Chapter 41: King Squid
Xia Qiu pursued the information fed back and chased it into the distance.
The opponent's figure is constantly declining, falling vertically, and the descent speed is not very fast.
Xia Qiu swung his body with all his strength and chased after the other party, quickly pulling the distance between the two.
Rumble.
Xia Qiu's huge body carries strong pressure, and the huge size makes the other party have no desire to fight at all.
The other party accelerated to escape, but Xia Qiu also swung his body to accelerate and chased after the other party.
The distance between the two continued to close, and Xia Qiu soon came not far behind each other.
It's the king squid.
The target that Xia Qiu locked on was a king squid, a spear-shaped creature, that is, a squid.
It has a long, narrow conical body with five pairs of brachiopods. Four of these pairs are relatively short, below the carcass length, and are short wrists.
There are also two brachiopods that are particularly long, tentacles to catch food, and can also shrink into the sac at the base, which is about three times longer than the other brachiopods.
The carcass length of this king squid is about ten meters, the first pair of brachiopods is only six meters, the length of the second to four brachiopods is eight meters, and the length of the tentacles reaches nearly twenty meters.
The length of the carcass plus the length of the short wrist is his body length, which is close to twenty meters, and he is an out-and-out behemoth.
It's huge.
In the earth, the adult length of the king squid is generally between ten and thirteen meters, and the longest can reach about twenty meters.
This king squid, with a length of twenty meters, is already extremely amazing.
It's fast.
But it was not as fast as Xia Qiu, and was chased by Xia Qiu and came behind it.
Sou.
The squid suddenly contracted its wrists and feet, bloomed violently, and its body rushed out directly, instantly appearing more than ten meters away, constantly widening the distance between the two fish.
So fast.
Seeing the other party's movements, Xia Qiu tried his best, but he couldn't catch up.
They can use the tail mantle and cartilage to spray water out of the water tube in the abdomen, coupled with the force released by the brachiopod contraction, the speed can reach 15m/s, and the speed is about 54 kilometers per hour.
In summer and autumn, the fastest speed is only 45 kilometers per hour, and the speed is 12.5m/s.
But the staying power is not enough.
With just a few shots, the opponent's speed has slowed down, and then the speed drops sharply.
Hey, hey, can't you run, right?
Xia Qiu chased wildly, pulled the distance again, did not sneak attack from the tail, came to its side, and bit its carcass.
Click.
Xia Qiu's huge mouth bit into the middle of its carcass, and its sharp teeth pierced its body, but it didn't kill it.
And it took advantage of the situation to wrap its wrists and feet around Xia Qiu's head.
Five pairs of wrists and feet wrapped around Xia Qiu's head, preventing him from opening his mouth and dragging him down, hoping to control his shape.
The method of king squid and squid to hunt whales and sharks is to suffocate each other first and then eat each other.
Sharks have gills and can breathe in the water, but by constantly swimming, the water enters the mouth, flows out of the gills, and then absorbs dissolved oxygen from the water.
Once it stops swimming, the shark suffocates to death.
So the squid will wrap around it, stop it from swimming, and kill it.
To deal with a whale, the squid kills it by wrapping around it and preventing it from floating.
Of course, the success rate is very low, and when dealing with sharks, you can only deal with sharks that are smaller than yourself, but because of the difference in the sea area where you live, it is generally difficult to see.
And whales, mainly sperm whales, are at least forty tons, fifty tons or more.
So king squid is an important food for sperm whales.
And this king squid tried to use this method to kill Xia Qiu.
The wrists and feet of the king squid have great strength, not only the power of muscle contraction, but also the suction and grasp of the suction cup.
There are two rows of suckers for the short wrist, each about 10 centimeters, and the diameter of the wrist and foot is only 25 to 35 centimeters.
The suction cups of the tentacles are in four rows, and in some positions even in six rows, but the diameter is small and the force is not too large.
Its tentacles can grasp more than ten times its own weight, twenty times its own weight.
But it can't limit summer and autumn.
First of all, the body size, Xia Qiu's body length is 34 meters, which is larger than the largest sperm whale, weighing more than 200 tons.
And a twenty-meter king squid weighs more than a ton, and it can't even reach a ton and a half.
Such a weight is basically a joke for Xia Qiu.
Its wrists and feet can't block Xia Qiu's gill opening, and when the carcass is bitten by Xia Qiu, the six-meter-long short wrist can only touch Xia Qiu's gills with its tail, and it can't completely block Xia Qiu's gills at all, and just the gill mouth, Xia Qiu already has four layers.
In addition, he couldn't restrain Xia Qiu's mouth, Xia Qiu used a little force, so he let his wrists and feet loosen, opened his mouth, and bit down again.
This time, the position of its bite was close to the eye of the king squid, and then it slowly bitten, crushed by its teeth, and the bite part directly turned into meat scraps.
The king squid was bitten twice, and it was unable to support it and died directly, but the wrists and feet were still sucking Xia Qiu's body, and it was the instinct of the wrists and feet to control the suckers, and they would actively adsorb.
But without the muscle contraction controlled by the king squid, this force is too weak, and Xia Qiu bites the head of the king squid and shakes it, and these wrists and feet slowly fall off.
Then Xia Qiu gnawed on its body, swallowed it with its wrists and feet, and there was not a single one left.
Xia Qiu felt her stomach filled.
Its weight is not large, but it is very large, and it is just one, and it produces a feeling of satiety on its own.
I don't know if it's okay.
The largest squid, octopus squid, which feeds on its own, is only five or six meters long.
This one is about twenty meters long, and it is also a king squid, I don't know if I can let myself grow wrists and feet.
Xia Qiu looked forward to it, swam in the direction he came, and after swimming a distance, the heat flow appeared.
Here it comes.
The heat flow is very hot, different from the past, but it is not much, and it turns into a small heat flow that spreads all over the body.
These heat streams are slowly appearing and being consumed.
I don't know if it's okay.
Summer and Autumn prayed, but the heat began to subside, and the surface of the body did not begin to change.
Failed?
Can't grow tentacles on your own?
Is it really his own whimsy?
Xia Qiu was a little disappointed in her heart, the tentacles could attack, wrap, defend and contain.
With tentacles, you don't have to worry about the enemy attacking your weak position.
But you can't grow it on your own.
It is a phylum of chordates, while the octopus squid is a phylum of mollusks, and even the phylum are different, so how do they grow together?
But the next moment, Xia Qiu felt that something was wrong.
The octopus Hachi is the octopus fish man, who has the physical signs of both an octopus and a man, and is also a combination of the phylum Chordates and the phylum Mollusc.
He could, why couldn't I?
At this time, Xia Qiu suddenly felt some itching in the front abdomen of her body, which spread to the lower abdomen of the gills of the fish, all the way to the pectoral fins.
The length of the area is about eight to nine meters, and the width does not exceed the lateral margin of the abdomen, between the pectoral and pelvic fins.
Along with the itch, the scales of the abdomen are shedding and replaced by a base that grows slowly.
But this part of the body protrudes slightly from the abdomen, and the heat flow disappears without a trace, and even the base does not grow, and the distance extends out of the wrists and feet, which is far from it.
But it was enough to show up.
This means that you can grow brachiopods.
What is lacking is more evolutionary energy.
So next, I need to continue hunting them.