Her Tentacles 82p1

Chapter 82: The Darkness p1

Flower Hat became the little octopus’s new friend.

She talked even more than before.

Perhaps it was because the other jellyfish didn’t like to listen to her chatter, so they had pushed her out to take care of the child?

【What?】 Hearing Shu Yao’s complaint, Flower Hat protested loudly.

【It’s not like that at all! Because you’re a new species born from the ‘Lighthouse,’ and you’re different from all of us jellyfish. You can’t get knowledge and memories directly from the ‘Lighthouse’ like we can, so we argued for a long time about who would teach you…】

【I’m the one who beat all of them!】

Shu Yao looked at her carefully for a long time.

She asked sincerely, 【Did you compete to see who had the shortest stinging tentacles?】

Flower Hat was angry, and her bell was all curled up. And in the following time, whether it was finding food for her or skillfully killing fish, she had a cold expression on her face.

Although Shu Yao couldn’t tell the difference between this jellyfish from different angles, she still knew that the other was angry. She managed to divide the fish she was eating and handed over the softest belly meat with her tentacles.

【Alright, don’t be angry. This is for you to eat.】

Flower Hat pushed the fish back. Her anger had subsided, but her tone was still awkward. 【Call me big sister, and I’ll consider it.】

Shu Yao was obedient. 【Big sister, don’t be angry.】

Flower Hat: !

The jellyfish was happy again. The colorful colors under her bell were even brighter than before. She happily circled the little octopus and pulled over more food for her.

【Eat more, eat more!】

She knew that the little octopus had been given the talent of ‘gluttony,’ and needed to eat a lot of things to barely stay not hungry.

She also knew that in fact, eating these fish, shellfish, and seaweed could not satisfy the little octopus at all. The food that could truly satisfy the little octopus’s instincts was those other creatures that had been dragged in by the [Lighthouse] and were filled with the energy of another world.

But the little octopus never wanted to get close to those new underwater cities again.

So Flower Hat tried her best to find these ordinary foods for her, and even no longer asked the little octopus to grow up, because she felt that she could hunt for this cute little sister, who was different from them, for the rest of her life.

…

Of course, Shu Yao knew the things that Flower Hat hadn’t said.

She watched with a cold eye, taking in the actions of the [Lighthouse] and these jellyfish.

The [Lighthouse] also needed to eat.

But It was too large, and there was no creature in the abyss that could satisfy the energy It needed to survive. So these jellyfish were given various abilities by It, and they would leave the abyss to travel far, to find new worlds that could provide energy for It.

Every world had its own favored children, loved by the creator.

These favored children, such as the mermaids living in the magnificent city of Atlantis, and the mosasaur group with their sky-covering bodies, powerful tails, and dense teeth…

After they came to the abyss, they were all food for the [Lighthouse].

The [Lighthouse] also basically did not take the initiative to attack. Except for the time when the little octopus was just born and had mistakenly taken food as a friend and brought it to It, and It had patiently corrected it. At other times, it was the vast jellyfish swarm that destroyed these foods.

They relied on their numbers, on their endless toxins, to fight these new creatures to the death. And every time they ate them and came back, their stinging tentacles could connect with the fine threads of the [Lighthouse], and they would transfer all the energy they had digested to the [Lighthouse].

This was how the grand ball of the abyss came to be.

The jellyfish were genuinely happy, happy for their victory, happy that they could give back and support their great mother, so that the [Lighthouse] could last forever.

But this was also a sacrificial dance.

Because when the dance appeared, it meant the destruction of another world. The ruins piled up next to the city of Atlantis also became more and more.

And the little octopus never participated in this ball.

The jellyfish gradually learned that the newborn little octopus was very rebellious.

But they did not come to criticize her, let alone tell her that after seeing her performance, the [Lighthouse] had decided to temporarily suspend its plan to create new species.

They just, when they had free time, like before, would wave their stinging tentacles and swim up to the little octopus to tease her, and ask with a grin:

【I heard that you’ve been gnawing on ‘Flower Hat’ a lot lately, and you’ve recently acquired her ability. Is that true? My toxin is also not bad, it’s very useful. Do you want to try it?】

Shu Yao flicked her tentacle and slapped away the stinging tentacle that was coming over. She herself was not very clear why it was like this.

