In the 19th century, an American writer wrote a famous "Moby Dick". In the story, the huge, aggressive and powerful white whale is simply the most terrifying nightmare. Evil shadows hide quietly, and the white waves are like ghosts. Search: \(¨¨¨¨¨) Watch fine literature for free This is really great to describe the sea monster, but the problem is that the white whale is actually very cute.
They are even the subject of polar bear attacks.
The body is round and very bulging. It's not quite like a cetacean, but rather like a human's shuttle-shaped hot air balloon or flying boat, with a slightly thinner head and tail, and a fatter body. Its body cross-section is a standard circle.
In the icy and snowy Arctic, white is a good camouflage color. If you don't pay attention, it is difficult to spot when the sea is undulating. They gather close together, head to head, and love to sing in chorus.
These are sound waves that humans can hear.
Very beautiful and very musical! The long and short tones make up a brisk and loud piece of music.
Therefore, Xia Yi, who woke up to the singing of the white whales, really had a hard time understanding why there was a description like "Moby Dick". In terms of symbolic meaning, it is more appropriate to find killer whales! When the fat beluga whales that grow into balls swim in the sea, they are like big balloons floating.
Xia Yi closed her eyes half asleep and half awake, and continued to listen to the joyful singing.
—When you wake up, what you hear is not the alarm clock, any kind of song is very beautiful, right
Xia Yi felt very tired, and after using the ability on a large scale, she almost exhausted her physical strength. And he hardly got enough rest. He didn't pay much attention to how he came to the North Pole. He fell asleep on the back of the siren.
So this was the first morning he slept soundly until he woke up naturally.
No, there is no night at the North Pole in August, and it is impossible to tell whether it is noon or midnight. The sun is always in the sky when it sees it. Sea monsters do not have the habit of eating three meals a day, they eat when they are hungry and rest when they are sleepy.
Human beings have tried to open a new waterway for four hundred years, but finally succumbed to the severe cold of the Arctic. In the boundless ocean, humans can safely pass through the Panama Canal without having to go around the entire South America, and have to venture through the Drake Passage to reach the Atlantic Ocean. The sea monsters also have a special shortcut they can take, which is to cross the Arctic Ocean and enter the Norwegian Sea—don’t think how far Taomas and Garfel are from the Sirens, in the eyes of the sea monsters, it’s just the distance of the North Pole.
The singing of the white whale gradually faded away, and the sea water was filled with the melodious tinkle of ice floes colliding with each other.
Like the South Pole, summer is the most vibrant time in the North Pole. At this time, the difference between the sea and the land can be clearly distinguished. Only the permafrost on the islands will sprout dots of green. For plants, the time is the most It is very important that they complete all the processes of budding, flowering and fruiting in the short warm period of two months. These plants are the best nourishment in summer.
Xia Yi barely opened her eyes, and then saw the leftover food from yesterday.
How big can a cod be
About the same as the palm? Absolutely not, the cod caught by the Siren, its scales and dorsal fin are light yellow, it is as long as an arm, and its body is plump. You can let Siren and Xia Yi eat for two days. After the chilled fish is carefully washed by the snow, the wind will start to harden, and when you eat it again, it will be crispy and raw. The mermaid seems to like this texture very much.
Xia Yi thought silently, it's understandable, it's probably similar to the flavor of ice cream—isn't the flavor of ice cream the flavor of milk crushed ice—the white and tender fish meat and crushed ice are chewed together, and the teeth must be particularly good!
Too bad if you want to eat hot pot, you will have this kind of subconscious reaction when you see the sky full of ice and snow.
There is fire, and the problem of the pot is not too big, but it is absolutely hopeless if there is no bottom material!
Xia Yi just left, but Siren obviously misunderstood his meaning.
The tail of the fish with silver scales sank slightly to avoid reflections from appearing on the sea surface. The mermaid used the larger ice floe as a cover and swam towards the edge of the solid ice layer.
The waves washed some seaweed ashore, and three or four arctic rabbits squatted there to chew.
