201 Volume 1 Open 11 Old Turtle - Ambergris
At 11 o'clock in the evening, Chen Xing had already finished a full set of exercise programs, and the others had already gone back to rest for tomorrow's netting homework. As long as Chen Xing maintains 4 hours of adequate sleep, he will provide enough energy for the day, which makes him at least 4 hours more rich than ordinary people, and from this point of view, he has 1/6 more life than others.
In the current workout program, Chen Xing is at ease, but after it is over, he is still sweating. Back in the room, Captain Pan had already fallen asleep, Chen Xing took a shower first, and then sat down at the table in the living room and picked up the "Summary of Spanish Law", a bright smile like the bright moon and sunshine appeared in his mind, full of passion and motivation, with his terrifying reading and memory speed to look at it, hundreds of pages of books, half an hour, all engraved in Chen Xing's mind, even the punctuation marks are not bad.
At 12 o'clock, Chen Xing finished reading the "West China Dictionary" at a faster speed, which was also like an imprint and profound in the brain. Coupled with the English, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic and other related books he finished reading in the first five days, Chen Xing can say that the foundation of these six foreign languages has been solid, and he is close to integrating them into practical application. "In two days, after reading Korean and Japanese, I can listen to the tapes that Myeongyue gave me to practice listening and speaking. Chen Xing thought excitedly.
Lying on the bed, because of the excitement and the special thought of Mingyue, Chen Xing couldn't sleep. "I don't get up until 6 o'clock in the morning to get off the net, and it's only 12 o'clock now, so let's just go out and go around." Thinking of this, Chen Xing put on big shorts, put on a vest, and quietly walked out of the warehouse door. Everyone slept, and there was no noise on the ship except for the rumble of the engines.
Chen Xing came to the lookout in front of the cockpit and looked at the Russian first mate on duty in the wheelhouse, he fell asleep on the table, and he didn't pay much attention to the calm sea today.
Chen Xing grabbed the high-powered telescope fixed on the left side of the observatory and aimed at the moon in the sky, it was the middle of the night, but today was the seventh day of the lunar calendar, it was the lack of the moon, the moon was like a curved eyebrow, hanging high in the air, and in the lens of the high-powered telescope, even the concave and convex places on the surface of the moon could be seen clearly.
"When there is a chance, it would be nice to be able to step on the moon with Mingyue, hand in hand, step on the moon and the sky, and look at the earth, what a romantic thing it is!" With a beautiful imagination, Chen Xing adjusted the telescope to a position parallel to the sea surface, glanced at it casually, and was about to retract his gaze, when he suddenly found that he saw a floating black shadow in the lens.
Chen Xing hurriedly aimed the telescope at the position of the black shadow, about 2000 meters away, it was not clear to the naked eye, he looked at it with the eyes of the sky, it was a piece of driftwood rafted with a worn-out net rope, there was no buoy, it should be abandoned by which ship, it seemed to be a long time, and the net rope on it was very densely wrapped. But how is there a round object moving on it, and then look closely, it turns out to be a sea turtle, tightly entangled by the net rope, is struggling, how can the net cable is too dense, the more you struggle, the tighter you struggle, the tighter you struggle. That direction, looking at the currents, should be the opposite of the Aristotle.
What should I do? To save or not to save? Then he quickly observed all the people on the boat with the eye of the sky, and they all fell asleep, Chen Xing quietly walked to the stern, his swimming level has improved by leaps and bounds in the past 10 months, coupled with his physical fitness and superhuman ability, there should be no problem at 2000 meters. When going down to the deck, take out a sailor's knife for cutting fish from the toolbox of the central mast, and when you get to the stern, take off the big shorts and vest and put them on the stacked net, which is the most convenient place to go to sea, where you can store the workboat, and go down a few steps directly to the sea.
Ten minutes later, Chen Xing, who was wearing underwear, swam to the abandoned driftwood, the sea water was very cold, and he didn't use full speed, it was the first time to swim so far in the sea in the middle of the night, and he was still a little apprehensive in his heart. Behind him, the Aristotle loomed, and he seemed to be alone in the vast sea. Chen Xing didn't care about anything else, and after carefully observing that there was no danger, he boarded the flowwood row.
The raft is not big, 3 meters * 4 meters, but this turtle is big enough, and the shell on its back is at least 2 meters in diameter, at least Chen Xing has never seen such a big turtle. Seeing Chen Xing ascend to the flowing wood, the turtle also stopped struggling, probably not feeling malice. Chen Xing first used a fish cutting knife to cut off the tightly wound net rope on the turtle's body and dragged it into the sea, so that the turtle's whole body was completely exposed.
