“Maybe I am really a waste.”
"No, you just haven't grown up yet." Ethan raised his voice and nodded vigorously in response to his suspicious gaze. "Yes... you are just too pure. It's not that you don't have ideals. On the contrary, those ideals are the most difficult to achieve."
"I..." Teni was confused by what he said and wanted to ask more questions, but his expression suddenly changed drastically. He pinched the Apis Rubik's Cube and turned it three times vigorously.
“Oooooohh ...
In the restaurant, Darent was excited because he had just drawn the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, when he suddenly felt a push on his back. The cards in his hand and the cards on the table were thrown into the air, and many people fell off their chairs and rolled into a ball.
"What the hell?"
"How do you sail a boat?"
"That brat did it on purpose, right?"
"No—look outside!!!"
There was a lot of noise, but a voice of fear came through. Everyone looked towards the window as instructed, and saw a giant golden eye opening there.
Then no one complained anymore, and the entire restaurant went from noisy to extremely quiet in a second. Everyone was nailed to the spot and couldn't move, as if they were under a spell.
The eye was exactly the same size as the round window. It was almost tightly attached to the window glass. Most of it was golden yellow, with only the vertical pupil in the middle being dark black... It turned around and scanned everyone in the restaurant in a very human manner, as if it wanted to remember each of their faces.
"Look at it in a positive way," Darent said quietly, "From the perspective of the eyes, no matter what it is, it won't be too big..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was stunned, because on the other windows, that entire row of windows, a huge golden eye actually opened!
"You'd be a big help if you didn't say anything!"
Li Ang, who was playing cards with him, stood up suddenly, "Everyone - return to the battle position!"
With someone taking the lead, the atmosphere of fear and oppression was finally broken, the crew members restrained themselves and hurriedly got up, trying their best to restore order and morale. Some went to the manual control room, and the gunnery team and observation team each took their positions, obviously knowing that a fierce battle was about to follow.
As for Teni...because his consciousness was wrapped in the hull, he saw the most complete scene.
The creature that intercepted the Pierre was undoubtedly a deep-sea monster. It was completely black, almost as long as the entire ship, and had a very strange body structure. At least he had never heard of anything like this in any ocean legend.
"What does it look like?" The hull swayed under its pressure. Ethan saw that Tenney was pale and trembling all over. He rushed over to him regardless of the danger and asked him: "Answer me - what does it look like?"
"It looks like an octopus... No... It looks like a spider... No... It's a giant with eight arms..."
Teni trembled and shook his head while speaking intermittently. Ethan frowned as he listened. Are these three things related?
"Can the bow aim at it?" He repeated his request, "Control the bow to aim at it! The gun crew should try to fire the crossbow!"
The Pierre has three main means of attack: casting a net, a crossbow, and using the energy of the Apis Cube to spread electric current.
But the latter is more difficult to operate, and Teni is not very skilled in using it. Ethan doesn't dare to count on him at this critical juncture because he is afraid that Teni will blow up the battery room. He can only try the crossbow first.
Turney bit his lip and said nothing.
He suddenly felt an unprecedented feeling, a feeling he never expected to have at this moment - anger.
In fact, he has always been resentful... because he is not the kind of person with great ideals. He admitted that he just wanted to be a waste and wait for death in this life.
But he also has so many people he cares about...
Indeed, when everyone is moving forward, even staying still seems like moving backward.
But all he wanted was a stable life - a life that included those people.
Why would a madman want to seduce Berentin?
And why did it involve Gaunt and Vona?
These things deserve to be chopped into pieces... We are already being merciful by not causing trouble for them. How dare they extend their tentacles into Wayne and even into the White Shadow Palace?
Who's next?
I?
Or her?
A surge of power surged in his heart, and suddenly, he felt that the Apis Cube was no longer so disobedient.
He felt as if he was the entire Pierre, and every corner and every room on the ship, with nervous, frightened and excited faces came into view one by one. He could even feel every part of the ship.
“Your Highness!” Ethan thought he was still in a daze, “Prince——!!!”
hum...
But suddenly he felt his body tremble and goose bumps spread on the soles of his feet.
From the outside, a brilliant electric current erupted from the deep sea.
Darent remained in the restaurant, cleaning up the mess on the floor while looking out the window, where bright blue electric currents were constantly bursting and jumping... The flickering electric light revealed an indescribable horrific shadow.
