After becoming an octopus

In a coral group rich in species, a female mantis shrimp, who has been hungry for many days, finally realized the reality.The husband who has been with her for many years has not returned from hunting for food. She may have been killed by a predator, or she may have abandoned herself to find her mate. It has become a widow mantis shrimp.

Without the support of the male mantis shrimp, the female mantis shrimp releases its own special smell when hungry, so as to attract the male mantis shrimp who is willing to make offerings.

The ocean current that has been subdued for a few days came along a specific track, and all kinds of creatures came along the ocean current as if they were taking a subway, boarding at different stations, and getting off at different stations.

A mantis shrimp with a body length of half a meter sniffed the sea water, suddenly changed its mind, and got off the 'car' at a coral group in the middle.

Its color is as bright as a peacock mantis shrimp, composed of red, blue and green and other colors. The slender and colorful tentacles shake in the sea water, dragging a peacock-like tail, bouncing out, breaking away from the currents. The range of seawater landed firmly under a coral reef.

Following the smell, I came to a coral reef cave, and seemed to confirm the location.

"Little beauty, I'm coming~" Mantis Shrimp shook its fat body, and squeezed into the narrow cave...

Zhang Zexi's family was on the way to move house, Xiao Hei was swimming in the sea pulling the car, the car was nearly overturned by the sudden ocean current, the black dolphin beast quickly left the path of the ocean current, and still had some lingering fears.

"I was almost caught in the current." Xiao Hei flicked his tail a few times, and then he completely got out of the current's route.

Zhang Zexi also saw the ocean current not long ago, but he didn't know the consequences of being involved in the ocean current, "Let's go quickly, so as not to be involved in the ocean current."

Xiao Hei accelerated his swimming speed, and arrived at Zhang Zexi's new lair not long after.

Zhang Zexi went to check the nest, but he didn't come for a few days, a few conch and shellfish ran into the nest, and some sea urchins from the seaweed forest next door got in, so Zhang Zexi hurried to clean the nest.

Xiao Hei took off his body straps and asked Zhang Zexi for seaweed, "Give me the reward first, I don't know how many days this sea current will last, I have to go home and hide."

Zhang Zexi just moved, so where is there any seaweed, "Wait a minute, I'll pick it for you in a while."

"Give me some more, I want to eat for a few more days." Xiao Hei looked at him anxiously.

Is Zhang Zexi stingy?Isn't it just advance payment of wages?no problem!

"Okay, how much do you want? I'll pay you a few days in advance." Zhang Zexi and Xiao Hei walked towards the barnacle mountain while talking. , bring your own piles of kids.

Arriving at the Barnacle Mountain, Xiao Hei was still the same as before, hiding near the Barnacle Mountain, waiting for Zhang Zexi to pick up the things. For convenience, the car and the big conch with the small octopus on it were left for Xiao Hei to take care of .

Zhang Zexi carried a net bag and went over to start collecting.

A pointed head poked out from a crevice in the nearby rocks. Seeing the octopus busy on the barnacle mountain, his body trembled.

Mantis Shrimp turned around, ignored the octopus, dragged a barnacle and left.

Zhang Zexi felt that someone was watching her, turned around and only saw the back of Pippi Shrimp going away.

Not long ago, he was still shouting the slogan "Pipi shrimp, let's go", but now he actually met Pippi shrimp, and it was such a big Pippi shrimp. To be honest, Zhang Zexi was a little eager to catch it back as a pawn. The mount pulls the cart.

It's a pity that he already has Xiao Hei, and it's not his style to see things differently. Where can Pippi Shrimp have cheaper labor than the Black Dolphin Beast? Look at Pippi Shrimp, who can dig barnacles by himself, which is not as cowardly as the Black Dolphin Beast. Even though I have seen him come to Barnacle Mountain so many times, I dare not approach him.

Zhang Zexi quickly picked some seaweed and dug some barnacles. The amount of these things is probably enough to last for a few days. Seeing that it was almost the same, she dragged the net bag towards Xiao Hei, put the net bag on the car, and Zhang Zexi Xi led her to the lair.

Returning to the lair, he picked out fifty seaweeds, and put another net bag for the black dolphin beast, "This is your salary for five days of work, take it."

"But I haven't worked for five days." The black dolphin beast was a little surprised at his generosity.

Zhang Zexi said with a good temper: "It's okay, just return it to me after you work later."

The black dolphin beast was a little moved, "I really misunderstood you before, but I didn't expect you to be so good and willing to pay me in advance."

