One of the sea routes from China to Europe is to take the South China Sea, the Strait of Malacca, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. Well, this is really a rush on the way, and there is a high incidence of pirates along the way. Xiao Peng returned to China from Uzbekistan to China, which is the channel he took.

The Northeast Passage is much shorter than the traditional Passage and can save at least more than 10 days of sailing, but it is frozen all year round and can only be opened for navigation for a few weeks in summer.

And the controversy over the Arctic shipping lanes has always been intense.

Since the Northeast Passage passes along the coast of Kuma, all ships passing through it must first pay a 'toll' to Kuma, because both the former Soviet Union and Kumakuni regard it as a domestic line of communication. In this regard, countries such as Stars and Stripes, Norway, Sweden, and Canada have always adhered to international rights, and have very strong opinions on the practice of collecting tolls in bear countries.

Of course, the Arctic Northwest Passage, which involves their own waters, is regarded by the Stars and Stripes and Canada as their own lines of communication, and they are also subject to 'tolls'.

While not letting others collect tolls, and on the other hand, he had to collect tolls himself, so Xiao Peng had to say: "Hooligans, they are all hooligans."

However, Xiao Pengzhi was not worried about the 'toll' of the Northeast Passage. Didn't you say that this is your own route? Lao Tzu is your religious high priest, and he is also your 'native'! Speed up! Don't delay Lao Tzu's time.

Only at this time did Xiao Peng feel that his religious identity was really 。。。。。。 Samuel, Samson, I thank you for your family for eighteen generations.

"Xiao Peng, come and see! What are those?" Yang Meng suddenly called out to Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng saw that two black guys were fighting on the sea, like whales, why were they still knocking around with sticks?

Xiao Peng picked up the binoculars and looked at it: "Hey, Mengzi, hurry up and lean over, you can see something funny, it's a unicorn in the sea ------ a narwhal!"

The narwhal, also known as the horned whale, is a whale that is absolutely impossible to confuse with other whales, and his appearance is absolutely unique. Because in the middle of their heads, the upper left side of their mouths stretches out a long 'horn' in a daze, and the length can reach two or three meters long, you know, they themselves are only four to five meters long. And that's where its name comes from.

In Western mythology and legends, the unicorn plays a pivotal role, it is the spokesperson of nobility and purity, and it is a must-have in various fantasy stories, and many people hope that the unicorn really exists.

Unfortunately, on Earth, all princes don't have horns on their heads, and if you want to find a unicorn on Earth, you can only go to the North Pole, and if you're lucky, you'll see a big guy with a horn on its head popping out of the water. That is, narwhals.

Some people will say, unicorns are white, narwhals are black! In fact, the older the narwhal, the more white it will appear on its body. Older narwhals are often mistaken for beluga whales because they are all snow-white.

Of course, the horns of a narwhal are not actually horns, but 。。。。。。 It's teeth!

I don't know what kind of joke God made when he created the thing, creating such a big tooth for the narwhal, which penetrates the narwhal's skin like a drill and exposes it outside the mouth, and the female narwhal actually has such tusks, but they are not so long that they cannot penetrate the skin. Regarding the role of this spiral tusk, to this day, many scholars and scientists do not have a unified answer, some say that it is to test the salinity of the ocean, some say that it is for predatory food, but one thing is certain, in the narwhal population, whoever has the thickest and longest tooth is the boss.

And if a male narwhal has a dispute, the way to deal with it is to fight with two big teeth, but the interesting thing is that although this long tooth is very sharp, it rarely happens to stab the other party, that is, to knock on each other. Whoever can't stand it first surrenders.

In the Middle Ages, the narwhal's teeth were used as unicorn horns, which were very expensive, ten times the same weight of gold! Doctors believed that grinding teeth into powder could cure all diseases, even resurrect the dead, and was said to have a detoxifying function, so the French royal family used it to make tableware, the Russian tyrant Ivan used it to make crutches, and the Austrian royal family in Hofsburg used it to make scepters.

Today, because whale oil is an important industrial raw material, and whale meat, tail fin can be edible, liver, pancreas, ovarians, pituitary gland can be used in medicine, huge economic interests lead to narwhal is still the object of human hunting, because of the single gene of narwhal, extremely picky eater, migration route unchanged, resulting in narwhal is also facing the danger of extinction, so far, the world has banned the narwhal tusk trade.

Of course, there are still people who take risks for this huge profit, and when visiting the cultural and entertainment market in China, there are often people who come over mysteriously: "Hey, brother, do you want whale teeth?" refers to the narwhal teeth.

However, ninety-nine out of a hundred such people sell fakes, and the rest can be caught directly. All right. Counterfeiters can also be arrested.

