There was nothing to hope for.
32,222m was the Himmelian Pavilion's limit.
35,151m was Phoebe's limit.
Nobody could go beyond those two limits yet.
Moreover, they could only reach such depth with the help of high-tech equipment. Without it, they couldn't even reach 30,000m. They kept breaking records in the first two weeks. Each day, they would go 100m deeper than the previous day.
Gradually, the progress slowed down, and it became extremely difficult even to make fifty more meters. It took them half a month to go from 32,000m to 32,100m and another month to reach 32,200m.
It took them one more month to move two meters deeper. Another six weeks had passed, and they were still at 32,222m. They couldn't make one meter further than that.
Not at all.
They had lost hope in rescuing Himmel Soan. There wasn't much expectation left. However, they still kept trying.