Section II. The Struggle for Supremacy

"What's that?!"

Zhuge Xun saw the sea in the distance, and he didn't know when an island would rise. There are also numerous reefs around the island.

The sea there splashed from time to time.

It seems that the creatures captured by the tentacles ended up there.

There wasn't much left of the creatures on the shore, and they moved further in, as if they were afraid of the tentacles......

Zhuge Xun clasped his hands together, then chanted a spell, opened his hands, and stretched a mirror made of qi between his hands, through which he could clearly see the true face of the suddenly extra island.

It wasn't an island, it was the shell of a giant nautilus floating on the surface of the sea. What looks like a twig is its tentacles, hundreds? No, there are thousands of tentacles waving non-stop.

And those 'reefs' are not reefs, they are also small in size than the largest, but they are also very large nautilus by ordinary standards.

Countless nautilus float on the surface of the sea, and from a distance, it looks like an island.

The living habits of this nautilus have been seen in the library on the third floor of the Red Moon, they prefer relatively warm waters, have well-developed brains, and have closed shell mouths that can keep prey in their mouths and digest them with their mucus.

If Ling meets the biggest one now, even if it is him, he may not be able to ...... I'm really scared.

And they're very fast in the water, 'underwater thrusters', that's the name given to it in that book.

They usually live at the bottom of deep water, and only on a full moon night when the sea is calm, they will float in groups on the surface of the sea.

The dioecious nautilus, when mating, needs to eat a lot to replenish its strength.

Tonight should be a good time for them to come out and feed.

Not an illusion of his own, the huge nautilus like a hill was approaching the shore.

Found a place to hide and watched the nautilus's next move. There should be no way for them to get ashore...... Hope......

Getting closer...... Getting closer......

Only the largest one came close to the shore, and when you looked closer, you realized that it was much larger than what you could see from afar.

And this is just a straight shell snail, that is, the kind of cone-shaped nautilus that existed in ancient times, because of the changes of the earth, this shape has become extinct, and the rest are small spirals, but this one is a conical straight shell, and it is so huge, the length of the snail shell is thirty meters? No! At least fifty meters! It can be about 10 meters wide at its widest point.

Watching it gradually 'walk' closer to the shore, Zhuge Xun could feel a sense of oppression coming over him.

This should be the overlord of this sea.

As the giant nautilus gets closer and closer to the shore, the more clearly it can be seen through the 'air mirror' in the hand, in addition to the long tentacles, there are also many brachiopods with a thickness of 30 to 50 cm in the shell, and it moves by these small brachiopods. The sea around it splashes like it's being boiled!

"This is?!" Zhuge Xun once again refreshed his cognition.

It turned out that there was not only a nautilus, but also a giant crab entangled with the nautilus.

This giant crab was much larger than all the crabs that had just participated in the melee.

Somehow, these two sea monsters are entangled.

The two of them tangled all the way from the deep water to the beach. Through the moonlight, Zhuge Xun observed the war between the two overlords.

Although the nautilus is about fifty meters tall, it does not have the buoyancy of seawater and is not very flexible in shallow water.

Although the crab is not as tall as the nautilus, the leg height is only about 20 meters, and although the height difference is doubled, the crab has a wide body and powerful crab claws.

Although the nautilus's tentacles can entangle the crab, the crab will also use its claws to force the nautilus's tentacles to release. And the hard shell of the nautilus also blocks the attack of the cancer claw. The two sides are on par.

Zhuge Xun put away the 'air mirror' and checked the rune paper in his pocket. After coming to the fourth district, the rune paper was consumed a little too much, and because they were all animals, their own Shikjin was not much use.

At this moment, Zhuge Xun suddenly found that in front of him not far from him, a black shadow appeared, which seemed to be Ling?

This idiot, I choose to appear at this time! I don't want to live anymore!

Without thinking too much, he bit his index finger and used blood as a medium to draw a summoning array in the air, and a huge bird of light flew out of the array, following the direction of Zhuge Xun's finger, and flew towards the figure.

