Chapter 191: Super Worm
This long cry is getting closer and louder.
It's uncomfortable to hear goosebumps all over your body.
In order to avoid making his son too uncomfortable, Zhan Xiaogui covered his son's ears with his hands, for fear that this harsh sound would hurt his son's eardrums.
"Be careful, this sound is getting closer! Judging from this voice alone, this kind of guy should be a kind of super predator! Now that the voices have suddenly disappeared, they must have sensed our presence! Wang Yueyue cheered up and reminded Zhan Xiaogui and his wife.
Zhan Xiaogui blocked his daughter-in-law and son behind him, and then his mind control activated the steel armor, ready to deal with all battles.
Suddenly, a stream of fiery red magma erupted ten times thick, and one after another, worm-like things with fluff all over their bodies and legs like a leafy radish magnified tens of thousands of times jumped out of the crater of the magma.
With a long cry, it jumped around where the lava was spewing as it continued.
At this moment, Zhan Xiaogui's family, Wang Yueyue and others have fled to the top of the mountain that is safe for the time being, everything under the mountain is vivid, and it looks a little scary.
Zhan Xiaogui's son looked at the worm-like jumping worms, his glasses were full of fear and curiosity, and he asked Zhan Xiaogui: "What is that?" It looks like a fried lobster! It's huge! Are they foraging? It's going to treat us all like food for a while......"
Zhan Xiaogui looked confused, he didn't know what it was, and it was the first time he had seen it.
Zhan Xiaogui habitually looked at Wang Yueyue: "What is this?" It looks like a lobster! Isn't it a shrimp that has become a sperm? ”
Wang Yueyue vaguely felt in his heart that this might be some kind of mutated earth creature, and the probability of being an alien creature was still relatively low.
The reason for his judgment was that extraterrestrial creatures generally do not emerge from the earth, but fly directly from the sky and descend to the earth. This organism came out of a magma cave in a volcano, so there is a 90% chance that it is due to species variation on Earth.
Zhan Xiaogui listened to Wang Yueyue's explanation and speculation, felt that it made sense, and then asked, "What is this thing that has mutated into this?" ”
In order to find out the truth about this creature, Wang Yueyue and Zhan Xiaogui decided to activate the electric attribute and began to search for this kind of strange creature scurrying in front of them in their minds.
A few minutes later, all the information about the mutant agent of this creature surfaced.
This super monster is a mutated Pompey worm or bristle, before the mutation they were ten to fifteen centimeters long, and they are currently the most heat-tolerant animals in the world, and they like to heat up to 70 degrees. It lowers the temperature around it so that it can survive even in close contact with germs.
On the seabed of the eastern Pacific Ocean, there is a long belt of crustal activity, and many hydrothermal vents have been found. Some hot springs are popping up from the ground
It will form a chimney-like stone pillar at the exit. The temperature of the hot liquid coming out of the "stone chimney" can often exceed 100 degrees. It is in this boiling water environment, on the outer walls of these bubbling chimneys, that lives a fluffy mollusk, which experts call the "Pompeii worm"
Not only can the Pompeii insect withstand temperatures of 81 degrees, but it can also leave the hot tube and swim into the sea water with a temperature of only 10 degrees Celsius to feed. The fact that the Pompeii insect can withstand such a disparity in temperature is truly unique.
If the Guinness Book of Micro were to set a record for animals living in hot environments, Pompeii would come out on top. In the past, it was believed that the animal's heat-tolerant record was created by an ant in the Sahara Desert, which could forage for food in temperatures of 55 degrees Celsius, while the Pompe worm's tail could be immersed in water at a temperature of up to 81 degrees, but its head was not affected by the heat at all, and life was still normal.
They use their secretions to pile up a long, thin tube from the rock base of the stone chimney, like a polyp, in which their bodies are dormant, and biologists have seen through underwater equipment and television, these worms sometimes crawl out of the tube and wander around. The temperature of the water in the center was measured to be as high as 105 degrees, but the experts still couldn't believe that such a high-level animal as a worm could live in such a hot environment.
Perhaps, they thought, Pompeii worms have a special ability to insulate themselves, like firefighting suits and spacesuits, to protect their bodies from heat or vacuum. However, studies have shown that Pompeii worms do not have such natural protective properties. Then I thought that maybe the underground hydrothermal liquid went straight up and didn't cause too much temperature to the surroundings, just like a winter fire, a little farther away from the tin chimney pipe, you won't feel too much heat.
Biological experts from a certain country used the famous deep-sea submersible "Alvin" to dive to the bottom of the sea and carefully inspected three "submarine chimneys" bubbling with hydrothermal fluid: the outer wall was densely covered with a white stone tube covered with Pompeii worms, and the observers used a special thermometer to reach into the stone tube to measure the temperature, and found that the highest value was measured at 81 degrees. This worm, which is six to eight centimeters long, is the most heat-tolerant and temperature-tolerant animal on Earth.
The Pompeii worm, as the name suggests, is a type of bug. It has white hairs on both sides of its body, and two slippery tentacles on the front. This kind of soft insect animal, I believe that many people do not have a good feeling.
Beneath the ocean, there are many active underwater volcanoes. Around the crater, the temperature of the sea is extremely high, even boiling, a temperature that is not suitable for most marine life, including sharks.
However, for the Pompeii worm, such a living environment could not be more suitable. Here, they don't need to worry about alien enemies. The water temperature is 100 degrees, and any fish will become boiled fish when it arrives here.
When the Pompeii worms have finished their day's predation, they return to their home: the rocks of the crater. There, the water temperature has reached a very terrible one hundred and five degrees. It can be said that under normal circumstances, there are only their presence in this sea area, and there will be no other creatures intruding.
However, when this special skill is discovered by humans, the good days are over. Scientists have captured a lot of Pompeii worm dissections, hoping to uncover their secrets. The result, however, is confusing: they don't have any heat-insulating organs. This means that this animal is not naturally afraid of heat.
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