Translator: Deyonna
In an instant, the jar’s walls were covered with spiderweb-like cracks. Without any hesitation, the little octopus immediately retracted its tentacles and shrank its body to the smallest size possible.
Shatter—
Almost in the same second, the fragile glass shattered with a crisp sound.
Countless fragments scattered and shot in all directions!
It looked like the god of time was playing a mischievous trick, as this extremely dangerous second suddenly became infinitely long.
The heartbeat of the little octopus nearly stopped. His pupils dilated to the extreme. He stared wide-eyed at the small fragment shooting before his eyes, almost engulfing his entire field of vision.
Ye Yunfan was very clear. At this moment, the extremely fast motion of the water made this fragment’s danger level almost equivalent to that of bullets.
A deadly enough bullet.
The defense value displayed on the data panel just now was almost close to a single digit.
So……
—Will he die?
The moment this thought appeared in his mind, Ye Yunfan heard the sound of flesh being pierced.
Stab!
The fragment turned into a bullet, instantly piercing through the body of the little octopus.
Then, the fragment left a bright red line behind it. It bloomed like fireworks and then disappeared in an instant.
[Health Value -76!]
The reminder panel appeared suddenly. With the text appearing in a blood-red font.
The sudden and terrifying pain immediately brought Ye Yunfan back to reality.
Although he’s obviously no longer in a human body, and the body of the octopus doesn’t have a chest and abdomen structure, he still had a strange illusion at this moment—
That the intense pain was coming from the deepest part of his chest.
It seemed like it was his heart that was in pain.
“Damn it! I hope it didn’t really injure my heart.”
This speculation that could almost be a death sentence shocked Ye Yunfan, and he immediately woke up.
[Reminder: You have entered a state of blood loss. Your health value will decrease by 1 point per minute in this state.]
[Health Value -1]
[Health Value: 18/300]
[Reminder: It is recommended that the player seek treatment as soon as possible.]
[Stamina Value -7]
[Stamina Value: 5/100]
[Reminder: It is recommended that the player eat as soon as possible, otherwise the stamina value will drop to zero, which will cause the health value to continue to decrease.]
Ye Yunfan saw one blurry prompt box appear one after another in front of him. They appeared without warning and disappeared quickly.
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[Ah! It hurts so much!]
[Wuwuwu, it hurts so much, it hurts so much!]
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Amid the intense pain, Ye Yunfan’s rationality became clearer. He knew very well that if he didn’t do something soon, he would undoubtedly die.
He quickly scanned his surroundings. His strong dynamic vision allowed him to see everything clearly, even as he spun rapidly.
This is one of the advantages of having a non-human body.
Immediately after, the little octopus saw the right opportunity to grab a piece of cement board and hold on to it tightly with its suction cups. It then rolled over and slipped into a crack.
Ye Yunfan breathed a sigh of relief.
“Did it hurt the heart?”
He was asking the little tentacles.
After all, Ye Yunfan had been a human for over twenty years. This was his first time being a baby octopus, and he really didn’t know where the heart of these little tentacles was.
Especially since he only had one heart left, he had to be more careful.
[Wuwuwu… H-heart?]
The little tentacles were in the middle of crying, but the topic quickly changed.
[Can I eat it?]
[Wu, eat! Want to eat!]
[Hungry, hungry.]
Ye Yunfan: “……”
He shouldn’t have asked.
However, Ye Yunfan indeed felt a strong hunger. But in his current situation, he had no other choice and could only be swept helplessly towards the center of the whirlpool at the bottom, waiting for an opportunity.
At times like this, the only thing Ye Yunfan could be grateful for is probably that he’s no longer human.
At least he wouldn’t drown.
As he used his tentacles to block the wound and stop the bleeding, he thought to himself in a lighthearted manner.
At this moment, Ye Yunfan noticed that his vision suddenly darkened. The dazzling red light disappeared suddenly, and even the frantic whirlpool came to a halt at the same time.
Everything in the vortex stopped strangely in mid-air, and the entire surrounding seemed to be frozen by some strange force.
The little octopus’s heart tightened, and he suddenly turned around—
Only to see that the huge crack in the seabed, which could be described as an abyss, had grown teeth.
The abyss grew human teeth, followed by lips and cheeks.
“The ‘door’…”
At the safety point in the distance, Captain Chen stared rigidly at the scene, murmuring to herself.
“‘The ‘door’ has opened…”
Her voice was no longer calm and steady, but slightly trembling, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.
She repeated.
“The ‘door’ opened from the inside…”
But in reality, the so-called “door” didn’t look like a door at all, but more like a mouth, a huge human mouth.
It opened so wide that the corners of its lips and even its cheeks tore like cloth, issuing the sound of flesh being torn apart.
Gulp.
Jon swallowed a mouthful of saliva, almost unable to find his own voice.
“That’s… that’s the ‘door’?”
The introduction to the otherworldly plane in the mission manual clearly stated that inside the “door” was the otherworldly plane, where everything was chaotic, terrifying, and strange.
It was the birthplace of otherworldly creatures and the source of all contamination.
But the mission manual was just a mission manual. Even if it was read dozens of times, it is still not as good as seeing it with one’s own eyes at this moment.
