Chapter 34
In an instant,
the Blue Ringed Octopus shuddered violently.
Its eight enormous tentacles twisted and convulsed in agony
before swiftly retreating Underground.
The three Patrol Martial Artists who had been surrounded by the tentacles
breathed a little easier.
Then they looked toward the figure in dark blue sportswear with open admiration.
So this was a Psychic Master!
Faced with the Blue Ringed Octopus hiding Underground, ordinary Martial Artists could not even pinpoint its location.
But a Psychic Master could not only find it, he could wound it from a distance!
Jiang Fu frowned slightly.
"Just a little more!"
The Blue Ringed Octopus's weak point kept moving inside its body.
That last strike
had pierced the Blue Ringed Octopus, but it had not dealt a fatal blow.
"Again!"
Jiang Fu gritted his teeth.
The keen blade wheeled through the parking lot,
its edge gleaming,
and struck at the Blue Ringed Octopus once more.
At the same time,
he locked onto the fatal weak point roaming inside its body.
By now,
the enormous Blue Ringed Octopus had sensed the danger.
Its massive body flowed like liquid
toward a gap deep within the parking lot.
Pfft!
The blade pierced the Blue Ringed Octopus again.
Its body convulsed,
and its speed dropped at once.
But the blade still missed its fatal weak point.
On the System Screen,
the tiny red dot was moving faster and faster.
The enormous Blue Ringed Octopus was about to slip beyond the reach of Jiang Fu's Spirit Power
and squeeze into that gap.
Jiang Fu gritted his teeth.
If I can't hit its fatal weak point, I'll try something else!
For this strike, Speed multiplied by ten!
For this strike, destructive power multiplied by ten!
For this strike, Damage dealt multiplied by ten!
For ten seconds!
Pfft!
The blade cut through the air
and drove straight toward one of the Blue Ringed Octopus's huge yellow eyes.
Just as the blade neared its eye,
another tentacle suddenly appeared
and slammed toward the blade.
But this time,
Jiang Fu was ready.
With his Neural Reaction Speed multiplied by ten,
the blade slowed for an instant,
then abruptly accelerated.
Pfft!
The sharp blade punched through the Blue Ringed Octopus's tentacle
and buried itself in its enormous yellow eye.
In an instant,
the Blue Ringed Octopus's massive body convulsed wildly.
Its eight enormous tentacles writhed and thrashed.
Its huge body struggled frantically inside the Underground Parking Lot.
Pfft!
A moment later,
the blade burst from the Blue Ringed Octopus's other eye, its keen edge flashing,
dragging a spray of viscous fluid behind it.
The Blue Ringed Octopus thrashed even more violently,
twisting and struggling throughout the Underground Parking Lot.
At the same time, it spewed great clouds of ink.
Feeling the tremors from below,
the three Patrol Martial Artists trembled with fear.
They looked toward the figure in dark blue sportswear again.
Their admiration had turned to awe.
So this was the terrifying power of a Psychic Master!
If that young-looking Psychic Master had not been here today,
all three of them would have died.
The civilian residential area around the supermarket would have suffered devastating damage as well!
Meanwhile,
a cold glint flashed in Jiang Fu's eyes.
Under the control of his Spirit Power,
the blade, no bigger than his palm,
drove through the Blue Ringed Octopus's eye and into its body.
It darted back and forth inside, tearing through everything in its path.
Suddenly,
Jiang Fu's blade stopped.
It had finally struck the little red dot marked on the System Screen.
Pfft!
With a muffled sound,
the Blue Ringed Octopus's massive body stopped convulsing.
Its eight enormous tentacles fell limply to the ground.
It was dead!
The three Patrol Martial Artists felt the movement below cease.
One of them cautiously asked, "Sir... did the Blue Ringed Octopus escape?"
Jiang Fu shook his head slightly. "It's dead."
"Uh... what?!"
"Dead?!"
At Jiang Fu's words,
the three Patrol Martial Artists froze.
The Blue Ringed Octopus might not have been a Mutated Beast,
but it was still a Tier 2 creature.
Its vitality was immense!
Even an Advanced Martial Artist with Blood Energy above ten thousand would have needed some effort
to kill a Tier 2 Blue Ringed Octopus outright.
Yet now,
from the moment this unknown Psychic Master appeared to the Blue Ringed Octopus's death...
how much time had passed?
Ten seconds?
Twenty?
Could a Psychic Master's killing power really be this absurd?
Jiang Fu ignored their expressions.
He controlled the blade with his Spirit Power and cut open the Blue Ringed Octopus's body.
