Do Aliens Also Have Arranged Marriages? - Chapter 12

Chapter 12 – Charcoal Grilled Octopus

Jian Ning looked around again and found that he seemed to be inside the body of this alien.

The alien in front of him was like an inflated balloon, its body filling up the entire space. At the bottom of the space, there looked to be some internal organs, which seemed to have been abandoned by the alien. There were no blood vessels or nerves connecting to the alien, and they were just piled up in a mess.

Looking from the inside, the feeding organs on the top of the alien’s head are more like blood vessels that sustain life. They run through the body and absorb nutrients by devouring human flesh and blood through the mouthparts on top of the feeding organs.

Jian Ning felt a chill and flapped his bone wings, flying out of the crack.

When he stood on the ground in the passage again, the previous feeling of being like a living skin disappeared.

Jian Ning looked down, and the moment he stepped on the ground, he heard a slight cracking sound, like pieces of wrinkled dry leaves being crushed by someone’s foot.

Without having time to think about whether he had stepped on some alien organ again, Jian Ning retracted his bone wings, took a last look at the man, showed no signs of life, and turned away.

He was again back in the passage, standing in front of the three forks.

This time Jian Ning chose the passage on the left.

This passage was much shorter than he had imagined. The black fog surrounding the passage quickly dissipated, and he was now in a winding and narrow underwater tunnel.

This is the tourist area.

There is transparent glass above the head, and various impurities are floating in the turbid sea water, making it difficult to see the situation inside.

Jian Ning didn’t dare to relax his vigilance at all and continued to move forward.

After a while, he felt darkness above him, as if some huge creature was swimming over his head.

Jian Ning paused for a moment, looked up again, and stared at the glass above his head without blinking.

In the turbid sea water, a highly rotten fish head suddenly appeared, swaying and hitting the glass. Only two black holes were left where the eyes of the fish head should have been, quietly staring at the human below.

The fish had died in a miserable way, as if it had been torn into two halves by some creature, and the broken parts were broken and jagged.

Jian Ning was not surprised by this.

After the disaster, these marine creatures for viewing continued to stay in the display pool, but no keepers fed them. Over time, the hungry marine creatures hunted each other, the strong preyed on the weak, and devoured their former companions to fill their stomachs.

The big fish eat the small fish, and in the end, there is no living thing left in the water. Under normal circumstances, the big fish that survives to the end will inevitably starve to death.

But……

What was that just swimming over his head?

Jian Ning walked lightly and didn’t feel relieved until he walked out of the underwater tunnel.

In front of him is the formal area for visitors. The space is wide and the center is a huge sea view display area with many seats in front of the glass. It looks like a place where people used to watch mermaid shows.

Standing in front of this piece of glass, Jian Ning always felt that something was spying on him in the turbid and dark sea water.

The waters here were even deeper and wider, and Jian Ning’s eyes hurt from looking at them, but he didn’t find anything in them.

His eyes glanced upwards casually and suddenly froze.

Several figures seemed to be floating on top of the viewing pond.

Jian Ning’s heart skipped a beat.

He had a hunch that those people soaking in the water should also be members of the search team.

Jian Ning looked around and found that the employee passage was in the corner. The door was open and a damp, fishy smell came from inside.

He walked in and soon reached the end. At the turn was a staircase made of steel bars. It had been in disrepair for many years. Because it was connected to the sea, the steps were rusty and made a creaking sound when he stepped on them lightly, as if they would fall apart at any time.

The surface of the steps was covered with sticky liquid. Jian Ning tried his best not to think about what the mucus was. He endured the nausea all the way and finally reached the end of the steps.

In front of him was the top of the display water area. The vast water surface stretched as far as the eye could see, and the originally clear water surface is now converted with a layer of oily yellow-brown mucus.

Two men and one woman were floating in the water four or five meters away from the shore, their bodies covered in mucus, with only their heads exposed.

Having learned the lesson just now, Jian Ning did not rush forward this time.

He stood at a distance and observed the conditions of several people.

The three people floating in the water seemed to be drunk, with dull expressions and looked drowsy.

Among the few people, the girl seemed to be relatively sober. She seemed to have heard the noise of someone coming up just now, and spoke with difficulty: “Who is it? Be careful of this mucus. If it touches the skin, it will paralyze the senses.”

Jian Ning: “It’s me.”

He really had no idea about the situation of these people.

“What just happened? Is there an alien here?”

“I, I don’t know. We were walking in the passage just now, and suddenly we found that Chris and I were the only ones left. We had lost contact with the captain, and there was no signal in the Star Brain… Later we found that we had walked to the tourist area. Chris said there was movement in the water and he wanted to take a look, so he asked me to wait for him outside.”

“But I waited for a long time and he didn’t come out.”

“Then, the thin guy arrived. After listening to what I said, he went up to look for Chris… but he didn’t return either. I was really worried about the two of them, so I followed them. I saw that they were both in the water. I jumped in to save them, but I didn’t expect that the mucus was poisonous and would paralyze people’s senses…”

The girl’s voice became softer and softer, and speaking became gradually more laborious. The longer she was in contact with the mucus, the more obvious the paralyzing effect became.

After hearing this, Jian Ning’s mouth twitched.

