Chapter Fifty-Nine: A Surprise Discovery

After more than ten days of struggle, the whole sperm whale was left with its huge head, and the rest was taken care of by me, but there was still a lot of meat left on the skeleton, but it didn't matter.

Half a month, in order to prevent the rot and stink of the sperm whale, I will wash the whale's body with seawater at high tide, one is to wash away the blood and meat scraps that are easy to rot to reduce the rate of decay, and the other is that the sea water has a certain salinity to prevent decay.

I cut the lean meat into long arm-thick strips and dried them on a wooden frame, and as for the thick fat meat, I strung them with bamboo ropes and hung them one by one on the stem of the coconut tree to dry.

Luckily, it's always sunny during this time, which speeds up the drying of whale meat, which is wrapped in the smell of whale meat on these days.

The fishy smell, aroma, and foul smell of whale meat permeate the whole island, and because of the sunny weather in this half month, the whale meat dries very quickly and rarely rots.

In order to preserve the air-dried whale meat, I built a simple shed, and gathered all the dried whale meat to prevent rain, and even my house was full of whale meat.

Now that the whole sperm whale is left with its huge head untreated, I know there's something very important there, and that's whale wax.

Cetacean wax tissue is a substance unique to sperm whales, and the scientific community believes that cetacean wax has two uses, one is similar to dolphins used to echolocate a mirror image but is much more advanced than dolphins, and the other is used for diving, because the food of sperm whales mainly lives in giant squid at 2000 meters in the deep sea, and this cetawhale wax is likely to be a submarine-like water tank that helps sperm whales dive.

I don't care what this whale wax does, but for me this whale wax can be made into a candle for me to illuminate.

Now I will start to deal with the sperm whale's head, I don't need its flesh anymore, but there is a substance in the sperm whale's head, which is whale wax.

This kind of thing was originally used to make candles, and now the main ingredient of high-end lipsticks is sperm whale wax.

I don't use it to make my own lipstick, I mainly want to use it for lighting, it is said that the lantern in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is made of sperm whale wax and can not be extinguished for thousands of years.

If I make a candle, I don't have to wander in the dark anymore.

In fact, after more than ten days, the sperm whale's whale wax has flowed out of its body, I don't know what the specific reason is, but it does flow out a lot, because the cetanine wax is white semi-condensed, and there are a lot of it in the mouth and nose of the sperm whale.

Since cetamine wax is in a liquid state, it will only condense at low temperature or by adding a catalyst artificially, of course, I don't know what to add to condense.

So I weave a couple of baskets out of bamboo before collecting the ceta, and wrap them in the whale's stomach and intestines, or make pockets directly from the sperm whale's intestines so I can use them to hold the cetawhale.

I made an opening in the middle and lower part of the sperm whale's huge head, at first I thought that the sperm whale's big head would have a skull, but I didn't expect this big head to be made of fat and muscle, but it was a little harder than the other parts of the sperm whale's body, and there was no bone at all, and it was easy to cut it with a knife.

As soon as the mouth opened, the clear and transparent mucus that seemed to be oil, not oil, water, and non-water flowed out, and at first the cetacean wax could flow out on its own, but slowly it stopped flowing, so I opened the mouth wide and finally turned it into a hole the size of a bucket, and I used coconut shells to pull out the cetacean wax.

However, with the expansion of the opening, a special smell also came out, some fishy smell and some chemical agents, by the way, with a fishy smell of wax oil after burning.

For some reason, the cetaline wax began to solidify, and the white solidification hung all over the edges of the bamboo basket like wax, and even the coconut shell was coated with a layer of wax, which was very inconvenient to use.

Fortunately, I had a few baskets full, but there were still a lot of whale wax left, so I had to give up.

I endured the unpleasant smell and took out the last whale wax with the coconut shell, but I suddenly felt that the coconut shell touched a hard object, I didn't know what this hard object was, I just thought that the sperm whale's head was just a cavity inside, and it was filled with only cetacean wax, but I didn't expect there to be other substances.

Out of curiosity, I touched it with my hand, but I didn't expect this hard object to move, but it was certainly not a living thing, out of curiosity, I held my breath and reached in with both hands, grabbed the hard object and pulled it out of the opening.

I saw that the thing I took out was an irregular oval shape, much larger than a basketball, and there were ravines of different shades on the surface, like a big egg that was not smooth.

This large gray-white egg is somewhat similar to jade, but it is very soft, and marks can be cut with fingernails, and on closer inspection it seems to be hard waxy, and I first wondered if it was a sperm whale stone.

I immediately thought of ambergris, and people say that ambergris is a stone in the intestines of sperm whales, and this could not be a mistake, I think this thing taken out of the head of a sperm whale is very much like ambergris.

Could it be that ambergris is a stone in the head of a sperm whale and not a stone in the intestines, or both?

Whatever it is, it doesn't seem like I'm concerned, but with the meat of these whales, I don't have to worry about food in the future, and I'm going to have a good rest for a few days.

I've been tired for more than half a month, but there is one thing I haven't done before resting, and that is the stones in the intestines of sperm whales.

I used bamboo to weave a bamboo cage to put all the stones in, found a low-lying place to put the bamboo cage and the stones down, and then pressed them with a larger stone, so that I didn't have to worry about being carried away by the tide.

Maybe after a long time of wind and rain and sea water erosion, these stones will become ambergris, I can't use these ambergris, just leave it to the destined people. I rested for a week without doing anything, and every day was just enjoying whale meat and living a carefree and fairy-like life.

But I know very well that this is not the life I want, I have to leave this island and return to the real world, even if I disappear into the vast sea, I will not live on this island in a mess