The Blue Ringed Octopus was poisonous, so it could not be eaten.
But that Poison Gland...
"Where's the Poison Gland?"
Jiang Fu muttered.
Then he reached for his phone to look it up online.
One of the Patrol Martial Artists heard him
and hurriedly said, "Inside the Blue Ringed Octopus, the web-like structure is its Poison Gland..."
Jiang Fu nodded. "Thanks."
Then,
following the Patrol Martial Artist's directions,
he cut out the Blue Ringed Octopus's Poison Gland
and moved it elsewhere with his Spirit Power.
Meanwhile,
the three Patrol Martial Artists were a mess.
Their combat suits were torn and covered in the Blue Ringed Octopus's slime.
Without the protection of those suits,
the three of them would likely have died from the Blue Ringed Octopus's poison already.
By then,
they could also see through the fissure in the supermarket floor into the Underground Parking Lot, where the enormous, gutted corpse of the Blue Ringed Octopus lay.
"Sir..."
When the three looked again,
Jiang Fu was gone.
At that moment,
other Patrol Martial Artist squads arrived to reinforce them.
From the Blue Abyss Emperor Crab's Alienation to the Blue Ringed Octopus's appearance and now,
less than a minute had passed.
"A Blue Abyss Emperor Crab and a Blue Ringed Octopus?!"
"Zhang Chong, what happened?"
Zhang Chong was one of the three Patrol Martial Artists who had been there from the start.
He was also the Captain of the Patrol Team.
He steadied himself and recounted what had happened.
The other Patrol Martial Artists' faces darkened as they listened.
A creature undergoing Alienation!
A Blue Ringed Octopus invading the city!
Neither was a minor matter.
"Thank goodness that powerful Psychic Master was here. Otherwise..."
"Right. Send people to investigate and seal that fissure as soon as possible. We can't let anything else into the city!"
As the others dealt with the aftermath,
Zhang Chong suddenly spoke up.
"That Blue Ringed Octopus was using the Blue Abyss Emperor Crab as bait to lure Martial Artists to their deaths."
He paused.
Then he asked, sounding a little lost, "How did that Blue Ringed Octopus know the Blue Abyss Emperor Crab was going to undergo Alienation..."
His words faded.
The surrounding area fell deathly silent.
Jiang Fu found his Shopping Cart.
He was heading toward the checkout area.
Along the way, he picked up a few Travel Backpacks.
By then,
the customers and staff had all evacuated the supermarket.
The danger alert had already been lifted,
but the supermarket remained under lockdown.
Many people had come back and gathered near the Cordon to watch.
They wanted to see what a Mutated Beast looked like.
Before long,
Jiang Fu pushed his overflowing Shopping Cart out of the supermarket.
Under everyone's gaze, he went to the Self-checkout Counter.
He began scanning his purchases and checking out at an unhurried pace.
At the end,
he seemed to remember something else.
He removed the Hang Tags from his cap and mask,
scanned them at the self-checkout machine,
and paid.
Throughout it all,
everyone nearby watched Jiang Fu.
When they saw him leave the supermarket carrying bags of purchases,
they moved aside to let him through.
"Young people these days have guts!"
"There's a Mutated Beast in that supermarket, and he's still so calm!"
"Calm? He's obviously just showing off!"
"Who knows how scared he looks under that mask and Duckbill Cap!"
"Well, he impressed me!"
"Holy shit, he really was calm. I was so scared I nearly pissed my pants!"
"But what exactly underwent Alienation in there..."
"...I heard it was a crab. Maybe an octopus, too!"
A little while later,
Zhang Chong and the other Patrol Martial Artists came out.
"There's a Fissure in the Underground Parking Lot leading to an unknown area."
"Send someone to seal it off immediately!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Hey, Captain Zhang, what happened in there? You dealt with it that quickly?"
The relief of someone who had survived a close call showed on Zhang Chong's face.
"A Tier 1 Blue Abyss Emperor Crab and a Second-order Blue Ringed Octopus!"
"Both were killed by a mysterious, incredibly powerful Psychic Master!"
As he spoke,
the admiration on Zhang Chong's face was unmistakable.
"That Second-order Blue Ringed Octopus was over twenty meters long!"
"In front of that Psychic Master, it was dead in less than twenty seconds!"
"It's a shame the Psychic Master wore a mask and a Duckbill Cap. I didn't get to see his face..."
At Zhang Chong's words,
the others suddenly pictured someone.
"...Was that Psychic Master wearing dark blue Sportswear?"
Zhang Chong nodded. "Yes. You saw him too?"
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