The body of Kraken, which is as huge as a moving mountain, is suspended silently. Two deadly tentacles control Crayfish Douluo and Dolphin Douluo. Like bait hanging from the mouth of the abyss, the cruel reality is coldly displayed in front of everyone at Sea God Island.
Five people, Sea Swallow, Coral Douluo, Sea Turtle Douluo, Conch Douluo, and Ye Yang, were seriously injured. Sea Turtle Douluo gasped after struggling to maintain the broken defense. Leaf Sheep Douluo's healing light rain continued to fall, barely stabilizing everyone's injuries, but unable to change the desperate situation at the core.
Kraken's huge abyss-like eyes slowly swept across the pale and listless people, and finally settled on the two people he imprisoned. A low, indifferent voice, as if it was just stating a simple fact, sounded directly in the depths of everyone's souls:
"The game is over. My patience is limited."
Its tentacles tightened slightly, Crayfish Douluo let out a painful groan, and cracks in the armor spread; Dolphin Douluo felt the cold bone spurs next to his temples getting closer, and the breath of death was clearly audible.
"For the sake of you being... barely considered an 'old friend', I can be extra merciful to you."
In the abyss-like eyes, the dim light flows, with a kind of cruel playfulness like cat and mouse:
"Of these two, I can let one go."
As soon as these words came out, the five seriously injured people and the two imprisoned people were shocked!
"But the other ending..." Kraken's voice paused, as if appreciating the sudden change in everyone's expressions, before slowly spitting out cold and biting words, "You know it."
"Bastard! How dare you!!" Crayfish Douluo's eyes were split open, and he struggled wildly, but was tightened even more tightly by the tentacles, corroded by the poison, and his voice became hoarse.
Dolphin Douluo's body stiffened, and his face was no longer pale, but a kind of deathly gray. He could feel the coldness against his vital points, and he could even feel the unabashed and targeted malice in Kraken's words. Letting one go? The outcome of the other is known? This is forcing them to... choose! Forcing them to make a choice between colleagues, who lives and who dies!
The five seriously injured people looked at each other in shock, with shock, fear, struggle and pain written all over their faces.
Coral Douluo Heart: Master... This is going to tear us apart completely! Force us to make the most cruel choice between our colleagues and our own loyalty! No matter who we choose, the one who survives, and those of us who make the choice, will always have indelible cracks and shadows in our hearts!
Sea Swallow Douluo In the heart: Who should I choose? Crayfish Douluo has a bad temper, but is strong in combat, and is unquestionably loyal to the Holy Land. He is a sharp knife. Dolphin Douluo... The auxiliary ability is indispensable, and the mind is delicate, but at this moment... the knife is more important! But this choice...
Sea Turtle Douluo In the heart: The strongest spear cannot be lost...Crayfish Douluo... must live... but Dolphin Douluo...
Conch Douluo's heart: No... it can't be like this... it's all colleagues... this is the devil's play!
Leaf Sheep Douluo's heart: Why... why are we forced to choose... I can't save them... No one can save...
"Choose!" Kraken's voice was like a reminder, with unquestionable oppression, "I only have ten breaths of patience. After ten breaths, if no one speaks, I will choose for you - keep both."
The cold countdown was like a heavy hammer, hitting everyone's hearts.
"Nine..."
"Eight..."
Crayfish Douluo, who was caught by the tentacle Entanglement, stopped struggling in vain, stared at Kraken with his red eyes, and then turned to his companions with difficulty. His eyes were full of unwillingness, anger, and a trace of... imperceptible fear and prayer for "being chosen".
Dolphin Douluo closed his eyes and his body trembled slightly. The shadow of death was close at hand. Fear, unwillingness, and confusion about the decision his companions were about to make overwhelmed him.
"Seven..."
"Six..."
Coral Douluo raised her head suddenly, her lips trembling. She looked at Haiyan, whose eyes were filled with the same pain and determination. Then she looked at the turtle who was seriously injured but had persistent eyes, at the conch whose soul power was disordered, and at Ye Yang whose face was filled with tears.
"Five..."
"Four..."
Time seemed to be stretched out, and every breath was extremely painful. The friendship between colleagues, Sacred Pillar's responsibility, loyalty to the Holy Land, desire for survival, fear of death... countless thoughts collided crazily in the hearts of the five people.
