Chapter 140 Cruel Fish

The black-skinned scavengers ate nearly all the mutated aquatic animals in the fish tank.

Zhang Shengnan picked up one and dissected it for study. She found that the pathogens carried by aquatic animals remained far less in the body of the scavenger than in other aquatic animals.

Then, she threw fresh and clean shells, river shrimps and other things into a measuring cup containing a piece of octopus claw. Just like before, the claw used the suction cup to suck up all the things.

However, those things did not make its claws bigger or longer, but instead made its movements seem slower.

Shen Linglan was dazzled by what she saw, but Zhang Shengnan and Zhou Xueer, who were conducting experiments, were carrying out the dissection, testing and observation in an orderly manner.

Zhang Shengnan used an extremely thin pair of tweezers to fiddle with an octopus claw for a while, then cut off a small piece of tissue. The remaining section quickly shrank into a ball and lost its vitality.

Seeing the black mass, Zhang Shengnan raised her head and said to Shen Linglan, "I just cut off the part of the giant octopus that was full of bacteria, and it looked like it was dead. It seems that it grows on bacteria in aquatic animals and plants."

"ah!?"

This result surprised both Shen Linglan and Zhao Yunduo.

"Also," Zhang Shengnan glanced at the black ink oozing out of the octopus's claws and feet, and said, "It uses its own ink to heal its wounds. Of course, its blood is also black."

After learning about the habits of the giant octopus, Zhao Yunduo looked at the sea water without a single living thing, and the panic in his heart was swept away, but he gradually came to his senses.

She steered the fishing boat towards the southern waters. The closer they got, the darker the water became.

According to Zhang Shengnan's information, it can be inferred that after the giant octopus encountered them, it was first shot in the eye by Wu An, then burned by fire, and its claws and feet were cut off. This ordeal caused it to suffer heavy injuries, and the cost of healing was also exposing its position to the enemy.

Zhao Yunduo's eyes fell on everyone's faces, "Be alert, the giant octopus is nearby."

Having said that, Zhao Yunduo took out an iron bucket from the fishing boat.

She squatted in front of the iron bucket and did nothing, but scavengers kept falling into the bucket.

"Why is this fish also black? Is it a loach?"

After the apocalypse, the scavengers disappeared. Perhaps they were killed by germs, or perhaps they were eliminated by the apocalyptic environment.

Anyway, Kong Liang didn't know what this thing was, and asked curiously, "Can it be grilled and eaten?"

Zhao Yunduo slapped his hand off the bucket, and when the bucket was full of scavengers, she said to him, "You can't eat them. Pour them over the stern of the fishing boat."

"oh!"

Kong Liang picked up the bucket and walked obediently to the stern.

There were four full buckets of scavenger, and Shen Linglan brought over another bag full of miscellaneous seafood. Zhou Micheng and Kong Liang each held a corner of the sack and poured all the seafood into the seabed.

There are no animals on the seabed, but scavengers will go looking for them. And those seafood can confuse the giant octopus. Since it grows and heals itself by eating contaminated seafood, let it eat some clean seafood to prolong its healing time.

Fishing boats use fish finders to follow the schools of scavenger fish from a distance.

As the fishing boat got farther and farther away from the coast and closer and closer to the ocean, the people on the plane couldn't help but get nervous. "The fishing boat... looks so big, will it be overturned by the giant octopus all of a sudden..."

"I don't know, but I believe her." Wu An said.

The gun in his hand was always pointed at the sea. Seeing him like this, the others did not dare to relax at all.

The fishing boat followed the scavenger fish and went deeper into the seabed. The water became darker and darker, just like a jar of ink was poured into the sea.

Zhao Yunduo took out all the water purifiers from the space, a total of sixty bottles.

Most of it was sent from Shen Linglan just now - Zhou Xueer took out all the purifiers.

Zhao Yunduo distributed water purifiers to everyone on the boat. Everyone had a dozen bottles of purifiers in their hands. Connie exclaimed that it was such a luxury.

"This is a high-concentration purifier. Every time the fishing boat advances 100 meters, it pours a bottle of purifier into the sea."

"receive!"

Just as he finished speaking, he saw two or three scavengers being slung from the sea onto the boat by a red and white claw. The scavengers struggled and rolled twice on the boat, and then gradually rolled their eyes.

"Just as Professor Zhang expected... giant octopuses don't eat scavengers." Shen Linglan also stared at the scene here and couldn't help but sigh.

Not only does the giant octopus not eat the scavenger fish, the scavenger fish also eat its food. No wonder the giant octopus could not help but start clearing out the scavenger fish. There are already more than a dozen scavengers lying on the sea with their bellies facing up, and it is obvious that they have lost their lives.

But the giant octopus even slapped them onto the boat, as if to warn Zhao Yunduo and the others.

A bottle of water purifier was poured into the sea without a drop left, and the octopus's claws that were originally vaguely visible disappeared into the sea again.

The seabed is deep and the water is highly fluid. Unlike rivers, where one bottle of purifier can purify the water of an entire river, to be on the safe side, pour one bottle every 100 meters to ensure that nearby water sources are clean and unpolluted.

The purpose of water purifiers is to ensure that scavengers and other seafood are not contaminated by pathogens carried in the water.

Zhao Yunduo took out the fishing net from the cabin. The fishing net was five kilometers long and could reach a depth of five hundred meters.

She threw the fishing net into the sea, which contained some bait commonly used for fishing. She tied the top of the fishing net to the fishing boat and sailed into the deep sea.

Zhao Yunduo, Zhou Micheng and others lowered their heads to check their diving suits, especially their oxygen equipment.

Everyone gripped their weapons tightly, their hearts pounding - they all knew that this was going to be a difficult battle.

On the other side, Shen Linglan was also not out of the matter. She checked on the Internet and found out that the octopus's natural enemy is the conger eel. She also asked Chen Mengxue to buy all the conger eels in the seafood market. The news just reached Zhao Yunduo's world.

Zhao Yunduo squatted beside the boat and slowly put the conger eel into the sea.

The originally tense scene suddenly became less tense after everyone saw this. They all squatted beside Zhao Yunduo happily and watched her conjure up a conger eel out of thin air. The conger eel rolled in her hand and then jumped into the sea.

Chen Mengxue bought 100 kilograms of conger eels in one go at the seafood market. It took Zhao Yunduo a long time to release them. She looked at the endless sea and sighed, "If the seawater in this world had not been polluted, I would not have dared to release them like this in the past world."

If a 100-pound conger eel is put into the sea, it might become an octopus, a protected animal.

However, now, the priority is to deal with the monster that will kill humans. Ecological balance is not within the scope of human consideration for the time being. After all, with the giant octopus around, ecological balance does not exist.

After releasing about 70 to 80 kilograms of conger eels, the fishing boat suddenly moved twice.

"careful!"

When everyone looked up, they saw an octopus claw hitting the boat. Fortunately, the steel fishing boat was stable enough and they were not overturned.

Wu An on the plane had already aimed at the claw's foot and shot it with a gun.

The claws were about to retract into the sea again. Zhao Yunduo threw a dagger, but because the claws were too long, a part of the tentacles that were still lying on the side of the boat was hit by Zhao Yunduo, and the tentacles were nailed to the plank. The giant octopus actually retracted back abruptly, completely ignoring the black blood that kept flowing down, and even left a part of its claws on the boat.

"It seems that the giant octopus is not only impatient, but also a ruthless fish that can cut off its own limbs."

Zhao Yunduo picked up the claw and passed it to Shen Linglan.