Tomb raiding: Today is another day I don't want to go home.

Chapter 193 Burn Marks on the Tentacles

But soon, Zhang Qiling noticed something was wrong—Yan Huai's heart was beating very fast, and the tremor was directly transmitted to Zhang Qiling through the diving suit, even though there was a distance between his back and chest.

This is no longer as simple as being stimulated by external factors; it's more like someone is squeezing Yan Huai's heart and pounding it back and forth.

Something's not right...

"Yan Huai, let go!" Zhang Qiling subconsciously supported Yan Huai's arm from behind. It was with this touch that he discovered something moving extremely fast inside the muscles under Yan Huai's diving suit.

What else could be circulating in his body? Yan Huai's blood flow rate is abnormal.

"Don't worry, I'm fine... I only felt this way because I didn't use enough strength to keep my body functioning properly..."

If we compare Yan Huai's body to a container, his current situation is simply because the energy supplied to his body is insufficient to fill the gaps. In order to barely meet the needs of various parts, accelerating the energy circulation speed is the most efficient method, which does not mean that the body has reached its limit.

"Don't be afraid, I'm telling the truth!"

Yan Huai didn't quite understand Zhang Qiling's expression at that moment, but now was not the time to explain in detail. He could only try to divert Zhang Qiling's attention: "The rope will definitely break in a while, so you'd better save your strength to catch me, or I'll fly out... By the way, this rope of yours is really good quality... Ouch!"

Before he could finish speaking, the rope that Yan Huai had praised just a second ago snapped the next second, and it snapped completely without even a thread being pulled.

Zhang Qiling's expression hardened, and he reacted quickly by drawing his Black Gold Ancient Blade. With his left arm supporting Yan Huai, who was falling backward due to inertia, he used the resistance of the blade tip to finally regain his footing.

However, before the two could even catch their breath, the rope that Yan Huai hadn't loosened its grip on tightened again.

The two looked on in confusion, only to see countless green tentacles, just like the ones they had seen before, suddenly emerging from both sides of the passage. They intertwined and wrapped around the broken rope, forming a new... rope.

"Are you really that addicted to watching tug-of-war?" Yan Huai wondered to himself.

His internal energy was somewhat disordered, his throat tasted metallic and sweet, and he wanted to cough but couldn't. The appearance of these tentacles further complicated the situation, making it difficult for him and Zhang Qiling to be distracted.

However, judging from the 'competition' just now, the strength of these greenish tentacles was far inferior to that of the thing that was tug-of-war with Yan Huai. They seemed more like they were helping Yan Huai...

Why didn't you help earlier?

Based on Yan Huai's past experience, the thing inside was only about one-tenth the size of his own body, which is about seventy meters. In the past, it wouldn't have been enough to fill his teeth, but he was still not at ease until he saw the evidence.

Yan Huai let out a deep breath, exchanged a glance with Zhang Qiling, and without much hesitation, tightened the rope again: "Let's try again... If we still can't get that thing to show itself, then he won't care about jellyfish anymore and will just leave with Zhang Qiling."

Qi Yu has disappeared without a trace...

His thoughts were fleeting. With the addition of these tentacles, Yan Huai stopped using his full strength. While secretly recovering his strength, he focused his gaze on the darkness diagonally below.

Zhang Qiling remained behind him—there was no other way; if he couldn't stop him, he would join in. But if Yan Huai really got into trouble... he had to get him out of there.

Zhang Qiling, who had always been used to running ahead alone, had somehow begun to have something on his mind, and started looking back. And besides his memories, he seemed to have something else he wanted to do...

All thoughts and ideas were temporarily set aside. Before long, the situation of the 'competition' changed.

The thing inside seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly increased its force. Yan Huai and Zhang Qiling could both sense the other's anger from this change, and they immediately became vigilant.

Sure enough, with a splash, an octopus tentacle as thick as three times the cross-section of Yan Huai shot out, moving so fast that it instantly reached him.

The tiny, bluish-green creatures extending from both sides of the passage were instantly reduced to dust, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, wherever the octopus's tentacles passed...

Without hesitation, Yan Huai threw away the rope, turned around and grabbed Zhang Qiling's arm. As his toes swept across the wall of the passage on the right, he used a clever trick to bring Zhang Qiling, who was also airborne, onto his back.

The two figures overlapped, narrowly avoiding the tentacles from above. By the light of the searchlight overhead, Yan Huai noticed a layer of charred flesh on one of the octopus's suckers, which looked quite old.

What kind of fire could burn an octopus with regenerative abilities like this...?