Tang the Runner

"So as long as we don't respond to it, we'll be safe?"

Tang Qi stood atop the ice, watching the Azure Great Octopus. It should have been terrifying beyond measure, yet now it seemed comical and adorable. The eyeballs across its body and tentacles continued blinking, glimmering with faint light.

Yet faced with its enthusiastic attempts to keep them and its questions, the scientists aboard the Seeker were all panicked. They hid inside the Hidden Cabin and did not dare show themselves, much less offer any response.

If this were a comic, a huge question mark would probably have appeared above the "Monarch Octopus's" head by now.

After the Seeker encountered its mishap, the navy, unaware of the truth, had issued a rather dangerous response order. It had later been corrected by learned advisors such as Rose Madeline.

The military's current orders for the officers and soldiers aboard the Frost Dragon were:

Do not attack lightly. Use "bait capture" if possible to bring the Sea Monster back.

Naturally, this "bait capture" required bait.

And that bait was none other than the Frost Dragon itself.

This mechanical monster from another realm, equipped with an Extraordinary Power Source, had easily crushed through the Frozen Continent. After arriving roughly a thousand meters away from the Seeker in a straight line, it did not continue forward. Instead, it used its searchlights to release an intense Light Source.

It sat in the Ice Ocean like an oversized lightbulb.

As long as they were not blind, no creature in the area could ignore it.

Such an aggressive capture method had been adopted to save the scientists aboard the Seeker, who were already on the brink of death.

Although every Monarch Octopus deliberately suppressed the contamination leaking from its body while striking up a conversation, so as