Her Tentacles 68

Chapter 68: The Little Girl

This was the second time Shu Yao had been so unsure of something since she had joined the special department.

The first time was when she had just put on her intern badge, but had to enter the area where the malignant [Parasites] were alone. The mission was to eliminate all the [Parasites] in the area.

She went in with great nervousness, and all her performance was worse than during training. She even almost let her skin touch the other’s corrosive liquid. Because it was too dangerous, she came out in a hurry after she had finished—

A member of the logistics team asked her if the danger inside had been eliminated.

She nodded in a daze.

Because her mask was damaged, and she had been heavily smoked by the [Parasite]’s hiding place, she wanted to quickly find a place where no one was and throw up for a while.

But she had only walked a short distance when she heard a loud noise from the building, accompanied by the sound of an explosion, which gave her a big scare.

Later, she learned that the sea lizard she had dealt with had laid a nest of eggs in the room downstairs. It was just so coincidental that the eggs had absorbed enough nutrients, and just as the mother died, several of them had hatched.

Although the logistics team members had not been careless when they went in, this mutated monster was really sharp-toothed. Through the close-fitting fabric of the protective suit, it had directly bitten through the hand bone of the first person who entered the room with great force.

And so the whole team had to evacuate urgently, and the alarm was sounded again, using explosives to directly confront this newborn monster that had not yet had time to parasitize humans.

Shu Yao was completely stunned nearby.

Even though Lu Ren had comforted her, saying that this matter was purely a coincidence, and that the person from the logistics team was not seriously injured, and that this kind of field mission itself had a casualty index, and that it was already very good that she could complete it for the first time.

But from the second time onwards.

She would repeatedly force herself to stay and investigate the entire scene again, and even take off her mask to get used to this unpleasant smell. It was only when she felt that there was really no more danger here that she would walk out of the mission area and hand over the matter to the logistics team.

It wasn’t always possible to evacuate all the ordinary people from the scene.

When she walked in alone, it meant that this matter was already something that other members could not solve.

If she were to blindly fall into the state of doubting herself, causing the progress to stagnate, the longer the mission dragged on, the more people would be in danger.

…

Shu Yao had never been a confident, opinionated type since she was a child.

But she had honed her intuition to be more and more precise through the field missions after joining the special department. Because every time she had a close shave with danger, the only person she could rely on was herself.

When she had deduced Guan Tong’s identity, she was ninety percent sure—

But the little octopus had exposed too few suspicious points.

The only things Shu Yao could think of were its strange diet, and the strange and coincidental lightning on the day she had taken it to eliminate the sea snake [Parasite].

Combined with the residual anesthetic components that had appeared in her body, and the several times recently when she had slept particularly soundly, to the point of being unconscious.

She had also sent a message to the flower fish.

Although the other party had confirmed that the [Monarch Slayer] he had seen before was indeed interested in a [Parasite] like him, he couldn’t guarantee that only the [Monarch Slayer]’s diet was like this. After all, there were many other categories of [Martyrs] in the abyss.

However, the flower fish had revealed the [Martyrs]’ speculation about this enemy.

Because an octopus has three hearts and nine brains, besides the main brain, each tentacle has its own consciousness. The [Monarch Slayer] also has the ability of gluttony, so it might be able to store different abilities with different tentacles.

But this latter part was something he had heard from the group of ordinary jellyfish chatting on the ship, and he couldn’t guarantee its truthfulness.

If this speculation was true.

The [Styx] she had confronted on the cruise ship before, and the [Martyr] with the lightning ability who had arrived from the horizon, if Lin Ran had devoured the latter, then the lightning that had just happened to fall that day would have an explainable source.

Including this inexplicable paralyzing component, her sound sleep, and the soreness in her waist and legs when she woke up…

Shu Yao had never thought of verifying its identity in such a dangerous situation.

But.

This time, if her feeling was wrong, it would not be like the first mission, where she could only passively accept the consequences.

When she came, Shu Yao had gone to find Lu Ren once and had gotten something special from him. Now, it was stuffed in the little octopus’s mouthparts, and it was told to hold it and not swallow it.

