Chapter 11: Octopus

The length of the icebreaker is two hundred meters, and the width is forty meters. The deck area is close to two standard football fields, and the island occupies less than a tenth of the area. If it weren't for the special shape, this strange icebreaker would have been considered a light aircraft carrier.

Zhao Fei has already instructed everyone to move all the important equipment in the base onto the icebreaker, including most of the solar power generation equipment, the only wind power generation equipment, electronic equipment, etc., and even the kitchen has been moved to the icebreaker, and a lot of useless sundries on the icebreaker have also been thrown into the sea.

Only one member was left on the Ice Dragon Base, Ouyang Ji. As an invertebrate zoologist and geneticist, Ouyang Ji developed a keen interest in various mutated marine organisms and decided to find suitable mutated genes for research and benefit mankind.

Although Zhao Fei is also an expert in biological genes, she is only interested in the natural evolutionary advantage genes of pure humans, and of course occasionally accepts the advantage genes that are compatible with humans, such as the recovery genes provided by Ouyang Ji.

Ouyang Ji, who wanted to move the laboratory to the icebreaker, was unanimously disliked by everyone, and Zhao Fei couldn't stand Ouyang Ji's heavy taste, so he resolutely stopped Ouyang Ji's actions. As a result, Ouyang Ji became the only resident of the Ice Dragon Base.

In addition to the cultivation of grains and the ice dragon base, Zhang Le also moved the vegetable cultivation to the deck of the icebreaker.

In addition to eating and sleeping, the daily activities of several women are to bask in the sun and grow some vegetables and flowers.

In addition to guarding and sentry, the security personnel either chatted and farted or caught fish. Catching fish is Ouyang Ji's task, after all, the personnel of the Ice Dragon Base have to serve scientific research activities, and it can be regarded as leisure work, and several people handed over the strange fish they caught to Ouyang Ji for research.

The temperature of the sea is getting higher and higher, and there are more and more organisms in the water. It is estimated that this is the reason for the greater concentration of marine life, and the life in the sea is becoming more and more aggressive.

You can often see a huge splash in the sea water on the side of the boat, and you are glad that you are riding a heavy and tall icebreaker.

Another afternoon, Zhang Le saw an octopus with tentacles of six or seven meters wrapped around a bottlenose dolphin three or four meters long, and the waves of the two big men fighting in the sea were enough to overturn the small fishing boat.

Zhang Le kind of understood why there were no fishermen and boats in the sea. Even if there were humans living on the nearby land, they would not dare to come to the ocean, because the huge ocean had become a hunting ground for mutated creatures.

It is clear that this dolphin has not mutated, and one of the dolphins' food is squid, and it is very experienced in dealing with these tentacle monsters. However, it was a mutated octopus, and the tip of the tentacle seemed to have a cat's claw-like barb, and soon the dolphin's outer skin was scratched out of the bloody holes.

Zhang Le is particularly fond of dolphins, especially bottlenose dolphins, which are not only docile, naughty and cute, but also friendly to humans.

In addition to some ordinary thermal weapons, the Ice Dragon Base also has a lot of cold weapons such as crossbow guns and fish-shooting javelins. These cold weapons have barbs on the end of the weapon and a carbon fiber rope attached to the handle, which can be retracted after hitting the target, making them a good helper for fishing.

Li Jun and several of his security guards preferred to use crossbow guns, while Zhang Le, who had amazing strength, preferred javelins.

Seeing that the dolphin was gradually losing to the octopus's attack, Zhang Le roared and shot the javelin at the moment when the octopus and the dolphin were staggered.

A low muffled roar came, and the base of the octopus's tentacles was pierced by a thick javelin, no way, Zhang Le's strength was indeed too great.

Zhang Le has already controlled his strength, but he didn't expect it to be a little miscalculated, carbon fiber is not only slender, but also tough, if the prey breaks free, it can cause the prey to be cut directly by the carbon fiber, if it is not a fatal position, the prey will easily escape.

Fortunately, Zhang Le's eyes were quick, and he immediately grabbed the handle at this end of the carbon fiber and quickly pulled the javelin back. The handle is attached to the railing on the side of the ship to prevent the prey from taking away the javelin.

The javelin hooked the octopus again, and was quickly put away by Zhang Le. The bottlenose dolphin broke away from the octopus's entanglement and did not leave, but circled around the hooked octopus in a large circle. With the exception of a few predators at the top of the food chain, mischievous dolphins have no fear of other creatures in the sea.

Although the giant octopus was infinitely powerful, it could not compete with Zhang Le's brute strength, and the poor octopus was dragged around by Zhang Ledong, and finally was tossed to death. Dolphins spinning in circles chirp in joy.

Zhao Fei, who had been watching the play on the side, asked Zha Xiaoxia to go to the laboratory on the icebreaker to get a set of blowpipe anesthesia needles.

Zhang Le hit the target with one move, and the octopus that was blown with an anesthetic needle really quieted down.

The sleeping big octopus was thrown to the ground of the ice dragon base by Zhang Le, and he told Dr. Ouyang Ji about the capture of the mutant octopus through the walkie-talkie.

After a while, Ouyang Ji came over with a small laboratory cart with an excited face.

Although the icebreaker has advanced detection equipment, the icebreaker still stops at night to rest.

Fresh from dinner, everyone watched the sunset over the border of the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean in the sea breeze.

Suddenly, Ouyang Ji's hurried roar came from Zhang Le's walkie-talkie: "Xiao Zhang, hurry up and turn on the detection system of the icebreaker, we are afraid that we will provoke a big guy." Ouyang Ji's shouting quickly attracted the attention of Li Jun and the others.