It really is something like both an octopus and a giant.
Its body structure is similar to that of an arthropod, with eight legs, but it is not soft-bodied. The front part of each arm has a huge hand that is exactly the same as that of a human. The surface of its body is dark black, but some bright golden stripes can be vaguely seen.
How should I put it? It looks a bit like a giant yellow-striped spider with hands.
But it was obviously different... the hardened body was controllable. In the next second, Darent saw it suddenly contract its body, and all its limbs became extremely soft, swinging back and forth like a real octopus or squid, while the patterns on its body surface became brighter.
It's absorbing electrical energy.
Darent had this thought inexplicably.
Golden stripes spread and expanded on its main body...gradually forming a woman's face with her eyes closed.
This lasted for more than ten seconds, then the current disappeared and everything returned to darkness.
Then - huge eyes opened again in the dark abyss.
The hull began to creak, and Darent couldn't help but smile bitterly.
It's a bit of a downer to say this, but it seems like they pissed it off.
Chapter 5 Seal 3k
"how do you feel?"
The vibration caused by the electric current ended, and Ethan asked Teni Ze with nervousness and trepidation.
Tenney remained silent, his face livid. Before Ethan could have any ominous premonition, the prince with a bad reputation gritted his teeth, clenched the Rubik's Cube in his hand, and spun it vigorously.
This almost threw Ethan out... No one had ever operated a submarine so roughly before, never before! He had to grab both hands on the railing standing next to him, and his body was thrown into the air by inertia, like a flag hanging on an iron pole.
But obviously this action has already explained everything - if the electric shock just now was effective, Tenney would never have reacted like this. He judged that it was impossible for this side to compete with the opponent, and the most important thing to do now was to run away quickly!
"What does it look like?" Ethan tried his best to steady himself, moved closer to Tenet, and stared at his pale face: "Tell me, Your Highness - what does it look like?"
"You... why do you keep asking me this?" Teni was irritated and yelled. He thought that either he was crazy or Ethan was crazy. "What's the point of knowing what it looks like? Is it important???"
"Yes, it's very important!" Unexpectedly, Ethan nodded vigorously, not at all bothered by his outburst. "Describe it... Does it have tentacles similar to those of an octopus, with eight arms, but the front part of each arm is a giant hand like a human's?"
"Yes!" Teni focused almost all his attention on accelerating. In the dark vision, he could still see the giant monster chasing him relentlessly.
But fortunately, the Pierre is faster.
This submarine is truly the crystallization of Sara's current industry. It uses all the best technologies imaginable. This means that even though Teny cannot fully control the ship and increase its speed to the theoretical maximum of 35 knots, it can still reach at least 27 or 8 knots, which is enough to gradually distance itself from the giant monster.
"That's right..." Then he heard Ethan shaking his head and sighing, "It's what they encountered back then..."
"What did you encounter?"
"You were not there at the time... Hitzfeld described to us a sealed history. Mal-Bakinsa's fleet also encountered a sea monster. The monster's appearance and body shape were exactly the same as the one we encountered."
"You are joking!"
"No, I never joke at this juncture!"
"Did she give any specific stats? Like how tall or long it is?"
"Over 120 meters tall, not counting the width, eight arms, each over 70 meters long—a giant spider octopus with human hands." Ethan quickly reported the data from his memory, then tilted his head, "Does it match?"
Teni was frightened so much that he was numb, so he looked normal: "Yes... that damn thing is exactly the same as you described..."
It was definitely impossible for him to visually estimate the data with his ability, but with the Pierre as a reference, he could make a more or less accurate comparison. He felt that it was exactly as Ethan described, that is, the sea monster they had just encountered was the same one that the Bakinsa fleet encountered.
"But how is that possible?" He shivered as he drove the boat, "That was so many years ago..."
"The first Voyager program began in 1836," Ethan added. "That was 1836, Your Highness..."
"Yes, Mr. Doyle, 1836... You mean the thing lived from 1836 to 1985?"
"I don't think it's impossible, Your Highness. You know, this is a crazy world."
"Go on... Doyle... keep talking to me!" Teni's breathing became more and more rapid. "Divert my attention... I... I can't hold on any longer!!"
