The octopus tentacles emerging from the sewers were incredibly fast and powerful, but they seemed uninterested in human flesh. After crushing the man to death, they tossed him aside and swept toward the drugs that had yet to be fully dumped.
"Wait. Even for an octopus, doing drugs isn't a good thing."
With a flick of his fingertip, Luo Xia fired a high-energy laser and sliced the tentacle in two.
Yet the severed tentacle immediately began to writhe and transform, becoming a monstrous octopus designated No. 1. It had nine tentacles, and its entire body was covered in tough, spiny armor. Sharp and hard, it could carve deep grooves directly into concrete walls.
The car-sized monstrous octopus leaped onto the drugs, wrapped its tentacles around the remaining canisters, and prepared to dive back into the sewer.
Meanwhile, an identical thick tentacle rapidly grew from the other severed end, blocking Luo Xia's second high-energy laser. The monstrous octopus seemed to understand that Luo Xia was not someone to be provoked. It only wanted to take the goods and leave.
"Rapid healing, individual splitting, and not low on intelligence either. It seems En Sabah Nur's research into divine power has produced decent results," Luo Xia remarked approvingly.
Unfortunately, Luo Xia's current power was not something an octopus could possibly stump.
Creator's Staff appeared in Luo Xia's hand, and he gave the ground a light tap. The metal sewer pipes began to twist and combine, like giant metal pythons suddenly coming alive, tightly binding both the giant octopus's tentacles and its split-off body.
What was more, countless barbed spikes grew from within the bodies of those metal pythons and stabbed into the soft flesh. With that, no matter how strong or flexible the octopuses were, they could not break free.
"High-speed regeneration is