"Whoosh, whoosh …"
The slightly black seawater splashed against the reef, splashing water and foam everywhere. A centipede with legs as thick as a human body crawled over from the darkness in the distance. Its legged body crouched on the wet reef and looked down at the undulating seawater.
Suddenly, a fish figure swam to the edge of the reef. The centipede bent its body and jumped into the sea to grab the fish as thick as an arm. However, it found that there was a fleshy tentacle under the fish's stomach. As the centipede crawled back, it quickly revealed a huge mouth full of sharp teeth.
The centipede quickly spat out the fish, but the huge mouth below had already opened and bit the centipede. Then, there was a scalp-numbing chewing sound.
However, the chewing sound didn't last long. Suddenly, a spear flew from afar and shot into the sea. With a muffled groan, the sea water surged and a huge strange fish more than ten meters long struggled wildly in the water.
A light beam slowly shone over. Along the light beam, one could see that the source was a huge ship.
This was an iron ship nearly 100 meters long. The thick iron armor could withstand the impact of more powerful sea monsters. There were dozens of cannons on the huge ship. The searchlight moved back and forth, looking into the distance.
It was extremely rare to see someone who dared to light a light at sea.
"Is it this island?"
On the side of the ship, a group of men in strange clothes were pointing at the huge island in front of them. They did not notice that the strange fish that had been killed by the spear had disappeared. The light swept across the surface of the sea, and a huge shadow could be vaguely seen slowly sliding down from the bottom of the dark sea.
The deck was full of sailors in formation. There were gunmen with modern firearms and blood warriors with cold weapons. Judging from the formation and discipline, this was not an ordinary exploration ship.
In fact, it was not. This was the main warship of the Pearl Island Lord's Residence. Its purpose was to investigate why they suddenly lost contact with the mining island.
The captain who was surrounded by his subordinates and several crew members who were dressed similarly were all Children of Nightmares. Half a year ago, three Children of Nightmares suddenly went missing, which attracted their attention. Considering the identity and special circumstances of the missing people, they did not dare to investigate immediately. Instead, they gathered the Children of Nightmares who were free in several nearby territories and hired two Children of Nightmares to form a small team with a total of six Children of Nightmares before they began the investigation.
One of the Nightmare Children named Jovis was already in a high position in Pearl Island. He used his identity to rent a main battleship from the Lord's Mansion's navy and rushed over.
Jovis, the leader of the group, stood on the deck of the ship and looked into the distance. The power of the Nightmare Children allowed them to see further with their naked eyes than with binoculars. Even the thick fog could not completely block their vision.
From what he could see, the island was quite large. The edge of the island was relatively flat, and there seemed to be a mountain in the middle of the island.
Jovis vaguely sensed that the island exuded an extremely ominous aura, but he did not care. There was no place in this world that was not dangerous. It was strange that he did not sense any danger.
However, the mountain was a little big, occupying more than half of the center of the island. He heard that the mine on the island was located inside the island. He was a little confused.
There was no point in dwelling on this, so Jovis decided to go to the island and take a look.
Anyway, they had six Children of Nightmares, a large armored ship, and an elite force. Exploring the island was not a problem.
"The first team is going to the island!"
A few strong men about two meters tall with a shield in one hand and a broad-bladed sword in the other jumped off the ship. A ladder was lowered, and a small team of blood warriors and two teams of gunners went down the ladder. Two Children of Nightmares were the last to get off the ship.
The two men were called Elton and Hall. They were brothers and came from the same Family of Nightmares.
The blood warriors took the lead, and the gunners followed closely behind. After they went ashore, they circled around the beach. After confirming that there was nothing nearby, they gestured to the ship. The second group of crew members got off the ship and prepared to build a temporary dock here.
They had seen the ruins of the original dock on the other side of the island. The original dock had long disappeared, and only some ruins were left.
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 huge monster. This was also the main reason why they did not dare to go ashore there. They were afraid that the monster was still in the sea nearby.
They worked very quickly. The temporary dock was quickly dug out, and they even had the time to build a wall that was not very high. A large amount of resources were moved down and placed into the dock. When the second team came down, the first exploration team had already begun to move into the island.
The island was very desolate. Under the thick black fog, the land was black, and the plants were also black.
The ground under their feet was a little soft, and the soil was as soft as a swamp. If they were not careful, they would sink into it.
Soon, they came in front of a small sunken pool. This pool was like an ordinary pool. With the help of the light, they could vaguely see that the dark pool was not deep. They could also see the mud at the bottom. There were many lotus-like aquatic plants floating on the surface of the water. There was also a root that was as thick as a finger at the bottom of the water. In the middle of the washbasin-sized aquatic plants, there was a fruit-like bag. Some were still closed, and some were already ripe and blooming, revealing half of the chestnut-like fruit.
