Coveted After Becoming a Monster [Quick Transmigration] 45

Chapter 45:

Lightning crashed, striking the sea directly and creating a purple electrical glow. The heavy rain churned up the waves, which slammed against the surface of the water.

The octopus on Ji Yulin’s shoulder looked up at the sea.

The person beside her was still frantically reporting to Qi Peilan, “Since three in the afternoon the day before yesterday, it has been raining heavily in Heping Town. The rain continued until three or four in the morning, and then someone noticed that the seawater was constantly rising, about to flood the town.”

“So they urgently reported to the town guards and sounded the alarm.”

“The mayor of Heping Town made a decisive decision and moved the townspeople to higher ground. They had thought it was just a sudden flood, but the darkness suddenly appeared.”

“Fortunately, the evacuation was timely, and the casualties in the town were much better than in Anding Town, but the buildings were severely damaged, especially the side near the coast, which was completely in ruins.”

“And, according to the survivors, the darkness refused to retreat and kept searching for the remaining humans in the rubble until dawn, when it left unwillingly.”

She paused, then continued with difficulty, “According to our speculation, it may need more food to replenish itself this time, and the current number of deaths is far from enough to fill it, so it may continue to attack the town while the storm is still raging.”

She added, “According to the townspeople of Heping Town, the ships that have been out to sea these past few days have all lost contact with the land. Now that I think about it, it is very likely that it was caused by the darkness.”

Qi Peilan, standing on the deck, her brows were tightly knitted, her expression unprecedentedly grave. She tried her best to suppress the anger in her voice and said calmly, “Have the residents of Heping Town retreat immediately.”

“They have already retreated to the highlands, but the weather is bad, and many resources can’t keep up…”

The two of them were talking back and forth. The falling rain hit the raised umbrella, making a pattering sound. It tilted several times and was pulled back. The hand holding the umbrella was cool, but it sheltered Li An on her shoulder in an absolutely safe area.

And so, the little octopus changed from standing to lying down, her gaze also falling to the sea.

The sea, which had been deliberately intimidated before, was now even more turbulent. But Li An could not feel the fear of that time. Instead, she was lost in a jumble of thoughts. Unconsciously, her tentacles clung tightly to Ji Yulin, her suckers also sticking to her.

After receiving the news, Qi Peilan had made a decisive decision and had sent a fleet at dawn, traveling by sea to Heping Town. They were about to arrive now.

“We estimate that the darkness will come back, but…”

The moment she finished speaking, a ten-meter-high wave suddenly rose. The water was deep, and the faint struggle of a fish could be seen in it. The seawater had actually been churned up from the depths and crashed down heavily.

The iron ship swayed for a moment, and waves were churned up. The people on the deck were so scared that they retreated repeatedly. Some were even sent flying more than a meter, and all of them became drenched.

The wave fell, and the remaining water dripped down. Before everyone could react, they saw a terrifying monster appear before their eyes.

Li An subconsciously looked up and happened to see several ferocious maws facing her. As they drooled, their greed was undisguised. Compared to the night in Anding Town, it had more than doubled in size. Even just standing there, it made people feel an endless fear, their legs trembling uncontrollably.

But it was not motionless. In an instant, it lunged at Li An.

Its target has always been me.

Li An didn’t know why, but this sentence suddenly popped into her head, like a sudden realization.

Humans were now of little use to the darkness, like candy before a meal, which could be eaten or not. The commotion it had caused on the coast was just to find the octopus’s tracks, and now Li An was willingly sending herself into its mouth.

An inexplicable premonition. This time, the darkness would not just bite off a tentacle. It would definitely do its best to devour the entire octopus.

All these thoughts flashed by in an instant.

“Run!” It was unclear who had shouted, but everyone turned and rushed toward the cabin.

“You are mine…” the familiar roar sounded, clearer than before.

It was obvious that this evolution was not just in its body, but also a clear improvement in its intelligence.

In the panicked escape, they stepped on the accumulated water, splashing up water. Someone slipped and fell, crashing heavily onto the iron plate. Before they could get up, several maws had already lunged at them.

