Since elementary school, Ao Muyang has known that the blue whale is very big:

A blue whale can stand up to 50 people on its tongue, a blue whale's heart is as big as a car, a baby can crawl through its arteries, a newborn blue whale calf weighs more than an adult elephant, and so on.

It is said that in the first seven months of life, the young whales drink 400 liters of breast milk a day and can grow close to 100 kilograms a day......

These are all things he learned from books, he has never seen a blue whale, the blue whale has been to the Red Ocean, but he went to school at that time, he couldn't watch it, he just heard about it.

There were no bones of the blue whale in the books, and he didn't know what the blue whale would become when it died, but the wreckage he saw now must have been that of the blue whale, and only it could grow so big.

Even the blue whale can't grow so big, looking down on this wreckage, it is close to 40 meters long, but considering that the skeleton of the wreck may have been washed and moved by the current, causing the position to change, so that its length has been incorrect, so it is normal to think so.

Ao Muyang looked down at the whale carcass from above the bottom of the sea, and felt a shock, desolation, and - hustle and bustle!

The whale's death is the end for it, but it is a feast for the sea in which it lives, and it uses its huge body to feed an ecosystem.

Ao Muyang has seen relevant documentaries before, saying that in the deep sea of the North Pacific, at least 12,490 organisms of 43 species depend on whale falls to survive.

Some of these sea creatures, such as clams, worms and blind shrimp, eat the remnants little by little near the carcasses. These whale colonies are chemoautotrophic, meaning that they can produce their own food through chemical reactions. Except that it is not necessary to obtain sunlight (because sunlight cannot pass through deep water), chemoautotrophs are similar to photosynthesis in plants.

There are now many reptiles living near the whale remains, not to mention bacterial colonies, which are too many to count.

The death of a whale has given it the exclusive term whale fall because it has research value, and whale falls are divided into stages, and different stages support different lives.

Ao Muyang remembered that a complete whale fall seemed to have four stages, and he forgot the specific name, but remembered that the whales in the first stage fed sharks, eels and other carnivorous fish, and in the second stage, they fed these reptiles.

From what he knew, he roughly estimated that the whale could have been dead for months or even more than a year, as the first stage could last for a maximum of twenty-four months before moving on to the second stage.

The creatures near the whale carcass are very strange-looking, their shells are red, very bright colors, and they look a bit like frogs, with large heads and small bodies, and they shrink from the head to the tail.

Naturally, they are not frogs, they are crabs, a crab that does not look like a crab, the Asahi crab.

Because the appearance of this kind of crab is too non-mainstream, in addition to the official name, the local names given to them are different from crabs, and there are thousands of strange things, such as sea bed bugs, sea toads, lion cricket cats, and the local name is shrimp cricket in the Red Ocean.

Some time ago, Ao Muyang just led the team to harvest a lot of shrimp crickets, and roughly speaking, this crab is indeed very similar to the head of the shrimp cricket.

The carcass of the blue whale is too large, and it is a huge treasure trove of food for the Asahi crab, and after the arrival of the crab herd, they have settled here and reproduced, and have formed a large crab family.

Unlike most crabs that like to walk in a domineering manner, Asahi crabs walk forward and backward normally, which is related to their size.

However, it is the same as the domineering style of other crabs, they take over the whale fall and drive away the other reptiles.

Normally, whale falls enter the second stage, and many invertebrates, especially polychaetes and crustaceans, will use the remnants of whale carcasses as their habitat, and while living there, they will eat the remnants of whale carcasses at the same time, constantly changing their own environment.

But Ao Muyang looked down and didn't see other animals, so he saw Xu Crab.

In this way, he can harvest a batch of Asahi crabs, which are delicious despite their bad names, especially the crab roe, which is large and delicious.

The tiger has a fishing net on the seat, and it is not suitable to use a fishing net for crab fishing, but it is good to have a fishing net for crabs.

Ao Muyang dragged a net and landed in front of the whale carcass, he started from the head of the fish, and landed in the sea to pick up the crabs, just like picking the girl's little mushrooms, one by one, one by one......

Collecting Xu crabs must be quick with eyes and hands, this guy has two big chela, and there are hideous serrations on the outside of the chela, just like the South China Sea crocodile god Yue Laosan sawtooth scissors, whether it is caught or scratched by it, it will have to pay the price of blood.

At this time, the whale's head has not completely decayed, and most of the white bones are exposed, but there is still some carrion, which looks a little disgusting.

However, it was too big, and Ao Muyang stood in front and looked up, as if he was looking at a building.

Think about it, its tongue can stand on more than fifty people!

The blue whale has a huge body, and the biological population it feeds is huge, Ao Muyang estimates that there must be tens of thousands of Xu crabs here, which is enough for him to be busy for several days.

The whale's mouth was huge, and Ao Muyang walked in, feeling a little stunned.

The bottom of the sea is quiet, only the crab makes a 'swish' sound when it crawls, like a cloudy wind.

There is no natural light at the bottom of the sea at this depth, and Ao Muyang can see clearly only because Jin Dan has transformed his eyes.

On the dark and lightless seabed, the whale's wide open mouth is like the legendary gate of the capital city, with black holes inside, and there is no entry or exit......

Ao Muyang walked in slowly, and after entering, he took a look, and his subconscious body trembled.

In front of him stood a number of black boards, the mouth of the fish was wide and raised upwards in an arc, and there were such boards on each side, as many as three or four hundred, these boards were about a meter long and half a meter wide, and they stood in black, like tombstones!

"Oh, it's scary. He muttered to himself comfortingly, "But this is the whiskers of the blue whale, it's okay, it's okay, it's a blue whale, this is its whiskers." ”

That's what he said in his heart, but he didn't feel like a lie, and he felt quite scared.

The red crab crawls between the whiskers, how do you look like those red corpse cockroaches in ghost stories......

Thinking of this, Lao Ao hurriedly slapped himself, don't think about it, work honestly, if you want to go on, will you eat Xu crab?

After slapping himself, he began to silently recite the party constitution while picking up the crabs: "The Communist Party of China is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, the leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and represents the development requirements of China's advanced productive forces, the direction of progress of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the Chinese people......"