Episode 4 Octopus Girl 1 Giant Beast

The vast sea of ​​stars, the Yuanshi clan, the rising era.

No one knows just how massive this behemoth really is.

Because no one, aliens in the starry sky or asteroids can make it completely stretch out all its tentacles, the tens of thousands of tentacles full of folds, grooves, suckers and nerve synapses.

Just its torso, which is used to devour crystals, digest spiritual energy, and jump into four-dimensional space, has a diameter of more than a thousand kilometers, like a gigantic planet.

And this kind of it is still in its infancy, and it is still rapidly expanding non-stop.

For a long time—since the primate carbon-based intelligent life called "Yuanshi Clan" lived on it, these microbe-like little lives did treat it as a special planet.

For a while, they also called it "Octopus Mother", and even used starship wreckage and smelting waste to build many altars and temples within its ravines and folds, weaving all kinds of unique dances, chanting and Songs come to praise it, worship it, and pray to it, praying that it can give them hope of survival, a fertile home, and everything they want.

Of course, this was a long, long time ago, so long that most of the human race - the Yuanshi people have forgotten the "mother octopus" and those ridiculous dances, nonsense prayers, and those humble, bleak, turbulent years .

And it is not the original "mother octopus", but one of the few tentacles that survived the "mother octopus" after the last "explosion", a new generation that has grown up slowly.

But it still has the memory of the previous generation of "mother octopus" in a way that is incomprehensible to the Yuanshi people, and it misses those beautiful days - at that time, all the Yuanshi people worshiped it, clustered around it, and sent out There is brainwave communication with it in the heart, and their brainwaves are like fragrant and colorful bouquets, which are the most interesting things it has seen in its long life.

Fortunately, it is different from Yuanshi clan's perception of the flow of time. Those vivid memories seem to have happened yesterday. As long as it wants to, it can completely indulge in the memory, indulge in those colorful dreams like swirls of paint In the middle, ten years, one hundred years, five hundred years and one thousand years, they will not wake up.

But not now.

Now I have to listen to Pepe tell stories.

Pepe is a very cute girl who loves to laugh. She is short, with curly hair and freckles on her nose. She likes to step on its folds with bare feet and give out a silver bell-like smile. Voice.

Although it's strange to think so - after all, as a behemoth with a diameter of more than tens of thousands of kilometers including its tentacles, those Yuanshi people parasitic on it are like probiotics and microorganisms. How can a microorganism be "cute"?

However, its race seldom "thinks". It is already very strange to be a void hunter who likes to think. No matter what weird ideas come up, it doesn't matter, right?

Pepe is here.

With its snail-like nerve transmission speed and rough and slow perception, it is actually not very clear about the movements of the small life of the Yuanshi people. The bouncing Pepe is not much different from the microbes floating in the water .

But it can sense Pepe's brainwaves, which are budding like flower buds, reminding it of its mother's body and even its mother's mother's body, which had seen several supernova explosions, so gorgeous, It's so beautiful, it's—in the words of the Yuanshi people—that it makes people "excited".

"Shannuya, Shannuya, do you know what this is?"

Pepe cheered and jumped into its thinking folds. The girl's originally curly long hair stretched out one by one, bursting out with regular light, gently piercing into its thinking folds, and quickly completed the brain wave Simultaneously, she waved a white thing in her hand, and said to it, "This is a 'dizi', a musical instrument invented by our ancestors long, long ago when they were still on earth, you know what a musical instrument is, right? I told you that an instrument can be used to make beautiful music, better than I can tell stories.

"As for this flute, it was made from the calf bone of a kind of spirit beast that the warriors of our city-state went to 'Tianlan Star' to investigate. When we played it, we could hear the sound of the wind on 'Tianlan Star'. Woo, woo woo, sounds good, doesn't it?"

It doesn't think the sound of the wind is very pleasant.

In fact, it rarely hears the wind.

As a member of the void hunter family, it, its mother body and other family members are too huge, so huge that they can rarely descend into habitable planets with atmospheres.

Without an atmosphere, the howling, whimpering and murmuring of the wind is rarely heard.

But it can be imagined.

When it jumps in the four-dimensional space, there is indeed a special kind of energy, which will wash, collide and stir between its nerves and cells, giving it a very strange feeling, almost like before the Yuanshi people inhabited it. , it can feel the most comfortable feeling.

"Good to hear."

It lied to the little girl, and then said, "However, I still prefer to listen to your stories, Pepe, let's continue yesterday's story, and tell me about "Arabian Nights"?"

"OK!"

Pepe laughed, eyes widened again, and said with some confusion, "However, Shannuya, won't you get tired of hearing it? I've told this story three times. Dream Master has told you this story, even a long time ago, before you were born and your mother body was not 'exploded', you should have heard the story of "Arabian Nights" countless times, right?"

"That's different."

It said, "It's also "One Thousand and One Nights", I just like to hear you tell me."

"Why?"

The girl's eyes were wide open, and the pupils were so bright that they seemed to be able to reflect 10,000 stars in the depths of the universe.

"It feels like it's hard to explain to you."

It thought for a while and said, "I think those dreamers in the past didn't like me very much, and were even afraid of me. They didn't really like to tell me stories. They were just completing a job. They were so scared and hated I'm going to die, but I can't help it. It seems that someone is forcing them to tell me a story. Really, I don't care.

"But you are different, Pepe, you really like telling me stories, don't you?"

"of course!"

The girl smiled and said, "I am born to like to tell stories to everyone, especially to Shannuya - because my father, brother and everyone in the city-state have endless work to do every day, Mining, shipbuilding, hunting, cultivation, always say to me, 'Go, Pepe, go play by yourself', don't want to listen to my stories at all, only Shannuya is the best, Never said 'go go' to me, you are the best listener, I love telling you stories!"