bacchusnovels Chapter 108 Giant Squid Attack
Chapter 108 Giant Squid Attack
"Alright, the trash has been disposed of."
Chen Hu wiped away non-existent bloodstains from his blade and swaggered out of the airlock.
"Captain, these guys are too weak! They're all down before I even warmed up." He pursed his lips, looking like he hadn't had enough.
"It's not that they're weak, it's that the administrator's traps are too strong." Wang Yi shook his head, but his expression remained solemn. "Being able to sneak up on us so silently, these things' stealth capabilities are not to be underestimated. If the administrator hadn't given us a warning in advance, the consequences of them reaching the outer shell of the base would have been unimaginable."
"A strong biological acid..." Zhang Wei said with lingering fear, recalling the components he had just analyzed from the monster corpses. "That stuff is extremely corrosive; our shells can only last for thirty seconds at most."
Upon hearing this, everyone felt a chill of fear.
Just then, the alarm in the control room, once again without warning, began to scream wildly at an unprecedented frequency!
"Warning! Warning! A colossal organism has been detected approaching at high speed!"
"Energy level...cannot be estimated! Repeat, energy level cannot be estimated!"
"Danger! Extreme danger!"
The piercing electronic sound, like a deadly curse, made the hearts of everyone in the control room clench suddenly!
"What?!" Wang Yi turned around abruptly, staring intently at the sonic screen.
On the screen, a massive, sky-obscuring red shadow was rising rapidly from directly beneath the base at an incredible speed!
Its size is several times larger than that of the prehistoric megalodon!
"It's down there! It's down below us!" Li Bingyao screamed in despair.
Before the words were even finished, the entire base suddenly trembled!
"Boom—"
A deafeningly loud bang came from the bottom of the base.
The feeling wasn't like being hit; it was more like being lifted up hard from below by something!
Inside the base, countless pipes emitted dazzling sparks, and the team members staggered and could barely stand.
"Report! The base's structural stability has decreased by 20%! The bottom armor has suffered severe dents!" Zhang Wei shouted in alarm.
Before everyone could recover from the violent shaking, something even more terrifying happened.
Through the huge circular porthole, they saw dozens, no, hundreds of enormous tentacles, thicker than train carriages, like claws reaching out from the depths of hell, wrapping around the base from all sides!
The tentacles were dark red and covered with suckers the size of millstones, each with sharp barbs.
They wriggled and intertwined, and in the blink of an eye, they wrapped the entire massive deep-sea base like a rice dumpling.
"Crunch—crunch—"
A sickening metallic creaking sound emanated from every part of the base.
The sturdy special alloy shells began to deform inch by inch under the terrifying strangulation force of these tentacles, groaning in unbearable strain.
"It's...it's a mutated giant squid!" a team member with considerable knowledge of marine life exclaimed, his voice trembling. "Only this kind of creature would have so many tentacles!"
"Its tentacles...each one is over two hundred meters long! This...this is a monster!"
Just as everyone was stunned and at a loss by the apocalyptic scene before them, the monster hidden in the darkness launched its next attack.
"puff--"
A thick, black ink, so thick it couldn't be dissolved, gushed out from the monster's body.
The amount of ink was enormous, like a flood bursting its banks, instantly turning the sea area several kilometers around the base into pitch black.
All the cameras and surveillance equipment outside the base were rendered unusable the moment they came into contact with the ink, emitting a puff of blue smoke.
All the external screens in the control room instantly turned into static.
They have become completely blind!
But that's not the most fatal thing.
When the black ink completely enveloped the base, a strange, malicious mental fluctuation pierced through the thick alloy shell and directly affected the minds of every team member!
"Buzz—"
Everyone felt as if they had been hit hard on the head with a heavy hammer, their vision blurred with stars, and they heard a series of incomprehensible yet seductive and frenzied whispers in their ears.
"Give up..."
"Sleep now..."
"Become one with me..."
The voice seemed to come from the depths of their souls, carrying an irresistible magic that constantly eroded their reason and stirred up their deepest fears and desires.
"Ah!" A young team member with weaker willpower suddenly clutched his head and screamed in pain. His eyes turned blood red, and his face was filled with struggle and madness.
"Don't listen! Don't listen to anything!" Li Bingyao reacted immediately. Her awakened healing ability made her exceptionally sensitive to mental attacks. "This is mental pollution! Cover your ears and concentrate!"
But it was too late.
More and more team members are beginning to show signs of losing control of their mental state.
Some were laughing wildly, some were wailing, and some even started attacking their companions!
The entire control room instantly descended into chaos.
"Damn it!" Wang Yi bit his tongue, the intense pain barely keeping him conscious.
He watched his teammates descend into chaos, his heart filled with anxiety, yet he was at a loss for what to do.
At this critical moment, Su Yuan's voice, like a clear spring, flowed through the minds of every team member.
"A bunch of inferior beings who don't even have self-awareness dare to manipulate minds?"
The voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable authority and a power to purify everything.
[Administrator privileges activated: Mental purification!]
[Isolating from external mental interference...]
A warm and pure energy appeared out of thin air and enveloped the entire base.
The chilling, frenzied whispers seemed to have met their nemesis, instantly dispelling completely.
The team members, who were in a state of confusion, suddenly came to their senses as if they had been doused with a bucket of cold water.
They were panting heavily, their faces filled with lingering fear and relief.
"What...what just happened?"
"I think I saw my mom..."
"Thank you... thank you, administrator!"
The crisis was once again resolved by Su Yuan with ease.
"Wake up, everyone!" Wang Yi roared, drawing everyone's attention back. "Mental attacks are just an appetizer! That guy wants to drag us into the trench!"
Only then did everyone realize that the entire base was being slowly dragged downwards by a tremendous force.
"We've lost sight of it! We have no idea where it is!" Chen Hu shouted anxiously.
"Who says we lack vision?"
Wang Yi sneered, walked to the command post, and placed his hands on it.
"On my radar, it's as conspicuous as a firefly in the night!"
Just then, Su Yuan's notification came again.
"Wang Yi, take this one."
A high-tech silver metal headset appeared out of thin air in front of Wang Yi.
【Product: Deep-Sea Sonar Gainer】
Price: 2000 National Fortune Points
[Effect: It can expand the user's bioelectric sensing range tenfold and filter out 99% of noise, constructing an ultra-high-precision three-dimensional sonar map in extreme environments.]
Wang Yi put on the headset without hesitation.
In an instant, the whole world seemed different to him.
That thick ink was no longer an obstacle.
He could clearly hear an enormous heart beating powerfully in the heart of that darkness.
He could hear the wriggling and exertion of each of the hundreds of tentacles.
An incredibly clear three-dimensional model, composed of sound waves, slowly took shape in his mind.
"Found you, big guy." A cold smile curled at the corner of Wang Yi's mouth.