Chapter 292 The Lost Heart
Unlike the two powerful forces, Mu You has fewer people.
There are only him, Lin Xue and Xiao Ya.
At most, if we count the pandas and mermaids, this is their total combat power!
Of course, Mu You will not feel unprepared because they will soon get help from a local big force - the Dragon Knight Pirates.
With the addition of such a big pirate group, the gap in manpower will be quickly made up.
On Tuesday afternoon, Mu You closed the store ahead of schedule, and as usual, he went to find Lin Hai to help watch the "door".
This time, in addition to Mu You and Lin Xue, Xiao Ya and Ye Rumeng also had to go in to help on the front line.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, several people were ready, and Mu You opened the door on time.
"Xiao Hai, just like last time, the store is handed over to you!"
"Don't worry, Master!" Lin Hai patted his chest and guaranteed.
Time was running out, so no one wasted time. Mu You led everyone in, and then immediately acted according to the previously planned plan.
Everyone entered the backpack prepared by Mu You, and Mu You went directly to the cave on the third floor of the underwater prison through the teleportation array.
A cold and damp feeling came over me. The feeling of entering in person and just reading the text in the game was indeed qualitatively different. The temperature of this cave was much colder and damper than expected, but the light was quite bright. A large number of fluorescent plants grew in various parts of the cave, reflecting the beauty of this narrow space.
Mu You released Lin Xue and the other two, and then went straight to the mushroom tree in the center of the cave.
The old elf's corpse leaning against the tree trunk had been weathered and decayed, and the soul in the bottle automatically emerged when it felt the approaching footsteps.
"Are these the helpers you brought?" The soul in the bottle looked at the three women who were curiously looking at the environment in the distance, and his eyes first noticed Xiaoya.
Because Xiaoya was wearing the skin of a forest priest at this time, her appearance was completely like a forest elf, which made the old elf feel quite friendly.
"Yes."
Mu You nodded and glanced at his skeleton: "We are going to go down to the fifth floor next. What about you? Will you go down with us or wait for our good news here?"
The old elf's skeleton has been weathered beyond recognition. It looks like it will be broken into a pile of bone powder at any time. There will definitely be few opportunities to move it. Mu You did not dare to mess with him casually.
"Please take me with you! Whether you succeed or not, I need to witness the result!" The elf hurriedly requested.
Mu You did not refuse. He carefully transferred the old man's remains into the backpack and stored them in the prepared coffin.
As for the bottle carrying the soul, Mu You left it outside.
After packing up the old elf's skeleton, Mu You led the three people all the way down.
After going down the cave for several minutes, the passage in front became narrower and narrower, and finally the four people were blocked in front of a stone wall.
This is the exit to the fifth floor.
Mu You signaled the three people behind him to get ready, took out the magic wand, and tapped it on the red bricks one by one.
Three up, two left, four down, one right...
According to the door opening code designed by the old elf, he clicked them one by one. The stone wall in front of him squirmed and opened a small entrance automatically.
Mu You looked out through the small opening. It turned out to be a space composed of flesh wall and mucus.
But this time the real person was present, so Mu You had time to observe the fracture of the wall.
He has always been curious about which part of the octopus king this entrance is connected to? Is it directly connected to the other party's mouth?
Until this time, at the connection between the stone wall and the flesh wall, Mu You vaguely saw a layer of squirming octopus skin. The familiar shape made him react: it turned out to be a sucker!
This position should be one of the octopus's octopus feet. One of the countless suckers on its skin can directly reach the body of the octopus king through the exhaust hole in the center of the sucker.
In other words, each sucker on the octopus king is equivalent to an entrance.
At this moment, the octopus king is sleeping on the seabed, and at the same time, his eight claws are tightly wrapped around the fourth floor of the underwater prison like hugging a pillow.
If someone drills out from any position of the outer wall of the fourth floor, they cannot escape from the prison directly, but will enter the body of the octopus king through the octopus suckers wrapped around the fourth floor, which is the fifth floor.
After confirming the location, Mu You jumped into the entrance first.
As soon as he landed, before he could stand firmly on the soft flesh wall, a large amount of umbilical cord-like substances suddenly emerged around him, wrapping around him like snakes.
Mu You was not panicked at all. He directly rubbed a few wind blades with his hands and cut off all the umbilical cords approaching.
Then, before the next wave of umbilical cords was formed, he quickly took out a bottle of potion from the ring, opened the bottle mouth, and poured the light pink potion on the flesh wall under his feet.
