Chapter Seventy-One: The Sea Serpent
After eating the squid, Xia Qiu and Moo Moo approached the island.
The island is smaller than Jumeida, but not too small, about six to eight square kilometers.
But three-quarters of the island is occupied by mountains, whose peaks rise like swords.
The bottom of the mountain is covered with green vegetation, but above it is bare rocks and black spots.
On the south side of the island, there is a town and a coast sunken in.
Xia Qiu slowly approached the coast and found the location of the port, but in the process of approaching, he smelled a foul smell.
It smells bad.
It's worse than bananas and winter dates together.
What is this thing?
Moo had already stopped, but Xia Qiu endured the nausea and swam forward for some distance, coming to the port thirty meters away.
There were boats parked there, strange in appearance, like rubber boats, but much larger.
The left and right gangs are like two huge pieces of brown rubber, and below them are smaller pillars.
The sea boat can accommodate about a dozen people, has a small house with two sails.
Can such a small ship survive the Great Voyage?
A ship, not even the size of the Merry.
Moreover, the boat gang is a bit low compared to a sailboat, and it is easy to be overturned by the waves.
As you get closer, the stench gets even more pervasive.
Or it shouldn't be said to smell.
Rather, it is a small but fine odor molecule that makes people feel uncomfortable when they smell it.
It is the smell of the ship.
Xia Qiu was sure that it was the smell of the boat that made me very uncomfortable.
Xia Qiu couldn't hold back anymore and stayed away from the coast, but the stench still spread in the nasal cavity.
It seems that the smell of this ship is the way to stop the sea kings, or sea fish, from approaching.
Far away, I can only feel the smell.
But when you get closer, there will be a pungent smell, so strong that you can't help it.
I don't rely on instinct to drive, I have my own wisdom and consciousness, and I almost can't help it.
No wonder you don't kill the squid, after getting close to the island, there is very little marine life around.
Sea creatures with a keen sense of smell can't stand it.
Moo's distance from itself is tens of meters, and even the faint smell makes it difficult to stay.
Can't you live here?
Xia Qiu frowned, this should be one of the starting points of the seven routes, can't it be inhabited?
As I walked around the coast in summer and autumn, I found that the farther away from the coast, the smell became weaker and weaker.
The smell is decreasing, one is that the odor molecules in the water are getting less dense with distance, and the second is that the farther away from the island, the faster the currents flow, diluting the smell.
Summer and autumn have been circling all the way to the back of the island, and the smell is almost inaudible.
The sea breeze, here behind the mountains, is huge, blowing through the holes above the mountains, whining.
It's good here.
Xia Qiu thought about it, released the sound waves, and according to the information of the sound waves, judged that the bottom of the sea was about three hundred meters deep from here.
Such a water depth is relatively deep, and it can be regarded as an ocean cliff and a vertical strait.
This is relatively rare in the East China Sea.
However, compared to the depth of the water nearby, it is actually relatively small, enough to inhabit itself.
However, in the sound waves fed back from the coast, Xia Qiu found that the cliffs below the island were not flat, and some of them extended more than ten meters in the direction.
Is this the entrance to the cave? And more than one?
And in the mountains of the island, there are also many caves.
Why are there so many holes?
Not only that, but there are waves of sound wave information around it, dense, but relatively small.
What creatures inhabit here?
Xia Qiu didn't dare to approach and waited quietly.
But at this time, the surrounding creatures quickly approached.
Xia Qiu didn't pay attention to it, these creatures were very small, the longest was only ten meters, and the smallest one was only three or four meters.
Even if it's a school of piranhas, or sharks, Xia Qiu is not worried.
Their teeth may not all hurt themselves.
Xia Qiu slowly retreated, and after the creatures approached, he saw their appearance.
Snake.
It turned out to be snakes, sea snakes.
Xia Qiu turned around and ran, moving away from the shore in the direction of moo.
Bang bang bang.
These sea snakes rushed towards Xia Qiu, took advantage of Xia Qiu to turn around, crashed into Xia Qiu's body, and bit Xia Qiu's body.
But with the scales of Xia Qiu, and the sturdiness of the fins, their teeth are simply not able to pierce the scales of Xia Qiu, as well as the fins.
But other parts are different.
Especially in the abdomen, several snakes bit Xia Qiu's wrists and feet and gnawed.
Not only that, but in the cave behind it, many snakes also appeared.
Huge sea snakes of more than 20 meters, more than 30 meters, and even 40 meters rushed towards this side.
Xia Qiu rushed into the distance and fled in a panic.
There are many snakes, and they are very large.
It doesn't really matter, because the sea serpent's ability to restrain is very weak, almost none. One of the reasons for this is that most of the marine creatures are difficult to bind, some have slippery scales, some have long shells, and some have strange body structures. The second reason is that sea snakes also use their lungs to breathe, although they spend most of their time underwater, their lungs account for a relatively large proportion, and the largest even occupy the entire body. They wrap around and instead squeeze the air out of the lungs.
This makes it difficult for sea snakes to entangle their enemies, and more importantly, in the long evolution, scales and body structure have not been used as a means of attack.