The night was very dark, and the sea water shone with the faint light of a crescent moon, but under Chen Xing's extraordinary eyesight, he could still clearly see the whole picture of the turtle's body. Chen Xing couldn't help but gasp, only to see that the texture on the huge turtle's back was clear and clumsy, as if it contained the truth of the world, but it was like a book from heaven, and 12 10 centimeters square words were obviously artificially engraved on the edge of the turtle's back, but it was not any language that Chen Xing knew, and under the erosion of the years and the sea, he could only see the general outline, and he didn't know how to inlay a round object under each word, with a diameter of about 3-5 centimeters.
What is this situation? How could such a mysterious sea turtle appear in the deep sea area of the Indian Ocean? Who carved those 12 mysterious words, and what are the 12 objects embedded in the turtle shell? Chen Xing was full of doubts.
This turtle may be a few years old, and since Chen Xing cut the net rope, it has stretched its neck and looked at him silently, its eyes containing endless vicissitudes and indifference to everything. When Chen Xing came back to his senses and looked at the old turtle, the old turtle nodded slowly at him again, God, is this a sign of gratitude?
Chen Xing was a little confused. Immediately his heart moved, and he tried to observe the old turtle with the eye of the sky, and the moment the feeling of the eye of the day came into contact with the old turtle, a trace of excitement and kindness appeared in the eyes of the old turtle, and his neck also swayed slightly. Chen Xing found that the old turtle's neck couldn't be retracted, and there was a volleyball-sized object at each end of the neck that blocked the retraction of the old turtle's muscles. Feeling the excitement of the old turtle, Chen Xing tentatively asked, "Do you want me to help you remove these two things?"
The old turtle nodded slowly. Chen Xing stepped forward to take a look, it was two gray irregular spheres like wax, I don't know how to inlay them on the shells on both sides of the old turtle's neck, just blocking the retraction of the neck muscles, which is cruel enough.
Through the observation of the eye of the sky, Chen Xing found the part of the mosaic connection, and now he has a lot of strength, so he still used all his strength to pry off the two round spheres with a fish cutting knife, and after smelling it, there was a faint fragrance.
Putting the two spheres on the side of the flowing wood, seeing that the old turtle had been able to slowly shrink its neck into the shell, Chen Xing patted the old turtle's shell with relief and said, "It's okay, old man, you are free, return to the sea." ”
The old turtle slowly turned his neck twice, getting used to the feeling of his muscles expanding freely, and then looked at Chen Xing with gratitude, and then at his back shell, like this a few times. Chen Xing understood a little, climbed onto the back shell of the old turtle, touched one of the bead-like inlays, and asked again, "Do you want me to help you get these too?"
The old turtle nodded in confirmation.
It took a great deal of effort to pry the twelve beads off the old tortoise's shell. Lying on the back of the turtle for a short rest, Chen Xing thought leisurely in his heart: "What kind of fairy is this, catch such a big turtle, put two eggs on the neck, and embed twelve yo-yos on the back, engrave twelve words in the heavenly book that no one can understand, and then release them to the vast Indian Ocean to play performance art?
Feeling the old turtle under him move slightly, Chen Xing also climbed down from the turtle's back. The old turtle glanced at him again, his eyes were full of parting, grateful, relaxed and free, cordial and affectionate. Chen Xing didn't know how he could see so much emotion in the eyes of a turtle, could it be a turtle that had become a sperm?
The old turtle lowered his head, pushed forward the thing that Chen Xing had pried off in front of him with his mouth, and then used the sharp toes of his forelimbs to pull off a scale the size of a one-yuan coin from his low forehead and pushed it next to the pile of beads. Chen Xing actually understood that it was the old turtle who wanted to give these things to himself, could it be that this turtle alone already had a heart-to-heart connection?
Watch the old turtle slowly climb down the swaying raft of driftwood, swim around itself, and slowly swim north, and finally slowly sink to the bottom of the sea. Chen Xing knew that they would definitely meet again, this was a feeling, but Chen Xing knew that it would be, could it be that this was a new kind of prediction? He also felt inexplicable.
Chen Xing cut off a piece of mesh with a knife, wrapped the two spheres, twelve beads and the turtle scales tightly, tied them to his chest, and went back to study it slowly, what is this? People who are in love always remember each other in their hearts, this feeling, happiness!
It was almost 2 o'clock when he returned to the boat, Chen Xing put on big shorts and a vest, put back the fish cutting knife, quietly returned to his room, and took a shower to wash off the seawater. Since it was late, he didn't continue to study the bag, and after stuffing it under his bed, he really fell into a deep sleep on the bed, and he was exhausted.
A vague aroma rose from under the bed, and if Chen Xing was knowledgeable enough, he would know that this was the smell of ambergris, or the best ambergris.