These little creatures are grayish now, their ears pricked up very vigilantly, and they look around anxiously. They risked their way to the ice floes. One of them was gnawing on lichen algae, and the others looked around like sentinels. If arctic foxes and polar bears appeared, they would immediately run for their lives.
But the danger comes from the sea!
The ice-blue sea water suddenly broke out with huge waves, and the Arctic rabbit turned its head and ran. It was very fast, but the spray under the cover made it unable to distinguish the direction, and ran straight to get out of the shadow area. But the back was still hit hard, and the body fell down, and then slid along the smooth ice surface into the seawater together with the black shadow that hit him.
When Xia Yi floated up, she only had time to see the movement of the mermaid jumping out of the water.
but! !
Jumping towards the shore, the posture of falling is to use the tail of the fish to stun the rabbit? ! Uh, that's right too. Rabbits run so fast that they may not be able to catch them with hands, and the siren can't go ashore to chase them.
But is this really a rabbit? The body is plump and round into a ball, but the limbs are slender and long, like walking on stilts, like four chopsticks poked on the dough. The ears are small and there is a little black hair at the tip. It was choked awake by the icy sea water and was struggling desperately.
Through the thick fur, the rabbit slammed down on the cervical spine, and the rabbit twitched and tilted its head, slowly sinking into the sea water.
Only then did Xia Yi reach out to touch it. The fur is soft and warm, and it feels good to the touch. This is a rabbit that is moulting in summer.
It is worth looking forward to the occasional life without eating fish, but what Xia Yi misses the most is the bowl of porridge she ate with Li Shaoanli and the others when they went ashore more than ten days ago.
Strong rice fragrance, and crispy pickled radish.
Accidentally, I was thinking about it when I was dreaming.
A dilapidated ship was frozen in the middle of the frozen layer, and the people on it probably left the ship to escape when the end of the world came. It is not known whether they will live or die in the end. Summer is here, the ice layer begins to melt, and the floes collide with each other, making a jingle and pleasant sound. Pieces of ice also fell from the windows and decks of the ship, and the ship began to float in the sea.
Xia Yi sat on the deck, he only found a thin shirt from the cabin, but it was enough for him.
This ship may be Canadian, or Russian. The spirits, quilts and thicker clothes on the ship were taken away, only the bare bed boards were left, and there were still a lot of frozen condiments in the kitchen. Foreigners’ kitchens don’t have as many kinds of seasonings as in China, so there must be no soy sauce, and there is no white sugar, only sugar for drinking coffee, and a few cans of sticky pepper.
This is already a pretty good harvest.
At least the taste of this meal of rabbit meat comes from the fragrant pepper stew.
Then there are some things that are not needed but can't be found at sea, such as basins and bowls, or playing cards. Of course it was a struggle to get the playing cards out of the frozen plastic box. Only the middle part remained intact. Many cards at the front and back were soaked in water and rotted. Xia Yi searched almost all the rooms and managed to piece together a deck with five sets of playing cards.
Just after doing this, Xia Yi's hands exposed outside the water layer felt extremely cold.
The temperature is about five degrees Celsius. Although there is sunshine, it is difficult to feel the warmth.
It seems that this recreational activity is also difficult to carry out, Xia Yi feels very regretful.
But that's okay, there's chess!
The siren looked at these black and white chess pieces suspiciously, and then stared at the black and white chessboard with neat grids, obviously ignorant. The correction is that all mermaids don't understand this, at least not in the inheritance memory.
[Try not to let your chess pieces be eaten.]
[Can this be eaten?]
[Uh... No, it means that you will die when you encounter other chess pieces. You should try to use the smallest sacrifice in exchange for the greatest benefit.]Xia Yi racked his brains to speak, for him whose expressive ability is negative, this is obviously an extremely difficult task. So after three full hours, he still didn't play chess as he wished, and continued to be entangled in the rules, and diverged from the rules unconsciously to many aspects.
[This is a pawn, the soldier in the human army, with the lowest strength... You must constantly calculate the value of each chess piece. This is the queen, the most powerful of all chess pieces.]
