"They've sucked up almost all the zombies in the neighboring province; this is practically the only species left."
After hearing Huang Jianbo's explanation, everyone present looked at each other in bewilderment.
Mutant seafood will rule the world?
Sun Tiantian hesitated before speaking, "I think I saw it in a documentary before. Octopuses have several brains, their intelligence is equivalent to that of a five-year-old child, and their ability to learn and imitate is very strong."
"Many scientists say that the octopus may be the most perfect creature on Earth."
Huang Jianbo nodded. "They are indeed clever. Not to mention those zombies, I was almost eaten by these things. If they continue to develop at this rate, the whole world might be covered with octopuses in a while."
"Now that you've said that, I feel guilty about eating takoyaki," Zhang Xiaojuan said, but immediately went to the vending machine in the corridor and bought a steaming box of takoyaki.
Su Zheng and Ma Dongmei, however, were worried. "What if the octopus also inherits the zombie's ability to devour? If it keeps eating like a nested doll, it might create some kind of deep-sea overlord."
Several people couldn't help but worry about the future of humanity.
Having finally managed to temporarily push the zombies back to safety, are we now going to have to outwit and outfight the deep-sea octopus king?
Only Xu Yi remained calm and spoke in a low voice, "An octopus infestation might actually be a good thing for humanity."
"Why?" Several pairs of clear, foolish eyes turned to Xu Yi in unison.
"One theory is that octopuses did not become intelligent life forms because nature imposed a genetic lock on them."
Teacher Xu's mini-class is now in session.
"Male octopuses die from severe injuries and starvation after mating, while female octopuses also die from starvation after hatching their fry. So even though octopuses have strong learning abilities and intelligence, they cannot pass on their learning achievements from generation to generation through reproduction."
"Currently, there is no reasonable scientific explanation for this kind of suicide behavior, so it can only be jokingly referred to as a genetic lock."
The problem children were stunned.
"Heavens... divine retribution, is it..." Zhang Xiaojuan grimaced as she was burned by the takoyaki.
Lu Sheng pondered, "Following this pattern, as they reproduce, the mutated octopus's abilities will become weaker and weaker?"
"Yes, and the number of zombies will also decrease due to the octopus invasion."
"So we... can just sit back and win?"
What was originally bad news suddenly turned into exciting news, and everyone in the meeting room was instantly energized.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
Humanity can simply sit back and wait for the scales of victory to tip in their favor.
In addition to the mutated octopus, Huang Jianbo also brought other news.
Despite the extremely harsh external environment, he still encountered a small number of survivors along the way.
Huang Jianbo knew that Lu Sheng was short of people, so he would provide information about M City to survivors along the way who had similar abilities and character.
"People should start arriving gradually over the next few days."
In the following days, as expected, one after another, weary survivors traveled long distances to seek refuge with him.
From them, Lu Sheng also learned more about the other survivors.
It turns out that there are still many people struggling to survive in other places, even in desert areas that they thought were completely uninhabited.
"Humanity's anthem is indeed a damn anthem of courage; they didn't give up on survival even under such harsh conditions," Zhang Xiaojuan couldn't help but exclaim after hearing this.
Zhao Mujia, now a big fan of Zhang Xiaojuan, immediately looked at her with starry eyes and said, "Brother, you're absolutely right, brother. That's a bit too cultured."
"Keep it low-key, a line from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I only got 90 points on my Chinese exam in the college entrance exam."
After absorbing a significant number of new residents, Lu Sheng and Xu Shao discussed the matter and decided to send out recruitment signals via radio 24 hours a day to gather all potential survivors in M City.
"Sister Lu, are you going to be an empress?"
After the meeting, Zhang Xiaojuan secretly approached Lu Sheng and whispered a question.
Lu Sheng's return gift to him was two punches.
"What kind of empress am I?"
Does anyone remember that she initially just wanted to snuggle up with Sun Tiantian in the apocalypse, eating snacks and playing games?
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