Chapter 818: Death of the Mutant Squid
Gu Qingji knew it would work when he saw his expression, so he stopped hesitating and reached out to pinch the unusually active little mushroom in his palm. After a moment, he opened his hand and found that the little ball had turned into a thin layer of skin and had lost its life.
Lu Weiyi was surprised. It was said that the huge abyss mushroom was ignited by fire power, and the released gas almost killed all the psychics. He didn't expect that Gu Qingji could die just by shaking his hand.
Seeing his curiosity, Gu Qingji explained, "The wood element can supply the needs of plants and promote their growth, but it can also deprive plants of their vitality and cause their death."
"That's good, then you can..." Lu Weiyi wanted to kill all the abyss mushrooms on the mutant squid, but if there was no support from the abyss mushrooms, the mutant squid would probably recover its vitality very quickly, and then they would be in trouble.
"Cut off a tentacle. I've never eaten squid of this level before. Will it taste good?" Antonio said excitedly.
Dean's eyes lit up, and just as he was about to say he wanted one too, Antonio rubbed his head and said, "Baby, I was just kidding. You're not as capable as the captain. When we get to the new base, I'll find some S-class mutant animals for you to try. I heard there are a lot of them there, so you'll be in for a treat."
Dean nodded and hugged Antonio for a kiss.
The others silently shifted their gazes. Even though they had been together for such a long time, they were still not used to the unrestrained enthusiasm of foreigners.
"Let's cut off an arm, and then I'll take out the mushrooms inside so you can use them, right?" Gu Qingji brought the topic back.
"Okay." Lu Weiyi was still a little worried, but it would be a waste to keep this thing. "I'll go with you."
"I... I'm going too," Liu Rui raised his hand, "I... I've killed... sharks... before."
"Me too." Antonio, who was the person with the highest ability in the team at that time, also expressed his support.
"I will help you control the sea surface to facilitate your actions," said Gu Qingyue.
In comparison, if Ning Yuan was here, everyone might be more inclined to let Ning Yuan take action, but at this time Ning Yuan was probably already drunk.
After thinking about it, Lu Weiyi nodded and said, "Ask Zhao Gang and Wang Bing to come and help. We can deal with them one-on-one then. If anything unexpected happens, we can also return safely."
Dean was full of energy. He gestured OK and trotted off to call for help.
Gu Qingyue took this opportunity to re-bandage Lu Weiyi. Lu Weiyi looked at the blood dripping into the soil and felt extremely distressed, "All this is my energy."
"How come the healing system is ineffective? Is it because of the upgrade?" Gu Qingyue felt distressed, especially when he thought of the broken finger last time. He didn't want anyone to know about it, and now he didn't know what was going on, so he felt overwhelmed with guilt.
"It should be because of the upgrade." There were no SSS-level psychics around, and Lu Weiyi had no one to discuss with. He had to figure out everything on his own.
"What should we do in the future? We can't stay uninjured forever." Gu Qingji looked at his tightly bandaged arm, "Could the treatment department have a treatment method that we haven't discovered yet?"
Lu Weiyi looked at him thoughtfully, then looked at his arm. This gave Antonio a headache. Looking at Dean jumping towards him, he felt that the boy's days of slacking off might soon be over.
As soon as Zhao Gang and Wang Bing came over, Lu Weiyi immediately told them their plan, "We will work in groups of two, one on one, Zhao Gang and Liu Rui, Wang Bing and Antonio, Qingyue and Qingji."
"Liu Rui and Antonio are responsible for the nearby attacks, Zhao Gang and Wang Bing are responsible for assisting them and ensuring a smooth departure."
"Qingji will be responsible for bringing the tentacles back after the cutting is successful, Qingyue will ensure that the people are brought back, and I will be responsible for long-range attacks and protection."
After a brief discussion, the few of them understood their respective tasks, selected a distant tentacle, and the six of them set off together. Lu Weiyi signaled Dean to return to the team, and he stood on the nearest shore to observe the situation.
The mutant squid's previous stirring up of the storm was its last struggle. Now that it has calmed down, its entire body is sinking deeper into the water, and the speed at which energy dissipates from its body has also become much faster. This makes Lu Weiyi more and more certain that the other party may not live long. If they do not act in time, the final result may be that the abyss mushroom in its body will benefit from it.
The imagined difficult confrontation did not occur, and Lu Weiyi didn't even have to take action. Within a few minutes, Gu Qingji used the mutated plant he had contracted to drag a two-meter-long tentacle back to the shore.
Liu Rui was in a daze, thinking that this might be a fake high-level person, not to mention Antonio. The look on his face that said "you are so embarrassed to be chased by such a thing" made people want to let him experience the despair of everyone before in person.
"I took out the small mushroom inside, what do you want to do with it?" Gu Qingji handed the entire tentacle to Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi didn't care about his injured arm and grasped the entire tentacle with one hand. The unexpected weight made him stagger and was helped by the person next to him. He was like a little mouse falling into a rice jar, his eyes narrowed into slits with excitement.
Without the small mushrooms that could drill into the body at any time, touching it again felt like holding a huge crystal core. A steady stream of energy poured in, quickly making up for Lu Weiyi's previous loss, and a feeling of being full lingered all over his body.
