Translator: Deyonna
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“Zi…zi zi—”
Inside the lighthouse, the drowsy sentinel was awakened by a burst of chaotic electrical noise.
Feeling irritated, he scratched his messy hair and struggled to sit up from the shabby single bed.
“At this time of night, this damn communication device broke again.”
This is the Endless Sea, the furthest edge of human-controlled territory.
Due to the otherworldly creatures in the sea, crude defense structures, and frequent storms and tsunamis, the population here is very sparse.
And being a sentinel stationed here is considered the most difficult and unrewarding job.
Every time he thought about this, Larry was filled with resentment.
But who made him a poor man from the outer city? If he wanted to get rid of his societal status, he had to endure some hardships.
On one hand, he wallowed in self-pity, while on the other hand, he sluggishly checked the out-modeled communication device.
Larry didn’t really think that anything dangerous and major would happen tonight. In recent years, the main city had sent many special investigation teams, and not long ago, the lighthouse had also carried out a clean-up operation of otherworldly creatures in the nearby sea area.
What danger could there be?
Larry thought lazily, not taking the situation seriously, as he checked the issues with the communication device.
“Zi zi…Emergency…”
The communication signal seemed to be greatly affected by the weather, and after a while, the voice on the communicator apparatus inside the lighthouse intermittently transmitted a distorted voice.
“Zi zi…Lighthouse…Level one defense… otherworldly creatures swarm…”
Having only heard a few words, Larry “whooshed” to his feet and accidentally knocked over his water glass.
Dangerous otherworldly creatures were common in this era, and otherworldly creatures’ attacks on humans were even more common. But when a swarm of otherworldly creatures appeared, there was only one possibility.
That meant the “door” to the otherworldly plane had been opened.
At that moment, sentinel Larry’s expression was as if he had been punched hard, and he immediately trembled as he pressed the alarm broadcast button.
Tap, tap!
He pressed it hard twice, but there was no response.
It was at this moment that Larry was struck by lightning and suddenly remembered that the broadcast had broken during the rainstorm a few days ago, and he had been lazy and didn’t… didn’t fix it immediately.
Bang!!!
The next second, Larry stumbled and rushed out the door.
He didn’t even have time to put on his clothes and shoes and ran barefoot.
Amidst the terrifying thunder, the sentinel staggered and ran to the top of the lighthouse to sound the alarm manually.
The lightning illuminated his face, which was deathly pale with an obvious expression of deep fear and regret.
The sentinel climbed the spiral iron staircase around the lighthouse, unable to open his eyes due to the brightness of the lightning. So he could only scream hysterically—
“Otherworldly creatures! A swarm of otherworldly creatures…invading! Level one defense! Level one defense!”
But the roaring storm almost blew him away, and his cries were like ants in the eyes of nature.
He couldn’t climb up…
In this violent storm, Larry found it difficult to even keep himself from being blown away, let alone climb up.
Panic and regret almost consumed Larry entirely. If he can’t sound the alarm in time and give an early warning, not only would he die here, but many, many more people will die as well.
And at that moment, the soft and dim yellow light at the top of the lighthouse suddenly went out.
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The young man was cloaked and carried a long knife on his back.
The wide white hood almost covered most of his face, revealing only his smooth jawline.
The young man stood quietly at the very top of the lighthouse, standing and positioned firmly in the most dangerous and violent gust of wind.
Larry was so excited at this moment that he was almost moved to tears.
But he didn’t have time to be stunned or surprised, nor did he have time to think about why that person knew the information first and sounded the alarm. At this moment, Larry just shouted with all his strength at the person above.
“Yuan Ye—!”
This person named Yuan Ye had just arrived yesterday.
It is said that he committed a great crime in the main city, and Her Majesty the Queen personally ordered him to be exiled to the border lighthouse.
So yesterday Larry had completely no good impression of this guy at all, but now he wanted to kneel down to this good brother.
“Otherworldly creatures… otherworldly…cough cough cough…”
As soon as he tried to talk, the wind filled his mouth. Larry immediately let out a thunderous cough, almost choking and suffocating him.
In such a strong storm, he could hardly hear what he was shouting himself.
“En.”
The young man indifferently lowered his gaze and looked at the surging and roaring black sea, and responded calmly.
