In the vault

　　 "Lieutenant, there are 22 survivors, and there are no wounded."

　　 "Yeah." Listening to the report of a group of sergeants, Colacs nodded lightly, and slowly approached the waiter who had attacked him before.

　　 asked: "How much do you know about the creatures that killed the tourists here?"

　　!

　　 Seeing the ‘Giant’ soldier over 2.6 meters tall, the waiter seemed a little afraid to believe his eyes, but eased his nervousness, and then replied:

　　 "I don't know, I only know that because of the weather, the captain only let us move inside the cruise ship, and then...then the cruise ship suddenly seemed to hit something.

　　 Everyone may think it was on the rocks, but the whole cruise ship was shaking, and then a lot of snake-like tentacles attacked us!

　　 They are pervasive, drilling in from ventilation ducts, tunnels, water pipes, etc. where there are holes!

　　Because I work in a casino and know that the vault has its own oxygen supply system and is stronger than other places, I took a group of tourists and hid here. "

　　"..."

　　 Listening to the waiter's report, Colacs didn't say anything, remaining silent as if thinking.

　　 Then he turned to turn on the communication built into the helmet, and contacted the Darwin:

　　"This is B-019. Our search team has just entered a battle with anomalous creatures. Eight Marines were killed, but 22 survivors were found.

　　 I speculate that this anomalous phenomenon is likely to be a giant creature with a large number of snake-like tentacles, and the nervous tissue of the tentacles is abnormally developed, even if it is cut off, it can still move.

　　 Based on the situation described by the survivors, I judge that there are probably no other survivors on the cruise ship.

　　 But to be on the safe side, the Shadow Squad will continue to perform the search mission, but before that we will **** the survivors and the remaining Marines to the top deck.

　　 So please send a Pelican to pick it up. "

　　 "Eight people were killed in action?!" Hearing Colacs' words, the communications officer exclaimed in disbelief, and then the communications fell into a short busy tone.

　　 It seems that the female communications officer is reporting the matter to the captain of the Darwin. After all, the death of eight Marines is not a trivial matter.

　　 "Lieutenant..."

　　 Then, the voice that Corax heard was no longer the female communications officer, but a middle-aged man with a steady voice.

　　 "I am the captain of the Darwin, Koz Holder. The investigation of the patrol boat has ended and no survivors have been found.

　　 The survivors you found, Lieutenant, are most likely the only people left in this incident, so be sure to **** them to the top deck.

　　 As for your continued search mission, I approved it, and I will send all the Marines on board the Darwin to the cruise ship to assist you in carrying out it together. "

　　 "No, Captain, this time the anomalous creatures are very aggressive, and they can no longer cause casualties to the Marine Corps brothers. We Spartans are enough."

　　 "This..." The captain knew that this anomalous phenomenon was beyond the scope of ordinary people to deal with, and immediately stopped refuting anything, and said:

　　 "Well, it is estimated that the Pelican will arrive over the Agona Rica in three minutes."

　　 "Thank you." After confirming that the Pelican was about to arrive, Colacs walked outside the casino and ordered in the communication:

　　 "Prepare to **** the survivors to evacuate together."

"Yes."

　　 The people who were instructed started to act. The Marines of Class One and Two protected the survivors and came outside the casino with Corax.

　　The ten remaining Marines were mixed together to protect the survivors with the first and second squads, while the five shadows protected the Marines and the survivors.

　　 Since the return journey this time was an ‘escape’ and no search was required, the team’s speed was much faster than before.

　　 But after all, there are still 22 civilians, and the overall speed of the team is still relatively slow, and when they came to the second deck, the last thing they didn’t want to encounter still happened...

　　 "Boom!!" The deck corridor at the back of the team was broken by brute force, and a large number of tentacles poured out.

　　 It seems that the anomaly sensed that humans were about to run, so it attacked again, and its target was the unarmed survivors.

　　 "咻-!"

　　 "Om~!"

　　 "Stab!"

　　 One of the tentacles rushed towards a waitress behind the team with the sound of breaking through the air, but the tentacle could not taste the human flesh, but Kolacs behind the palace cut it vertically with a beam saber.

　　 "Pop!" A large amount of viscous blood liquid poured out, spilled on Colacs and the waitress.

　　 "Ah...ahhhh!!!"

　　 found that the ‘tentacles’ came again, and the crowd panicked again, and rushed upward regardless of whether they were pushing each other.

　　 After all, without training, it is just a luxury to ask ordinary people to remain calm in extreme situations.

　　 But the Marines and the Shadows did not complain, and responded immediately. Half of them escorted the civilians and continued to retreat to the top deck, while the other half attacked the group of tentacles.

　　 But the corridors were distorted and deformed all around. It seemed that the anomalous body used other tentacles to bypass the Marine Corps and the Shadow Squad and eat the panicked civilians first.

　　 "Go! The Shadow Squad protects the Marines and civilians, hurry up to the top deck! I will stop here!"

　　 Colacs said while slamming Gauss who had emptied his magazine, holding the most powerful lightsaber in both hands~lightnovelpub.net~ and rushed towards the ‘root’ of the group of tentacles.

　　 "Yes!" (x4)

　　 The four shadows know the capabilities of their captain, and the situation is tense now, the Marine Corps and civilians without their protection will undoubtedly die.

　　 Corax’s queen is indeed effective, I saw his nearly 1.5-meter-long beam saber, easily severing these tentacles.

　　 Feeling the scorching heat of the wound, the torso at the base of the tentacle shrank suddenly, and even started to retreat again, as if he was really afraid of Corax with a lightsaber.

　　 But Colacs hated this one who killed hundreds of civilians at once, especially the ‘guy’ who killed the Marines in front of him.

　　 Without the worries of the Marines and civilians, Corax followed the retreating tentacles and jumped directly from the hole in the deck it burst.

　　 With this jump, Corax went straight to the position between the tenth and eleventh decks.

　　 "Step on! Step on!"

　　 The PIA armor fell on the ruins of the broken deck, and the half-ton weight made the deck sunken.

　　 But Colacs didn't care about the deck, because he finally saw the whole picture of the abnormal phenomenon, or a part of it.

　　 I saw that the abnormal phenomenon was huge, and it occupies a large area on the bottom deck of the cruise ship, and its shape is similar to a mollusk like an octopus.

　　 The ‘tentacle monster’ they encountered before was just one of the countless ‘whiskers’ of this anomaly. It also has a large number of meters and tens of meters thick limbs.