Chapter 288 A Brief Encounter with the Octopus King

Between the two tasks, Mu You would definitely choose the old elf. Because if you choose the latter, you have to send the remains back to the elves to get the reward. In this way, you will definitely not get the elf. It is impossible for the elves to let him take away the remains of an elder. On the contrary, they will let him already have The matter of the Ancient Tree of Knowledge is unclear.

Mu You was meditating when he suddenly heard a low and distant sound above his head, like a whale roar coming from the depths of the sea.

Mu You had no reaction, but he noticed that the face of the female elf opposite suddenly changed when she heard the voice.

"What's wrong?"

"No, King Octopus seems to be entering deep sleep early!"

"Deep sleep period?" Mu You was confused.

"The sleep of the Octopus King is divided into two types: light sleep and deep sleep. During the light sleep period, the Octopus King's consciousness has not completely fallen asleep, and the true body will not appear here. I can only regain consciousness during the light sleep period. During the deep sleep period, , the Octopus King will come and take over everyone’s consciousness forcibly.”

After saying that, the elf frowned in confusion: "In the past, I usually fell into deep sleep from the afternoon to evening. Why is it so early today?"

Mu You's heart stirred. Could it be that his previous disconnection and online operations in Octopus King's body made Octopus King aware of the abnormality in his sleep? Is this guy so sensitive?

"If you can really leave at any time, leave immediately. Otherwise, when the Octopus King comes, you will..."

"Just what?"

The elf suddenly paused in the middle of speaking. Mu You looked up and found that the elf's pupils had disappeared and her eyes had turned pure white. In addition, her expression also showed that weird smile again.

"Intruder, confirmed... arrested!"

After the elf said these words clearly, she suddenly rushed towards Muyou.

Of course Mu You chose to accept the challenge this time, because the current elves must have no self-awareness.

However, the power of this female elf was much greater than he imagined. When the two collided, Mu You was actually knocked away.

"boom!"

Mu You was knocked straight out of the door and fell on the corridor outside the room.

When I looked up, in addition to the elves in front of me, figures began to appear one after another in the corridors on both sides. There were elves, humans, and octopuses. They all stared with white eyes and held the most suitable tool as a weapon in their hands. , saying the same words: Intruder, arrest!

"Half an hour..."

Mu You has a headache. The time he and Lin Xue agreed on is actually a little too long. If the time flow rate in the two worlds is equal, it will take a long time for the half hour to arrive. Before that, he has been a target for the creatures here...

Just as he was thinking about it, Mu You suddenly felt that the secret energy deep in his mind had increased. The two crystals turned into three. The extra crystal was Lin Xue's soul crystal.

Mu You suddenly felt reassured.

It seems that after the battle here, there should be some signs showing up in his body on the other side of the earth. Lin Xue was very smart. When he was not sure what was happening on his side, he deliberately used the Death Contract method to transmit energy to confirm whether he needed to terminate his sleep in advance.

If Mu You accepts Lin Xue's crystal energy, it means that he is indeed in a battle and needs to stop early. If he does not accept it, it means that he can continue to stay.

At this time, the figures around him were already rushing towards him quickly. Mu You decisively received the energy, got up and ran away.

After throwing away the female elf and escaping for a while, Mu You found that the figures chasing him around him became more and more dense. It seemed that no matter how hard he ran, these people could find his location at any time.

Moreover, he obviously went in the direction of the exit, but he never saw the exit.

Mu You somewhat understood the mechanism here. It seemed that the path in this castle was not static. It was impossible for him to escape normally.

"Intruder, arrest!"

At this time, a large number of octopus soldiers were chasing him, and they were attacking him with knives and forks.

Mu You moved his hands, and invisible wind blades flew out. The scene suddenly became bloody, and countless broken octopus legs flew up.

Mu You discovered that killing octopuses here does not require experience or lifespan, and the dead octopus will quickly recover on the spot, but the recovered octopus will be smaller than the original size and in a weaker state. many.

It was impossible to kill them all with this kind of killing. Seeing more and more pursuers surrounding them, Mu You directly released the Dark World, and then switched to vampire skin.

The entire castle suddenly became dark, and Mu You's attributes greatly increased under the amplification of the Night King. He easily brought down one of them and successfully broke through the crowd. He then used terrain change to create a passage directly on the wall. , and finally escaped from the castle.

