37: Chapter 37 Octopus Balls, Coral Sea_1 37: Chapter 37 Octopus Balls, Coral Sea_1 [High-end hunters often disguise themselves as their prey!]
The Eater God comnted, but did not provide more intelligence.
Lin Baici turned and looked at Xia Hongyao.
“What’s wrong?”
The girl with the high ponytail did not understand and instinctively turned her head to glance back.
“It’s nothing!”
Lin Baici slightly pursed his lips.
This girl, with her Force Speed Double A and intelligence of D, hadn’t noticed the anomaly in this train carriage, and this made him sowhat dissatisfied with the God Hunters of the Jiuzhou God Shield.
Are you all just freeloading?
Forget it, it’s better that you haven’t spotted the enemy.
At least now I don’t have to worry about you accidentally alerting them.
“Keep moving; what are you waiting for?”
The bald-headed passenger urged; the seawater was relentlessly rising, already reaching chest height,
terrifying indeed.
“Hurry up!”
Xia Hongyao also urged because many passengers were seated, and the seawater had already subrged their heads.
If we wait another minute or two, they will surely drown.
Lin Baici did not move; since the enemy was here, then there must be an octopus monster, right?
If it were him, he would surely leave one or two monsters for protection.
Because in Lin Baici’s view, both the seawater and the monsters were conjured by that enemy, so the opponent must have a way to control the octopus beasts.
“To kill the octopus monster in one blow, one must use the pine torch!”
Lin Baici extinguished the torch to lower the enemy’s alertness; after all, if soone on the high-speed train held a burning torch, anyone with half a brain would sense sothing wrong.
But now, Lin Baici had no choice.
So he raised his arm and struck the torch against the ceiling of the carriage!
Whoosh!
The torch, like an oversized matchstick, was lit.
During this process, Lin Baici kept his eyes on the entire carriage, wanting to see if any of the passengers would react unusually to him lighting the torch.
Because it was clearly one of the Taboo things.
If there was a reaction, it would an the other party was a God Hunter.
But the enemy was very patient and did not move, continuing to feign unconsciousness.
“Such a strong hunger cue ans that guy is definitely in this carriage!”
Lin Baici repeated his old trick.
He pulled a backpack from the luggage rack and threw it at a tall male passenger three ters in front of him, near the aisle.
Thump!
The backpack hit the water, and the tall man slipped into it.
A dark shadow darted out from under a nearby seat and quickly swam towards the fire, its tentacles extending and coiling around the tall man’s head.
Splash!
Water splashed in all directions.
Indeed, it was an octopus monster.
Lin Baici exerted all his strength and charged forward abruptly, holding the pine torch in his right hand and thrusting it speedily!
Splash!
The torch, like a spear, pierced through the water, and though slowed by the resistance of the seawater, still grazed the octopus monster.
Boom!
The octopus creature burst into flas that could not be extinguished, even underwater.
The bald-headed passenger, who had been annoyed with Lin Baici for not moving and wanting to hurry him, turned pale with fright at this scene.
“There’s a monster!”
The bald-headed passenger trembled like a sieve.
“Help…
help !”
The tall passenger thrashed about in the water, struggling.
If it weren’t for Lin Baici’s throw, he would have drowned while unconscious, suffocating to death.
Seeing Lin Baici motionless, Xia Hongmian wanted to pass him to rescue the tall man, but was stopped by Lin Baici’s outstretched hand.
“There might be more octopus monsters!”
Lin Baici warned.
The splashing caused by the tall passenger spared him from having to throw more people in as bait.
“…”
Xia Hongyao’s pretty cheeks blushed with embarrassnt.
This is bad!
How did I not consider there might be more monsters?
This guy isn’t soone who would ignore people in danger; if he was motionless, he must have had a reason!
Now I’m in trouble!
He won’t think I’m an idiot, will he?
Xia Hongyao decided that once the Taboo things were sealed, she would tell this guy that she often watched Hols and had excellent deductive abilities.
“Looks like there aren’t any more monsters; let’s hurry to the front and stop the train,”
Lin Baici said loudly.
In reality, this statent was made for the enemy to hear, to lower their guard.
“Big brother, what’s your na?”
18D asked respectfully.
He had thought encountering this 18F leader on the journey was the worst luck, but now,
he felt nothing but relief and gratitude.
Looking at the people subrged by the seawater,
they were all dead.
A dreadful sight.
“My surna is Lin; my na is Baici!”
As Lin Baici passed seat 21, his saliva secreted, and the hunger cue was so intense that he instinctively looked at the two passengers on his right.
21B was a woman in her twenties with neat short hair and a tall stature, probably about 1.9 ters high.
She was wearing an Anta tracksuit, had scars on her fingers wrapped in tape, and seed like an athlete from a provincial team.
Either basketball or volleyball.
By the window, 21A was a small-statured young man in a blue T-shirt with a long face and a Qi Fentou hairstyle.
His entire body was subrged in the water, motionless as if already dead.
“…”
Lin Baici furrowed his brows, his gaze shifting between the woman and the young man.
The feeling of hunger indicated that the enemy was one of these two people.
