Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 644 Big Octopus

"It seems like Leo has been going to the hospital quite frequently lately."

In the headquarters of Libra, Zapp lay bored on the sofa and stared at the ceiling.

He had just failed in his attack on Klaus and was knocked to the ground. After waking up from his coma, Jane stepped on his face and insulted him for a long time. This series of experiences made Zapp involuntarily recall that he was the only person he could bully here.

"Ah, Leo told me that his girlfriend's brother once asked him to help take care of her, so recently he always goes to the Central Hospital to visit his girlfriend in the morning."

Stephen happened to have just finished processing a document, and after hearing Zapp's mumbling, he answered it casually.

"Damn it! Has this guy become more and more arrogant since he got a girlfriend?"

Upon hearing this, Zapp was so angry that he jumped up from the sofa.

"You are obviously jealous." Zheng Shu took a sip of tea.

"Stop talking nonsense! And why are you here again? I remember that you are not an official employee of Libra!" Zapp turned his head and grinned at Zheng Shu.

"Because this is Mr. Gilbert's reward for helping me educate his new butler."

Zheng Shu put down his teacup expressionlessly, crossed his hands and held his chin, and glanced at Zapp: "Besides, what qualifications do you have to ask for permission to stay? Don't you also find a bunch of lovers every day?"

"Humph!"

Hearing this, Zapp suddenly laughed triumphantly: "I haven't been looking for those guys recently, because I found a new target!"

"Really? Then I feel sorry for the girl you've targeted. She's actually favored by such a scumbag."

"Asshole! Do you look down on me?!" Zapp was furious.

"That's right, Poop Monkey, if you fail in your pursuit and want to use force, I'm afraid the boss won't let you off." Zhen added.

"you?!!!"

Seeing that he was outnumbered and unable to fight back, Zapp could only retreat temporarily.

Zheng Shu looked up at the time: "By the way, although Leo has been visiting his girlfriend in the hospital recently, isn't it a bit too much for him not to go to work so late?"

"That's not the case. In fact, he came to punch in early this morning, but I let him leave on his own during free time." Stephen took the tea handed to him by Gilbert.

"Oh, that's rare? You didn't go to accompany your girlfriend?" Zheng Shu raised his eyebrows.

“Well, I heard that he was invited to visit the museum by his girlfriend’s brother,” Stephen replied.

"Visiting a museum with your girlfriend's brother? I didn't expect Leo to be so capable. He managed to win over the parents so quickly." Zapp popped up from the side when he heard this.

"Who knows." Stephen shook his head and took a big sip of black tea.

……

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The sea was filled with fully armed warships, and countless fighter jets were hovering in the sky.

As if they had received an order, all the war machines suddenly fired at full speed, and large numbers of missiles flew towards the city covered in thick fog in the distance as if they were free.

However, whether it is a fighter jet or a missile, it will be shot down by the giant tentacles extending from the ocean the moment it approaches the city.

Missiles powerful enough to destroy high-rise reinforced concrete buildings did not cause any damage when they hit the tentacles. Warships that came too close would be dragged into the water before they could even react.

"Oh, I'm watching this. It makes me nostalgic." Zapp appeared behind Leo with a bucket of fried chicken in his hands, waking up Leo who was immersed in the picture.

"Yes, this is the high-definition remake that was recently released."

"Oh! It's really clear... that octopus leg."

“Come to think of it, I’ve always been confused.” Leo turned his gaze back to the video. “Logically speaking, the water in New York Bay is deep enough for large ships to sail, but it’s not deep enough to be a deep sea. It shouldn’t be able to hide such a terrifying monster.”

Leo stretched out his hand and gestured at the battleships and fighter jets in the video, as well as the giant tentacles that appeared vaguely, to verify his point of view.

"Based on the size of this thing, even if only the section of its body sticks out of the water, it would be impossible to hide in the New York Bay given its size and depth, right?
And judging from the video, the entire Helsharemz is surrounded by tentacles. Is this a super giant sea monster, or are there countless giant sea monsters surrounding it..."

"Ah, what you're talking about is actually very simple. Someone from the Warlock Association has checked it out before, so they know the general situation."

Zapp thought about it, took a piece of paper and pen from the side and started writing and drawing on it, and soon he drew a simple sketch.

There was a giant octopus drawn in a minimalist style on the paper, with a few scribbled strokes around the octopus, representing rivers and boats, and the entire city was on the octopus's head.

"No! No, no, no! Are you painting an ancient Indian myth?"

Leo looked at the stick figure drawing by Zapp and shook his head, unable to believe that this seemingly outrageous thing was true.

"It's true. Isn't the edge around Helsharemz like a waterfall? The boat can't pass through at all. And below it is a bottomless abyss octopus, and its feet are sticking out from it."

Zapp racked his brains to recall what he had heard, but his attitude made Leo even more unbelievable.

"The world is full of wonders! I'm telling the truth!" Seeing Leo's distrust, Zapp angrily bit off another chicken leg.

"Although what this guy said was a bit confusing, it was indeed the truth."

Zheng Shu's voice came from the side, and he took the stick drawing from Leo's hand.

"Mr. Zheng Shu, you're here too. You came so early today. Do you think this is true?"

Leo greeted him reflexively, then recalled what Zheng Shu had just said and looked blankly at the stick drawing in Zheng Shu's hand.

"I never thought that in this era I would be forced to accept the worldview of the fifth century AD... But that doesn't make sense. Isn't there an endless void in the center of Hersharemz? Could it be that the final destination of this thing is the octopus's head?"

Imagining that scene, Leo expressed his most sincere condolences to those explorers who died trying to explore the end of the endless void.

"No, the Endless Void really has no end. These two things can exist at the same time, and the reason is the chaotic space environment of Hersharemz."

