"What on earth is this abomination?" Xiang Shan bizarrely ripped open those tentacles.
Then, he witnessed an astonishing scene.
Inside those tentacles were thick neural nodes. This was a very typical characteristic of cephalopods. Vertebrates evolved a protective layer known as "myelin sheath", which greatly increased the speed of neural signal transmission. Non-mammalian animals lack this structure but have found ways to fortify their nervous systems. Cephalopods took a completely different path—they made their nerves thicker.
