Chapter 317 - This Black Cat Has a Bad Conscience (1/2)
Bohai Bay, on the ocean surface where there were slightly surging waves.
Twelve Arms waited over here with its partners the black and white dolphins, the leaders of two octopus tribes, who were the arbitration targets of this conflict, and Sir Tom the black cat who had a kind heart though it seldom smiled.
Looking from afar, they looked like a dense mass, which was actually quite a horrifying scene. After all, other than the black cat, all other fellows were not of small sizes.
In the past, this was a hustling and bustling shipping lane, but it was already abandoned now. Not only were there few cargo ships and passenger ships, even fishing boats were rarely seen.
Occasionally, a big ship would be seen passing by, with some cultivators were aboard at the front line. When they saw them, each of them became more alert.
Twelve Arms was not concerned about this at all, but his two partners kept discussing this upon seeing the situation.
“There are significantly fewer boats nowadays.” The black dolphin said.
“Yes, I used to be afraid of coming near here, there were too many nets set up here, and too many boats as well.” The white dolphin looked around them.
As Tom the black cat stepped on water, it laughed and said when it heard what the dolphins said, “This clearly explains that the ocean is returning to its true owner…”
“Sir Tom is right, the sea definitely belongs to the Dolphin Empire.” The black dolphin said proudly.
The one-eyed octopus was disgruntled after hearing it. “How is that possible? You dolphins have no arms or limbs and have limited potential, the sea is destined to be the Octopus Empire’s.
“That’s because we have the smartest brains, the most useful limbs, which are far better than humans’ fingers. We can do whatever humans can do and we can even do them much better.
“As for you, you can only be our carriages, just like cows and horses for humans. It happens that your sizes are big enough and you move quite fast, so you’re not slower than humans’ trains.”
In order to prove its words, the one-eyed octopus immediately ordered eight of its limbs to show off some tricks.
Its limbs instantly started to move around, performing all kinds of dazzling movements, such as tangling, curling, pinching, and holding. It was simply agile to the extreme, which was indeed not inferior to humans’ fingers, and was even more advantageous.
“That’s right, that’s right, but us octopuses are kind. We’ll let you have full meals instead of making you our transportation with empty stomachs, hahaha.” The seven-limbed octopus that was at another side nodded in agreement too, it was delighted.
Although they were currently competitors, they needed to act in concern for other people.
As the black and white dolphins looked at each other, they looked aghast and were immensely frustrated, but they could not deny a frightening truth.
It turned out that octopuses who were only their source of food in the past had equivalent potentials as humans. In the worst case, their children and grandchildren would only become their servants in the future, so they should simply kill them beforehand…
Hence, the black dolphin said madly, “How abominable, so much for warning fishermen to ‘not eat speaking ocean clans’. It wasn’t easy that the handful of humans who liked to target us were dead, you’ve outdone yourselves, you’re thinking about treating us like cows and horses again! Today, one of us two must die!”
The white dolphin nodded heavily too.
They waved their strong caudal fins to accumulate power, and was ready for a scale assault as they wanted to chop off the heads of these two octopuses.
Thus, in the process of waiting, these two newborn intelligent clans of the ocean were about to explode into a bloody encounter…
Tom the black cat was secretly delighted as it watched, in just two days’ time, it had taken the opportunity to instill many benefits of building an empire into these groups of newborn ocean intelligent beings…
It had put it this way, “As long as you build your own empires for your own clans, you’ll be able to become founding members of an empire. When that happens, not only will there be people who especially farm fishes for you to eat, people will build tall, luxurious, and exquisite underwater palaces for you. The benefits are much more than these…”
Its words made these naive fellows yearn for it and they drooled from the thought of it, most of them started to privately discuss starting an empire.
When Twelve Arms saw the situation, it quickly dissuaded them, “Peace, we need peace.
“Brother White, didn’t you say that you symbolize love and peace?
“One-eyed, Seven Arms, keep your limbs, don’t shatter unity, we’re all partners.”
However, this time round, all the parties turned a deaf ear to its words. They only looked at each other with glaring looks, as they were dead set on fighting one another beforehand for their future ranks in the ocean.
Twelve Arms was deeply troubled, just as it was about to invite the Heavenly Book out to stop this mess, the look on its round head changed all of a sudden. It then moved aside immediately.
Tom the black cat immediately followed.
When Twelve Arms reached the ocean surface far away, it lifted the dark black-colored bag with a grave expression.
The golden book flew out from the bag and was fluttering the pages.
Twelve Arm’s face turned ghastly at once.
“Oh Heavenly Book, I see you’ll miss home too. That’s right, this is probably not far from where your true owner stays, I often see him flying to the ocean from this direction.
“Yes, it’s time for us to part, you should return. I’ll forever remember the pointers you’ve given me, and I swear that no matter what happens, I’ll keep to my original aspirations, I’ll forever remember to build an honest oceanic world…”
Tom the black cat thought to itself, ‘This octopus is a silly bird…’
When Tom the black cat heard all of that, it imprinted a mark on the twelve-limbed octopus at once.
How could it return the artifact back to its owner so easily?
If it was the cat itself, it would have thought of ways to identify the true owner, or hid it far away. It would certainly not let its original owner find it. Oh right, the most reassuring way would be killing the original owner.
A brief moment later, it turned its eyeballs and came to a sudden realization. From the words of that silly octopus, it deduced a horrifying fact… This magical book belonged to Vigilante A!
While Tom the black cat was caught up in its own thoughts, it saw the golden book shaking in the end, and indeed left Twelve Arms then flew towards land.
Tom really wanted to follow after it quietly to stop that magical book, but after some thought, its good habit stopped it from doing so.
‘That won’t do, it’s more adequate to neglect it and put it aside.’ It thought to itself.
Vigilante A possessed the Heaven’s Eye, how could he be clueless if he had lost something?
He must definitely be using it to fish, that was right, and for all it knew it was fishing for Sir Tom.