The cannon roared again, and a thin, silvery beam shot out from the muzzle. It wasn't a cannonball, but a force field compressed to its limit.
The silver light pierced through the octopus's skin and muscles, which were tens of meters thick, without causing any wounds, like a silver needle piercing a huge ball of flesh.
The next moment, the silver light suddenly expanded inside the octopus. The giant octopus stopped moving.
Its tentacles hovered in mid-air, its suckers still instinctively contracting, but its enormous eyes suddenly bulged out, and its pupils dilated sharply.
The next second, a series of muffled explosions came from inside the octopus. Its body began to swell from the inside out, and large bulges appeared on its skin before bursting open.
Dark green blood and bits of flesh gushed from the rift, staining the sea surface for miles around black.
"There's a 50% chance it will explode inside the body, and a 50% chance it will explode outside." Gu Yue looked at the giant octopus carcass slowly sinking into the sea outside the porthole. "Are you sure that's the probability?"
"Hehehe, mind your own business!" Xiao Mu smiled calmly.
Mu Ye picked a piece of still-wriggling octopus flesh from the windowsill, looked at Xiao Mu, and remained silent for a moment, feeling that Xiao Mu's ability was a bit supernatural.
On the sea surface, the remains of a giant octopus slowly sank into the deep sea, and a blood-red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring rose from the whirlpool. Next to it floated a crystal-clear Soul Bone, which refracted a seven-colored halo in the sunlight.
The light was so alluring.
The simultaneous appearance of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone is an opportunity that is extremely rare in the career of any Soul Master.
The crew members on deck were still staring blankly at the Shark-Repelling Soul Tool, while several Soul Master from the Star Luo Delegation and the Federation delegation were already red-eyed.
" Soul Bone! It's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone! Grab it now!"
Someone shouted, and seven or eight figures leaped from the deck into the sea, swarming towards the floating Soul Ring and Soul Bone like dumplings being dropped into boiling water, the splashing water not yet falling.
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Xiao Mu stood in front of the kitchen porthole, his lips twitching slightly, then he laughed—a gloating laugh.
"What are they doing?" Na'er stood on tiptoe and leaned against the windowsill, watching the figures rushing to jump into the sea.
"They're courting death." Gu Yue's voice was icy; she realized that human greed was far greater than she had imagined.
"In a battlefield at the Titled Douluo level, two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast were still in the water, and they just jumped in like that." Xu Xiaoyan shook her head. " Luo Yuhang was pressing down on them from above, and the two Soul Beast were already holding back their anger, so this was perfect—"
Before the words were even finished, an explosion occurred on the sea.
The Demon Soul Great White Shark King suddenly surged up from the deep water, its massive jaws opening wide, swallowing a Soul Master who was retrieving Soul Bone, water and all, in one fell swoop. The movement was so fast that even a scream was only half-sounded.
The Evil Spirit Tiger Shark King's bone armor unfolded in the water, crashing into the crowd like a living meat grinder. A dark green beam of light swept across the water's surface, and several Soul Master who hadn't had time to dive were directly blasted away by the shockwave, crashing into the ship's hull and bouncing back into the sea, their fate unknown.
The two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast abandoned their fight with Luo Yuhang and turned to charge at the Soul Master who had fallen into the water. This was not a battle; it was a one-sided massacre.
On the water, they are only slightly stronger than Super Douluo.
Underwater, it's a different story.
A bunch of landlubbers, how could they possibly defeat them?
Xiao Mu leaned against the window, watching the churning blood waves and severed limbs on the sea, and said calmly, " Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is several times stronger in water than on the surface. Even Luo Yuhang didn't dare to go into the water to fight. Do they think they're stronger than Super Douluo?"
Mu Ye glanced out the window and shook his head. "How did someone with this level of intelligence cultivate to the level of Titled Douluo? A single Soul Bone killed so many Star Luo Empire Titled Douluo."
Xiao Mu leaned against the porthole, his fingers flying across his personal terminal. A palm-sized, flat machine slid out of his Storage Soul Tool and fell silently into the sea without even a splash.
Remote control, silent propulsion, underwater camouflage coating—this is Underwater Reconnaissance Drone he made last year when he had nothing else to do. It was originally intended to be used to test fish behavior patterns in laboratory tanks.
"Brother, what is this again?" Na'er leaned closer to look at his terminal screen.
"Pick something up."
On the screen, the Underwater Reconnaissance Drone's camera transmits live footage.
The crystal-clear Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone was slowly sinking into the deep sea. The surrounding waters were murky with the dark green blood of the octopus. Two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast were frantically chasing the Soul Master who had fallen into the water in the distance, completely unaware that a small creature the size of a palm had slid past them.
Or rather, they noticed it but didn't care.
Soul Bone are useless to them!
They neither transform into human form nor enter the human world.
The reconnaissance aircraft approached the Soul Bone, and a miniature mechanical arm on its abdomen popped out, firmly gripping the edge of the Soul Bone. Then, it slowly floated up and attached the Soul Bone to the bottom of the giant ship, securing it firmly with a magnetic lock.
The whole process took less than twenty seconds, as clean and efficient as underwater repairs.
Xiao Mu turned off the terminal and put the remote control back in his pocket.
Xu Xiaoyan looked at him suspiciously. "What were you doing just now? Aren't you going to bring it up?"
"Bring it up. Why now?" Xiao Mu wouldn't make a move now; if he were discovered, killing someone would be a real problem.
Now that this machine can conceal the fluctuations of the Soul Bone, there's no need to panic.
The blood on the sea surface was gradually washed away by the ocean currents. The Demon Soul Great White Shark King and the Evil Spirit Tiger Shark King, along with their respective clans, sank into the deep sea, and the dark red sea gradually returned to deep blue.
Luo Yuhang descended from the sky back onto the deck. The dark purple aura on his Three-Word Battle Armor slowly receded, the Darkness Domain receded like a tide, and the sky brightened again, with stars appearing one after another.
The captain, along with a few crew members, began counting the casualties. A weary voice came over the loudspeaker. "All passengers, please assemble on deck for a headcount. Repeat, all passengers, please assemble on deck."
The results came back quickly. The ship was not badly damaged, and the soul-guided shields withstood most of the impact.
As for the passengers, apart from the few who jumped into the sea to retrieve the Soul Bone, everyone else was safe and sound.
"Those who jumped in couldn't be saved." The captain closed the statistics sheet, his voice low. "They were all from the Star Luo Delegation, three Titled Douluo and one Soul Douluo. All we managed to retrieve were their broken identity tokens."
Xiao Mu leaned against the ship's railing, listening to the captain's words with a blank expression.
Na'er stood beside him, silently watching the last few ripples on the sea illuminated by the moonlight, without making any more noise.
Xu Xiaoyan held Xiao Mu's hand; his fingers were slightly cool, but her grip was very tight.
Gu Yue didn't have any particular thoughts. "It was their own greed that killed them."
"Let's go back and rest. Right now, it's Star Luo Empire who's sad, not us."