Time-traveling island

A certain area of ​​the Pacific Ocean.

The icy seawater lapped against Lin An's feet, gradually bringing him back to his senses.

"escape!"

As soon as he regained consciousness, the thought immediately flashed through Lin An's mind: last night's experience was truly terrifying, and a lingering fear still lingered in his heart.

I opened my eyes and looked up. The sun had risen above the horizon, and the deep blue sea was shimmering with golden light. The raging waves of last night had subsided.

"The giant octopus escaped?!"

Lin An quickly looked around and found himself on a shallow reef that could only accommodate three or four people standing. He was surrounded by seawater, and the offshore drilling platform where he worked was nowhere to be seen. There were no floating objects on the sea surface either. He was completely isolated and helpless.

Even so, he still felt a sense of relief, as if he had survived a disaster.

"No matter what, just surviving is enough!"

Lin An breathed a long sigh of relief.

Last night, he and his colleagues experienced a disaster comparable to the movie "Deep Rising".

At 25 years old, he found a job on an offshore oil drilling platform after graduating from university. Although he had to be stationed at sea for a long time and was even assigned to overseas, the benefits of the state-owned enterprise were quite good, with an annual income of more than 400,000 yuan. He could be transferred back to China after working there for a few years.

Unexpectedly, an octopus so large it could cover the entire drilling platform suddenly attacked them!

Lin An was lying in his room on the third floor playing mobile games to pass the time when he heard the alarm. He looked out the window and almost thought he was hallucinating!

Huge, seawater-soaked octopus tentacles writhed within the steel frame, their massive bodies slowly emerging from the deep water. At that moment, Lin An felt a chill run down his spine, just like now—

"Holy crap?!"

Lin An's scalp tingled again, because he saw a huge tentacle emerge from the seawater, grabbing the reef beneath him. The seawater surged, and the octopus's body, comparable to a small mountain, gradually rose to the surface.

It was the octopus monster that attacked them last night!!

"..."

The scene before him made Lin An lose all hope of surviving.

This reef can only accommodate three or four people standing. There is nowhere to avoid it, and there are no weapons. You can only defeat this thing with your fists.

Even Wu Song couldn't do it!

Under his complex gaze, the giant octopus monster finally emerged from the sea, a large amount of seawater sliding off its body. Then, a pair of huge, round eyes opened and looked at him.

One second, two seconds.

It did not take any further action.

Tentacles, thicker than trains, floated on the sea surface, writhing freely.

Lin An murmured, "CEO Ke? I hope it doesn't lower my sanity."

To be honest, after observing it carefully, he realized that the octopus wasn't ugly or even scary after it grew bigger; it was just frighteningly large.

Moreover, the giant octopus's eyes... seemed to convey a sense of joy and delight?

Lin An stared at it, observing it. Suddenly, it opened its mouth wide and let out a roar that shook the seawater. Then, a tentacle stretched out, and at the end of the tentacle was a sparkling transparent gem.

Lin An hesitated for a few seconds, suppressed all the thoughts in his mind, and accepted the gem that was handed to him.

A white, slightly transparent triangular pyramid.

Holding it in his hand for a moment, a stream of information flooded into Lin An's brain.

He didn't know how much time had passed when the sound of the giant octopus slapping the water's surface with its tentacles, out of boredom, pulled him back to reality.

"This thing...!"

Lin An took a deep breath to calm himself down, then looked at the octopus in front of him and gradually sorted out the situation.

This triangular pyramid-shaped gem comes from an unknown planet and was created by an alien civilization as the core of their spaceship for researching, exploring, and discovering new worlds!

The alien research spaceship, for unknown reasons, crashed to Earth and sank into the sea near Lin An's current location. It was probably unable to move, so the spaceship's core came out to seek help.

The giant octopus also mutated under its influence, becoming much larger and more intelligent.

But the Earth's octopus is not an intelligent life form and cannot understand complex matters, so it gave its core to Lin An.

As for why he was looking for him, Lin An thought back to a few months ago when he caught a small octopus while fishing and then threw it back into the sea...