The potion penetrated into the flesh wall in the blink of an eye. At the same time, the speed of the surrounding umbilical cords also slowed down rapidly. Even those that had grown out did not entangle Mu You again, but began to sway left and right in place, like a drunk and lost their clues.
"It really works!"
Mu You nodded with satisfaction. The bottle that was just poured was, of course, the legendary sleeping potion that had been prepared long ago.
After taking one bottle, the octopus king immediately calmed down.
Mu You then turned around and waved to the three people at the entrance.
Lin Xue and Xiao Ya jumped out of the entrance one by one, landed on the flesh wall, and then turned around to hug the short-legged little girl down.
Xiao Ya released the light spell in her hand, illuminating the dim surroundings.
"Ah, so disgusting..."
The little girl stood on the sticky flesh membrane, raised one of her feet, looked at the layer of mucus sticking to the sole of her shoe, her face turned pale, and she felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.
Lin Xue and Xiao Ya's reactions were not as intense as the little girl's, but their faces were not very good either.
The passage was full of pink pieces of meat, which formed layers of wrinkles under the scattered accumulation, and the wrinkles were full of mucus. People walking on it would slip if they were not careful.
The slippery flesh wall under the soles of the feet seemed to have life, breathing and wriggling slowly, especially the surroundings were filled with an unpleasant smell of rotten meat. This feeling of walking forward on the internal organs was really terrible.
"Bear it for a while..."
Mu You shook his head. The environment of this ghost place can really make people with mysophobia and trypophobia despair.
Not to mention them, even Mu You felt terrified when he saw the white fluffy tentacles swinging all over the ground.
While the potion was taking effect, the four of them hurriedly walked deeper along the flesh wall.
However, after walking for a while, Mu You suddenly saw a surge on the ground in front of him. Chunks of flesh emerged from the flesh wall and quickly condensed into half-human-high octopus guards. Half of the bodies of these octopuses were connected to the flesh wall and could not be separated, but their tentacles could be infinitely extended, and then they would attack nearby targets through the extended tentacles.
"The potion expired so quickly?" Lin Xue was a little surprised. After all, it was a legendary potion. How could it be so unusable?
"No, the octopus king is still sleeping. This should be just some kind of passive defense mechanism in its body..."
Mu You shook his head. As a potion maker, he was most sensitive to the efficacy of the medicine and could feel that the potion was still taking effect.
These small octopuses in front of him were not consciously created by the octopus king, but were similar to human white blood cells, which could automatically come out to kill the enemy when something was wrong with the body, even if the body was not conscious.
These octopus guards were only at level 11 or 2, and were not difficult to deal with. Mu You and Lin Xue immediately took action to clean up the octopuses, while Xiao Ya protected the little girl from behind.
The arc sword was particularly useful in this situation, and one octopus after another was constantly annihilated by the swinging lightning blade.
On Lin Xue's side, the sickle was also constantly passing by like an afterimage, and each time it could make an octopus become incomplete.
However, Lin Xue's sickle attack here could not leave any death mark.
One reason was that the level of the octopus king was too high. Mu You was not sure about the specific level, but this guy was probably another monster that reached the 30th level.
Although the death sickle itself had unlimited potential, the upper limit that could be exerted in actual use depended on the level of the user. If the gap between the two sides exceeded ten levels, the effect of the sickle would be greatly weakened, and the conditions for leaving the death mark in the attack would become harsh, and even after summoning the death god, the souls that the death god could harvest would be greatly reduced.
The second reason was the size.
Because the octopus king is too large, killing the small octopus in its body is at best equivalent to killing one of the billions of cells on its body surface. The damage to its body is almost zero, and naturally it cannot leave the mark of death.
Mu You and Lin Xue killed the octopuses like cutting melons and vegetables along the way, clearing the way forward.
Along the way, the most common scene the four people saw was the floating corpses trapped in the surrounding flesh walls, which were also densely packed and could be seen everywhere.
These floating corpses are actually still alive, but they are in a permanent sleep, relying only on the umbilical cord tubes attached to their bodies to maintain basic functions. They are weak and skinny, and the depth of sinking is also different. Some are still floating on the surface of the flesh wall, and some have indeed been deeply swallowed into the flesh wall, with only a little skin left outside.
After walking forward for a while, probably leaving the octopus foot and entering the range of the body, everyone found that there were no floating corpses around.
