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Chapter 493 - 292: The Lost Heart_2

Chapter 493: Chapter 292: The Lost Heart_2

Lin Xue and Little Ya jumped out of the entrance one after the other, landing on the flesh wall, then turned around to help the short-legged little girl down.

"Yuck, it’s so disgusting..."

The little girl stood on the sticky flesh membrane, lifting up one foot to see the layer of mucus stuck to the sole of her shoe. With her face going pale, she felt a wave of nausea.

Lin Xue and Little Ya didn’t react as violently as the little girl, but their faces didn’t look very good either.

Little Ya cast the Illumination Technique from her hand, lighting up the gloomy surroundings.

The tunnel was filled with pink pieces of flesh, piled haphazardly and creating multiple folds. The spaces between the folds were filled with mucus, and it was easy to slip and fall if one was not careful while walking on it.

The damp and slippery flesh wall seemed to be alive, slowly breathing and writhing around, and there was an unpleasant smell of rotting meat hanging in the air. The feeling of walking on viscera was utterly revolting.

"Just bear with it..."

Mu You shook his head; this horrible environment could certainly make mysophobics and those with a fear of clusters feel desperate.

Not just them, even Mu You himself felt his skin crawl at the sight of the waving white tentacles all around him.

Taking advantage of the potion’s effect, the four of them hurriedly walked deeper along the flesh wall.

However, after walking for a little while, Mu You suddenly noticed that the flesh wall in front of him was writhing, and chunks of flesh started to protrude from the ground, quickly coalescing into several Octopus Guards about half a person tall. These guards had half their bodies connected to the flesh wall, unable to separate, but their tentacles could stretch indefinitely, attacking nearby targets by extending their tentacles.

"Did the potion lose effect so quickly?" Lin Xue was somewhat surprised. This was a legendary potion, could it really be so ineffective?

"No, the Octopus King is still asleep. This should only be a kind of passive defense mechanism within its body..."

Mu You shook his head. As the person who made the potion, he was most familiar with its effects, and he could sense that the potion was still working.

These octopuses in front of him were not created by the Octopus King consciously, but rather like white blood cells in the human body, they could automatically come out to kill enemies when the body sensed something strange, even if the main body was not conscious.

The Octopus Guards were only at Level 11 or 12 and were not difficult to deal with. Mu You and Lin Xue immediately took action to clear the way, while Little Ya stayed behind to protect the little girl.

The Electric Arc Sword came in particularly handy under these circumstances, reducing one octopus after another to ashes under its incessantly waving blade.

On Lin Xue’s side, the Reaper’s Scythe constantly cut through the octopuses, leaving them incomplete with each swing.

The only problem was, Lin Xue’s scythe attacks here could not leave a Reaper’s Mark.

This was mainly due to two reasons.

Firstly, the Octopus King’s level was too high. They were not sure exactly what level it was, but it was likely another monster that had reached the 30th-level cap.

Although the Reaper’s Scythe had infinite potential, the upper limit it could display in actual use depended on the user’s level. If there was a difference of more than 10 levels between the two parties, the Scythe’s effects would be significantly weakened. The conditions for leaving a Reaper’s Mark when attacking had become harsher, and even if a Reaper was summoned, the number of souls it could reap would be greatly reduced.

The second reason was due to size.

Due to the Octopus King’s enormous size, the damage done by killing these small octopuses in its body was essentially equivalent to killing one of the billions of cells on its body. The damage to the main body was almost zero, meaning it was impossible to leave a Reaper’s Mark.

Mu You and Lin Xue cleared the way like cutting vegetables, leaving a trail of dead octopi in their wake.

Along the way, the sight seen most by the four was that of trapped corpses embedded in the surrounding flesh walls. These corpses were numerous and could be seen everywhere.

These floating corpses were actually still alive, only they had fallen into a permanent sleep, maintained by the multitude of umbilical cords stuck to their bodies. All were weak and thin to the bone, and the depth at which they were embedded varied. Some were still on the surface of the flesh wall, while others had been swallowed deeply into it, leaving only a small patch of skin visible.

Walking a little further, probably leaving the Octopus King’s tentacles and entering its main body, the group found that they could no longer see any floating corpses around them.

Of course, this was not because the floating corpses could not drift to this place, but because they were now entering the Octopus King’s main body where all the important organs were located. For safety, all floating corpses that reached this area were deeply swallowed into the flesh wall, so they could not be seen from the outside.

The group continued to move along the flesh wall tunnel, and after about ten more minutes, they finally found the location of the Octopus King’s heart.

Octopuses have three hearts. Apart from the most important systemic heart, there are two smaller auxiliary gill hearts. The positions of these three hearts are basically connected, and at this moment, Mu You and his three companions had arrived at the site housing the Octopus King’s three hearts.

Mu You looked up to see two spherical hearts, each with a diameter of dozens of meters, on the ceiling of the flesh wall in front of him. Surrounded by numerous blood vessels, they were throbbing strongly.

But where there should have been a larger, more vigorous main heart between the two auxiliary hearts... it was nowhere to be found!

The neatly cut ends of the blood vessels surrounding them clearly indicated that the heart had been surgically removed.

Yet miraculously, this removal did not affect the function of the heart itself or the Octopus King’s health. All the blood from the Blood of Heart Vessels gushed out from the broken ends, abruptly disappeared, then automatically connected back to the Octopus King’s heart and kept flowing. After being accelerated by the heart’s power, it flowed out of the heart, automatically emerged back into the coinciding blood vessels, and continued its course.