The aircraft is tailor-made for people on the seabed. Although the two parties are similar in size and Liu Chang is not too crowded to sit in, it is not very comfortable. There are 16 operating devices. It is better for the seaman to have more tentacles. He only has two hands, so he really feels a little busy inside.
But even so, driving is always more comfortable than running.
Liu Chang put his clothes and equipment in the cockpit, closed the transparent car cover, and watched Tai Xieer behind him laughing and advancing at full speed.
The aircraft has plenty of fuel, probably considering that the biggest use of the ice aircraft is to sail on the sea, so the general volume of the entire aircraft is filled with fuel. The fuel is a green liquid with a strong smell. Strong pungent smell, somewhat similar to petroleum.
After fumbling around the aircraft for a while, the two finally left the surrounding area of the island and entered the established route—then Liu Chang became leisurely. After setting the route, the aircraft entered the state of automatic straight-line navigation, and opened the transparent window above his head. The glass cover, sitting in the cockpit and watching Tai Xieer who was running rumblingly, smiled and stuffed a piece of cheese from the sea people into his mouth.
"To be honest, I have an impulse right now." Tai Xieer looked at Liu Chang's leisurely and aggressive look, and raised his foot with a smile.
"Do you want to crush my machine?" Liu Chang chewed and continued, "Don't be so violent, I asked for you if there is any large aircraft, and the answer they gave me was that there is no such thing as a large aircraft. It’s not cost-effective, or something, anyway, I thought about making it, but I didn’t implement it after considering various factors.”
"And the boss of the Seaman also said that he bought my aircraft at a high price. It is specially customized, and it is much faster than that kind of mass production!" Leaving Okinawa, Liu Chang drove a rare car along the way. joke.
Three days later, in the middle of the night.
Liu Chang left the aircraft in place, and went out of the cockpit to check the direction.
"How far is it to the Philippines?" Tai Xieer lay on the ice panting.
"Hurry up, we've already walked more than half of it." Liu Chang checked the map in his head, looked at the endless ice, and asked: "After running for a day, are you hungry, I'll go into the water to get you some Order something to eat."
"It's dark, it's not safe to go into the water." Although Tai Xieer said so, he still stared at the ice under his feet.
"It's okay, I don't go to places that are too deep, and I have to enter the Central Sea sooner or later, there is no danger, I can't meet such ferocious animals every time!" After Liu Chang smiled, he bent down and started A hole was dug on the ice—because of his strong body, he dug very fast, and the ice powder scattered all over the sky. After a while, he got into the relatively warm water.
After reaching the bottom of the water, he put on flippers, opened his eyes, put on the goggles, and turned on the searchlight on the dive—the underwater world in the middle of the night presented Liu Chang in front of him.
The jungle in the water, the blue seaweed, the strange piranha, the little squid with a smiling face, and the golden swordfish that is slender like an arrow.
"Red piranha." The place where Liu Chang went into the water was a light blue seaweed forest. According to the biological atlas of the people living under the sea, this is a relatively safe area. That's why Liu Chang dared to go to sleep in the middle of the night so reassuringly— Blue-green algae forest - this is the name given to this area by the people of the seabed. The blue-green algae in the sky are not very lethal except for being poisonous, but there are records of the huge red piranha flower.
"It's more than ten meters in size. It's not as big as it says in the picture." The place where Liu Chang fell into the water was right above a piranha. The piranha is very beautiful. Looking from the top down, it looks like a huge peony in full bloom, bright red of. Inside the blooming flowers are fleshy stamens, each of which is full of fruit, and exudes a strange meaty fragrance, which is used to attract all kinds of animals to eat.
As long as an animal comes to eat, if it is too small, it may not care, but if it enters its diet range, the beautiful petals that open and close will be covered with barbs in an instant, and when the petals are closed, the prey will be pierced a thousand times. It is riddled with holes, and then the powerful digestive juice is injected into the body of the prey, and finally turned into nutrition and becomes a feast for the piranha on the seabed.
These piranhas grow on cyanobacteria, which can be regarded as a common symbiotic relationship on the seabed-except that this symbiosis is a symbiosis between plants, which is different from the cooperative relationship of animals-the symbiotic system of plants cooperates more They are so close that they have even reached the level of exchanging food and energy.
These piranhas grow attached to cyanobacteria. When they were young, the cyanobacteria provided them with the energy for growth and for them to absorb nutrients. And when these piranhas grow, they will provide some protection for cyanobacteria, preventing those disgusting algae-eating fish from harassing the growth space of cyanobacteria-you know, although there are not many vegan fish, if they live on the seabed To survive as a pure vegetarian, it must have a strong digestive juice and reproductive ability.
