Her Tentacles 76

Chapter 76: The Journey

Although the destination was a dangerous abyss.

And the result might even be death.

But Shu Yao, because of these little lights that had been arranged in advance and had lit up the whole house in the darkness, suddenly lost her fear of the unknown ending, and even… began to feel a sense of anticipation.

It was as if she and Lin Ran had never been separated, and had always been living sweetly together. And this journey of taking the house with her was just another romantic date after the cruise trip.

In the past, she had only seen in movies a journey where the whole house was moved and flew to the sky, to a distant place. She hadn’t expected that such a story could happen to her one day. The only difference was that in Shu Yao’s version, both the person and the house were eaten by the little octopus she was raising—

Like a beautiful, glowing bottle.

Cherished and hidden in its belly.

From then on, their fates were intertwined. No matter where they went, even death could not separate them. Even if they fell into an unknown deep sea and slept forever under the ground that their own kind could not explore, their transformed skeletons would still be inseparable.

Every wave that brushed past them, the plankton that accidentally passed by their skeletons with the waves, after decomposing their bodies, would also carry a part of the genetic traces of their love for each other, and thus let their love for each other last forever.

Shu Yao quietly imagined these scenes.

And then, in her slightly accelerated heartbeat, in the flowing blood, in her slightly warm eyes, she found that even all the imagery of death she had imagined was so romantic, and she suddenly realized.

She loved Lin Ran.

Whether human or monster.

This love had transcended life and death.

Thinking of this, in her greatly encouraged heartbeat, she belatedly answered the question the other had asked.

【No.】

This journey had the two of them, and the whole house. It was enough. There was nothing else that needed to be added.

She said, 【Let’s go.】

…

The commotion the monster had created in the Star River community was not small. It had to leave before it attracted the attention of the special department, so it went to the seaport at high speed in its mimicked form.

In the moonlight before dawn, it crossed half the city and returned to the sea.

And this journey, which was like a rush, did not bring any bumpy feeling to the person in its body.

【Yaoyao, it’s dawn.】

When Lin Ran’s voice came in, Shu Yao only felt that they had just set off.

At that time, she was lazily nestled on the sofa. Because she had not been so idle since she had joined the special department, even if she had some free time before and no missions, her nerves were still tense, because she didn’t know when a message would come on her phone.

Now that she had suddenly skipped work, and it seemed that she could take an infinitely long vacation from this moment on, it made her a little at a loss, and for a moment, she couldn’t think of what she should do.

And all the electrical appliances and electronic equipment in the house could not be used.

She could only casually flip through the books on the bookshelf.

Hearing Lin Ran’s reminder, she lifted her eyelids to look at the darkness outside the balcony, thinking that the other was helping her confirm the time outside, so she answered.

But the next second.

The surroundings suddenly lit up.

As if a strong light was shining on the house from all directions—

Shu Yao was stunned for a moment, put down the book she had just picked up, and quickly walked to the side of the balcony.

She should have been locked in the monster’s body, in the endless darkness, with only the little warm lights in the house to comfort her.

But what was going on now?

Standing by the balcony, seeing the golden sunlight leap out of the sea surface, and the churning waves in the center of the sea being illuminated like a large piece of orange-blue crystal, Shu Yao was completely stunned.

She felt as if she had been pulled back to the beginning of that romantic cruise trip, but it was even more real than living in a room made of steel and iron, and looking down at those waves from above.

It was as if this house had suddenly stood on the surface of the sea, just quietly staying there.

She could look at different scenery from every window and every bedroom in the room.

The sparkling, quiet sea, the sea that was plated with gold like an oil painting, the sea where she could vaguely see the green of the land and the island…

She had to see this unprecedented feast of beautiful scenery, and this miracle came from the monster that had put her in its stomach.

The sound of a door opening in the house was heard.

After Shu Yao had finished watching the tide that had just been illuminated by the sunlight on the balcony, she ran to the other rooms. By the time all the doors and windows of this house had been opened, as if in the illusion that the sea breeze could blow in, she finally asked:

【How did you do it?】

Outside the open door, a familiar figure stepped into the room.

Her silk-like black hair fell on her shoulders. The clothes she was wearing were still the beige long dress and brown windbreaker that the two had picked out when they went out last night. When she walked into the living room, she had a gentle smile on her face and answered:

“Mimicry.”

“I tried it. Turning into a transparent color should allow you to see the outside as well.”

Shu Yao imagined that scene. For example, the big octopus that was now stopped on the sea surface might have turned into a huge, transparent slime.

She couldn’t help but curve her lips, and then looked at the person walking toward her. “Then how did you get in?”

This question was even simpler.

Although the ability she had obtained from [Thunder] had been taken back by the [Lighthouse], compared to summoning clouds, rain, lightning, and thunderclouds, the ability to control a clone that she had gotten from [Styx] was much simpler.

Coincidentally, she had nine brains, and her tentacles could act independently. As long as she temporarily cut off one of them, and also swallowed it, and mimicked a human form, she could use her main body outside to continue toward the abyss, and she could also separate a part of herself to accompany her girlfriend in this house.

By the time she completely entered the abyss, or encountered a more troublesome problem, she could just let this part of her tentacles reconnect, or simply abandon it and grow a new one.

Anyway, they were temporarily connected now, enough for her main brain consciousness to be projected over.

“It’s very easy to learn,” she concluded, and then stood by the large window in the living room with Shu Yao, looking outside, and changed the subject. “I was just worried that from this angle, I would have to look through my body, and it might not be very clear. But it seems okay now?”