The scales are distantly divided, the body is elongated rather than stout, and so on.
Therefore, their size and number cannot directly threaten Xia and Qiu.
But sea snakes are venomous, even highly venomous.
Sea snakes belong to a subfamily, the subfamily of sea snakes, which has more than 50 species on the earth and is generally highly venomous.
Most of the sea snakes are related to cobras, and the subfamily of sea snakes is also classified under the cobra family.
Sea snakes are generally believed to have been bred by the cobra ancestors who traveled to the sea and bred in the sea.
Of course, the appearance of the sea snake is almost different from the cobra we know, and there is almost no similarity.
Sea snakes, unlike aquatic snakes, refer to snakes that live in the ocean, while the latter are mostly found in lakes, swamps, rivers, paddy fields, and ponds.
Although they both belong to the suborder Neoosauridae, one is in the cobra family and the other is in the family Swimming snakes.
Swimming snakes are venomous, but they are relatively weak and difficult to kill.
Sea snakes are all poisonous, and they are very poisonous, because they can't be restrained as mentioned above, and they can only kill the enemy by poisoning.
In other words, it is precisely because it is poisonous that it can enter the underwater survival and evolve into the sea snake family.
So Xia Qiu didn't dare to stay here.
Run, run.
Xia Qiu rushed towards the distance, the speed was very fast, except for the sea snake that was entwined by himself, the other sea snakes were pulled behind him.
Boss, you're running again.
I won't fall for it this time.
Moo Moo saw Xia Qiu running here, afraid that Xia Qiu would use herself as bait again, so he turned around and ran, keeping a distance in front of Xia Qiu.
Xia Qiu contracted his wrists and feet, wrapped the snake that bit him, and the hook claws on it pierced the scales of the sea snake, leaving blood marks on them.
Xia Qiu ran farther and farther, pulled a long distance, and waited until there were no sea snakes chasing after him, and slowly stopped.
He let go of his wrists and feet, and the sea snakes fell off one by one, about six or seven, the shortest was about three meters, and the longest was seven or eight meters.
In the hook claws and contraction of these sea snakes in the summer and autumn wrists and feet, some of them were directly squeezed through their lungs, and some were hooked through their bodies, and all of them lost their ability to swim and slowly fell.
Seeing the whereabouts of the sea snake, Xia Qiu immediately chased after it, bit the sea snake, and swallowed the sea snake into his stomach.
Xia Qiu is not worried about poisoning by swallowing venom, because most of the venom is protein, which contains toxins, mold, and non-toxic proteins.
There is a famous question about whether a snake will poison an enemy if it eats it, which is not the case.
However, some venoms can damage the digestive tract and oral mucosa, and may not be completely digestible.
Therefore, it is not recommended for everyone to drink venom.
Of course, the heads of these venomous snakes, bitten by Xia Qiu, were swallowed directly into the abdomen, and the venom went directly into the stomach for digestion.
And the digestion ability of summer and autumn is extremely strong, and there is almost nothing that cannot be digested.
Summer and autumn eat the poisonous snake and wait quietly for the poisonous snake to digest and the venom to take effect.
The venom of the sea snake is composed of nerve poison, but most of it is cytotoxin, and unlike the cobra, most of the damage is not nerves, but voluntary muscles.
Of course, the same lethal effect as nerve poisoning is muscle weakness and respiratory paralysis.
Sea snake venom is violent, but the onset is slower than that of land snakes, and some even have no effect for 30 minutes to 3 hours.
But once attacked, death is rapid.
Xia Qiu didn't know how poisonous the sea snake was, so she could only wait quietly, but she had already done the best treatment.
One reason why the sea snake eats in summer and autumn is that the snake can be poisoned by itself, but the impact of the snake's venom on itself is greatly reduced, such as the cobra, which bites itself and injects toxins, and the injury is many times smaller than that of a person, and of course it is fatal.
So eat a few sea snakes in summer and autumn, hoping to get this anti-venom effect.
At the same time, if you eat the sea snake, you will get evolution energy, which can repair your injuries.
Cytotoxins, on the other hand, destroy their own muscle cells, and in the case of repair, the onset of injuries will be greatly slowed down.
And the venom is only the venom secreted by six or seven sea snakes, which is scarce compared to his huge body.
In addition, Xia Qiu's body has been strengthened several times, and it is very strong, which should be able to block the invasion of toxins.
In these four cases, Xia Qiu is very likely to resist the toxin, and even if he is injured, he will not have an accident.
With full preparation, Xia Qiu did not panic, but waited patiently and recorded the information of the onset of toxicity.
That's not a bad thing.
Because as long as you can resist the toxin, you can hunt sea snakes, and let yourself evolve a poison sac and have poisonous fangs.
Summer and autumn are looking forward to it.
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What's wrong with Big Brother? Why doesn't it move? Bitten?
Moo in the distance looked at Xia Qiu, slowly approached, and rubbed him.
Xia Qiu's tail pumped to him.
You ran pretty fast just now.
Moo was beaten a little, but he put his mind at ease, the eldest brother can hit people, so there is no need to worry about himself.