Chapter 18: The Fluorescent Torrent
In an instant, in the coral reefs destroyed by the giant tortoise on both sides, the fluorescent torrent that flowed out flooded the tentacles supported on the ground by the giant tortoise, and then extended upwards along the tentacles, making the surface of these tentacles seem to be coated with a layer of luminous material, shining in the dark night.
The tentacles around were flooded by fluorescence, and the giant tortoise's body suddenly shook, and the tentacles that attacked everyone suddenly contracted, as if it had suffered some terrible disaster, and the octopus head suddenly stretched out from the turtle's shell, and let out a scream, and the tentacles waved one by one, stopped in place, and frantically slapped the coral reefs around it, like madness.
The people who saw this scene were stunned and inexplicable, and in their eyes, their hearts palpitated inexplicably.
"Let's go—" Sun Tao let out a loud roar, and everyone woke up and rushed towards the gap that exploded in front of them.
Xiao Ling saw a torrent of fluorescence forming around them, and it was approaching them.
Everyone didn't understand what this was, and instinctively felt weird and terrifying, and before they had time to think about it, they rushed out towards the gap in front of them.
As soon as everyone rushed out of the gap, the gap behind them was overwhelmed by the fluorescent torrent, and in just a short time, the giant tortoise was completely trapped in the middle by the fluorescent torrent.
The fluorescence was like a living thing, extending along the tentacles around it to the turtle shell, and soon the giant tortoise was completely enveloped in fluorescence, and even the head of the octopus stretched out was covered with fluorescent glow.
The giant tortoise was in great pain, desperately shaking the huge octopus's head, trying to shake off the fluorescents, and the tentacles around it moved in unison, desperately struggling to rush forward.
After the crowd rushed out of the gap, huge black rocks appeared in front of them, and they had escaped from the giant trench formed by the coral reef.
Xiao Ling turned his head to look at the gap behind him, but saw that in a short time, the hundreds of tentacles around the giant turtle were actually flowing with juice as if they had melted, and the huge turtle shell lost the support of this thick and powerful tentacles, and fell into the giant ditch with a bang.
The giant tortoise struggled, but the tentacles melted faster and faster, and even the octopus head began to melt like a burning candle.
The terrifying fluorescence completely devoured the giant tortoise, except for the tortoise shell, which was as hard as steel, the tentacles around the giant tortoise, the octopus head, and the wings behind the back were all melting.
This scene was shocking in the eyes of everyone, seeing that this fluorescent torrent did not chase out of the gap, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that this giant turtle was afraid that it would not survive.
"Polyps, these fluorescences are made up of countless polyps, I can't imagine how these are formed, oh my God—"
Among the crowd, marine biologist Guo Zhenwei let out a series of exclaims, he had studied the marine creatures for half his life, and finally recognized what these formed the fluorescent torrent.
It's a flood of billions of fluorescent polyps that have submerged the giant tortoise and are eating its flesh and bones.
Although the giant tortoise has the protection of a tortoise shell, which is so hard that it can't even explode a grenade, it has no resistance in the face of these hundreds of millions of tiny polyps, and it can't escape the fate of being eaten by flesh and blood even if it struggles desperately.
In just a few breaths, a large number of tentacles were eaten by countless polyps, and these polyps did not die, and continued to drill into the turtle shell along the tentacles, trying to completely gnaw the giant turtle's body, and finally there was only an empty giant turtle shell here.
Hearing Guo Zhenwei's words, after everyone understood what the essence of these torrent-like fluorescences was, they all felt creepy, where did they dare to stay, escape from the gap, climb onto the oncoming black rocks, and flee forward at full speed.
The coral giant ditch behind is completely alive, under the night, the fluorescence shrouds this place like a strange fairy tale world, in this fairy tale dream kingdom, the giant tortoise as big as a hill is dying, and the death scream is getting weaker and weaker, this myth and legend can carry the mountain of the god of the turtle, invincible to the small as the dust of the polyp, alive by it to eat the whole body of the flesh, and finally only a hard iron empty shell, immortal for ten thousand years.
Everyone climbed up the black rocks one by one, and fled for more than ten minutes, and finally stopped after hearing the howl of the giant turtle and seeing the fantastic coral kingdom.
Everyone gasped, Li Zhibao and Hu Shengzhe and other people with poor physical strength could no longer support it, and they all sat directly on the ground, their chests rose and fell violently, their faces and bodies were covered with sweat, and they were exhausted.
The team members led by Sun Tao have good physical strength and can still support, so they are guarding around at the moment, and they still haven't relaxed their vigilance.
Zhou Kesheng asked everyone to rest here for a while to recover their strength.
Everyone took this opportunity to rest on the spot and eat some food, and they fled all the way to the present night, all hungry, thirsty and tired.
Sun Tao counted the remaining supplies again, the situation is not optimistic, mainly because the loss of ammunition is too fast, in order to kill this legendary god ao, a large amount of ammunition and grenades have just been consumed, and now the remaining ammunition inventory is no longer enough to support them to deal with a similar giant monster.
During the break, Wang Haiyang looked at Guo Zhenwei and said, "Professor Guo, just now you said that those who form fluorescent torrents are polyps?" It's just how can a polyp have such an ability? These groups of polyps live in groups, their skeletons are connected, and the intestinal lumen is also connected through the small intestinal system, so these groups of polyps have many 'mouths', but they share a 'stomach', and they can only prey on the small plankton in the ocean, how can they move quickly on land, let alone eat such thick skin and thick giant turtle monsters. ”
Wang Haiyang is a well-known oceanographer, and he also has a certain understanding of polyps, so he calmed down at this moment, thinking of Guo Zhenwei's previous belief that those fluorescent torrents were formed by countless polyps, and felt that this view was wrong, and couldn't help but refute it.
Hu Shengzhe, Wang Lei and others all showed a look of attention, and everyone knew more or less about coral, but like the scene just experienced, it was really appalling, and it was able to eat the legendary god into an empty shell, and no one could believe that the murderer would be a small polyp.
Xiao Ling also has an understanding of coral, and is also a little curious, this coral in his opinion, if it is an animal, it is more like a plant, how this coral can eat animal flesh and blood, it is indeed the first time I have heard of it.
Guo Zhenwei saw that everyone was looking at him, although he was safe for the time being, he still had a look of palpitations on his face, took a deep breath, and said: "Professor Wang, I understand what you mean, the modern polyps that we all know are indeed as you said, they do not have such ability, but ......"