257 tentacles
The GIs turned on the tactical flashlights hanging under the barrels of their guns, and the muzzles of their guns turned downward, and several pillars of light shone into the depths of the shaft, but they found nothing but bubbling well water.
Rorschach leaned against the edge of the shaft and looked down.
The shaft is very deep, and the seemingly boiling well water is constantly bubbling with cold air.
Rorschach felt cold on his face, and he smelled a smell of the sea, and it seemed that this shaft should lead to the sea. He narrowed his eyes and raised his tactical flashlight to the shaft wall.
The pillar of light of the tactical flashlight illuminates the stone wall, and patches of bright red are distributed around the stone wall, and if you look closely, it turns out that the bright red is composed of dense red symbols, which are full of strange atmosphere, and gather together like a pool of wriggling flesh.
Rorschach frowned, the cold feeling seemed to intensify, and he exhaled a breath, and a faint white mist appeared in front of him.
Suddenly, he felt a wave of dizziness hit him. He shook his head, feeling that something was wrong, and quickly turned his head to look around.
The soldiers standing by the shaft stared at the water one by one, and Major Stryker showed a look of fascination.
Rorschach suddenly realized that the symbols on the stone walls of the shaft must have some kind of strange magic, which could make people mesmerized, and they could not let others continue to look at them. He raised his assault rifle, pointed its muzzle at the ceiling of the hall, and pulled the trigger.
Dadada!
The soldiers around the shaft were awakened by the sound of gunshots, and they raised their assault rifles in a panic to try to find the enemy.
Rorschach was about to explain, but felt a slight tremor under his feet.
There was a violent sound of "grunt, grunt" in the shaft, and the tremors began to grow stronger, and the gravel on the wellhead even began to shake, as if something was about to emerge from under the shaft.
"Get out of the well!" Rorschach shouted, dragging the soldier next to him and stepping back.
Hearing Rorschach's shout, the soldiers at the wellhead retreated one after another, and the assault rifles in their hands pointed at the wellhead.
Rorschach retreated three meters away and looked at the mouth of the well, feeling uneasy, it seemed that this must have been caused by the priestess who jumped into the well.
"Sergeant Rorschach, what's going on?" Stryker stepped aside as well, looked at him and asked, "Did you find the priestess?" ”
"Didn't see her." Rorschach raised his hand and pointed to the shaft, "But there's something strange about the wall of this shaft, don't stare at it." ”
"Weird?" Stryker paused.
The soldiers standing around were confused in their eyes, as if they didn't understand what Rorschach meant.
Rorschach's eyes narrowed, and he felt more and more that something was wrong. Suddenly, he saw a GI walking towards the shaft again, as if trying to confirm what was going on.
"Don't go over!" He tried to stop it, but it was too late.
The GI leaned against the edge of the shaft and just looked down.
Suddenly, a black shadow stretched out from the mouth of the well, like a black python rolling up the soldier's chest. He let out a wail, and his body was pulled off the ground and flew into the air, and the whole person was lifted above the shaft.
"Help!"
Rorschach cocked his assault rifle and pointed it at the dark shadow of the curled GI.
The black shadow writhed around the GI, like a giant octopus tentacle, smooth on one side and covered with large and small suction cups on the other.
"Fire!"
Rorschach roared, pulled the trigger, and fired a blow at the octopus tentacles.
Dadada!
The deafening gunshot rang out, and the others also reacted, raising their assault rifles in their hands and shooting wildly at the octopus tentacles.
The metal warhead tore through the air and hit the octopus tentacles, but except for the "poof, poof" sound, the octopus tentacles that should have been shot into a flesh sieve only trembled a few times, and not even a single blood flower came out.
Then, the octopus tentacles rolled up and shouted "help" The soldier quickly sank into the shaft, accompanied by a "plop", and no sound came from the shaft.
Rorschach stared at the wellhead, his heart sank, he knew that the soldier was no longer saved.
The soldiers on the side began to panic.
"What kind of monster was that?"
"Fack, it's not afraid of bullets!"
Rorschach looked around and saw a pair of frightened eyes, and even the saber-toothed tiger turned gloomy.
"Was it the priestess who turned into a monster?" Stryker looked at him.
"I don't know yet...... Rorschach frowned, could it be that this octopus tentacle is the sea god that the cult believes in?
The GIs began to step back, and no one dared to approach the wellhead, but before they could take two steps back, the whole hall suddenly shook, as if there had been an earthquake, and the center of the epicenter was the wellhead.
Boom!
The well water gushed high like a fountain, hitting the roof of the hall, and along with the well water, eight huge octopus tentacles emerged.
Everyone hurriedly spread around, shooting their guns as they retreated.
Frantic gunfire rang out in the hall, and the light of the gunfire flashed fiercely.
But the bullet had no effect on these tentacles at all, and the frantic strafing continued all the time, and finally stopped under the sound of "click, click", and the bullet was finished.
A GI was about to change his magazine, but before he could do so, tentacles were already coming at him. With a scream, he was lifted high by the tentacles, and then slammed into the ground with all his might.
Bang!
He slammed his head down on the ground, and his head was torn apart like a watermelon thrown on the ground.
The situation suddenly became critical, and everyone hurriedly retreated to the wall of the hall.
At this moment, another soldier was entangled in the tentacles of the octopus, and the whole person was thrown into the air, hitting his head on the ceiling, and then fell heavily to the ground, spitting blood from his mouth, and fell to the ground.
Everyone retreated to the wall, and for a while, no one knew how to deal with the octopus tentacles.
Stryker ducked behind the GI, looked at the entrance to the hall, and shouted:
"Explode the stone wall, we're getting out of here."
Hearing the Major's shout, the GI who was in charge of planting the explosives near the entrance flashed to the side with a detonator and pressed the red button hard.
Suddenly, a huge explosion rang out, rubble flew and the entire hall shook like an earthquake, billowing smoke and dust poured into the hall from the entrance of the passage.
The octopus tentacles were also startled by the explosion, and stopped attacking for a while.
The smoke and dust cleared.
Rorschach turned his head to look at the entrance of the hall, and his heart sank, the stone wall had only been blown through a gap, and it was impossible for them to pass through.
Seeing this, Stryker almost trembled all over, and he pointed to the entrance of the hall and shouted:
"Why didn't it blow up!?"
"Sir!" The soldier in charge of planting the explosives hurriedly replied, "I will arrange the second detonation immediately, but the amount of explosives is too large and may cause a collapse." ”
"Hurry up!"
Stryker gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry about the collapse, it's going to explode in one go, or we'll all die here!" ”
At this moment, the octopus tentacle seemed to hear Stryker's voice and jerked its tentacle towards him.
"Be careful!"
Beside Stryker, Rorschach pushed him out of the way and leaped backwards.
Bang! The octopus tentacles slammed into the ground, and there was a clattering sound, and a crack like a spider's web appeared in the stone bricks on the ground.
Rorschach rolled to the side, raised his assault rifle and pulled the trigger on the octopus tentacles that were about to lift them off the ground.
Dadada! A string of bullets flashing white light hit the tentacle with a "poof" sound, and the bullet burrowed into the tentacle's body like a stone sinking into the sea, without triggering an arcane explosion.
Rorschach raised an eyebrow, and his heart sank, what the hell is this tentacle? It is possible to ignore arcane bullets.
At that moment, another octopus tentacle appeared above his head, and it was raised high and smashed down on him.