5: Battle Water Snake

“One meter sixty!”

Su Yuan excitedly looked at his body data and also noticed his Claws.

“Claws! I remember the colossal squid’s tentacles have Claws. No, colossal squid don’t have suckers. My suckers haven’t degenerated, have they?”

Su Yuan thought, startled, and quickly extended a tentacle. Seeing that the suckers were still there, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The presence of suckers allows for greater pulling force, which Su Yuan still values highly.

Otherwise, an octopus, being a soft-bodied animal, would certainly be weaker than a vertebrate.

He carefully examined his tentacles and found that between the suckers, Claws stood erect, and like the Claws of felines, they could retract and extend freely, and also rotate freely.

“Good, good, good! Now, I should be the overlord of this river!”

Su Yuan was in a great mood. Now that he had upgraded his equipment, he should be invincible in this small river.

With just his size, it’s rare to encounter an opponent in freshwater.

In the animal kingdom, size is an important indicator of combat power.

A body length of 1.6 meters is definitely not small in a freshwater river.

Not to mention these Claws, over a centimeter long. Even an adult human, if entangled, would scream in agony, their skin torn, body covered in wounds, and possibly even bones injured.

Just as Su Yuan was in a great mood, he suddenly felt a change in the water flow behind him. A dark shadow rushed over and bit towards his head.

Su Yuan reacted quickly, swiftly moving his head, but his tentacle was bitten, and the pain enraged Su Yuan.

It was a Water Snake, but frighteningly large. Su Yuan estimated it to be about three meters long, with a greyish-brown body.

This size, for a Water Snake, was already a giant.

Most Water Snakes are less than a meter long.

“You’re asking for death!”

Su Yuan, enraged by the pain, swept all his tentacles over, firmly sucking onto the Water Snake. At the same time, all his Claws dug in, easily tearing through the Water Snake's scales and into its flesh under the pressure of the suction.

Although Su Yuan's body was only 1.6 meters, one tentacle alone was 1.2 meters long. Coupled with his expandable body, he directly enveloped the entire Water Snake's body.

Under the immense suction of the tentacle suckers, Su Yuan's Claws easily broke through the Water Snake's scales, making the Water Snake struggle madly in pain.

But Su Yuan's tentacle entanglement was incomparable to a snake's coiling. Under the action of the suckers and Claws, the Water Snake struggled slowly, its body covered in wounds, bleeding profusely.

The more it struggled, the more its body was torn by the Claws, large patches of scales ripped open, and blood flowed.

The Water Snake grew anxious and began to struggle frantically, its strength astonishing. Its cold eyes fixed on Su Yuan, and it opened its large mouth to bite Su Yuan's head.

However, one of Su Yuan's tentacles firmly wrapped around the Water Snake's head, preventing it from succeeding with the suction of the suckers.

“Die for me!”

Su Yuan's eyes were cold. He controlled his eight tentacles to frantically coil around the Water Snake, the terrifying Claws seeming to dismember it.

Finally, Su Yuan found the Water Snake’s vital spot, and as his tentacles contracted and squeezed, the Claws directly broke into its interior.

“Hiss!”

The Water Snake immediately suffered a heavy blow, its resistance weakened significantly, and it frantically bit one of Su Yuan's tentacles.

“Bite all you want, I’m an octopus, my tentacles recover easily!”

Su Yuan sneered in his heart. His eight tentacles frantically coiled around the Water Snake, stirring up waves in the water.

The Water Snake’s spine was also squeezed by Su Yuan, its Claws breaking through the surface and digging into the flesh.

At the vital spot, Su Yuan even more frantically manipulated his tentacles to attack, the Claws directly tearing out flesh, attacking deeper, until the Water Snake’s heart was crushed by Su Yuan.

Soon, the Water Snake’s struggle weakened. Although it was still struggling, Su Yuan knew it was already dead.

He had a hunch and, ignoring the Water Snake's struggles, dragged it into the water weeds and immediately began to devour it.

At this moment, the surrounding area was already devoid of fish and shrimp due to their big battle, and it was very quiet.

Su Yuan used his beak to cut the Water Snake into several pieces, devouring it in several portions.

“You have devoured a Red-spotted Keelback, gaining 4 evolution points.”

“4 evolution points? A Red-spotted Keelback?”

Su Yuan was somewhat surprised. 4 evolution points, this was completely beyond his expectation.

His biggest harvest from hunting during this time was only 0.13 evolution points.

However, looking back at the length of this Water Snake, it was indeed astonishing, reaching three meters long, far exceeding any previous prey. Thinking about it, it made sense.

Such a large amount of evolution points further confirmed Su Yuan’s previous guess: this Water Snake must have evolved due to the spiritual energy resurgence.

A body size of about three meters far exceeded the normal size limit of a Water Snake.

Most Water Snakes are less than a meter long, but this Water Snake evolved to three meters long.

This shows the terrifying nature of the spiritual energy resurgence. In Su Yuan’s estimation, the spiritual energy resurgence should not have begun long ago.

In such a short time, it could make a Water Snake evolve to such an astonishing degree. What if more time passes?

After one year, ten years, a hundred years, wouldn’t they grow to ten meters, twenty meters?

And this is for small animals like Water Snakes. What about top predators like giant pythons, lions, tigers, bears, sharks, and crocodiles?

Will they evolve into giant beasts?

Is the whole world going to enter an era of Titan Beasts?

Su Yuan suddenly felt a sense of urgency.

If that time truly came, the entire global situation would change. Even if human society still dominated the world, many lifestyles would change compared to before.

However, although he was now an octopus, fortunately, he had the System, which allowed him to quickly become stronger in this era of spiritual energy resurgence.

It was a good thing he was an orphan before and didn't have many true friends; most were just acquaintances.

However, Su Yuan missed human society, those mobile phones, computers.

This sudden departure from the internet, being confined in a fish tank before, and the disparity of his body transformation, he didn't feel it at first. Now that things had gradually calmed down, Su Yuan missed the internet even more.

He thought of his Celia.

No, Arad continent is still waiting for me to save it.

At this moment, night fell, the heavy rain gradually subsided, and a bright, clear moon hung high, casting down moonlight.

Under the hazy moonlight, a huge shadow appeared on the water, and then a Giant Octopus emerged from the water.

If anyone saw it, their jaws would surely drop.

A Giant Octopus appearing in a freshwater river would definitely go viral.

Unfortunately, on this rainy night, no one was near this small river.

Su Yuan floated on the river surface, feeling the raindrops on his body, looking at the bright moon and the stars in the night sky.

“Heavens, can I get a mobile phone?”

Su Yuan shouted in his heart towards the night sky.

Give him a mobile phone, and he was confident he could return to Arad continent and see his Celia again.

After all, he was now a genuine tentacle monster; operating a mobile phone was no problem for him.