Chapter 872: Death Stranding
There was nothing to be gained today, and the rare sea creatures were not absent, but they were all small and immature juveniles, Zhang Zi'an picked them up and inspected them, and then released them back into the ocean, and then continued to look down.
"Uncle!
Behind him came the sound of crackling footsteps, a characteristic sound of the soles of shoes hitting the wet sand.
But Zhang Zi'an didn't look back - is my uncle a ghost? Anyway, it's definitely not me.
"Uncle!
The footsteps were closer.
A figure swooped out from the side and stopped in front of Zhang Zi'an.
"Uncle, you...... Don't you have a bad ear?"
A lively-looking little boy panted on his knees, perhaps due to strenuous exercise or the sea breeze, his cheeks flushed like fire.
Zhang Zi'an: "...... Why do you call me uncle?"
The little boy blinked stunned, "You are younger than my father, why don't you call your uncle?"
Zhang Zi'an couldn't help but sigh that the world is declining, and now children can't speak.
He looked at no one on the left and right, bent down and said seriously: "Of course it's called brother, you see I'm not a few years older than you, isn't it called brother?"
The little boy looked at his face carefully, and it didn't look like he was just a few years older than himself.
“...... Okay, brother, you look idle, can you come with me? My dad needs help. The little boy no longer bothered with the question of uncle or brother, and pointed to the distance, looking very anxious.
Zhang Zian said that I look idle?
He glanced in the direction the little boy pointed, and then looked up at the sky with a sense of understanding, the sky was cloudless, and the kite was gone.
"You flew that kite just now?" he asked.
"Uh-huh...... Come with me!" The little boy couldn't help but say, took Zhang Zi'an's arm and left.
"Wait, what the hell is going on?" Zhang Zi'an was dragged by him and involuntarily followed.
The little boy raised his hand and pointed, "There's a whale on the shore over there!"
"What?"
Zhang Zi'an was stunned, "Whale?"
"Well, it looks like it's dying, my dad and I saw it when we were flying a kite, and we wanted to push it back into the sea, but we couldn't push it......," said the boy.
"Wait!"
Zhang Zi'an stopped.
He didn't resist just now, otherwise how could this little boy's strength pull him?
The little boy felt as if he was pulling on a pillar, stumbling and almost slipping.
"Brother, why are you like this, that whale is really dying!" the little boy jumped to his feet in anger and was about to cry.
Zhang Zi'an grabbed him with his backhand, "Are you stupid? What's the use of me in the past? Do you really think that the three of us are Hulks, and we can push a whale? Wait for me to make a phone call first." ”
He first checked the phone number of the number station, asked for the phone number of the local fishery department, and then called the fishery department to inform them of the location of the place, saying that a whale had run aground here, and asked them to send a tugboat as soon as possible.
The little boy scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously, and kept urging him.
After Zhang Zi'an finished calling, he still did not follow the little boy forward, but pulled the little boy to his car, took out several empty plastic storage boxes from the car, and overlapped them.
"What are you doing with this? Do you want to wait for the whale to die, cut a few pieces of meat and take it home to make dumplings filled with whale meat at noon?" the little boy asked suspiciously.
"Your imagination is too rich, isn't it?" Zhang Zi'an didn't have time to explain, locked the car door and said, "Let's go over first." ”
The little boy led the way, and Zhang Zi'an followed behind with a plastic storage box in both hands.
After a while, they turned a corner along the coastline, and a large, streamlined body appeared not far ahead, and a middle-aged man stood next to it.
"Dad, I'm back!" shouted the little boy, "I've run all around the neighborhood, but I only found this man!"
"Xiaozhi, why did you come back? I'm still worried that you've got lost......
The middle-aged man was still carrying an H-shaped kite crutch in his hand, and the goldfish kite was lying on the nearby beach, pressed against the reef to prevent it from being blown away by the wind.
"Hello, what's going on?" Zhang Zi'an nodded to the middle-aged man, his gaze falling on the whale.
"Oh, I went out with my son to fly a kite, and when I ran here, I saw this whale stranded, I thought it might not survive, but my son Xiaozhi had to find someone to save it...... "Oh, by the way, my surname is Huang, just call me Lao Huang." ”
It can be seen from his expression and tone that Lao Huang is reluctant to be involved in trouble, but because of his son's constant begging, he waited patiently here, probably because he didn't want his child's innocent innocence to be frustrated.
Lao Huang and his son Xiaozhi are dressed very ordinary, and it seems that they should be ordinary working families.
Zhang Zi'an also reported his name.
The flat, pointed head, white pectoral fins, gray-black back and white thorax and abdomen indicate that a semi-adult minke whale is stranded on the beach, about five meters long and weighing about three tons, lying on its side on the beach at a 45-degree angle.
Its chest and abdomen rise and fall slightly, and from time to time it shakes its caudal fin, shaking its dorsal and pectoral fins twice, but the shaking is getting smaller and smaller.
Lao Huang rolled up his sleeves and said, "My son and I tried it just now, but we can't push it, why don't we three try again......?"
His trouser legs were drenched, but they were wet near his knees, and his shoes and socks were taken off and placed in a high place where the waves could not hit.
"No need to try, we won't be able to push. Zhang Zi'an shook his head.
"Don't you have a stick, let's try to pry it?" Xiao Zhi said reluctantly, "Didn't you say that you can pry the earth with a fulcrum? It should be no problem to pry a whale?"
Zhang Zi'an: "My stick is plastic, and I can't even pry it myself, let alone pry a whale......"
"On the way here, I have already informed the local fishery department, and they may be able to arrive in a moment. Recently, the city government has repeatedly called for the protection of whales in its local waters, and they should not sit idly by. Zhang Zi'an briefly introduced the situation to Lao Huang.
"If the government workers are coming, can we evacuate first? Your mother is still cooking at home and waiting for us to go back and eat." Lao Huang said the first half of the sentence to Zhang Zi'an, and the second half of the sentence was to his son, obviously retreating.
"Let's wait a minute. Zhang Zi'an said: "Let's not overestimate the response speed of government departments. Come, let's each take a basin and take turns watering the whale to prevent it from heat stroke. ”