Chapter 255

Ye Su thought there was danger inside and rushed in, only to find the crew surrounding a screen, exclaiming and sighing!

Ye Su curiously squeezed over and saw lines like a simple sketch on a blue screen.

At a glance, it looked like a pillar. As the image was drawn, there were actually many pillars, and there were some simple disc decorations on the pillars, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, extending into the deep sea beyond the sonar’s detection range.

You have to know that the ship-borne sonar’s detection range was several kilometers, yet it hadn't detected the full picture.

The upper layer of the pillar looked like a huge semi-circular building, and its area was actually twice as long as the freighter.

"Could this be the legendary Atlantis civilization? And this is their sanctuary? If we report this, we’ll be rich!"

Ye Su frowned, feeling something was not quite right. He carefully examined the screen and spoke quietly:

"Do you think this looks like a creature?"

The crew members, who were originally excited, had their hair stand on end upon hearing Ye Su’s words, looking at the screen in disbelief.

"Oc, octopus?"

"How is that possible? So big! It’s a monster!"

Just as everyone was exclaiming, they saw from the sonar that the straight pillar was actually swaying with the seawater.

"Could it be Cthulhu?"

Everyone’s faces turned pale. Thinking of the legendary Great Old One hypothesis, their worldview collapsed as they looked at the giant object before them.

However, what reassured everyone was that they didn't experience any unknown changes. But facing an octopus several times larger than the ship, they were still filled with deep fear.

Even Ye Su was a bit panicked; the fear of giant objects was engraved in human genes.

"It seems the animals didn't dare to approach because they were scared by this creature, and we have clearly entered its territory now!"

The captain cursed and rushed out of the cabin, running to the command center. He must be changing the ship’s course.

After all, facing such a giant object, the entire freighter made of steel plates was like paper in front of it.

Soon, everyone felt the ship tilt. It seemed the captain had steered to turn, and everyone felt relieved.

No one wanted to face such a monster; touch it and you die, graze it and you’re injured.

Soon, the turn was completed, and the entire ship sailed steadily in the direction they came from.

Everyone cheered, excited to have escaped death. But just then, a terrified voice rang out in the cabin.

"It, it moved!"

Ye Su looked closely and found that the giant monster had actually extended a tentacle and was approaching the ship at high speed.

The sonar’s refresh rate couldn't keep up with the speed at which the tentacle extended, and blurry afterimages appeared on the screen.

After about a few dozen seconds, everyone felt the freighter shake violently, and then the ship stopped moving forward.

Everyone in the captain’s cabin stumbled due to inertia. Ye Su saw Celine almost fall into the corner of the table, hurriedly stabilized his center of gravity, and hugged her.

But the subsequent shaking still caused everyone to fall to the ground. Ye Su braced himself, stood up from the ground, settled Celine in a corner, and rushed out of the cabin.

Just as he reached the back of the cabin, he ran into the chef, who was pinned under the fish meat. Ye Su reached out and rescued the chef.

Before the chef could thank him, Ye Su grabbed a thick kitchen knife and rushed out of the cabin.

As soon as Ye Su left the cabin, he saw a tentacle about two meters in diameter.

The robust tentacle was covered with suction cups of various sizes, which were opening and closing, and the robust tentacle was coiled around the stern of the freighter.

The sturdy railing at the stern was twisted by the pressure of the tentacle, and the four huge steam turbines emitted violent screeching sounds.

They began to spin, and gradually the entire ship lost power.

No matter how hard the engines worked, the heavy freighter was dragged backward bit by bit.

Ye Su frowned, knowing that the closer the ship was dragged backward, the more dangerous it would be. Once dragged underwater, there would be no possibility of survival for anyone.

He looked at the thick kitchen knife in his hand and silently prayed that the foreign chef hadn't used one of those delicate kitchen knives that couldn't even crush garlic.

However, looking at the chef’s skills, it shouldn't be up to the standard of a Michelin chef, so he shouldn't need that level of cutting skill that relied on blade energy rather than the blade itself.

Ye Su grabbed the fish spear at the stern and jumped up, leaping onto the giant octopus’s thick tentacle.

With one slash, the skin on the tentacle had astonishing elasticity, and the knife was actually deflected.

Ye Su looked at the shallow knife mark with some surprise, but the octopus didn't react. Ye Su guessed that the neural conduction of such a giant object must be slow.

Ye Su held his breath and focused, his hand wielding the knife creating afterimages. White blade light flashed, and Ye Su found that after cutting through the epidermis, it was unexpectedly easy to cut. In less than five seconds, the octopus’s thick tentacle was actually severed by Ye Su.

At this moment, the octopus felt the pain and quickly retracted the severed tentacle.

Looking at the tentacle stretching for several nautical miles, Ye Su’s expression was grave, while the ship shot forward quickly. This huge freighter actually had a posture of flying on the water.

Ye Su hurriedly stabilized his body. Sure enough, the freighter’s huge body bumped a few times on the sea surface before stabilizing, and the entire ship frame creaked under the huge stress.

Fortunately, Ye Su had the foresight to stabilize his body quickly; otherwise, he might have been thrown out of the sea.

At this time, the octopus tentacles on the ship were also twisting rapidly, and even some of the shipping containers on the ship were knocked off.

However, Ye Su couldn't care about looking at these, but stared fixedly at the distant sea surface.

Perhaps the octopus felt the pain of the severed tentacle; dark currents surged underwater, as if water dragons were dancing, and a whirlpool formed instantly at the octopus’s location.

But fortunately, the giant octopus didn't have much intelligence; otherwise, the whirlpool formed by rotating and jumping in the sea could have dragged the ship back.

But even so, the freighter’s speed slowed down because the underwater dark currents formed intermittent phase interference, and the freighter would stop after walking a distance, captured by the underwater currents.

And the giant octopus in the distance also surfaced, two eyes as large as three or four stories high staring fixedly here, and that oval head towered like clouds.

Then the octopus began to dive. Ye Su’s heart beat violently; he knew the octopus’s revenge was coming.

Sure enough, after only half a minute, two tentacles surrounded the freighter from left and right.

Ye Su looked at the tentacles coiling over rapidly, threw a spear, and pulled the rope to crash into it. His astonishing knife skills were displayed again.

Ye Su’s hand almost turned into a fire wheel, the white blade rotating rapidly. A thick octopus tentacle slammed heavily onto the ship, and then slid into the sea with several shipping containers.

At this time, another tentacle of the octopus pulled the ship toward the octopus’s head at high speed. The pain of the severed limb caused the octopus to curl up, and the freighter shook violently.

In the captain’s cabin, the bearded captain showed a pained expression; you have to know that these things were all money.

However, after feeling pained for three seconds, he remembered that this kind of giant octopus attack should be considered force majeure!

Before he could think more, he discovered a terrifying scene: the octopus was approaching his ship at high speed.

If you ask how he knew, the distant seawater had turned black, and this blackness was rapidly approaching the freighter.

The captain hurriedly broadcasted this information to every corner of the ship, letting people prepare for the impact.

But the terrifying impact didn't come for a long time; instead, the entire ship was plunged into darkness.

It turned out that at the last moment of the reaction force, the octopus flipped its body, and the entire freighter was dragged by the octopus tentacles and directly stuffed into its devouring giant mouth.

Ye Su hadn't expected this octopus to be so brave, swallowing the ship in one gulp.

Looking at the pitch-black environment, the captain silently turned on the ship’s lights. The octopus’s abdomen was brightly lit, and looking at the wriggling blood vessels, Ye Su felt nauseated.

And the black liquid under the ship didn't look like anything good.