Chapter 169

The Hydra has nine heads. Currently, there are three on the left side of the ship, three on the right side of the ship, and the remaining three are probably at the bow or stern, so its body must be stuck under the ship.

You can't see its main body clearly on the deck, but you can see it through the porthole on the second floor below ground!

The boiler room was humming with steam. Xia Mo's eyes passed through the white steam, and after a few seconds, the details of the monster emerged.

Outside a whole row of portholes, one could see flesh-pink suction cups clinging tightly to the glass. Even at the fastest speed possible, the suction cups and the knotty tentacles connected to them remained motionless.

Are you injured?

Xia Mo couldn't help but feel suspicious.

Because of the injury, why not use her ship to transfer?

While speculating in his mind, Xia Mo's eyes wandered from left to right. Suddenly, when his sight fell on the sixth porthole, his heart skipped a beat.

What is that?

Milky white ellipses as thick as her forearm were stuck to the glass, one by one, densely packed together like grapes. Looking at them for one more second made her feel like her scalp was going to explode!

Fortunately, she didn't have a fear of trypophobia. Xia Mo took a deep breath and stepped closer.

Through a layer of glass, she finally saw what was inside the ellipsoid: a bunch of unborn baby octopuses and sea snakes.

The milky white ellipses are the eggs laid by the mother. They stay inside the eggs before they hatch successfully, running around and entangled with each other, just like the long bacteria wriggling under a microscope.

nausea.

This is the only word to describe Xia Mo.

She took a small step back and continued to look at the rear porthole. The Hydra's reproductive organs had moved to the seventh porthole. As the muscles in the mouth contracted, half of the long egg had emerged, and the remaining half was still in its body, being slowly spit out as the muscles squeezed it.

At this point, Xia Mo finally confirmed that this guy used her boat as a nest to lay eggs. The eggs would hatch wherever her boat went.

The mother is very weak during the egg-laying process, which is why the snake heads did not attack her except spitting out their tongues at her as a warning.

Because I don’t have the energy.

Isn't this the time for her to take action?

While I was thinking, suddenly, a red stripe appeared inexplicably on those milky white eggs. As time passed, the red area became larger and larger, and the blank area became smaller and smaller.

[Warning, the Hydra is hatching its eggs. There are 20 minutes left until the larvae mature!]

Xia Mo:?

Only 20 minutes!

Her heart tightened, and she quickly turned around and ran back to the deck.

On the dark sea, the cold and loneliness can easily affect a person's judgment. Players may worry about being eaten by monsters, about other dangers lurking underwater, or about whether the ship can reach its destination safely... Once these occupy the brain, players will miss the best opportunity to protect themselves.

Obviously, Xia Mo is not someone who is easily shaken by the outside world. She opened the life skill panel and confirmed that the current maximum time for [Diving] is 20 minutes. Then she took out a rope from her backpack, locked one end to the steel pillar in the cab, and wrapped the other end around her waist.

Then take a deep breath, run up and jump off the deck! Gulp!

She was like a shooting star, diving into the icy sea without hesitation.

[Scuba diving countdown: 20 minutes]

As Xia Mo entered the water, he felt a biting cold all over his body.

This is the ocean at night, cold enough to discourage most people.

The hazy white light shone into the water. After entering the water, Xia Mo could see the monster's face more clearly.

The octopus-like body wrapped around half of the hull, but deliberately left the part where the propeller rotated uncovered. Obviously, this monster was intelligent and knew not to interfere with the movement of the hull.

If so, then its destination is the same as mine? —The Gulf of Isai?

But there is already an indigenous octopus living in the bay. If it wants to occupy it, won’t there be a fight?

The native octopus definitely can't beat this one. Although the former is also over level 50 and is not inferior to the Hydra in terms of level, the problem is that the latter has young eggs!

Once the eggs hatch 20 minutes later, with their help, even an elephant will be slowly eaten up by the tiny ants.

That’s even worse!

When she thought about her physical strengthening mission this time, which was to kill the indigenous giant octopus in the Isai Bay, she found out that a competitor unexpectedly came and wanted to snatch the giant octopus from her?

Xia Mo was filled with grief! So, turning her grief and anger into strength, she paddled quickly with her arms and soon swam to the vicinity of the eggs.

The mother was laying eggs at the seventh porthole, and without noticing that she had quietly approached, Xia Mo stared at the bunches of white "grapes" and waved his weapon underwater.

Combo, combo, critical hit!

The fragile eggs were easily destroyed by the skill, the red hatching bar disappeared, and the larvae that had not yet been successfully hatched fell out and fell silently into the deep sea.

