Xiang Yang swam to the injured sea lion and carefully examined its injuries.
The sea lion was a little alert and kept baring its lips at Xiang Yang.
"Don't move." Xiang Yang first gently stroked its back, which felt cool and smooth. The sea lion's skin felt like pudding, but harder than pudding and very tough.
With Xiang Yang's comfort, the injured sea lion gradually calmed down and lay quietly on the seabed without moving.
When the surrounding sea lions saw that Xiang Yang had no intention of hurting the other sea lion, they gradually came closer. Some circled around Xiang Yang, while others lay on the seabed and gently touched the injured sea lion with their noses.
"Hiss!" Xiang Yang took a breath of sea water after checking the sea lion's injuries.
This sea lion was really injured and the injury was very serious. The skin on its head was directly cracked after it jumped up and hit the sea lion recklessly, and a trickle of bright red blood kept flowing out.
This is not the most serious injury on this sea lion.
The most serious injury on this sea lion is on its back. There is a piece of skin the size of a palm leaf fan on the gray-black skin on its back that has turned gray-green. The skin at that location feels soft to the touch, like a broken pudding. Although it is still smooth and cold, it no longer has that chewy and resilient texture.
The sea lion was obviously in pain when Xiang Yang touched the gray-green spot on its back. It swung its fat body and swam to the side for a meter or two, then lay down on the seabed again. Its nostrils were bulging, as if the one or two meters it had just swum had consumed all its strength.
Xiang Yang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. He was sure that the sea lion had no broken bones.
The gray-green spot was right on the back of the sea lion. If the bones were injured, then the spine would be injured and it would be impossible for the sea lion to move its body and swim.
Come to think of it, the humpback whale's main means of attack is to use its big head to hit the enemy while swimming quickly. Even a killer whale would be in danger if hit by the humpback whale's big head.
As for the flapping of fins and the powerful slapping of whale tails, they are merely auxiliary attack methods of humpback whales. Normally, a slap from a humpback whale will not cause any substantial damage to a killer whale. How could a sea lion, which has similarly thick skin and flesh, have its bones broken by a single blow from a humpback whale
The fact that there were no broken bones does not mean that the sea lion's injuries were not serious. On the contrary, their injuries were actually extremely serious.
When a sea lion swims, it not only needs to use its pectoral fins to paddle the sea water, but also needs to swing its waist. The two must work together to move forward on the seabed. Now this sea lion's back is seriously injured. Every swing of its waist will bring severe pain. It is impossible for it to swim back to the beach by itself, and it can't even float to the surface of the sea to breathe.
If Xiang Yang just gave up now, the sea lion would definitely die on the seabed due to lack of oxygen.
However, this sea lion weighs more than 500 kilograms, and it is not easy for Xiang Yang to carry it out of the sea or even onto the beach by himself.
"Bighead, come here." Xiang Yang turned and waved to the male humpback whale.
When the two humpback whales saw Xiang Yang waving, they immediately swam towards him happily.
The sea lions immediately retreated. Although the two humpback whales no longer attacked them, the sea lions were still quite afraid of them.
Soon two humpback whales swam to Xiang Yang, and the group of sea lions retreated to a distance of more than ten meters and watched vigilantly.
Xiang Yang smiled at the group of sea lions. It seemed that the intelligent sea lions also knew that this was a misunderstanding. Although the group of sea lions were very alert to Xiang Yang and were also afraid of the two humpback whales, they did not show strong hostility when the two humpback whales swam in front of their injured companions.
However, the injured sea lion was so frightened when he saw himself being sandwiched between two huge monsters that his whole body became stiff and he lay on the seabed, not daring to move at all.
Xiang Yang first comforted the sea lion with a smile. After the injured sea lion gradually relaxed and its body was not so stiff, Xiang Yang opened the oxygen tank on his back, took off the oxygen mask from his face and covered the sea lion's nose.
With its nostrils covered by the oxygen mask, the injured sea lion's body stiffened again.
But then the injured sea lion was surprised to find that the strange thing covering its nostrils actually contained oxygen, and it began to breathe it greedily while snoring.
The injured sea lion breathed for about five minutes before throwing away the breathing mask and happily touching Xiang Yang's chest with its head.
Xiang Yang smiled, put down his breathing mask and gestured to the two humpback whales, indicating that they should carry the injured sea lion to the surface of the sea.
The two humpback whales didn't understand what Xiang Yang meant at first, but after seeing Xiang Yang gesticulating, lying down and using his head to nudge the injured sea lion and then floating to the surface of the sea, the two male humpback whales finally understood what Xiang Yang meant after several times.
“Woo—”
After giving a loud cry, the male whale slowly swam to the side of the injured sea lion and nudged the fat body of the injured sea lion with its big head.
Xiang Yang gently stroked the injured sea lion's head, signaling it not to be afraid.
The injured sea lion probably knew what Xiang Yang was going to do, so it took the initiative to paddle its pectoral fins and gently sway its body to swim above the male whale.
Xiang Yang was a little surprised when he saw this. A few minutes ago, the sea lion had only swam a few meters before it fell to the bottom of the sea unable to move due to the pain. He didn't expect that it would be able to swim slowly again after a few minutes.
Soon the male whale floated to the surface of the sea carrying the injured sea lion, and a column of water more than two meters high sprayed out from its whale hole.
The female whale circles around the male whale and makes a melodious whale call.
“Huahuahuahuahua!”
With the sound of breaking water, the sea lions swam out of the sea.
The female whale immediately stopped calling and turned to look at the group of sea lions.
The pressure from the humpback whale was still very strong. When the sea lions saw the female whale looking at them, they immediately became extremely quiet.
Instead, the sea lion on the male whale's back raised its body and let out a cheerful cry.
Several voices immediately rang out from the group of sea lions, as if they were communicating with the injured sea lion.
Soon, several sea lions dived into the seabed under Xiang Yang's puzzled look, and no one knew what they were doing.
The injured sea lion paddled its pectoral fins and crawled to Xiang Yang's side, biting his trouser leg.
Xiang Yang withdrew his gaze and returned it to the injured sea lion.
"It seems that you have a good recovery ability. You don't need to go back to the boat with me for treatment. I will go down to the sea to catch some fish for you to replenish your strength and then let you go." Xiang Yang thought that the injured sea lion wanted to get off the humpback whale, so he smiled after touching the head of the injured sea lion.
The injured sea lion narrowed its eyes slightly in enjoyment as Xiang Yang stroked it.
“Wow!”
At this moment, the sound of water breaking was heard again on the sea surface, and the sea lions that had sunk into the sea earlier surfaced one after another, each holding a large or small sea fish in their mouths.