C70 (1/2)

Wei Wuji brought two helpers to the lagoon's shore. With the Water Spider in his mouth, he packed all the items he needed under the water and signaled the girl and Chen Xiaohua to sit under the tree and wait for him to come up.

The girl had been with Wei Wuji for a long time, so she was naturally worried for him. However, Wei Wuji was no longer distracted. He quickly took off his clothes and jumped into the lagoon with only a pair of fish-skin shorts on him.

Ever since he had met with danger as a child, Wei Wuji had never gone into deep water again. The moment he entered the lagoon, he immediately realized that he had been too careless before.

His body seemed to have lost control of itself. After a brief, random struggle, he coughed up a mouthful of water, which actually calmed him down. The feeling of calming down when you didn't want to die gradually calmed him down.

As Wuji swam, he observed the situation in the water. Gradually, he reached the bottom of the water and saw a lot of seaweed collected by the Great Sage for Yao Yun. He also picked some and put them into his diving bag.

At this moment, Wuji suddenly felt a ripple from the sea in front of him. Something seemed to have stirred up a lot of sand at the bottom of the water. Before he could react further, a small shark suddenly rushed out of the faint yellow seawater and almost bumped into his face.

Wuji jumped in fright. He scolded himself for being nervous and cowardly. It was just a shark that was less than half a meter long and would not cause any harm to people.

When the sediment in the water settled, Wuji immediately understood what had just happened to scare the shark so badly that he found an octopus lurking at the bottom of the water.

However, this octopus wasn't too big, it wasn't big enough to kill a human in its teens. Judging from the size of the octopus, it should be the food that the Great Sage would often catch to make the curry octopus.

Octopus is a unique animal. They are different from all other animals, not only have high IQ, but they also have conceptual intelligence. All of their life skills and skills do not come from their parents' teachings, but from their own thinking and practice after birth. Because of this, octopus are a kind of animals with a lot of personality. They are not obsessed with the same method of hunting. Instead, they think about which method to use to hunt food based on their advantages, the size of their prey and the surrounding environment. The octopus that had just failed was probably a trick of some whim. It had switched to an unfamiliar hunting method, and the result was that the young shark had luckily escaped.

As he gradually got used to the water's environment, he was no longer as nervous as he was before. He had discovered two groups of caves, and from the looks of it, this was a waterway that connected the outer seas of the island. Although some small fishes could barely pass through these holes, the larger fishes were harder to pass through.

Following this route, he finally found a few bigger holes. It seemed like this was the third channel that connected to the outer sea. These holes were big enough for the small sharks to freely enter and exit. More importantly, outside one of the biggest holes, Wei Wuji had discovered a corpse of a shark that had been bitten off to the point where only its head remained. He cautiously approached the head and carefully examined it. He discovered that there were a few wounds caused by the suction cups of the octopus. A group of different colored small fish were fighting over the flesh that was on top of the body cavity.

This should be it. Wei Wuji carried the searchlight and went into the cave.

The space inside twisted and twisted, sometimes extending upwards and sometimes twisting downwards. The path inside was also either narrow and could only accommodate one's body, or spacious enough to pass through a large ship. The surrounding rock walls were strangely shaped. In this dark environment, the light from the searchlights made it seem as though there were many demons and ghosts hiding here.

Strangely, at this point, Wei Wuji no longer felt any fear. He carefully scanned every nook and cranny with the searchlight, afraid that he would miss any clues.

Finally, something caught his attention on the wall below him.

He swam for a distance and shone the searchlight in that direction. It turned out to be a lump of something emerging from the mud beneath the rock. It gave off a faint, yellowish glow.

He could finally see clearly that they were octopus tentacles. They were using the light from the tentacles to lure their prey closer to him and then launching another surprise attack when they were caught off guard.

Based on the exposed portion, Wei Wuji speculated on the size of this octopus. He felt that this size did not appear to be the culprit behind the Great Sage's death. Since he was born on the island, his swimming skill was excellent. If the Great Sage wanted to drag him underwater to drown and bring him back to the lair to enjoy, then this killer should be a rare giant octopus after all. However, this octopus in front of him was not small, but it was still a very common type of octopus.

However, Wei Wuji decided that he would go and capture this octopus to see what was going on. At the very least, it would be good to bring it back for drinking.

Just as he was about to dive down to catch the octopus, he suddenly saw a shiny object reflecting the light of a searchlight not far away. He quickly recognized it; it was the cobalt-chrome diving knife that Chen Sha gave to the Great Sage! If it appeared here, then it meant that maybe the Great Sage was nearby, then this octopus.