The mother laying eggs ahead finally noticed her children had been killed. Its tentacles swelled with anger, and whoosh! A tentacle thicker than an ancient tree in the forest lashed out at her!

Ice protection!

The chaotic water flowed past his ears, and Xia Mo could not control his body as easily as on land. He had to open the barrier to block the attack!

Click.

The ice blocked the attack, but broke at the same time.

The tentacles attacked again angrily. Xia Mo turned quickly in the water, swung his arms to the side, and barely avoided the tentacles.

But the Hydra was clearly not going to let her go. The pain of losing its young kept it in a frenzy. Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The water flow under the hull was turned upside down by the tentacles. Xia Mo held his breath and kept shuttling back and forth in the gaps between the water to avoid it.

She swam very fast, just like a fish in the water, but no matter how fast she swam, she was always half a beat slower than the tentacles behind her.

This resulted in her having to narrowly avoid the tentacles every time. If she wasn't careful, she would be slapped away by the tentacles and swept to the bottom of the sea.

It was not a solution to keep running away like this. She had to find a way to kill the eggs before the boat reached the shore, and it would be best if she could give the Hydra another blow so that the native octopus would not be killed after reaching the Gulf of Isai.

Her mission will be accomplished as long as the native octopus is not killed.

As the thought flashed through his mind, Xia Mo kicked his legs hard underwater and quickly ran towards the seventh porthole!

How could the Hydra let her get any closer? Several tentacles quickly caught up.

Xia Mo was not in a hurry. She waited for its tentacles to get closer. At the critical moment, she suddenly threw out her skill - golden chain binding!

The epic necklace bought with 177W has its own active skill. The golden chain descends and binds several tentacles tightly.

She has 3 seconds!

beat!

Combo*5, attack speed +0.5%, movement speed +1%, damage +1%!

Trigger Concentration! Every 5 rounds of attack, a skill instant is automatically triggered, scattered all over the place! Boom!

Dazzling special effects exploded before my eyes, causing violent fluctuations.

All the eggs attached to the portholes were interrupted. Success! Xia Mo was delighted and raised his arms, ready to return to the deck and attack the mother.

However, the Hydra seemed to see through her intention, and one of its tentacle snapped down. Xia Mo was not hit, but the huge current that was stirred up carried her to more than 200 meters deep in the sea.

The air pressure in the water suddenly increased, and Xia Mo felt a buzzing in his ears and a stuffy feeling in his chest.

There were only 8 minutes left in the [diving] session, and she had to get back to the boat quickly.

I tugged at the rope still wrapped around my waist, and luckily, it didn't break.

Xia Mo immediately pulled the rope and lifted his body upwards.

The diving depth on the right finally showed that she had climbed up 100 meters, but then a black shadow blocked the faint light above her head!

The danger perception was activated again, and Xia Mo swung to the side in a hurry, narrowly avoiding the Hydra that had been completely submerged in the water.

The spawning process was interrupted. Now the Hydra no longer laid eggs. The tentacles wrapped around the hull loosened one after another. It was like a behemoth from the abyss, opening its bloody mouth under its head and biting towards Xia Mo!

Its mouth was like the excretory opening of a coelenterate, and its area increased several times as its muscles relaxed, almost covering the entire area of ​​water above Xia Mo's head.

Xia Mo frowned, knowing he couldn't escape.

The mouth with densely packed broken teeth swallowed her in one gulp, chewed her, and swallowed her, then burped contentedly and continued swimming towards the Gulf of Isse.

It likes the terrain there very much and hopes to continue laying eggs there and then hatch a bunch of offspring of the same species as itself.

The tranquil Isai Bay was right before its eyes, and it approached with great anticipation, its tentacles under its big head paddling more vigorously.

But at this moment, boom!

Suddenly, a hole exploded in the soft head from the inside out, green blood flowed out of the big head, and the surrounding sea water was instantly dyed with color.

Joy turned into fear and confusion at this moment. It touched its wounds with its tentacles, wanting to know what had happened.

But in an instant, it was as if countless time bombs were placed in my head, exploding with a loud bang!

Combo*10, Combo*20, Combo*30...

Attack speed, movement speed, and damage continued to rise! Coupled with the occasional critical hits, Xia Mo killed like crazy in the stomach of the Hydra!

The Hydra's health bar dropped rapidly. Five minutes later, it let out a miserable wail and its health bar dropped to 0.

Just before she realized her health bar was about to be emptied, Xia Mo crawled out of the gap in time. The rope around her waist was stuck in the mouth of the Hydra. In order to swim up successfully, she had to cut the rope.

She took out her dagger and cut through the obstacles. At this time, she only had 30 seconds left in her [Dive].

