Chapter 169 Dense Tentacles
It cannot be said that the group's plan was completely unworkable, it can only be said that they underestimated Nakajima Atsushi's own strength.
Lucy Montgomery's special ability [Red-Haired Anne of the Abyss] is indeed hard to guard against. Just as the group expected, Nakajima Atsushi, who was being ambushed, was caught off guard and taken into Lucy's special dimension.
However, Lucy Montgomery's plan to completely imprison Nakajima Atsushi cannot be achieved in a short time. Before that, Lucy Montgomery will also be trapped in her own alien space and unable to move, which obviously gives the port mafia enough time to carry out a rescue.
It is worth mentioning that as soon as the huge bounty appeared on the dark web, the technical team of the Port Mafia implanted a newly developed locator in Nakajima Atsushi after obtaining his consent. This precautionary measure obviously worked at this moment.
"Boss, the positioning device on Nakajima Atsushi has disappeared, and the last location the locator showed was at the school gate." The head of the technical team reported the situation to the boss on the top floor remotely, while skillfully invading and taking over the surveillance near the school, and then sent the surveillance video before and after Nakajima Atsushi's disappearance to Douma with one click.
The surveillance video that was being played clearly showed that Nakajima Atsushi, who was walking out among the students, disappeared from the crowd in the blink of an eye.
After watching the surveillance video and the materials submitted by the technical team, Douma almost immediately made a judgment: "It was done by a space-based psychic."
Click replay, and with the spoiler cheat enabled, Douma skips over all distractions and fixes his eyes on a figure that looks ordinary and unsuspicious.
The red-haired young girl with two braids in casual clothes mingled with a group of students of the same age without any sense of incongruity. The moment Nakajima Atsushi disappeared, the red-haired girl also disappeared into the crowded crowd.
If the red-haired girl didn't look exactly like the space-based psychic that Douma remembered, he would have probably ignored her.
However, there is no if. After Douma found out who did it, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh. Even if he had secretly passed the message before and saved the daughter of the group leader Fitzgerald from the plane crash, would the group's attack still happen?
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Time was running out, so Douma didn't waste any time and directly called up Nakahara Chuuya who was staying in the Ganghei Building. He briefly explained the current situation: "...That's it, we need to hurry to Atsushi's school and rescue him."
When it comes to mobility, Chuuya Nakahara believes that if he is second to none, no one dares to claim to be first. Even Douma, who has now evolved into an ultimate creature, has to admit that being able to fly is amazing.
“I understand.” Nakahara Chuuya nodded without saying anything more. After understanding the situation, he immediately activated [Stained Sorrow]. The dark red gravity enveloped him, and then he stretched out his hand with a glowing red light towards Douma: “Boss, I’m sorry.”
Douma was holding a large black umbrella in his hand that should have been thrown away. He suppressed his instinct and nailed his feet to the spot without dodging. The hand that Nakahara Chuuya stretched out touched his arm.
The next second, the dark red gravity flowed along Nakahara Chuuya's fingers to Douma, and the strange feeling of weightlessness enveloped his whole body. Douma relaxed his body and did not resist. Then, the two of them, no longer bound by gravity, soared into the air, jumped out of the open French window, and flew quickly towards the direction of Nakajima Atsushi like an arrow from a bow.
The actual area of Yokohama is not that large. Soon, the two people who flew straight to their destination appeared at the place where Nakajima Atsushi last disappeared.
There were no people at the school gate at this moment, which immediately made the two adult men lingering nearby stand out. Douma couldn't help but curl his lips and say, "What a coincidence, the two of you are in the same group."
John Steinbeck, who didn't wear his overalls properly, and Howard Lovecraft, whose coat was tattered, were the sloppy duo who were confused. They had run into the two strongest fighters of the port mafia.
"..." John Steinbeck slowly typed a row of ellipsis marks, because he recognized who the person was at a glance, the gravity user Nakahara Chuuya, who was quite famous even in Europe, and Douma, who lived a reclusive life but had an extremely high ability to recognize eye color.
"Our luck is so bad." Realizing that the situation was not good, John Steinbeck shouted to remind his partner who had been daydreaming all day to come back to his senses: "Lovecraft, remember the words of the military advisor."
Howard Lovecraft responded to John Steinbeck by mumbling: "Ah, I really don't want to fight. Why do I have to fight? I want to sleep. When can I go home and sleep..."
Although he said that he didn't want to fight, Howard Lovecraft's body honestly moved towards Douma who was holding an umbrella. This was what they had agreed at the beginning. If he was unlucky enough to meet Douma, he, with his immortal body, would come out to fight him.
Howard Lovecraft's arms transformed into two tentacles that seemed soft but were actually hard. They left two afterimages in the air and attacked Douma's neck and chest at a speed invisible to ordinary people.