That intoxicated look made the other people who had been watching him look at each other with a look of vigilance.
Dean didn't care about the occasion at all and asked directly, "Did he smoke noodles?"
"What noodles?" Gu Qingyue didn't understand.
"It's a short name for drugs," Antonio explained, answering Dean, "probably..."
"The tentacles have shrunk," Gu Qingji whispered, and the others immediately quieted down.
The animal tentacles visible to the naked eye seemed to be melting, the densely packed suction cups became blurred, and the textures on them began to become rounded. The tentacle as thick as a person seemed to have become a long strip as thick as an arm, and it was impossible to distinguish the original thing. Several people watched it disappear completely in Lu Weiyi's hands.
Gu Qingyue immediately thought of the finger that disappeared in his pocket. He glanced at Gu Qingji vaguely, and Gu Qingji understood instantly.
"Do you need more?" he asked.
Lu Weiyi smacked his lips and looked towards the sea with an unsatisfied look. This amount of energy looked huge, but when the same amount of energy was distributed in different volumes, the energy value contained in it would be reduced. It seemed that a lot had been absorbed, but in fact it might not be as much as the energy in one of Lu Weiyi's fingers.
Gu Qingji understood without him having to answer. He looked at the others and asked, "Shall we make another trip?"
Antonio shrugged and said it didn't matter. Liu Rui nodded.
Lu Weiyi felt embarrassed instead, "It's dying soon, and its energy will probably dissipate and disappear soon after it dies. We can get more now. I'll try to create an energy field to speed up everyone's upgrade."
There are benefits, and the work is smooth. When Zhuang Mingxu settled the drunk Ning Yuan and returned to the ground with Qin Jin, they saw Lu Weiyi surrounded by a huge tentacle, which scared him so much that his heart beat faster.
"It's okay, he is absorbing energy," Qin Jin explained.
Thinking of the high-level crystal core, Zhuang Mingxu reacted immediately, breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the situation on the beach in the night. At this time, the entire beach shore had been surrounded, half of which were the psychics of Yueban Bay, and the other half were actually zombies.
"?" Zhuang Mingxu, "Is this... cooperation?"
Qin Jin was also confused. In the darkness, he immediately recognized the one-eyed zombie that Lu Weiyi had targeted before, "Zhang Chao?"
The zombie with half of "Wang"'s face was muttering something with the zombie that looked like a human. When he heard Qin Jin's shout, he ran over like a gust of wind.
"What's going on?" Qin Jin asked.
Zhang Chao was dissatisfied with Cheng Qi's cooperation with Xu Sa and was about to complain, but then he saw Xu Sa trotting over happily, standing in front of Zhuang Mingxu, and poking his thick anti-radiation suit without making a sound.
"Let me tell you, Brother Qin, this squid is too strong. It's not a solution to keep it here forever. So our base commander decided to find a way to deal with it. After all, this was our former base, and maybe it will come back in the future," Xu Sa said quickly and enthusiastically.
"We asked the other two bases, and they said they didn't want to participate. In that case, we didn't want them to be implicated, so we asked the many psychics in our base to guard the shore. Since we have limited numbers of people, and we were afraid of loopholes, we asked brother Cheng Qi for help."
"He originally disagreed, but he couldn't stand Lu Xiaoyi's thick skin. He directly claimed that he was your brother, so he couldn't say anything. Isn't it..."
Xu Sa pointed at the zombies that were gathered in a circle along the coastline and said, "I was thinking of telling you, but Lu Weiyi was in a hurry, so I didn't have time."
"I have a new younger brother." Qin Jin looked at him with a smile, and Xu Sa hurriedly poked Zhuang Mingxu again.
“Haha, then you are taking advantage of this, as we both have our birthdays on the same day,” Zhuang Mingxu said with a smile.
"Indeed." Qin Jin waved his hand to let Zhang Chao return to the team and said with a smile, "Come on, call me brother."
"Get lost!" Zhuang Mingxu cursed. If the boy wasn't wearing very thick clothes, he would have kicked him again.
Qin Jin laughed loudly, glanced into the distance and said, "You guys are really combining all your strength to prevent others from getting a share of the pie."
“?” Zhuang Mingxu didn’t understand.
Qin Jin explained the current situation of the mutant squid, "When it is close to death, it is just a huge crystal core. Isn't it a bargain that we picked up for free?"
At this point, he looked at Xu Sa, "This shouldn't be the one you killed. Have you figured out the cause of death?"
“Brother Qin, you’re joking. I’m just an errand boy. I don’t even know the situation you just mentioned. How could I know such an important thing?” Xu Sa didn’t reveal any useful information. He just hired people with a smile and didn’t expect to share the profits.
Qin Jin didn't mind, "I'd better go and ask clearly. It's possible to kill such a powerful creature. Don't take advantage of it and get yourself into trouble."
Upon hearing this, Zhuang Mingxu immediately turned to look at Xu Sa. Xu Sa responded with a yes and met Zhuang Mingxu's gaze with a smile.
That's all right.
Zhuang Mingxu was relieved, and turned to ask Qin Jin directly, "You are at the same level as Xiaoyi. If he can absorb the crystal core, you should be able to absorb it too. I asked him to leave one for you, and it's a good thing that you have contributed."
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