A trace of blood flowed from the corner of Yue Ya's lips, and the smell of blood spread in his mouth.
The human-faced octopus just bumped around in his stomach, damaging his internal organs.
Damn it, Yue Ya cursed in his heart.
At this time, the wet human-faced octopuses on the ground began to swell up, becoming even fatter than the one he had just vomited out.
They wriggle on the ground, and when their soft tentacles swing, they reveal densely packed suction cups underneath, leaving behind puddles of dark green mucus wherever they pass.
These human-faced octopuses have a clear purpose. They try to climb onto the player again. As for what they want to do next, Yue Ya doesn't want to think about it at all.
He used a hunting net to catch an octopus with a human face that was crawling towards Xuecha. The other players were also very strong in mentality. Before they could recover, they used their own methods to catch the nearby octopus with a human face.
"Hiss... It wants to get into my body." Zhuang Yan raised his left hand and pinched the big head of the human-faced octopus with his bare hands. His arm was tightly wrapped by several huge tentacles. Several tentacles pierced into his skin, making it swollen and deformed. They were like mutated leeches, constantly sucking his blood.
His skin turned visibly bluish-white, and if left unattended, it would soon be sucked dry.
"Kill it." Yue Ya grasped the air, and a sharp dagger appeared in his hand.
"Stay away, I'll do it." Zhuang Yan pursed his lips, his dimples sunken, and blazing flames rose from his palms, instantly devouring the human-faced octopus.
A distorted and terrifying scream rang out in the air. The burned octopus with a human face twisted wildly but could not escape the flames.
The air was mixed with the aroma of grilled octopus and an indescribable stench. In this situation, the aroma and the stench were intertwined, and everyone felt a little nauseous when they smelled them.
The screams of the human-faced octopus became quieter and quieter, and finally disappeared completely. Zhuang Yan shook his freed palm and gasped in pain: "This thing is really disgusting. I don't want to eat octopus anymore."
"When did we get tricked? Or did we get tricked at the same time?" Xuecha's face turned pale, and she twisted her delicate eyebrows. "We have carefully avoided raw seafood for dinner."
Yue Ya was just thinking back, and he could only think of one dish, a dish they all ate: "It should be the octopus balls. There may be more than one dish at the dinner that has problems."
Zhuang Yan nodded: "Maybe there is something wrong with octopus dishes. To be on the safe side, don't eat any seafood on the boat, no matter whether it's raw or cooked."
Hongcha wiped the blood off the corner of his lips with the back of his hand and said in a deep voice: "This is not a must-kill situation, otherwise they wouldn't have given us seasickness medicine first. It feels more like a warning."
"Maybe they don't want us to die too quickly." Zhuang Yan curled his lips and looked at Yue Ya: "What are you going to do with these human-faced octopuses? How about I just set them on fire and burn them all."
Yue Ya looked down at the hunting net. Several octopuses with human faces were wriggling in the net, staring at him with their cold eyes.
Feifei walked around the hunting net, sniffed, glanced at the human-faced octopus inside with disgust, raised his hind paws and dug the ground, making a "bury" gesture.
Human-faced octopus: “…”
[As we all know, cats only bury "food" in two situations: one is that it is too delicious and they can't bear to finish it, so they bury it for next time; the other is that it is too unpalatable, so they quickly bury it so they can't see it and get upset. From Feifei's eyes, you can tell that this thing is too unpalatable for it]
[Fei Fei’s look of disdain is so cool, hahahaha, the human-faced octopus yelled: Are you polite?]
[I can't help but worry, is there any cat food for Feifei in this instance? The kid hasn't eaten in three minutes!]
"Keep them for now." Yueya packed them up and stuffed them into the player's backpack.
Although Zhuang Yan didn't understand why such a disgusting thing was left behind, he didn't object: "Okay, but be careful when you take it out. This thing is quite lethal."
Yue Ya glanced at his companions' pale faces and said calmly, "Stretch out your hands."
"Ah?" Zhuang Yan stretched out his scarred hand in confusion.
Yue Ya put his hand on Zhuang Yan's wrist. A tiny light was released from his palm, which soothed the wound on Zhuang Yan's hand. Zhuang Yan's complexion also looked much better.
Zhuang Yan was a little surprised: "Are you actually an assistant?"
The twin sisters were even more surprised than him. Hongcha asked, "You two are playing in a duo, but you don't even know each other's attributes and skills?"
Yue Ya also helped them heal, and said calmly, "We formed a temporary team, we are not familiar with each other."
Zhuang Yan touched the tip of his nose and said, "It's definitely not cooked."
Hongcha tilted his head, revealing his sharp fangs: "It's okay, after this, we are all friends who have lived together for a lifetime. Thank you, Yuezi, my injuries have healed, and all the nurses are treasures, I will definitely protect you well!"
After Yue Ya healed himself, he heard Xue Cha say, "I think I saw the inn's proprietress."
Yue Ya stopped using his skill and looked inside the bar, but did not find the figure described by the professor in the crowd.
Hongcha said confidently: "My sister has a good eye, let her take us to find it."
Xuecha nodded slightly and entered the bar first, with the others following behind her.
None of them noticed that in a dark corner behind them, a fist-sized octopus with a human face quietly climbed the wall and slipped into the bar.
The lighting in the bar was dim, so dark that you couldn't see the faces of people two meters away. There were quite a few customers here, but fortunately the music was not too loud, so they could talk at a normal volume.
The group walked while searching for their target. When Yue Ya's eyes fell on the bar, Xue Cha's voice rang out at the same time: "Found it, at the bar."
There were several people sitting in front of the bar, one of them was wearing a white dress, slender, with red ribbons wrapped around her seaweed-like hair. She slowly shook the goblet in her hand, and the white dress reflected the hazy white light, making her look a little transparent.
