A Top Scholar in Everything-Chapter 223: Tentacle Monster vs. Muscle Hunk

Night, silent and still.

Underground Settlement Street.

Baiyu had already searched through all the locations, but he didn’t find the place indicated in his dream, let alone find Kaz.

Progress had stalled.

The only location Baiyu hadn’t visited yet was the underground base where the Devouring Fog was initially discovered.

That was the largest base the Abyssal Ascetic Association had set up beneath Linjiang City.

To this day, the authorities still couldn’t figure out how they managed to excavate such a large space beneath Linjiang to build a base without being detected.

"That’s where I haven’t searched yet, but..."

Baiyu hesitated.

He instinctively felt that Kaz wouldn’t possibly go to that underground base.

Because ever since he and Tang Xiaoyu discovered the underground base last time, the Anomaly Bureau’s martial artists had been excavating, exploring, and guarding it.

Kaz wouldn’t walk into a trap.

"Should I really report this to the official department?"

Baiyu felt a bit reluctant.

But life is such that nothing ever goes perfectly.

Two weeks of searching without finding anything had already significantly delayed his original plan.

Just then.

Suddenly, hurried footsteps sounded from the darkness.

Baiyu turned off his flashlight and hid in the darkness of the corner.

The footsteps were chaotic, with at least three people, and with the light they were carrying, Baiyu saw what they looked like.

Uniform protection suits typical of the Armed Department.

Each carried hot weapons, evidently soldiers from the Armed Department.

"The boss told you to hurry up. Tonight, we finally found the thing that attacked our brothers. Including a few days ago, this damn thing has already injured several of us. We absolutely can’t let it escape."

The one who seemed like a team leader spoke rapidly.

Hiding in the darkness, Baiyu’s eyes flickered: "This should be the troop guarding the underground steam engine in Linjiang City."

Linjiang had two major underground facilities.

Hades Prison and the Magic Energy Steam Engine Linjiang.

The latter was referred to as the heart of Linjiang, relying on the underground dark river of Jiujiang to operate. The North District was shrouded in mist all year round for this reason.

A troop from the Armed Department was stationed underground year-round to guard the steam engine.

But it seems.

They were encountering trouble.

Baiyu thought there was something suspicious about this and surmised that the monster they were referring to might be the still struggling Kaz.

Stealthily following several soldiers.

In the darkness.

The sewer routes were intricate, like a maze.

Baiyu only dared to explore specific areas.

At this moment, following a few soldiers, turning left and right, he had strayed far from the original search range he had planned.

This was a massive corridor.

The constant sound of water echoed in his ears.

Baiyu was slightly shocked.

This water sound was exactly the same as what he heard in his dream.

"It turns out it’s really not underground Settlement Street; the scene in the dream must have been overinterpreted by me. Settlement Street merely pointed to Kaz, not that Kaz was underground Settlement Street."

Baiyu became even more vigilant.

He proceeded slowly in the massive corridor, with raging water ahead accompanied by curses, combat noises, and weapon explosions growing increasingly loud.

The soldiers emerged from the corridor and immediately took out their weapons, firing frantically into the darkness.

There were quite a few soldiers around, doing the same.

There were even mechanical transformation troops.

A group of modified soldiers was entangled with a giant monster up front, while the surrounding soldiers provided long-range fire support.

It was a black monster covered entirely in tentacles.

Round and plump, like an oversized sea urchin.

It had no legs.

Its movement and attacks all relied on the tentacles.

In the center of its body was a giant eye occupying seventy percent of its body. From a distance, it looked like an eyeball covered in tentacles, causing goosebumps to rise on one’s skin.

More unsettling was.

The monster emitted sporadic, faint howls.

The soldiers wore protective suits and were enhanced with various spirit techniques like Qingxin, capable of effectively blocking out such sounds to avoid being affected.

But Baiyu didn’t have one.

He could only use the Scholar Secret Technique "Purification" to forcibly resist.

Despite his extraordinary talent and not being greatly affected, listening to such music certainly wasn’t enjoyable.

After all.

The last Evil God who enjoyed forming a band drove itself into oblivion.

Without musical talent, don’t come out to torment people’s ears, you bastard.

Baiyu didn’t follow the soldiers into the corridor but hid in a gap at the entrance of the corridor, quietly watching the mechanical transformation soldiers and Armed Department soldiers battle the eyeball-tentacle monster for three hundred rounds.

New soldiers continually rushed into the corridor for support.

Due to the surrounding darkness, they only had flashlights as their light source, and in the urgency, none noticed Baiyu’s presence.

"Come on, step it up, this monster is almost done."

"Kill it, Captain Bing was injured by this monster; kill it for revenge."

"This monster attacked many of our brothers over the past few days; we can’t let it escape."

Under the barrage of attacks, the eyeball-tentacle monster gradually weakened.

One by one, its tentacles were cut off, with its ghastly green blood spurting like a fountain.

This tentacle monster’s enemy wasn’t some sweet, magical girl.

But a group of soldiers holding various large-caliber rifles, even mechanical transformations ready to launch RPGs from their arms at any moment.

Their muscles brimming with power made the tentacles seem rather feeble...

Baiyu quietly monitored the situation, the Black Moon Mark on his right arm skin faintly burning, indicating a Black Moon Apostle within a hundred meters.

"Either this is Kaz’s mutation, or Kaz is hiding nearby. In any case, this monster definitely has something to do with him."

Knowing Kaz’s bizarre methods.

Baiyu didn’t dare to underestimate him and activated the Scholar Secret Technique "Energy Perception."

In the next moment, the darkness remained, but he could clearly see the flowing blood qi within the crowd ahead.

Each person resembled a flame in the darkness.

The more blood qi, the larger the flame; the less, the smaller.

"This Captain Bing is already dead, what bad luck. He was hit right in the forehead by the tentacle."

The soldier’s Captain Bing was likely a minor leader.

He lay on the ground, devoid of life.

Of course.

The soldiers engaged in fierce combat didn’t notice any of this.

Soon.

Under the concentrated fire, the eyeball-tentacle monster fell to the ground, with its ghastly green blood pooling, resembling a punctured pufferfish.

The group of soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

No one knew why such a monster appeared underground, near the Magic Steam Engine in Linjiang City.

Nonetheless, discovering underground monsters wasn’t surprising, be they giant rats or two-headed snakes.

As long as they were dealt with.

But.

As the tentacle monster fell.

With Energy Perception activated, Baiyu saw a sinister red light bursting from the monster and swiftly merging into a nearby corpse.

Devouring Fog!!

Baiyu held his breath tight.

The next second, he heard a soldier excitedly shout in the darkness: "Captain Bing is alive, the captain is alive."