Next to a reef in the sea, a pergola made of coconut leaves is the temporary royal palace of the Octopus Empire, where the Kingdom Council is taking place.

Twelveclaw was silent for a while after listening to the replies and suggestions from the two scouting octopuses.

"The king, the minister seconded the proposal, the human beings here are so stupid, it is time for us to lead this world!" An opus, a minister, waved his eight claws and said excitedly.

The other octopuses were also talking one by one, and for a while, under the pergola, the crowd was excited.

"If we want to rule over humans, we must solve the problem of going ashore to breathe," some octopus ministers have already begun to plan the next step, "This world seems to be a low-magic world, many octopuses have lost the ability to breathe on shore, and we need to change our genes to evolve shore breathing organs." ”

"Quiet, quiet," Twelveclaw, waving his stout wrists, "what did I say to you before?" What is the 12-word motto of our octopus empire? ”

The octopuses calmed down, and an old octopus said tentatively: "Tell the truth, do the honest chapter, do the honest thing?" ”

"That's right, the elder answered well, even if the world is different, we can't deviate from this policy, and now what you are saying is in line with this twelve-character proverb?" Twelveclaw said earnestly.

At this time, the two octopus armors in the scouting octopus hurriedly defended themselves.

"King, we're telling the truth, the humans we see are just stupid and stupid, and they don't even have basic scientific literacy."

"Oh, according to the teachings of Teacher Tianshu, you are making the mistake of generalizing, you did not see a sufficient number of human beings, you only saw a few fishermen in a remote place, and you defined the entire human race by this, that is obviously wrong. And do you know where we are? Twelvepaw said calmly.

"I don't know." The eight claws of the octopus armor were already drooping, and he replied weakly.

"We've only solved the problem of survival now, built a large fishing ground, but we have lost our previous mysterious power, just a group of octopuses with ordinary strength, it's okay to deal with those large sea beasts, but if we want to launch a conquest operation against the humans on the shore, it's simply impossible. How many octopuses are still able to land for a long time? There is not one out of a thousand. Twelvepaw laid out that information.

The octopus minister who took the lead in proposing "octopus lungs" just now took the opportunity to say: "What does the king mean that as long as we solve these problems, we can launch a conquest of mankind?" ”

The Twelve Claws were silent, it finally found that it could not fully control its own kingdom, at this time, it missed the Heavenly Book Teacher very much, and the other party would definitely be able to give it an answer.

"Why do you have to conquer humanity?" It decided to first understand the minds of these subordinates.

"After conquering humans, we won't have to spend money to buy jars in the future......" said an octopus as a matter of course.

"But humanity will resist, and they will choose non-violence and non-cooperation." Twelvepaw retorted.

"Then give them violence." The octopus was vibrating.

"......" Twelveclaw said with a headache, it was originally just an octopus that wanted to stay quiet, and it was really a bit out of control when it came to such a topic, "This human occupies the land, we occupy the sea, and everyone seems to be able to live in peace." ”

"Your Majesty, you are too honest," a powerful octopus shook his head, "once humans develop, they will pollute the sea like earthlings, leaving us with nowhere to settle down, and future generations will have to eat fish full of plastic...... Therefore, even if we do not compete with them for land, sooner or later we will be unlucky. Rather than that, it is better to strike first. The sages of mankind said that the first striker controls man, and the last mover controls man. ”

"That's right, the king, you can't give up the current great opportunity because of your previous friendship."

"That's right, earthlings are earthlings, this world is this world, the opportunity cannot be lost, and it will never come again."

The crowd was crowded, and the twelve claws were dizzy, and for the first time it found that its people were all so ambitious? Don't they like to drill jars the most?

"Since you want jars that don't cost money, why don't you make them yourself, we have 8 hands, and we can make them faster and better." Twelveclaw said.

"Well, we can make our own jars, but we absolutely can't trust humans, they will endanger us sooner or later."

