Marshal Qin Xiao and his 6-member team drove the starship that Lu Tingyu was riding on secretly to the resource star in the Clock Constellation. From a distance, the planet looked like an aquamarine gem floating in the universe.
Qin Xiao said: "60% of the area of this planet is covered by the ocean. We will find a safe place to land first, and then find a way to explore the ocean."
The starship quickly passed through the atmosphere and came above the planet. In order to prevent the Swordfish from being attacked again, the few people were very cautious this time. Hummingbird and Tang Ce first drove a small airship to investigate and confirmed that there was no danger on the ground before landing the starship.
This planet is very strange. There are only some small plants on the surface, like weeds growing in the wasteland.
The six of them came to the beach. There was no sign of life in the clear ocean. There were no shells or crabs on the beach. Qin Xiao frowned in confusion and looked at Tang Ce and said, "Major Tang, go explore the way first."
Tang Ce said: "Yes!"
Hearing him call out the name "Major Tang", Fengniao's eyes widened slightly and looked at Tang Ce: "Little Tang?"
Tang Ce smiled and scratched his head: "Sorry, I was sent by the Marshal. Sister Bird, don't be angry, I am also carrying out a special mission."
Qin Xiao explained: "He is Major Tang Ce of the Xinghui Corps. You may not be familiar with him."
Hummingbird and the Zhao brothers looked at each other in bewilderment.
No wonder he, a "newcomer who just graduated from the military academy", was so capable and was actually sent by the marshal. Thinking of the last time when Lu Zexuan "went on a killing spree", Tang Ce pretended to be dead in advance, and the few people suddenly realized that he had obviously known Yu Ran and Lu Zexuan's plan for a long time.
However, he had always helped his teammates during his time in the Falcon Special Forces. He was the one who saved Hummingbird's life when they were attacked in the Swordfish. Thinking of this, Hummingbird couldn't help but remind him, "Be careful. If you need support, contact us immediately."
Tang Ce said: "Don't worry!"
Although the chameleon lizard is an A-level spiritual body and its combat power is not as good as that of S-level, its ability is very powerful. This is why Qin Xiao went to Red Spider Star to find Tang Ce to assist him.
Tang Ce, who possesses the power of a "chameleon tree lizard", can adapt to any environment, including high temperature, cold, desert and ocean. He can change his appearance and regulate his body temperature. This ability is very useful when exploring unfamiliar environments.
Almost at the moment of entering the sea, Tang Ce's body quickly merged with the seawater and turned into transparent water. At the same time, his body temperature regulation also adapted to the temperature of the seawater.
Qin Xiao stood on the edge of the beach and could hardly see where Tang Ce was.
Tang Ce's voice came from the headset: "The sea water temperature is around 3 degrees, a bit cold, I will dive into the deep sea first to take a look."
Qin Xiao said: "Be careful. If you encounter an unknown creature, don't get close."
"receive."
When Tang Ce was in the Starlight Corps and led a team to scout alien planets, he had seen many seas. But the deep sea he saw today made him feel very strange.
In a normal ocean, there should be a complete marine ecosystem with big fish, small fish, shrimps, seaweed, etc., but this area is like dead water, with no life to be seen. The quiet ocean makes people feel uneasy, as if something is sleeping on the bottom of the sea.
Tang Ce continued to dive carefully. The sea was very deep. He dived for a long time but still did not see any signs of life.
He was unwilling to give up, so he continued to dive down until he reached a depth of a thousand meters under the sea.
The scene before him made Tang Ce break out in a cold sweat—there was actually an indescribable huge monster lurking deep in the sea!
It was as big as a tall building, and its body was made up of countless dark brown tentacles. Those tentacles were twisted and entangled together like a group of snakes, and the tentacles were covered with dense black spots.
It seemed to be sleeping. Tang Ce's heart tightened and he quickly left the seabed.
Several people on the shore were waiting anxiously. Seeing Tang Ce coming up, Marshal Qin Xiao hurried forward and asked, "How is it? What did you find?"
Tang Ce described: "I didn't see any other fish in the ocean. I found a huge monster deep in the sea. It looked like an octopus that was magnified dozens of times, or a group of snakes entwined together. It had many brown tentacles covered with black spots. When I saw it, it didn't react at all, as if it was asleep."
When Qin Xiao heard this, his expression changed slightly—Ranran’s guess might be right.
Back then, the Sun Special Forces came to this planet and had a fierce battle with the terrifying creatures in the ocean. A large number of Sentinels were killed, and Ludwig was parasitized by this creature. General Oster didn't know what kind of deal he made with it and brought him to the human world.
Qin Xiao took a deep breath and said, "We need to learn as much as possible about this creature. Major Tang, Chief Zhu, Hummingbird, Zhao Quan, the four of you will follow me into the water and explore the depths of the ocean. Zhao Feng, you will drive the starship over the ocean and be ready to pick us up at any time."
Several people immediately prepared themselves and gripped their weapons tightly.
Spirits such as spiders, hummingbirds and vultures do not have the ability to survive in the ocean.
But Qin Xiao is S's guide, and his spiritual body is a powerful deep-sea jellyfish. After the spiritual bodies work together, he can make the jellyfish group form transparent bubbles, wrapping these people, allowing them to sneak into the deep sea invisibly.
Of course, when spirit bodies fight in coordination, the consumption of mental energy will double. Moreover, if so many people are made invisible at once, Qin Xiao can only hold on for half an hour at most. However, Tang Ce has already scouted the location in advance, and they will rush straight to the destination, so half an hour should be enough.
Tang Ce led the way in front, and the others followed behind.