Yueya and his group came to the bar and met a few other players. The one in blue said hello to Hongcha: "You guys are here. I was just about to go out and inform you that we found the boss lady."
Red Tea patted the blue-clothed man's shoulder: "I see, you are thoughtful. Thank you."
Although the lights here were not very bright, Yue Ya could see that the faces of these players were a little bad, and they were probably experiencing the same thing as them. However, there were more important things in front of them now, and they had no time to talk about other things.
Yueya walked behind the figure in the white dress and said politely, "Excuse me, are you the proprietress of the hotel on the island?"
The woman turned around. She had snow-white skin, single eyelids, high upturned eye ends, and a strong black mole on the tip of her straight nose. These features made for a very recognizable face, exactly as the professor described.
"Yes, what can I do for you?" The innkeeper's voice was unexpectedly gentle, and she seemed easy to talk to.
Yueya said directly: "We are going to the island to sketch, and we want to book some rooms from you."
The proprietress curled her lips and shook her wine glass: "How many rooms do you want to book?"
Yueya estimated a number and the proprietress nodded: "Sure, we still have enough rooms, but you have to pay a deposit first, is that ok?"
Yueya and the others have no money: "Wait a moment, I'll ask the teacher to come and take care of it now."
The professor told me to contact him immediately once I found the boss's wife.
"Okay." The proprietress looked at him with curved eyebrows. The phone on the table suddenly rang. She picked up the phone and said a few words. After hanging up, she said to Yue Ya, "Sorry, my friend asked me to go to the coffee shop. You can meet me there later. I will write you a receipt there."
Yue Ya happened to call the professor. He was worried that the boss lady would run away again, so he said decisively: "I'll go with you. Our teacher will come to the coffee shop with the deposit later."
The proprietress did not refuse: "Then you guys follow."
The proprietress put down her wine glass and walked out, and the players followed her.
As they walked, Yueya told the professor about the situation on the phone. The professor replied, "Then you go with the lady boss first. I'll rush to the coffee shop now."
The professor hung up the phone in a hurry, and Yue Ya remembered that he had not yet asked how much the deposit was.
The cafe is on the upper deck of the ferry, in a semi-open-air structure. It was their first time here.
The light here was much brighter than in the bar, so they could clearly see the warm-toned cafe and the wreaths at the door.
These wreaths are mainly made of white chrysanthemums, with a big word "甸" written in the middle.
A funeral in a cafe?
Yueya remembered the horrible rumor about this ferry that Hongcha had told her - it was said that a murder had occurred here not long ago.
The coffee shop was deserted, and the proprietress probably didn't come here to consume.
Yue Ya's voice was filled with just the right amount of apology: "I didn't know there was a funeral going on here before I came. I'm sorry for being so rude. Please forgive me."
"It's okay." The proprietress waved her hand: "The deceased was a young girl with a good temper. She won't blame you. Go in."
After entering the coffee shop, Yue Ya saw the mourning hall on the side at a glance. There was no coffin here, but there was an incense table. There were wreaths and paper figures piled around it. Things were a bit messy. The funeral photo in the center was very small, and a small part of it was blocked by the white strip hanging from the wreath.
Yue Ya changed his angle of view and found that the person in the photo was actually... the hotel owner!
A wet hand rested on Yueya's shoulder, and a faint voice came from behind: "Don't you want to book a room? I have decided on the deposit amount. Let's talk..."
[My mentality collapsed! ! ]
[Fuck, this lady boss was as gentle as a fairy just now, and now she's in the dark? ? ]
[I felt that her hand was not on the anchor’s shoulder, but on my shoulder. I didn’t dare to move.]
Yue Ya's shoulders were numb from the cold, but the wet touch was extremely strong. He smelled a scent very similar to that of a human-faced octopus, but the yin energy was a hundred times heavier. He immediately realized that the NPC behind him was not someone who could be dealt with by violence.
He remembered the horrible rumor that Hongcha had told him. If you meet a wet woman on a boat, you must turn around and run, and never look back.
Yue Ya thought for a moment, put Lulu's skill card back, turned around and ran! Because of his speed, he left the wet ghost behind in the blink of an eye, without even seeing her appearance clearly.
As soon as he moved, chaotic footsteps could be heard in the cafe, and all the players ran towards the exit.
They ran away as fast as ghosts, and refused to look back even though the proprietress yelled at them behind them.
Several times, Yue Ya felt something sharp scratching his back, and he frowned in pain, but he did not stop.
I don’t know how long I ran, but Yue Ya felt a little exhausted. He slowed down and noticed that there was no one chasing him anymore.
"Don't run anymore," Xuecha stopped, holding onto the wall and panting, "We got rid of her."
The alarm was lifted and the players collapsed to the ground, gasping for air.
The player in blue clothes said intermittently: "Did you feel the evil spirit of the boss lady just now? She is comparable to the big boss in my last dungeon... She is definitely not the ultimate boss, there is only one level difference. Is the difficulty so great..."
Even players who were leveling up normally felt the pressure, not to mention Yue Ya who jumped several levels directly.
"I really didn't expect that this lady boss is the heroine of the horror rumor..." Hongcha sighed heavily, "It's a good thing she is. We know that we can solve it by running."
Yueya's cell phone suddenly vibrated, interrupting their conversation.
"Who's calling?" asked Hongcha.
Yue Ya looked at the screen: "Professor."
He answered the phone and pressed the speakerphone.
The professor's voice came out: "I'm already at the coffee shop, where are you?"
"Something happened just now, so we came out," he slowed down his breathing and asked, "Have you seen the innkeeper's wife?"
"No," the professor took a breath and said slowly, "I did see the receipt left by the lady boss. This request is a bit... strange. You can come back and take a look."
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