Chapter 42: The Wrapped Thing
Riding on the back of a whale is fresh enough, it's big enough to carry us without any effort, I've only heard that dolphins save people, because dolphins are not fish, they are also mammals, and baby dolphins are prone to drowning when ventilated, so the dolphin family will carry the baby dolphin out of the nature of protecting the young, and over time, for the floating objects on the sea, they like to carry a load.
Of course, this is the biology's explanation, but it is a bit bizarre, because it is not uncommon to be rescued by dolphins in shipwrecks, and many people who have experienced it have described it firsthand. While floating in the sea, when spotted by a dolphin, the dolphin will attract other companions through its guò call, and then carry or push the person away, and most bizarrely, they will push the person ashore, usually to the nearest island.
If it is just out of the nature of caring for the young, then how can dolphins know how to send people to the shore when they save people? It's always been a mystery, but it's strange enough that we weren't saved by a dolphin, but we were saved by a whale. Professor Lin smiled and touched the humpback whale and said, "It's repaying the favor." ”
At this moment, a round of red sun finally jumped out of the sky, and the sea and sky connected in the distance, and we were lost at this moment, and we could only roughly understand the direction of the sun, and judge that we were going to the south at this time.
Counting the time, because of this repeated toss, the time is a little confusing. Professor Lin and Liyu made a rough guess about the time of our voyage, and if we wanted to return to the Bohai Sea, we would have to travel for at least one day and one night, because we had deviated from the course due to a storm, and then we had boarded the USO, and we were taken out of the night by a rapid south.
Although there is a humpback whale carrying us at this time, it is an animal after all, and it is impossible to change direction according to our wishes, but to go southwest.
Professor Lin said: "The southwest side is close to the North Pacific Ocean, and that area of water is very suitable for the survival of humpback whales, so it will keep rushing there, and it may not be easy for us to make it turn around." Moreover, it can hum us for a day, but not for two days, sooner or later it will have to go, and we have to think of a perfect plan. ”
I said, "At sea, there is nothing to rely on but ships." ”
Tofu said: "Don't mention the boat, I will be worried when I hear the boat now, let's ride Xiao Hei to Time and Space Island." ”
I said, "Okay, then you first ask Xiao Heitong if he agrees, and you have to receive a small fee." Tofu touched his nose sneeringly, I hated iron and steel, this kid is too rich in imagination, the richer the more unreliable, just waiting to educate him, Professor Lin said: "Xiaodou's idea, you can try it." ”
Don't talk about me, the rest of the people were stunned, so Professor Lin smiled and said, "The direction where the humpback whale is going is about the same as the direction of Time and Space Island, just along the way, since you can't go back, it's better to go forward." And in the area of Time and Space Island, the chances of being rescued are also greater, and there are more ships near that area. ”
Tofu was cheered on by Professor Lin, and immediately became proud, saying, "The hero sees the same thing, but I heard that little Japan likes to hunt whales, right?" ”
Professor Lin nodded and said, "Not only Japan, but also some countries in Europe and the United States also like whaling, and this phenomenon is relatively rare in our country. Whaling nets are set up in many places under the sea in Japan. As he spoke, Professor Lin smashed his mouth and did not speak again. It would be redundant to discuss it at this point, after all, we are all riding on the back of a whale now, and it is its freedom to swim wherever it goes, unless we roll off its back.
Since yesterday during the day, we have been cut off from fresh water, eating raw fish, drinking the juice of traveling fish, and there is not much fish juice, and we are already hungry at the moment. I can bear the hunger, but I can't bear the thirst, I just feel like chewing sand in my mouth, and the tofu even has the idea of drinking seawater.
The sea water is salty, it will only get thirstier and thirstier, and the human body is not suitable for drinking it at all.
We shut our mouths and said no more, and the more we talked, the faster we thirsted, and in silence we let the humpback whale carry it, which occasionally dived, presumably in search of food, but it was not long before it was back on us, and therefore the clothes were not dry.
Since fishing gear and the like had already been lost with the shipwreck, we had no way to catch fish even when we were in the sea, so we could only stare at the occasional dried fish jumping on the surface. Tofu pondered and ate, and soon came up with an idea, took out an iron chisel, tied four knots on the iron chisel, made a simple fishing net, and salvaged for an afternoon, only relying on luck to catch a fish twenty centimeters long, we were a group of twelve people, this fish one person divided a little, it was enough to stuff the teeth. At nightfall, the humpback whale suddenly stopped swimming, dived underwater, and did not come out for more than half an hour.