The seemingly indestructible iron plate was as crisp as a soda cracker in its mouth and was easily bitten off. And between its teeth, blood flowers exploded, and a series of sharp screams and wails were heard.

Her gaze shifted. The smaller ships around had been overturned, and the people who had fallen into the water were struggling.

Fortunately, Ji Yulin and the others were fine. It wasn’t that they had reacted quickly. The positions of the few of them had been very close to the railing, and the darkness had lunged straight at them. They should have been doomed, but fortunately, an octopus had instantly extended a tentacle, hooked the railing behind them, and then hooked Ji Yulin and Qi Peilan, directly pulling the two of them to the stern.

Now, Qi Peilan was holding onto the railing and panting heavily. Her wet long hair was stuck to her face, covering the hesitation in her eyes.

She remembered that in the South Tower, she had also been thrown out by a tentacle and had escaped from the mouth of a mutated giant wolf.

She had actually had her suspicions for a long time. After all, after the South Tower, the little octopus with a severed tentacle had grown a new tentacle with colorful scales, which was highly similar to that sea anemone.

Anyone with eyes could see the clues, but they had tacitly kept silent, knowing that without Li An, after the South Tower was blown up, many mutated beasts and prisoners would have escaped, causing huge casualties to the Thirteenth District.

So no matter what happened inside, Qi Peilan and the others had not asked. This time, agreeing to Ji Yulin’s request was actually also a bit of gratitude to Li An.

And at this moment, it was just a complete confirmation of the guess in her heart.

With no time to delay, she immediately took out the communication device at her waist and shouted, “Do it.”

Further away, the ships that had not been affected immediately received the order. The iron plates of the cabins moved, revealing a large number of weapons, all aimed at the darkness.

And the darkness did not notice these. Seeing its target escape, it immediately let out an angry roar and quickly gnawed at the ship, biting toward the stern at an extremely fast speed.

And the giant ship thus tilted at a large angle, almost standing straight in the water.

Fortunately, an octopus had hooked the railing and then grabbed Qi Peilan and Ji Yulin by the waist, barely managing to hold on. But the others were not so lucky. They screamed as they were forced to slide off the deck and fell into the dark maw one by one.

The iron plates were constantly shattering, and screams were heard one after another. The blood stained the surrounding seawater red.

Seeing the darkness approaching, Li An did not dare to delay. The tentacles that were hooking the two of them tightened, and the other tentacles pulled, and they were sent flying, crashing onto the edge of the stern. The moment they stuck to the iron plate, they began to run quickly.

At the same time, the other ships were ready.

First, a sharp sound was heard. This was a special audio developed by the Research Institute, which could affect the minds of mutated beasts to the greatest extent. For example, the sea beasts around, which had not been affected by the waves, had a brief pause because of the audio, and their movements slowed down.

Then there was the Sky Net that Li An had seen before, which was spread out densely, followed by a dense barrage of cannon fire.

In this encirclement and suppression operation, the Thirteenth District had almost used all its assets. The originally gloomy sky was actually as bright as a dazzling day in this roar, making people can’t help but close their eyes, and the exposed skin felt a fiery stinging pain.

The octopus was the same. Her sensitive tentacles felt the temperature behind her. But fortunately, she was not affected by the audio. Her tentacles pushed off the iron plate, and at an extremely fast speed, she created a gust of wind. When she was seven or eight meters from the water, her tentacles loosened, and she actually jumped into the water.

Ji Yulin and Qi Peilan were both pulled into the tentacles, but the expected pain did not come. The tentacles had long since held the two of them high, and she had borne the impact of the jump alone.

The octopus at the moment was actually not very big. She was about the height of a person. While minimizing the assistance of the waves, she was not particularly conspicuous compared to the broken fragments, so she could both quickly swim to other ships and not particularly attract the attention of the darkness, achieving a slight concealment effect.

“How dare you!”

“Bastard! You lowly bastard!”

Under the cannon fire, the darkness let out an extremely angry roar. Although the others did not understand its language, they could still hear the angry roar. Everyone was stunned, and their minds went blank for a brief moment. The sound it made could actually have the same effect as the audio, and it was also useful to humans.

The cannon fire paused. The darkness slapped the sea, and a brief vacuum appeared around it. The seawater was churned into a huge wave, which crashed against the surrounding ships.

