After becoming an octopus

It is obviously unrealistic to go back to the seabed coral group, so Zhang Zexi can only choose to continue to go up, maybe a little further up can find enough food to satisfy his hunger.

With such expectations, the speed subconsciously accelerated a bit.

In the process of moving quickly, the coordination of the body has increased a lot.I don't know how long I have been climbing on this mountain wall. Although I still haven't reached the sea, some algae gradually appeared on the mountain wall. With algae, there are naturally some creatures that depend on algae for a living.

As if seeing a savior, Zhang Zexi jumped into a clump of dark green algae, camouflaged the color of her skin into a mottled dark green similar to the algae, and waited for the prey to arrive among the algae.

Several small and small fish didn't notice the approaching danger at all, and gradually approached the piece of seaweed. When the fish appeared above, Zhang Zexi suddenly raised an eyebrow, using the film between the octopus' claws to block the small fish's way , and then use the adsorption properties of the tentacles to quickly capture.After escaping most of the small fish, there were finally two remaining.

There is neither fire nor pot in this sea, Zhang Zexi can only eat raw.

The little fish was still struggling in his tentacles. Zhang Zexi, who had a human mind, was a little bit against eating raw animals, so he could only use the octopus claws to strangle the little fish to death before eating.

The taste of the fish is much more delicious than imagined. With the seasoning of sea water, it tastes salty and sweet. Although I am not full after eating, I am not so hungry.

After wasting time on the road, Zhang Zexi continued to climb.

The higher it goes up, the more traces of biological activities, until it climbs to a flat land on the mountain wall, there is no sign of reaching the sea.

There is a seabed under the feet, and Zhang Zexi looks down from the edge, it is like an invisible abyss, filled with impurities in the seawater, which has already covered the way he came.

Based on this depth calculation, the place where he woke up probably does not belong to the surface zone, but if he appeared in the seawater below 200 meters just now, why didn't he feel the pressure from the seawater?Is it because the octopus' body can withstand stronger pressure?

He observed the surrounding environment with doubts. Compared with the barrenness of the mountain wall below, this place can be called rich.Coral formations and kelp forests have bred countless lives, and there are many marine life that feed on seaweed and marine life that hunt and eat meat.

The sun's light gradually dimmed, and the sea was still far away from him. After climbing for half a day, his body was already exhausted.He is like a traveler who has seen a mirage in the desert, only one truth is needed to make him face reality.

Accustomed to the human way of life, Zhang Zexi subconsciously wanted to find a place to hide after the sky darkened, because the night is dangerous for humans.

But before resting, he needs food to restore his mobility.

He changes color to hide among the coral reefs, intending to be a dutiful hunter, and his target is a few spider crabs that are eating a dead fish.

Spider crabs basically live on the seabed at a depth of more than 3000 meters. These spider crabs will appear here, most likely because of special circumstances during the breeding season, they are going to shallow sea areas.

The size of this spider crab is about the same as that of Zhang Zexi's current octopus, even bigger than her.But its crab claws are small, so it was judged by Zhang Zexi to be not very dangerous.

Zhang Zexi adjusted her color to assimilate with the environment. When approaching the prey, she used the water jetted out of the funnel to push her body to move quickly, and jumped onto one of the spider crabs. The tentacles entangled its body tightly. Make it immobile.

Zhang Zexi's tentacles were still a little weak, but they were enough to break off the crab legs of the spider crab, and then pry open the crab shell, with the mouth at the bottom biting on the crab meat. No psychological burden.

While he was feasting, danger approached.

During the time he hunted and fed, the bottom of the sea was completely plunged into darkness.

Zhang Zexi was about to eat the last crab leg when a big mouth with sharp teeth attacked him in the darkness.

Zhang Zexi was frightened by this sudden change, and the crab legs fell to the ground with a clatter.A thick ink with a foul smell was sprayed out by him, and after wrapping the opponent, he used the momentum of the water to drive his body to escape quickly.

His octopus tentacles couldn't help trembling a little, as if he had suddenly lost control of his brain, and now he was only driven by the instinct to escape.

He could feel that the black shadow behind him was chasing after him, and he might bite him at any moment. For a moment, the thought of running for his life occupied all his thinking space, and he didn't even dare to look back to see what his enemy was. , I was afraid that turning around would give the opponent a chance to kill him.

Zhang Zexi was almost bitten by the opponent several times. At first, his escape speed was barely equal to that of the hunter, but after being chased for a certain distance, his speed slowed down unconsciously.

He was exhausted all day and his stamina declined. Now, if he wanted to get rid of the enemy who was chasing him, simply running away would not work.

Zhang Zexi was chased from the coral group to the seaweed forest, where the seaweed became one of the means to block the hunters behind.

His body is relatively soft, and he can grab the seaweed and move quickly. Using these advantages to his advantage, although the shadow behind him chased him, he was thrown away several times on the way.But every time the opponent seems to be able to find their own position accurately.