[Why not a knight?]The mermaid said that this is the only impressive word in his memory, it should be very powerful! People who sailed said that being a knight was equivalent to becoming a member of the nobility. People who used to be at sea were very envious of the life of nobility.
[…the queen can have many knights under her command. ] This explanation is really weak!
[Then why not the king.]
The Siren grabbed the largest of the chess pieces, with a puzzled expression. From the logical view of sea monsters, the bigger the more fierce, the fewer the number. The word king also seems to have an impression, it seems to be very great, he can order many people to come to sea to rob him of treasures.
[The king can only take one step on the chessboard and cannot be the main battle.]
[Let the queen protect it? useless!]
[…]
Xia Yi reflected seriously, but unfortunately, except for the Siren, there was no sea monster that could play chess with him.
When Xia Yi fell asleep again, she woke up. The Siren finally figured out how to play this thing called "chess".
[This is Keto, it moves one square at a time and can only move forward, but it can move forward two squares for the first time, Keto likes to swim in waves, it can only eat the chess pieces that are diagonally ahead one square Not right in front... Just like Keto, it's okay, it doesn't know how to hunt, it only swims forward to see what to eat, the most worthless...]
Xia Yi stared straight at the chess pieces symbolizing "soldiers" in the hands of the mermaid, silently.
—The oarfish will cry!
[This is Kraken, you can walk horizontally and vertically, but you have to jump out one square to move one square. Or jump first and then walk horizontally or vertically...you can jump over the top of other chess pieces.]
—Kraken, are you happy to become a knight
Fortunately, chess is not Chinese chess! ? If the horse in Chinese chess encounters obstacles when jumping Japanese characters, it will not be able to jump over! No, the stingray's sturdy jumping ability has challenged the aircraft carrier and the iceberg, and it's nothing to block it! ! Just love to dance!
[This is Abiser and Uribia. They swim obliquely, and they can swim at one go...to move many grids without being restricted. But you can't jump, and you will be blocked when you encounter other chess pieces. Abiser and Uribia's bodies are covered with barbs and sucker teeth, so they have to walk separately when fighting, one can only walk in white grids, and the other can only walk in black grids.]
Xia Yi's eyelids started to twitch, why are octopus and squid "bishops", they look more like "castle"!
[This is Gululu, it can walk sideways and vertically, but not diagonally... It has a chance to protect the king. If the king moves two squares towards it, it can walk over other chess pieces and walk to the king's side...]
[Wait, who is the king?]Xia Yi has a strong sense of foreboding.
[Isn't it you?]
[…]
Xia Yi thinks that he doesn't need to ask the most sturdy queen who can move horizontally, vertically and obliquely, without the limit of steps, but can't overtake other chess pieces—who is it? !
[Come on, let's play chess.]The Siren lay down on the ice and fiddled with the chessboard enthusiastically. Through the transparent webs on his palm, he could see that the black stone chess piece he was playing in his hand was the king.
Xia Yi suddenly felt powerless.
[You are hungry? I'll go find something to eat first.]
[No, no!]Xia Yi said with a stiff expression,[I just can't imagine how to command eight Keto and two Kraken...]
It's crazy, okay? The entire seawater will be stirred into a boiling soup pot!
[It's okay, I'll let you eat them soon!]
[…]
He really wanted to tell the siren that the rule is that the hand must move when it touches the chess piece, and don't keep holding the king with the other hand when moving the chess!
At this time, under the solid ice layer, a huge transparent monster slowly floated up, and the gorgeous luster flowed on the surface, illuminating the deep ice sea.
Before Nereus could say hello, he heard the siren's voice:
[I ate your Abiser!]The siren grabbed a white "bishop".
Nereus' countless tentacles all fell down with a clatter, accidentally injuring countless sea creatures. Xia jellyfish shook its transparent body stupidly, and let out a scream: [Really?]
The author has something to say: In fact, I was prompted to write, Xia Yi: I tried to teach the sirens a recreational activity that one cannot do alone...
After thinking about it, I still picked up morality, and if I was shot as a headline, I would be wronged gd1806102