Of course, this was not the end, because there were many enemies waiting for him outside. Octopus soldiers and various humanoid creatures immediately surrounded Mu You.

Mu You took advantage of the time in the dark world to move unimpeded through the crowd. Wind blades and fireballs were continuously shot out of his hands, and he tore a hole in the crowd.

A few seconds later, the scene turned into a situation where Mu You was running ahead alone, followed by a long line of pursuers.

But at this moment, the ground suddenly rumbled and shook, and a huge octopus foot suddenly broke out of the ground, as long as a tower over a hundred meters high.

"Octopus King?"

Mu You's eyelids twitched.

With such a big octopus foot, he could only think of the Octopus King's true form.

And this is only a small part of an octopus foot exposed on the ground, so how huge is the main body of the octopus king?

There was no time to think about it. This octopus foot seemed to have vision. After it appeared, it swung in an arc in the air. The airflow alone blew away countless octopus soldiers around, and many of them exploded into blood clots in the strong wind.

However, the octopus king didn't care about the life and death of these soldiers at all. He swung his tentacles and whipped towards the ground. The direction of the whip was exactly the direction in which Mu You escaped.

This octopus foot was so big, but it moved very flexibly. Mu You hurriedly changed direction, but the octopus foot always followed him like a shadow, and got closer and closer.

Along the way, countless octopus pursuers were crushed to death. The octopus king didn't care. His only target was Mu You, the invader.

After a few seconds, the octopus foot finally caught up with Mu You, and the pointed head twitched and smashed down heavily on Mu You.

At this time, Mu You had no room to hide and was hit by the huge tentacles.

However, just when it was about to hit, dense electric sparks crackled, and a more than ten-meter-long arc sword suddenly appeared, cutting a gap in the octopus's feet that covered the sky.

Mu You jumped out of the gap and continued to escape.

Because of the interference of the octopus's feet, there were fewer pursuers around.

At this time, the ground in the space shook more violently.

Mu You looked back and saw that the castle in the distance was rising from the ground. To be more precise, the castle was held up by a huge octopus head like a mountain.

Following closely behind, there appeared an octopus body nearly a kilometer long, and seven octopus feet connected below.

In just a few seconds, an octopus as big as a mountain appeared intact in this space, and the originally vast garden space suddenly became a little crowded.

This was the first time Mu You saw the true form of the octopus king. The octopus' skin was green, and the outer skin was covered with circles of strange patterns. The eight claws squirmed, lightly supporting its huge body. A blue eye opened from the head of the octopus king, staring at Mu You below, looking down from above, as if a god was looking at an ant.

At this moment, Mu You felt his body stagnate and became unable to move. At the same time, an extremely strange and wild breath surged into his heart.

This was a very strange feeling. The most terrifying thing Mu You had felt before was the death summoned by Lin Xue's sickle. When the death appeared, it would bring people an unspeakable sense of despair and fear, even if its target was not himself.

But the breath exuded by the behemoth in front of him gave Mu You a feeling of fear and strangeness, as if this thing was not a creature born from the two planes he was familiar with.

This feeling passed in a flash, and Mu You had no time to experience it carefully.

The next moment, his body suddenly twisted and disappeared on the spot.

Mu You felt the light turn, and he appeared on a sticky black monster flesh wall, with a lot of umbilical cord-like tubes attached to his body. He was tied up and lying on the flesh wall, and half of his body had sunk into the mucous membrane.

And this picture also flashed by.

The next moment, Mu You felt his consciousness sink, and he was pulled into a dark and deep seabed, with no edge, his body heavy, unable to exert force, and could only passively float in the sea water.

Until a certain moment, he suddenly heard a familiar shout.

"Mu You..."

"Mu You..."

...

It was Ye Rumeng's voice.

Mu You then felt his body gradually float up, and faster and faster.

After dozens of seconds, with a sense of relief all over his body, Mu You finally surfaced.

At this time, in the lock core space, he also opened his eyes while lying on the grass.

"Mu You..."

"Mu You, you finally woke up!"

The first thing that sounded in his ears was the surprised voice of the little girl. Turning his head, Ye Rumeng and Lin Xue were both looking at him with concern.