Even from a distance, those ships were severely impacted, and even the octopus was the same, washed forward dozens of meters by the current.

Ji Yulin and the other, who had not been affected by the current when they jumped down, were now drenched, in a very wretched state.

Li An glanced at them out of the corner of her eye, her heart filled with anger, but she was helpless and could only desperately rush toward the other ships.

But fortunately, the churned-up waves also affected the darkness’s vision, causing it to temporarily lose track of Li An.

—Rumble!

Lightning suddenly flashed, and the temperature dropped. The heavy rain poured down, and the marble-sized water droplets kept falling, breaking into waves on the surface of the water, washing away the blood that had not yet dispersed. The wreckage of the ships sank, and the seabirds in the distance let out a sharp cry, frantically turning and fleeing this area.

Seeing that the ship was approaching, the people on the ship, although they did not know why the octopus beast had appeared, saw the two people between her tentacles and quickly lowered a ladder. Li An’s heart relaxed, but she heard Ji Yulin suddenly shout anxiously, “Li An!”

Li An subconsciously turned her head and saw that the darkness had already rushed at her, the distance between them less than ten meters.

“Mine!”

“Meat…”

“The final evolution!”

Several maws opened at the same time, revealing the chaotic fangs inside, like a dense forest of thorns. In a daze, countless screams and wails could be heard, as if the souls of the dead were lingering. And another bolt of lightning struck down, a purple dragon swimming in the sea. This terrifying scene was like hell on earth, enough to make a child stop crying and an adult have nightmares, yet it was rushing straight at Li An.

Li An knew she couldn’t handle it and was about to throw Ji Yulin and the others up first.

But the moment her tentacle moved, she felt Ji Yulin’s hand on her tentacle grab her, forcing her to stop.

Then she saw Ji Yulin’s eyelids close and then lift. Her already deep eyes were even darker, and the line between black and white was blurred.

Li An, who was stronger than in the South Tower, clearly felt a transparent wave, as vast as the sea, and as sharp as a knife, stabbing straight at the darkness.

The darkness, which could withstand the cannon fire, could not withstand this attack that directly stabbed into its soul. Its whole body trembled, and all its mouths were wailing and screaming.

“Pain!”

“It hurts so much!”

“It hurts so much… kill, kill her!”

Li An’s pupils shrank, and the three words “mental power” naturally appeared in her mind.

It was obvious that the reason everyone in the South Tower had fainted before was Ji Yulin’s doing. And she could sense that compared to last time, Ji Yulin’s ability was stronger. Even Li An subconsciously thought that she could not block this mental power impact.

It was like your opponent was a muscular warrior in hard armor, but you could bypass his impenetrable iron armor and strong body and directly attack his weak soul.

There was no blocking, no retreating. The body could be trained, and the armor could be constantly reinforced, but the soul could not be hidden, nor could it be strengthened. From a child to an adult, the soul was always as thin as paper. Only a very few people were lucky enough to be able to strengthen it.

“Pain!”

The darkness screamed and rolled, almost hysterical in its intense pain, frantically churning up the waves.

And the price Ji Yulin paid was not small. Her face instantly turned as pale as paper, and her whole person instantly became weak.

But she had no time to recover. She gritted her teeth and said, “Whip it.”

Li An instantly understood. Her scaled tentacle immediately stretched to its limit, like a stone pillar that two people could hug, and whipped out fiercely. In the sound of the wind, the scales stood up, and the color grew deeper. A dense, colorful poisonous mist actually appeared around it, and the surrounding space seemed about to be torn apart as it crashed heavily into the darkness.

As the scales and the chaotic teeth collided, sparks actually flew.

The darkness, like a spinning top, was sent flying hundreds of meters. It collided with a giant ship, and the ship instantly exploded.

The people who were looking this way from the deck felt a sincere fear, knowing that if these two beasts were to remain in this sea, then this sea would, like the few dead zones on land, completely become a terrifying place that could not be entered, and the Thirteenth District would also be torn apart.

Fortunately, they were on opposite sides. Even though they didn’t know where that octopus had come from, everyone still let out such a sigh of relief.