Then the dead should be ruled out!
But Lin Baici always felt sothing was off.
This woman looked fresh and clean, with nothing on her but the smartphone on her thigh, while the young man soaked in water next to her carried a waist pack.
“If I were a terrorist, I would never let my taboo things leave my side!”
All signs pointed to this ‘dead youth’ being the actual enemy.
“Eater God, say sothing!”
Lin Baici scread inwardly, but there was no response from the Eater God.
“Everyone watch out for the monster!”
Lin Baici shifted his gaze, only glancing at the young man from the corner of his eye,
He knew he didn’t have ti to hesitate anymore.
Standing here for too long would surely arouse the enemy’s suspicion.
“The chance for a surprise assault cos only once, choose wrong, and you’ll face great risk of death!”
Thinking this, Lin Baici’s right arm suddenly exerted force, gripping the pine torch and smashing it hard on the young man’s head.
You’re the one!
A dead person, by common sense, poses no threat, but given the existence of unnatural things like rule pollution, what’s widely known as ‘common sense’ may not be common at all!
Whack!
The torch broke through the water and struck the young man’s head.
Boom!
The young man’s hair caught fire, and the searing pain made him scream miserably.
His face contorted, his body slipped, like a fish…
No!
More like an ugly octopus, sliding into the sea.
To douse fire with water is human instinct, but this ti, the young man miscalculated.
Lin Baici, having landed his blow, quickly retreated!
A person ignited by a pine torch would burn to ashes, so Lin Baici did not need to risk continuing the attack.
He just had to wait to collect the body and loot.
“What the hell?”
18D’s mind was in disarray.
When Lin Baici stood still next to seat number 21, 18D thought the kid had taken a liking to the tall girl, but to his surprise, the next second Lin Baici suddenly struck the young man.
Did he look like your romantic rival?
Or did you just plainly dislike him?
Why else would you attack a corpse?
But what frightened 18D more was that the ‘corpse’ that got hit actually ca to life?
You must be kidding?
18D had seen with his own eyes the guy soaking in the water without breathing; otherwise, there should have been bubbles floating up.
Xia Hongyao’s intelligence wasn’t high, but she wasn’t stupid.
Seeing a ‘corpse’ screaming and diving into the water, she imdiately understood what was happening!
The enemy!
Xia Hongyao gripped her dagger tightly.
“This pine torch I lit, before burning to ashes, will not extinguish, so…” Lin Baici put on a smug look, scoffing “You’re as good as dead!”
Lin Baici was not a prideful person.
He said this to anger the enemy, to make them lose their composure and also to lead them to believe the torch was his strongest weapon, thus overlooking the Bodhi ssenger’s Cassock he wore!
“F*ck your mother!”
A curse filled the carriage.
At the entrance of the opposite carriage, the young man erged from the water.
His skin was red, tender, completely bald on top, looking like a marinated egg!
“Huh?”
Lin Baici was puzzled.
“Didn’t expect that, did you?
I can shed my skin!”
In the Lost Coast, the youth known as Octopus Ball revealed a cruel smile, “Want to kill ?
Today I’ll swallow you all alive!”
“Shedding skin?
Is it Divine Grace?”
Lin Baici pondered with a thoughtful look.
So there was this trick too!
Octopus Ball didn’t answer, but Little Eyes stared at Lin Baici, sharp-eyed yet with a hint of doubt, “How did you discover ?”
“Instinct!”
Lin Baici grinned slightly.
“You’re bullsh*tting!”
Octopus Ball didn’t believe it.
He wanted to know where he had slipped up, so his disguises would be more perfect in the future.
“Really!”
Lin Baici said with sincere-looking face.
“Bullsh*t!”
Octopus Ball cursed, “For the sake of deceiving my opponents, I even subrged my mouth and nose in water to play dead, and I specifically chose a tall girl as a cover!”
Why did Octopus Ball sit next to that athlete?
Because she was naturally a woman, and won naturally attract n’s attention, especially since she was so tall.
When the sea water flooded the passengers in the carriage, only her head could remain visible.
That’s a huge red flag!
Questioning her as the enemy isn’t wrong, right?
Octopus Ball thought his tactics were perfect, yet sohow, this overly young kid still spotted him and acted without hesitation.
To the suprely confident Octopus Ball, this was nothing but a massive blow.
My brilliant tactic,
Useless?
Had it not been for the “shedding skin” Divine Grace, he would have been done for!
“Right, how did you recognize him?”
Xia Hongyao looked at Lin Baici, her eyes shining.
As a mystery fan, the girl with the high ponytail was deeply interested in Lin Baici’s process of ‘finding the bad guy.’
“Tired, don’t want to talk!”
Lin Baici was buying ti, thinking of strategies.
With the torch now useless, how to kill this guy?
Lin Baici didn’t have much ti left.
Because the sea water was still surging, once it filled the entire carriage, the enemy with the ability to breathe underwater could easily drag anyone to death.
“You’re trying to buy ti, waiting for rescue?
Don’t dream, my big brother Black Shark Triton has already turned your comrades into his drinks’ snacks, swallowed them whole.”
Octopus Ball sneered.
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