The tiny toxins of blue-green algae are not an obstacle to those algae-eating fish at all.
So, it needs piranhas to provide it with protection - it will provide a breeding ground for piranhas to grow. Of course, if it is just for protection, this deal is not so cost-effective. After the piranha grows up, if there is any nutrition left after devouring the large fish, it will also give back some life energy to the blue algae.
This is how plants complement each other.
Looking at the piranhas below, Liu Chang recalled all kinds of underwater knowledge he saw in the hut of the seaman three days ago, and knew that it was relatively easy to hunt large fish in this area—because what he was going to do today The thing, not a predator, is a predator.
Just like those lions who rob cheetahs of food in the grassland—what he needs to do is not to improve his speed or hunting ability, but to be stronger than the other party, and that's enough.
Therefore, swimming underwater, in the cyanobacteria space, Liu Chang swam underwater, trying not to touch deeper areas, using the searchlight above his head, wandering underwater, checking those cannibals one by one flower.
Then, ten minutes later, he finally saw a plump flower that had just swallowed a large fish. Piranhas digest very quickly. After swallowing fish, they can usually digest it within half an hour—and after ten minutes, it is no longer worth snatching.
When Liu Chang passed by this piranha, he happened to see the scene of the flower shrinking. When the huge fish with a length of seven or eight meters passed by the piranha, it was attracted by the meaty fragrance in the stamen, and stopped for only a moment. , was wrapped up by the petals that lived together like wind and clouds, and then Liu Chang heard the "cracking" sound of fish struggling on the chopping board from among the petals.
A trace of blood seeped out from the gaps between the petals, Liu Chang knew that the opportunity must be lost, so he swam up quickly.
Straightening up the business card on his hand, he stabbed it directly into the petals, and then swam and pulled the body. The metal business card was so sharp that he didn't know what material it was made of. The petals of the piranha, which are as strong as iron walls, are full of strange plant veins. After being cut open by Liu Chang with a stab, a lot of bright red blood-like liquid flowed out.
But he didn't care about these, and continued to swim forward, and after a while, he swam around the petals and cut the whole piranha in half—the petals fell, and then revealed the terrifying as if inside. A hellish scene—thousands of barbs thrusting into the body of a still-struggling fish.
"Plant hunting is really violent!" Swimming into the petals, the barbs on the fish rescued the dying fish from the stamens, and then pushed it in the water for a few minutes before the blood spread completely. A piece of petal wrapped around it, swam all the way to the small hole where it entered the water.
By the time he swiped the knife at the small hole, the hole had expanded dozens of times—these two brothers have been together with Tai Xieer all day long, and the two brothers have developed a tacit understanding. Digging holes on it—Compared with hunting for prey, the work of digging holes is much easier. These days, it is usually done like this, because Liu Chang drives the car pampered all day in the morning, so there is no physical exertion.
It only takes a few minutes for Liu Chang to dig a hole the size of a person, and it is the same for Tai Xieer—it's just that the concept of "the size of a person" is somewhat different between the two.
Therefore, when Liu Chang threw the big yellow croaker into the water, Tai Xie'er had already been waiting here for a long time.
"Hey, cannibal flowers wrapped in sea fish, this is a famous dish!" Standing by the ice hole, seeing what Liu Chang threw, Tai Xieer immediately swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
With a sound of "crash", Liu Chang popped his head out of the water, and what Liu Chang was greeted by were small ice flakes all over the sky - the weather was too cold, and the hole he dug just now would freeze, so when Liu Chang threw the big yellow croaker, he broke through the small ice that had just condensed on the water surface layers, falling all over the sky. After stepping on the water and jumping out of the ice cave, climbing tens of meters of ice onto the sea ice, Liu Chang happened to see Tai Xieer swallowing his saliva.
"Is this delicious?" Liu Chang flicked the ice beads off his body, and hit his chest vigorously, the armor-like layer of ice on his body fell to the ground with a "crash".
"It's delicious!" Tai Xieer said: "This food is a famous dish among the people in the sea. It is said that this dish is the first step for the people in the sea to start eating cooked food!"
"How?" Liu Chang showed interest when he heard what Tai Xieer said.
"As you know, people living under the sea live on the bottom of the sea. Compared with shallow sea creatures like us, they should be more difficult to accept cooked food in theory." Tai Xieer explained the history of the diet development of the people living under the sea, while using his sharp claws to separate the petals and The fish was wrapped so tightly that even the barbs were not removed.