Chapter 183 Gray Octopus
As a famous tourist planet, Biqiu Star not only has its unique underwater cities, but also has its large and small islands on the sea surface fully developed for various purposes. For example, Lianlian Island is a famous island with the theme of love. After hundreds of years of continuous improvement and transformation, Lianlian Island has become very well-known in the alliance.
From time to time, colorful petals or shining stars and ribbons fall from the sky. Flowers are like a sea of color. Couples are wandering among them, whispering to each other, which is very sweet.
Under a flower stand covered with pink and purple flowers, a monk occupied most of the bench. The delicate white chair creaked under his weight, which looked very pitiful. The monk wore a bucket-like hat, lowered his head, and tapped the ground with his tentacles, looking a little anxious. When couples passing by saw him like this, they all thought he was waiting for his lover and tacitly went to other places.
In the air, a flying car shaped like a butterfly slowly floated by, and countless colorful bubbles were sprinkled , refracting infinitely changing light. When the bubbles hit other things, they would burst with a "pop" and sprinkle fine gold powder. They fluttered down, and for a moment the sky was full of transparent bubbles, with tiny golden lights flashing in the middle. The monk sitting on the chair couldn't help but look up. After all the bubble rain fell to the ground, he found that another person was standing in front of him.
Gray skin, brown circular stripes, ten tentacles that were not particularly thick or thin, no decorations, no work badges, and droopy gray eyes, not looking very energetic, but the gaze was fixed on him, which was a bit creepy at first glance.
The monk sitting on the bench looked at him without changing his expression.
The gray octopus looked at him for a while, then said in a hoarse voice, "Paco?" The loose skin on his face was piled up and drooping, and his lips could not be seen moving at all when he spoke, so his voice sounded muffled.
Paco removed the camouflage suit and looked scarred, but that face was definitely his. He proved his identity, activated the camouflage suit again to cover his face, and asked, "You used the camouflage suit too?"
"Too conspicuous," the gray octopus explained simply.
"That's true." Paco nodded in understanding.
"I saw them take you away." The gray octopus said slowly, seemingly not caring about Paco's injuries. He asked perfunctorily, "How did you escape?"
"There's help from inside." Paco seemed to be unconcerned about his cold attitude and replied immediately.
"Oh." The gray octopus responded and stopped talking.
Several young men ran past them, chasing and running, and their laughter spread all the way. Compared to the bright sunshine, Paco and the gray octopus seemed to have naturally created a shadow around them.
After a long silence, Paco couldn't help but ask, "Don't you want to ask something else?"
"Just say what you want to say." The gray octopus said lazily, "I'm listening."
His attitude was so submissive and perfunctory that it made people not want to stay any longer. Even though Paco was good-tempered, he couldn't help but roar in his heart - could he still talk properly?
Paco's chest rose and fell, and the two tentacles on the back of the chair couldn't help but curl up. He endured and endured, and finally suppressed his anger, and said gently: "Anyway, I want to thank you for saving me on the Blue Water Star. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else about this, and don't tell others that you entered the restricted area, otherwise there will be endless troubles, and Kaiyuer Company will not let us go."
"In that case, won't you implicate me if you meet with me?" the gray octopus said bluntly.
Paco couldn't help but flash a hint of anger on his face. The gray octopus looked at the fallen flowers beside him with a distracted look, not noticing the change in his expression. Paco glared at him fiercely, then lowered his eyes, smiled bitterly, and said awkwardly: "I don't want to cause you any trouble, but the thing I gave you before is very important. Can you return it to me first?"
"What is that?" The gray octopus finally showed some interest and raised its voice a little, but his face was still dead, and he just turned his eyes back to Paco.
Paco suddenly thought that he hadn't blinked for such a long time, and felt a little strange. But this was not what he was most concerned about now. Paco said anxiously: "A black metal ball the size of a suction cup, don't you remember it?"
The gray octopus hesitated for a moment, then said, "I have never seen anything like that . You remembered it wrongly."
Paco paused, then said, "I left it on the spaceship when I left. Can you help me look for it? We are friends, right? Without it, I'm dead."
The gray octopus refused without hesitation: "No."
Paco thought he had misheard and asked in disbelief: "…What did you say?"
"I can't take you to my ship."
"Why?" Paco stood up and asked with his eyes wide open. Then he seemed to understand and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, what do you want? Money, spaceship? Or something else? Name a price. As long as I can give it to you, I will do my best. Please give that thing back to me!"
The gray octopus still shook his head slowly and said, "No."
"Give me a reason." Paco said coldly.
"Because you are not him." The gray octopus said calmly.
Paco was stunned, all the anger and resentment on his face disappeared. He did not argue, but sat down slowly, stared at the gray octopus for a while, and whispered: "I don't understand what you mean."
"For example..." The gray octopus asked the simplest question: "Do you know my name? Tell me."
He had noticed that for such a long time, Paco had never called his name once, not even when he greeted him at the beginning, and he had never mentioned Deb who had died in vain.
Paco chuckled, relaxed his body, and asked, "How did you know that?"
