Gao Chuang reminded them several times, but no one dared to pay attention.
If you are caught poaching in the Ross Sea, the consequences will be disastrous.
Coming out of the conference room, Xiang Yang was about to return to his ship through the probe board.
Suddenly, Xiang Yang's ears moved, "What's that sound?"
Not only Xiang Yang heard it, but several captains around him also looked down at the bottom of the sea. Just now, they seemed to hear a sound like someone scratching fingernails on a blackboard, which was very harsh.
"Fuck."
Looking down at the sea, Xiang Yang was immediately shocked.
He saw a group of large insects swarming under the boat, crawling towards the hull.
Some of these insects have very smooth back shells and heads that look like beetles. They look like fart bugs that have been magnified countless times.
At this time, someone's face changed and he exclaimed: "Oh no, this is a deep-sea giant louse."
Xiang Yang was stunned when he heard this, and then his face immediately turned ugly.
The deep-sea giant louse is the largest animal of all the arthropods and isopods discovered in the world. It can grow to an average of thirty to forty centimeters, and some individuals can even grow to more than one meter, which is almost the size of a calf.
Most of these deep-sea lice under the ship are light purple, with a small part being light black. They have flat bodies and hard, scaly calcium exoskeletons.
"How is it possible? How could there be deep-sea lice here?" Gao Chuang also walked over with the gait of a dragon and a tiger, then stared at the bottom of the sea with a very ugly expression.
Xiang Yang returned to normal after being surprised. He said, "Boss Gao, deep-sea giant lice are distributed in oceans all over the world. It's not surprising that they appear near the New Zealand waters."
Over the past 160 million years, the giant deep-sea louse has undergone almost no change in appearance except for its smaller size, and is known as a living fossil in the deep sea.
There is almost no market for giant deep-sea lice, so commercial fishermen have no interest in this creature and even hate it very much, just like grave robbers hate corpse beetles very much.
These large bugs will eat and bite almost anything, and if left alone they can even chew a hole right through the bottom of a ship.
In addition, there are records showing that the giant deep-sea lice can endure eight weeks without eating anything and still maintain their vital signs.
"Don't stay in this water, let's go quickly. This thing specializes in eating corpses and carries a large number of viruses and bacteria. Once infected, with the current medical conditions on our ship, everyone on the entire fleet will have to die here." Gao Chuang just lowered his head to take a look and gave the order directly.
Although Xiang Yang was somewhat curious about these deep-sea lice and wanted to observe them for a while, Gao Chuang's words made sense. He knew that this was not the time to stay here for long, so he nodded and said, "Yes, let's continue sailing south now."
"Don't just stand there and watch, are you all looking for death?" Gao Chuang shouted loudly to the surroundings: "Everyone go back to the middle of the deck, sprinkle disinfectant on the edges of the deck, and don't allow any deep-sea giant lice to get on the deck." The deep-sea giant lice have two teams of tentacles and a very complex mouth structure, including many parts. They can work together to pierce into the human body, directly tear open the human skin, and take out the internal organs. It is a very scary insect.
Xiang Yang also gave the same order to the crew on his ship, especially those who stuck their heads out of the side of the ship to look at the seabed. When they were caught by Xiang Yang, they were scolded.
"Everyone, put on your protective clothing. If a deep-sea giant louse crawls onto the deck, don't hesitate, just put gasoline on it and burn it."
At this time, Xiang Yang saw Fang Youqun holding a harpoon in one hand, looking ready for battle. "Fang Youqun, what are you doing with a harpoon?"
Fang Youqun turned around and shouted, "Brother Yang, don't worry, they are just a few big bugs. I will expose every one that comes up."
Xiang Yang almost laughed out loud at Fang Youqun's words, "Have you ever seen a louse that can be pierced with a toothpick?"
The deep-sea giant lice are as flexible as lice, and when threatened, they will curl up their entire bodies into a ball like lice to protect themselves tightly. The hard armor on its back is indeed no match for the harpoon, but there are so many deep-sea giant lice underneath, how many can be killed with a harpoon
"Sprinkle disinfectant on the deck, and then pour gasoline on the edge. As long as they climb up, burn them directly. All irrelevant people go back to the cabin now, and remember to close all the doors and windows." Xiang Yang shouted loudly.
The crew immediately headed into the cabin.
Soon, only Xiang Yang, Chen Qingsheng and a few other experienced crew members were left on the deck, ready for battle.
"Strange, how could these things appear on the sea surface? Shouldn't they usually stay in the deep sea?" Chen Qingsheng asked puzzledly.
Eighty percent of the world's deep-sea giant lice live in the deep sea below 300 meters, and they usually live alone in the mud.
Of course, they are not like other deep-sea fish that can only stay in the deep sea and will die once they come out of the water.
The deep-sea giant lice have extremely tenacious vitality.
Someone once did an experiment in which they put some deep-sea giant lice into a water tank filled with shampoo.
Many shampoos, such as Pantene and Kangting, have sterilization capabilities. Generally, lice on cats and dogs will die immediately as soon as they come into contact with these shampoos.
But not these deep-sea giant lice. They struggled for a long time in the water tank containing shampoo before finally dying.
Then the experimenters took them out of the shampoo tank, and soon they began to jump around again.
The British Ocean Park once imported nine giant deep-sea lice from the United States for display.
The nine giant deep-sea lice were placed in a box with ice during the journey across the ocean from the United States to the United Kingdom, but none of them died during the process, which shows how tenacious their vitality is.
"No one knows the specific reason. It is probably because our fleet stayed here for too long. The smell of seafood left on the fleet made them mistakenly believe that there were a large number of dead fish on the sea." Xiang Yang said.
Although the deep-sea giant lice like cold sea water, it just likes it. It is not that it cannot accept normal temperature sea water. It is not like the viperfish, which will die when it encounters normal temperature sea water.
Sometimes, a huge whale dies on the sea. At this time, a large number of deep-sea giant lice will drill out from the bottom of the sea, swim to the surface of the sea, devour the dead whale and reproduce.