Chapter 90 - Mourn

Zinuo turned her head to take a look and muttered to herself while staring at the incoming tentacle.

“It’s over, it’s over!”

However, just when the tentacle was about to touch her, a massive figure suddenly rushed over, grabbed her, and pulled her aside with just the right amount of force.

Zinuo was slightly startled; she looked up.

A huge Mecha came into view; for some reason, at that moment, Zinuo’s tense heart suddenly relaxed.

She instinctively believed that the man in front of her could solve the crisis at hand.

“Hide, I’ll handle the rest,” he said. Sёarᴄh the Nôvelƒire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Su Mo placed Zinuo aside, then he charged directly at the giant octopus perched on the bow of the ship.

It wasn’t that Su Mo didn’t want to attack the octopus from a distance; he simply lacked heavy-duty weaponry.

His original gun had been discarded earlier, and the short-range missiles in his abdomen were all used up, leaving him no choice but to fight hand-to-hand.

The Type II Gray Calamity Octopus wasn’t frightened by Su Mo’s approach; it merely extruded more tentacles, sweeping them toward him.

As long as it could entangle him, it could undoubtedly tear him apart.

Its constricting power was incomparable to that of smaller octopuses.

“Cover Su Mo with firepower!

I’ll handle it with the ship cannon!”

Zinuo shouted to Zhou Qian and the others.

However, Zhou Qian anxiously yelled back, “Don’t go, that cannon isn’t working!”

Zinuo and others were taken aback, then turned to look at the ship’s cannon, only to see its long barrel was bent.

“Damn!”

Zinuo couldn’t help but curse coarsely.

At this moment, Zhou Qian and the others started firing their rifles at the Gray Calamity Octopus and lobbed several Hand Grenades at it.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The intense explosions spread out, but unfortunately, the attack was ineffective.

Bullets hit its massive, bloated body without even penetrating the skin, each bullet bouncing off the highly elastic skin and falling to the ground.

As for the Hand Grenades, they only managed to blast the surface, creating a bloodied mess but failing to endanger its life.

Su Mo’s eyes grew colder as he maneuvered the Mecha to dodge agilely within the confined space.

He instantly charged up to the Gray Calamity Octopus and fiercely slammed his steel body into it.

And indeed, being rammed by a forty-plus ton iron behemoth head-on made a difference.

Even the head of a Type II Gray Calamity Octopus was bloodied by the impact, but that wasn’t all.

Su Mo continued by rotating his giant steel fists, pounding the octopus’s head punch after punch until it was thoroughly pained.

The Gray Calamity Octopus immediately flew into a rage, violently shaking the entire ship.

The large vessel began to sway from left to right, looking as if it was about to capsize.

“The ship is going to capsize!”

Zhou Qian was almost scared to death.

At the same time, the Gray Calamity Octopus suddenly exerted force and climbed up, almost lifting the ship.

It then opened its enormous mouth towards Su Mo while abruptly stretching out a tentacle that wrapped around the Mecha’s left leg, immobilizing it.

Su Mo’s expression sharpened as he keenly sensed the opponent’s intentions.

“Su Mo, be careful!”

After stabilizing themselves, Zinuo and others looked on, their hearts almost leaping to their throats.

Just then, Su Mo did something extremely bold; he didn’t think of dodging or resignedly waiting for death.

His eyes fixed on his opponent, precisely as the Heat Radiation Energy Beam in the Gray Calamity Octopus’s mouth accumulated to the critical point.

Su Mo fiercely pushed the power control lever, maximizing the output!

The entire Mecha surged upwards, using its steel body to directly block the monster’s mouth.

Boom!

The Heat Radiation Energy Beam exploded instantaneously within the octopus’s mouth, turning it into a bloody mess, after which it emitted a piercing scream.

Soon, all the tentacles wrapping around the bow retracted and swooped toward Su Mo.

Inside the Mecha’s cockpit, Su Mo was confused by the close-quarters explosion’s impact.

Although the Green Shield lacked many advantages, its armor was thick, especially the chest armor, which was exceptionally reinforced.

Additionally, most of the explosion’s damage was absorbed by the Gray Calamity Octopus.

Thus, Su Mo didn’t die from the shock.

Nevertheless, even so, Su Mo was covered in blood, and a crimson warning kept popping up on the Mecha’s control panel screen.

“Warning, Mecha damage level reached 28%.”

Su Mo shook his head, and swiftly regained clarity, keenly aware of the tentacles sweeping around him.

So, he made a bold decision, ignoring the damage to the Mecha, he maximized the power output again, extending both hands and tightly grabbing the octopus’s mouth, forcibly pushing it off the bow.

However, at this time, the sweeping tentacles entwined Su Mo and pulled him down as well.

Splash!

A huge splash erupted!

Wrapped by the Gray Calamity Octopus, Su Mo fell into the water.

“Su Mo!”

Lin Zinuo and the others were shocked, immediately rushing to the edge of the deck, shouting anxiously.

At that moment, Su Mo was dragged straight by the octopus into the sea, sinking towards the deep ocean.

After entering the water, the fighting capability of the Gray Calamity Octopus at least doubled, after all, the water was its home ground.

Su Mo did this because he had no other choice, if he didn’t get it off, everyone would die.

But by doing so, he was almost certainly doomed.

However, he didn’t panic at all and quickly input commands to maximize the Mecha’s power struggling.

Even as the screen continuously popped up with alerts of power overload, he didn’t care.

Immediately after, Su Mo raised his hand and smashed a fist hard down on a black button protected by a transparent cover!

Boom!

Blood stained the control console.

Then a prompt box popped up on the screen.

“Self-destruction initiating!”

After all was done, Su Mo extended his hand and fiercely pulled at a special manual emergency switch next to him!

Click!

The cockpit was forcibly opened, not from the front, but from the back.

Powerful mechanical thrusters pried open a gap in the binding tentacles.

Sea water rushed in, and Su Mo held his breath, darting through the gap in the octopus tentacles like a small fish.

At this moment, the Gray Calamity Octopus was blinded by rage, intent on crushing this Mecha, it hadn’t noticed the escaping fish.

Not long after Su Mo swam away, a massive explosion spread outward.

The shockwave from the water directly ejected Su Mo out.

The distant ship had already dropped anchor, gradually coming to a stop, and Lin Zinuo and others on the deck watched the explosion under the water, their faces revealing expressions of sorrow.

It was over, their ace was gone, and now they would be defenseless in times of trouble ahead.

“Ah, Su Mo, how could you die like this, your death was so tragic!

With you gone, what are we going to do!”

Zhou Qian cried out in misery.

“Enough, I’m the unlucky one here.

How am I supposed to explain this to Sister Zhao Han, he hasn’t even been settling his accounts for a few days, and now he’s retired.

You could have lasted a few more days, even completing a month would have been fine….”

At this moment, Lin Zinuo felt like crying.

“Sister Zinuo, take heart.”

The originally heartbroken Zhou Qian and others showed strange expressions and hastily consoled Sister Zinuo.

It really seemed like that, Su Mo had only been coming to work for less than a week, and directly retired.

It would have been nothing unusual for other personnel, but it was somewhat strange in Su Mo’s case.