"Well, not really. I remember that there are also many good people among the human race. Twelveclaw insisted.

"Your Majesty, you'll be slapped in the face soon." An old octopus shook its head.

Obviously, without his extraordinary strength, the authority of the king of the twelve claws has decreased a lot, and in the past, there were not so many voices that dared to question it face to face.

The previous twelve claws could run away if they couldn't beat it. Now, there are about a hundred of them that have been caught.

At this moment, three octopuses swam all the way to the pergola of the sea.

"Oh no, the king is not good, the batch of big pearls we have just collected with great effort have been deceived by humans!" The three octopuses cried bitterly.

"What the hell is going on, tell me more about it?" Twelveclaw asked.

"That's right......," one of the octopuses began.

The story is simple: in order to buy wood for shipbuilding and rope for building fishing grounds, they agreed with a group of fishermen to pay for the bills with pearls.

However, the fishermen said that they were too poor to afford wood and had to pay a deposit to order the goods.

So these young octopuses, who had been nurtured by the twelve-clawed to be honest people, listened to their sincerity and believed them......

In the end, they waited and waited, and a month had passed since the delivery date, and no one came.

It wasn't until I met another group of fishermen, and heard their envious comments, that I realized that the group of fishermen who had taken their pearls had gone to the big city with them to enjoy their blessings, and had not received them at all.

In fact, this seemingly simple scam is still often fooled by humans in the 21st century, let alone them.

So it's really not to blame these octopuses for being stupid.

"Sure enough, these damn humans are a bunch of liars in their bones, not at all like us, even smart and honest, and God will punish human ......beings," said an octopus indignantly.

Twelveclaw looked at this guy with disdain, what an honest octopus? It's not much at all, it's just one in the first place.

It said seriously: "Don't generalize, there are bad guys in human beings, there are evil chapters in octopuses, we have to identify those with high reputation, Teacher Tianshu said, trade is like this, develop 10 trade objects, and then screen out 1-2 of them who can stick to their reputation, long-term cooperation, and slowly cultivate trust." This is the first cooperation, this is normal, the next time it is divided into small batches of transactions, only one pearl will be given each time, so that the loss will be small. ”

When the three octopuses heard this, they sneered: "Yes, what the king said is that this time we were lazy and directly gave them a lot of deposits, next time we won't, we will trade with those humans separately." ”

"Your Majesty, you have to get an idea, what are we going to do now?" An octopus minister urged.

"Well, we still have to insist on self-development, moderately carry out exchanges and trade with humans, and at the same time look for land to explore other places, rather than rashly launching wars of conquest." Twelveclaw decided.

"The king is wise." A group of octopuses looked at each other and felt that this decision was not wrong for the time being.

After all, if the problem of going ashore is not solved, they are like the navy, it is impossible to occupy land, only to grasp sea power.

After the Kingdom Council ended, the octopus ministers departed.

One of them, a red octopus, and a blue octopus, walked together. Octopuses are very capable of mimicry, and no one knows what color they are originally.

After a long way away from the pergola at sea, the two octopuses began to discuss.

"Our king is no longer suitable for this world, we need to change the king." The red octopus was the first to speak.

"Yes, it has lost its former strength, and it lacks a positive and enterprising mentality, which is not conducive to the development of our octopus family." The blue octopus wiggles a brachiopod.

"It's still very useful for the time being, after all, its strength is still very large, let it take the position of this king first, and then we will replace it after this early stage of development." Red Octopus continued.

"Well, it wasn't originally born in the big octopus tribe, it's just a wandering chapter, it used to be powerful on the earth, it spoke. Now this world is different, we have to rely on our brains, we have to rely on ferocity, and we must change a cunning and fierce octopus to be the king, so that our octopus clan can become the ruler of the world. The blue octopus suggested.

"That's right, we're going to contact the former tribal octopus leader separately, and I think there's one guy who fits well." Red Octopus agreed.

A coup plot in the Octopus Kingdom began to brew.

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