Shu Yao, who heard her Versailles: “…”

Why does she always use her intelligence in such a strange research direction?

She was a little helpless, and gave a vague answer, then looked away. “How long are we going to stay here?”

“Does Yaoyao want to see something else?” Lin Ran stood shoulder to shoulder with her, and rested her chin on her shoulder. Her dark eyes, which always gave a deep and affectionate illusion, stared at her intently. “I remember you seemed to be interested in the submarine project on the cruise ship before. Do you want to see it now?”

“My moving speed in the sea is very fast, and the time in this space is very slow. I can take you to see many places.”

As she spoke, her breath fell on Shu Yao’s neck.

That faint sea salt scent that she had liked so much before appeared again.

Shu Yao smelled the scent on her. Although she knew that she was probably just a mimicked tentacle now, she was still a little distracted by her so-close scent.

By the time her attention returned, Lin Ran had already taken her silence as agreement.

…

The monster’s main body was like a diligent means of transportation, heading toward the tropical sea.

For Shu Yao, the rising sun and the sea surface she had seen seemed to have been just a moment ago. And because she had been so lost in thought, her gaze had unconsciously lingered on Lin Ran for a long time, and she had been inexplicably held by the face and kissed—

By the time their lips parted, and a transparent silver thread was pulled out.

Lin Ran leaned over and kissed her again, her tongue curling up the mark on the corner of her lips, and she reminded her with a smile, “Look outside.”

Shu Yao turned her head in a daze.

Outside the balcony was no longer the sky, the rising sun, and the waves.

But as if the whole house had been thrown to the bottom of the sea. In the clear and transparent seawater, the coral reefs, which should have been destroyed by human activities and had died in large areas, had unknowingly revived in the days when the sea monsters had landed and humans had begun to retreat step by step from the coastline.

Shu Yao, who had often been trained in marine life species in the special department, looked at the schools of fish that seemed to be swimming past the window, and for a moment, she couldn’t even remember their names.

The monster seemed to have stopped on a platform of a coral reef.

All around were pink, yellow, and purple coral clusters.

Some were like deer antlers, like branches, blooming wantonly and chaotically. Some were like willow branches, like thorns, and were rubbed back and forth by the passing dolphins. And some were like lingzhi mushrooms that grew in the sea, coiling and bending, holding up a graceful arc.

As if she had suddenly entered an underwater dragon palace, and only then could she see the colorful scenery of the seabed. Shu Yao looked at the particularly large dolphin in the distance and asked with some shock:

“Have all the ones left in the sea mutated to such a large size?”

Lin Ran couldn’t help but hold her waist and laugh lowly.

“It’s not that they’ve gotten bigger,” she leaned over and gently bit Shu Yao’s earlobe, and at the same time answered, “it’s that we’ve gotten smaller, Yaoyao.”

To cooperate with her words.

The little octopus, which had been mimicking transparency and had been quietly staying in the coral reef, its lower half suddenly returned to its black and red color, and one by one, its slender tentacles swayed outside the window, greeting her intimately.

【Yaoyao! Yaoyao!】

They looked even smaller than the thin branches at the top of the nearby coral reef.

Perhaps it was the visual protection provided by this house.

When the little octopus, in order to show her more of the beauty of the ocean, slipped into the intertwined coral reef, and let her see the small plankton that were hidden inside, flapping their fins and eating the coral reef community.

Shu Yao stood on the balcony, showing a strong interest in this live, high-definition broadcast of the seabed. She used her mental communication to command the little octopus to pull itself into the coral branches, and at the same time, she pushed away the interfering factors that had come over.

She pushed Lin Ran’s head away with her palm, not letting her continue to kiss her. Shu Yao didn’t forget to say to the outside, 【I want to see that sea anemone!】

The sea anemone, which was blooming like a flower, because of the different time flow inside and outside, seemed to be very quickly using its spread-out limbs to stuff the plankton that had passed by and gotten stuck on its leaf-like limbs into its central mouthparts, one step at a time. The six branches were in order, queuing up, and eating regularly, which was very de-stressing to watch.

Until the next second—

The octopus, which had become too small, was pushed by a wave and also got stuck on a branch of the sea anemone.

Then it gurgled.

The entire room was once again shrouded in darkness.

Realizing where the little octopus was at this moment, Shu Yao, under the light in the room that had regained its presence, couldn’t help but let out a chuckle.

By the time the little octopus had wriggled out of the sea anemone’s stomach again and had quickly run away, letting the scenery outside the window become a high-speed, foamy stream of water, the curve of her lips had not gone down.

Lin Ran had originally been regretting the fact that she had brought her to see these sceneries, which had caused the meat that had been at her mouth to fly away.

Now, seeing the pure smile in her eyes again, and the way she was happy over such a trivial matter, she suddenly no longer regretted the little bit of time she had deliberately delayed.

If the ending of this journey could not be as she wished, then the scenery she had stopped to admire before reaching the end would become even more important.

The last trip, before she had boarded the cruise ship, her girlfriend had been so simple, happy, innocent, and optimistic. Later, after she had experienced some things on the cruise ship, she had gradually become like a cracked, beautiful bottle.

Shattered, and even the sharp edges would scratch herself.

This time.

Lin Ran wanted to use a new journey to repair her, to cover up those bad memories, and to let her Yaoyao return to being that happy and simple girl she was before.

To love life again, to like to raise flowers, to like to do handicrafts, and to be troubled by not being able to find suitable clothes when going out—

And then.

When she saw her, she could happily run toward her, pounce into her arms, and call her with stars in her eyes:

“Lin Ran!”