And at this moment, someone suddenly soared into the air from among the many ships.

This person was wearing a camouflage combat uniform, her blond hair flying in the wind. Her left eye was covered with an eye patch, but the most peculiar thing was the wings on her back, like a golden eagle’s. When spread, they were a full two meters, and in the lightning, they glinted like metal, as dangerous as a blade.

“This is…”

“Captain Qi!”

Someone squinted and looked over, letting out a cry of surprise.

“How can someone transplant golden eagle wings onto their body!” someone was extremely surprised.

“Didn’t she transplant the left eye? How did it become wings?” someone frowned in shock.

Time was pulled back to the day of the surgery. When the transplanted left eyeball was removed and fell into the plate with a “thud.”

Qi Fu, whose hands and feet were bound by iron chains, instantly woke up in pain. When blood gushed from her empty eye socket, her whole body temperature suddenly rose, and she turned as red as a branding iron. The veins on her temples bulged, and her face was extremely terrifyingly twisted, completely unrecognizable from her previous handsome features.

Ji Yulin had expected this. She took out the glass bottle that had been prepared and, without a moment’s hesitation, opened the cap and poured the blue liquid in the bottle into her mouth.

Qi Fu seemed to sense something and opened her mouth, which was bleeding from the gums, and drank it down.

The heat wave subsided at a visible rate, and Qi Fu slowly lay down, her expression relaxing a little.

Just when they thought it had stabilized, blood suddenly gushed from her eye socket again, and the heat wave surged up again. The pain intensified, and she let out a painful cry.

Qi Peilan and the others outside the operating room heard it and, in a panic, almost broke down the door.

A crack appeared in Ji Yulin’s calm expression. She looked at the removed beast eye in surprise. Even in this separated state, it could still affect Qi Fu.

A hint of regret flashed in her eyes. She actually put down the scalpel and chose to give up.

But just then, a tentacle suddenly probed out and was handed to Qi Fu’s mouth.

Sensing the same taste as the blue blood from before, Qi Fu unconsciously opened her mouth and bit down, and the blue blood flowed into her mouth.

“Li An!” Ji Yulin’s expression finally showed a hint of panic, and she looked at the octopus over there anxiously.

But the octopus, who was enduring the pain, shook her head at her and even patted her hand with a tentacle as if to soothe her.

Human, it’s okay…

The heat wave subsided again. Qi Fu’s struggling hands and feet went limp, and she lay flat.

And Qi Peilan and the others in the operating room instantly collapsed to the floor.

After an unknown amount of time, a hoarse murmur was heard.

“Is this my special ability?”

The extremely weak Qi Fu sat up, raised her hand to the back, and stroked the drooping wings behind her.

The heavy rain continued, and the waves were still there.

Qi Fu, at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, flapped her wings and came. But her target was not her mother, but straight for the darkness, as if she were about to drill into its mouth. When its fangs and wings were only a few millimeters apart, she threw the basketball-sized object in her arms into the dark maw.

This was the strongest weapon that the Research Institute had developed and tested over the years.

Even the Thirteenth District only had one.

It had been given to Qi Fu early on, and she had been told to seize the opportunity and throw it at the darkness.

But no one had expected her to be so desperate, to put herself in such a dangerous situation.

Qi Peilan’s body trembled, and she couldn’t even make a sound.

And Qi Fu quickly turned and flapped her wings, fleeing frantically.

The most terrifying explosion was silent. A white light flashed from within the dark body, and then it covered the sky and the earth, instantly illuminating the dark space as if it were day.

Everyone subconsciously closed their eyes. When they opened them, they saw the dark monster silently fall into the sea.

Is it dead?

These two words popped into everyone’s mind. Their rapid breathing and heaving chests all spoke of their excitement and ecstasy.

Is it really solved?

Can humans really defeat such a powerful monster?

The behemoth completely fell into the water, until its body could no longer be seen.

Everyone finally dared to breathe a sigh of relief. First, a low cry of surprise was heard, and then a huge cry of ecstasy.

Even Ji Yulin and the others showed a hint of relief.

But in the next second, a sudden change occurred.

Several maws bit at the octopus from below, and the darkness broke through the water!