But she thought of the patch of silver leaves she had eaten before, and later she had the ability to secrete mucus and heal wounds. Now that she had gnawed on ‘Flower Hat’ a lot, and also had this ability, wasn’t this very normal?

She turned her head to find something to eat.

Recently, the ordinary fish, shellfish, and seaweed in the abyss had become much balder than before.

Shu Yao also ate slower than before, but she had a vague premonition that if she survived by eating these, one day she would have to face the dilemma of hunger again.

But she didn’t want to lose her reason because of hunger again.

She was afraid that the misunderstanding of the mermaid incident would happen again, and she would wake up to face a corpse she didn’t want to face.

She hadn’t thought of how to add a new recipe yet, but the accident came first.

That was the new world overlord that ‘Flower Hat’ had gone out to, as an anchor, and had been dragged over by the [Lighthouse]—

The Leviathan whale group.

…

The whale group had their eyes on the shining [Lighthouse].

The first time they entered the abyss, they used their huge bodies and huge heads to ram the [Lighthouse], as if they were very interested in the light It emitted.

They took the initiative to regard the [L’Lighthouse] as prey.

All the jellyfish left in the abyss rushed up to resist. ‘Flower Hat’ rushed to the front. The little octopus, who had felt an unprecedented sense of threat from this group of creatures, was startled and instinctively swam toward them.

The whale group was too large, and their serrated teeth and bite force were also very strong. The jellyfish’s stinging tentacles couldn’t even cut through their skin and flesh, and could only be used as ropes in the hundreds of thousands to try and bind them in place.

At the same time, the [Lighthouse] was shaken by the impact.

When Its body tilted, the entire abyss trembled with it.

The little octopus tried to help them, but compared to these jellyfish with their dozens or hundreds of meters long stinging tentacles and huge bodies, and the ferocious whale group weighing hundreds of tons, her body was so small it was negligible.

Countless jellyfish died in the war.

Even ‘Flower Hat’s’ repaired bell was more than half broken.

They would all die.

They were all going to die.

For the first time, Shu Yao hated her lack of progress. She hadn’t grown a single bit. Now, clinging to the whale group’s body, she was like a small duckweed.

Insignificant, not worth mentioning.

They only needed to sway their bodies slightly, and the water currents they brought would be enough to be like an underwater storm, and would randomly slap her far away.

【Big sister, big sister!】

The little octopus swam with all its might toward where Flower Hat was.

There, countless jellyfish stinging tentacles and bells of different colors were intertwined, like a huge colorful blanket, trapping a still-underage, slightly smaller whale.

They tried hard to cut through the little whale’s skin and inject their toxins into it.

The little whale let out one after another of mournful cries, and its mother circled it, letting out angry cries, and opened its teeth but could only bite off a part of the entangled jellyfish corpses.

Because Flower Hat’s stinging tentacles were too short, she could only cover one of the little whale’s gills, trying to cut off its breathing.

【Bao Bao.】

She called Shu Yao’s nickname in a low voice and said to her, 【Eat it.】

The little octopus did not refuse.

She hadn’t thought of refusing either. Without hesitation, she slipped in beneath Flower Hat’s bell, her tentacles carrying the toxins she had gotten from the other before, and pierced into the little whale’s gill meat.

In that one after another of mournful cries, she unscrupulously released her instincts. Her tentacles, which had only ever been able to eat those fish, shrimp, and crabs, finally tasted the flesh and blood they most craved.

Flesh and blood full of energy.

The whale’s mournful cries gradually weakened.

It fell in the water, its huge head as if it were breathing its last, its skin rising and falling.

Because of the cub’s encounter, the other adult Leviathan whales that had originally wanted to attack the [Lighthouse] all turned around, and came over, and all began to attack these jellyfish nearby.

The seawater was filled with fine jellyfish corpses.

Just as Flower Hat, who had secretly hidden on the side of the little whale’s body and was waiting for the little octopus to come out, was also discovered—

A newly adult whale let out an angry, high-pitched cry.

The fallen whale no longer wailed, and its voice stopped.

Realizing that its younger brother was completely dead, that whale wanted to ram the jellyfish swarm on its corpse. Its terrifying momentum could crush all the jellyfish in that area.

Bang!

The next instant.

