"What, you want me to take the fall for you?"
"I just don't know what we're dealing with..."
Li Tianming smiled. "You think we can take turns wearing it down? No such luck. No matter how many people show up, a doom octopus will only gamble with one of them for their lives. If that person loses, everyone who came with them dies."
"Then... you do it. I really don't know what we're dealing with."
"The doom octopus chooses who it gambles with, not you. Since it had me explain things to you, it probably picked you."
"Huh?"
Qin Siyang glanced at the doom octopus again. Sure enough, its eyes were fixed on him.
He instinctively sucked in a sharp breath.
Only to gag on the stench of corpses clinging to his mask.
"Old Li, could you hold it down with [Earth Bind] so we can escape?"
"Impossible. The moment we run, it'll go berserk, and my skill won't be able to restrain it. At its size, hunting the two of us down would be child's play."
"So nothing works!"
Qin Siyang pointed furiously at Li Tianming. "This is all your fault! You just had to kick me down here! I told you this place felt dangerous!"
Li Tianming said flatly, "That wasn't your tone when you asked me to come out hunting gods. Besides, my life is in your hands now. You think I'm happy about that?"
"Heh. What's that supposed to mean? You don't think I'm good enough?"
"Hard to say. Since you said you're lucky, you might as well do it. My luck's always been terrible. Otherwise, I wouldn't have sunk so low that I had to team up with a rookie like you."
"Who are you looking down on, you old baldy?!"
"I know you have