Zhang Zexi was very humble, "As long as you work for me for another ten days, the debt will be repaid."

He, Zhang Zexi, is the most kind, but how could he oppress the employees?

Of course, if Black Dolphin also received his salary during the five days of work, it would be regarded as an advance payment. What should we do then?Of course, I continued to work for myself to pay off my debts.

As long as they remain in debt, employees will never resign.

The silly black dolphin beast didn't know the sinister intentions of this octopus.I took my reward and went home gratefully.

After seeing off the black dolphin beast, Zhang Zexi tied the car to a nearby rock to prevent the car from being taken away when the current passed by.

Then he untied the conch shell loaded with the baby octopus from the car and brought it back to the nest. By the way, he opened a few barnacles in the nest, released the baby octopus, and found a large shell nearby that could be used as a door. He closed the door to prevent the little octopus from going out, and he tried to deal with the remaining barnacles.

The seaweed that was mainly picked this time, barnacles were not picked too much, but the barnacle mountain is nearby, and the freshly picked barnacles are the best, but the effect will be greatly reduced after a long time. Kettle didn't care too much.

Since he just moved, Zhang Zexi had no good place to store the barnacles, so he temporarily dug a hole in the ground next to the nest, buried half of the barnacles in it, and temporarily covered it with small stones and shellfish.

Seeing that the sea current had the intention of moving towards them, Zhang Zexi hid in the nest with the remaining barnacles in his arms, and closed the door to avoid the influence of the sea current on them.

Outside the house, the water hitting objects made a scratching sound. Zhang Zexi couldn't see the situation outside the house, but could only listen to the sound to tell when the sea current would pass.

He would occasionally observe the outside world through the gaps left by the shells, but he didn't find much, but the sea current would occasionally roll up the sediment on the seabed, obscuring the surrounding scene.

As night fell, Zhang Zexi fell asleep with the little octopuses.

In the darkness, the ocean current had a short period of fatigue. Taking advantage of the slowing down of the ocean current, a brightly colored mantis shrimp half a meter long approached the cave.

The tail of the mantis shrimp has a row of spikes. It lies on the ground and arches its tail. The tail is like a small shovel, digging away the outer layer of stones and shells, revealing the barnacles hidden inside...

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom..."

This is Zhang Zexi's second dream since he came to the bottom of the sea.

In the dream, his father knocked on his door all the time, telling him to get up and eat breakfast quickly, and he answered "yes", but when he remembered, he found that his body could not move, as if there was an invisible force The power is suppressing himself unable to move.

Isn't this a ghost press?

Zhang Zexi was a little panicked, struggling to get up but to no avail, and finally woke up in shock.

When he opened his eyes, he found a large orange ball in front of his eyes. It turned out that the little octopuses were lying on top of it, making it difficult for him to move.

Zhang Zexi couldn't laugh or cry, it turned out that this was the truth about the ghost pressing the bed.

Some of the little octopuses have already woken up, and some of them are still sleeping. He didn't dare to move for a while, for fear of disturbing the rest of the little octopuses.

It is indeed troublesome to all live in one nest. When the children grow up, it is time to sleep in separate rooms.

In a corner of the coral group, a mantis shrimp dragged two barnacles into the coral group, and shouted into the cave, "Honey, I'm back with food!"

Two barnacles were thrown into the cave, and the plump body of the mantis shrimp squeezed in again...

The seawater flow slowed down a lot in the early morning. Zhang Zexi saw that the world outside the lair had basically returned to normal, so she opened the shell door and planned to go out to see the situation.

As soon as Zhang Zexi got out of the nest, she saw something that made the octopus angry. The place where the barnacles were buried yesterday had been dug up, and there was no sign of the barnacles in the hole.

He approached the pothole and found a lot of barnacle shells scattered around. He carefully observed these broken barnacles. They should have been crushed by some heavy objects. Originally, Zhang Zexi had some doubts whether it was the barnacles next door. The big blue crab family in the mountain did it. Now that he saw these crushed barnacle shells, he knew it wasn't the blue crab family.

Scyllas mainly rely on their claws to open the shells of their prey. Judging from the cracks in these barnacle shells, it is not the style of blue crabs.

The 'dong dong' sound he heard all the time last night was not the sound of his father knocking on the door at all, but the sound made by the thief knocking on the barnacle shell when he was stealing food last night.

The thieves are really rampant now!

What's more, with such a loud noise, I didn't notice anything!

Zhang Zexi was a little annoyed, and next time he would move a few more travertine rocks, some for storage, and some for the little octopuses to use as bedrooms.