Prehistoric Evolution: Squidward Becomes a Great Old One

Chapter 8 Spanning Two Eras! The Prehistoric Octopus of the Carboniferous Period

"There are such props?"

Looking at the row of words on my retina that were flashing with dazzling golden light.

Lei Dong felt his human heart pounding wildly even inside the shell of a prehistoric creature.

In the standard setting of "Earth Online", the evolution of civilizations and species is extremely rigorous and lengthy.

From the Ordovician to the Silurian, then to the Devonian where fish dominated, and finally the Carboniferous where giant insects and amphibians roamed.

This involves a brutal span of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, requiring the consumption of massive amounts of "civilization evolution points".

And now, this "blind box" that he accidentally touched is about to directly break the underlying logic of the server!

"Absorb! Absorb it immediately!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Lei Dong roared wildly in his heart.

At this very moment, the arrogant laughter of Black Tide Island players is still flooding the public chat channel outside.

The blood of our compatriots in Yunnan is staining the deep reefs and trenches red.

He needs power, absolute violence that can crush everything and ignore any numerical advantage!

Just as he confirmed it with his mind, the "seven-colored starfish" lying quietly in the center of the Anomalocaris skeleton suddenly trembled.

In an instant, it transformed into a dazzling torrent of high-dimensional energy.

Following Lei Dong's tentacles, it violently rushed into his body with overwhelming force!

"Buzz—Boom!!!"

Lei Dong's mind felt as if it had been hit directly by a depth charge.

[Ding! Trans-Era Super Evolution Point (SSS Rank) successfully injected!]

[Warning! Large amount of redundant energy detected! The current species (Cephalopoda) gene pool is insufficient to contain this energy!]

[System logic is being rewritten... Anti-addiction and evolutionary restrictions have been forcibly bypassed!]

The dark gold warning box on my retina began to flash and overlap wildly, accompanied by a piercing alarm.

Lines of code, enough to make all "Earth Online" observers gasp in astonishment, are being forcibly altered.

[Crossing an evolutionary era...]

[The gene tree of the target species is forcibly elevated! Skipping the 'Silurian'...skipping the 'Devonian'...]

[Target Era: Carboniferous!]

[Searching for future mutation branches of the Cephalopoda... Search successful! Ultimate hidden form locked!]

"Aaaaaahh ...

If Cornerstone had vocal cords, Lei Dong would definitely let out a scream that would echo throughout the entire sea right now.

An indescribable, excruciating pain exploded deep within every cell of his body.

This is not ordinary growth; it is a genetic remodeling that compresses tens of millions of years of evolutionary history of a species into just a few minutes!

Lei Dong felt the cone-shaped hard shell on his back, which he had always regarded as the "strongest defense" and weighed hundreds of kilograms.

At this moment, it was as if a shackle binding his soul had begun to crack with a teeth-grinding sound.

"Click...click click..."

On the hard surface of the calcium carbonate shell, huge cracks first appeared, and seven-colored high-dimensional energy light gushed out from the cracks like magma.

It illuminated the entire deep underwater cave as if it were daytime.

The temperature of the surrounding seawater boiled rapidly under the intense energy surge, and countless tiny bubbles surged upwards.

The Anomalocaris skeletons that were originally displayed around the area turned to dust under this terrifying pressure and turbulent water flow.

"It's broken... My shell is broken?!"

Lei Dong retained a sliver of clarity amidst the excruciating pain.

For cephalopods of the Ordovician period, losing their shells was equivalent to losing their buoyancy regulators and armor.

In this ocean teeming with armored monsters, it's a sure way to die.

But the system didn't give him any time to panic.

[Genetic Remodeling Phase Three: Shedding the Old Shell, Embracing the Abyss!]

"Boom!"

With a muffled underwater explosion, the cone-shaped hard shell behind Lei Dong, which was several meters long, was completely shattered!

Countless sharp fragments shot out like shotgun pellets, embedding themselves deeply into the cave walls.

However, what was exposed from that broken hard shell was not a weak and soft internal organ.

Instead, it was a massive, wildly expanding soft tissue that displayed an eerie blend of dark red and abyssal black!

Without the constraints of the hard shell, this high-dimensional energy was finally released completely.

Lei Dong felt his body growing wildly.

His nervous system is splitting and spreading exponentially.

Originally, the front end had dozens of messy, short tentacles that could only be used to help scoop up mud and sand.

They begin to fuse, recombine, and stretch amidst intense spasms!

Ten... no, it finally settled on eight!

These are eight terrifying tentacles, as thick as ancient giant pythons!

Each tentacle's muscle fibers are extremely dense, brimming with explosive power.

What's even more chilling is the inside of these eight enormous tentacles.

It was densely covered with suction cups the size of a washbasin, and at the very deepest part of each suction cup...

They even grew a ring of sharp, razor-like keratinous teeth that gleamed with a metallic sheen!

These aren't suction cups, they're clearly hundreds or thousands of miniature meat grinders!

At the same time, his brain also underwent a complete evolution.

The head, which was originally encased in a hard shell, has transformed into a huge, highly streamlined, and extremely elastic "mantle".

Two enormous, eerie yellow compound eyes with cross-shaped pupils are set on either side of the head.

It radiated a kind of high-level intelligence that did not belong to wild beasts, but was almost eerie.

[Ding! Evolution complete!]

[Player: Lei Dong]

[Current Species: Carboniferous Abyssal Demonized Giant Chapter (Ultimate Hidden Mutant of Cephalopoda)]

[Current state: Peak adulthood (body length can reach 25 meters)]

[Unlock Transcendent Talent Skills]:

【Abyss Camouflage (Mimicry)】: The body surface is covered with tens of millions of advanced pigment cells and reflective bodies.

It can instantly change skin color, texture, and even three-dimensional appearance, perfectly blending into any environment.

In low-light conditions, it is equivalent to activating absolute invisibility.

[Meat grinder suction cup]: The tentacle suction cup has barbed teeth inside.

Once it entangles a target, it can instantly shred the carapace defenses of 99% of Ordovician species and release a potent neurotoxin.

【High-Pressure Ink Toxic Curtain】: Extremely high concentrations of blinding ink are ejected through a siphon tube.

This ink has a strong corrosive and nerve-numbing effect, and its coverage is extremely wide.

[Liquid Skeleton]: Completely abandoning the hard calcium shell, the body can be twisted and compressed in an extremely exaggerated way.

This behemoth, over twenty meters long, could squeeze through any gap the size of a fist in an instant.

"Is this... a dimensional reduction attack that spans two eras?"

Lei Dong hovered in the center of the underwater cave, its eight terrifying tentacles, each over ten meters long, slowly undulating in the seawater like giant dragons.

There was no leverage, and no water was sprayed.

He simply flicked his wrist with the newly evolved fleshy fins on both sides of his mantle.

Its massive body then glided forward a distance with remarkable elegance and quietness, at a speed that defied the laws of physics.

It's so smooth.