Lance fell asleep.
I don't know if it's because he was just "born". Apart from being hungry, Lance is also very sleepy.
Thinking about it this way, Lance felt that he was really a poor little boy.
No one feeds, no one raises, just the "octopus" on the top of the head looks at him.
And maybe the "octopus" took him as a food reserve.
Lance was a little anxious, so that in his dream, he dreamed that he was escaping from prison, and he regretted why he didn't watch the American TV series "Prison Break".
After waking up, Lance poked his head out of the sea anemone secretly, and he looked around—
The peeled arm and foot were still lying there, and there were no arms, feet and tentacles around. It seemed that Lance was the only one in the coral bone.
Lance breathed a sigh of relief, and swam out of the sea anemone. He swam to the arm, and then seriously crawled around the arm.
Don't complain about why Lance climbed, the reason is very simple, he still can't swim.
The length of this mass of fleshy arms and legs was about one meter, but the height was also about one meter. Langston immediately thought of a way.
In "The Shawshank Redemption", the protagonist uses a poster to block the wall, and then digs a passage behind the poster.
Then he can too!
Thinking of this, Lance pushed the fleshy arm hard until it rolled to the edge of the coral bone, then found a position, and seriously analyzed whether the "octopus" would notice his small movements.
But it turns out that "Octopus" is not always monitoring Lance, as long as Lance does not make a big noise, "Octopus" will not make a move.
Out of caution, Lance swam around the coral bone. After making sure that there was no "octopus" nearby, he went back, hid behind the fleshy arm and foot, and scratched the coral bone "click-click".
Lance didn’t notice that the “octopus” had come back because he was too involved in scratching last time, so he learned his lesson this time. After digging for a while, Lance came out to see if the “octopus” was nearby. After arriving at the figure, go back and continue your escape.
At the same time, Lance kept in mind some of the actions of the hero in "The Shawshank Redemption". Every time he dug up some bone meal and broke coral bones, Lance would spread them evenly around to avoid leaving any traces.
"grunt"
The belly started to growl again.
After going back and forth a few times, Lance basically lost his strength, so he had to get out of the little hole he dug, and then blocked it with the fleshy wrist.
After doing all this, Lance was so tired that he lay directly on the fleshy wrist.
So tired, so hungry.
From "birth" until now, Lance has eaten nothing.
Without energy intake, Lance was delicate and weak, and he would fall down when touched.
Lance lay on the skinned wrist for a while, and finally took a sniff, and found that the fleshy wrist... felt fresh and soft, without the bloody smell he had imagined.
After holding back for a long time, Lance didn't hold back, and lay down and took a bite.
Then, Lance's eyes sparkled.
The meat of this meaty wrist and foot tastes very much like octopus balls, bouncy, not sticky to the teeth at all, and it is full of meat after one bite, which is very satisfying to eat.
Without hesitation, Lance took a second bite, and while chewing the second bite, Lance wagged his tail happily.
But when he was about to take the third bite, Lance stopped his movements.
He looked at this fleshy wrist for a long time, and finally had no choice but to pick it on the edge of the other side, and took a small bite.
Well, after eating, what if the fleshy wrist and foot are a little smaller
While worrying, Lance was thinking about how to eat, so as to fill his stomach while keeping the size of his fleshy arms and feet unchanged.
…
After eating and drinking enough, Lance lay on his back on the sea sand, looking at the blue ocean above, his thoughts gradually drifted away.
The ocean is divided into four layers according to the degree of sunlight exposure, namely the light layer, the low light layer, the deep sea layer and the abyss layer.
Low light is the intersection of sunlight and darkness, and further down it is cold and dark.
Based on his shallow ocean knowledge, Lance guessed that the place where he is staying now should be the junction of the deep sea layer and the abyss layer.
However, this also shows that the mermaid's physique is really strong, and Lance does not feel cold until now.
Just when Lance was thinking wildly, he suddenly felt that the surrounding area was much darker, and then, as expected, a tentacle hung down from the entrance above the coral bone.
Lance: "..."
He stared at the tentacle getting closer and closer to him, and then when the tentacle was one meter away from him, he jumped up and jumped into the sea anemone.
The tentacle stiffened.
The tentacle wobbled, and didn't force it to touch Lance. It turned around and turned towards the meaty arm and leg it was feeding on earlier.
Lance, who was peeping inside the sea anemone, felt his heart tighten and was startled—
Is this "octopus" still a clean freak
The brachiopod meat hasn't been eaten yet, why go to clean it up so early
"ai—ka—"
Lance was in a hurry, as long as the mass of fleshy arms and legs were cleaned up, the "octopus" would definitely find that he was secretly digging a tunnel again.
