Her Tentacles 56

Chapter 56: Feeding

As the painkillers slowly took effect, the flower fish’s call also came.

“Team leader, Kamakura District, Garden Road, the field team needs support,” he said. “I’m downstairs. Are you feeling better now?”

Shu Yao answered.

“I’ll be right down.”

She gently pulled the little octopus’s tentacles off her abdomen, one by one, and put it into the heart-shaped bottle through the round opening. She said slowly to the octopus, which was still warm and had even steamed up the bottle with a layer of mist:

“Are you ready to eat?”

The little octopus’s ears twitched.

But Shu Yao just smiled faintly. This time, she buckled the bottle tightly to the shoulder strap of her combat suit, and instead found a normal warm baby patch from home. After putting on her combat boots, she went downstairs.

As she got into the flower fish’s car, she bent down to tie her shoelaces, took the special mission communicator, and clicked on the real-time mission situation. The slender black cord wrapped around her fair and slender fingertips, tying a firm and not easily loosened knot.

“Mission target: Parasitized medaka, freshwater mutated species.”

“The latest activity area has been uploaded. Please note that within one kilometer of the mutated species, thirty-four infected individuals have appeared. The degree of infection is severe, and there are no human life signs. Please be careful, task force members, and use special weapons to kill all the mutated species and infected individuals—”

As the cold mechanical voice broadcasted the mission content, Shu Yao sat up straight, opened the equipment box that had been placed in the flower fish’s mission vehicle, and took out her own filter mask.

The filter material of this mask was also from a [Parasite]. It was made of their skin material, which could block poisonous fog and was both tough and soft. The research and development department’s latest oxygen production technology had also been added.

The strange, skin-friendly material fit perfectly along the curve of her nose, hiding the lower half of her face, including her jawline. Only the white metal structure and the deep black fabric were visible, connecting all the way to her same-colored combat suit.

Because she disliked this strange skin feeling.

The woman’s light-colored eyes, which were exposed, appeared even more aloof.

The flower fish saw her appearance in the rearview mirror and gradually felt that the guest he had seen on the cruise ship, who would wear beautiful dresses that changed every day, and whose voice was soft and always acted spoiled with her girlfriend, could no longer be found on Shu Yao.

She had become so sharp and cold, like a blue iceberg in the Antarctic.

Wrapped in layers of solid ice.

…

Fifteen minutes later.

With the flower fish’s reckless driving, the moment Shu Yao had put on her protective goggles, special auxiliary weapons, and other equipment, they had just arrived at the target location.

This was an old-fashioned residential area.

At this moment, the residents in the surrounding buildings had all been evacuated, and those floors were all dark. Shu Yao raised her hand to turn on the infrared mode of her goggles, pulled up the cordon, and bent down to enter. The flower fish, who had just parked the car, also happened to come to her side and asked the personnel on the scene for her:

“Why are there so many severely infected individuals this time? What’s the situation?”

That person’s face was extremely ugly, but he had been trained after all and knew that he had to report the new situation as quickly as possible at this moment. “It’s a rare freshwater parasite with a very strong mutation ability that can cause hallucinations. By the time it was discovered, it had already infected half a building of people, and ordinary police forces can’t enter its territory. We can only temporarily surround it…”

“Are the special weapons useless?”

“Large-scale weapons can’t be used. The property rights in this old city area are very complicated, and there are many historical legacy issues. It’s probably not easy to explain a violent demolition…” As that person spoke, his gaze had already fallen on Shu Yao. “In short, it’s good that you two are here.”

Shu Yao walked forward calmly.

In fact, she knew that some talented people in the special department could also handle these things. She even had some guesses about those talented people, suspecting that they were [Parasites] like the flower fish, and had been actively parasitized and infected. But their loyalty and abilities were definitely superior to the flower fish’s. It was just that such people had not yet been exposed to her.

Now, hearing that a freshwater parasite with such a hallucinogenic ability had appeared, her expression was not very surprised, only feeling that it was within her expectations.

She walked toward the staggered residential buildings, as if she were actively walking toward the gaping maw of a dark giant beast.

The flower fish soon followed her in, and also chattered in the communication channel, “They’re all parasites. How can these freshwater varieties have special abilities? Are they trying to show off that they’re more noble than us sea fish—”

He hadn’t finished his complaint when his voice came to an abrupt halt.

Shu Yao, who was walking in front of him, also understood the reason for his silence.

On the stairs, walls, and exposed cables in the broken walls ahead, in the goggles modified with a special thermal imager, as far as the eye could see, there were clusters of faint green light.

And on the green, there were dense dots.

Looking closely, one would find that those dense dots were still moving. They were one after another, from a few to many, fish eggs clinging together.

Right in front of them, a large cluster of fish eggs fell from the ceiling, and with a “plop,” it fell to the ground. Countless eggs broke, and fluorescent green liquid flowed out, wetting the soles of their combat boots.

It also indicated that they had officially entered the monster’s nest.

“Blech…”

Shu Yao heard the sound of retching from behind her, and the flower fish’s complaint, “I—I’m never eating caviar sushi again…”

She closed her eyes slightly, felt a few mental signals coming from a certain direction, and then turned to the flower fish, “Let’s split up and search. This residential area is too big. If you run into them, send me a signal. If you can’t beat them, run.”

The flower fish nodded with a pale face, not daring to think about how disgusting the main body of this creature that could frantically reproduce and lay eggs was.

…

Just as he left for the other buildings.

Shu Yao walked forward step by step. As she walked, she inadvertently slightly tilted the angle of the mission recorder she was wearing. At the same time, she silently said to the little octopus, 【How about this hunting ground?】

The glass bottle, which had been hidden under her combat suit and had been motionless, suddenly trembled slightly.

