Scarcity is expensive.

A rare thing like a prehistoric octopus is worth collecting even if it is not delicious.

Elephant trunks, bear's feet, abalone, shark fins, bird's nests, these things don't have any taste. When it's well processed, it's delicious.

Who can guarantee that the meat of the sea monster will not be the best, the best, the king?

The sky gradually brightened, the faint morning mist dissipated in the sunlight, and the line of sight expanded from a hundred meters to the beach a few hundred meters away, and several figures were clearly visible.

Yesterday, Xu Si came to answer with the base's manpower, obeyed Yongchang's order to stand by, and camped on the beach last night.

But they didn't do nothing, when a dozen people pushed a few small boats into the water, he found that there were two boats with machine guns, all of them carrying guns, carrying knives, and hanging * on their waists, fully armed, majestic, and a little strong.

Five small boats rowed in a cross formation towards the sailboat, and two heavy machine guns lined up on either side, crossing to cover the flotilla's advance. Except for the rowers, the rest of the fighters scanned the lake vigilantly.

The small flotilla followed the sand bank, through the gap in the river into the sea, and approached the sailboats. Yongchang did not get off the boat, and continued to be vigilant about the surrounding sea.

The soldiers of the three squads were left with only four defensive bases, and now Yongchang has thirteen strong laborers to use, and more than twenty women will also come to participate in the transportation after breakfast, and it seems that yesterday's battle situation has fallen into the eyes of the soldiers.

In their opinion, this is nothing more than a great harvest after another battle victory.

Yongchang vaguely sensed that the sea monsters would not stop there, and they might just lie in ambush under the sand layer of the seabed and wait for a sneak attack.

He arranged for six fighters to set up a machine-gun position on the sand bank, two men operated the guns, two men supplied ammunition, and each group was equipped with one person to throw*.

Two Makqins, one to defend the sea and the other to defend the fjord, and to be on the safe side, Yongchang brought twenty* from the warriors who carried the food, and if the sea monsters outflanked the attack, he would be a humanoid rapid-fire cannon.

The loading went smoothly, Yongchang cut the tentacles into two or three meters, threw them into the water in sections, and then asked people to connect the meat with a rope, and finally dragged it to the beach by boat, saving effort and trouble.

The fleet turned into a long snake formation, with three tugboats with long meat skewers walking in the middle, and two fire support boats with machine guns one after the other, guarding against the sea monsters and sharks and crocodiles.

The raft was led by a rope and hung at the rear. Yongchang himself walked on the sand bank and followed the team.

When the fleet had just reached the mouth of the river twenty or thirty meters wide, Yongchang had not had time to cross the raft to the opposite bank, and the mutation protruded.

Countless tentacles suddenly rose on both sides of the sand bank, and looking at the skin covered with yellow and white spots, Yongchang suddenly realized another identity of the octopus: a master of disguise.

Octopuses can change color at will to blend in perfectly with their surroundings, so even if you look at them from a boat, you can't spot them, but you don't know that they are lying generously at your feet all the time. It's like a puddle of sand, just waiting for their mortal enemies to disembark, and then launch a deadly attack.

Most of the attacks were directed at Yongchang, a highly intelligent creature that would obviously hold grudges. Yongchang, who killed and injured them a little, aroused their hatred, and they must be dealt with quickly.

And the sea monster actually ambushes and knows how to outflank. Five or six octopuses sneaked into the fjord, and they made a detour from the estuary, and at this point, the fleet of dozens of meters was caught in an ambush circle of sea monsters.

A tugboat was caught off guard by tentacles and overturned in the water, and the three people on board were instantly swallowed by the current, and the machine gunners in front and behind the team reacted, and the two chains of fire were like the scythes of death, sweeping towards the tentacles and huge heads protruding from the water.

Heavy machine gun bullets have a huge inertia, hitting the octopus tentacles can tear it in two, the huge octopus head is a target that can be easily aimed, a shot is a big hole, but unfortunately the bullet of one or two shots in the past is not killed, leaving only the howl of the monster.

Yongchang was surrounded by more than a dozen octopuses, and the machine gun did not dare to shoot at him, so he had to turn around and run in the direction of the sailboat.

He can swim slightly faster than an octopus, but his tentacles are fast, like a forest of flesh-arms that shrouds him.

He could only swing the knife with one hand and keep throwing it behind him with the other*.

"Boom, boom", the sea monsters were blown up, the pursuers stopped, and Yongchang had time to observe the situation.

On both sides of the sand bank behind him, the ground was full of blood, and the corpses of two sea monsters were floating quietly inside, and there were also several seriously injured or dead corpses outside the embankment, the flesh was blurred, dragged by other octopuses, and dived towards the deep water.

On the other side of the estuary, there is also a monster corpse floating, and the dead and wounded octopus outside the embankment is nowhere to be seen, and it is estimated that it has been dragged away by the same kind.

While the team members were on alert, they sent people to jump out of the boat to rescue the team members who had fallen into the water, two tugboats had capsized, and five people were knocked into the water in the attack of monsters.

It only took a few minutes to fight, but it was like the end of the world, leaving behind scattered stumps and huge corpses. Dead fish floating on the surface of the water can cover half an acre of square area. The sinister and cunning monsters left with one blow, and it is estimated that they have also been hit hard.

After greeting Guo Yingjie, the boat answered him across the estuary, and returned to the sand bank, the team members who fell into the water have also been salvaged, five people fell into the water, only four were fished up, and three of the four people who came up quickly woke up, only one person was still in a coma and was placed on the sand bank.

