Chapter 214: Giant Algae!
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At this time, he saw clearly what kind of plant it was:
It turned out that Chen Fan found a section of more than ten meters long in the originally turbulent seawater, which looked like a big guy with a belt at a glance.
If this plant was a little smaller, Chen Fan would definitely be entangled by the other party.
But......
One by one, although they were large, they were also very wide, and when they were unfolded, they were more than thirty centimeters in the part that Chen Fan touched.
In this way, it is not easy for people to be entangled.
At the same time, as Chen Fan touched it, the faint, somewhat sticky feeling was quite similar to the feeling of kelp touching.
The reef was in front of him, and Chen Fan grabbed one seaweed now, replaced it with two more, and slowly approached the reef beach.
In his mind, he finally got the message:
It should be a giant algae, which is a genus of macroalgae in the family Kelp of the phylum Brown Algae. This type of individual can be more than 100 meters long, so it is called macroalgae. Mature macroalgae are generally 70 meters ~ 80 meters long, and the longest can reach 500 meters.
This seaweed is not only large, but also very long, and with the help of the translucent sea, Chen Fan can see the whole clearly.
It is translucent, brown, leathery, and according to the information in mind, this type of lifespan is about ten years. Divided into retainers, shanks and blades.
The retainer is cylindrical, surrounded by staggered clusters of bifurcated lateral branches. The shank is cylindrical. The adult leaves are long, narrow sheets arranged in parallel, with air sacs that make the upper half of the algae float flat on the water.
This made Chen Fan see a previous documentary, which said that a team of oceanographic expeditions found a group of giant algae swarms that could reach 200 to 300 meters and weigh 200 kilograms on the North Pacific coast.
Moreover, according to the statistics of others, a giant algae is fixed on the reef by a sessator more than 1 meter long, and there are more than 100 small stalks like branches growing on it, and there are small leaves on the stalks, some of which are more than 1 meter long and 6 cm to 17 cm wide.
In the middle and upper part of the current Chen Fan's grasp, there are air sacs on a large number of leaves, which can generate enough buoyancy to lift the leaves of the giant algae and even the entire algae.
These air sacs are regularly arranged on both sides of the main veins on the leaves, and where the giant algae grows luxuriantly, the huge leaves can be layered on top of each other to cover hundreds of square kilometers of the sea.
Also due to the effect of the air sac, the algae can float on the sea surface, making the sea surface appear brown, so some people call it "big floating algae".
Giant algae is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world. Under the right conditions, each kelp can grow 30 to 60 centimeters in a day. In a year, a giant algae tree can grow to more than 50 meters.
Before Chen Fan came down, the drone and the air raft were still on the water, and the weather at this time could only be said to be relatively good.
Therefore, he can still see the air cushion raft through the virtual screen.
"Fortunately, I wasn't blown over by the wind and waves, and this is what I was most worried about. ”
However, what he didn't know at all was that the air cushion raft produced by the system did not capsize at all, but the ability to withstand gravity on it was limited.
If you add an adult, that's not necessarily the case.
Therefore, Chen Fan now took advantage of the help of this pile of giant algae, one by one, and slowly approached the reef area.
Since it is an island deposited by volcanic lava, Chen Fan slowly approached, and he could also find many bubble-shaped rocky beaches that had been cooled by the water temperature and rose up.
And this smooth, strands of outward reef are covered with dense vegetation, algae, and the gooseneck barnacles that were previously found.
Chen Fan controlled his strength, held his breath and concentrated, slowly, slowly, and moved forward......
At this time, he really arrived at the shore, and he was already underwater, snorkeling for nearly four minutes, and in his chest, he only felt that a suppressed air was suppressed.
My head began to feel a little sullen, like the feeling of having eaten in the afternoon and being exposed to the sun.
Chen Fan knew that this was a signal of lack of oxygen to the brain, and if he didn't breathe ashore within four or five minutes, it was very likely that he would suffocate and cause syncope.
This is at sea, or in a reef-lined area.
So, the consequences can be imagined.
Fortunately, when Chen Fan saw a large area covered with barnacles, and further up, there was a stone pillar that grew upwards independently.
It is not known whether it was formed by the eruption of lava or by erosion by seawater.
Chen Fan resisted the danger of being pricked by barnacles and polyps, slowly approached, and then hugged it with both hands.
And then he slowly slid up, up...
Finally, after crawling for about a minute, Chen Fan finally showed his head.
And less than a meter and a half in front of him, there is another large reef.
"Poof......
"Poof......
Chen Fan panted vigorously, but the cable tied to his body did not dare to relax, and he grabbed it with one hand and slowly came over.
Bang!
After a crashing sound, Chen Fan finally arrived to catch the oncoming air cushion raft.
The 20-kilogram air cushion raft itself is made of special material, so it does not have much impact and does not cause damage.
"Ok friends, I am finally the lucky of the lucky, and I can finally land on the shore. ”
This is really equivalent to an abnormal Normandy login, although it is personal, Chen Fan is still very happy.
He talked about the encounter with the algae underwater, and the small currents below.
Especially when this thing was talking, he also grabbed a gooseneck barnacle in his hand, and gently swiped it with a dagger, and the juice splashed everywhere, and the barnacle was eaten by him.
"Awesome, cool, exciting, and scented with fresh water, I feel like I don't have to go back tonight. ”
"Heh, that's it, the anchor, you still want to go back, you can pull it down!"
"Even if you want to go back, can you still bring the goat back, I just saw your broken boat tossing and turning. ”
"Yes, although there are snakes at night, it is better than feeding Wang Ba in the sea, so you can bear with it!"
……
"Uh......"
Chen Fan felt that his soul was critically attacked, and he felt like his IQ was pressed to the ground and rubbed his feet.
"Isn't this just a joke with you? ”
"You let me go back, I won't go back!"
Chen Fan was in a commotion, talking to himself, and ate another barnacle.
After a two-minute break, one person, one boat, the landing was successful.
Just before Chen Fan fished the little green dragon not far away, when he carried the raft, arrived in a safe area, put the raft away, and then followed the footprints to find the dead black goat, only to find that it was already crawling with a lot of marine iguanas.
"Damn, aren't you vegetarians? Are you sending me sea salt to pickle?"
Chen Fan looked at the big guys sneezing and constantly crawling around on the goats, and laughed at himself.
However, when he finally sensed something unusual about the goat, he realized what was going on. I want to talk with more like-minded people about "Live Broadcast of the Wilderness Survival Integration System", WeChat attention "", talk about life, find a confidant~