Chapter 362: Understanding Sea Monsters
"This thing reminds me of an octopus." Ivan stood beside the ironclad ship, looking down at the sea monster's corpse.
The sea monster's body was so large that it was two and a half meters above the ironclad at a distance of two and a half meters, the result of being shelled.
If it's a sea monster in good condition, it must be very large.
"But it's not an octopus, I've eaten that sea creature, it's much smaller than it, and it doesn't have such mutant tentacles." Captain Felton shook his head and pointed to the sea monster's tentacles.
The sea monster's tentacles are sickle-shaped, bony-textured, like sharpened blades.
The sea monster's head had exploded, and there was no intact flesh on its body except for its tentacles.
The sea monster was dead, and its blue blood slowly flowed to the surface of the sea, and the color of the blood merged with the deep blue sea.
Quite a few sharks smelled the fishy smell and swam in a surge.
"It's a sea monster, look at this tentacle, although there are round suction cups on the tentacles, but the blade at the end of the tentacle is too deadly, if it is inserted, we will die." Heinz was surprised.
Most of the crew members present have experienced the sea monster incident, but this is the first time they have seen the body of a sea monster up close.
Those tentacles floated on the surface of the sea, revealing sharp blades, which made people feel frightened.
What kind of bones are they, so sharp, so flat, so sharp, like sharpened blades.
"Your Majesty, what do you think?" Captain Felton looked at Allen, wondering what the knowledgeable Allen would conclude.
At this time, Alan was using the identification technique to inspect the body of the sea monster, and the identification statement was as follows:
"[Eight-legged sea monster] This is a huge sea creature with blade-like tentacles, soft elastic skin, no eyes, twice as strong sonic detection as a dolphin, and likes to bask in the sun when it is full."
"If a huge object passes by, they like to do something climbing......"
"Additional identification: it is the offspring of a test specimen of a civilization, and its genes are not the same as those of a regular octopus."
After reading this information, Alan said slowly: "Its huge size and mutant tentacles are related to genetic modification. ”
The orcs on the ship screamed, but they didn't expect that the sea monster was actually a genetic creation.
The word gene was coined in the biology textbook written by Allen, and the navies on the scene had undergone a short period of education, knew biology, and probably knew what genes were.
"Have genes really been modified?" Ivan exclaimed.
"Genes can be modified, and if we want to live longer, modifying genes is also one of the ways to live forever." Alan said lightly.
Orcs have a limited lifespan, but with modified genes, immortality is really not a problem.
For a while, the navy had an infinite longing for the gene phrase, and maybe their generation could really break through the limit of lifespan.
Alan ordered someone to salvage the sea monster, and their ironclad ship had a small lifting machine, which was a preparation tool for lifting the sea monster, and now it came in handy.
The orcs pushed out the lifting device, and the bottom four small steel wheels buzzed to the side of the ship, and the lifting arm stretched out above the sea, hanging down a steel cable and a large iron hook.
At this time, the sharks were still swimming around, and some sharks were shot by Orc Allen with guns, and more "meat" was floating on the surface of the sea.
He then used echolocation to make sure that there were no large fish underwater, and told the soldiers to go down and insert the iron hook into the sea monster's body.
The seafarers jumped onto the sea monster's body and plunged the hook into the bloody charred flesh.
The huge head of the sea monster has been blown up, and it is not very heavy.
When the crew returned, the orcs tried to lift the krakin with their hands, but they failed, the kraken was too large to lift.
After that, a small steam engine was moved, and the tentacle corpse of the sea monster was carried onto the ironclad ship with steam power.
After the carcass of the sea monster was brought onto the ship, the orcs gathered around, touched it here, touched it there, got close and sniffed it with their noses, and even some orcs wanted to stick out their tongues to try the taste.
I heard that octopus is a delicious food that can be eaten raw...... The orcs thought so, but no one moved their mouths, because this was a sea monster, a genetically mutated monster, not a real octopus.
Alan took a surgical kit from the infirmary, which contained scalpels, dissecting scissors, and other things.
Ivan and the other orcs widened their eyes and gathered around the sea monster to watch Alan perform the dissecting operation.
Anatomical surgery was the first medical knowledge that Eren taught the orcs, but most of the crew members present had never seen Eren perform surgery, and only heard that Suncity's medical techniques were very novel, and they would use knives to use knives on patients.
At this moment, Alan demonstrated the anatomy tutorial to everyone on the spot, dissecting the overall tentacles of the sea monster step by step, and demonstrating its muscular tissue structure to everyone.
In a few moments, the sea monster's bone knife tentacles and bone and flesh were intact separated.
The orcs used their hands to lift this huge bone knife, not to mention that it was quite heavy, how could it weigh a hundred catties.
And this sea monster has a total of thirty bone knife tentacles, and the weight of the bone knife alone is three thousand catties.
While the sea monster was still alive, its true weight was undoubtedly heavyweight, and its strength was also great, and a visual tentacle slash could cut off the mainmast of a wooden sailing ship.
"Will tentacles like this pose a threat to our ship?" Rhodes worried.
"The underwater armor of our ironclad ships is 15 centimeters thick, don't worry, it's hard steel, it's not so easy to penetrate." Alan said.
Because considering the existence of sea monsters, the armor thickness of the ironclad ship is also very thick, and a double-layer hull is also made, and there is a protective layer when the external steel plate is broken, and the double-layer hollow design also enhances the buoyancy of the Vanguard.
Such a hull is a design strengthened by Allen, and the orcs naturally don't understand this data, and only rely on intuition to think that the ironclad ship is a bit unreliable.
After dissecting the sea monster, Alan also has a deep understanding of the variation of the sea monster.
First of all, the sea monster's tentacle musculature is very developed, and the arm strength of a single touch is enough to swing a hundred-pound bone knife and slash violently, just like an ordinary human slashing with a kitchen knife.
In addition, the round suction cups on the tentacles also have a strong adsorption force, if the sea monster wants to climb the ironclad ship, it is not a hassle at all, as long as it sticks to the armor wall, one by one tentacles press and adsorption, it takes a few seconds to climb up to the deck.
In addition, the Kraken's skin has a lot of softness, and when a normal dagger is inserted into its skin, the blade will only be inserted into the skin, but will not cause a bleeding wound, but will instead suck the blade.
When a sharp object wants to pierce the skin, its skin will become more smooth, thus wrapping the sharps, greatly reducing friction, and the external skin will also increase viscosity, absorbing the weapon, and producing a sense of immediate vision that the weapon has successfully broken the defense.