As long as she crushed this thing, she could send out a special satellite positioning—

The special department was not unaware of the special nature of her abilities. So when she joined, in order to ensure that she would not betray them, there was such a clause in the documents she had signed.

Once she was in danger and unable to act, in order to prevent her from falling into the hands of monsters, the special department had the right to sacrifice her depending on the situation.

Now was such a situation.

Although Shu Yao knew that the [Styx] had set up a trap to lure her in, for the sake of Auntie Zhou and the truth of those missing people, she still had to go.

If she could retreat unscathed, that would be for the best.

If not, then she would sink into the deep sea with this island.

Taking the rich man’s expensive entire private island as a burial object, how could that not be considered a grand funeral?

At least this death was her own choice.

Lin Ran didn’t know what the thing Shu Yao had insisted on stuffing into her mouth was for, but from the moment the [Styx] had appeared until now, Shu Yao’s face was still calm, which made her inexplicably panic.

She no longer cared about thinking about how to swallow the enemy with this cute orange skin and pretend to be an ordinary octopus that had suddenly mutated—

Since her identity had been exposed.

She could only brace herself and obediently change back to her original form.

After all, her girlfriend’s safety was more important.

The little octopus’s deep black eyes were filled with guilt. For a rare moment, it didn’t dare to look at its master’s gaze. It leaped from her palm to the ground, and in the process, the bright color of its mimicry disappeared from its skin.

In its place.

Was the dangerous and ominous red and black, colorful pattern that symbolized the [Monarch Slayer].

As its body gradually became enormous, able to completely block the light of the full moon from the side, its tentacles reached deep into the sea, and its torso was comparable to half an island, Shu Yao, who was closest to it, was completely shrouded in its shadow.

Speaking for it were the enthusiastic and lively tentacles, which finally no longer had to be forcibly silenced by the main brain’s will.

【Yaoyao! Yaoyao!】

【Girlfriend, cuddle!】

【Smart! Like!】

They chattered, their voices unscrupulously entering Shu Yao’s brain.

One of them even actively extended to Shu Yao’s side, curled up its tentacle tip, and bent it into a heart shape for her, as if they had just been playing a game of hide-and-seek with her, and now that she had found them, they wanted to happily pounce on her.

…

Shu Yao’s pupils were blank for a moment.

Although she had bet right, she found that when the truth was presented as she wished, her mind was empty, and in its place was only the chaotic sound in her chest.

The little deer that had been sleeping for a long time had just been woken up, and without even looking at who had come, it charged at the walls of her heart from all directions with its antlers, making a thumping sound!

It was the [Styx]’s very annoyed voice that pulled her attention back to the present. “Tsk, I forgot. You’re always so lucky.”

The answer was a cold voice from her side.

“Same to you,” even though it had changed back to its original form, the [Monarch Slayer] still used a human voice, which formed a strange contrast with its overly large and terrifying body. “No matter how long my life is, I still couldn’t catch up to you, who ran so fast.”

“Last time [Thunder] died, you disappeared without a trace. What about this time?”

Lin Ran lowered her eyes to look at the person standing right in front of her, every inch of her figure had been repeatedly caressed and traced by her in the dead of night.

Then, without a trace, she presumptuously said that they were one.

“Now it’s two against one,” she said. “Are you thinking about how to run again?”

However, the voice that refuted her came from within.

【And me!】

【Three, four, five…】

【Ten against one! It’s ten against one!】

According to the [Styx]’s plan, as long as Shu Yao came alone, no matter what weapons and equipment she carried, she was confident that she could keep her on this island before the sacrifice began.

The island’s sacrificial formation had been activated, and the will of the [Lighthouse] had already been connected to this world through them. Because the [Lighthouse] was too large, the same islands and altars had also been arranged in other parts of the world—

The [Styx] was sure that the sacrifice she offered would definitely be the most favored by the [Lighthouse].

However, everything was destroyed by the [Monarch Slayer].

She had never thought that this creature was still alive, and that its ability to hide its scent was even stronger than before. Now that it had eaten [Thunder] and had stored that ability to summon lightning, she was even more unable to match it head-on.

