Chapter 578: Sound

"The octopus's gill gland is right over here, but it's not at this location. Keep driving forward!"

Hearing Dr. Bill's words, the crew member driving the motorboat quickly turned the boat around, not forgetting to mutter:

"I thought we were going to have to drill into that big black pipe. Just smelling that odor made me feel dizzy. Thank goodness, thank goodness!"

These words directly voiced everyone's inner thoughts. Thinking of that corrosive, irritating odor, they would probably be done for before even getting in. It's just that they didn't know what the situation was like on the other side!

Everyone felt a sense of shared fear. In this dark environment, their terror was infinitely magnified. Everyone followed the motorboat's lights to touch upon the unknown area, but their limited field of vision could not bring people a shred of comfort; the greater unknown instead made people feel even more lost and helpless.

At this moment, a faint radio wave passed by, and a sound suddenly came from inside the motorboat.

"Beep, hello, can you hear me?"

The sound that suddenly rang out in the darkness made everyone's hearts tighten, especially the tone filtered by the radio waves, which made one's scalp tingle.

At this time, Ye Su took a walkie-talkie out from the cabin and said:

"Received, received! Captain, what are your instructions?"

Although he couldn't see everyone's expressions, Ye Su clearly felt that the people around him let out a sigh of relief, and their heartbeats slowed down significantly.

Professor Bill spoke up: "Su, why didn't you tell us you were still carrying a walkie-talkie? That sudden sound just now almost scared my heart into stopping!"

Everyone else nodded in agreement, looking at Ye Su with resentful eyes.

"Professor, I'm truly sorry. The captain gave this to me at the end in case something went wrong so we could stay in touch. It was only when it suddenly rang that I remembered."

Just then, a voice came from the walkie-talkie:

"I just wanted to see if communication could be maintained in there. How is your situation now?"

The captain's voice came through the walkie-talkie. Although it had been converted into an electromagnetic sound, everyone could still vaguely perceive it.

"We found the right direction and are currently moving forward."

"Maintain contact at all times!"

Following Professor Bill's guidance, everyone drove along a passage that was thicker than the ink-green pipe from before. The group passed through the channel and arrived at a larger empty cavity, which was a full double the size of the one near the ship.

The ink-green liquid beneath the boat emitted a fishy, foul odor from time to time. The gas from the rotting fish and shrimp made several crew members swear never to eat seafood again.

However, the boat's hull was being corroded even more severely, with white smoke rising up from time to time.

"This is somewhat different from what I thought. I had originally thought that such a large space inside the octopus should be the digestive cecum. I didn't expect that we were still in the crop before. The pipe we saw just now might be the poison gland or something!"

"Now we have arrived inside the octopus's stomach, where digestion is faster. Let's move forward as quickly as possible."

The crew member driving the boat also understood that the situation was serious. If they ran too slowly, they would probably be digested in the octopus's stomach. He twisted the throttle to the end, and the motorboat flew away quickly like an arrow from a bow.

The expressions on everyone's faces also became unpleasant. They didn't expect to encounter such a thrilling scene.

But in the darkness, as everyone ran forward, they were ultimately like headless flies. All around them were the walls of the octopus's stomach, and the bottom of the boat beneath their feet began to feel scalding hot.

It was the high temperature produced by the corrosion. Everyone's mood became heavy, and they simply couldn't find a way out.

Just then, the sound of a water current rang out in the darkness, and the motorboat they were riding in was even lifted up a bit. Bill's eyes lit up as he shouted:

"Hurry and move forward in the direction of the water current!"

Could it be that they had failed and had to retreat? Since everyone was in the octopus's stomach, if liquid was being added, it should be the direction to retreat. Although they were unwilling to accept failure, it was still better than being digested early.

People all have a fluke mentality. If the ship was such a large iron shell, what if it wasn't fully digested in the end? Would there still be a possibility of survival?

Just then, everyone discovered that something was not quite right; some coral and water algae had appeared ahead. These were things they hadn't seen when they arrived.

Did these aquatic algae appear out of thin air, or did they grow here originally?

At this time, Dr. Bill explained: "Actually, an octopus has two feeding channels. One is from the mouth, which is where we were swallowed. Usually, it will chew things up before eating them."

"As for us being swallowed directly, I can only say it was careless. However, I think that when it used its tentacles to squeeze our ship earlier, it should have been trying to push the ship out, back through the crop to the mouthparts to be chewed!"

"But for some reason, it stopped. It should have awkwardly discovered that it's easy to invite a god but hard to send one away."

"As for the second feeding port, you could say it's the nostrils, or the reproductive organs, either works!"

Hearing Bill's words, everyone was stunned. They didn't expect that nostrils and feeding organs could be understood, but whose nostrils could possibly be linked to reproductive organs?

Although they were both milky-white, sticky liquids, the difference was really huge; they were completely not the same thing, okay?

Fine, that's an octopus, not a human; it cannot be judged by common sense.

Everyone was suddenly excited; it seemed they would soon be able to find the exit! ===== CHAPTER 580 =====