The World of Pirates

Chapter 142
"I don't care about this beforehand," Captain Frank waved his hand, and said to the navigator, "Tell me what you found."

The navigator nodded, pointed to a fish skin where the scales had been removed from the side of the fish, and said, "Look at this wound, it can't be seen clearly on the surface, but it will show up when the scales are cut off."

Ella leaned up and saw half of the purple-black round spot on the white fish skin, and the other half was hidden under the scales next to it.

Then the navigator pulled out his knife and gently cut open the fish skin, the purple round spot went deep into the fish skin, and black-red blood flowed out slowly.

"This is?" Ella was a little confused.

"It's caused by a sucker. The thing last night was a huge octopus, not a hundred-eyed sea snake."

The navigator said slowly: "Do you remember that this fish pulled the boat during the day? Although this fish was big, it didn't have that much strength. It was underwater at that time. It must have been the giant chapter that attracted it and dragged it during the struggle. the Queen."

"This kind of big fish is usually on the bottom of the sea, but this time it can be caught, it must be because it was chased by the octopus, so it came to the surface. This bruise was caused by the sucker of the octopus, but the sucker of the huge octopus Although it is strong, the scales of this fish are also hard, so there is no injury on the surface."

Ella let out an "oh", suddenly realized.

"If it's an octopus, those hundreds of eyes should be the suction cups on the tentacles of the octopus. It's just that the suction cups of this octopus have reflections similar to eyes, which can't be seen clearly in the dark." Captain Frank also nodded thoughtfully.

"Yes, several sailors were killed. They all had holes the size of suction cups in their chests, but it didn't look like they were bitten. It was because the octopus sucked their chests open abruptly due to the enormous power of the octopus, so blood sprayed everywhere!"

The giant octopus is indeed much easier to understand than the hundred-eyed sea snake. Ordinary octopuses have tentacles attached, and the longest is two people long, but fishermen say that there are octopuses as long as large ships in the deep sea.

However, there are different opinions about how long the giant chapter can be. Some say that it can be four to five hundred meters long, and it can even enclose the entire large ship. for home.

A diver who once wanted to fish for treasure from a sunken ship saw the eyes as big as wheels in the porthole.

But there are very few people who really claim to have seen the giant chapter with their own eyes. The proof of the existence of the giant chapter is that the occasionally caught whales have circular scars the size of a bucket, as if the thick whale skin has been torn by something, the fishermen said. That is the tentacles of the giant chapter.

After thinking for a while, Ella suddenly asked: "If it is a giant chapter, there should be more than one wrist. If there are two more, we are already dead. Why not use it?"

"We were also puzzled by this matter at first, but then I suddenly thought that we measured the water depth of this sea area yesterday, and when we went down with a heavy hammer, the rope of about 500 meters came to an end, which was not very deep. So we With a guess."

Navigator paused, and then said, "It's standing on the bottom of the sea!"

"Standing on the bottom of the sea?" Ella asked with some doubts, and then she was shocked.

These words sound absurd, but when you think about it, it is such a majestic and terrifying scene.

Imagine that in the dark deep sea, a huge octopus stands on the seabed with seven tentacles, and extends a kilometer-long tentacles to the surface of the sea.

Compared with his huge body, his hunting target is like a small fallen leaf... And this fallen leaf is the ship they are on now - the Queen!

"This... the giant octopus is also a fish, and it can swim if it is a fish, what is it doing standing on the bottom of the sea?" Ella was still in disbelief.

"Octopuses can swim, but giant chapters may not be able to swim. This is a great route, and there are all kinds of strange sea kings." Captain Frank explained:
"When I was in the navy, I heard people say that there is a kind of sea king in the windless. When I was young, it was hundreds of meters long. It can swim fast in the sea. After swallowing the sea water, it sifts the sea water through the teeth and swallows the fish into the belly."

"But when it gets old, its body becomes heavier and heavier, and it swims slower and slower. Finally, it can only curl up on the bottom of the sea. At this time, it will grow a bone that can emit light on its head, attracting animals. When the fish came to me, they jumped out to catch them."

"That is to say, this giant chapter is so heavy that other tentacles need to be used to support the body, and only one tentacle can be freed to hunt?" Ayla asked.

"Yes, it usually moves on the bottom of the sea, and it should be crawling with eight tentacles." The navigator replied.

"Like a spider?"

Ella imagined the posture of this thing crawling on the bottom of the sea, and felt that it was indescribably weird and ferocious, like a huge wraith crawling.

She suddenly felt a little creepy, and then realized that it was ridiculous. After all, it was just their wishful thinking.

However, when Ella subconsciously looked at Lancelot, he nodded slowly...

In Lancelot's perception, that thing was indeed an octopus, and it was indeed not dead.Although his knife cut off one of the opponent's tentacles last night, there are still seven on the bottom of the sea!

Seeing that Lancelot, who had been silent all this time, finally nodded, Captain Frank could not help but smile wryly.

After a long silence, Captain Frank sighed, and said in a deep voice: "This thing is heavy, and it can't move fast. We need to leave this sea area as soon as possible."

"However, if it attacks us again, please help us!"

After speaking, Captain Frank and the navigator bowed deeply to the two of them.

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After Ella and Lancelot returned to the cabin assigned to them, Ella first locked the cabin door, then grabbed Lancelot and asked, "Why didn't you tell me that you are so powerful?"

"Is this... very powerful?" Lancelot asked hesitantly.

In his opinion, it really didn't take much effort for him to just fly up and stab the octopus casually, and then he cut off the tentacles of the octopus.On the contrary, in order to avoid being hit by the chopped off tentacles on the boat, he had to pump the air with all his strength to blow it away.

"Also, I have a feeling Captain Frank can do it too."

"What do you mean?"

"That is, if I...don't make a move, Captain Frank can also take care of that octopus."

"You mean, Captain Frank is actually very strong?" Ella asked directly.

"I don't know either." Lancelot really didn't know what was considered "very strong".

"...Then how do you think Captain Frank's strength compares to yours?"

"He's probably a little bit worse than me." Lancelot said with some embarrassment.

(End of this chapter)