The attacked Douma was obviously not within the range of an ordinary person. His excellent dynamic vision allowed him to clearly capture the movement trajectory of the two tentacles. He dodged the attack by slightly turning sideways. At the same time, dozens of ice cones appeared out of thin air and counterattacked.
The tentacle missed its target and with a bang, left a deep mark on the ground. It was obvious that the attack was not only extremely fast but also extremely powerful.
At the same time, Howard Lovecraft, who had no concept of dodging, was hit hard. His body was pierced by more than a dozen sharp ice spikes, but strangely, not even a drop of blood was shed, and there was no delay in his movements.
"Boss!" Nakahara Chuuya on the side couldn't sit still when he saw this. Attacking his boss in front of him, did he treat him as dead?
John Steinbeck, who had not taken the initiative to attack, saw that Nakahara Chuuya wanted to go up to help, so he quickly used his special ability to stop him. According to the previous division of labor, his opponent was him.
"Sorry, your opponent is me." Along with this poor Japanese sentence came grape vines that came from nowhere, covering the sky and surrounding Nakahara Chuuya.
"Oh? Really?" Nakahara Chuuya looked in the direction of the voice and saw that half of the blond young man's body had merged with the plant that attacked him and was connected to the ground. This weird and strange scene successfully aroused Nakahara Chuuya's fighting desire: "Good, it's my turn next."
Of course, a big part of the reason for this is that Nakahara Chuuya has enough confidence in the boss's strength and believes that Douma can definitely deal with that strange undead tentacle monster, and he only needs to deal with the enemy in front of him.
The two-on-two battle soon began.
A few passers-by around noticed something was wrong and, showing the simple and honest nature of the people of Yokohama, quickly ran away.jpg
Not to mention how one-sided the unequal battle between Chuuya Nakahara and John Steinbeck was, the battle between the non-human duo on the other side was not as beautiful as the group expected.
In short, Howard Lovecraft has no way to deal with Douma. His two tentacles can't even touch Douma. He starts mumbling again: "The enemy hides too fast and I can't hit him. I want to go home and sleep, so why did I sign a contract with Fitzgerald? I can't remember..."
After being baptized by the blue red spider lily, Douma has evolved into version 2.0. Not only has he eliminated his fatal weakness of sunlight, but his speed, strength and other physical abilities have also been greatly improved. As for other more detailed abilities, they have not yet evolved completely because of the short time. (This specifically refers to the transformation ability of the scum demon king Muzan Kibutsuji Muzan)
The unchanging attack pattern made it easier for Douma to dodge. Listening to Howard Lovecraft's mumbling, he couldn't help but reply: "Since you know you can't win, you might as well surrender directly. I am willing to accept your surrender."
"You cannot surrender. You must complete the contract." Howard Lovecraft, who had transformed into a wasp's nest, was not annoyed and calmly answered Douma's question. At the same time, he glanced in the direction of the sea with resentment. It seemed that he really wanted to jump into the sea (draw it away) and go back to his hometown to sleep.
"Well, there's nothing I can do. I can only work hard to defeat you." Seeing that persuasion to surrender failed, Douma no longer dodged the tentacles waving at him, but caught them with one hand. The frost containing the deadly poison covered the tentacles in his hand at a speed visible to the naked eye, and quickly spread towards the main body.
As the poison took hold, Howard Lovecraft's originally pale and bloodless lips turned an ominous dark purple. The other free tentacle slowed down, and he said hesitantly in a calm voice without any trace of pain: "Ah, I seem to be poisoned."
Howard Lovecraft, who was slow to react even to poisoning, gradually became motionless.
John Steinbeck, who had been secretly watching the battle situation on the other side, dodged Chuuya Nakahara's gravel attack. Seeing that his partner was poisoned and dying, he was not anxious at all, but showed a relieved expression.
As soon as Nakahara Chuuya saw the expression on his opponent's face, he guessed that there was something fishy going on and hurriedly reminded Douma loudly: "Boss, be careful of that tentacle monster, he probably isn't dead yet."
"Okay, I got it." Douma, who had the spoiler cheat, did not let his guard down. He retreated as he was told and at the same time used the vampire art: Crystal Warring States to create three little ice men who looked exactly like him, and then ordered the little ice men to come forward and check on his behalf.
As expected, Howard Lovecraft, who looked like he had been poisoned, swelled up strangely after being touched by the Iceman, and countless enlarged tentacles broke through the layer of human skin, revealing the three-story-high tentacle monster body.
Faced with this scene that would make an average person's sanity level drop wildly, Douma, who is also not human, still had the leisure to complain: "Although, isn't it a little unreasonable for such a volume to be hidden in a human body?"
“Ooooohhh—” Howard Lovecraft, who had transformed into a tentacle monster, had apparently lost his mind and was unable to answer Douma’s question.
The only thing that responded to Douma was a dense array of tentacles.