Chapter 191 [Ambergris]

Because the cave was too narrow, and Yang Nianzhong's shoulders were very broad, he couldn't turn in the cave, so he could only climb in and out. It was only when Yang Nianzhong retreated to the outside of the cave that he straightened up and used his hands to get the sand standing on his face down.

Simba, who retreated from Yang Nianzhong like this, also withdrew like this, and then took the stone in his mouth, shook his head and ran to Yang Nianzhong's side and put it on the ground. Then he looked at Yang Nianzhong with his head up and screamed twice, and shaved the oval-shaped gray-white rock on the ground with his paws, looking very excited.

After Yang Nianzhong got the sand off his face, he squatted on the ground and took the rock in his hand and weighed it, and felt a little strange, because the weight of this rock was very light. It looks like a volcanic rock filled with bubbles, and it looks like the rock is empty inside, but it is heavier than the volcanic rock and much lighter than other stones.

Seeing the gray-white marks on it, and some green moss-like things soaked in the seawater, this stone gave Yang Nianzhong a strange feeling, and then put it under his nose and smelled it.

Suddenly, Yang Nianzhong was stunned, because of the earthy sweet fragrance in the cave, that is, the smell of this rock was very light, but Yang Nianzhong's sense of smell was very sensitive to smell.

A gray-white rock is very lightweight, and it has a smell that is obtained by the sea, and there are some marine parasitic algae growing on it, after combining these clues.

Yang Nianzhong vaguely felt that this rock was something, but he was not sure, because Yang Nianzhong had never seen the real thing he imagined in his heart, and he couldn't be sure if it was real.

Just wanted to look up and ask Simba how he found out? Unexpectedly, the little guy had long since disappeared, but Yang Nianzhong could hear the sound of throwing sand in the cracks of the rocks. This time it took Simba a long time to withdraw from it, and in his mouth was an irregular rock like a wooden pier, and the color of the rock was also grayish-white.

I didn't expect this cave to have two such strange stones, but I didn't expect little Simba to actually enter the cave for the third time, and then the fourth and fifth times endlessly. In the end, Yang Nianzhong placed a bunch in front of him, so that there were more than a dozen white stones, large and small, but even if the weight of these rocks was light, it was also a substance like a stone, and a dozen large and small pieces were put together, and there were dozens of kilograms.

Yang Nianzhong was originally finished, but he didn't expect Simba to sit in front of the cave with his big tongue and rest for a while, and then go back. But at this time, he was stopped by Yang Nianzhong, because now the tide is slowly growing up, and if he never returns to the beach, he will be intercepted by the sea water, and he can't go back.

Fortunately, Yang Nianzhong wore clothes for jungle exploration, somewhat similar to the camouflage uniforms used in army training, which were very breathable to prevent mosquito bites, because the tide rose quickly.

So Yang Nianzhong was able to take off all his clothes and pants, wear only shoes, and then stuff large and small stones into his clothes, fasten buttons and pull zippers. In his pants, Xiao Simba dragged Yang Nianzhong to carry his clothes, carrying stones inside, and struggled through the strange rocky reefs.

Yang Nianzhong and Simba, who had disappeared like this for more than an hour, came back with things on their backs, and when Anne stepped forward to greet them, they also smelled a very strange smell.

Anne took the package from Yang Nianzhong's body, and then looked at Yang Nianzhong with a frown and asked. "David, what's the bread in your clothes? It looks like a stone, and it's so heavy. ”

Yang Nianzhong sat on the beach at this time, panting while pointing his fingers, and said with a smile and a smile with a big tongue. "What the hell knows what this thing is? It was discovered by Simba, in a herringbone cave, and there seem to be many more such stones in the cave. ”

Yang Nianzhong gasped for a while before getting up, then took out a cigar from his bag and lit one, sat beside Anne with a frown, played with the smallest gray-white stone in his hand, and put it on his nose to smell while looking at Anne and said.

"Baby, can you smell these stones and you can smell a very sweet smell of earth, and at the same time some stench, or some other smell."

When Anne heard Yang Nianzhong say this, she also picked up a stone and smelled it, don't you really say that it smelled similar to the smell described by Yang Nianzhong, and couldn't help but nod and look at Yang Nianzhong and said.

"David has a very light taste, but it definitely has a taste, and the stones seem to be lighter than the other rocks, and heavier than the hollow volcanic rocks."

At this time, Yang Nianzhong put the cigar in his mouth, took off the Swiss Army knife at his waist, scratched it on the stone, slid off some white powder, and then put it in his hand and sticked. Put your finger under Annie's nose and smell it, Anne nodded and admitted that the smell was stronger.

Not only is the taste heavy, but there is also a lot of fragrance, Yang Nianzhong looked at the strange stones in front of him, and he smirked, the more he laughed, the louder he became, and the Anne on the side laughed so much, he pushed Yang Nianzhong's shoulder with his hand and asked puzzledly.

"David, don't just giggle, what the hell are these stones?"

Yang Nianzhong turned his head and watched Anne, who didn't know why, jump up from the beach with a snort, and then hugged Anne as a princess, and after picking it up, she was still moving around vigorously enough. The speed was very fast, and the two of them were giggling and laughing, Yang Nianzhong hugged Anne and turned in a circle, and shouted at the sky.

"Baby, we're rich, Simba has made great contributions, do you know what these are? If my guess is correct, it should be ambergris soaked in seawater for a long time. ”

Annie, who was hugging Yang Nianzhong's neck and giggling and laughing, was stunned when she heard Yang Nianzhong say this, and patted Yang Nianzhong's shoulder in surprise and asked him to put himself down, then looked at Yang Nianzhong's eyes and said.

"David, you're not mistaken, this thing is ambergris, an important ingredient in making Chanel perfume, the intestinal obstruction expelled by sperm whales."

That's right, it's ambergris, a by-product of sperm whales eating those deep-sea squid octopuses that can't be digested and excreted. Octopuses have a lot of suckers on their claws, and the beak of the octopus is particularly hard in the shape of a bird's beak.

Even sperm whales can't digest these hard things, and it's very uncomfortable in the field, so sperm whales' intestines secrete a substance that wraps up these wastes.

Then the intestinal movement spits out these things, and for sperm whales, this thing is that the secretion of their own intestines is a disgusting excrement. It is a substance that does not have any benefits, but to humans this thing is worth as much as gold, because ambergris is so precious, and because of ambergris, sperm whales were almost not killed by humans.