The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 35
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Apocalypse in Water Episode 35
Episode 35
First, I pulled Bomi up onto the lifeboat.
Bomi, who had boarded the lifeboat, said nothing and just tilted her head back to look at the squid-shaped monster.
It was much larger than a ten-story giant crocodile or a hedgehog crocodile.
It was as tall as a twenty-story building, and its tentacles seemed thicker than the tanker trucks on large oil tankers.
Every time the creature swung its giant tentacles at the surface, water would spurt out like a tornado.
Although it was my first time seeing a monster, I recognized it right away.
‘Giant squid in the ocean.’
I believe that if you persevere, you will win every battle, so whenever I had time, I diligently read the monster encyclopedia.
As I read, I had fun getting to know the monsters, just like in Pokemon where Pikachu appears.
Just as Oddish X was classified as a seed Pokemon with the dark green trait and the grass and poison types, the Aqua Monster Pokédex also classified Aqua Monsters systematically.
Among them, the most representative classification method was size.
A human-sized limb was considered general-grade, a dog-sized limb was considered small-grade, and a giant mackerel was considered large-grade.
And the giant squid the size of a building was classified as gigantic.
The giant squid I remember living deep in the ocean trenches.
Because it was so deep in the ocean, it was extremely rare for it to come up to the surface.
Perhaps the guy came from the trench north of the apartment building shown on the map.
The trench there was so deep that the depth lines were omitted from the map.
Why did you come out of the trench?
Could it be because of the fight between the giant crocodile and the hedgehog crocodile?
The two fought quite loudly.
The sea water shook and water and blood splashed everywhere.
Perhaps the deep sea was becoming turbid as the world went underwater, making the giant squid more sensitive.
In fact, the giant squid was so angry that it moved its tentacles roughly to catch the giant oarfish and the porcupine crocodile.
Perhaps sensing a sense of danger from the approaching large tentacles, the giant crocodile and the hedgehog crocodile resisted fiercely.
It bit the tentacles with its powerful jaws, slashed them with its dorsal fin, and stabbed them with its horns.
The tentacles that tried to catch the guys suffered quite a bit of damage in the face of quite fierce resistance.
It was torn and bruised here and there.
The guys seemed to be elated at their successful defense, and instead tried to counterattack.
He raised his body and attacked the main body of the giant squid.
If he had just run away, he might have survived, but in battle, a misjudgment could mean immediate death.
I could see tentacles rising silently behind the guys.
Without even knowing it, the guys fought excitedly with the tentacles in front of them.
The giant squid was so dazzling that they thought it was using its tentacles as bait.
He waved his tentacles around like he was shaking a mouse toy in front of a cat.
The guys rushed at the tentacles without even dreaming that there was an enemy behind them.
At that moment, the giant squid spit out ink.
Sticky, mucousy ink obscured the eyes of the giant crocodile and the hedgehog crocodile.
“Hey! What is that? That smell!”
Bomi screamed in surprise.
The smell of the giant squid ink was so strong that it made me want to cover my nose.
It was like a combination of the strong smell of chemicals and asphalt.
By the way, in the monster guide, it says that ink is a sticky liquid that catches fire easily and is produced from the body of the giant squid in the ocean, and is a weapon used to confuse enemies or obstruct their vision.
Is that oil?
When I smelled it, it didn’t seem much different from petroleum.
The surprised giant crocodile and hedgehog crocodile frantically resisted the attack, expecting the tentacles to attack from the front.
But the real enemy was behind.
The tentacles that flew from behind wrapped around the guys.
The tentacles were so strong that as soon as they wrapped around them, blood spurted out like juice from their bodies.
Soon both of them were sagging, seemingly out of breath.
The giant squid tore them apart with its tentacles as if tearing off squid legs, then carried them into the ocean.
It seemed like it was trying to eat them with the mouth inside its body.
Bomi and I were so captivated by the spectacle that we completely forgot we had to run away.
But when the battle was over and the giant squid began to eat, he suddenly came to his senses.
We launched the lifeboat without saying who would go first.
I turned the cement mixer up to max and pushed it into the water, and Bomi rowed with all her might.
We were well ahead of the wave caused by the battle just now.
There isn’t much left until the finish line, the buoy.
But from the perspective of the giant squid in the deep sea, we were probably tiny, but it noticed us right away.
In the Aquatic Monster Guide, the main food of the giant squid is said to be deep-sea fleas.
Although they were called fleas, they ranged in size from 50cm to as tall as a person.
From the giant squid’s point of view, it sucks in the tiny deep-sea fleas with the suction cups on its tentacles and then brings them to its mouth to eat.
That is why it is said that even the smallest movement of an object can be easily caught with the eye.
“Damn it! You damn deep sea flea!”
