Nightmare Octopus.
Qin Siyang could not help letting out a relaxed sigh.
The last time he saw it, he had only been an inexperienced Sequence Level 4.
Time passed slowly, but it had been good.
Liu Dazhi was dead. Li Jingwen was dead. Zhou Yang was dead.
Other than Olov, everyone who deserved to die had died cleanly.
Occasionally going outside the safe zone with Li Tianming to hunt gods, imagining a bright future ahead, Qin Siyang had been living quite comfortably.
"Ah! Time passes and never comes back."
As the Nightmare Octopus slowly approached him, Qin Siyang's thoughts returned to the present.
Back when he first encountered the Nightmare Octopus, Li Tianming had told him that it could not be killed.
If you attacked it, it would immediately copy itself and create an identical Nightmare Octopus, which would then launch a fierce attack on you.
In other words, the more you fought it, the more of them there would be.
The only way to completely defeat a Nightmare Octopus was to gamble your life and guess where its heart was hidden.
If you guessed wrong, the Nightmare Octopus would begin a relentless pursuit.
If you guessed correctly, the Nightmare Octopus, bound by some mysterious rule, would die immediately.
Qin Siyang took a careful look.
The Nightmare Octopus before him had four tentacles.
A Nightmare Octopus was born with only two tentacles. Every time it won a life-and-death gamble against a Sequence user, it gained one additional tentacle.
That meant two Sequence users had already died at its hands before meeting Qin Siyang.
The Nightmare Octopus came up beside Qin Siyang.
The foul smell instantly spread around him, making it hard for him to keep his eyes open.
The Nightmare Octopus raised a tentacle and pointed toward three stone piles standing not far away.
It was asking Qin Siyang to guess which pile contained its heart.
The stone piles were covered in translucent slime, and there were no gaps between the rocks.
Even though Qin Siyang was no longer who he used to be and had awakened the Origin Sequence, giving him exceptional perception, he still could not tell which pile hid its heart.
If he wanted to gamble, he could only rely on pure luck.
But Qin Siyang's attention was not on finding the correct answer.
It was on the Nightmare Octopus itself.
He observed its size and silently judged its strength.
On the school's mission board, the Nightmare Octopus was rated four stars, second only to a few medium-sized gods such as the Lava Crocodile, which had never openly been killed by Sequence users. It stood on the same level as the Thunder Snow Wolf.
But looking at the Nightmare Octopus, with its messy appearance and lack of a tough hide, Qin Siyang felt it was much easier to kill than a Thunder Snow Wolf.
The reason it was rated four stars was probably because of its impossible-to-solve duplication ability.
Qin Siyang had always been thinking about one thing.
The Nightmare Octopus's passive ability was that every time it was attacked, it copied itself once.
So if you failed to kill it in one hit, you would immediately face attacks from two Nightmare Octopuses.
But what if you killed it in a single strike?
At that moment, the Nightmare Octopus raised its tentacle again and pointed at the three stone piles. It seemed to be getting impatient.
Qin Siyang walked over to the three stone piles and nodded.
He felt his idea was worth trying.
At worst, he could just run.
With the Drill Cabin, who could catch him?
Once he decided, he acted immediately.
Origin Violence activated!
Origin Violence activated!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Qin Siyang kicked three times in a row, smashing all three stone piles apart.
When the middle pile shattered, the Nightmare Octopus's heart hidden inside exploded like a blood pack.
The Nightmare Octopus behind him did not even have time to react before the light left its eyes and it crashed to the ground.
Dead!
Splurt!
But as soon as that Nightmare Octopus died, another one crawled out from the slime covering the ground and stood before Qin Siyang.
Qin Siyang's gaze remained steady.
"Just as I thought. Even if it dies after being attacked, it can still duplicate itself."
The newly appeared Nightmare Octopus no longer tried to play a life-and-death guessing game with Qin Siyang.
Instead, it lunged straight at him.
Without hesitation, Qin Siyang swung a kick into the Nightmare Octopus's huge head, blasting a large bloody hole through it.
Through the hole, he could vaguely see its massive heart still beating.
Immediately afterward, another Nightmare Octopus crawled out of the slime.
Qin Siyang curled his lip.
"The first time I killed one directly, I didn't know where the heart was and kicked the wrong spot. That's understandable. It won't happen again."
Bang!
Qin Siyang kicked again, shattering the heart of the heavily injured Nightmare Octopus. Then he turned and threw a hook punch, sending the newly appeared Nightmare Octopus to the afterlife as well.
After that, two more Nightmare Octopuses appeared inside the cave.
After calmly killing both of them, Qin Siyang looked around.
"This cave isn't that big. Before long it'll be filled with corpses. I need to collect them quickly."
Qin Siyang immediately opened an empty storage box.
Before the two newly appeared Nightmare Octopuses could get their footing, he quickly stored the other Nightmare Octopus corpses.
Because their bodies were covered in slime, they made soft sliding sounds as they entered the storage box.
Bang! Bang!
After putting away the corpses, Qin Siyang casually killed two more and then happily continued collecting bodies.
The smile on his face was as bright and sincere as a farmer looking at a harvested wheat field.
"Very good, very good! Today really is a great day for hunting gods!"
"I'm going to get rich!"
"No, I'm getting rich again!"
Bang!
Shhh!
Bang!
Shhh!
Inside the cave, sounds like drums echoed without any fixed rhythm.
Qin Siyang, the drummer, moved with ease and the agility of a monkey, darting back and forth through the cave while desperately filling up his storage boxes.
This continued for more than twenty minutes.
Only after activating his third round of double Origin Violence did he finally stop.
Looking at the dozen or so storage boxes hanging from his waist, Qin Siyang cursed.
"Damn it! I never would have thought ten storage boxes wouldn't be enough! If I'd known today would go this well, I would've brought a whole drill cabin full of storage boxes outside the safe zone!"
Every storage box was already full.
He had been collecting corpses in a hurry, and the bodies were piled inside the boxes without any order. If he took the time to organize them properly, he could probably fit dozens more Nightmare Octopuses inside.
But he did not have that kind of time.
Since he could no longer take away the corpses, continuing to fight would be pointless.
It was time to leave.
Qin Siyang looked at the two Nightmare Octopuses charging toward him and revealed a reluctant expression.
Then his eyes lit up.
"I don't have any storage boxes left, but Chu Baxing and the others do."
Qin Siyang summoned the drill cabin and slipped inside.
Turning back, he shouted, "My treasures, stay close behind me. Don't get lost!"
Then he stepped on the accelerator, keeping the drill cabin moving at a speed the two Nightmare Octopuses could barely keep up with, and headed toward Chu Baxing's location.
Looking back at the two Nightmare Octopuses chasing him without giving up, and thinking about everything he had gained today, he smiled happily.
"I am a fucking genius!"
[🙇🏻 You Can Support the Story Through P@tr3on—AmbitiousTranslator. It also has 40+ Chapters of all the novels and fanfics. Thanks for reading~]