Chapter 385: Vampire Squid
PS: Update it to this today! It's tiring to work!
And at night, when most people are resting, Wei Hang goes to the sea alone, which has become a habit. That's the time to really explore the bottom of the ocean.
Not long after, Weihang appeared in the deep sea. In the deep sea, there is no such thing as night or day, it is all black and black, and some luminous creatures, like fireflies, light up the sparks and decorate this dark world.
However, in Wei Hang's eyes, there is also no difference between night and day, and all the qiē on the bottom of the sea are within his "line of sight", which is extremely clear.
Suddenly, two strange red lights appeared in the distance, like ghost fire, quite terrifying.
Wei Hang "looked" at the past and found that it was the ancestor of an octopus.
That's right, this is the vampire squid, also known as the ghost squid.
The vampire squid is neither a squid nor an octopus, the squid has 10 tentacles, while the vampire squid has only 8, which is very consistent with the octopus. However, octopuses do not have fleshy fins on their bodies, which in turn are unique to squid. So, the vampire squid is the common ancestor of the squid and the octopus before they diverged into two different species.
Wei Hang carefully observed and found that it was about 30 centimeters long, dark red or purplish red in color, with eight "wrists" and two "fins" that looked like two ears; its shape was like jelly, more like a jellyfish than a squid or squid; its sapphire eyes were very large, it was a small animal, but its spherical eyes were as big as a big dog's eyes.
Accustomed to seeing amazing sea creatures, it's not surprising to spot a peculiar octopus, the ancestor of modern octopuses and squid.
These things have lived on the earth for hundreds of millions of years, and they are not even extinct, so it can only be said that they are really powerful.
Their formidable enemies, plesiosaurs, have all disappeared from the face of the earth, and it is difficult to say whether they are extinct or not. Some biologists are always holding on to a bit of luck.
At that time, plesiosaurs were 10 meters long, fast and extremely ferocious, swimming in shallow waters in search of prey, and squid without a hard shell could easily become food for plesiosaurs. In this way, it seems that due to the advent of the plesiosaur, an offshore predator, the vampire squid in ancient times had to migrate deeper into the sea.
I saw it open its umbrella-like tentacles, instantly wrap a deep-sea fish inside, and then slowly digest it. The ability to prey is also first-class!
However, at this time, a shark swam in the distance.
The vampire squid immediately opened the light-emitting organ, opening the membrane and tentacles on its body at the same time. And wrap yourself. At the same time, it also gradually shrinks the light-emitting organs.
Looking at it this way, even Wei Hang felt that it looked like the vampire squid had escaped far away.
In fact, it did not move at all, but created the illusion that it had fled away, and when the shark approached, it released a small dot of light to further confuse the shark and prepare to escape.
Sure enough, people are still not extinct. Not without reason, there are its rules of survival, survival skills, and survival weapons.
Wei Hang recalled a characteristic of the creature. That's the garbage collector.
Perhaps, many people don't know that such an ancient creature would actually collect "garbage" in the ocean.
In fact. Vampire squid uses long, thin curls to catch marine debris floating in the water, including the eyes and legs of crustaceans and the droppings of larvae, which they cover with mucus before swallowing them.
From this point of view. This strange squid is an important part of the ecological balance of the ocean. Perhaps, it is precisely because of this that they are so favored by the ocean that they have survived to this day.
Unlike those ultimate killers of the ocean, who make waves in the sea all day long, killing innocents, reincarnating cause and effect, and finally can only perish.
The bottom of the sea is a very dangerous place, not only because of the countless dangerous creatures lurking underneath, waiting for an opportunity, but also because of the harsh natural environment of the deep seabed.
The undercurrents of various seabeds are no less than the floods of mountains and rivers, and even many times stronger. A huge undercurrent can destroy a hard and huge coral reef in an instant.
The phenomenon of the flow of water on the seafloor and the whirlpool of water is called seawater undercurrent.
As soon as Wei Hang wanted to leave, a swirling stream of water swept over, like an infinitely powerful tornado, causing Wei Hang to move instantly and disappear in place. However, a coral reef beneath him disappeared into thin air, and he was swept into the deep sea.
This kind of place is really not something that ordinary people can come to!
If it weren't for Haizhu, Wei Hang didn't know how many times he died. Just that force just now is enough to kill the blue whale that won the championship in size several times.
Coral reefs are as hard as rocks, but they are still swept away, and they are truly terrifying.
However, the more dangerous the place, the more treasures there are. Wei Hang found several dragon palace Weng Rong snails here, with a diameter of thirty or forty centimeters, and one was even almost half a meter thick and more than thirty centimeters high.
The color of the shell is red and yellow, and the pattern is like clusters of flames rising upward, shimmering with a pearl-like luster, and when you look at it dazzlingly, it looks like a burning mountain of flames, or like a pyramid showering in the sunset, or a majestic palace plated with red gold, which is amazingly gorgeous.
Wei Hang threw it directly into Haizhu, and when the time came, he could sell one for two or three million, so as to relieve the financial pressure! Anyway, he was short of money now.
When he learned about the oil burning capacity of the current large fishing boat, his scalp was numb, and if he didn't have a small asset, he probably wouldn't be able to support such a big oil drinker.
Wei Hang enjoyed the underwater scenery along the way while traveling, and at the same time picked up treasures, as long as they were known, or treasures that seemed valuable, they were all swept away by him.
Suddenly, there was a sea floor in front of me, paved with pebble-like stones.
Wei Hang dodged over and picked up a piece, dark brown, a little heavy-handed, like a piece of metal.
This kind of thing, he had heard, was called manganese nodules. It is a seabed mineral with great development value, and the amount is very large.
Looking at the manganese nodules densely laid on the front in front of him, Wei Hang had to sigh that the bottom of the sea was indeed the last granary of mankind! All kinds of resources were so abundant that human beings could not imagine it at all.
Manganese nodules have various forms, including spherical, oval, potato-like, grape-shaped, flat, slag-shaped, etc. The size of manganese nodules also varies greatly, ranging from a few microns to tens of centimeters, and the largest weighs tens of kilograms.
It contains more than 30 kinds of metal elements, among which the most commercially exploitable are manganese, copper, cobalt, nickel, etc.
It is a pity that the conditions for human development are not yet satisfied. Otherwise, why worry about the depletion of resources? (To be continued......)