Translator: Deyonna
The next second, that terrifying big mouth suddenly bit down, like a ferocious giant shark pouncing and devouring everything.
Bang!
The huge teeth collided with each other, making a deafening sound that made people’s eardrums ache.
Then, it started to chew frantically and quickly.
“Crunch, crunch…”
The sound was like that of a ferocious beast crushing the spine of its prey, and then greedily searching for and sucking out the most delicious bone marrow inside.
At the same time, Jon was startled by the terrifying chewing sound, and he instinctively wanted to look towards the source of the sound, but immediately remembered the danger that was right beside him.
“—745690.”
Chen Xinyue suddenly recited a string of numbers. Jon was stunned for a moment, then he let go of his hand that was reaching for the gun, and his expression changed from fear to joy.
Because this was the safety sequence they had agreed upon within their team, indicating that even after being infected, they were still rational and normal.
Jon’s face was filled with hope, as if he had survived a disaster. He looked at the woman and asked tentatively.
“C…Captain?”
Noticing Jon’s subtle movement, Chen Xinyue didn’t show any special expression. With that terrifying and dull face, she explained briefly and quickly.
“Although a mutant has fused a part of the otherworldly creature’s body, it will take a long time for the transformation to become a complete otherworldly creature. This level of contamination will not cause me mental insanity, it will just cause some physical distortion.”
“Oh… oh, yes, the captain definitely won’t. I was just…”
Jon was flustered and wanted to explain, but he was quickly interrupted by the woman. Chen Xinyue’s tone of voice changed and was a bit hoarse, but it didn’t stop her from giving orders.
“You go first and find the ship. There is a high-frequency communicator device on board. Immediately contact the headquarters and tell them that the E03452 newborn otherworldly plane has been embodied, and the king creature has been hatched. The situation here has completely exceeded the controllable range of our team. Request that they immediately dispatch a specialized decontamination officers to support us.”
After the otherworldly plane takes shape, it will erupt and pour out ten times the contamination, forming a severely contaminated area. Communication cannot be established from within this contaminated area. Therefore, Chen Xinyue could only order the newcomer to leave first and restore communication.
“Okay… okay!”
Jon felt like he was being pardoned and said, “Okay” twice.
The decontamination officers organization is a special department dedicated to dealing specifically with the otherworldly creature’s kings. All of its members are composed of gifted individuals, making them vastly superior to this ordinary special investigation team.
Captain Chen quickly gave orders at a rapid pace.
“In addition, notify all the lighthouses in the surrounding area to enter level one defense status.”
“Yes!”
Jon finally pulled himself together, but he saw that the woman had no intention of leaving at all. Worry immediately appeared in his eyes and he tentatively asked.
“What about you, Captain?”
Chen Xinyue’s right eye swiveled back and together with her left eye they stared intently at the “door” not far away, where the chewing speed was accelerating. Her hoarse voice took on a very heavy tone.
“This newborn otherworldly plane… is a bit unusual. No, it’s too unusual. I suspect there is something wrong inside.”
Speaking of this, she briefly paused and then continued in a calm tone to finish her last sentence.
“So I have to stay a little longer to record first-hand information and intelligence.”
This is the duty of the special investigation team.
As she spoke, Chen Xinyue opened the recorder on her chest.
“But Captain…”
Jon actually wanted to persuade her to leave together, but he also understood that if he lingered here and hesitated any longer, then it was very likely that even he wouldn’t be able to leave.
In the end, Jon gritted his teeth, turned his head, and quietly left, following the predetermined evacuation route.
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But what is this situation now?
Why was it eating some architectural debris from the olden days???
Just then, a lightning bolt suddenly flashed through Chen Xinyue’s mind—
It was looking for something.
What was it looking for?
At that moment, the woman’s bloodshot right eyeball began to tremble violently, rotating in all directions, searching rapidly. Soon, she suddenly noticed that among the debris that should have fallen with the whirlpool, several abnormal tracks were appearing.
It was as if something had jumped onto it and then kicked it away. She stared intently, but could only see a faint pink afterimage.
Unknown marine creature?
Or an otherworldly creature?!
As Chen Xinyue chased after the fleeing pink unknown creature, the eggs that were just spat out from the “door” had already begun to hatch one after another.
