Chapter 138 Are you crazy?

At daybreak, Kong Liang ran back from the beach, panting.

"Damn, did you know that?!"

Kong Liang saw his companions, and his heart, which had just been beating violently, calmed down for a while. He covered his chest and continued, "I just tripped on the road, and a zombie came out from somewhere and almost ate me—"

Upon hearing this, everyone who was dozing off woke up. After the snow melted, the weather gradually became less cold, and the zombies began to move again.

Zhao Yunduo looked at Kong Liang with a look of a zombie who would cut wherever he gnawed. "Did you get bitten?"

"No, no, no!" Kong Liang waved his hands like an electric fan. After his breathing slowed down, he continued, "I rolled and crawled down the beach. Hey, don't you think it's strange that the zombie turned around and stopped biting me as soon as it stepped on the beach!"

"Ah?" Liang Yuanyuan asked in confusion, "Is there such a thing?!"

"I find it strange too. Do you think zombies would be afraid of giant octopuses?"

Liang Tuantuan was grilling meat cakes and drinking hot milk on an iron grid placed on top of a pile of firewood. Kong Liang was in urgent need of food to comfort his wounded soul, so he grabbed a piece of meat cake without fear of being burned, blew on it, then broke it into small pieces and stuffed them into his mouth.

Zhao Yunduo thought for a moment and said, "I didn't see any zombies on the sea or on the beach last night. Rather than saying that the zombies are afraid of the giant octopus, maybe they have tacitly divided their territory among themselves."

Like the green giant before, the zombies did not mark the boundary with it and recklessly passed by the shopping mall building, so the zombies one by one became the food and nourishment of the green giant.

So perhaps under the leadership of the mutant zombie, the zombie group and the giant octopus were wary of each other and kept their distance from each other.

Kong Liang, who had saved his life, had breakfast with everyone.

Perhaps it was the smell of the food or the blinding sunlight that had just risen, but the wounded lying on the ground woke up one by one after daybreak.

Connie was the first to wake up. He was not seriously injured, was younger than the others, and had a stronger recovery ability. He was awakened by the glaring sun and subconsciously wanted to cover his eyes, but when he raised his hand he found a sharp pain in his shoulder.

"Hiss——" He took a breath of cool air.

"Don't move."

Zhao Yunduo held down his upper arm to prevent the wound from being pulled too hard and tearing open again.

"Ms. Yun Duo, it is you."

Connie, whose face was pale due to excessive blood loss, saw that it was Zhao Yunduo and smiled at her, "I thought seeing you last night was just a dream."

"Why are you here?" Zhao Yunduo asked.

"Well, when I received the mission you told me yesterday morning, I was afraid that the B City Base would get there first, so I thought that since the zombies are less mobile at night, I might as well catch some seafood at night. People in our base said that the seafood here is big and plentiful, so I came. As a result, hiss——"

Connie glanced at the wound on his shoulder. "When I flew here, I saw Liu Jing trapped on the reef. I wanted to help her, but... Now our Y City base has no planes left."

He looked at the plane that landed on the seaside, and sighed that he had finally been kind for once, but he didn't expect to lose his wife and his army.

Zhao Yunduo was too lazy to expose him. He saved people just to get some post-war intelligence about the B City base from Liu Jing, but he didn't expect to be captured by a lurking giant octopus.

"Why didn't the giant octopus eat you?" Zhao Yunduo asked. Judging from what happened last night, the giant octopus could have killed them all.

Connie actually thought he was dead when he fell into the water, but he was not.

"That monster doesn't seem to eat humans."

Connie recalled that last night before Zhao Yunduo and the others came, it was difficult to see too much in the moonlight. He could only guess based on what he saw and his brain:

"It doesn't eat people, but it sucks blood. And it doesn't seem to be very interested in human blood. Several of our people... had their skin broken by it, and their blood flowed into the sea."

"It uses human blood to feed other marine plants and animals."

