CHAPTER XXXVII

The Florida Everglades has always been a reptilian paradise, where native North American reptiles breed alongside creatures that have been imported as pets over the years and then run away or abandon them into the Everglades. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 InfoInside a mound of rotting leaves in the swamp, there were several oblong eggs, one of which was particularly large, three times the size of the others. The mound wasn't completely covered, and next to the egg was a dead Mississippi crocodile that was starting to rot, with its tail just above it.

The predators didn't notice the egg, and the scavenging creatures were busy devouring the dead three-meter-long adult Mississippi alligator. And just as the crocodile was almost devoured and began to fall apart, the only surviving giant egg finally hatched.

People don't know what happened in the Everglades, but there was one, a middle-aged marine biologist who didn't devote himself to the now-popular sea dragon expedition and the sea monster that attacked the U.S. Navy fleet, but endured the danger of being ridiculed and threw himself into a legendary Caribbean event. He vaguely remembered meeting a girl as a child, and together they saw a turtle crawling on the beach. He couldn't remember what happened next, but there seemed to be something special about the turtle, and years earlier, he had heard the legend of the giant turtle in the Caribbean Sea from a local fisherman......

For a long time, among the fishermen of the Caribbean, it has been said that there is a very, very large sea turtle in this sea, these amazing creatures are the spirits of the sea, their huge bodies are bigger than a football field, and only the bravest fishermen will see them in the strongest storms. For a long time, these were considered nonsense of fishermen, and they belonged to the local customs. But at the moment of the appearance of the sea dragon, and even before the appearance of the octopus sea monster that attacked the American fleet, such rumors had already attracted a number of marine biologists to investigate - although most of them, after careful research, still believed that this was just a local legend and abandoned further action. And this marine biologist named Carl is the one who hasn't given up until now, which is why he is considered a stubborn eccentric in college and among his peers.

Thanks to Honglong, marine biology has once again become a popular subject, this time purely out of interest, and many teenagers who love biology have become reservists. But now, the biologists and the biotech company staff need to focus on how to catch the sea dragon in front of them. This is not only a problem of biological science, but also a serious legal and social problem - the power of animal protection organizations is not small at all.

Legally, these people had to address the law that allowed the sea dragon to be captured for research, after all, it was a creature that was not included in the Washington Convention's list of the most endangered animals, but was in fact a highly protected creature in the United States. So they have to have a hearing and a number of experts to evaluate it -- including the pharmaceutical companies, of course.

The technical question is how to catch this sea dragon, the less damage it can cause, the better, but this is a dangerous man-eating beast, so the safety of people must also be considered. The trap has been put to the back, and the anesthetic is now put in the first place. They were going to deal with the sea dragon in a relatively gentle way, by placing an oral anesthetic in the food. As for the tranquilizer projectile that pierces the sea dragon's scale armor, it is now being designed - thanks to the fact that they have a sample of the scale armor in their hands, they can measure the hardness of the creature's carapace.

Hong Long knew that someone was fighting him, and now he was considering whether to change places, and the initial idea was to go south along the coastline of North America and find a place to live in the cliffy fjords of the Andes Mountains in South America jutting into the Pacific Ocean. But in addition to being discovered by humans, daily life here is actually very easy and comfortable, which also makes this guy a little lazy to leave - "After all, you only need to hide in the sea, I don't think anyone can catch Lao Tzu." ”

Such an idea is typical of Luther's thoughts, and it is also the thinking of the vast majority of mortals in this society. Although Hong Long is no longer a human but a carnivorous sea dragon, some of his ideas still have human characteristics. In fact, most animals are like this. So he dragged it off.

This delay was five months, and although the scientists did not get closer to the sea dragon's activity area, the collection of data over the past few days allowed them to further narrow down the range of the sea dragon's daily activities and summarize the movement patterns of the sea monster. In their eyes, this is not a strange creature, similar to an ordinary animal, its daily activities are to find food and rest, and life is its only thought. It's no wonder they think so, Hong Long perfectly shows the life attitude of a pig - this is also the life attitude of an otaku. What makes him better than an otaku is that he is active enough and has enough food and clothing to do it himself.

Five months is enough time for a single hearing to complete all the processes, and legislatively enough to complete the whole process – as long as the financiers behind it are urgent enough and can come up with enough money. Plans to capture sea dragons have been devout, and pharmaceutical companies are even willing to donate large sums of money to conservation programs for sea dragons and symbiotic tiger fish - including cloning projects.

A little further south, pharmaceutical companies have bought large tracts of land and are building buildings and research facilities on the reserve, which they are willing to donate to the federal government for free when they complete their research. Norton Bay is the site of this construction, and at the innermost point of the bay there is a bay that serves as the sea dragon's activity. Fueled by money, the construction proceeded very quickly, but before the construction was completed, it was necessary to carry out the first capture of the sea dragon for the implantation of radio equipment.

Hong Longke didn't know that he had been targeted, and this guy had recently fallen into a predation frenzy before he lost his shell. The sea monster devoured twice as much food as before, while constantly nibbling on certain rocks and sand to replenish its body. The scientists were a little puzzled by such a move, but soon something came to their ecstasy - Hong Long fell into a pre-fading dormancy......