Whoever says that he sells narwhal teeth in China is right to call the police and arrest him: either he is a liar, or he is selling prohibited items. One catches one accurately.

Xiao Peng asked Yang Meng to keep his distance from the whales, and he ran back to the cabin and took out a manless machine. This was specially prepared by Xiao Peng when he came, just to shoot such a scene.

Xiao Peng's no-man-machine is not the DJI man-machine with the highest market share. It is Huaxia's domestic zero-degree non-man-machine. Although Zero-Degree Human-Machine is not as common as DJI-Human-Machine, it is unique in the professional aerial photography market, accounting for about one-third of the market. This kind of no-man-man machine is best suited for aerial photography.

Xiao Peng ran to the deck, operated a manless machine to shoot the scenes of the narwhal fight, and said with a sigh in his mouth: "I can write for the travel channel, Mengzi, come and see, how shocking!"

The two of them were having fun on the deck, only to find that one had a yacht sailing towards the whales.

"What kind of ship is that? It's not an Inuit whaling ship, is it?" Yang Meng asked.

Xiao Peng shook his head: "It shouldn't be, how could the Inuit drive a yacht to hunt whales? There can't be a yacht here, it should be driven somewhere else to play, I'll take a look first." After saying that, the control of the non-human machine flew over.

In the Arctic Circle, it is impossible for anyone to have a yacht, and as soon as the weather is cold, the yacht without the ability to break the ice is completely abandoned. It's supposed to take advantage of the ice-breaking months of summer, but even then be careful of the ice floes.

The Inuit lived in the Arctic Circle for thousands of years, and their only food was meat. You don't have to eat food here, do you? Whales, seals, reindeer, polar bears, etc., are all on their recipes. But they fought for their lives when they hunted whales. They used to whaling in a kind of sealskin boat called umiak, which usually carried eight people, six paddling, one at the helm and one throwing spear. Such small boats are extremely dangerous in the Arctic Ocean, so calfs like narwhals are the most popular prey of the Inuit. While the Inuit in Canada and Greenland have long been accustomed to motorized boats and snowmobiles, the Inuit in the bear country still maintain traditions, and most Inuit families hunt reindeer and other land animals during the summer months. So this is definitely not an Inuit whaling ship.

The drone flew towards the yacht and just got closer to see what was going on, but saw a young man walking out of the cabin with a gun and shooting at the plane, firing three shots but missing the plane. Just when Xiao Peng was about to laugh at his thoughts, a young man came out of the cabin and shot the drone directly.

Xiao Peng looked at the snowflakes on the screen of the no-man-machine operation, and Yang Meng, you look at me and I look at you: "Our no-man-machine has been knocked out?"

"yes. Yang Meng nodded.

"Is this girl crazy?" Xiao Peng was a little dumbfounded.

Yang Meng was also puzzled: "Where did this madman come from?"

As soon as the two of them ran back to the cockpit, they heard a radio call: "The Chinese ships in front, leave this sea area at speed! Otherwise, you will bear the consequences!"

"What kind of person is this? Do you have to bear the consequences? What kind of are you bragging about? Ma De Lao Tzu went to crash them!"

"Don't worry, let's see what they're going to do. Xiao Peng stopped Yang Meng. Grab your binoculars and look out the window.

didn't look at it for a long time, Xiao Peng said directly to Yang Meng: "Inform the crew and prepare for waves." ”

"Huh?" Yang Meng didn't react to what Xiao Peng's words meant, and turned his head to look at Xiao Peng.

"Damn, again?"

Yang Meng didn't know what was happening, but he still directly notified the whole ship to prepare for waves. And the bow of the ship has been turned and it is ready for impact. Yang Meng, who has always had a relaxed complexion, also looked serious at this time. The reason is very simple, Xiao Peng's facial expression is even more serious now than when the stick coast guard ship attacked him.

Yang Meng knew that this was the rhythm of something big, and he had never seen Xiao Peng so angry.

Xiao Peng was really angry this time. There are a group of men and women on the yacht, they are not very old, but they are brightly dressed, and at first glance they are not bad at the owner of money, not to mention anything else, just the 28-meter luxury yacht of the British Shengxi, that is, the high-end goods of more than 10 million US dollars! Those who can buy this kind of luxury yacht are absolutely local tyrants.

This group of people was obviously playing yacht party, and they were playing quite crazy, wine bottles were thrown everywhere, and some men and women were even entangled together naked as if no one was around.

If it was just these, Xiao Peng really wouldn't be angry. That's just someone else's way of life. Isn't it similar to this situation in the hot springs of Kamchatka?

What made Xiao Peng angry was that the young man who shot the drone just now actually moved an NSV from the cabin with a few other people and aimed it at the narwhal group!

They want whale hunting!