“I saw it.”
But in addition to the swarm of distorted and terrifying otherworldly creatures, Yuan Ye also saw an unexpected, unknown creature.
It looked very small, but it ran very fast. It seemed to be pink, and it was extremely eye-catching.
And at this moment, it was swimming desperately in his direction.
Yuan Ye looked at the little thing for a few seconds, then suddenly raised his hand and slowly drew out the long knife behind his back.
Meanwhile, the little octopus was still desperately trying to escape.
At the moment when he leaped out of the water’s surface, he only had time to glance hastily at the lighthouse, but that was all.
Now every second of his life was a struggle with the god of death, how could he just stay still stupidly?
However, Ye Yunfan couldn’t help but wonder why that guy was standing so high with a metal sword on his back, especially in this weather in the middle of a thunderstorm.
Wouldn’t he be struck to death by lightning?
As he thought about it, the originally pitch-black sea area suddenly lit up.
In the heavy thunderclouds, a huge lightning bolt suddenly spread, reaching the sky and the earth, almost illuminating the night into daytime.
In a split second, his first reaction was that his inappropriate remarks had come true.
But in this extreme white light, Ye Yunfan saw a black shadow covering a wide expanse, looming from below, almost covering an area of tens of meters in front of him.
Ye Yunfan’s pupils suddenly dilated.
—There’s no escape now!
After confirming this, the little octopus suddenly stopped.
He looked up and gazed into the sky.
At this moment, Ye Yunfan once again saw the white figure standing on the lighthouse.
But unlike before, the young man drew out the long knife behind his back at this moment.
Knife?
So it turned out that it wasn’t a sword, but a long knife.
But the scene just flashed by, because when that thought suddenly rose in Ye Yunfan’s mind, his entire field of vision was engulfed by a terrifying black shadow.
—It was the head of a huge, otherworldly creature.
It suddenly leaped out of the water, its body like a skinned giant whale, but with several human arms growing on each side of its body, like a stitched human centipede.
And behind it were countless other otherworldly creatures crazily rushing towards them, like a leaping school of insane piranhas.
The little octopus gathered all its tentacles and secretly gathered strength.
Ye Yunfan was waiting for the moment when this thing opened its mouth.
Since the small otherworldly creature before could exist on his menu, why couldn’t this big one?
To die in a life-and-death struggle with each other is better than becoming a meek and delicious food directly.
Standing in front of the abyss of death, Ye Yunfan remained exceptionally calm.
He calmly calculated how much of the monster’s flesh and blood he could tear off before his own death.
And in that moment—
“Yuan Ye!!!”
Larry seemed to have witnessed something incredibly unbelievable. He screamed in terror, his voice almost changed into a breaking high pitch.
“You’re fucking…”
He actually wanted to say, “You’re fucking crazy or just suicidal? Why are you charging into a pile of monsters?!”
But before he could finish his sentence, Larry’s voice was drowned out by a loud noise.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The thunder that had been delayed after the huge lightning finally resounded fiercely, shaking the heavens and earth!
The sentinel’s terrified shout instantly disappeared without a trace.
At this moment, the little octopus saw a very thin white line suddenly appear on the body of the huge monster.
It was perfectly straight and smooth, like the most rigorous mathematician scholar drawing along with a ruler.
In the blink of an eye, from head to tail, the white line runs through vertically into the monster’s entire body!
At this time, Ye Yunfan looked up, his eyes gradually widening. All the scenes were clearly reflected in his extremely dilated pupils—
First, one or two drops of blood appeared on the white line.
Then, the drops of blood connected to form a line.
Everything started to move without stopping, and the sticky and pungent blood flowed out in a rush, one after another.
Finally, the blood turned into a waterfall, bubbling and gushing out crazily.
The huge otherworldly creature was split in half, and it cracked open from the middle. Two huge chunks of flesh fell into the sea, causing waves of more than three meters high.
Splash—
At the same time, the storm that had been brewing for a long time finally descended.
The heavy rain poured down.
The little octopus quickly and alertly attached itself to the other half of the dead monster that fell, avoiding the fate of being thrown into the group of monsters by the huge waves.
And it was also at this time that Ye Yunfan saw the familiar white figure for the third time.