When they went around the pool, one of the team members saw a big leaf with a plump fruit. He stopped and said:
"This thing looks delicious. Do you want to pick some?"
Elton and Hall, who were in the lead, turned around and saw that the team members were walking to the edge of the pool. The other team members around them were watching.
Suddenly, their faces changed slightly. They raised their guns and shot at the pool.
"Everyone, take note. Leave the pool."
At that moment, his shot hit a lotus leaf. The lotus leaf that looked like a lotus leaf suddenly bounced up. The lotus leaf opened up more than ten times its original size and wrapped around the warrior who was about to pluck the lotus leaf. In the next second, more than ten black tentacles as thick as fingers shot out from the water and pierced into the lotus leaf. Blood gushed out. It was unknown whether it was blood or flesh that was sucked out by the tentacles and swallowed the warrior who was about to pluck the lotus leaf.
The Warrior instantly lost his ability to react and stopped moving.
Then, in less than ten seconds, a living person collapsed to the bottom right under their eyes. When the elastic lotus leaf opened again, there were only some clothes full of holes and the remnants of teeth and bones left inside. Everything else had disappeared, and even most of the bones had been swallowed.
And this was just the beginning. After tasting flesh, who knew how many black tentacles at the bottom of the pool jumped up excitedly and extended towards the shore.
"Prepare for battle!"
A muscular man with a metal box on his back took out a metal can, ignited the fuse, and threw it into the pool a few seconds later.
"Boom!"
The flames expanded and tore apart a large number of tentacles, revealing even more tentacles at the bottom of the pool. A large amount of black sludge flew out from the tentacles and sprayed everywhere.
A few Warriors were hit by the sludge and immediately lost consciousness. They gave up resisting and rushed towards the pool. A few blood Warriors were about to stop their companions when Elton suddenly shouted.
"Retreat!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the ground under their feet began to shake, crack, and rise as if something big was about to come out.
Everyone quickly turned and ran when they saw this. At the same time, the cannons on the ironclad not far away slowly turned around with the creaking sound of machinery. The inscriptions on the cannons slowly lit up.
"Boom!"
A ball of dark red fire was particularly eye-catching in the darkness. The ground of the pool exploded as soon as it rose up. A ball of black tentacles the size of a house intertwined with each other, some as thick as a finger, some as thick as an arm … Let's put it this way. It was like digging up a bucket of earthworms or a ball of intertwined snakes during the mating season. The visual and mental impact made one want to vomit.
"Run!"
Regardless of whether they could fight it or not, no one wanted to fight it just by looking at it.
Moreover, even if they wanted to fight it, they probably couldn't because what was revealed was only the tip of the iceberg. More black tentacles were coming out from the ground, as if this was a hidden monster.
On the Iron-armored Warship, Jovis stared at the tentacle that was slowly revealing itself to be larger than he had imagined.
"Could it be this?"
A Nightmare Child on the side shook his head.
"That's not possible. This guy looks quite big, but it's not big enough to make the three of them disappear!"
Jovis was silent for a moment. He waved his hand again, and the ship's cannons spewed out dark red flames again. This time, the cannon hit the center of the tentacles, and a large number of broken tentacles were blown away.
However, this also angered the monster. An even bigger body came out, and the countless broken tentacles didn't die on the spot. They were still able to drill into the ground with a certain degree of activity.
Large amounts of sand and stones were sent flying. Limbs made of intertwined black tentacles flew out and attacked the humans on the beach, forcing them to flee into the island. Several particularly thick tentacles rose from the ground and smashed at the iron armored warships that were docked by the sea.
"Interesting! Prepare the main cannons. "
He didn't think much of this thing. After arriving in this world for so long, he had encountered all kinds of strange and terrifying monsters. Although this one was quite big, it wasn't even in the top ten in his experience.
The main cannons of the ironclad were more than five times thicker than the secondary cannons. Even the huge ironclad was pushed sideways by one shot.
The huge fireball blasted down, and a huge crater with a diameter of more than 40 meters was blasted out in an earth-shattering explosion. Countless pieces of debris flew everywhere.
Then, more than ten secondary cannons fired continuously, blowing apart the rest of the monster's body. With just one round of cannon fire, the main body of the monster was blown to pieces, revealing the broken core. Jovis looked from afar and saw a blood-red crystal-like brain embedded in the wriggling flesh of the broken core. He was overjoyed.
"Good stuff!"
He immediately ordered his subordinates who were still on the shore.
"Take down the crystal brain, quick."
The two Nightmare Children quickly gathered their remaining subordinates and returned to retrieve the brain. Just as they passed a crater created by the ship's cannons, they suddenly felt the ground shake violently. Everyone swayed, and a few soldiers lost their balance and slid to the bottom of the crater.
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