Xiang Yang had heard many legends and reports about giant octopuses.
In all kinds of human fantasies, the deep ocean beneath the raging waves is almost synonymous with darkness and fear.
The English word comes from the Greek word abyss, which means "abyss of despair."
The deep ocean not only contains endless darkness, but also is full of dangers, which makes people full of awe towards it.
According to legend, countless terrifying monsters guard this abyss, further "deifying" people's fear.
These monsters often have bloody mouths and extremely sharp canine teeth, which can bite a person to pieces in one bite.
People therefore used their imagination to give them all kinds of murderous names, such as Tyrannosaurus fish, devil fish, snake fish, and swallowing eel.
These monsters had disgusting bodies and terrifying spines. At one time, many fishermen would imagine a sea monster with its mouth wide open, eyes wide open, brows furrowed, ready to attack at any time, as soon as they closed their eyes.
However, giant octopuses became truly known to humans only after the Hollywood thriller "Deep Freezing".
The movie describes a terrifying underwater creature from the depths of the ocean - the giant octopus. In the movie, this behemoth brings a devastating disaster to the cruise ship.
However, according to reports from all over the world, humans have long confirmed that the existence of giant octopuses is not a movie plot, but is real, and the giant octopuses that are washed ashore from time to time have aroused great speculation and conjecture among people.
At first, experts were shocked and amazed by the discovery of the giant octopus.
At the same time, news reports about giant octopuses flooded in, one wave after another.
When the giant octopus remains were first discovered, the BBC reported that the organism might be the remains of an extinct "giant octopus".
Some other experts believe that it is a terrifying squid or even a completely unknown "deep-sea monster", and have issued a warning about it.
At that time, no fisherman, sailor or even scientist could determine whether the body was an octopus.
Initially, Chile contacted some European zoologists in order to identify the 12-meter-long gelatinous tissue.
After analysis, scientists believe that the shape of this object is similar to the description of a strange biological specimen discovered in Florida, USA in 1896 in historical records. The specimen was named "giant seal" at the time, but what it is still puzzles zoologists.
Scientists at the time described that people used a large team of horses to drag an animal as long as 18 meters, but no cuts were left when it was chopped with an axe.
The mysterious organism discovered this time has characteristics consistent with rare creatures described by scientists in the 19th century.
According to Cavallera, director of the San Diego Whale Conservation Center, French and Italian scientists believe that based on preliminary information, it may be a giant octopus.
Mead, a zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, took a gamble and thought it was a piece of whale blubber, but he also said he did not have enough information to determine whether it was an octopus or a whale.
The most famous cephalopod expert at the time, Dr. Addison of Yale University, concluded that it was the corpse of an unknown giant octopus and gave it a scientific name "giant octopus."
"When alive, the giant octopus had fearsome arms, each at least a hundred feet long and as thick as a ship's mast, with hundreds of saucer-like suckers, the largest of which was at least a foot in diameter," Dr. Addison wrote in his book.
But Xiang Yang expressed doubts about this statement, because the longest recorded length of an ordinary octopus's arms stretched out is no more than 20 feet.
Later, the main body of the organism was cut off and transported to the museum as a sample and named "Smith Man".
However, its biological samples slowly decayed over the following decades.
The debate has been reignited, with many experts believing that the monster is the skin of some kind of giant whale, not a giant octopus.
Later, three articles discussing "sea monsters" published in Natural History in 1971 once again aroused people's interest in the monster that looked like a giant octopus.
Professor Joseph, a cell biologist at the University of Florida, wrote an article titled "A Monster Found."
The article stated that after carefully observing the samples taken from the "Smith Man" under a microscope and laser, he came to a surprising conclusion that the giant organism might be a "man-eating monster."
"Smith Man was not blubber, and all the evidence clearly shows that this ocean monster was actually a giant octopus." These are the original words of the paper.
In 1972, when people were arguing over the "Smith Man", this deep-sea monster that looked like a giant octopus was washed ashore again.
This fleshy behemoth has appeared on beaches in Tasmania, Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda and Newfoundland.
This excites and confuses observers and researchers.
Before seeing this creature, which was over 20 meters long and could use its tentacles to fight four adult humpback whales alone, Xiang Yang was skeptical about the giant octopus.
Xiang Yang knew that there were some octopuses on the seabed that broke the limits of their bodies, but he felt that there should be a limit to this breaking of limits. It was impossible for octopuses to break the limits of their bodies indefinitely.
But now the facts were already in front of Xiang Yang, and he had no choice but to believe it.
At this moment, the situation on the battlefield changed again.
The largest adult female humpback whale among the four adult humpback whales flapped its fins and slapped the giant octopus hard on its head.
The giant octopus quickly stretched out a tentacle to block, while at the same time one tentacle remained tightly protecting its big head.
But at this moment, the big head, which was entangled by the giant octopus and even had its whale hole blocked, suddenly struggled hard, and the huge force almost overturned the giant octopus.
The giant octopus's defense was instantly breached, and the middle part of its big head was hit by a fin of an adult humpback whale.
The fins of an adult humpback whale can hit even a tiger shark to death if hit hard enough.
Although this giant octopus had thick skin and flesh, it was still dizzy after being hit on the head. Its entire head even tilted to one side, and the tentacles that were tightly wrapped around its body loosened instantly.
Big Head seized the opportunity instantly, and with a swing of his huge whale tail, he broke free from the entanglement of the giant octopus's tentacles.
Immediately afterwards, the angry big head did not retreat but advanced, flapping its fins wildly and charging towards the giant octopus's head.