The sea was cold at night, and Tofu shrunk his neck and said, "Xiao Hei shouldn't go to sleep." ”
A-Ying said: "Probably not, I heard people say that whales have three postures when sleeping, one is vertical in the sea, the other is lying flat in the sea, and the third is alternating between the left and right brains, half asleep and half awake, one eye open, one eye closed, and swimming when asleep." ”
Tofu said, "Maybe it's the first sleeping position." ”
I said, "Don't think about the worst, it's an animal after all, we have more than ten big living people, can we still expect a whale to live?" Swim on your own, and hopefully there's a reef or island nearby. When the carp heard this, he seemed to be thinking about something, and said, "In this sea area, I remember that there are no islands and reefs...... But there's a place where we might be able to rest for the night. ”
Gu Wenmin asked, "Where is it?" There is such a place to rest, why didn't you say it earlier. ”
A-Ying also seemed to think of something, covered her mouth and said, "Ah, what kind of place did you say...... That place is too evil to go. ”
Evil Sect? I said, "What is evil or not, let's make it clear, it's okay for us to soak in the sea." ”
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, the carp said, "Actually, if our ship is not broken, if it sails in the original course, it will be able to pass through that place on the fourth day, which is probably not far from where we are now." After his explanation, we knew what the so-called evil sect was.
To talk about this, we have to mention the geomorphological environment of the ocean.
Many people may think that the closer you are to the center of the sea, the deeper the sea, but this is a misconception that the depth of the sea is related to the environment at the bottom of the ocean. Yang Fang's Wangqi cheats said: The water dragon has a mountain, out of Kunlun. The meaning of this is that there are not only mountain dragon veins on land, but also mountains and valleys in the landform of the sea, and the birthplace of the water dragon in the sea is from Kunlun Mountain.
How ancient people did not have diving equipment, how they knew the landform of the seabed is very worthy of investigation, but modern seabed exploration has indeed proved that the environment under the sea is similar to the land environment, and there is no shortage of mountains and valleys, but they are just flooded. Therefore, it is not that the closer you get to the middle of the sea, the deeper the water becomes, but if the middle of the sea happens to be higher than the seamount, it becomes a shallow area.
The ships in that place generally go around, because the tide of the sea rises and falls, and one is unlucky, it is easy to run aground there, and over time, there are many bad ships in that place, and the ships are stacked on top of each other, and gradually rise above the water, forming such a strange place.
Of course, there is no USO in that place, and the people who sail have more or less seen it, but the reason why they dare not approach it is that it is very evil, and some curious people have been up there, and they will get sick when they return to the ship, so some people think that the place is not clean, but more often it is said that there may be some virus in that place.
On the sea, intestinal diseases and parasites are more susceptible, followed by sepsis, and the rest of the viruses are less transmissible because of the salt content of the seawater. The longer we soak, the greater the consumption of the body, while talking about the evil place, while watching the humpback whale, for a long time still not seeing it come up, maybe it really went to sleep as Tofu said.
At the moment, there is no choice, if we continue to soak, I am afraid that we will run out of decentness, and we will not be able to swim at that time, so we weigh it and think that everyone has gas masks, and when we get to that place, it should be fine to put on gas masks and gloves. After the discussion was over, when we swam towards the darkness ahead of us, led by the carp, and we barely lit it with a flashlight in our mouths, and swam for a full twenty minutes, we heard the carp say, "I see the black mass in front of us...... That's it. The crowd stopped, treading water with their feet, and at the same time took off the flashlight and shone it forward.
Several flashlights gathered together, and the black and gloomy thing was suddenly exposed in the strong light, only to see ships of different shapes or fallen or upside down and gathered in one place, and the rotten wooden planks piled up everywhere formed a natural wooden bridge, and the toppled masts stretched out in all directions, some poked out of the sea, and some of the masts were still hung with rags, fluttering in the sea breeze.
But now there is no need to be picky, everyone stopped not far from it, and took out the gas mask in the equipment bag, this is a modern mushroom-digging equipment, which was used by us in advance, and even with plastic gloves on the hands, it is like anti-**. When they were ready, they climbed up and sat on the planks and gasped.
After resting for a while, the tofu will not be able to live, get up and run around, there are rotten wood everywhere, although it is not big, but walking in it is like a maze, the left goes in, the right comes out, it is easy to hide people.
It didn't take long for Tofu to find something that might have been left behind by those who had been curious and had come here to explore, including vacuum-packed expired sausages, pocket watches, moldy cigarettes, and something stranger.
It was about the size of a fountain pen, and it was wrapped in strips of cloth, and when I opened it, there was another layer of plastic bag inside, and when I opened the plastic, there was another layer of plastic inside, and after the third layer of plastic was opened, there was a fourth layer inside.
Tofu said, "What the hell, prank?" ”