However, when Tang Ce came to the depths of the sea according to his memory, he was surprised to find... there was nothing here!
How is it possible? I just saw a huge monster occupying this place, and within 10 minutes, everything is gone
Qin Xiao sensed something was wrong and immediately used his mind tentacles to order several people in their minds: "Don't move, empty your mind, and control your emotions!"
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, a huge brown monster suddenly appeared above their heads.
It floated in the sea, swimming slowly, its dense tentacles spreading out like petals. There were so many tentacles that they could not be counted, and the "black spots" on the tentacles that Tang Ce mentioned were actually pairs of... eyes!
When Tang Ce came down just now, it was still sleeping, and now it has just woken up.
The marshal wrapped everyone with transparent jellyfish. The guide's invisibility ability was to eliminate its own presence from the conscious level, so it did not notice that there were several more humans in the ocean.
Qin Xiao asked everyone to empty their minds because he was afraid that these highly intelligent creatures could sense human emotions.
The size of that thing was beyond imagination.
It had too many eyes and its head was nowhere to be found. The few people only felt that dense tentacles were swimming forward above their heads. After swimming for more than ten minutes, they finally saw its tail.
I thought it would leave, but it swam back slowly.
Then, everyone saw an extremely disgusting scene—
Suddenly, its tentacles began to break, one after another, breaking off from its body and falling to the deep seabed like a rainstorm. Then, those broken tentacles, like flexible little snakes, quickly swam and grew on the seabed, and then split into more tentacles.
Several people widened their eyes in shock.
What is it doing? Those broken little tentacles quickly turned into little monsters.
Could this be the way it parasitizes
It parasitizes the human body through broken tentacles, and then the parasite will slowly grow and devour the host's consciousness
Thinking that there was such a horrible monster in Ludwigi's body, even Qin Xiao, who had a very strong mental quality, couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, let alone the others.
The strong emotional fluctuations deep in the sea seemed to make the monster sense something.
It suddenly stopped splitting itself, and countless eyes looked in the direction of Qin Xiao.
Qin Xiao's heart tightened, and he said without hesitation: "It has discovered us, retreat quickly!"
Those tentacles seemed to have spirits. They contracted together and suddenly surrounded them!
The monster had too many tentacles, which surrounded them densely and entangled them almost instantly. Seeing the marshal being dragged into the deep sea by the tentacles, Zhu Tianyi pulled out the electromagnetic knife and shouted: "Protect the marshal!"
The black spider appeared beside him, and its eight sharp claws were like sharp blades, cutting off the tentacles that bound the marshal.
The hummingbird seized the opportunity, swam above the monster at wind speed, hugged one of the tentacles tightly, and attacked it from behind.
Zhao Quan rushed through the gap created by Zhu Tianyi, grabbed the marshal's arm, and pulled the marshal upstream.
However, Qin Xiao's legs were tightly entangled by the tentacles and could not be pulled away at all.
Those things seemed soft, but it was very difficult to break free when they entangled people. Zhu Tianyi reacted very quickly. He let the spider cut a bloody path, and he rushed to the side of the marshal, and the sharp blade in his hand quickly chopped around Qin Xiao, and in a blink of an eye, all the tentacles that entangled him were cut off!
At the same time, the hummingbird fought flexibly above, quickly clearing a path to the sea. She said, "Brother Zhao, this way!"
Zhao Quan took the opportunity to pull up and pull the marshal out of the tentacles.
Qin Xiao’s calm voice rang in Tang Ce’s mind: “Tang Ce, go find its head!”
After receiving the order, Tang Ce immediately changed his body to the same color as the tentacles. He simulated a tentacle and quickly approached the monster's body. The monster had too many tentacles and did not notice that there was a human among them.
Tang Ce turned his body into tentacles. The surrounding tentacles seemed to think he was a friendly force and did not attack him. He took the opportunity to go deeper and finally saw a round eye the size of a football among the layers of tentacles.
Is this its head
Before Tang Ce could take action, the monster seemed to sense the danger and immediately protected the "eye" with its dense tentacles.
Qin Xiao said: "Retreat quickly!"
The fastest hummingbird led the way, Zhao Quan held the marshal and swam upstream quickly, Tang Ce flexibly blended with the sea water and broke free from their encirclement before being caught, Zhu Tianyi's spider formed a huge web and was responsible for covering the rear and blocking the tentacles' attack.
The five people got rid of the monster as quickly as possible and swam to the surface of the sea.
Zhao Feng, who had sensed the danger, had already driven the starship over. Zhao Quan jumped up with the marshal and jumped onto the airship. The others quickly followed. The starship opened the deck, and the four airships returned to the mothership at the fastest speed.
Almost at the moment they reached the starship, the huge monster surfaced right after them.
When its body was spread out, it almost covered several kilometers of sea area. And the small monsters it had just bred also floated up and surrounded it, and its dark brown tentacles stretched angrily into the sky, almost grazing the bottom of the starship!
If they hadn't escaped fast enough, their starship would have been dragged into the deep sea!
Everyone watched the scene below in horror.
A strange sound came out of the monster's mouth.
Qin Xiao used his mind tentacles to sense and actually understood the signals it was transmitting.
[Human, you come to disturb me again]
[You guys deserve to die!]
Qin Xiao listened to the cold voice in his mind and felt a chill in his heart.
Are you here to bother me again
So, it was indeed the special forces of the Solar Legion that accidentally woke it up from its sleep on the seabed, and even hurt it, when they were opening up the resource star. In a rage, it completely annihilated the Solar Legion and allowed its tentacles to parasitize the human body
(End of this chapter)