1897. Dusty Secrets (Countdown 4)
Then the answer appeared, and the old sperm whale continued to ask timidly, "Are you an elder brother?" ”
Qin Shiou was stunned for a moment and asked, "What brother, who are you?" ”
The old sperm whale replied: "Brother is brother, I am tower, you are not tower, you are not brother, then who are you?" ”
Qin Shiou just wanted to wave his hand and give himself a few mouths, he wanted to sober himself up, wondering if he was dreaming now, all this is too mysterious, too dreamy, this old sperm whale still has a brother? And such a clear consciousness? And the view of right and wrong? How is this possible!
Now that the communication is open, the rest of the matter is simple, Qin Shiou said: "I have no malice, I am the owner of this fishing ground, and I have never seen anyone before-ah no, there are fish that have the ability to speak, how do you have the ability to speak?" ”
The old sperm whale fell silent again, and then looked straight at him.
Qin Shiou was speechless, hesitating whether to continue to intimidate it with words, this old whale looked very timid.
But soon, the old sperm whale spoke again: "You are the owner of the fishery?" Then you are the elder brother, and the elder brother is the owner of the fishing ground. ”
Qin Shiou laughed, Damn, it turns out that your brother once controlled this sea area and regarded this sea area as his own territory? He was thinking so, but suddenly something was wrong: the old sperm whale called this area a fishing ground, and nothing else, that is, it knew it was a fishing ground!
Only humans call an ocean a fishing ground!
The elder brother of the old sperm whale - it was his second grandfather! Qin Shiou suddenly understood this matter!
He couldn't bear the excitement in his heart and asked, "Your brother, is your name Qin Hongde?" ”
The old sperm whale's big mouth slowly squirmed a few times: "No." Brother, he is omnipresent. He asked me to call him brother, but he hadn't shown up in a long time. ”
"When was the last time you saw each other? Was it about fifteen years ago? "Qin Shiou has now roughly determined the identity of the old whale's elder brother.
The old sperm whale asked strangely, "Fifteen years?" I don't know. I haven't seen my brother for a long time, and my brother said last time that he was going to die, and asked me not to come to the fishing ground again, saying that the fishing ground would be very dangerous, and if he died, there would be a lot of bad people coming to the fishing ground. ”
Qin Shiou was completely sure of this matter, the elder brother of the old sperm whale was his second grandfather!
He had heard Auerbach say that it was in the hands of his second grandfather. The Daqin Fishing Ground was once rich and brilliant, and many people wanted to steal fish, but they were all driven away by him.
Later, when his second grandfather died, the fishery was left unmanaged, and in the first few years, countless pirate boats came and went, quickly turning the fertile fishing ground into a dead sea.
In this way, a moving scene appeared in his mind: a few decades ago, a middle-aged man discovered a small sperm whale with independent consciousness. Then he called himself the brother of the calf and took it to live in the fishing grounds.
Time passed, the middle-aged man became an old man, and the small whale became a big whale. One day the old man was dying. Find the whale and tell it that he is going to die, and let him leave the fishing grounds to prevent it from being harmed by greedy fish pirates.
And then later. More than fourteen years have passed, and the big whale has become an old whale. Back to the fishing grounds, back to the place where its brother had lived with him......
Imagine these scenes. Qin Shiou substituted the snowball into the image of the old sperm whale, and substituted himself into the image of the second grandfather, and then at that moment, he burst into tears!
The old sperm whale didn't bother him, it was old and used to silence and silence, and when Qin Shiou fantasized about all this, it was looking at it curiously.
After fantasizing about this matter in his heart, Qin Shiou came back to his senses and said, "Your brother is my grandfather......
He felt a little awkward to say this, didn't that mean that he had to call this whale grandpa?
Fortunately, the old whale did not know this, and continued to look at him curiously, waiting for him to speak, and then he continued, "Your brother taught you everything, right?" You've lived together for a long time, right? ”
The old whale said slowly: "Yes, my brother taught me a lot of things, we have lived together for a long time, and when I get old, my brother will give me longevity worms." I ate longevity worms, I can continue to live, and then vomit out what I can't digest, and my brother will eat it. ”
Qin Shiou's mind turned rapidly, analyzing the information in his words.
There is no doubt that the longevity worm is the kind of strange worm he called the black cover giant worm, the old whale has greatly increased his lifespan after eating these giant worms, and this time he may have reached the limit of his lifespan again, so he wants to come back and look for longevity worms to eat.
The last time he led the eldest brother sperm whale to lead the team to catch longevity insects, it was obviously for the old sperm whale to eat, or rather, this task was assigned by the old sperm whale to his subordinates!
But there is one thing that doesn't make sense here, that is, since the old sperm whale can eat longevity insects to increase its lifespan, why doesn't his second grandfather do it? Qin Shiou figured it out, and when he and his family were old, they would eat this black cover giant insect to increase their lifespan.
In addition, the last words of the old whale made him stunned: this guy can't digest all the longevity worms after eating them, and some things can't be digested and spit out, and they will be eaten by his second grandfather, or rather, absorbed by his second grandfather.
So, what did he spit out? Obviously, it must be a strange thing called 'Poseidon Food' by people in some places and 'Ambergris' by people in other places!
No wonder he has not been able to decipher the specific identity of this ambergris, and no wonder this thing is called Poseidon food.
Maybe someone has encountered this kind of sperm whale with independent consciousness, and it happened that the sperm whale was spitting out these indigestion black worm shell ingredients at that time, and it was regarded as eating this kind of thing by those people, so there is a saying of 'Poseidon food'!
This possibility is very large, first of all, in ancient times, sperm whales ten or twenty meters long were extremely terrifying existence: they could overturn wooden boats, and they could hit some seaside villages with storms, so they looked like devils in the sea.
However, they can also use their powerful bodies to rescue some shipwrecked people and help some stranded ships, so if you look at it this way, they are the gods of the sea.
Secondly, if a sperm whale also has independent consciousness and human-like intelligence, then it can do more. If such a sperm whale is more lucky, such as being trained and instructed by someone like this old whale, it will be more magnificent as a sea god.
But he still couldn't figure out why the second grandfather refused to eat the carapace of the longevity insect? According to Dabai's situation, the black cover giant insect can really be called a longevity worm, which is very effective in prolonging lifespan.
Since he couldn't figure it out, he asked, and the sperm whale really replied to him: "My brother said that he is a monster, and he usually behaves strange enough, and he doesn't want people to see more strangeness, so he would rather die naturally." ”
(To be continued.) )