The seawater vibrated as if it were boiling.

A huge, black and red tentacle tore through the remaining thin whale skin, and like a strong steel rope, it wrapped around this Leviathan whale’s snout, and even blocked its momentum.

After the whale retreated, the fierce fangs protruding from the tentacle’s suckers cut through its skin, and the remaining jellyfish all rushed up, taking the opportunity to inject their toxins.

…

A giant octopus emerged from the little whale’s corpse.

When she joined this life-and-death battle, her body was still constantly growing.

And when she recklessly collided with the largest Leviathan whale—

The other jellyfish could only retreat to the side.

After watching for a while and finding that the octopus was not at a disadvantage, they all gathered around Flower Hat. 【How did she suddenly become so big?】

【Was this little thing always so capable of eating?】

They asked curiously.

Regarding the talent of “gluttony,” the [Lighthouse] had only transmitted it to the little octopus’s guide, Flower Hat. At this moment, Flower Hat was very gratified to answer for her other companions:

【This is her true ability.】

【What can feed her is not meat, but these other ‘characteristics,’ such as the Leviathan whale’s unique body size, its impact ability, and the bite force of its teeth.】

The little octopus had never eaten meat, but characteristics, and talents.

That was why she could have the same ability as Flower Hat.

She was already prepared to let the grown octopus show its soft belly later, and let her touch it with her stinging tentacles, to see if even its mouthparts’ bite force was stronger than before.

By the time Shu Yao had reacted, this whale group had already been eliminated by her and the other jellyfish, and her body had also become as large as a mountain.

Flower Hat still had to swim for a while to get to the front of her eyes.

【Are you full?】

The colorful jellyfish pointed to the other jellyfish corpses torn apart by the whale group, a hint of regret in her tone as she said to her, 【Why don’t you eat them too? This way they can also return to the embrace of the ‘Lighthouse.’】

Shu Yao thought for a while.

She chose to be obedient.

And then, with Flower Hat and the other jellyfish, she returned to the [Lighthouse]’s side.

This time, among the connected, signed-together stinging tentacles of the jellyfish, there were also eight black and red, sucker-covered tentacles.

The grand ball seemed to be about to begin as before, but this time, the number of jellyfish surrounding the abyss [Lighthouse] had been greatly reduced.

As the countless snow-white fine threads of the Lighthouse came over, and were about to connect to their stinging tentacles, Flower Hat suddenly said in the channel where all the jellyfish’s consciousness was connected:

【Mother, can you let them come back?】

The other jellyfish heard this and all agreed.

【Yes, we ate all those hateful whales this time. We have a lot of energy. Can we let them come back again?】

They begged the [Lighthouse], wanting the abyss to be as lively as before.

Even Shu Yao, for the first time, expressed her willingness to offer the energy in her body to the [Lighthouse]. It didn’t matter if it was all taken away. She could eat more in the future.

…

The [Lighthouse] was quiet for a long time.

Until the jellyfish heard Its sigh: 【But, to let them be reborn, this time’s energy is not enough.】

The jellyfish fell silent.

They all said that they would work harder than before, and they also practiced this.

After the light of the [Lighthouse] illuminated the abyss, the light on Flower Hat was much dimmer than before, and Shu Yao’s huge body had also shrunk to a small size. Even to repair her injuries, she had to lie on her bell and try hard to paste herself over.

【No need.】 Flower Hat pushed her down and said to her gently, 【No need to fix it. It’s okay. We have to set off soon.】

Because they had promised the [Lighthouse] that they would provide more energy to be reunited with those dead jellyfish, after this ball, all the jellyfish left the abyss.

Even Shu Yao followed Flower Hat, crossed the abyss gap, and tried to reach other sea areas.

Before all the flora and fauna in the abyss were gnawed bald, the little octopus finally let go of the grass by its nest and went out to eat other food.

And because she was really strong, every time she could eat herself into her previous huge size, and return to the [Lighthouse]’s side with Flower Hat.

Until the light of the [Lighthouse] became brighter and brighter, as if it could last forever.

The jellyfish gathered around It, and once again asked It if It could resurrect their former sisters.

The bright, fine white [Lighthouse] stinging threads came over.

Accompanied by Its chaotic voice.

【I can.】

It said, 【But you need to be reborn with them.】