"Finally woke up? Have I slept for a long time?" Mu You looked at the two strangely.

"It's been an hour since I turned off my phone..." Lin Xue said.

"I'm sorry, Mu You, I thought I could wake you up immediately, but the distance is too far, I can't find you..." Ye Rumeng said apologetically.

"The distance is too far... That is to say, if the place where you are sleeping is very close to the main body of the dream, you can wake the other person up immediately, right?" Mu You asked.

"Ah?" The little girl asked back in a single word, looking confused.

"Forget it..."

Mu You shook his head. This question is too complicated, and it is estimated that the little girl herself does not know it at all. However, since the little girl has the ability to forcibly wake others up, you can take her to the Octopus King next week and let her help wake up the elves. Otherwise, even if Mu You saves them, it is equivalent to saving a group of vegetative people.

As for how to ensure that the Octopus King is not disturbed...

Since this big guy is so sensitive, we can only use some drugs to keep it in a deep sleep state.

Moreover, ordinary sleeping potions are probably useless for this giant monster. A more advanced one is needed, such as... a legendary potion!

Mu You didn't dare to think about this thing before, but now that the synthesis furnace has been repaired, legendary potions have become readily available, especially the dreamless sleeping potion, which is a first-level magic potion. Mu You can now steadily refine rare-level potions, and there is no shortage of refining materials. It won't be a big problem to rush to make a batch of legendary sleeping potions within a few days.

After coming to his senses, Mu You took the phone back from Lin Xue, turned it on and went online, and transferred the character out of the giant octopus first.

[You appear in a sticky wall of flesh. ]

[Umbilical cords grow out of the flesh under your feet and wrap around you...]

[You use the Kaito Mask, and you switch positions with the nearest scapegoat clone. ]

[You return to the cave on the fourth floor...]

Successfully returning means that the octopus king only felt something strange in his body, but did not know the specific location, otherwise he would have attacked his game character.

After returning to the cave, Mu You immediately went to find the remnant soul of the old elf.

[You follow the cave passage back to the third floor and come to the mushroom tree in the center of the cave. ]

[In the glass bottle, the old soul has been waiting for a long time. Seeing you return from the fifth floor, he can't wait to ask you what you saw. ]

[You choose...]

[Tell the truth], [White lie]

The two options represent the previous branch task of choosing one from the other.

"Tell the truth."

[You choose to tell the truth.]

[You tell the remnant soul that there are still many of his people alive on the fifth floor.]

[The remnant soul was very surprised after hearing this, but then he was stunned by your subsequent explanation.]

[Harrington didn't expect that the environment on the fifth floor has become so bad now. It seems to be even more difficult to rescue his people.]

[Harrington carefully asks you if you still have the ability to rescue his people? You choose...]

[You say you can rescue them, but because you also need to take a lot of risks in the rescue, you hope that the other party can change the conditions of the reward.]

[Harrington doesn't mind giving you more rewards, but he only has a token that is valuable. He asks you if you need anything else. If the rescue is successful, he can try to apply to the elves. 】

The input box popped up. Mu You thought about it and decided to tell the other party about the ancient tree of knowledge directly. After all, the other party must be willing to merge with the ancient tree. There is no point in hiding it.

[You tell the other party that you have a lifeless ancient tree of knowledge in your hand, and you need a little elf to make it revitalized...]

[Harrington understood what you meant and fell silent. ]

[The ancient tree of knowledge is a sacred object of the elves and will not be easily passed on. Harrington understands that the ancient tree in your hand must not be obtained through normal channels. But in front of the lives of more than 60 tribesmen, he is not qualified to negotiate conditions. ]

[Harrington will eventually agree to your conditions, but he also has only one request: I hope you can take care of the ancient tree of knowledge as a real life, not a tool for making money. ]

Sure enough, after the showdown, the old elf did not refuse.

Mu You naturally agreed to the old elf's request, and a new prompt popped up immediately.

[The optional task 'Elven Mei Li's Request' disappeared. ]

[The hidden task 'Harrington Xiu's Last Wish' task reward changed. 】

【After rescuing all trapped people, you will receive 6700 Forest Elf Reputation, 1 Elder Token, and Harrington Xiu will voluntarily transform into an elf and become one of your followers. 】