"Hua, hua"
The slightly black sea water hit the reef and splashed water and foam. A centipede as thick as a human body and full of legs crawled over from the darkness in the distance. Its body full of legs lay on the wet reef and looked at the undulating sea water below.
Suddenly, a fish shadow swam to the edge of the reef in the sea. The centipede bent its body and jumped into the sea to bite the arm-thick sea fish and grabbed it. However, it found that there was a meat whisker under the belly of the sea fish connected to the bottom. As the centipede crawled back, a huge mouth full of sharp teeth quickly appeared.
The centipede quickly spit out the sea fish, but the huge mouth below had already opened and rushed out of the sea to bite the centipede, and then a numbing chewing sound was heard.
But the chewing sound did not last long. Suddenly, a spear flew from a distance and shot into the sea. With a muffled groan, the sea water was agitated, and a huge monster fish more than ten meters long struggled wildly in the water.
A beam of light slowly shone over, and along the beam of light, it could be seen that the source was a huge sea ship.
This is an ironclad sea ship with a length of nearly 100 meters. The thick iron armor can withstand the impact of more powerful sea monsters. There are dozens of cannons on the huge ship, and the searchlight moves back and forth, looking into the distance.
It is extremely rare in this world to dare to light a light when going out to sea.
"Is it this island?"
On the side of the ship, a group of men in strange costumes pointed at the huge island in front of them, not paying attention to the strange fish that was just killed by a spear. It disappeared at some point. The light swept across the sea, and a huge black shadow could be vaguely seen slowly sliding under the dark sea water.
The deck was full of sailors who were fully dressed and lined up, including gunmen holding modern muskets and blood source warriors using cold weapons. Judging from the formation and discipline, this was not like an ordinary exploration ship.
In fact, it was not. This was a main battleship of the Lord's Mansion of Pearl Island, and its purpose was to investigate why this mining island suddenly lost contact.
The captain and several crew members dressed in similar styles, surrounded by his subordinates, were all sons of nightmares. Half a year ago, three sons of nightmares suddenly lost contact, which attracted their attention. Considering the identities and special circumstances of the missing persons, they did not dare to investigate immediately. Instead, they gathered the sons of nightmares with free time in several nearby territories and hired two sons of nightmares to form a small team of six sons of nightmares before starting the investigation.
One of the sons of nightmares, named Jovis, was already in a high position in Pearl Island. He used his status to rent a main battleship from the Lord's Navy and rushed over. The
leading son of nightmare, Jovis, stood on the high deck of the ironclad ship and looked into the distance. The power of the sons of nightmares allowed them to see farther with their naked eyes than with a telescope, and the ubiquitous fog could not completely block their sight.
In his vision, the island was quite large, the edge of the island was relatively flat, and there seemed to be a mountain in the center of the island.
In Jovis's intuition, the island exudes an extremely ominous atmosphere, but he doesn't care. There is no place in this world that is not dangerous. It's strange that he didn't feel any danger. However,
this mountain is a bit big, occupying the center of the peninsula. I heard that the mine on the island is located inside the island. He is a little confused. There is a mountain inside, and the mine is opened in the mountain?
There is no point in entangled in these things. Jovis decided to go to the island directly to have a look.
Anyway, they have six sons of nightmares, a large ironclad ship, and an elite force. It is no problem to explore the island.
"The first team starts to land on the island!"
Several strong men about two meters tall jumped down from the ironclad ship that was docked, holding a shield in one hand and a broadsword in the other hand. A ladder was lowered, and a small team of blood warriors and two teams of gunmen got off the ship along the ladder. The two sons of nightmares got off the ship last.
One of these two people is called Elton and the other is called Hall. They are brothers and come from the same nightmare family.
The Blood Origin Warrior led the way, followed by the Gunner. After landing, they circled along the beach and made sure that nothing was seen nearby. Then they gestured to the ship, and the second group of crew members disembarked to build a temporary dock here.
They had seen the ruins of the original dock on the other side of the island before. The original dock had long disappeared, leaving only some ruins.
Judging from the huge dents that were more than ten meters wide and hundreds of meters long in the ruins of the dock, it should have been destroyed by some super-large monster. This was also the main reason why they did not dare to land there, fearing that the monster was still in the nearby sea area.
They moved quickly, and the temporary dock was dug out quickly. They also had time to build a not very high wall. A large amount of supplies were moved down and put into the dock. When the second group of team members came down, the first group of exploration teams had already begun to move into the island.
The island was very desolate, with black land under the thick black fog, and the plants were also black.
The ground under my feet was a little soft, and the soil was as soft as a swamp. If you are not careful, you will fall into it.
Soon they came to a small sunken pool, which was like an ordinary pond. With the help of the light, they could vaguely see that the dark water in the pool was not deep, and they could also see the mud at the bottom. There were many water plants like lotus leaves floating on the water, and there was a root as thick as a finger at the bottom of the water. In the middle of the water plants as big as a basin was a fruit-like bag, some of which were still closed, and some were ripe and blooming, with chestnut-like fruits half exposed.