"Report to the eldest brother, Yan Yijian has not been found, the other team members who fell into the water have been transferred to the shore, and the two tugboats capsized and are being salvaged, please instruct the eldest brother." Liu Yang, who organized the rescue, reported to Yongchang.

Yongchang frowned, he knew that the former sailor from Shandong was slightly injured when the ship first came, and later let him be arranged in the logistics group, when Yongchang readjusted the team, Yan Yijian took the initiative to join the combat team and was assigned to Zhang Baixiong's combat class.

Now you can't find a human figure, under the clear water, you can see a range of tens of meters, once you are dragged to the depths of the fjord by the injured big octopus, it is more than lucky.

No one would think that they would survive after falling into the water and disappearing for so long, and Yongchang also had no hope for the missing soldiers, and the best case scenario was to find the sea monster hiding in the fjord and snatch the body back.

Yongchang left a fire support boat and blocked the estuary, while another small boat escorted the salvaged boat continued to form a flotilla and land on the seashore. He was to return the wounded to their lair, and the remaining team was to clear the fjord of trapped sea monsters.

Three tugboats soon reached the shore, and the women had already come to carry them.

More than two dozen people brought all kinds of tools. The black bear and the ocelot also followed, staring at the huge corpse in the water in a daze.

The ocelot is only equipped with a scimitar and can only stand on the shore and watch.

Leaving the wounded and fish to logistics, the combat team was divided into two groups, four people rowed a fire support boat to meet Yongchang, and the remaining team members took the three team members who had recovered from falling into the water to stand guard on the shore. The other women began their busy moves.

The remaining three drove to the shore near the sand bank to prevent the sea monsters from crawling in and attacking.

Yongchang had only seven people around him, two small boats, two heavy machine guns, and more than fifty guns*. He kept thirty * for himself, leaving more than twenty for the machine-gun positions defending the entrance to the sea.

On the sand bank at the mouth of the sea, four fighters formed a weak defensive line, two men operated machine guns, and two were responsible for dropping bombs.

Yongchang began to pursue the fjord with two small boats, one boat was equipped with three people, two people operated guns, one rowed, Yongchang himself sat in a boat, hung behind, he was responsible for throwing bombs.

The depth of the water in the fjord is only a few meters, and the boat only flipped on its side when it fell into the water just now, because it was close to the sand bank, the water depth was less than one meter, and several people flipped over with a lot of force.

The warrior who fell into the water, if he was not dragged away by the sea monster, would not be in any danger in waist-deep water, and the only warrior who fell unconscious was probably hit by the tentacles that smashed into his body. As for what specific damage he suffered, he can only wait for Yan Yijian to be snatched back first and then checked.

Thousands of acres of fjords are just baths for sea monsters, and it is difficult to hide their tracks and there is no way to escape.

Yongchang half-squatted on the boat to maintain his balance, threw his arm out hard, and threw it more than 100 meters away, making a muffled sound under the water, splashing more than ten meters high. At the same time as him, on the sand bank, the team members on the beach were also throwing bombs into the water, and for a while, the water surface was boiling and the sound was endless.

The Kraken was probably frightened by the explosion, and saw a few waves pointing straight at the swamp, and then three deep indentations appeared between the swamp and grass, as obvious as a carbon rod drawing a line on a white paper.

Obviously, the octopus's head is big enough, but its wisdom is not enough, and in a panic, it fled to a swamp only two or three meters deep, trying to hide in the aquatic grass.

It's a pity that they are not small fish, their bodies are too large, they move slowly under the entanglement of aquatic plants, and their bulging heads are still exposed, making them very eye-catching targets.

The boat gave chase as fast as the heavy machine gun rang out, and the Grim Reaper's scythe began to reap the monster's life again.

Yongchang threw seven or eight * in a row, and each sea monster had a share of two or three melons.

So, the sea monsters cupped, and there were six large octopus carcasses floating in the fjord, but so much food did not attract guests, the sharks had long since fled, and the crocodiles did not dare to show their heads.

Before and after, Yongchang killed at least a dozen large octopuses killed by machine guns.

In the distance, the roar of a sea monster could be heard in the sea.

Afraid of * and the power of the bullets, they dare not get closer, but they want to snatch back the corpses of their kind, so they can only threaten from afar.

From their roars, Yongchang could hear pain and anger, and through the telescope, Yongchang could also see dozens of huge black balls lying on the surface of the water, and it seemed that the sea monsters had come to reinforcements last night, far more than twenty.

Yongchang felt numb in his heart, and placed the two Makqin on the sand bank to defend, and sent people to step up the hauling of the carcass of the big octopus, and to retreat before the high tide.

The beach is full of fish, and the six big octopuses are like six mountains of meat, ugly and hideous, exuding an unpleasant fishy smell. The heads were dissected, and the black liquid flowed on the sand, and it stinked.

In the bodies of the three octopuses that escaped into the swamp, Yongchang finally finds his missing brother. His body was intact, his skin was purple and black, and there were blood clots on his thighs from machine gun bullet piercings, it seemed that he should have suffocated to death first, and then swallowed by a large octopus.

In the duel between man and beast, more than a dozen sea monsters died, one dead and one injured in the base, and Yongchang was also beaten enough, which was considered a defeat for both.

In the end, it ended with the victory of the weak human race, and dozens of tons of fish and meat were harvested, which was regarded as the dividend of the war.

However, this is only a temporary truce, and it is estimated that the sea monsters will not give up, and dozens of big heads are still wandering in the deep sea, peeking at the crowd.

Yongchang could only rest the idea of exploring the coastline, and first led the men and women of the base to carry food and return to the lair.

After experiencing a life-and-death duel, I was so tired.