Zheng Shu shook his head, sat on the sofa, and explained some science to the two people who were curious.

"Helsaremuz was born because of the collision of two worlds. Although the Warlock Association used the Helsaremuz Great Barrier to stabilize the space, it was actually only a superficial 'stability'."

"The impact of the collision between the two worlds is certainly more than just this. The size of the space debris produced is even large enough to accommodate this planet. However, under the control of the Hersharemz Great Barrier, these dangerous and abandoned space debris are sealed directly below the city." Zheng Shu tapped the floor with his foot.

“You should know that Hersharemz is a city rebuilt based on New York, but a large part of it looks completely different from New York.

In fact, the moment the Great Collapse ended, the basic construction of Hersharemz was completed - it was spliced ​​together from New York and another city in the other world.

Although the splicing of the two worlds’ cities barely preserved the integrity of the surface, it still produced a lot of ‘debris’, which was also sealed in the abandoned space fragments.”

“Similarly, these space fragments are also surrounding Hersharemz. Although on the surface they appear to be connected to each other in no particular way, this is actually not the case at all.

Rather than preventing anything from entering Hersharemz, these tentacles are more likely to be "protecting" objects that try to rush into the city.

After all, being hit by those tentacles would only result in destruction at best, but if one accidentally rushed from the outer edge of the barrier into a certain spatial node, then the impact would be completely unknown."

This is actually the reason why there is only one entrance and exit to Hersharemz in the human world, because this passage is the only safe passage arranged by the Warlock Association to control the Hersharemz Great Barrier.

If someone tries to invade or escape from Hersharemz from somewhere else, that's certainly possible. After all, the main function of the Hersharemz Great Barrier is to stabilize the space rather than to block it.

In addition, it is somewhat difficult for the Warlock Association to manage such a large-scale barrier, and it is indeed difficult to stop some warlocks who are good at breaking through the barrier.

But under normal circumstances, there is no need to stop the other party.

After all, if the protection of the Hersharemz Great Barrier was broken through, it would come into contact with the space debris around the city.

The best outcome would be to be torn into pieces by tiny space debris, destroying the main structure and turning it into a pool of mud, but at least it would be a quick death.

If the situation is more serious, you will probably be lost forever in the endless fragments of space, and you won’t know what you will encounter there.

Even though Alikila was punched out of the barrier by Zheng Shu when she was playing a prank, she quickly returned to the gathering space. That was because Alikila was the Thirteenth King, a rare superior existence in the two worlds.

The "power" power system possessed by high-level combat forces in the Blood Blockade Battlefront is quite special compared to other worlds. Although it seems relatively weak when targeting units such as "worlds" or "planets", it is extremely powerful when targeting "individual strong enemies" or "harsh environments".

With Arijira's power, the simple natural environment of this world can no longer have any impact on her.

Even if one is unlucky and is transported by space debris to an extreme environment such as the inside of the galactic black hole or the center of a star, the problem can be easily resolved by relying on the power's ability to rewrite the world in a very small range.

But if other people dare to come into direct contact with these space fragments, even if they are divine beings, those who are not good at this may be killed.

"Ha! You said these tentacles shot down fighter jets to save people? I feel like there is no joke funnier than this." Zapp laughed and mocked without hesitation.

Zheng Shu and Leo tacitly ignored this uneducated guy and continued to discuss related topics.

"Mr. Zheng Shu, since Helsharemz is surrounded by space debris, won't this octopus be harmed by the space debris?"

“I advise you to show a little respect to it. The name of that octopus is Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Leah. According to the hierarchy, he is a divine being comparable to the elder of Aluel.

Ah, if converted into human society, it would probably be a person of similar level as the President of the United States or the Prime Minister of other superpowers.

The reason why it stayed there at the beginning of the Great Collapse was because it had signed a treaty with the human world in advance to assist the Warlock Association in constructing the Hersharemz Great Barrier.

Even now, Adalbert Lia is the main force in maintaining the stability of the Great Barrier. If anything unexpected happens, it will be needed to help stabilize the space."

"...Gudong!"

After hearing Zheng Shu's words, Leo swallowed hard, unable to believe that the other party was such a powerful being.

In fact, it wasn't just Leo. Even Stephen, who had been eavesdropping secretly, and Jane, who was eavesdropping invisibly, couldn't believe it.

Although I knew that the sea monster was very powerful, I didn't expect that it was also an intelligent creature!

That's right. The other world is a collection of monsters, and the octopus's appearance is actually handsome in front of these monsters.

"Wait, let me sort this out. Are you saying that the super sea monster hiding in the New York Bay is actually a big shot that we can't normally imagine?!"

"almost?"

"And you, Zapp, actually just call him octopus legs?! If the other party hears this, we won't be able to survive even if we have several lives!" Leo turned his head and glared at Zapp.

Zapp said with disdain: "You are too naive. Does he really believe whatever he says? There is absolutely no evidence. It is just his personal opinion!"

"Well... I believe Mr. Zheng Shu would not speak carelessly."

Although Leo said this, he was actually a little hesitant after hearing what Zapp said.

After all, what Zheng Shu said was too horrifying. There was no corresponding record even in the materials or the library. If the person who said it was not Zheng Shu, he probably would not believe it.

"Really? Then let me interrogate you!"

Zhap was a typical case of someone who had forgotten the pain after the wound had healed. He had forgotten the fear he had felt when being beaten by Zheng Shu. He stood on the sofa smugly, pointing his finger at Zheng Shu.

"Since you swore that the giant octopus was conscious, how did you get this information? It's impossible that you got it from chatting with it face to face?!"

"almost?"

Zheng Shu tilted his head, not sure how to describe it to these people.

"Strictly speaking, I visited it as a sightseeing spot during a team building event with a group of people."

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