"Three..."
"Two..."
Just when the last breath was about to run out, Kraken's eyes suddenly brightened, and the tentacles began to exert real force--
"Crayfish Douluo!"
A hoarse, dry voice, as if it was squeezed out with all the strength, broke the dead silence. It was Coral Douluo! Her face was as pale as a ghost, her nails dug deeply into her palms, and blood dripped from her fingers, but she still stared at Kraken and repeated, "Let go... let go Crayfish Douluo!"
The choice was made. Under the pressure of desperation and terror, and under the cold calculation of weighing combat power, loyalty, and future possibilities, they chose Crayfish Douluo.
The cruel playfulness in Kraken's huge eyes seemed to have reached its peak. It did not act immediately, but seemed to be savoring the aftertaste of this "choice". Those few seconds of silence were like Ling Chi to everyone in Sea God Island.
"A wise... or, realistic choice." It finally spoke slowly.
Immediately afterwards, Entanglement held Crayfish Douluo's thick tentacle, the blue light shrank slightly, and Entanglement's strength suddenly relaxed! Barb retracted, the suction cup detached, and the cold and poisonous Soul Power receded like a tide.
Crayfish Douluo felt his whole body loosen up, and the terrifying binding force and erosion disappeared instantly. However, the long-term confinement and toxin erosion made his limbs and limbs extremely painful and weak. Soul Power was sluggish, and the whole person fell straight down from the air like a puppet with its strings cut off!
"Catch him!" Sea Swallow Douluo forcefully took a sip of Soul Power, turned into a blue shadow and rushed out, narrowly catching Crayfish Douluo before it fell into the sea, and brought him back to the defense circle. Leaf Sheep Douluo's healing light immediately surged up, covering him.
And almost at the same time--
"No--!!!"
Under the horrified gazes of everyone, especially the newly rescued and still dazed Crayfish Douluo, Kraken's slender tentacles of Entanglement and Dolphin Douluo suddenly burst out with a dazzling blue light! It instantly penetrated Dolphin Douluo's eyebrows!
Dolphin Douluo's body suddenly stiffened, and his eyes instantly lost all their vitality and became empty and dead. The Soul Power in his body, along with his vitality, Mental Power, and even his soul Origin, were like floods that broke the embankment, rushing crazily towards the bone spur that pierced his skull, and were greedily absorbed by the tentacles, Devouring!
In just two or three breaths, his entire body shriveled up and shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a small ball of dim dust. Together with the Sacred Pillar robes on his body, they were completely absorbed by the tentacles, leaving nothing behind.
There was only an extremely weak trace of the mournful lingering sound of Phantom Sound Dolphin Spirit Empire left in the air, and the blue light at the tip of the tentacle that seemed darker and deeper, proving that he once existed and disappeared in the most complete way.
"The harvest is acceptable." Kraken's low voice sounded, with a hint of "satisfaction", and its huge eyes swept below the six people who seemed to have had their souls taken away, leaving only grief, anger and fear, and the overwhelming despair. Its gaze seemed to stay for a moment longer on Conch Douluo's pale and shocked face, with slightly trembling cuffs.
"Send hello to the old man for me. Tell him that the gift has been delivered."
As the words fell, its huge body slowly sank, its eight tentacles stirred the sea water, bringing up the last undercurrents and whirlpools, and then completely submerged into the deep darkness, its breath quickly moved away and dissipated, as if it had never appeared.
Sea of Shipwrecks, returned to deathly silence. Only the turbulent sea water, broken wooden boards, and the faint trace of blood and the disgusting smell of Devouring remained in the air.
The six people stood there like stone sculptures. Crayfish Douluo managed to stabilize his injuries under the continuous treatment of Ye Yang, but the anger and pain in his eyes almost burned out. What was more, it was a deep-rooted weakness, fear, and... a huge sense of guilt for the death of his companions because of him.
Conch Douluo stood there blankly, the Tide Sound Conch he held tightly in his hand was freezing cold. He looked at the place where Dolphin Douluo disappeared, and subconsciously touched the rings in his sleeves.
"Let's go..." After a long time, Coral Douluo broke the suffocating silence with an extremely hoarse voice, "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time... go back."
Six dim and staggering figures, carrying pain all over their bodies, headed in the direction of Sea God Island, and returned with difficulty and silence...