The net that previously pinned down the Prop Fish was raised again, and this time it was arranged so densely that it completely trapped the Tentacle Tool inside. After the initial burst, the Tentacle Tool seemed to have no strength left to resist. With its tentacles divided and restrained, its main body lay on the ground, with only the tumors on its body continually swelling, looking like a truly living creature.

With the experience from before, the people on the Fish Banquet side were more cautious. Except for those few players restraining the Tentacle Tool, the rest kept a certain distance from it and continued to layer seal barriers around it.

The players trapped in the banquet hall had quieted down. The Fish Banquet was clearly not going to lift the Spatial Seal at this moment. Since the Fish Banquet didn’t care about their life or death, they, of course, wouldn’t just watch the props being smoothly recovered.

So someone secretly tampered with it, piercing through the Spatial Seal Barrier with a single blow. Even a small crack could render the previous efforts of the Fish Banquet players futile. They didn’t even have time to track down the culprit, as all their attention was focused on the Tentacle Tool.

Fortunately, the Tentacle Tool was quite calm.

"Is the upgrade of this thing a one-time use?" Shi Shuai muttered, and as soon as he finished speaking, that Prop Fish appeared again. This time its size was unprecedentedly large. As it descended from above the banquet hall, with just one fish mouth, it covered most of the hall. Not only did it swallow the Tentacle Tool and those nets, but the entire banquet hall space was also sucked into its belly!

The people in the banquet hall were no exception. Xu Huo and the others, along with the Fish Banquet and trapped players, were all compressed within the same transmission channel. Although the space didn’t collapse, the intense waves of Spatial Power, combined with the props previously set up by the Fish Banquet, caused the group to collide with each other as they were sucked into the fish’s belly. This allowed the Tentacle Tool to break free, and in one go, it killed seven people, including players from the Fish Banquet Building!

Immediately after, an unknown airflow appeared within the fish’s belly, sweeping the remaining people and the Tentacle Tool in different directions! 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Xu Huo likely fell into a zoo—he judged it to be so because, from the moment he started falling from fifty meters above the ground, he was attacked by more than ten types of animals including birds, giant monkeys, pythons, lizards, and leopards. These animals, albeit barely distinguishable by species, cooperated seamlessly, evenly distributed within his fifty-meter descent range. If they failed in a strike, they didn’t entangle but turned around to hide in the densely grown, bizarre forest. Only the carnivorous animals on the ground didn’t play by the rules, big and small, charging one after another, endlessly. In just a few seconds, he, along with his Defensive Barrier, was knocked out and fell into a spider’s nest.

Baby spiders, the size of human heads, crawled all over his Water Cube Barrier under the ten-meter-high mother spider’s lead, continuously gnawing. Seeing those metallic-looking, reflective legs held high, Xu Huo figured that ordinary Defensive Barriers wouldn’t withstand it for long, so he borrowed some force to break out of the encirclement and quickly donned the Invisibility Prop. This thing couldn’t completely shield his presence, so animals with keen smell could still detect him, including some very small poisonous insects and ants.

However, these mutated animals all had their territories. Xu Huo quickly scanned the surrounding environment, chose a direction with fewer poisonous insects, and proceeded forward.

Generally, the more ferocious animals occupy larger territories. The scarcity of other small animals around indicated that there must be a beast or a kind of fierce beast dwelling here. He intended to take advantage of this opportunity to see if there was an exit when he saw the grass and trees ahead flutter. Then Shi Shuai and the Girl in the painting burst out side by side, followed by a group of mutant beasts!

The Girl in the painting was thrilled to see him, waving continuously, while Shi Shuai kept shouting, "Run!"

The sizes of the mutant beasts were not small, the smallest being at least as large as adults. But these were the young ones in the group, and most of the adults following behind were three to four meters tall, enormous in size. They charged recklessly through the forest, taking no heed of the trees and thorns in their path.

But they weren’t coming for Shi Shuai and the Girl in the painting; they were fleeing for their lives.

"Boom!" A giant tentacle extended from the trunk, sweeping a section of the forest flat before slamming the person it was coiled around heavily to the ground!

It was that Formal Dress Player. He was slightly injured, but his high-quality Defense Prop deflected the Tentacle Tool’s attack. So, unlike those caught before who were unable to resist, as soon as he was thrown out, he didn’t run away but instead immediately activated the device on his wrist, attempting to open a Space Portal!

This was a legitimate Space Portal. Xu Huo quickly brought Shi Shuai and the Girl in the painting over through the Spiritual World, intending to exit with them behind the Formal Dress Player. But unexpectedly, the fish appeared again!

It came directly through the Formal Dress Player’s Space Portal, not only destroying the Transmission Channel but also nudging the Formal Dress Player!

Already teetering on the edge of rage, the Formal Dress Player lost his previous composure, his face twisted as he grabbed the fish, trying to drag it out of the space!

"Why did you bring us back?" Shi Shuai looked at Xu Huo, speechless. "If he could escape, would he still be dragging it to this point?"

Indeed, this wasn’t the Formal Dress Player’s first attempt at escape, but each time the Prop Fish blocked him, leading to frequent pursuits from the Tentacle Tool. Now was no different; an instant before he was venting his anger, the tentacles came at them from all directions again!

"Boom!" The Prop Fish and the Formal Dress Player were both flung away!

Shi Shuai, having moved aside long ago, chuckled, "Good thing we ran fast."

The Formal Dress Player and the Prop Fish drew the main firepower, and the Tentacle Tool, as if seeking revenge, chased after them relentlessly. Whenever the Formal Dress Player tried to flee using his device, the Prop Fish would cause trouble, and then they’d both be struck by the Tentacle Tool. During this, the Formal Dress Player tried multiple times to call for help from Fish Banquet, but through repeated attacks, several of his devices were destroyed, leaving him entangled with the Tentacle Tool in the original spot.

Xu Huo had no intention of assisting. He simply observed the surroundings swiftly. With so many large mutant animals, this was no ordinary zoo. Judging by the extent of it, it likely spanned a whole mountain range, with seal barriers in the sky indicating it was still within the Fish Banquet’s jurisdiction.

The device obtained from the Formal Dress Player couldn’t be used due to biological authentication, but he wasn’t in a hurry. Staying on the sidelines, he watched the Formal Dress Player’s battle, ready to pick up the pieces later.

Unexpectedly, there were other players in this jungle. Two groups arrived nearby by coincidence. Upon seeing the Tentacle Tool, they were first shocked, then seeing Xu Huo and the others hiding nearby and with the mutant beasts and poisonous insects scared away, they snuck closer as well.