Are you guys here to help the Calabash Brothers save their grandpa?

Seeing that the girl’s condition was also getting worse, he had no time to complain. He turned his head and looked around, and found a long pole in the corner.

Jian Ning went over and picked up the long pole. There was a huge net bag on the top of the pole, which seemed to be a fishing net.

He returned to the pool again.

Jian Ning: “Can you still move? I’ll hook your head with a fishing net, and you hold on to the two of them with your hands. I’ll drag all three of you to the shore.”

The girl: “……”

Fishing net…hook her head?

The scene described by Jian Ning appeared in the girl’s mind, and she felt like crying but had no tears.

It’s better to be embarrassed than to lose your life.

The girl tried to raise her hands and tried to grab the corners of the clothes of the two people beside her, “You can move, I’m holding them——”

As soon as she finished speaking, the fishing net that had been above her head immediately covered her head.

“…”

The girl had a wooden face as she was dragged towards the shore with the fishing net covering her head.

Seeing that they were less than two meters away from the shore, Jian Ning suddenly noticed that the water surface in the distance was rippling, and there seemed to be some huge alien swimming towards this direction underwater.

Jian Ning’s pupils shrank, he increased his speed, and quickly dragged the girl and the two men to the shore.

“Don’t look back! Come on, get up here!”

Jian Ning helped the girl climb up, and then went with her to pull up the other two.

The sound behind them was very close. The girl also had a premonition of something. She turned around and looked at the surging waves in the dark, and her voice trembled: “It’s an alien!”

The mucus on the water surface should all belong to this alien species, but why didn’t it eat them immediately?
Recalling what had just happened, the girl thought of something and her face turned pale.

Could it be… that this is a trap set by alien species?

“You go first.” Jian Ning looked back. In his sight, more than a dozen shockingly thick tentacles kept beating the water surface. The alien species under the water was like a huge octopus. Each tentacle was at least ten meters long and so wide that it would take two people to hug it.

The girl looked at the two people lying on the ground, took out a few antidotes from her bag, and quickly gave herself and the other two an injection.

It takes some time for the antidote to take full effect, but it is enough to allow the three people to temporarily regain their ability to move.

As the medicine entered their blood, the thin man and Chris got up from the ground, but the soreness in their bodies was still difficult to get rid of for a while.

At this time, they also heard the terrifying noise in the water.

“I’ll hold it back first and catch up soon. You guys go back first! Quickly!” Jian Ning lowered his voice and urged them, aiming the gun in his hand at the water.

Hearing the voice, the thin man who had just regained consciousness froze in his expression: “You…”

Jian Ning: “Go!”

Without time to think, they could only follow Jian Ning’s instructions and turn around and run down the stairs behind them.

Hearing the sound of the stairs shaking behind him, Jian Ning’s tense expression relaxed a little.

Finally, they left.

He was certainly not such a selfless person, but the moment the giant octopus’s head emerged from the water, he saw a similar black mist in the octopus’s head.

Before, he had entered the alien’s body to see the fog, but this time, he found that he could actually see the black fog hidden in the alien’s body directly without penetrating it.

Is this change caused by absorbing the previous black mist?

Jian Ning’s heart was beating fast as he watched the alien creature getting closer and closer and gradually revealing its huge body.

The gun in his hand couldn’t have much effect on the aliens. With the other three people there, he could only be timid and dare not reveal his identity.

After hearing the noise behind him disappear, Jian Ning released his bone wings from behind.

Jian Ning didn’t notice that after absorbing the black mist, the pair of bone wings behind him seemed to have grown a little bigger.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at the alien opposite.

It was a charcoal grilled octopus.

This alien species seems to be delicious too.

The underwater alien species finally came ashore. Perhaps because it had swallowed too many marine creatures, this alien species looked a little strange.

Overall, the alien looks like a giant brown octopus, but it has several human faces on its face. Rows of eyes are neatly arranged on its huge head. The tops of its tentacles are covered with brown-green moldy scales, and the bottoms of the tentacles are covered with sharp barbs.

Jian Ning sighed: “Brother, what on earth did you eat? Why do you look so… so dark and twisted.”

The octopus:”!!”

The octopus showed a human-like expression, and Jian Ning actually saw anger in its dense eyes.

The alien couldn’t understand what Jian Ning was saying, but in the eyes of the octopus alien, this delicious prey on the opposite side actually dared to snatch away its other prey!

The octopus was furious and immediately launched an attack after coming ashore.

The octopus stretched out a tentacle and wrapped around Jian Ning’s ankle, trying to drag him into the water. Jian Ning was prepared, and the moment he was touched by the tentacle, he waved his bony wings and cut off the attacking tentacle.

He felt a tingling sensation on his ankle and looked down. He saw that the tentacles had only lightly wrapped around his ankle, but a circle of bloody holes appeared on his ankle.

Jian Ning spread his bone wings and flew to the open space on the other side.

The octopus didn’t seem to be affected by stepping on the land and chased him directly to the shore. It supported its huge body with more than a dozen tentacles and moved quickly on the ground.

Jian Ning turned his head to look at the ferocious alien creature waving its tentacles and chasing after him, and his adrenaline surged.

He couldn’t absolutely let the octopus drag him into the water, because he had no chance to fight back underwater.