Zhang Le asked strangely, "Are you talking about the octopus?" Does he still have a companion? ”

Ouyang Ji sighed and shouted: "Companion, haha, do you know how old that octopus is, it's only three weeks, three weeks, I'm afraid it's its mother here." ”

When Zhang Le heard this, his hands shook in fright, and he almost threw the walkie-talkie on the ground.

"A three-week-old octopus is six or seven meters long, and if it's three years, I'll rely on it." After Zhang Le scolded, he suddenly came to his senses and shouted, "Dr. Ouyang, quickly throw away the octopus, Li Jun, you go to help, I'll turn on the alarm system." After speaking, Zhang Le rushed to the console of the ship island like a bolt of lightning.

Half an hour later, the icebreaker Litchi slowly started again. Li Jun cut the anesthetized octopus into several large pieces and threw it into the sea.

The weather at sea is changing, and I don't know when, the sky is full of clouds, and occasionally there is a dull thunder.

The detection system was turned on to its maximum power, and the large and small creatures within a radius of twenty kilometers were invisible in the display. After Zhao Fei heard about this, he also rushed to the console of the ship island and took over the command of the operation.

"Li Jun, Wang Daqing, Chen Zhiming, Wang Zhigao, go to the arsenal and get two shoulder-fired rocket launchers, the more grenades, the better, Zhang Le, prepare more hunting fish javelins, Zha Xiaoxia, go to the laboratory and get more blowpipe anesthesia needles." Zhao Fei commanded calmly.

The sound of clicking and pulling sounded overhead, and a huge forked lightning bolt lit up Zhang Le's eyes, followed by hail the size of a bean grain mixed with dense raindrops smashing on his head.

Fortunately, the wind is not too strong, only four or five levels, and the sea at night is as black as ink, undulating with the breaking waves, like an ancient beast.

After Zhang Le fixed the handles of a dozen harpoons to the bolt groove of the deck base, Li Jun and several others also came up from the cabin.

Li Jun and Wang Daqing each carried a domineering rocket launcher, while Chen Zhiming and Wang Zhigao each carried a small bag of grenades.

Ouyang Ji didn't know when he also climbed from the ice dragon base to the icebreaker, and a bunch of people stood by the screen of the ship island console, waiting quietly.

It's not calm under the rough seas, and the game of hunting and fleeing is constantly playing. Whenever there was a large creature, Zhao Fei would immediately close the screen to watch, fortunately it was all sharks and whales and the like.

Chen Zhiming waited a little impatiently, and said, "Dr. Ouyang, isn't it a little too much of a fuss, how many children does an octopus have, can it take care of it?" Maybe it just forgot about this little octopus? ”

Ouyang Ji listened to Chen Zhiming questioning his professional judgment, and his face was a little unbearable, but he finally cultivated himself well, and explained slowly: "The current matter cannot be inferred by common sense, originally this area is not particularly suitable for the growth of octopuses, isn't there also octopuses?" Under normal circumstances, the octopus lays 100,000 eggs each time, if there are 100,000 descendants of such a large octopus, there will be no other species in the entire ocean, so such a large juvenile octopus must be extremely rare, and there will be a female octopus near the newborn octopus, and now that the baby octopus is dead, the large octopus will definitely come to attack us, you know, the IQ of the octopus is still very high. ”

As if to verify Ouyang Ji's crow's beak, the alarm system once again alerted a large creature nearby.

Zhao Fei zoomed in again, and the detection system outlined the shape of the creature, which was like the shape of an octopus, according to preliminary calculations, it was more than twenty-five meters.

Everyone was silent and looked at each other, except for Zhao Fei and Zhang Le, all of them were pale.

At this moment, the door was opened with a bang, and Zha Xiaoxia and Zhuge Chen walked in one after the other.

Zha Xiaoxia shouted: "Sister Fei, the anesthetic needle has been brought, and Sister Chen has also brought an explosion-proof net gun." The beeping alarm was getting louder and louder, and the giant octopus was rapidly approaching the icebreaker.

Zhuge Chen saw the fast-moving black shadow on the screen and shouted in surprise: "Oh my God, it's really a giant octopus." ”

Ouyang Ji kept nodding his head on the side, as if he was very satisfied with Zhuge Chen's surprise, and said, "Look, I'm right, if there is an octopus, there will be an octopus." ”

Everyone glanced at Ouyang Ji speechlessly, not knowing what to say.

Zhao Feiqiang held back his anger and commanded: "Li Jun, Wang Daqing, you two go to the lookout, be responsible for the shoulder-mounted rocket launcher, and choose the opportunity to launch." Zhang Le, you are responsible for shooting with a javelin, and you have all the grenades. Zha Xiaoxia and I are responsible for firing the anesthetic needle, Zhuge Chen, change into your sniper rifle and attack the octopus's eyes. The rest of the people guard the hatch, don't make a mess, and close the hatch at the critical moment. ”

In ten minutes, the octopus was less than 15 kilometers away from the icebreaker "Lychee".

The watchtower is the highest position on the ship, topped with a rain shelter. Zhang Le, Zhuge Chen, Li Jun, and Wang Daqing all stayed on it, weapons in hand, ready to fight.

The icebreaker has stopped, the lights are all out, and the alarm is turned off. Except for Zhang Le, Zhuge Chen, Zhao Fei and Zha Xiaoxia, the others all wore night vision glasses.

Zhang Le was wearing a black tight-fitting leather pants with bionic wings folded behind him.

Zhao Fei and Zha Xiaoxia stayed on the command platform and continued to grasp the whereabouts of the giant octopus through the screen of the detection system.

Time seemed to have become extremely long, and everyone held their breath only to hear the hail rain hitting the hull of the ship and the sound of the waves crashing against the icebreaker.

"Meow", there was a dull roar from afar, and Zhang Le felt that his heart seemed to beat with it.

If a creature is large enough to be powerful, that power alone can make people feel terrified.