The person fell from mid-air and landed lightly on the floating corpse. The cloak fluttered like delicate butterfly wings.
The young man held the knife in one hand, and with a light swing, all the blood on it was removed, leaving the blade as bright and clean as new.
Ye Yunfan stared blankly at the person’s back, and his brain went blank for a moment.
The terrifying monster that had forced him into a corner was actually… directly cut in half by someone.
Cut! in! half!
Ye Yunfan: “……”
He was dazed for a long time, and after confirming that everything that was happening in front of him was not a hallucination before his death, a thought suddenly popped into Ye Yunfan’s mind without warning—
This guy… is the real monster.
Is this really a combat power that a human can possess?!
It was unknown whether the person heard the little octopus’s sarcastic thoughts, but the cloaked young man suddenly turned his head and looked over.
Because they were on the same half of the corpse, they were less than ten meters apart. So even in the heavy rain, Ye Yunfan saw the other person’s appearance.
After the lightning, the only source of light in the entire sea was the lighthouse’s red warning light for danger. As a result, the young man’s originally handsome face appeared somewhat gloomy and cold and was also covered with a hazy texture by the rain curtain.
But when Ye Yunfan saw the other person for the first second, all his attention was focused on the other person’s eyes.
The person had rare heterochromatic eyes: one was lake blue, and the other was emerald green.
Those eyes were incredibly beautiful, like two priceless precious gems stirring up desires for beauty and treasures in people’s hearts.
[He’s really good looking.]
[His eyes are really good looking.]
The little tentacles whispered to each other, whispering excitedly.
It was a pleasant surprise for Ye Yunfan to discover that these little guys, who only knew how to cry “hungry hungry” all the time, actually had an aesthetic sense.
Since the monster-like powerful young man turned his head without warning, Ye Yunfan stared at him blankly for several seconds before suddenly realizing—
He’s not human right now.
This meant that the other person wouldn’t treat him the way he would treat a human either.
The little octopus’s brain quickly turned, and he thought of three possibilities that might happen.
One, the other person was so powerful that he wouldn’t pay attention to a mere little octopus.
Two, the other party will not spare any non-human creature and will kill him immediately.
Three, he would either capture him and take him back for research or simply grill him and eat him.
The little octopus began to retreat quietly, planning to slip away unnoticed.
The first possibility was the best-case scenario, but Ye Yunfan didn’t want to gamble on that one-third chance.
Moreover, since there were still many of those monsters left, he could slip away quietly now.
After all, it was clear that those monsters posed the greatest threat to the man at the moment, so what danger could a mere little octopus pose?
Ye Yunfan thought that the other person was unlikely to give up killing those monsters and prioritize hacking the young octopus.
However, just as the little octopus was about to make a move, the cloaked young man not far away stared at him and suddenly lifted his knife expressionlessly.
Ye Yunfan: !!!
Fuck!
He chose two!
He actually chose two?!!
This guy actually gave up on those monsters and prioritized taking his fish head?!!
Now the little octopus didn’t hesitate anymore and turned around and ran.
Ye Yunfan: My wife actually wanted to hack my fish head!
Yuan Ye: Misunderstanding.
Option 2… no time to gawk, eight-pedal outta there, 🤣❤️🤣❤️🐙 Thanks for the update !
Awww its their first meet-cute!
😂🐙run away!!
Thank you for the chapter❤️
Takoyaki is sounding mighty fine this evening 🤷♀️
SEEE ITS NOT JUST ME 😭😭 I read a book that involved cooking dinosaurs and craved dinosaur NOW THIS?!?! my poor stomach will never be satisfied 😭
Just have chicken. There you go. You had dinosaur.
It’s not the same! 🤧 chicken is good but dinosaur?! Imagine all the nice juicy flavors you can experience 🤤 the tough meat salted and cooked them coated with peppers for a spice kick? 🤤 then the tender meats could be stewed or roasted over a open flame and marinated with seasonings to make your mouth water as you experience a new level of foodie heaven 😭😭😭
But it is the same, though? Birds are the descendants of dinosaurs. So chicken IS dinosaur…
Run Ye Yunfan Run!😂
omfg that slice was so anime i can’t handle it. i know exactly what kind of cut they’re describing, lmao i love this