Chapter 1696: Calculating Gains and Losses

In this unique underwater environment, the Level 2 clone couldn’t avoid an attack like this at all.

The eight octopus tentacles had turned into jets, and the force blew the clone hundreds of meters away.

The giant octopus, on the other hand, fled in the opposite direction.

Luke: …

Selina exclaimed, “…Are you kidding me? Such a big lump can move so fast?”

Luke was lost for words.

Theoretically speaking, this lump was indeed very big, but it had eight siphons to shoot out jets of water.

Even an ordinary octopus with just one siphon was still very fast.

At the same time, a row of holes appeared in the giant octopus’s head to quickly take in water and then shoot it out from its tentacles.

In that way, this mountain of flesh got even faster as it fled deeper down.

There was no way Luke would stop. His clone chased after the octopus.

But he wasn’t much faster than the octopus underwater.

After the pain of the beating, the other party was especially cowardly. Every time it saw Luke approach, it would shoot water from its eight tentacles to disrupt the water flow and stop Luke from getting close.

Each of the eight jets on the tips of its tentacles were more than a meter in diameter and were even more formidable than high-pressure water cannons.

Coupled with the noise it made as it moved, the seawater within a few hundred meters turned into a chaotic vortex, and the Level 2 clone couldn’t get close at all.

After a few minutes, Luke and Selina suddenly cursed with ugly expressions. “F*ck you.”

A precipice appeared in front of the octopus.

The seabed before had been a gentle slope that had only dropped a little after a while.

In contrast, it was hundreds of meters deep below this precipice; even the sensors couldn’t detect the bottom.

Sure enough, the octopus made a sharp turn and charged downward.

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The Level 2 clone didn’t stop as it continued its pursuit.

The depth quickly increased from 3,000 meters to 5,000 meters, but there was still no end to this trench.

The Level 2 clone could only stop.

Selina asked, “What’s wrong?”

Luke said, “Something’s wrong with his armor. It might be completely damaged if he goes any deeper.”

Selina was shocked. “Then forget it. Hm, can he survive if he’s crushed into a pulp?”

Luke sighed. “Yes, but he definitely won’t be able to continue chasing the giant octopus. Also, it would cost a lot for him to recover fully.”

Selina nodded regretfully. “Forget it. At least we didn’t make a loss, right?”

Luke smiled bitterly. “I lost a blade.”

Selina: “What?”

Luke said, “That big katana that V was holding is in the octopus’s head.”

Selina looked at him and asked, “Is it very expensive?”

Luke said gloomily, “Tony wanted it last time, but I didn’t give it to him.”

Selina patted his head sympathetically. “My condolences.”

Ten minutes later, the Level 2 clone returned with the Level 1 clone in its arms. It nodded at them and then left quickly.

Selina asked, “Why the rush?”

Luke said, “They have their own medical treatment. The sooner they go back and get treated, the better. We should go too.”

Selina had no objections.

She had already gorged herself on king crabs, and there was no clear victor in this battle. The giant octopus had even escaped into a bottomless trench.

Her interest in playing around had completely disappeared.

…

A few hours later, they returned to Ushuaia, reboarded their yacht, and set off.

After confirming their destination, Luke released Dollar from Space 2.

Gold Nugget then left Selina and returned to Dollar. The sedative was instantly dispelled, and it got up.

It preferred to use Dollar’s body, because Selina forbade it from using her body during the symbiosis.

Thankfully, Selina didn’t ask it to combine with her unless it was a special situation, and it usually wasn’t for more than half a day.

Dollar didn’t ask for much, and Gold Nugget was free to play most of the time.

So for most of the time, Gold Nugget was a free dog.

Ignoring the dog head that was pestering Selina for snacks and drinks, Luke went to the afterdeck alone and sat down to ponder the gains and losses of this unexpected incident.

The main loss was the giant silver blade.

Without determining the composition of the blade, even the tycoon wouldn’t be able to make a second one.

That was because the special metal that was the main ingredient was very rare and hard to find.

Almost every metal formula was tested countless times to discover its characteristics.

Now that he didn’t have the formula or the main ingredient, he would only be able to recreate the finished product through sheer dumb luck.

Tony was clueless about the origin of the main ingredient, and Luke hadn’t asked further. In any case, he had a rough idea what it was.

The “shock absorbers” Skye wore were made of this material.

The antique weapons which he had plundered from Hydra during that underground deal last time were also made of this material.

That was the problem.

He had killed the seller in passing last time, so there was no way to find the original owner.

It was impossible to determine the origin of these antique weapons. There were a lot of antique weapons from the same generation, but the hundreds of components that Luke had subsequently bought were all of ordinary quality.

He didn’t have time to go to Africa to do a detailed investigation, and it would be very hard to get more of this material.

Besides, the silver blade that had been lost this time wasn’t the raw material itself, but a finished composite product. That was even more painful.

Although he had only used it twice, he really felt that it was very easy to use.

A length of three meters wasn’t a problem for an expert in physical techniques. What was important was that each slash was very powerful.

The other losses included the hundreds of faith points and thousands of credit points he had used in the battle.

The Level 1 clone had been sent flying hundreds of meters by the wall of flesh.

Its armor was practically ruined, and its bones had basically been crushed to powder by the water pressure.

However, Luke simply tested the effects of Life 1 on the clone. In any case, the negative effects wouldn’t be transmitted back to his body.

If something went wrong, he could just summon the clone again.

Spending credit points was a small matter – he would earn them back after sending some bigshot packing in the next big city.

His biggest regret was that he hadn’t been able to even cut off the octopus’s tentacle. At the very least, he could have gotten a souvenir.

It was impossible to feel guilty about it.

The giant octopus had eaten hundreds of people on the ship last time.

Even if they were all bad guys, the giant octopus couldn’t judge good or bad.

It ate so many people as soon as it arrived, and had planned to eat the tourists. It had also attacked Luke; it clearly wasn’t as good or cute as the killer whales.

They weren’t of the same species, and the other party liked to eat people, so Luke naturally wouldn’t show any mercy.

It was just that the octopus had too much HP. Even after Luke cut into its head a second time, the system still didn’t indicate that he had defeated the octopus, and Luke only earned a few hundred experience and credit points for beating it back.

Maybe after the guy fled from the ocean liner the last time, it hadn’t come out again to eat people.

However, while Luke hadn’t cut off the octopus tentacle, he still collected a lot of seawater that contained its blood as well as parts of the head which his Level 1 clone had sliced off. These could be used as research materials.

In addition, the Star of Justice could use faith value to resist the effect which the other party had on its mind. Also, the effect of an attack with an ordinary cold weapon and Annihilation energy on the octopus was the real reward.

If he ran into this guy again in the future, Luke wouldn’t be completely clueless.