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As soon as he finished speaking, the massive body of the black ring suddenly stopped.

The eight tentacles were still writhing wildly, but the torso remained motionless. The drooping eyelids flipped up, and the pupils of the eyes, which were larger than truck tires, began to dilate and shrink erratically.

Spinning around like a bouncy ball, alternating between left and right.

Klaus swallowed hard and moved closer to the wall, afraid of getting infected.

quickly,

Black Ring's skin began to change strange colors—

One second it's deep blue, the next it's a riot of colors like a carousel, with a transition to a yellowish-brown hue in between.

Less than ten seconds.

Black Ring let out a long burp, then lay there motionless like a lump of mud.

"...Is it dead?"

Klaus stared at the small hill, while Newton, still in its chainsaw-like form, hummed on.

He poked it with the tip of his knife to make sure it had no reflexes, then put away the Raven, swam to the base of the tentacles, found a smooth spot, and placed two fingers on it.

"Uh... Boss, what are you doing?"

"Observation, auscultation, inquiry, palpation... just skip the inquiry." He answered casually with a serious expression.

engineer:"......"

[My expression is exactly the same as Klaus's...]

[EXO, shall we take the pulse of a mollusk?]

[...The lab happens to have an octopus...I'll try it this afternoon!]

[The doctor upstairs, he's treating mutants!]

"Vital signs are stable, and the person is in good health."

The healer withdrew his hand and announced with some regret, "However, its central nervous system has likely been damaged... In other words, it is now a plant-like fish."

Plant-based fish?

This word...

The severity of this attack is comparable to—benevolent persecution!

But Ren Yi was completely oblivious, and remained there lost in his own melancholy:

"Then how will the High Priest ride it out to show off tomorrow...? Won't that make him a wheelchair...?"

"...What do we do now?"

If you can't beat them, join them.

Klaus put away his chainsaw and began to ponder deeply with his captain.

"Or we could just dismember the body and destroy the evidence. Losing a means of transportation shouldn't have a big impact."

"It will cause unnecessary trouble."

If the Black Ring, the High Priest's mount, goes missing, the Priest's Tower will certainly be under martial law.

Just as the two were discussing how to deal with the 'victim',

The paralyzed Black Ring suddenly twitched, and one of its tentacles sprang up without warning, slamming against the rock wall beside it.

"It's alive!!"

Klaus instinctively raised Newton and stood in front of the two men.

however,

The black ring did not suddenly attack or hurt anyone.

It just twisted its massive body strangely, its two tentacles on the left doing a seaweed dance, and its suckers on the right rubbing wildly.

"Gurgle..."

A strange sound came from inside, and the mouthparts of the black ring suddenly protruded outward.

"Bang!"

a bit.

"Bang!"

Two times.

With a sound like glass shattering under the strain, a sharp tooth the size of half a washbasin flew out and embedded itself in the wall above their heads.

From that drafty opening with the missing tooth,

No longer dull and gray, Little Nine happily waved its ten tentacles and swam towards any direction.

Upon closer inspection,

Behind it was a wrinkled black sphere with eight 'antennas' stuck in it?

Pick up an antenna with any two fingers and bend it—

One of the tentacles of the black ring lying on the ground suddenly pointed straight to the sky.

Let go.

"Smack."

It collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut.

He then pinched two of the symmetrical antennas and teased them by moving them back and forth like a cat's paw, causing the two tentacles of the black ring to begin to sway like a turtle turning its shell.

"Hey! I ate the big one, I left you the small one!"

"You'd better catch up on your studies so you can be as smart as me~~"

Of course,

In Renyi and Klaus's eyes, Xiao Jiu just blinked her bright eyes and "popped" out a bubble.

They might have thought it was trying to curry favor and get praise.

So, quite generously, he took out the last piece of his treasured dried meat and stuffed it under the little guy's tentacle.

"Boss...you wouldn't be thinking of..."

"Um."

He randomly familiarized himself with the antennas on each of the game controllers.

"We have personally gone to the trouble of serving as Your Highness's unpaid chauffeured driver."

A sudden sense of foreboding washed over me...

Klaus silently took out a piece of cloth and vigorously wiped away any drool that might have gotten on Xiao Jiu's body.

......

The light from the plankton pierced through the thick seabed.

The Deep Blue Kingdom ushered in its most restless morning in history.

A large number of mermaids poured into the gap in the anemone wall.

Not far away, in the active volcano crater, lava boils the seawater below, and bubbles mixed with a pungent sulfur smell shoot straight up.

The execution observation platform.

Princess Brona sat on a coral chair on a high platform, coldly looking down at Princess Risbane, who was tied to the top of the volcano.

The area was filled with nobles and commoners who had come to watch the spectacle, and whispers carried on the suppressed flow of water.

The majestic bugle sounded.

The whole place fell silent.

All the mermaids turned their gaze to the flat road leading to the sacrificial tower.

An extremely luxurious sedan chair slowly drove in through the dark sea.

Four massive, pure gold pillars supported the dome, while shimmering, iridescent curtains concealed the figures within. And carrying it was none other than the personal chariot of the High Priest of the Deep Blue Kingdom—

Black ring.

The high priest sat behind a gauze curtain, his face hidden by a golden mask, and his figure was completely shrouded in a large white cloak, exuding an air of unfathomable mystery.

Under such majesty, wherever he went, the merfolk bowed their heads and gave way.

—But the high priest was very unhappy today.

Extremely annoyed.

In the past, Black Ring's steps were steady and so stable that he wouldn't even spill a glass of water.

That beast must have taken some kind of poison today...

They started walking with the same steps as each other as soon as they came out!

The four tentacles on the left moved forward together, while the four on the right dragged on the ground, causing the palanquin to maintain a strange tilt angle throughout the journey. The high priest had to manually hold onto the armrests of the seat to avoid rolling off.

"...Take it easy."

The high priest lowered his voice, his authoritative tone carrying through the gauze curtain.

But Black Ring ignored him.

It not only turned in the same direction, but also started to take an S-shaped route.

Ahead was a group of nobles. Without warning, Black Ring drifted and ran directly over the face of a fat merman, eliciting a gasp of surprise.

Brona's face turned ashen.

Letting her mount wreak havoc here... Is the High Priestess's behavior a challenge to her authority?

"High Priest".

The biggest threat hasn't been eliminated yet; it's not the time to turn against this old man.

Thinking of this, Brona suppressed her anger, stood up, and bowed, saying:

"High Priest, the time has come—"

Just as the high priest was about to speak, a deafening clang of gongs came from afar.

Then,

It was a roar that shattered the seawater, transmitted through a megaphone conch shell:

"That old hag, Brona!"

"It was you~ who destroyed the Abyss Rift Prison to save Ugly Egg!"

Even if you're covered in wrinkles and more ferocious than a mermaid shark, Ugly Guy will still love you!!!