Chapter 314 - Iron Blood Octopus (2/2)
When Huang Rui looked at the space ripples after Tom left, a sneer appeared on his face.
‘Haha, go look then. If you need a backup, I believe that Lord Death will certainly need me.’
Afterwards, he laughed and laughed but could no longer laugh anymore… He was utterly shocked instead, and his eyes on his old face were widely opened.
Oh…damn!
‘Tom the black cat, we’re absolutely irreconcilable, how could you be so treacherous, I can’t believe I miscalculated that…’
All of a sudden, he realized that this was China’s boundary. If he lost the protection of the Death Skill from Tom the black cat, did it not mean that he was delivering himself to the doorstep?
As soon as he thought so, he immediately wanted to escape.
However, just like what he had expected, at the very next instant, a dragon form vital energy appeared in front of him abruptly.
Everything in front of him turned dark and a voice echoed by his ears.
“Eh, there’s actually such a daring sinner here…”
Huang Rui thought to himself, ‘The crest of my success, my ambition to Death, why is everything brought to a halt?
‘Could it really be that even if Huang Rui is godlike, the black cat is more thoroughgoing?
‘I refuse to give in!
‘I’m Old Man Huang Rui, but it’s only a dumb cat that ruts anytime!’
With a stomach of dissatisfaction, a mind full of confusion, and a chest filled with grievance, Old Man Huang Rui entered the Draconic Penitentiary…
This was how reality was, regardless of how great or how perfect your plot was, a tiny mishap and accident was enough to make everything vanish, leaving just exasperation.
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Tom the black cat simply had no clue that its cooperative partner, whom it thought was soon about to be unreliable, had just unintentionally gotten rid of a major problem hidden in disguise.
Currently, it was just searching for its next backup in a hurry, Twelve Arms the octopus.
Long ago, it had already left a spiritual mark on it, and since the octopus did not have such great strengths, it did not notice it. Therefore, it could easily spot the huge octopus that was leading two dolphins.
What made it rejoice was that this octopus was quite aware. When it noticed it on a side of the island, it was between two octopus tribes, seemingly mediating something?
It hid nearby and observed closely.
“Since you’d like to have this island, you’ll have to be honest and state clearly, what’s the reason you’re occupying this island?”
Twelve Arms the octopus was speaking sternly out of justice with the two small octopus tribes.
It had been a very long time since it was shaped into a human spy.
Twelve Arms served justice and maintain social order on the sea.
From time to time, it would exterminate some bloodthirsty sea demons, which mostly comprised of fellows who continued to hunt for joy even though they were clearly full from eating…
Due to these down-to-earth acts, even though most of the giant octopus tribes still treated it with disdain and looked down on it, many small octopus tribes had already started to accept it. After all, its strength and potential were clear to see.
As compared to hearsays of a human spy, the wise octopus was like a human, it valued reality more.
With the existence of Twelve Arms the foreign creature, at least there was something reliable in danger…
It was rare to have a conscientious octopuses among all the octopuses.
Octopuses were all very smart, as long as one was not biased, one could tell the Twelve Arms was actually an innocent and honest fellow.
If it were to be sent to be a spy, it would be easy pickings…
The current situation now was a conflict between two small octopus tribes. They both had numerous octopus demons, and led thousands of normal octopuses, which resembled rank structures in human society.
They were striking at each other violently for a desolated little island that had an area of not even several square kilometers, which had no developmental value for humans.
Since both sides were roughing-up on one another and were unable to come out even, they invited Twelve Arms, who was somewhat famous in upholding justice.
They both believed that while the loyal and bragging Twelve Arms might not pick any one of their sides, but would definitely not be biased towards the other party.
Right then, upon hearing Twelve Arm’s question, a one-eyed octopus from the octopus tribe on the right raised its arm and said, “We want this island to make jars. We want to be like humans who drill wood to make their own fire, by making pottery, we’ll have however big of a jar we want to have.”
Twelve Arms nodded as the reason was sufficient, besides, once they made their own jars, they no longer had to be chased away by humans for stealing jars or being punished by the fellow in the sky…
When the one-eyed octopus saw Twelve Arm’s reaction, it was cheerful.
The head of the octopus tribe on the left that had one less limb, seven-limbed octopus, raised its limb and said, “We want this island to farm fishes…”
The twelve-limbed octopus was distressed from hearing that, it waved its twelve limbs around. “Aren’t there many fishes in the sea? Why do you want to farm them yourselves?”
The seven-limbed octopus said, “I’ve seen a human education material which stated that, only self-farmed fishes will be unlimited.”
When Twelve Arms heard that, it was not very certain if this reason was right or not, hence it looked at its two dolphin brothers.
The black dolphin praised, “That’s right, this is one of the human’s ways of thinking that can be further developed, this leader has great thoughts.”
Since the seven-limbed octopus received approval, it was elated as well, it danced its limbs around to demonstrate its powers to the one-eyed octopus.
Looking at the situation, Twelve Arms felt that both sides were speaking the truth and were being reasonable, so what should he do?
The atmosphere was instantly turned into an awkward situation, both the seven-limbed octopus and the one-eyed octopus eyed each other, unwilling to give way to the other.
The black and white dolphins were smarter, after all, they often followed the human’s fishing boats.
The white dolphin suggested, “This is simple, one of you use the land while the other uses the ocean. Farming fishes require water, so there’s no need for land.”
The seven-limbed fish said in disdain after hearing that, “Did you think that we weren’t as smart as you, dolphin? We no longer want to eat fishes in the sea, humans always throw all kinds of rubbish into the sea.
“Not only do they taste bad, they’re poisonous, and it significantly affects the growth of our children. We’d like to farm clean fishes to eat, so we can only farm them in isolation on the island.”
The white dolphin smiled embarrassedly and did not say anything else.
Just when all “fishes” were unable to come to a solution, a firm voice was heard.
“The current serious issues in the ocean can’t be solved by just speech and resolutions from most of the people…they have to be solved through iron and blood.”