The two people who had been frantically fighting just moments ago had been directly "devoured" right in front of several hundred spectators.
But strangely, the people around them didn't seem panicked.
"Oh, man!" The Sword-man slapped his thigh and grumbled with some annoyance.
Only then did he realize something and quickly turned his head.
"P... Pops?"
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