After briefly throwing off the shadow's pursuit, Zhang Zexi placed the target in a crevice of a rock.

With little hesitation, it got in.

After entering, there may be a chance of survival, and the black shadow may be able to hunt him down, but he may not be able to do anything to the octopus covered with a 'turtle shell'.

But obviously he misjudged the space of this cave, even though he had tried his best to stuff his body inside, there was still an octopus claw that could not be completely hidden.

The nearby water stream shows signs of shaking, and something is approaching.

Zhang Zexi's body froze, she didn't dare to move, she was worried that her arbitrary actions would attract the other party's attention.

The black shadow swam past the hole, and Zhang Zexi relaxed a little.

Judging from the shape of the opponent's shadow, it should be some kind of fish.The length is about 1.5 meters. Compared with my own size, the octopus is obviously not the opponent.

Zhang Zexi didn't relax until the surrounding water calmed down.

It is obviously not the only predator around.

After two similar shadows passed by the cave entrance one after another, a fish face finally entered the cave.

This guy opened his mouth and bit the octopus claw that couldn't be fully contained in the cave. Zhang Zexi almost jumped when he was touched. Unfortunately, the cave limited his mobility.

In an instant, his body was spun and dragged out of the hole.

During the whole process, Zhang Zexi felt a kind of panic that my life was over, her body swayed up and down with the opponent's swing, like rolling in a washing machine.

After getting close to the opponent, Zhang Zexi saw the opponent's true face through a little light. This is a striped long-whiskered catshark. It is bigger, it can eat a variety of food types, and octopus is obviously in its diet.

The octopus claws struggled wildly, but they couldn't break free from the teeth of the barbed catshark.

The pain from the tentacles stimulated Zhang Zexi's nerves. He was thinking whether to cut off his wrists to survive. The limbs of an octopus should be able to regenerate.

However, due to too many limitations of human thought, Zhang Zexi didn't have the courage to cut off his wrists to survive in the end.

In order not to let herself be thrown around in the sea, Zhang Zexi used her octopus tentacles to cling tightly to the opponent's body.

After his body stopped shaking so much, he calmed down and thought about the solution.

The lethality of the octopus is no more than a few points, the flexibility of the arms and legs, the hardness of the mouth and the paralysis of the venom. Combining its own advantages, he inserted the remaining octopus claws into the gills on both sides of the striped long-bearded catshark, blocking the At the same time, he used the hardest mouth in his body to bite the skin of the striped long-bearded cat shark, trying to inject toxins into the opponent's body, but he hadn't studied the body of his octopus thoroughly, so he didn't know what was going on. How to inject venom.

When he couldn't figure it out, he used the most straightforward method to fight against the enemy - bite!

He viciously grinds the barbed catshark's skin and flesh with his mouth, and by this time, the line between predator and prey is somewhat blurred.

But Zhang Zexi's luck is obviously not very good. Under the dim light, he saw other banded long-whiskered cat sharks coming here. He can temporarily resist against individuals, but against group siege, he can only Give up resistance.

Seeing the opponent approaching, Zhang Zexi's tentacles vigorously stirred the gill bands of the striped long-whiskered cat shark. The striped long-whiskered cat shark struggled violently as it couldn't breathe, and some blood mist spewed out from its gills on both sides. Spread out in the sea.

In pain, it had to let go of the octopus claws in its mouth, and wanted to escape in some embarrassment.

Zhang Zexi did not continue to entangle with it, and immediately pulled away his octopus claw after the striped long-whiskered catshark let go.When facing an enemy of more than two people, all he could think of was to run, the farther the better.

When I think of running, I think of myself who is exhausted, unable to run.

The idea of ​​escaping was obviously unrealistic, so he could only find a bunker to avoid temporarily.

After leaving the striped long-whiskered catshark for a while, Zhang Zexi got into the empty shell of a large conch.Before today, he had never seen such a big conch with his own eyes, and it was just right to fit his body, but the mouth of the conch was a little too big, so he grabbed a shell from nearby and blocked it, which might allow the enemy to sneak in. of the hole.

In the process of hiding, the big conch he was living in was flipped by other creatures, and Zhang Zexi also rolled in the sea with the conch for a long time, but this time the other creature couldn't help him at all.

I don't know how long it took before the movement outside stopped completely.

Zhang Zexi's mind was finally able to stuff other things into it, and the first thing he thought of was of course his enemy the striped long-whiskered catshark.

The barbed catshark usually lives in shallow waters, which made him think he might be in shallow waters, too.

Although he had some grudges with the striped long-whiskered catshark and himself, as soon as he thought that this was a shallow sea, his expectations for going ashore became a little higher.

The seabed at night is beautiful and scary.

The beauty is the glowing creatures in the dark, and the horror is the inner panic caused by not being able to see the end of the darkness. Zhang Zexi huddled in the shell, isolating everything from her own world.

After a day of exhaustion, he finally fell asleep at this moment.