Mistaking a horror game for a romance novel, he unexpectedly became a legend.

Song Yi tried with all his might but couldn't jump even half a meter high. He was angry; he was really angry.

This was the first time Song Yi had protested against the system.

"Isn't the purple totem supposed to represent mutated creatures? How am I mutated?"

System: You doubt me? Do you think I'd give you that leverage?

You have nine claws.

A normal octopus has eight tentacles, but the little elephant octopus that Song Yi transformed into had nine. Song Yi specifically picked them up and counted them, and damn, there really were nine.

But can this even be called a mutation? Its size hasn't increased, its strength hasn't increased, it just has an extra claw!

Even drinking two mouthfuls of Fukushima nuclear wastewater would cause more serious mutations than this!

The horror game gave Song Yi the four big words "Good luck," and Song Yi sensed a strong sense of schadenfreude in those four words.

After confirming his identity, Lu Xiao's first contact was with Song Yi. Once their communication was established, Lu Xiao's voice came through:

"Song Yi, are you alright? Which side are you on?"

Lu Xiao prayed that Song Yi would not choose the purple totem, otherwise communication would be a problem.

Song Yi opened his mouth as if to speak, but ended up spitting out two bubbles.

Song Yi: ······

Can brainwaves be transmitted? Tao Tao, Tao Tao, are you there? Quickly translate for Dad.

Song Yi called Tao Tao several times but there was no response, because in order to increase the difficulty for players, the system for all players was disabled.

Song Yi: It's over! Tao Tao has been kidnapped.

On the other end of the communicator, Lu Xiao didn't hear Song Yi's voice for a long time, and his heart skipped a beat.

"It can't be such a coincidence that you chose the purple totem!"

Although he couldn't speak, in order to show that Lu Xiao's guess was correct, Song Yi tapped the large seashell in front of him with his cute little paws with suction cups.

Hearing the knocking, Lu Xiao knew it was Song Yi responding to him, and Lu Xiao sighed.

“Let’s share our location. The Eris and the natives aren’t going to be too friendly to the mutated creatures. You should protect yourself first, and I’ll come find you.”

Song Yi patted it again, and Lu Xiao knew that Song Yi understood.

At this moment, Lu Xiao had no idea that Song Yi's shared location was in the sea.

After ending the communication with Song Yi, Lu Xiao contacted Xiao Bai and Zhao Xin.

Zhao Xin is now a member of the Eris tribe, and the two sides are enemies. If they meet, they will fight. Because it is not easy to gather with them, Lu Xiao can only gather Xiao Bai first, and then the two of them go to find Song Yi.

Song Yi in the sea couldn't just stay still like that. With his small size, it would be dangerous for him to stay in one place. He could easily be captured by any crab or lobster.

Song Yi swam to a slightly higher place and looked around at the sea.

The game previously explained that the mysterious substance falling into the sea first caused mutations in marine life. However, Song Yi observed that not every creature changed. Many fish here grew normally, indicating that it was not the substance that dissolved in the water and polluted it. Otherwise, the corals on the seabed would not be growing so well.

It is speculated that these things are solid and insoluble in water, and that they are mutated by marine life that actively comes into contact with or ingests them. These mutated creatures are then captured by humans and brought ashore to affect terrestrial life.

Thinking of this, Song Yi wanted to try to find some of these substances. His octopus body must have come into contact with them before, but perhaps he hadn't come into contact with them much, which is why he only mutated one leg. If he came into contact with more mutation factors, he might become even more powerful.

So Song Yi, with a body the size of a pear from the South, swam in the sea, while also being careful of creatures that might eat him.

During this process, Song Yi encountered a baby shark that had just been born. He initially thought it was a normal shark, but as the baby shark passed over his head, another mature shark swam towards him.

Song Yi crouched in the crevice between the rocks, trying to let them pass first. At the moment the small shark and the big shark met, the small shark suddenly opened its blood-red mouth and swallowed the big shark whole.

That's right, a small shark that was half a meter long swallowed a shark that was two meters long!

The baby shark that swallowed the big shark had its skin stretched so much that it looked like it was about to burst, but the baby shark was still jumping around. Although it was bloody and grotesque, it was amazing.

After the little shark left, Song Yi emerged from the crack in the rocks. Perhaps it was because it was dark outside, the sea was also gradually darkening.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a light shining in one direction, and Song Yi felt himself swimming towards that direction.

Mermaids have a unique characteristic: they die when they leave the sea. Humans tried storing seawater in containers and then placing the mermaids inside, but they found that this method also failed, as the mermaids would die in less than two hours inside.

Later, people established some bases at sea and then set up cages underwater to trap the merfolk inside.

Every day, humans would come down and extract the blood of the merfolk for research purposes.

1000 meters below the sea, hundreds of steel pillars as thick as an arm were driven into the seabed and then connected to the base on the surface of the sea. The first merman to be captured was trapped inside.

Sia sat on the seabed, her light blue hair flowing like seaweed, her pupils the color of the ocean, and her fair skin shimmering like diamonds.

Her face was like an angel's, holy and beautiful, with a blue, blooming fish tail. Every scale on her body was like a jewel, but upon closer inspection, one could see countless pinholes on them.

This is the 18250th day she has been trapped here. In these fifty years, she has regretted every single day why she saved humanity. Her act of kindness brought annihilation to her people.

Merfolk have long lifespans but few offspring; there were only eight in the entire ocean, but now she should be the only one left. The rest were either taken by humans for experiments or kidnapped by the Eris people, and their fate is now unknown.

Her tears turned into pearls and fell to the bottom of the sea. Sia threw the pearls out of the three-square-meter space through the gaps in the cage, not wanting her tears to be received by these humans.

Song Yi swam towards the light for almost an hour before finally reaching its vicinity.

I thought there would be some treasure, but it turned out to be the glowing scales of a mermaid.

Inside the cage, Cassie's expression was quiet and numb. For the first time, Song Yi felt that shrinking wasn't entirely without its advantages; at least this large cage would be much easier for him to squeeze into.

Song Yi easily entered the prison, and he hopped over to Cassie on his nine little legs.

In the past, small fish and shrimp would often slip through the cage, which Cassie didn't mind, but this was the first time she had ever seen such an adorable little octopus.