CHAPTER XLIII
It is common for lower organisms to be able to digest inorganic salts and metal compounds without being poisoned by heavy metals, but it seems that a large warm-blooded creature like a sea dragon can do this, and I am afraid that it is the only one. It's a pity that scientists don't know www.biquge.info At present, there is no one who is most enthusiastic about catching sea dragons than pharmaceutical companies, but even they do not dare to risk the world, such as animal protection organizations, and directly say that we want to catch sea dragons, and call them scientific investigations in the name of praise. However, they did release some research results, although they did not mention the special efficacy of the active ingredients in the body of the sea dragon, but just the study of the daily activities of the sea dragon and some of the body structure of the sea dragon as in the animal world is enough to become a hot topic for a while.
The only thing that is even more popular is the frequent sea monster attacks in the Philippine Sea - these events are quite frequent, there are few survivors, many ships are missing, and it is uncertain whether they have been attacked by sea monsters - these are mainly poor fishermen, who have to go out to sea to catch their livelihood and have to go to the deep sea, so they are tragic.
As a salvage measure for all these things, the big East Asian countries on the mainland have accelerated the pace of reclamation and island building, and the first thing to move is the yellow rock island. The plan is to expand into a medium-sized city with lagoon ports capable of taking off and landing heavy transport aircraft, as well as hospitals, schools, bases, communities and shopping malls, hotels and factories, although this tour may be a little dangerous at the moment, but there are certainly plenty of bigwigs who are willing to risk spending money to see man-eating sea monsters in the sky.
Although the first water patrol plane to take off from the island may be late, it will probably be able to save some people, not to mention that if you bring a depth charge or something, you may be able to blow up this terrible sea monster, ......right? The Yankees want to do the same, but they first have to get a base in the Philippines, and then it's better to repair a few more Catarinas......
This year could be the year of the sea monster, because just as a new tropical storm in the Caribbean was approaching, Carl filmed a three-minute video. In the video, a giant turtle appears swimming a distance above the surface of the sea before diving back into the sea. And the fisherman who went out to sea with him used a harpoon to get a large piece of carapace on the turtle's body - a small piece for the turtle, and he might not even be aware of it.
"100-metre-long giant sea turtle! Is this science or myth!" is the most obvious headline in newspapers and magazines. Creatures have their own limits, and it is a miracle that a hundred-meter-long sea turtle is not crushed to death by its own weight, even with the buoyancy of seawater...... So even with physical objects and videos, most biologists still find it incredible.
It was indeed the year of the sea monsters, for there were reports of seeing sharks in both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, "more than a hundred feet! bigger than my ship!" and panicked sailors said they had seen an extra-large great white shark.
But this has nothing to do with Hong Long, he is busy munching on sand and metal eggs, and munching on sea fish or whales by the way. He had accumulated enough nutrients and raw materials to prepare for the fading of the husk.
The first place to shed the shell is in the bay, on the rocks at the back of the white sand, where it is impossible to flood at high tide, and where the erosion of the wind and sand has carved huge grooves, and in which the sea dragon has made a rudimentary nest. Then the giant sea monster froze to death.
After the large research ship of the pharmaceutical company chasing the sea dragon failed to activate the transmitter on the sea dragon, the first thing they chose was to check the place where the sea dragon was captured. It was to see if the sea monster would return to its place, but they were disappointed. They then decided to follow the dragon's possible route - based on past sightings and information obtained from the dragon's examinations, the dragon's migration route had been largely identified.
This time, however, they achieved unexpected results, as they found a large number of man-made objects wrapped in tattered fishing nets on uninhabited islands in the Bering Strait in the North Pacific, a considerable part of which were gold or some kind of alloy. These objects have a distinctly Mediterranean Greek style, but the patterns depicted on them and some of the broken carvings have never been seen, and some of the carvings may not even be human figures...... On the top of the fishing net and on some of the fragments, the remnants of the sea dragon's carapace can be detected, which is likely to be brought by the sea monster from nowhere. This conclusion led everyone to re-evaluate the sea dragon's intelligence - fortunately, experienced inspectors found that the net was only tangled indiscriminately, and did not appear to be deliberately knotted and wrapped, and finally concluded that it was likely that the sea dragon had dived into the nearby seabed and happened to get entangled in the illegal trawls, so the trawl nets were dragged and brought with them...... This is a far-fetched conclusion, but it is much more plausible than the inference that sea dragons are intelligent creatures......
This time, Hong Long's shell was quite completely dissolved, and the scale armor on his body was completely shattered in two days, even the carapace of his head was like this, and his teeth kept falling out, which made this sea dragon quite painful, because at the same time as the teeth fell, his claws also completely faded from his claws, and now the sea dragon was completely unable to forage for food, I am afraid that he would have a little difficulty even swallowing a seal alive.
Fortunately, when the shell is shed, the heartbeat will slow down, and while stopping the activity, Hong Long's blood pressure will also decrease, and he will fall into a kind of coma, which greatly reduces the body's demand for nutrients and energy consumption, and even the body temperature will be reduced to a level comparable to the temperature. The new carapace grows very slowly, as do the new teeth and claws, and not only the minions, but also the sea dragon's bones are changing - his bones are digesting themselves......
Now the physiological condition of the sea dragon is quite dangerous, the bones that began to shatter barely support the body, the physiological activities were reduced to a minimum to protect the internal organs, and Hong Long, who fell into a state of ignorance, is now quite a piece of meat about forty meters long and five meters thick, any decent carnivore can easily kill the current sea dragon and eat him.....
The new bones were shattering at the same time as the old ones, but the new bones were growing very slowly, and now the sea dragon's body had begun to collapse, and in some places his own weight had flattened his lungs due to the loss of rib support - if it weren't for the fact that the sea dragon's breathing had almost stopped now, Hong Long would have died......