"So, is this sperm whale saved?"

As soon as Tang Qinqin arrived at the scene, he hurriedly asked.

The blue sea, the golden sand, the sky is clear and cloudless, everything is pleasant.

But on the originally crowded and noisy beach, along with a wave, in addition to a pile of messy seaweed, a few small fish and shrimp, and a stranded sperm whale.

It was about three or four meters long, lying in a shallow puddle on the beach, breathing hard.

Sperm whales like to live in groups, and most of them are large families that act together, foraging, migrating, etc. It is clearly a calf in the growth period, and it may be that it did not master the speed when exercising its hunting ability with its companions and washed to the shore.

The people on the shore were taken aback, and hid from a distance to watch, not daring to approach for a while.

A player witnessed this on the beach and immediately called for help in the gamer's channel.

Tang Qinqin was not far away, but by the time she swam over, it had been nearly ten minutes since the whale stranded.

The scorching sun and the fast-warming sand are clearly not friendly to the mysterious elves from the sea, and the prolonged exposure of the sun can cause their delicate skin to crack and hurt.

Led by players and volunteers, people began to come in to help, pouring water on the whale to cool it down and keep its skin moisturized.

Someone dug a hole by hand to dig a passage behind the whale and send it back to the sea.

Everyone is trying to race against time to get it back into the sea where it belongs.

A dull and long scream came from the sea, from far and near, someone looked back and hurriedly shouted: "Look! It's a pod of whales! ”

Huge whales float their backs out to the surface, and there are probably dozens of whales of all sizes at a glance.

"Could it be that you came to find it?" Tang Qinqin listened to a person beside him ask.

A deep trench had been dug in the beach behind the whale, and seawater had been brought in, gradually filling it, and the stranded whale began to flood the sea under it.

"Work harder, comrades, success is just around the corner!" Yamanai sweated profusely and waved the shovel in his hand, his face flushed with exhaustion.

More people kept joining in, and the water began to overflow the stranded whale's body and then the head......

Finally, when there was enough buoyancy, the sperm whale stranded on the beach began to swim slowly, and after a while of acclimatization, it swam into the sea with its head and tail and returned to its group.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

People on the beach jumped up and cheered excitedly.

From time to time, the whales in the sea also leap out of the sea, slapping their bodies or tail fins into the waves, or spewing high jets of water, and their cries sound healing and pleasant.

The atmosphere between people and whales was very harmonious for a while.

"Everything has a spirit, and it's true, they're thanking us." An old man in a vest sighed.

"No, animals are also spiritual, and they remember what you do to it and what you don't like about it."

Another old man beside him responded with his hands behind his back.

The clothes on both of them were stained with mud and sand, and even the bare arms, necks and other skin were stained with fine grains of sand, which was a testimony of the old and strong people who had just become old and strong and struggled to dig the pit.

"In the future, we will come to the beach if we have nothing to do, and if we encounter this situation, we can also take measures to rescue as soon as possible, and move a small horse to hold a fishing rod when we are idle, hey, this little day is not good!"

"That's right, time flies so fast, and in a blink of an eye we're all old...... I've been dealing with the sea since I was a child, and when I'm old, I can't go out to the sea, so let's do something we can do at our age. ”

"That's what I'm talking about, didn't our ancestors rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and the sea to eat the sea?"

……

After cleaning up a sea turtle that was parasitized by barnacles and took up almost 2/3 of its entire body, Tang Qinqin planned to study the origin of this domineering guy.

"Barnacles, commonly known as touch, horse teeth, are calcareous shelled arthropods attached to rocks by the sea, often forming dense colonies.

It is hermaphroditic, and in addition to the common attachment to the surface of the body of marine animals, it is also often seen in coastal docks, ship bottoms, submarine cables, etc. Barnacles attached to the hull of a ship can greatly reduce the speed of sailing. ”

"Barnacles were once mistaken for shellfish because they were covered in a calcareous shell, but later studies confirmed that they belonged to crustaceans."

"It is said that once it is attached to the surface of the animal's skin, it will not let go, it is difficult to clean, and it will reproduce more and more, and it is a difficult parasite, which is why we sometimes see some whales and turtles wearing armor and feeling uncomfortable."

"When it comes to barnacles, people in the southern coastal cities are more familiar with a gooseneck barnacle that is not a serious barnacle, which is said to be a delicacy on the tip of the tongue, and some also call it the world's top food from hell."

"Its price is said to reach about 1,500 yuan, which can be called the Hermes of the seafood industry. Some people go to the beach to collect this kind of seafood and make a living from it. ”

"It turned out to be a dog skin plaster in the ocean." Tang Qinqin had a general understanding and summarized it in these four words.

She had heard of and seen sea turtles and whales attached to barnacles, and it was said that sea snakes were also suffering, and Tang Qinqin felt that her goosebumps were about to fall to the ground.

For her, the snake is a mysterious and terrifying creature.

Even the fear of it is far greater than that of a shark with its mouth wide open.

……

For the unfinished side quest that was temporarily put aside, watching a "whale fall", the curtain suddenly opened when everyone was not mentally prepared.

After staying in the sea for a long time, Tang Qinqin sometimes feels that he is actually a fish, at least a "mermaid" with a human body and a fishtail, because he has slowly adapted to the underwater environment and moves more quickly and freely.

On this day, as usual, the small animals in need were rescued, and there was a mournful cry in the sea again. It sounded very sad, and it made people feel that something bad must have happened.

After following the sound, there was such a scene in front of the players' eyes - a huge humpback whale with a body length of about ten meters was falling motionless and slowly to the bottom of the sea, and under it, two calves were struggling to push it up with their heads, making heartbreaking screams from time to time.

With just one glance, everyone understood what was happening in front of them, this whale, it had fallen!

And the calf doesn't want to believe this fact, doesn't want to leave its mother, and tries its best to save it.

"It's dead. I can't get it back. Xiao Qi said.

The huge humpback whale eventually landed at the bottom of the sea, becoming a cradle for new life.

The two small whales with broken liver and intestines were reluctant to leave for a long time, and snuggled up to each other and hovered beside the big whale.

And the big whale really "was born in the sea and returned to the sea", leaving his last tenderness to the home where he grew up.