Chapter 256: Chance Encounter

Because Ye Su had already heard the sound of corrosion. The octopus’s ink sac stored its digestive juices, and the giant octopus’s digestive juices were even more corrosive.

However, the freighter’s steel hull was quite sturdy and durable, so there wouldn't be any problems for a while.

Ye Su just breathed a sigh of relief when he found something wrong. The meat walls covered with blood vessels and mucus on all sides were rapidly contracting, and giant spiral patterns appeared on them.

Ye Su immediately understood that this giant octopus felt that digestion might not corrode the freighter, so it used its giant tentacles to bind its body to complete the strangulation of the prey inside its body.

The tentacles at the base were each as thick as the freighter, not like the tip tentacles Ye Su had started to cut off. These tentacles were thicker and more powerful.

Ye Su knew he couldn't let it continue to contract. You have to know that an adult python could easily break the arm of an adult human male.

Not to mention this giant octopus had eight powerful tentacles, which were more than ten thousand times thicker than a python!

Ye Su ran toward the shipping container he was in, hating himself for being too comfortable at sea and forgetting to carry his weapons.

Seeing that the path back was blocked by tilted shipping containers, fortunately, there was the lighting supported by the captain; otherwise, in this dark night, he feared he wouldn't even be able to see the road, let alone find his shipping container.

After a lot of effort, Ye Su finally found his shipping container, and he had to thank the captain for turning on the lights earlier.

Because this shipping container was stacked at the bottom, it hadn't been affected.

Just as Ye Su opened the shipping container door, he ran into several disheveled, haggard Vietnamese women.

As soon as these people saw Ye Su open the door, they burst into tears and said a series of words Ye Su couldn't understand.

Time was tight, and Ye Su didn't have time to pay attention to them. He reached out and pushed them aside, then walked toward his bedside, taking a look at the bed—although it was messy, there were no signs of being rummaged through.

Ye Su breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the laser gun from under the bed, thought for a moment, and also brought the disintegration gun.

"Sir, can you tell us what happened?"

At this moment, a woman walked behind Ye Su and asked Su Bai in a strange Hua Nation dialect.

Ye Su paused, holding the gun, and squinted sideways at the woman.

"Are you Chinese?"

The woman was startled by Ye Su’s imposing manner and hurriedly waved her hands.

"I can only count as half-Chinese."

Ye Su understood instantly; she must be the runaway wife of some Wang, though he didn't know if she was the type who had run off with all the money. Still, he added one more sentence.

"Our ship has been swallowed into the belly of a giant beast. I am going to attempt a rescue now. I suggest you all stay here."

After the woman translated this for the others, it was clear they didn't believe Ye Su’s words. To swallow a cargo ship that large—how big would that beast have to be? It was probably the size of a small county town!

Several women looked at the woman and giggled, clearly thinking she had been fooled by Ye Su. The bolder ones had already crawled out through the doorway.

But a moment later, there was the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground, followed by a few cries of terror; clearly, the writhing pink inner walls outside had already frightened them.

Ye Su shook his head and walked outward; as the saying goes, it is hard to save a person determined to die.

"Can I go out with you?"

Hearing this, Ye Su turned his head back to look at the woman behind him with some surprise...

"It’s very dangerous outside, and even more dangerous to be with me. Are you sure?"

Hearing Ye Su’s words, the woman spoke without the slightest hesitation:

"I want to go!"

This woman made Ye Su look at her with new eyes. However, thinking of the folk customs of the Yuebang country, Ye Su realized that in their nation, female soldiers were apparently even more formidable than the men; one could not judge them by conventional standards.

"Fine, if you want to follow, then follow. There are two shotguns under the bed; keep them for self-defense."

Ye Su didn't want the shotguns at all, feeling their lethality was too low. Against this kind of giant monster, that pathetic area-of-effect damage was like a needle prick on the beast, unable to play a decisive role.

Ye Su paused for two seconds and found that the woman had caught up, carrying two shotguns—one held in both hands, the other slung diagonally across her shoulder by its strap.

The shotgun strap pulled across her chest, making her breasts appear even more prominent.

Ye Su looked at the spirited woman, her professional gun-handling technique, and her perky chest; clearly, this woman was not simple and must have received professional training.

Ye Su also became somewhat vigilant. He waited for the woman slightly and walked side-by-side with her toward the outside, as his predecessors had suffered too many losses.

The woman followed Ye Su out of the room, clearly not expecting the scene they faced to be so terrifying.

But after only a slight tremble, the woman straightened her body again; she was clearly professionally trained. Ye Su kept observing her situation with his peripheral vision and highly appreciated her impressive performance.

However, the priority right now was facing this giant octopus. The bright red inner cavity was already pressed tightly against the cargo ship's containers, and the places where tentacles were coiled were clearly squeezed out of shape.