I cursed the deep sea flea without realizing it.
Bomi asked after hearing that sound.
“Huh? What did you say? Turn around?”
“No. Don’t turn and just go straight. Go straight whether it’s a corner or a road!”
I felt like a huge, long tentacle was chasing me right behind my back.
I picked up the cement mixer and it bounced off the water like a splash.
This method could achieve instantaneous acceleration, but the impact was so great that it could break the propeller attached to the stirrer.
As expected, the propeller broke with a loud bang.
But I didn’t care and just shouted.
“Hoyoung! Now!”
We crossed the buoy as if we were crossing a finish line.
Hoyoung, who was watching the situation through a telescope, immediately abandoned his defensive position.
The shield dropped and repelled the giant tentacle.
Bomi was so exhausted from rowing that she just sat down on the floor.
“Ah! I almost died.”
Haa~ I let out a sigh of relief that I was alive.
The giant crocodile and the hedgehog crocodile were incomparably dangerous.
At that moment, the water surface shook violently with a loud noise that sounded like the world was going to break apart.
Bomi and I were startled and grabbed the safety guide rope of the lifeboat.
I thought there was an earthquake, but when I looked up, I saw the giant squid raising its tentacles and striking the shield.
Again, the water surface shook violently with a loud ‘thud!’ noise.
Bomi, who had been sitting down, jumped up in surprise.
“Ah~ Ah! The shield is broken. What do I do?”
“Bomi! Look carefully. The shield is intact.”
As I said, the shield was intact, without any cracks or scratches.
The giant squid seemed annoyed, so it raised three tentacles at once and slammed them down.
Kookung!
A blow twice as loud as the previous impact, no, a blow so powerful that it created a huge wave on the surface of the water, was delivered to the shield.
Before I knew it, I almost shouted like Bomi that the shield was broken just a moment ago.
Fortunately, however, there was nothing wrong with the shield.
Bomi muttered with concern even though she saw the intact shield.
“What should I do? There are still five tentacles left.”
I was about to say that since squids have ten legs, they still have seven left, but I stopped myself.
It was obvious that if I said that, Bomi would panic.
But soon the giant squid began to strike the shield repeatedly with all ten of its tentacles.
I remembered that in the monster guide, it said that the giant squid never gives up on its prey once it has caught it.
This might be a bit dangerous.
We spent the night wide awake, barely able to sleep due to the constant threat.
Boom! Boom!
The shockwaves repeated throughout the night, causing the apartment to shake and sending waves crashing across the water.
According to the Aquatic Monster Guide, the giant squid was an obsessive man.
Without stopping, he swung his giant tentacles at the shield.
Hoyoung asked several times if he should prepare to run away.
But I decided to trust the performance I saw during the shield strength test.
Still, I couldn’t tell how long I could endure the shock that persisted.
As the sun rose, we ran to the rooftop and checked the condition of the shield.
“As expected! The old man is right. The shield looks fine.”
“Haa~ I was worried that the shield might have already broken. Fortunately, this is not the case.”
While Bomi and Hoyoung sighed in relief, I looked closely at the shield through the telescope.
“Hmm. That won’t work.”
“Huh? You say it won’t work?”
“It’s starting to crack.”
I handed the telescope over to the kids.
“Oh! It’s true! Oh! What should I do?”
“We have to deal with the giant squid in the ocean.”
I answered the surprised children firmly.
The kids looked at me with desperate expressions.
“I couldn’t even defeat the monster crocodile, hedgehog, and crocodile. How can I defeat that guy who is stronger than them both combined?”
I re-read the monster guide last night.
There were a few things that seemed weak to the giant squid in the trench, but they were areas that we couldn’t do anything about with our offensive resources.
“But it’s still incontinence, so isn’t it okay?”
Bomi looked at me with a hopeful expression.
In reality, the cyst was not growing or getting thicker.
I shook my head firmly.
“The giant squid won’t back down until the shield is broken.”
“Then what should we do?”
Hoyoung looked at me with a worried expression.
“There’s still some time left, so I guess I’ll have to find out.”
I thought maybe I should write that.
But I didn’t know if I could actually use it, and even if I did, I wondered if I could handle the aftermath.
Anyway, since it seems like our only hope, let’s check it out and see if it turns out well.
I put on my yellow protective suit and carefully opened the metal box I had salvaged from the crashed transport ship.
Inside were two warheads shaped like bamboo shoots, with a radiation hazard mark on them.
I couldn’t observe it closely last time because of the kids, but when I looked closely this time, something a little strange caught my eye.
The radiation hazard mark seemed a little different from what I was used to.
It was the same as the one with three propeller shapes centered on a yellow background, but there was an X in the black circle in the middle.