Thousands of bizarre creatures the size of washbasins were hatched, as if they were pieced together from various fish and aquatic creatures, so bizarre that they were difficult to describe in words.
They were like a swarm of black rats, swimming frantically upwards, biting and devouring each other along the way.
The losers became food, while the winners gradually grew twisted limbs, thorn-like tentacles, pus-like eyeballs, or red flesh…
Regardless of life or death, they were all frantically searching and chasing after that cunning, desperately fleeing delicious prey.
At this moment, the little octopus that was desperately fleeing did not know that he had already been discovered by Captain Chen, and even if he did, he probably wouldn’t have had the extra mental capacity to care.
Because now, survival is the most important thing.
[She’s going to eat us.]
When this sentence came to mind, or even earlier, when Ye Yunfan heard the first word “run”, he immediately made a decisive decision to escape.
And at the moment when that big mouth moved, the power that had frozen the surroundings suddenly dissipated, and everything began to flow turbulently with time.
Ye Yunfan could clearly hear the chewing sound coming from behind him, and the “crunch crunch” sound was like countless maggots and ants crawling all over his back.
The little octopus didn’t see what kind of scene it was behind him, because it didn’t have the time, nor did it dare to look back.
At this moment, Ye Yunfan was acutely aware that he was amid a life-and-death escape.
Fortunately, at this time, there was no longer the suction of the seabed cracks, and the underwater whirlpool gradually lost its ferocity from before.
For a moment, the building debris, steel wreckage, car shells, and so on that were being sucked in by the whirlpool became stepping stones for the little octopus to flee.
He quickly extended his tentacles to stick to the debris, exerting force to pull, catapult, and repeat, and in the blink of an eye, it had jumped nearly a hundred meters.
Ye Yunfan didn’t know how an octopus swam in the sea, he just felt that he was now as agile as Spiderman, or… maybe Octopusman?
The fleeting self-idle talk slightly relieved Ye Yunfan’s tension, but at the same time, such a do-or-die escape also put him under the dual negative buffs of blood loss and hunger.
[Health Value -1]
[Stamina Value -1]
[Reminder: Requesting the player to seek treatment and eat as soon as possible.]
The frequency of the reminder box appearing increased, and the bright red font was like a death countdown, reminding Ye Yunfan that the dead end was approaching.
In this life-and-death crisis, Ye Yunfan’s brain became calm. He deactivated his camouflage skill to slightly slow down the continuous loss of stamina. However, even so, it was just a drop in the bucket.
He couldn’t… he couldn’t go on like this anymore.
Even if he wasn’t caught by that monster in the end, he would either starve to death or become an octopus mummy from the loss of blood.
Octopus mummy…
With the appearance of this word, the corresponding image automatically appeared in Ye Yunfan’s mind.
As a result, in the next second, all eight little tentacles were scared to tears.
[Waahh—]
[Wuwu mummy, no, mummy…]
They cried as they ran back and forth.
The little tentacle responsible for covering the wound immediately pressed even tighter, afraid that any more blood would flow out, turning them into a mummy.
Just then, a chilling sense of crisis surged through Ye Yunfan’s spine like an electric current.
He suddenly changed the direction of his tentacle and quickly stuck to the nearby half of the lamppost to pull himself away.
At the same time, the billboard next to him suddenly broke open, and a huge fish’s head rushed out, biting towards the place where the little octopus was just now.
No, hold on!
This guy is a human!
Ye Yunfan was shocked. Because he saw the human body stuck in the steel frame behind the fish’s head. The familiar black combat uniform made him quickly confirm that this was the member of the investigation team who had just died in the whirlpool under the sea.
The huge shock made the little octopus freeze for a moment, and it was at that moment that Ye Yunfan suddenly discovered the surroundings in front of him turned dark.
A huge shadow suddenly shrouded him from behind.
[Health Value -1]
[Stamina Value -1]
[Health Value: 10/300]
[Stamina: 0/100]
[Reminder: You have entered a state of starvation.]
The constantly flashing prompt panel was the last bit of light the little octopus saw.
Chomp!
It was the sound of teeth clashing together with force.
Chen Xinyue saw the unknown pink creature being suddenly swallowed by the first otherworldly creature that surged up.