Xia Mo found it difficult to swim to the surface in 30 seconds, especially without the help of a rope.

After a quick analysis, she immediately activated [Ice Bloodline] to increase her agility. Although the effect only lasted for 5 seconds, in this time when every second counted, every second of acceleration was precious!

The air in the chest cavity gradually weakened, and the nose and mouth began to be soaked with water.

[Attention, you have 10 seconds left to dive, 10, 9, 8...]

The system thoughtfully gave her a countdown.

Xia Mo gritted his teeth and swam upstream desperately.

My arms gradually became sore, and the buzzing sound in my ears became more and more obvious.

"Gurgle..."

When the time came, the fishy and salty sea water poured into Xia Mo's nostrils. He felt a burning sensation in his lungs and his entire chest.

After the diving effect disappeared, her arms and thighs instantly lost their strength. No matter how hard she swam, her body would not move upwards, but began to slowly fall down!

No way! Even a level 50 Hydra couldn't kill her, and yet she was about to drown in the sea?

This is too frustrating!

Looking at the sea that was gradually drifting away, Xia Mo became more and more dissatisfied. No! How could she, who had been reborn and had never died before, return to the city in such a cowardly way?

She turned her eyes and looked around quickly. Suddenly, she saw a group of manta rays passing by. An idea suddenly occurred to her: she had an idea!

Mark of the Dead!

She marked a manta ray as her own player.

Xia Mo gave it instructions while enduring the choking of water in his lungs.

The manta ray followed the rules of the game and instantly flew under her body, dragged her, then flew out of the water and leaped into the air. Xia Mo didn't even have time to spit out the water in her lungs. The moment she rushed out of the water, she fell onto the deck due to inertia!

With a thud, she tumbled onto the deck. Her shoulder blade was slightly fractured by the impact, but it wasn't a big deal! She made it out alive!

After freeing the manta ray, Xia Mo knelt on the ground and coughed out the water.

Then he turned around and lay flat on the deck, somewhat exhausted, breathing heavily.

Damn, I almost drowned!

Fortunately, she spent a lot of money to buy an epic necklace in advance, otherwise she would have to buy herself a new necklace first if she wanted to use the Mark of the Undead, and it would be too late.

Touching his neck, his eyes following the swaying of the ship, Xia Mo recalled a previous equally thrilling scene.

The Hydra's bloody mouth almost took her life, but fortunately she had been calculating the 90-second immunity to damage time. She counted down the 90 seconds and took the initiative to get in without waiting for the other party to bite her!

After taking a few breaths, before I could check what the Hydra had revealed, the ocean-going ship had already entered the Gulf of Isai.

He had just dealt with one, and now he had to face another one. Xia Mo stood up with his legs propped up, and he understood more deeply why the player who got this illustrated book back then would rather sell it than keep it for himself - what a scam!

She went to the Gulf of Isai to deal with the giant octopus, but in fact she would encounter attacks from other sea monsters on the way. If she didn't have good equipment and decent operation skills, an ordinary player would not be able to kill the Hydra even if she drowned in the sea water 100 times.

The boat automatically searched for a suitable place to dock. Xia Mo drank a bottle of stamina potion, patted his face, and got off the boat.

*

At the same time, when Xia Mo arrived at the Gulf of Isai and was preparing to make a big move, the military conference room on the capital planet was still brightly lit.

"Old Han, we've been investigating for half a month and haven't found any clues. Do you think the person who sent us the secret message did it on purpose? Maybe Xia Wei and Jasmine don't have a child at all, and that person is just deceiving us?"

Major General Bart frowned and asked Han Rantai what he thought.

Han Rantai sat at the head of the long table, his eyes closed in silence. After a moment, he slowly opened his eyes and said, "It's better to believe it than not to believe it."

Indeed, when they were assigned to X198, they hadn't heard that Jasmine was pregnant, but who knew the truth? Jasmine, despite her sunny appearance, was actually very cunning.

It's obvious that she has learned her father's way of working in the news industry, pretending to obey but actually disobeying, and always being very careful in what she says and does.

Seeing him say this, Bart had to remain silent.

Secretary Jin Hui speculated on Han Rantai's expression and said, "But General Han, we haven't found any relevant information yet..."

If this child is real, it is impossible that no news would leak out.

Unless someone deliberately hides it.

But who has this ability?

The old guys who entered the military department with them back then either died in battle, died of illness, or... were killed by them through some tricks. Now, the only ones still alive are these few in the office.

Jin Hui carefully recalled the faces of those people back then, and suddenly, he thought of a detail!

"Wait, there seems to be something wrong with someone."