Lance popped his head out of the sea anemone anxiously, and yelled at the tentacles a few times.
The tentacle, which was about to clean up, paused for a moment. It turned around and "looked" in Lance's direction for a few seconds.
Lance "eyes" it nervously.
It may be that Lance's previous action of repelling it left an impression on it, and the tentacle finally chose to clean up the "meat arms and legs" it had fed before.
Damn, why is this "octopus" so stubborn
Lance looked around anxiously, and finally saw the pearl hidden in the sea anemone—
Isn't this the last time the arm, foot and tentacle stuffed him in order to "comfort" him
Without hesitation, Lance grabbed the fist-sized pearl and threw it towards the tentacles.
"Snapped"
Lance's aim is very good, and he hits it right away.
The tentacle was hit by a pearl, and it finally turned its attention back.
After the pearl hit the tentacles, it fell on the sea sand, emitting a glistening white light.
A fish and a tentacle stared at the pearl at the same time, in a daze.
Lance went all out. In order to prevent the "octopus" from cleaning up the "arms and legs" over there, he swam out of the sea anemone, and uttered a small cry to the tentacles.
That voice sounded very pitiful, pitiful and cute, and it was very distressing.
Obviously, this sound also made the tentacle feel distressed. It didn't specifically clean up the carpal feet, but turned to Lance—if the "octopus" had a heart.
However, the tentacle obviously misunderstood Lance's meaning.
The tentacle wrapped its tail around the pearl and picked it up. Then, under Lance's curious gaze, it threw the pearl towards Lance.
Lance: "..."
The white pearl landed not far from Lance. Lance looked up at the tentacles in the distance, and then at the pearl that landed next to his fish tail.
Lance reluctantly picked up the pearl. He smiled at the tentacle while holding the pearl, and then threw the pearl in the opposite direction to the wrist and foot.
The tentacle was obviously very happy that Lance was willing to interact with it. It immediately went over, picked up the pearl, and then threw it at Lance.
Lance looked at the white pearl coming towards him, feeling overwhelmed.
What scene is this? He's playing "ball toss" with a tentacle
This time, Lance caught the pearl expressionlessly, then threw the pearl in one direction at will, letting the tentacles pick it up by themselves.
Sure enough, the tentacle immediately went to pick it up, and this time, the tentacle was a little more careful:
After picking up the pearl, the tentacles wrapped around the pearl, and instead of throwing it towards Lance immediately, it wrapped around the pearl and tentatively moved towards Lance.
Seeing the tentacles approaching, Lance wanted to scream, but when he thought of the unfinished escape passage behind his fleshy arms and legs, he could only hold back and suppress the urge to escape.
He watched helplessly as the tentacle got closer and closer to him.
Finally, the tentacle stopped half a meter away from Lance, and then carefully handed the pearl to Lance.
Lance stared for a moment at the pearl being offered, and the tentacle that was so close to him.
Taking a deep breath, Lance took the pearl from the tentacle.
This was the first time he had active contact with the tentacles, and Lance was really impressed by the rough feel.
In human fairy tales, octopus has never been a good character, be it evil wizards or Cthulhu, their prototypes are all octopuses, which is enough to prove how terrifying an octopus is to humans.
But... It's amazing that after such a contact, Lance began to feel inexplicably that this "octopus" seemed to be a little gentle
Frightened by the thought, Lance shook his head, trying to get the idea out of his way, and dropped the pearl.
The tentacle immediately went to pick up the pearl.
If this pearl can be transported ashore, it should cause a huge sensation in human society due to its huge size;
It's a pity that this is the deep sea. In the eyes of Lance and Tentacle, this unparalleled pearl might not be as good as a ball.
After playing "You Throw, I Pick Up" for a long time, the tentacle returned the pearl to Lance.
Although the tentacles had no expression, Lance was very sure that the tentacles in front of him were very happy, and the color of the tentacles became much lighter.
When he finally left, the tentacles patted Lance's head reluctantly, but Lance didn't resist.
However, when the tentacle was about to be pulled away, the tentacle was ready to clean up the unfinished fleshy arms and legs.
This time, Lance was angry.
He had dedicated himself to playing such a childish game, why did he still have to clean up that stupid arm
Lance swam over immediately before the tentacle touched the carpus, sat on the carpus, and then, in front of the tentacle, Lance put the pearl on the carpus.
I should understand now!
The movement of the tentacles stopped.
It seemed to understand that for Lance, this piece of meat was as valuable as a pearl, and no one else was allowed to touch it except with his permission.
The end of the tentacle is curled, and it looks a little tangled.
In the end, the tentacle chose to respect Lance, and it withdrew from the coral bone.
Lance finally breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the tentacles leave.
Fortunately, the "escape route" was not found.