152 No chance [Update 1]
◎Protect your own life◎
The facility was still filled with a pungent fishy smell, even stronger than before.
Qi Qiuxue looked around the facility. Now that it was in the final stages of hibernation, not only was her mother's door covered in mucus, but the entire facility was also covered in mucus, like a giant petri dish, a hotbed for carefully cultivating monsters.
This was a scene that Qi Qiuxue in the previous timeline had never seen. Under their mother's hypnosis and instructions, they fell asleep early that day and had no idea what had happened to their mother. Naturally, they missed the best opportunity to kill her. When they woke up, it was already too late.
Qi Qiuxue and others walked lightly to the door and listened carefully to the noise coming from inside the room.
It was the sound of breathing, and it seemed a little muffled when listening carefully, as if it came from some kind of sealed container, slow and heavy.
Qi Qiuxue took out a pen and paper, lowered her eyes, and wrote the following words on the paper:
[Now is not the best time to go in. If you disturb the mother's sleep, she will go into a violent state, and her attack power and speed will double.]
What we have to do is wait, wait for the moment it escapes from the container.
Liu Ge paused: [How much do you know about your mother?]
Qi Qiuxue pondered for a moment, then quickly wrote on a piece of paper: [The dense mucus covering the room is like the silk spun by a spider. It is all part of my mother's body. From the moment she emerges from hibernation until she fully recovers, it will continuously recycle the mucus.]
[Slime cannot be destroyed in any way, so even if we attack it, we cannot directly harm the mother, but there is one thing we can do.]
[That's to limit its mucus recovery speed, thus trapping it within the facility and facilitating our movement. If it recovers the mucus prematurely before its weakened period ends, it will likely flee the facility and hide in the dense fog that permeates the forest. At that point, all our movements will be restricted, making killing it even more difficult.]
[In addition, when the mission in the previous timeline failed and I activated the god-level item to return to the beginning of the dungeon, I seemed to see its figure from the thick smoke.]
[As described in the setting, it is a giant alien creature with a terrifying appearance and countless long tentacles, but only by seeing it with your own eyes can you understand how huge it is.]
Its full form is about one-third the height of the entire facility, or about four meters. Each tentacle is about two meters long and appears thick and powerful. Its head has only a single large eye and no other organs.
When I saw it, I noticed that its eye was moving up and down in a regular pattern, as if it was not only using that eye to see, but also to breathe.
Li Yiqing: [That eye might be its weakness.]
Qi Qiuxue nodded: [That's what I guessed too.]
[Anyway, let's focus on attacking its eyes first.]
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Before they could say anything more, a slight cracking sound suddenly came from inside the door, and then the breathing sound suddenly became clear. It sounded like the mother had ended her hibernation and finally escaped from the container.
Qi Qiuxue exchanged glances with the others, then kicked the door open and rushed in.
What appeared before his eyes was a monster that looked very similar to an octopus. It was currently in a container that resembled a transparent giant egg, only half of which was left. Its tentacles were curled up and wrapped around its body, coiled inside.
It had just ended its hibernation and was still in a weak state, with its eyes not open. Qi Qiuxue saw several pores on its eyelids, which were very deep and led to unknown places. At this moment, they were rising and falling slightly, as if it was breathing.
Perhaps it sensed an intruder, and before anyone got close, the monster suddenly opened its eyes.
——Unlike the eyes Qi Qiuxue had seen before, those were a more terrifying pair. The pupils were deep red like blood, while the part that was supposed to be the white of the eye was colorful, like a colorful kaleidoscope. As it blinked, the color and shape changed countless times, which was dizzying.
Even if the mission is successfully completed and everyone has escaped the monster's hypnosis, they will still inexplicably feel dizzy if they look into those eyes for more than three seconds.
This is different from the setting in the previous timeline. It seems that as the difficulty of the copy increases, the difficulty of defeating monsters is also increasing infinitely.
Perhaps even the duration of the monster's weakness will be shortened.
Qi Qiuxue frowned. She no longer had time to communicate with everyone through pen and paper. She glanced sideways in the direction of Li Yiqing and shouted to everyone, "Hurry up and try to resolve this within half an hour!"
Fortunately, Li Yiqing understood what she meant. He immediately raised his crossbow and shot several arrows in the direction of the monster.
Realizing that danger was approaching, at the moment when the arrow was about to hit the monster, it suddenly jumped up, dodging the attack while its slender tentacles fully extended and hit the ceiling above its head, like several sharp swords, piercing the ceiling.
It manipulated the highly adhesive suction cups on its tentacles, sticking to all the places that came into contact with the wall, and pulled it down with force. In an instant, a huge hole appeared in the ceiling, and sand, debris and pungent dust fell together, choking people and causing them to cough uncontrollably.
When I came back to my senses, it had already escaped and gone to the second floor of the facility.
"Liu Ge!" Qi Qiuxue said immediately upon seeing this, "Use the chain blade to catch up with it. Go straight to the hole and catch up with it. Find the right opportunity to continue attacking its eyes."
"Shanyue, you stay on this floor and wait for an opportunity. If the monster turns back, seize the opportunity and attack it."
Of the five, three can perform long-range attacks. The facility happens to have three floors, so placing one on each floor would be ideal. However, considering that Li Yiqing has lost her hearing, Qi Qiuxue is concerned about her acting alone. "Su Wen, you and Aqing go to the highest floor together to protect and assist her. Remember, don't let her use the skeleton again."
"The monster's fatal weakness should be its eyes, but other than that, if its other parts are injured, it should also slow down its movements to a certain extent. Therefore, I will continue to wander around each floor, assisting you while trying to slow down its slime recycling speed."
"We don't have another chance." The scene of everyone dying before her eyes was still vivid in her mind. Qi Qiuxue clenched her fists and emphasized again, "No matter what, we must be careful and cautious."
"Be sure to protect your own life!"
【Author’s words】
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