This is not because the floating corpse cannot float here, but because from here on, even if it enters the main body of the octopus king, the next thing is the important organs. For safety, the floating corpses that come here will all be swallowed deeply into the flesh wall, and they can't be seen from the outside.
The four people continued to move forward along the flesh wall channel. After walking deeper for more than ten minutes, they finally found the heart of the octopus king.
The octopus has three hearts. In addition to the most important body heart, there are two small gill hearts that play an auxiliary role. The positions of these three hearts are connected together. At this moment, Mu You and the other four came to the position carrying the three hearts of the octopus king.
Mu You looked up and saw that on the ceiling of the flesh wall in front of him, there was a spherical heart with a diameter of tens of meters on each side, surrounded by many blood vessels, beating vigorously.
But in the middle of the two hearts, the main heart that should have been larger and more energetic was missing!
The neat cross-sections of the heart vessels around all showed that the heart was artificially removed.
But the amazing thing is that this kind of resection does not affect the function of the heart itself or the health of the Octopus King. All the cardiac blood will disappear abruptly after flowing out from those broken ends, and then automatically connect to the heart of the Octopus King and continue to flow. After being accelerated by the power of the heart, it will flow out from the tail end of the heart and automatically appear in the cardiac vessels below, completing the blood circulation.
So strictly speaking, the heart is still in its original position, but it has been transferred to another place by a method similar to space transfer.
"No wonder it needs the blood of the heart vein..."
Mu You instantly understood the meaning of the thief's mission.
Because the heart was only transferred by space, it is still functioning normally. Its blood of the heart vein will always flow to the heart. Therefore, as long as the blood of the heart vein is taken, according to the direction of the blood dripping, there is a chance to find the heart of the octopus king.
The only thing that makes Mu You wonder is, what kind of person is capable of cutting off the heart of such a powerful creature as the octopus king?
Shaking his head, Mu You took out the vampire bottle and used the floating spell to send it to the top of the main heart, in front of the thickest blood vessel.
The vampire bottle automatically adhered to the flesh wall of the blood vessel and began to absorb blood from it bit by bit.
This process is obviously very long. After a long time, a layer of blood mist was condensed. Mu You was not in a hurry. It just so happened that they had other things to do.
"Let's look for them all. Those elves should be buried nearby..."
Mu You immediately directed the three people to start working.
Xiao Ya summoned all the summoned beasts. Mu You and Lin Xue also recruited a few summoned beasts to help. A group of summoned creatures were used by Mu You as police dogs, sniffing around in the nearby space to find the target.
The result was that a group of summoned beasts were not as effective as Xiao Ya alone.
"Boss, I feel it. There should be someone here!"
Xiao Ya suddenly raised her hand to signal everyone.
Xiao Ya's elf skin will have some weak induction to people of the same race, which is why Mu You brought her here today.
Mu You walked to the position pointed by Xiao Ya and cut down a little bit with the arc sword.
After cutting nearly two meters deep, as expected, a human figure was vaguely revealed under the broken flesh layer.
Mu You hurriedly widened the crack, and then worked with Xiao Ya to pull out the person buried deep in the flesh wall.
The first person to be found was an elf woman. Her clothes had long been corroded and tattered. She was so pale and thin that she was just skin and bones.
"It's Sasha! She's still alive!"
The old elf soul in the bottle suddenly became excited and urged Mu You to save her.
"You can even recognize her!"
Mu You was very impressed. This elf was so malnourished that her face had completely changed. He could call out her name at once, which showed how familiar they were.
Mu You stretched out his hand and tore off the umbilical cord of the elf. Then he called Ye Rumeng and asked her to try to wake her up.
The little girl certainly understood why Mu You brought her here today. She walked over obediently, took a deep breath, put her hands on the female elf's forehead, and silently recited the name "Sasha" in her heart.
There was no reaction in the first few seconds. After a few seconds, the elf's originally unchanging expression suddenly twisted, as if it was bearing some great pain.
At the same time, the entire flesh wall space also trembled, a familiar whale roar sounded from a distant place, and above the ground, countless umbilical cords grew rapidly from the ground.
"Is the Octopus King about to wake up?"
Mu You didn't expect that the previous steps were all right, but the last wake-up call actually caused such a big reaction to the Octopus King.
He hurriedly took out several bottles of pink potion, opened them one by one, and poured them down.
After pouring two bottles of legendary potion and one bottle of epic potion in succession, the restlessness in the Octopus King's body finally calmed down again.