When they passed the pool, a team member saw a large leaf with a piece of plump fruit, and he stopped and said,
"This thing looks delicious, do you want to pick some and see?"
Elton and Hall, the leaders, turned around and saw the team members walking towards the pond, and the other team members around were watching.
Suddenly his face changed slightly, he picked up his gun and fired at the pond and shouted:
"Everyone, pay attention, leave the pond."
At this moment, his shot hit a lotus leaf, which originally looked like a lotus leaf and suddenly bounced up. The lotus leaf was full of elasticity and opened more than ten times. It rushed over and wrapped the soldier who was about to pick the fruit and dragged him into the water. The next second, more than a dozen black tentacles as thick as fingers popped out of the water and inserted into the lotus leaf. Blood gushed out, and streams of blood or flesh were pulled out by the tentacles and swallowed in large lumps.
The soldier instantly lost his reaction and stopped moving.
Then, in less than ten seconds, a living person collapsed to the bottom right before their eyes. When the elastic lotus leaf reopened, only some clothes with holes and remnants of teeth and bones were left inside. Everything else disappeared, even most of the bones were swallowed up.
And this was just the beginning. After tasting blood and flesh, countless black tentacles at the bottom of the pond bounced up excitedly, extending to the shore like a group of demons dancing wildly.
"Prepare for battle!"
A strong man carrying a metal box took out a metal can from his back, lit the fuse and threw it into the pond after a few seconds.
"Boom!"
The flames expanded and tore apart a large number of tentacles, revealing more tentacles at the bottom of the pond. A large amount of black mud-like liquid flew everywhere with the tentacles.
Several soldiers were sprayed by the mud, and their consciousness immediately blurred. They gave up resistance and rushed to the pond. Several blood source soldiers were about to step forward to stop their companions, but Elton suddenly shouted:
"Retreat!"
As soon as the voice fell, the ground under their feet began to shake, crack, and rise, as if something big was about to come out.
Everyone turned around and ran away immediately. At the same time, several cannons on the ironclad warships in the sea not far away turned around with mechanical creaking sounds, and the inscriptions on the gun barrels slowly lit up.
"Boom!"
A ball of dark red fire was particularly conspicuous in the darkness. The pond ground just arched up and exploded with a bang. A ball as big as a house was entangled with countless black tentacles that were as thick as fingers or arms. It was like a bucket of earthworms or a ball entangled when snakes mate. The visual and mental impact made people want to vomit.
"Run!"
No matter whether they could fight or not, no one wanted to fight this thing because of its appearance.
Moreover, even if they wanted to fight, they probably couldn't beat it, because what was exposed was only the tip of the iceberg. There were more black tentacles rolling out from the ground, as if it was a hidden giant monster.
On the ironclad ship, Jovis stared at the tentacles that slowly revealed their true form that was larger than imagined and said,
"Could this be it?"
A son of nightmare beside him shook his head,
"Unlikely, this guy looks big, but it won't cause the three of them to disappear!"
Jovis was silent for a moment, waved his hand again, and the ship's guns once again spurted out dark red flames, hitting the center of the tentacle group with one shot, and a large number of broken tentacles were blown away.
But this also angered the monster, and a larger body drilled out. Countless broken tentacles did not die on the spot, and they were still able to maintain a certain degree of activity and drilled into the ground.
Large pieces of sand and stones were turned over, and limbs formed by the entanglement of black tentacles flew out and attacked the humans on the beach crazily, forcing them to flee to the island. Several particularly thick entangled tentacles rushed out from the ground and smashed into the ironclad ship docked at the seashore.
"Interesting! Prepare the main gun."
He didn't take this thing seriously. He had been in this world for so long, and he had encountered monsters that were weird and scary. Although this one was big, it was not even in the top ten in his knowledge.
The main gun of the ironclad ship was more than five times thicker than the secondary gun. Even the huge ironclad ship was pushed sideways by a single shot.
The huge fireball blasted down, and a huge pit with a diameter of more than 40 meters was directly blown out with a thunderous sound, and countless fragments flew.
Then more than a dozen secondary guns bombarded continuously, blowing up the rest of the monster's body. Just one round of bombardment shattered the main body of the monster, revealing the broken core. Jovis looked from afar and saw a blood-red crystal brain embedded in the wriggling flesh and blood of the broken core. His face was delighted:
"Good stuff!"
He immediately sent an order to his subordinates who were still on the shore:
"Take down the crystal brain, quickly."
The two sons of nightmare quickly gathered the remaining subordinates and returned to prepare to take the brain. Just as they crossed a large pit blasted by the cannon on the ship, they suddenly felt the ground shaking violently. Everyone was shaken, and several soldiers slid down to the bottom of the crater without standing firmly.
Everyone was startled, but was surprised to find that the remaining tentacles at the bottom of the pit did not attack them, but instead emerged from the ground and bounced towards the sea as if a disaster was imminent.
(End of this chapter)