That otherworldly creature had the outline of a fish, without fish scales on its skin, only red flesh, and a head covered in densely packed eyeballs.
However, the distance was too far, and even with her vision enhanced by mutation, she couldn’t see all the details clearly.
In fact, Chen Xinyue really wanted to figure out what the pink little thing was, but unfortunately, it was eaten before she could see it clearly.
But now Chen Xinyue had no choice but to retreat.
After all, she was just a contaminated mutant, not a real otherworldly creature, and her aura could only deceive for a while. In a little while, when the king creature came out, she wouldn’t be able to leave even if she wanted to.
Just as Chen Xinyue turned around, she missed the moment when the body of the otherworldly creature suddenly shriveled up.
The eyeballs on its head began to tremble violently, as if unable to withstand some kind of suction, and one after another, they burst inward.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
[Stamina Value +7]
[Reminder: Starvation state lifted.]
[Reminder: Wounds have clotted, blood loss state lifted.]
[Health Value: 10/300]
[Stamina Value: 7]
At this moment, a small pink tentacle extended from the empty eye socket, and then the little octopus crawled out of it carefully.
It was visibly a lot plumper and even its heart suction cups were bulging with satisfaction.
“Phew…”
Ye Yunfan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
—Fortunately, he made the right bet.
[Not enough, not enough!]
[More! Hungry, hungry!]
[Hungry, hungry! Hungry, hungry!]
At this moment, Ye Yunfan truly felt like a weathered old father who was constantly running around just to make a living for his children.
But now obviously wasn’t a good time to feed them, because—
Ye Yunfan looked down for a moment.
Clearly, he had no chance of eating the monsters that were about to approach from below.
The young otherworldly creatures, which were originally as dense as a swarm of rats, had completed the first stage of their growth by devouring each other, and their sizes had changed from “small” to
Their size was a hundred times larger than the one the little octopus had just eaten.
These creatures seemed to be very eager to eat it, and they chased it relentlessly.
Ye Yunfan only took a glance and didn’t even get a clear look at what those monsters looked like, besides he didn’t need to.
The most urgent matter was to escape!
Quickly, run for your life!!!
Ye Yunfan didn’t know how octopuses swam in the sea, but he had learned how to swim. The only problem was whether his eight tentacles would get tangled up while swimming.
Fortunately, the experimental results proved that they wouldn’t get tangled up.
The little octopus swam for its life, and the stamina value it had just replenished decreased a little again.
They were already very close to the surface of the sea, as he could hear the sound of thunder coming from the sea surface very clearly, and he could even faintly see the light.
That should be the light created by humans.
Ye Yunfan thought that since there were armed personnel investigating the deep sea, humans naturally must have the power to fight against these monsters.
He had weighed countless options in his mind and thought of every possible way to escape, but in the end, Ye Yunfan realized that he seemed to have only one way out.
He could only escape in the direction of the light.
At this moment, the dark clouds were heavy, lightning flashed, and thunder roared. No one knew that a large-scale hunting game was taking place under the cold seawater.
And at this moment, the distance between the hunters and the prey was rapidly closing in.
Ye Yunfan could already hear the sound of teeth grinding, smell the putrid decay, and hear other indescribable sounds, like the mocking laughter of countless evil spirits.
The little tentacles were all silent. It was unclear whether they were too scared to speak or if Ye Yunfan had actively blocked out their voices so he could focus on reaching the light.
[Stamina Value -1]
[Stamina Value -1]
[Stamina Value -1]
Splash!
The little octopus finally emerged from the cold seawater, and at that moment, he finally saw clearly the true appearance of the light source.
—It was a very tall lighthouse.
And on top of the lighthouse, there stood a young man in white clothes, holding a sword.
Thanks for the chapter!
Welcome to the ML!
So much anxiety for the little octopus! 😭
Yay ML is here to save the day!
MC’s eating habits are a little… 🤢
Little octopus swim for your life! Breaststroke, backstroke, spinning star stroke, go, go, go…lmao! Thanks for the update 🐙❤️🤣
ML is here! Also MC should have learned how to swim in his first life😂
Looking forward to more!! Thank you for the translations ~
it’s the ML finally!!
Aaaaah ML is that you!?!!
I … I can’t imagine little octopus swimming like human…