The deserted island has been rarely set foot on for thousands of years, but now two tents have been set up on it.
The military green tent stood in the sea breeze. Li Shu saw that there was nothing wrong with the tent, and then he and Jing Laosan entered the sea water.
"Boss, the whale landed about 10 nautical miles north of the island reef. There is a trench with water more than 800 meters deep." Jing Laosan gestured with sign language.
Li Shu responded with sign language: "Okay, let's swim at a depth of 5 meters first, and then dive to the bottom of the sea when the whale falls."
"Understood, boss!" Jing Laosan said with sign language.
The afternoon sun shines into the seawater, penetrating more than ten meters deep, and reflecting the blue of the seawater.
There are some marine fish weighing 2 to 3 pounds swimming, chasing and playing in the sea water.
Buzz~
Li Shu's attention was focused on his eyes, and his vision instantly penetrated 3 nautical miles of sea water, and all sea fish could not hide.
"The fishery resources here are not developed yet, and there are not many fish." Li Shu and Jing Laosan swam forward, their thoughts fleeting.
Sudden.
When Li Shu glanced to the right, a very large seal came into view.
What a huge seal that is!
It is more than 3.5 meters long and probably weighs more than 400 kilograms. Its gray-brown body is short and thick, and it looks a bit silly.
But its super large size really makes people want to abandon the word "stupid and cute" and describe it as a meat mountain instead.
"This seems to be a leopard seal that mainly lives in Antarctica. It has no external ears, likes to live alone, loves to eat penguins, and has very sharp teeth." An idea flashed through Li Shu's mind.
“Shush”
The big seal made a weak cry and actually swam towards Li Shu and Jing Laosan.
Jing Laosan's night vision range is very short. When he saw the huge 3.5-meter-long seal, his muscles tensed up and he blocked Li Shu's face.
Jing Laosan stared at the seal with sharp eyes, clenching his fists, ready to fight at any time.
“Shush”
The seal blinked its big eyes, looked at Li Shu and Jing Laosan stupidly, and then swam dozens of meters away from the two of them. Being smart, it felt a special energy from Li Shu.
Li Shu and Jing Laosan continued to swim forward, and the big seal followed, but kept a few dozen meters away from them and did not get too close.
It seems a little afraid of Jinglaosan.
I was afraid that Jing Laosan would beat it.
While swimming forward, Jing Laosan gestured with his hands:
“Boss, I have seen this big seal several times and seen it hunting.
That was half a month ago. It directly killed a small shark of about 2.5 meters. It was really cruel! "
"Hunting sharks? So cruel?" Li Shu's pupils shrank and he took a deep breath.
Jing Laosan nodded heavily and said in sign language: "That's how cruel he is."
Li Shu looked at the 3.5-meter-long big seal again, and his eyes changed completely. This was not a silly little cutie, but a master with explosive combat power!
The big seal never got too close, so Li Shu ignored it.
Shortly after.
In the distance, Li Shu saw the whale carcass on the seabed.
The whale's carcass is about 6 meters long and has turned into white bones. There are countless small microorganisms around it, and small fish and shrimps are swimming around. A small ecosystem with a radius of 100 meters has long been formed.
"Shocking!"
Li Shu was greatly shocked as he looked at the whale bones and the surrounding microorganisms, small fish, small crabs, small octopuses and other polychaetes.
For a moment, he had a feeling in his heart of "thousands of sails passing by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of spring trees in front of the diseased tree."
"Everything will die, but new things will always appear, and people still have to face reality positively." Li Shu sighed in his heart.
The big seal was still swimming not far away. It was very curious about the plum tree, but it was afraid of Jing Laosan and did not dare to get too close.
The two people descended to the bottom of the sea, stepped on the hard seabed sand, and walked to the whale carcass that had completely turned into bones.
"Judging from the skeletal characteristics, it feels like it's a baleen whale, but there are many kinds of baleen whales. I don't know exactly what kind of baleen whale it is." Li Shu said silently in his heart.
Jing Laosan kicked away a crab that was showing its teeth and claws, and circled around the whale skeleton. Suddenly his pupils shrank and he waved quickly to Li Shu.
Li Shu walked over.
Jing Laosan pointed to a piece of gray-white whale bone and said in sign language: "Look, boss, there are many bugs here, yes, they are bugs. They are drilling into the whale bones."
Li Shu looked.
He found that they were a group of light yellow bugs that looked like grass roots. The tentacles were like earthworms, but they were much thinner than earthworms.
The tentacles are swaying in the sea water, with a soft and beautiful feeling - fatal beauty!
"Boss, do you know what it is?"
"It's a bone-eating worm!"
Li Shu couldn't make any gestures in sign language, so he took out a mobile phone as big as a brick from the white jade ring and typed for Jing Lao San.
The mobile phone, which is as big as a brick, is unique and can withstand the pressure of seawater at a depth of 3,000 meters.
There is a closed plastic protective case on the outside of the phone, which is waterproof.
"Bone-eating worm?"
Jing Lao San was shocked, just the name made Jing Lao San's scalp numb.
Jing Laosan was not afraid of a head-to-head fight, but he was afraid of these "bugs", "poisonous", bone-gnawing bugs, which instantly made him shudder.
"They're eating the fat and bone oil from the whale bones, which is what they need to survive.
This thing is of little use to ordinary people, but to some scientists it is a very rare and precious experimental material. "
Li Shu's heart moved.
Brush~
His consciousness wrapped around 20 "bone-eating worms", and instantly the bone-eating worms appeared in the white jade ring.
No living thing can be stored in the white jade ring, and there is no air inside. The bone-eating worms that enter the white jade ring die naturally and quietly.
In addition to bone-eating worms, Li Shu also dug up 2 pounds of sea mud next to whale bones and broke off a piece of whale bone.
He piled whale bones, sea mud and bone-eating worms in the corner of the white jade ring, intending to donate it to his alma mater.
“If it has no research value, forget it, but if it does, it can be considered as giving back to my alma mater.
Most whale falls are hidden in the deep sea and are difficult to be discovered by the world. Even if they are discovered, it will be very difficult to obtain experimental materials for whale falls. "The thoughts in Li Shu's mind flashed away.
Li Shu stood next to the whale bones and asked Jing Laosan to videotape him.
Not far away, a big seal loomed over to join in the fun.
After doing all this, Li Shu and the two left.
Being able to see the whale fall with his own eyes was a very lucky thing. It also satisfied his curiosity and increased his knowledge.
Nature is a natural museum, and many things are much better than human museums.
Li Shu and Jing Laosan returned to Island No. 66 all the way, but unexpectedly the big seal also followed.
The latter circled around the islands and reefs, occasionally jumping out of the water stupidly, and then—
Boom~
When the big seal jumped out of the sea and entered the sea again, it was like a "fish fry". The huge water splash jumped up to ten meters, and the sea water rippled and was pushed around.
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