While they were talking, a female voice suddenly interrupted. Zhao Yunduo turned around and saw that it was Liu Jing.

Although she was weak, her eyes were bright. There was hope in her eyes when she looked at Zhao Yunduo, and there was also some inexplicable fear. Witnessing the death of her companion with her own eyes made her have nightmares even when she was asleep.

"Last night, one of our men was missing. When I went down to look for him, the monster had tied him up with all its claws, and then—he was crushed by the claws of the giant octopus."

At that time, Liu Jing remembered that countless creatures swam past her and swam towards the place filled with blood and flesh.

Liu Jing also made eye contact with a giant octopus at the bottom of the sea.

Her arms and legs were weak and her body was cold. Every cell in her body was telling her to run, but as soon as she swam to shore to ask for help from Mr. Wu, she was tied up by a giant octopus and almost fell to the rocks and was smashed into a meat pie. Fortunately, the sickle in her hand saved her life...

Liu Jing told Zhao Yunduo what happened last night without missing a single detail.

The more Zhao Yunduo listened, the more serious his expression became. The monster killed humans in order to feed other aquatic creatures, but why did it feed them?

Shen Linglan in another world conveyed Liu Jing's words to Zhang Shengnan. Zhang Shengnan thought about it, threw the claw she had cut off into the measuring cup, and then took out a river shrimp from the water tank and threw it into the measuring cup.

A terrifying scene appeared. The octopus's claw, which was only as long as a thumb, actually used the only remaining suction cup on its claw to suck the river shrimp. The river shrimp was eaten up in an instant, and even the shell was not left.

Then, I saw that the octopus's claws and feet suddenly doubled in length, and its body length was almost the same as the length of the middle finger.

Now it’s clear why the giant octopus feeds other creatures—it’s feeding itself.

Zhao Yunduo here shared the news with everyone around him.

Wu An's face was also calm. "If that's the case, it looks like the shot I made in its eye last night will heal itself soon."

And the broken claws and feet may have grown back long ago.

Unexpectedly, this giant octopus is more difficult to defeat than they imagined.

Zhang Shengnan in the laboratory stroked the pen in his hand, thought for a while, and said to Shen Linglan: "Miss Shen, I need a lot of seafood, fresh and swimming, and a kind of fish called scavenger fish. The more the better."

Shen Linglan nodded and immediately called Chen Mengxue, asking her to go to the seaside and buy the seafood that had just been caught from the fishermen.

Zhou Xueer stepped into the laboratory at the last second before nine o'clock and bumped into Chen Mengxue who was carrying two large bags.

"Xue'er, take out the water purifier you developed last time."

Zhang Shengnan asked Zhou Xueer to change into work clothes and come to help.

Zhou Xueer took out the water purifier and dripped it on the claws of the giant octopus. Unfortunately, the claws did not react at all.

Zhang Shengnan grabbed another scavenger and threw it into the fish tank.

In order to deal with the giant octopus, Zhang Shengnan was busy all the time. On the other side, Zhao Yunduo and his team were also trying to create an environment to capture the giant octopus.

Those who had already woken up stayed where they were to take care of those who were still asleep. The seven members of the L base, who were able to move freely, followed Zhao Yunduo and walked toward the beach, some holding fishing nets, some holding gasoline, and some holding electric batons.

Those who were awake on the concrete ground found a big rock to lean on. When they watched them walk towards the sea, they suddenly found a fishing boat moored there.

Some people rubbed their eyes, thinking they were seeing things.

"Ah!? Was there a boat when we came here yesterday?"

Although we came at night yesterday, under the moonlight, the sea was clearly visible and there were no ships at all.

"No... Was this ship sent by L Base?"

"How is that possible... an airplane can fly hundreds of kilometers in an hour, can a ship also sail hundreds of kilometers in an hour?"

"And this ship...?"

Connie coughed, interrupting their discussion and stopping the people in his base from talking any further. "Are you crazy? You dare to be curious about the L base?"