Chapter 263 Sense of UrgencyThere was quite a bit of sensible seafood, but the results were not very pleasing. So Anti went straight to a church in the distance. The cathedral was composed of several coral reef pillars that grew upward, forming a group of buildings. A long spiral horn above the central cathedral emitted a conspicuous light. From a distance, it looked like a deep blue star shining, and it was difficult to look directly at it in the sea. Along the way, Anti discovered that the living conditions of seafood in the parish were obviously much better than those in the Flat Coral Area. It can be seen mainly from the decoration inside and outside the building. Perhaps it is precisely because of their originally superior living conditions that their attitude towards the current situation is so bad. When Anti came over, the seafood he saw either pretended to be dead or took out their anger on him and started cursing at him. After killing a group of anglerfish believers he met on the road, Anti was about to move on when he suddenly heard a knocking sound. A limp tentacle flapped above a coral building in the distance. Are you trying to attract your own attention?
Anti jumped onto the coral reef and followed the tentacle to a hidden crevice, where he met the owner of the tentacle, a small brown octopus. Several tentacles curled up together with the round body, just like a ball. "Octopus?" An asked. The octopus' characteristic small eyes looked at Anti: "Haha, it's been a long time since normal humans came to Havendes. It seems that there will be some interesting changes before the entire center sinks into the abyss." Some shrill voices were heard, with a strange sticky sound. "you are?" "I'm Otto." "Doctor Octopus?" "Doctor? Are you referring to the group of possessed scholars in the Helvendes Library? It is true that many scholars have come from my kind, which gives people this impression, but I am just a businessman who sells small things in troubled times... As you can see, my tentacles are relatively short and very weak. It is very troublesome for me to hunt by myself, so I can only do some small business." Anti looked deep into the gap where its tentacle was pointing, and found that there were a lot of debris piled up inside, but it was well organized, like a convenience store. "Although you are a human, I don't care. I have also done business with some sea people who can temporarily maintain their sanity by withstanding the erosion of the abyss, and I don't mind the trading partners. So do you want to buy something?" The octopus rubbed his little tentacles and looked at Anti with a little expectation. "What are you selling?" Anti asked calmly. "The equipment you have on you looks very special, so you probably don't like these junks. For someone like you, you should want more information about Havendes, right? I will tell you everything I know, as long as you can afford it." After saying that, the octopus added: "Ah, of course, I also saw that you are very powerful. But it's useless to threaten me. I make money now just for fun. If you want to kill me directly, you are free to do so. In this way, you can take these scraps at will." Anti looked at it and said, "Are there any other merchants doing business here?" "... Isn't it a bit too much for you to ask a small vendor like me whether there are other competitors? This information will give you a high price, and everyone doing business here is actually the same. Hehe, I'm actually doing well." Octopus Otto said in a somewhat mean way. "What does Havendes usually use for transactions?" An then asked. "In the past, there was a matching currency, like this." Otto held up a small shell. "There are different amounts depending on the color and material. Of course, it is no longer useful in this doomsday environment, but it has only depreciated appropriately here, and I will still give you a fair price. In addition, if you can't collect them, you can bring some body parts of other sea creatures. It is not convenient for me to hunt, so I can only rely on kind people like you to eat." The octopus said as he rubbed his tentacles.
Anti nodded and asked, "That's easy, wait a moment." After saying that, he jumped off the coral reef. The octopus waved its tentacles gently: "Waiting for your good news~." If they could talk nicely, Anti would still be willing to go through the process a bit. Besides, what the octopus said was right. Intelligence was something that didn't require mind reading or soul searching technology, so it was impossible to seize it by force. You can certainly consider comparing prices from different stores, but if Anti continues to look for other vendors in this shabby place, then Anti feels it would be simpler to just buy all the seafood nearby. It probably took only more than ten minutes before Anti came back. The octopus Otto had just shrunk back and looked at Anti who suddenly returned to his sight. The tall figure cast a shadow to block him. Although the octopus's face showed no expression, he was probably sweating. "So soon... This human gentleman seems to have good luck... Well, let me see what you can afford..." Wow! Big Mouth spat out everything in his mouth in dissatisfaction. Killing so many and not letting it eat is really abominable! It was secretly asking Anti whether it could eat the ball-sized octopus in front of it directly after getting the information. Anti ignored it. What appeared before its eyes was a sea of blood and corpses of the sea creatures, which almost flooded the octopus's store. It quickly stretched out its tentacles to hold it back, and then helped to clean up the mess for a long time. "Light of the Sea, human... No, sir, you are not the legendary man-slayer, are you? No, in this case it should be the sea-slayer?" Octopus Otto scratched his round body with his tentacles. "I want all the information you have. Just answer whatever I ask. If you are satisfied, I will give it all to you." Anti said. Otto quickly responded: "Sure, sure!" Anti asked about the large ship and the other people on board. "Oh, sir, are you really from that ship?" Octopus Otto gave a pleasing answer. It was obvious that he had seen that ship. "Do you have news?" "Of course there was. In fact, the noise was really loud. When the ship fell, it was like what humans call a meteor." "Where did it fall?" Anti ignored the exaggerated description and asked directly. "Judging from the direction, it will probably fall on..." As he spoke, Otto suddenly stretched out his tentacles and grabbed a roll of something from the groceries at the back, took it over and unfolded it in front of Anti. Anti was shocked! It's a map! Anti is not so directionally challenged that even a map cannot help him. This thing is a lifesaver to him! For Anti, Havendes is even more challenging than the Eternal Night Gap. As a city built by the sea creatures, it is too three-dimensional. Anti appreciates the sense of layering from a distance, but once he gets deeper into it, he just wants to sweep it away. If he had a map, he could still struggle. Without noticing the surprised expression on Anti's lips that opened slightly by a few pixels, Octopus Otto took out something that should be a pen and drew a circle on the map. "It should be east of Seavenders, near the kelp forest or Crab Rock City." "That's just right, Havendes...not only that, but also the information about the entire Deep Ocean Center. I want as much as you know." Anti continued to ask.
Looking at the map, Anti further felt the enormity of Havendes. The flat coral area he passed through was just a very small area in the southwest of Havendes, adjacent to the border stone forest. The parish covers a vast area in the south. In addition, he also knew that there was a sand fortress in the north where the discouraged shrimp Pipiro's brother lived, and there was a vast area outside the city in the east, where there was an underwater volcanic area that drove away humans and sea people. Now I know there is a seaweed forest and a crab rock city in the east city... The sense of urgency came. What sense of urgency? Summer vacation is about to end on Blue Star, and school is about to start. There are about two weeks left, and what he sees before him is such a huge deep ocean center that even the Seavenders itself is ridiculously large. It's not like playing soul games. Even if Anti's mobility is not enough to cheer for his knees, it's still comparable to that of a half-disabled person. Although the areas in reality will not be specially designed to be winding, rugged and complicated like in the game, they will also be larger. The complexity piled up by simple space will only make it more difficult to overcome. Can you win? It’s hard to say, but Anti really needs to work hard. Goal: not to be late for the new semester. (End of this chapter)