Cave Refuge

Only instead of using the deck's hot weapons to attack the tentacles as Dong Tianyu had guessed, the huge hull floating on the water surface instantly reverted to its liquid metal state from just moments ago.

In the form of liquid metal, it wrapped around the giant tentacles that originally bound the hull.

As the warship's hull transformed into liquid metal, the tentacles that had tightly bound the hull suddenly loosened, and then, the tentacles which originally wanted to regain momentum, started flailing wildly on the water surface as if coated with a metallic outer layer.

At this time, Dong Tianyu had already used Divine Sense to see the true appearance of those tentacles hidden beneath the water surface; a monster resembling a giant squid, with its head down and tentacles up, continuously slapped the water surface with its tentacles, trying to shake off the metal-coated tentacles.

Unfortunately, the liquid metal coating the tentacles, now acting like the skin on the tentacles, no matter how the creature slapped the water with its tentacles, the liquid metal not only didn't detach but eerily seemed like it was merging into the tentacles.

Dong Tianyu was unable to react promptly to these successive changes.

As time passed, the originally violently flailing giant tentacles appeared to tire out, gradually slowing their frenetic movement.

However, when Dong Tianyu carefully observed those tentacles on the water surface, he was surprised to find that the metallic sheen on the tentacles' surface began to fade, and the metal coating that originally encased the exterior appeared to truly merge into the tentacles.

As the liquid metal disappeared, the restlessly moving tentacles on the water surface gradually quieted down, but after the tentacles on the water surface became quiet, the body hidden underwater began to tremble frantically.

Perhaps it had lost control over the tentacles on the surface; even if the underwater body trembled greatly, it only moved chaotically within a limited range.

As time elapsed and the body hidden beneath the water ceased trembling and regained calm, Dong Tianyu was still wondering what would happen next.

With the cessation of the body's trembling, the monster that gradually floated to the surface of the water began to metallize.

Floating in the air and observing with Divine Sense, Dong Tianyu watched the entire process of flesh transforming into metal.

At first, the body that looked like a dead organism floating on the surface of the water, similar to a typical carbon-based organism's corpse, gradually showed irregular bruising.

However, unlike the dark red bruises typical of corpses, the bruises that appeared on the monster were bright silver and expanded in coverage as time passed.

When the silver bruises completely covered the body of the monster on the water surface, the originally still tentacles, now adrift with the waves, began to show slight movements.

As the first tentacle started moving, as if triggering some mechanism, more and more tentacles began moving erratically.

When the previously calm tentacles floating on the water surface started shuffling wildly, similar to a chaotic dance of demons, the previously still body, now fully covered in silver, plunged back into the water like it had revived.

Watching the strange changes occurring in the waters below, although that thing was gradually descending into the deeper sea, Dong Tianyu's Divine Sense still firmly locked on it, wanting to see what kind of tricks it could play next.

Watching its erratic darting movements under the water, Dong Tianyu momentarily didn't know if the liquid metal had taken control of the monster from the inside, or if the monster had directly digested and assimilated the liquid metal inside its body.

But as Dong Tianyu watched the monster under the water gradually transform into a submarine during its advance, he immediately knew who the ultimate victor was.

However, compared to the victory of the submarine, Dong Tianyu was more hopeful that the ultimate victor would be that late-emerging aquatic creature.

But it was unexpected that the yellow bird, which only appeared last, was so weak. It was counter-killed by the mantis the moment it appeared, and then the mantis burrowed into the body of the yellow bird like an Iron Wireworm, completely taking its place.

Dong Tianyu, who watched the entire process, was interested in the submarine that was still cruising in the sea.

After all, anyone who sees this kind of liquid metal that can change form at will would definitely be curious to study it physically.

Perhaps because of consecutive successes, he felt he had become stronger, or perhaps because so much time had passed, he thought that Dong Tianyu was not tracking him.

In any case, the submarine, which was originally hidden underwater, now began to gradually surface. However, it's unknown why, while it was originally in submarine form on the seabed, it gradually reverted back to its monster form during the process of surfacing.

Just by looking at the skin glowing with a metallic luster, anyone seeing it for the first time wouldn't think it was a creature of flesh and blood.

For some reason, the creature didn't surface fully but stayed around five meters below the water surface.

Although the opponent did not truly surface, at this moment, from Dong Tianyu's aerial view, he could clearly see a huge shadow reflected on the sea surface in the opponent's area.

Anyone who's not foolish or blind, upon seeing this shadow cast on the water, would know that there must be a huge monster hidden beneath.

Whether it sensed this situation or not, the opponent didn't dive deeper but gradually began to surface. However, when it broke the water surface, instead of displaying its monster form, it still appeared in its battleship form.

By this time, anyone like Dong Tianyu, who watched the entire process, unless they were foolish, could guess that the opponent's recent actions were just testing whether it could smoothly transform between forms.

Yet, having watched this dramatic scene, the anger in Dong Tianyu's heart still hadn't subsided. Dong Tianyu, who hadn't avenged himself yet, quietly pondered in his heart what methods he could use to exact his revenge.

If the opponent had not shown the ability to transform into liquid metal, Dong Tianyu would have many ways to easily exact revenge.

But since the opponent had shown this form, Dong Tianyu was at a loss on how to respond, knowing only two ways to deal with liquid metal; one was to freeze it with extremely low temperatures.

The other was to destroy the control molecules in the liquid metal with extremely high temperatures. But neither of these methods was of any use in the current situation.

Just as Dong Tianyu was searching through Storage Space, looking for inspiration, he suddenly saw the Explosives he had just purchased.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu realized something: the opponent's current large size meant there weren't many good methods to handle it, but if he could blow it into pieces, he could quickly collect those pieces into the Cave.

Once those pieces are thrown into the Cave, even if the opponent has strong abilities to reunite and heal, it will ultimately be unable to avoid becoming nourishment that supplements the Cave under the effects of the Great Decomposition Technique.

Dong Tianyu had also considered using the newly learned Universe in the Palm ability, to directly send the battleship into the Cave.

But he feared the Energy Barrier protecting around the battleship might have the ability to block and resist the Techniques, as previously the Flying Swords controlled by Art of Controlling Objects would lose control once they entered the Energy Barrier.

Therefore, to be safe, Dong Tianyu decided to first try using Explosives to blow it into pieces and then attempt to collect those broken parts. This should effectively prevent the situation where the Technique fails.