Then.

The half-hot, half-cold temperature wriggled. It gently hooked her collar with its fingertip and slowly crawled out of the opening she had deliberately loosened. As Shu Yao felt the slight itch of the tentacle suckers crawling over her skin, the little octopus’s eyes lit up—

Its pupils slowly turned into a U-shape. It looked at these little snacks that the monster had laid in the human body, containing the energy of the parasite and marinated in human flesh and blood.

Jelly!

A mountain of jelly!

Its eyes lit up, and with a “whoosh,” it pounced from Shu Yao’s collar.

Finding that the little octopus’s diet was really related to these parasites, Shu Yao’s mood was a little complicated, but that didn’t stop her from reflexively wrapping a thin chain around one of the little octopus’s tentacles, making it easier to pull it back later.

…Like a leash for a pet dog.

She slowed down her pace, pretending that she was slowly checking the situation on this floor. It took her more than a minute before she went up the stairs in the corner. Using the angle of the turn, she wanted to use the corner of her eye to see if the little pet was full.

As her gaze swept over—

She only saw an empty hall.

The fluorescent green light, the fish eggs, the disgusting scene she had seen just now had all disappeared.

Like an illusion of hers.

If it weren’t for the fact that she was sure that the mutated medaka didn’t know of her arrival yet and hadn’t used its illusion on her, Shu Yao would have suspected at this moment that this creature already had a level of ability no less than that of a [Martyr].

Oh, the hall wasn’t that empty.

There was also a round, bright orange little octopus in the center of the open space, its body trembling slightly.

“Hic.”

It was the extent of starting to hiccup from eating too fast.

Shu Yao: “…”

She timely moved the recording lens to aim at the second floor, then hooked her index finger, and gently pulled the little thing that had run out to eat recklessly and hadn’t even noticed that its tentacles were tied with a chain, and quickly pulled it back into her palm.

Forced to be launched, the little octopus, which had snuggled back into her palm, tilted its head, its ears moved, and it was happy because its heart had started to beat strongly again.

It had wanted to cuddle with Shu Yao with its tentacles, but found that her fingers, the back of her hand, and all the skin on her wrist were covered by thick tactical gloves and couldn’t be touched.

The little octopus was angry for a second.

Then it raised the tentacle that was connected to her and was buckled with a thin chain, and the other free one, and brought them together, making a heart shape for her.

Although its freedom had been restricted and it had been shackled, it was still very happy to be given some food, and even wanted to make a heart shape for her.

For a moment, Shu Yao was a little worried about the intelligence of this puppy octopus.

However, the corners of her lips under the special mask couldn’t help but twitch, so much so that the eyes under her goggles also showed a gentle light.

【Let’s go,】 she said.

Because she had let the little octopus out before, which had caused the abnormality on one floor to be too obvious, when Shu Yao went up to the second floor, she paid special attention and didn’t let it eliminate those fish eggs too cleanly.

In the strange fluorescent light scanned by the recorder, when the green had faded by a third, she would move the silver chain that was entangled with the little octopus’s tentacles—

Like a rein that was sometimes tight and sometimes loose, conveying her meaning.

The little octopus was frolicking on this endless mountain of snacks. Its appetite was completely open, and when it was too engrossed in eating, it would be completely dominated by that hunger and appetite, forgetting its own consciousness, and not even feeling it when its tentacles were about to be pulled off.

It even had a self-sacrificing spirit of “just a tentacle, you can have it. I’ll just grow a new one.”

At this time, Shu Yao was infinitely close to the main body of the monster.

She hadn’t thought of bringing her pet, whose diet was special but whose body was so small, to the battlefield. But she didn’t expect it to be like a dog that had run wild, and she couldn’t even pull it back.

She could only, in the blind spot of the recorder, slowly walk over and catch it with her own hands.

The little octopus, which had been busy eating snacks just a second ago and had bitten into nothing the next, was dazed. It didn’t react until it was caught by her and was about to be stuffed back into the bottle in her combat suit.

It was a little anxious.

Its seven tentacles crisscrossed and wrapped around the woman’s fingertips. Its mouthparts, which were hidden by its soft body, also opened, urgently wanting to convey the meaning of continuing to eat.

But it couldn’t hold back, and directly bit through the special material of the gloves. Its sharp teeth then pressed against the skin of the woman’s finger. With just a little more force, it would have bitten off her finger, skin and bones.

Shu Yao’s eyebrows twitched.

She tried her best to control the urge to lower her head and look at the little octopus, lest it be caught by the recorder. She just used her other hand to poke its soft body, and her smiling voice was transmitted through the mental communication channel with a hint of danger:

【You want to bite me?】

…

The little octopus froze.

Even the color on its body, which had become more vivid from the energy it had gained from eating, and was like a flowing orange, stopped for a moment.

The fear of having almost bitten her woke it up from that uncontrollable hunger.

Its ears drooped. At this moment, it was a puppy that had made a mistake and was about to be taught a lesson. It urgently wanted to make amends and regain its master’s favor.

So it carefully retracted the sharp fangs of its mouthparts, wrapped her fingertip with its soft mouth, and sucked on it in a pleasing manner.

It was the action of a puppy gently holding its master’s hand, playing gently and then letting go.

As if to say: I didn’t bite, you see.

But Shu Yao refused to buy it.

The place where her finger was sunk was too soft and slippery, like pressing into a piece of jelly, making one instinctively have a strange desire to destroy it. She tensed her nerves hard, so that her finger, which was now being held in her pet’s mouth, would not make any movement.

【Let go.】

She commanded coldly, 【You just ate those dirty things. You’re not allowed to suck on me like this.】