752. One World (1/5)
Since I started elementary school, Ao Muyang knew that the blue whale was very big:
There are 50 people on the blue whale's tongue. The heart of the blue whale is as big as a car. The baby can climb through its arteries. The newly born blue whale cub is heavier than an adult elephant, etc.
It is said that during the first seven months of its life, the young whales have to drink 400 liters of breast milk every day, which can grow nearly 100 kilograms a day...
These are all the knowledge he learned from books. He had never seen a blue whale. The blue whale had come to the Red Ocean Sea, but he was in school at that time and could not watch it. He just heard that it was coming.
There is no bone of the blue whale in the book. He doesn't know what the blue whale will become after death, but the wreckage he sees must be from the blue whale, only it can grow so big.
Even the blue whale cannot grow so big. Looking down at the wreckage, it is nearly forty meters long. However, considering that the wreckage bones may have been washed away by the current, resulting in a change in position and error in its length, it is normal to think so.
Ao Muyang looked down at the whale corpse from above the seabed and felt a shock, desolation and—noisy!
The death of a whale is the end of it, but it is a feast for the sea area where it is located. It uses its huge body to support an ecosystem.
Ao Muyang has watched related documentaries before, saying that in the deep sea of the North Pacific, at least 43 species of 12,490 organisms survive on whales.
Some of these marine organisms, such as clams, worms and blind shrimp, eat residues little by little by little by little by little by little. These whales can be self-raising by chemistry, meaning that they can produce food by themselves through chemical reactions. In addition to not having to obtain sunlight (because sunlight cannot pass through deep water), self-raising by characup is similar to the photosynthesis of plants.
Now there are many reptiles living near the whale wreckage, let alone bacterial colonies, which are innumerable.
The death of a whale has obtained the exclusive term "whale fall" because it has research value. Whale falls in stages and raises different lives at different stages.
Ao Muyang remembered that a complete whale fell seemed to have four stages. He forgot the specific name, but remembered that the first stage whales feed sharks, eels and other carnivorous fish, and the second stage feeds these reptiles.
From what we know, he roughly estimated that the whale might have died for several months or even over a year, because the first phase can last up to twenty-four months before entering the second phase.
The creatures near the whale's remains are very strange. Their shells are red and bright in color. They look a bit like frogs, with big heads and small bodies, and they keep shrinking from their heads to their tails.
They are naturally not frogs, they are crabs, a crab that looks very different from crabs, and the sayu crab.
Because this type of crab looks too non-mainstream, except for the official titles, the names given to them are different from those of crabs, such as sea bugs, sea toads, lion cabbage cats, and red oceans are called mantis shrimp heads.
Some time ago, Ao Muyang just led the team to harvest a lot of mantis shrimps. Basically, this crab is indeed very similar to the head of mantis shrimps.
The corpse of the blue whale is too huge. It is a huge treasure house for the Xu crabs. After the crabs arrived, they lived here and reproduced, and a large crab tribe had formed.
Unlike most crabs who like to be domineering in walking postures, the crabs walk normally and move backwards, which is related to their body shape. The crabs have a big head and a small body, so it is difficult to walk sideways.
However, like other crabs' domineering style, they occupied the whale and drove away other reptiles.
Normally, whale falls enter the second stage. Many invertebrates, especially polychaetes and crustaceans, will use residual whale corpses as their habitat. While living here, they will also eat residual whale corpses and constantly change their own environment.
But Ao Muyang looked down and saw no other animals, but he saw the Crab.
This is also good, he can harvest a batch of xu crabs. Although the name of this crab is not good, it tastes delicious, especially the crab roe, which is big and delicious.
There are fishing nets on the tiger's seat. It is not suitable to use fishing nets for crab fishing, but it is great to use fishing nets for crabs.
Ao Muyang dragged a net to the whale corpse. He started from the fish head and landed in the sea to pick up the crabs, just like picking the girl's little mushrooms, one by one...
To collect the Crab, you must have quick eyes and hands. This guy has two large claws, and there are ferocious serrated teeth on the outside of the claws, just like the serrated teeth of the South China Sea crocodile, God Yue Lao San. Whether it is clamped or scratched, it will cost blood.
At this time, the whale's head had not completely rotted, and most of them had bones exposed, but there was still some rotten flesh, which looked a little disgusting.
But it was too big, Ao Muyang stood in front and looked up, as if he was looking at a building.
Think about it, its tongue can stand on more than fifty people!
The blue whale has a huge body and feeds a huge biological group. Ao Muyang estimated that there would be tens of thousands of Xu crabs here, which would be enough for him to work hard for a few days.
The whale had a huge mouth, and Ao Muyang walked in and felt a little scared.
The seabed is quiet, and only the 'swish' sound is made when the crab crawls, like a gloomy wind.
There is no natural light at this depth of the seabed. Ao Muyang can see clearly that it is just because the golden elixir has transformed his eyes.
Under the dark and light-free seabed, the whale's mouth was opened like the legendary gate of Fengdu City, with dark holes inside, and there was no entry or exit...
Ao Muyang walked slowly in. After entering, he slashed his eyes and subconsciously shivered.
There were many black boards in front of him, with the fish's mouth wide and the upper jaw raised upwards and arc-shaped. There were such boards on each side, as many as three or four hundred. These boards were about one meter long and half a meter wide, and they stood in black where they were like tombstones!
"Oh my god, it's so scary." He murmured and comforted himself, "But this is the blue whale's beard. It's okay, this is a blue whale, this is its beard."
He said this in his heart, but he felt that he would not lie, so he felt quite scared.
The red crab crawled between the beards, and no matter how you looked at it, it looked like the red corpse in the ghost story...
Thinking of this, Lao Ao quickly slapped himself, stop thinking about it, work honestly, and if you want to continue, do you still eat the Crab? This thing is very delicious.
Chapter completed!