This was the first time Jon had seen the physical form of the “door” and it was also the first time he had personally experienced the embodiment of the otherworldly plane
This means that the king of the otherworldly creatures inside had already hatched and it was about to come out.
“Captain, Captain, we need to…”
He turned his head hurriedly to look at Chen Xinyue as if he wanted to draw some sense of security from her. But in that instant, Jon suddenly lost his voice.
Because at this moment, Chen Xinyue looked a bit not normal, or rather, she looked very strange.
The woman’s eyes were very red, and the sudden increase in eye pressure made her eyeballs bulge and the whites in her eyes became cloudy. Fine blood vessels slowly appeared on them, swelling up like tiny worms.
The gills on the side of her face became even more pronounced, opening and closing rhythmically, just like a real fish.
Jon unconsciously took a step back and instinctively touched his protective helmet, then reached for his tool kit at his waist.
At the same time, the contamination chapter that was highlighted in the mission manual came to his mind.
It said that when the otherworldly plane is embodied, the contamination index around it would skyrocket tenfold. If special protection was not taken, ordinary people were very likely to be infected.
B-but she’s not an ordinary person. The captain is a mutant. How could she be infected so easily…
At this moment, the chaotic train of thoughts in Jon’s mind came to a stop.
Because at this moment, the woman’s left eye was still staring blankly at the door, but the red blood vessels in her right eye socket seemed to come alive, pulling her eyeball to rotate frantically in all directions. Finally, it suddenly stopped and fixed on Jon’s terrified face.
A few seconds later, she opened her mouth, revealing a monstrous laugh.
“What’s wrong?”
“……”
Jon’s mouth trembled, but it seemed like his throat was tightly choked and he couldn’t say a word.
In the suffocating fear, he could clearly feel the hairs on his back standing up one by one.
At this moment, the little octopus also saw a scene that could be described as hair-raising.
Because he was closer to the “door,” what he was facing directly was the “door” itself, rather than the human individual who seemed to be contaminated.
—Otherworldly plane.
As Ye Yunfan had guessed, the term was indeed a spatial concept. Because behind that “door” was a monstrous and chaotic otherworldly space.
Ye Yunfan clearly saw what was inside… all sorts of strange things.
There were a dozen huge, skinned whales. They were wailing, their belly was inflating, sucking, and squeezing, as if they were laying eggs.
Whales were not supposed to lay eggs, as they were mammals. But countless black eggs were still being continuously produced.
Those eggs were carried in viscous plastic bags, first flowing out from the whale’s genital cavity, then flowing out of the open mouth, and into the sea.
If someone with trypophobia saw this scene, they would probably faint on the spot.
Countless human feet appeared out of nowhere at the entrance of the door, and they were manically trampling on the whales that were in the process of giving birth, trampling on those eggs, just like children playing and splashing in the water, causing the fluids to splash everywhere.
Ye Yunfan’s scalp practically went numb at the sight. He finally understood why Captain Chen had lost control of her emotions earlier.
If it were him, and such a thing suddenly appeared in what was supposed to be a simple investigation, he would also curse a few times.
But now was not the time for that.
Faced with this extremely bizarre monster, he didn’t feel that he, a little octopus with only 18 health points and 5 points of attack power, had any room for action.
Ye Yunfan held his breath and used his skill to hide in the crevice, just hoping that he could survive until this thing left.
It had to be said that the camouflage skill was really useful, and it was indeed a must-have for survival as a young octopus.
Just as the little octopus was lamenting his skin color being no different from the concrete, he suddenly saw eyes opening on those feet, densely packed eyes.
There were human eyes, fish eyes, and some eyes of unknown creatures. They were rolling around, making all sorts of noises, laughing or crying, widening in terror or greedily searching for something.
Suddenly, all the eyeballs froze at the same time, as if they had discovered something incredible.
Then, they all moved towards one place, gathering and stopping. Eventually, they settled on a piece of broken concrete slab.
Even though the thing looked ordinary and showed no signs of life.
But the murky seawater that flowed through the cracks inside it brought a certain special smell.
It had a very, very sweet smell.
Ye Yunfan saw the big mouth that was originally wide open suddenly tremble. It slowly closed, and then the torn corners of its lips began to crack open, curving upwards.
It was terrifying, eerie, full of malice, yet with an unconcealable, greedy and ecstatic smile.
[Run……]
[Run quickly……]
Ye Yunfan heard the little tentacles tremblingly say with a frightened tone.
[She’s going to eat us.]
Translator’s Corner: Updates is now every Monday, but still once a week. I’m stockpiling for a second project I wanted to post here and I’m also working on my third project in my own site so my hands are full right now. Please bear with the temporary slow updates.
Forgot to add this in chapter 1.
Here’s the model reference for the little octopus
Translation of author’s caption:Ye Yunfan, the little octopus, had a real-life reference model – the flapjack octopus and the dumbo octopus, both of which had small ears. Overall, Xiaoye’s juvenile form was more similar to the flapjack octopus, but with slightly longer tentacles.
Why was that so scary?? 😭 If I saw all of that in real life I’d definitely faint!
Will he eat the eggs 🤔
Well. Suddenly it’s a horror story…
Mutation mutiny running amok! I’d hide in the crevice too… 😳 Thanks for the update 🐙❤️🤣
Dang it’s creepy !!! 😱😨
Those reference octopuses are so stinkin cute!