"Everyone else repays kindness like foxes or white snakes, what's an octopus?"

Lin An was somewhat amused and exasperated, but after learning the truth, he felt much relieved. He tentatively asked the large octopus floating on the surface of the sea, its tentacles crawling all over the shallow reefs, "Did you come looking for me last night?!"

Seeing Lin An speaking to it, it opened its huge eyes and looked over. After a long while, it let out a muffled roar.

Lin An could barely make out that it was saying "last night".

I don't know if it's because my vocal cords aren't suited for speaking, or if I'm just too young to speak.

He tried to continue communicating with the giant octopus, but found that it didn't understand most things. Only when food was mentioned did the giant octopus immediately dive into the sea and use its tentacles to grab a bunch of food for him.

Lobsters, crabs, corals, mussels, seaweed, and so on were all swept up by its large tentacles and delivered to Lin An.

"Thank you, but I don't want any, you can have it."

Lin An quickly waved his hand.

The giant octopus blinked, its tentacles scooped up a bunch of things and put them in its mouth, then shoved several sea bream into his mouth.

It seemed to be telling him how to eat...

Lin An had no choice but to accept, and the giant octopus was pleased. It pointed its tentacles at the spaceship core in Lin An's hand and then at the sea surface.

It was an invitation for Lin An to go into the sea together to find the crashed spaceship.

"Wait, how deep is the spaceship? Have you seen it before? Are there aliens on it? Can you pull the spaceship up?"

Lin An tried to communicate again, but the giant octopus couldn't understand him at all, and its blinking looked quite innocent.

Almost like a child.

Lin An dared not go into the sea with it rashly. Ordinary people can only dive to a few dozen meters and hold their breath for a few minutes, by which time the spaceship would have sunk somewhere.

He turned his gaze to the core of the spaceship.

A line of text appeared on the Mitsubishi cone:

Unknown error. Please try restarting the spaceship.

"Spaceship, start!" Lin An tried to give the order.

"Command issued, no response for unknown reason."

The core team responded quickly.

Lin An's legs were getting tired from standing, so when he saw that the rocks were covered with the tentacles of a giant octopus, he simply plopped down on them.

The giant octopus blinked its innocent-looking big eyes, but didn't move.

"Is this spaceship broken?" Lin An muttered. Fortunately, the core gave a prompt: "Please approach the spaceship and activate the self-check function, or contact technical maintenance personnel."

Lin An really wanted to complain: Where did these alien repairmen come from on Earth?

But he couldn't get down to the seabed.

This core also lacks the function of scheduled program activation, making it impossible for the giant octopus to carry it down to the bottom.

Things have gotten stuck like this!

Lin An communicated with the core team for a while and finally discovered a useful function:

"Traces of life have been detected, indicating research value. Should we attempt to construct a research base?"

Is it a research base?

Lin An repeated it to himself: the core of the spaceship in front of him used Chinese characters that were easy for him to understand, but he didn't know what the original meaning of the characters was.

Many things lose their original meaning after being translated.

For now, we can only consider it as a scientific research spacecraft in the Earth's sense.

Lin An no longer hesitated and chose to build a base.

The spaceship core displayed several options:

First, transform the environment and create new life.

Second, endowing life with wisdom

Third, recruit personnel.

Lin An was somewhat surprised. Apart from the last item being related to building a base, the other two items... did this spaceship also have the mission of Nuwa creating humans?

Options one through three are in a progressive relationship.

In other words, if this spacecraft lands on Mars, it could also terraform the Martian environment and create life, giving that life intelligence.

He glanced at the giant octopus. No wonder this guy was so intelligent; it turned out the spaceship's core could "enlighten" life.

However, just how advanced is the technology of extraterrestrial civilizations?

After a moment's thought, Lin An chose the last option: recruiting personnel.

Earth already has billions of humans and countless species of plants and animals. If he were to create some kind of world-destroying virus, our home planet would be doomed.

After he clicked, a large amount of information popped up in the core.