He had just performed a lot of extreme operations in a short period of time that he had never dared to think of in the past. At that time, he didn't know whether he was dominated by anger or simply his brain was hot-headed. But now that he had recovered a little, he immediately felt that the darkness ahead was like a bottomless abyss.
It seemed as if I was having a vague hallucination. First, I saw a large group of silver fish emerging from the darkness, then sharks, octopuses, whales... and finally it seemed as if they came to the bottom of the sea and quickly passed by the remains of shipwrecks on both sides.
He saw people - lots and lots of people. They were floating in the water like corpses, their bodies were white and swollen, their surfaces and even their faces were covered with oyster shells and floating seaweed. When they saw the Pierre coming, they woke up and swam towards them, waving their arms.
"No... don't come over... don't come over..." Teni was really scared, but strangely, the more scared he was, the more he held the Rubik's Cube tightly. Normally, a normal person in this situation would think of slowing down, but he drove faster and faster, and the chaotic scene he saw in front of him became more and more bizarre.
Those were not just dead bodies. He first saw the bodies gathered together to form the shape of a sea monster. Then he saw the remains of sunken ships decompose to form more human corpses... The corpses were spinning in the abyss... merging... and gradually forming a huge and beautiful female face, with its mouth open facing the submarine.
“Ahhh…” Teni also opened his mouth and yelled: “Ahhhhhhhhhhh——!!!”
"Your Highness? Your Highness!?" Ethan felt his scalp tingling. He thought that Teni must have fallen into some kind of hallucination. He really had to find a way to divert his attention. Otherwise, if he continued driving at this speed, it would be a big deal if he hit Haiyan!
He didn't care about the rules and etiquette at this time. He thought of Teni's love for the current queen and shouted, "Your Majesty - Alwin, Alwin said - that candidate - she is waiting for you to come back!!"
In fact, all the following words were nonsense. When he uttered the name "Alwin", Teni woke up in shock. The illusion in front of his eyes disappeared instantly. All the schools of fish, corpses, shipwrecks, and even the huge human face were replaced by darkness. His body was shaking in the chair as if he had been electrocuted. A cluster of electric sparks burst out from the connection between his palm and the Apis Cube. Ethan looked up and saw him being blown to the side with his head shaking.
"Bang!" This was the sound made by His Royal Highness the Prince hitting the metal wall.
"Crack!" The Apis Rubik's Cube flashed arcs of electricity and emitted white smoke, returning to a stable state from its original violent rotation state.
"Buzz buzz buzz..." The vibration sound of the entire ship gradually became lower, and the frightened crew members who didn't know what was going on finally breathed a sigh of relief and no longer held on to the railings beside them.
Although they didn't quite understand the fight and flight process, it seemed that they were safe again.
Tenet's consciousness fell into darkness.
In the dim light, he saw Berentin standing in the darkness in front of him... The bastard still looked serious, with his hands in his pockets, and the look he gave him was full of scrutiny.
"Look who this is." Berentin sneered, "Here comes our quiet baby."
But his expression changed quickly: "I don't think this is a place you are qualified to come to... Do you understand? Get back here as soon as possible!"
Berentin's vision disappeared, and then he saw Gaunt.
"I'll say hello to her when I get back." The handsome prince wore a formal suit with medals all over his chest. "I'm sorry that I started all this. I want to make up for it, but I can't go back..."
"His eyelids are fluttering..."
"Does this mean he is conscious..."
"No, he was just dreaming..."
"Want to wake him up?"
"It's better to wait until he wakes up..."
Someone is talking.
Really noisy.
With a frown on his face, Teni tried his best to ignore the noise, his soul continued to explore in the darkness, and he finally saw the person he wanted to see.
An old figure suddenly turned back, revealing half of his face full of wrinkles.
"Your brothers are right, you shouldn't have come here." Teni heard him admonish himself in a familiar voice that he only heard in his dreams: "You still have a mission to complete. Before that, death is even a cowardly act."
But how can I do that?
Teni felt his nose getting sore, and he tried to reach out and grab the old man in front of him, but he felt there was only air there.
I'm just a piece of trash... I know no one respects me...
“Dignity can only be given by oneself.”
He heard a low, rough and majestic voice. He turned around and saw a sturdy figure like an iron tower standing at the end of the darkness.
"You are my brother, Tenize. I remember I told you when you were very young not to care about other people's eyes."
But I am trash...
“Who defines this?”
I just have fun...