Zhuge Xun was sure that the eyes of the sea creatures could not adapt to the bright light, and wanted to use this to scare off the two entangled monsters.

Because he saw the situation on the seaside from a high place, he was worried that Zhuge Xun's Ling had just come out of the gate of time and saw the fight between the two monsters, and it was less than thirty meters away from where he was standing, if any of the two found himself, give himself a ......

Although it was a little cowardly, the feet no longer listened to the control of the brain, and they forgot to open the door again to leave.

At this moment, a white light suddenly lit up behind him, and he saw a huge bird of light flying over his head, and then circled around him. A small paper figure surrounded him at the same time, and from the paper man's body came the sound of Zhuge Xun almost roaring.

"You're looking for death, hurry up and run back for me, I'm here in the woods!"

It was the first time for Ling to hear Zhuge Xun speak so excitedly.

The brain regains control of the body, and Ling follows the little paper figure to the place where Zhuge Xun is hiding.

Seeing that Ling had returned safely, Zhuge Xun whistled, and saw that the bird of light also disappeared into the air. There was darkness all around.

"Are you alright?" Zhuge Xun can't blame Ling either. He would be there, probably worried about himself. Expanded his protective barrier and encased Ling in it.

"What are those two?" Ling took a steady breath.

"It should be the overlord of the sea that Brafi and the others said." Zhuge Xun examined Xia Ling's body and the talisman he had drawn earlier. Ever since I was with Ling, I found that I seemed to have awakened the 'old mother' attribute.

"I saw through the telescope on the other side of the ropeway. So I thought I'd come and have a look. I didn't expect ...... Are you okay? Ling asked.

"I didn't have a flying water strider since I left, did I? Did you send someone back to District 4 to ask about the situation? Zhuge Xun asked.

"No water striders coming. Ward has already asked people to go back and report, but he hasn't come back yet, so it seems that there should be no threat from there. ”

The eyes of the two were attracted by the two giant beasts that were still fighting.

At this time, although the giant crab was dragged off two legs by the nautilus, the nautilus also lost more than a dozen tentacles.

"Shouldn't we help that spiky thing? That's the Nautilus, it's not the same as what I see in the sea...... Ling said.

"Help? You say you want to help? Zhuge Xun asked in surprise.

"I guess that the spiky nautilus should not be able to go ashore, its shell is so heavy, but that crab is different, if the crab wins, the crab can go ashore, maybe it will threaten the safety of the people in the four districts, it is better to let the nautilus win now." Ling speaks her mind.

"You...... You're really a good ZERO for the people. Zhuge Xun sighed.

"But that crab didn't work on my rune paper alone. Need your electric gun. "This current shouldn't do any harm to Ling's body, so Zhuge Xun dared to let Ling use his ability.

"You use the electric gun to shoot these pieces of my rune paper into the crab."

Ling saw a few talismans with the word 'explosive' written on them in Zhuge Xun's hand, and the word 'crab' was written on the back of the talisman.

Ling uses the current between the thumb and middle finger of the left hand to collect a simple bow, aiming at the index finger, and then uses the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of the right hand to pass a gun collected by the current through the rune paper and put it on the bow and pull it away, and after aiming the crab entangled with the nautilus with the left index finger, after releasing the current gun, the gun with the rune paper shoots straight towards the crab.

As the flash paused, a dazzling burst of fire exploded between the two monsters.

Zhuge Xun opened the 'air mirror' again, and the two saw through the 'air mirror' that the original electric current gun exploded in the crab's abdomen, and the nautilus took advantage of the crab's distraction to curl the crab into his mouth......

"Not good!"

Zhuge Xun didn't have time to put away the 'Qi Mirror', and bit the middle finger of his right hand again, scattering a blood canopy in the spherical enchantment that wrapped the two of them.

Then, along with the spherical enchantment, the two of them were swept up to the nautilus by the tentacles of the giant nautilus.