As the giant beast raised its tentacles and struck down at the place where ‘Guan Tong’ was.

The [Styx] could only control this body and fight and retreat.

This time, the one who was cornered with no room to retreat was her.

And compared to her previous destructive power, the commotion caused by the [Monarch Slayer] was truly terrifying. Every time its tentacles fell, a part of the island would sink.

Lin Ran found that the island had shattered to the bottom of the sea, but it still emitted a faint glow.

Looking closely, she realized that it was because the power from the abyss was too strong. The tidal force was attracting the moon in the sky, and it was also using the energy provided by the moonlight to support the operation of the altar formation.

And so the fangs on its tentacles opened, and the giant beast began to randomly gnaw on the abyss power attached to the island’s land.

Even if it was just an underage [Monarch Slayer], although it couldn’t eat the [Lighthouse], it was more than enough to deal with the abyss scent that the [Martyrs] had arranged.

After more than a dozen times—

As if facing a strong underwater earthquake, more than half of the island had sunk, and the faint glow had completely dissipated.

The altar, because the formation was too broken, finally lost its original function, and those lights unwillingly dimmed.

…

This one-sided battle of the [Monarch Slayer] beating the [Styx] was halfway through.

Shu Yao could no longer see ‘Guan Tong’s’ figure.

Even she herself found it difficult to stand in the area where the reefs were trembling, the beach was collapsing, and the sea waves were getting bigger and bigger.

Just as she was thinking about whether she should just jump into the sea first, the tentacle that had been lightly wrapped around her just now happily came over.

【Yaoyao! Hug?】

Shu Yao, who hadn’t figured out how to face the pet that had turned into her ex-girlfriend: “…”

She tried to refuse the overly intimate and lively tentacle with a blank face. “No, no need—”

Before she could finish, she was wrapped around the waist and legs by another tentacle and lifted into the air. And the next second after this action, the place where she had been standing was completely swallowed by the sea waves.

【Up high!】 The tentacle that had gotten there first carefully controlled the tightness of its grip. Noticing that she had no discomfort, it rubbed the back of her hand with its tip and announced excitedly.

Shu Yao, who had suddenly entered an amusement park: “…”

She had the feeling of being stuck with a lively, troublesome, and difficult-to-reason-with child.

Fortunately, there was also a small lifeboat floating with the waves that had been exposed after the island had collapsed. She didn’t know who it had been prepared for on this island.

Shu Yao pointed to the location of the small rubber boat. While all of Lin Ran’s attention was on the enemy, she patted the tentacle that was wrapped around her and said:

“Just put me there. Thank you.”

Lin Ran had long since divided her attention to secretly watch Shu Yao’s movements.

Because the [Styx] that had been left in Guan Tong was just a part of its clone, and was no match for her at all, she had even deliberately slowed down the process of crushing this creature, and was distracted by thinking about what to do next after her identity was exposed.

In short, she had to stay by Yaoyao’s side—

Finding that Shu Yao couldn’t be cold to the tentacles, and even her voice of refusal was a few degrees softer than usual, and she couldn’t maintain that iceberg face.

Lin Ran was thoughtful and got an idea.

And so a few minutes later.

The behemoth, which had sunk the entire island and had also eaten this part of the [Styx]’s body, and which was almost obscuring the sky and the sun, and was standing in the ocean, its body suddenly disappeared.

In its place was a small figure that had just landed on the edge of the raft where Shu Yao was.

The mimicked outer shirt was too long, the cuffs hung down long, and the hem also covered her knees and calves. The little girl, who looked to be five or six years old, stood on the swaying raft. Her silk-like black long hair fell behind her, and her same-colored eyes were large and round.

Her overly delicate facial features were proportionally reduced, becoming obedient and cute, surpassing all the dolls in the shop windows.

She just stood there awkwardly, her fingers twisted together, and her voice was childish and timid as she said:

“Yaoyao, don’t you want me anymore?”

Shu Yao, who had just watched the [Monarch Slayer] transform into a child: “?”