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Chapter 394 - 239: Humanity’s Arch-Enemy, High-Quality Obsession

Chapter 394: Chapter 239: Humanity’s Arch-Enemy, High-Quality Obsession

"Phew~"

Brian’s face showed slight fatigue as he exhaled a breath of turbid air.

People who often slaughter pigs know that slaughtering pigs is easy, but cutting pork is tiresome.

Benjamin was just like this pig.

To be precise, he was a monster, a real monster!

When Brian was dismembering Benjamin’s body, he surprisingly found that this guy had five heads!

Five!!!

Besides the head on Benjamin’s neck, his four tentacles on the back not only had countless suckers and teeth but also brains. Those four brains could even control the sucker-like mouths to mimic cries for mercy.

It was too horrifying.

Beyond that,

Benjamin’s vitality was also exaggeratedly strong.

Brian had already dismembered his limbs and the four tentacles on his back, yet he seemed relieved, except for the initial screams, his current mental state was even better than before.

"What the hell did you transplant?"

Brian shrank in size and kicked Benjamin’s round trunk. "What exactly is the Deep Sea Diver?"

Benjamin spit out a mouthful of blood.

This blood, unlike the previous ones in color, resembled red dye mixed with a bit of blue alien blood, clearly separated and vividly colored.

What was more eerie, following this spit of blood, the previously weakening heartbeat in Benjamin’s body suddenly grew strong and robust again.

That’s not right!

Brian’s ears trembled slightly.

If he hadn’t misheard, this was clearly a new beating heart inside Benjamin, supplying blood, maintaining his fragile lifeforce!

This made Brian even more curious about Benjamin’s transplantation of mutant beast organs.

This thing, it’s very much like an octopus.

..

Seeing Benjamin remain silent, Brian tentatively asked, "Did you transplant a tentacle of a Mutated Octopus, and then got influenced by its brain, forming a symbiotic relationship?"

Brian liked watching "Animal Planet" and knew a bit about octopuses, these strange creatures.

Octopuses are short-lived species in the ocean, living only two to three years, but they have peculiar structures.

They have nine heads, eight tentacles, three hearts, blue blood...

The tentacles are filled with sensory nerves and an independent brain, which possesses its own memory and cognitive ability. The tentacle cells also carry pigment cells, rainbow cells...

Well.

These little creatures are smart. They can use shells and other tools to enhance their survival abilities and mimic the surrounding environment’s color in less than a second using their well-developed nerves, hiding from danger.

This mechanism is even quicker and more colorful than a chameleon, almost capable of mimicking any color.

Changing color to perfectly blend into the surroundings is one thing.

Their nine brains can control the body’s muscles, blending both shape and color genuinely with the environment.

This advanced biological concealment allows octopuses to evade danger and hunt by disguising themselves.

Besides,

Octopus tentacles can regenerate, similar to a lizard’s tail. Should they face unavoidable danger, they can also squirt ink to obscure the predator’s vision.

Oh, and they have venom sacs inside.

All sorts of tricks.

What’s outrageous is that they can form memories of the environments and dangers they have experienced.

Scientists have conducted experiments.

They placed octopuses in underwater mazes, and after an initial exploration, the time it took them to navigate through on subsequent tries significantly decreased.

This means they have real memories.

Also, if they place an experimented octopus with another that hasn’t been part of the experiment, and then let them go through the experiment together, the new octopus will simply follow the first one...

This suggests that they can communicate simply, even passing on experience to their kind.

In human society, these creatures are turned into skewers and takoyaki, considered delicacies, and some people even like to eat octopuses raw, enjoying the stimulation of them squirming in their throat and trachea.

Of course, eating them raw is not only cruel but also risky as it could lead to choking, with fools losing their lives to this yearly.

From the perspective of an average person, octopuses are just peculiarly shaped, edible creatures.

But from a biologist’s view, octopuses are strange and perfect creatures, almost like they don’t belong on Earth.

What allows humans, who are not physically top-notch across the animal kingdom, to dominate the planet?

One is the ability to think, to use tools.

The other is the transmission of knowledge.

Octopuses can do both.

But their only problem is their short lifespan.

Once octopuses mate, male octopuses either get eaten by the female or sever their third mating tentacle and leave it inside the female, then die from starvation.

As for the female octopuses, they also die by suiciding after the fertilized eggs hatch.

That is to say,

Every born octopus is essentially born an orphan sage.

They are denied the transmission of knowledge and must rely on luck and experience to start afresh with the most primitive survival.

This means an inability to pass on civilization, difficulties in the gathering of groups, high mortality rates among newborns...

All in all, none of these are favorable for the species’ evolution.

The reproductive characteristics of octopuses, unique in the global animal kingdom, are almost like an invisible shackle, limiting the extension of their lifespan, the transmission of knowledge and experience...