869. Dangerous corpses
Lying on the beach was a blue whale, a terrible big one, now bigger and more terrifying, some of them couldn't see it as it was, and now it looked more like a sea monster.
The blue whale is the largest animal on the earth, it is said that it can grow to forty meters long, Qin Shiou has never seen such a long, the longest blue whale he has seen is only twenty meters, he was shocked when he saw it, and was inspired to be full of pride, and decided to be the god of the sea.
That was more than five months ago, Qin Shiou and Nelson met the big blue whale together, and they didn't encounter this kind of big guy much later.
Blue whales can be seen in Newfoundland fisheries, but they are not just seen, it depends on how much they eat.
Blue whales have mouths that are bigger than train holes, but they can't eat big fish, and they can only eat Arctic shrimp and various mollusc cephalopods in the North Atlantic, so most of them survive in the southern hemisphere, because Antarctica has rich krill resources, and that's what can feed them.
This blue whale is bigger than the one Qin Shiou saw last time, it is twenty-seven or eight meters long, and its body surface is an ugly rat gray, with pale fine markings on its back and white spots on its chest.
If you don't look closely, you can't tell the true appearance of this blue whale, its whole body is very swollen, as if it is a big leather ball blown to the extreme.
Originally, the blue whale had more than 20 huge folds on its body, and its abdomen was full of folds, but now the folds were gone, and the skin was as smooth as leather.
Seeing this, Shaq exclaimed, "Hey." Dude, don't us if you want to die! Stay away from it. Don't touch its body! And, fuck you goddamn smokers. Hurry up and put out the smoke! ”
One of the police officers laughed and said, "Shaq, my old fellow, you are too serious, we have no disrespect for this blue whale carcass......"
"Falk Squid, Davis! I don't care if you respect this thing or not, get out of it! It's going to explode! It's a ticking time bomb now! Shaq yelled.
The police were sensitive to the word 'bomb', and as soon as Shaq said that, they immediately backed away quite a bit, and Sheriff Roberts picked up his cigarette and asked, "What do you mean?" Time bomb? ”
Shaq sighed and said, "You idiots, I heard that the police are all college students, why don't you even know such simple common sense?" ”
Qin Shiou knew what Shaq meant by these words, once the whale's carcass swelled, it was indeed more dangerous.
Whales are constantly feeding while they are alive, and their stomachs store a lot of food all the time, mainly shrimp, crabs, squid, and crustaceans, which are digested by whales to produce gases such as methane, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia.
So the whales have to surface every once in a while to breathe, not just to breathe oxygen. These methane-like gases are also ejected.
And before the whale dies, if it happens to expel these flammable gases, it is fine, but if it does not expel this gas. That's dangerous.
After the whale dies, the internal tissues and organs decay quickly, and the bacteria spread quickly. In this way, the protein breakdown of their bodies produces a lot of gases, which are mixed with flammable gases. Yan zhòng increases the pressure on the abdomen and intestines.
Once it's not handled properly, it's an explosion!
A large whale of twenty-seven or eight meters long. Of course, this blue whale was certainly not so big when it was alive, at most twenty meters, and it was only so large after its death when its body surface was expanded and expanded by gas.
But no matter what, this is a big guy, and once it explodes, no one around it will survive.
Shaq and Qin Shiou explained this to the police, and Roberts smiled reluctantly and said, "Isn't this a bit alarmist?" Can this thing still explode? ”
Qin Shiou immediately searched the Internet for the news of several whale explosions to show him, the most recent one was the year before last, a sperm whale carcass washed up on the beach of the Faroe Islands, a biologist conducted a live dissection, and the result exploded, the biologist and his research team, the bones were gone!
"Look, the carcass of this sperm whale is only fourteen meters after it swells, how big this blue whale is, you can measure it yourself." Qin Shiou pointed to the number after the news report and said.
Roberts looked stunned for a moment, then turned around and shouted, "You little raised by gousses!" Hurry up and get out of the way! Pull up the cordon and get out of here! Farke, Romeo, you're still smoking? I command you to snuff it out in two seconds! Or I'll shove a cigarette into your asshole! ”
Qin Shiou watched the corpse of this blue whale, it had swelled up, like a big leather ball, and its body exuded a foul smell like a sewer, Nelson said that it was the smell of hydrogen sulfide, if it was stronger, a cigarette butt could ignite it, and then it would explode!
The first whale carcass was found by a tour guide, who was investigated by Roberts and said that when he got up at half past five in the morning to check on the boat, he found the large whale being blown to the beach by the waves.
The big whale had been dead for a few days, probably in the deep sea, and the previous few days there had been constant sea breezes, and its body had inflated and floated to the surface of the water, and finally washed ashore.
The tour guide was also a little frightened now, he said: "I don't know if it will explode, but from a distance from it, guys, lo and behold, this is my morning shot, it's only two and a half hours, and it's already swollen in a circle!" ”
Qin Shiou went up and looked at the phone screen, there was a photo on it, the blue whale was a little smaller than it is now.
Seeing this scene, Roberts, Qin Shiou and others immediately drove away from the whale carcass for a distance again, a full two hundred meters.
After receiving the news, the acting mayor of the town, Hani Rambo, reported to the St. John's Fisheries Department that the death of whales is not a trivial matter, and that whales and sharks are not allowed to be hunted in Canada.
When the people from the Fisheries Bureau learned that the blue whale carcass was swollen, they immediately reminded them, saying that they should not go to the onlookers and do not study it, because once the whale carcass swelled, it was very dangerous, and experts had to be invited from Toronto or Ottawa to deal with it.
At this time, the area around the pier was already lively, and tourists saw whale carcasses for the first time, especially the blue whale is now so big and so weird. Of course, not to mention the tourists, the residents have never seen such a scene.
So, one after another, by noon, four or five hundred people had gathered to watch the carcass of the blue whale, and the flash of the camera was even brighter, which was almost blinding.
Qin Shiou found Roberts and said, "That's not good, man, everyone is a little too close, you let your guys pull the cordon a little farther away." ”
Roberts sneered and lifted the belt on his beer belly, and said embarrassedly: "This is too dangerous, Qin, you know that we are all family people, we ......"
"Fack! You're the police! Qin Shiou couldn't help but interrupt him, this product is so good. (To be continued......)