"There are too many flaws, I'm too lazy to tell you. You shouldn't think that you can fool someone you don't know at all by using a camouflage suit to transform into someone else." The gray octopus still had an attitude of not taking anything seriously, and his lazy tone made people feel annoyed.
"The camouflage suit that can transform twice is a new invention of the Academy of Sciences. Even the most sensitive media has never heard of it. So I thought that after I showed one transformation, you wouldn't doubt my identity. I was careless." The fake Paco spread his tentacles and said helplessly, "You are right. We got too little information from Paco. We know almost nothing about you. But I still want to know, in such a short time, where was my flaw? If I remember correctly, you hardly even looked at me."
His tone was sincere and full of curiosity, and the gray octopus replied: "Eyes."
"Eyes?" Pseudo-Paco stretched out his tentacles and touched his eyes. Then he heard the gray octopus say, "His eyes remind me of my best friend; and your eyes remind me of a poisonous snake."
The fake Paco caught a word and said with a smile: "You must have been born on a habitable planet dominated by land, and you must be a terrestrial intelligent creature, otherwise you wouldn't use a poisonous snake as a metaphor. Interesting, Paco has not been to many habitable planets. Even if you don't tell me, I can find out where you were born. But there is no need for this. I believe we will reach a pleasant cooperation soon."
"I don't think so."
"Don't be so sure, young man. Think it over before you answer." The fake Paco said with a hateful certainty and confidence in his tone, "If you agree, I can give you money, status, and beauty. The most important thing is that you can continue to live. But if you refuse like that friend did foolishly, I'm afraid something very unpleasant will happen between us."
Gray Octopus, Rong Yuan, pondered for a moment and asked, "I don't understand why I was dragged into this kind of trouble? You went to great lengths to find me and even set up a trap. Is it just because I'm from Landia?"
He noticed that since they had formally started their conversation, no one had passed by this place anymore, and not even the sound of tourists playing could be heard. Only the birds hiding in the branches occasionally made a few short chirps.
"Of course not. Why do you think so? Landia is also a partner of ours!" Pseudo-Paco laughed out loud and asked incredulously, "Don't you know? Didn't Paco tell you anything?"
Rong Yuan was silent. He didn't know what he should know.
"Oh my God, my child! I know you believe in Paco, so you took the risk to come to see me. But you have to know that not everyone is what they seem." The fake Paco said like a kind elder instructing his younger generation, "Let me tell you the truth."
Then Rong Yuan heard a story about how a mean, shameless, insidious and cunning Biqiu used the good reputation of his race and his simple appearance to deceive everyone around him, and climbed to the top of Kayul Company by stepping on the corpses of his companions. His two closest friends were killed by him. By chance, Paco got a handle on a company, and then, regardless of the company's long-term cultivation and trust in him, he intended to use this handle to threaten the company to gain greater benefits. As a result, he was chased by interstellar hunters (equivalent to the police of the Galactic Alliance) and mistakenly entered the restricted area of the star field. The metal ball mentioned by the fake Paco is the handle in Paco's hands, and Kayul Company will take it back at all costs.
"What handle?" Rong Yuan's tone seemed to be asking - "What evil things have you done?"
The fake Paco smiled bitterly and said, "This is the new drug formula and research records that our company has spent many years developing. This drug will save countless people, but during the experiment it is inevitable... you know... there will be some casualties. We have also tried our best to make amends to the families of the deceased, but if it is made public, it will give competitors a reason to attack us. And those formulas... once obtained by others, our years of hard work will be in vain."
The gray octopus nodded, and just as the fake Paco smiled, Rong Yuan said, "It's an exciting story, but unfortunately I don't believe a word of it."
The fake Paco's face froze, his tone became fierce, and he asked, "Do you want to drink a toast and then drink a forfeit?"
The dead-eyed gray octopus sitting opposite him chuckled: "Do you think... you're the only one who came up with the idea of double camouflage?"
The fake Paco reacted suddenly and hit the gray octopus with one tentacle. The gray octopus did not dodge or evade, and was blown away like a kite with a broken string, crashing into the flowers. The air on the surface of its body fluctuated for a moment, and then the mimicry effect disappeared, revealing a fat and wretched gray octopus with his mouth open, looking stupid and unconscious.
The fake Paco roared, stabbed the gray octopus with its tentacles like swords, and then threw the limp corpse away, shouting: "Find him for me!!!"
In the flowers, in the bushes, on the trees, under the low table... around him, countless black shadows rushed in all directions.
…
Rong Yuan played with the [Mind Control Microphone] in his hand and sighed, "It's not easy for Biqiuxing to find a guy with negative merits to use as bait, but he was killed just like that."
Pea muttered, "I said it was a trap, but what if they track me?"
Noah II weakly retorted: "Although I am not the original body, my ability is not so bad."
Rong Yuan raised his hand to stop the two of them from arguing, then turned to look behind him.
He was standing on the top floor of the control tower of the Lianlian Island amusement facility. Before coming here, he had confirmed that no one would come here. He also set up alarm devices along the way. In case of danger, he had already designed a retreat route.
But now, without any alarm sounding, there were soft footsteps coming from the stairs behind him.
