For a moment, time itself seemed to stop. Only the tentacle that had been shot dead writhed on the ground, oozing scalding blood.
A breeze stirred the blood-red mist lingering around them.
Lynn in his wheelchair and the enormous, ten-story mass of flesh before him seemed to form a frozen tableau, a murderous atmosphere rolling out around them.
Yin Yi felt as though her mind had stopped working. She trembled all over as she watched, not daring to move in that terrifying atmosphere.
She swore.
This was absolutely the most agonizing moment she had experienced in her entire existence.
It felt as though the slightest movement would get her killed, as though icy blood flowed through every corner of her soul.
Silence.
Who knew how much time passed.
"Ahahahaha!"
A hoarse laugh from within the enormous mass of flesh broke the eerie silence.
Then Yin Yi saw the flesh of the giant facing them begin to writhe before slowly parting to either side. A humanoid creature wearing a black cloak, its lower body composed entirely of tentacles, squirmed out, laughing loudly. It approached Lynn, grabbed the hundred Skeleton Coins he held out, and raised its head to reveal an enormous eyeball that occupied half its face.
"You should've said so! You should've told us earlier! If we'd known, how could we possibly refuse to help a brother from our own sect? If you didn't like that tentacle, why spend twenty Skeleton Coins to buy its life? We'd have killed it for you for ten! We're family from the same sect, after all!"
"Ahahahaha!"
Lynn also burst into an uncanny laugh, amiably shaking the tentacle it extended as he said:
"Exactly. How could family from the same sect hurt one another? I felt an inexplicable kinship the moment I saw you,