No, it’s not seeing stars, it’s seeing a flash. Say a flash correctly.
Suddenly, he had an idea that it wasn’t that he was seeing stars, but that thing flashed in front of him.
He was speechless and forgot to go on talking about what happened. He gradually realized that the thing was a luminous organism. If so, it should have come from a deeper place, so that it could not have boarded the Queen Baal in the port. It should have come from the open sea with shellfish. Maybe shellfish is the food source and attracted this thing. If this is an octopus …
"Dr. Ann Navach?"
His eyes turned to Roberts again, facing an octopus. He thought it was most likely that the shellfish was too fast and too strong compared with jellyfish. It seemed to be an elastic muscle tissue. He recalled that this thing ran out when he stabbed the shell mountain with a knife. The knife should have hurt it. Did he hurt it? Less knife triggered a reflex …
Don’t exaggerate, he thought. What can you see in that muddy water? I’m just scaring myself.
"You should send someone to search the bottom of the harbor," he said to Roberts. "But first, send it to Nanaimo Research Center for inspection as soon as possible. Please send a helicopter with me. I know who to give it to for inspection."
Roberts nodded and put Anna Navarra aside. "Jesus, Leon! Which of these things do you think are true? " He whispered, "A few meters thick shell can’t come out in a short time. It’s not like the ship has been idle for weeks."
"These shellfish are like a plague, Mr. Roberts."
"Just call me Clive."
"Clive, the real monster doesn’t appear slowly, but shows an attack posture as soon as it appears. We know so much."
"It won’t be so soon!"
"This damn shellfish can breed thousands of offspring larvae every year, moving with ocean currents or hitchhiking with fish scales or waterfowl feathers. In some sea areas in America, there are 90,000 shellfish larvae in one square meter, and they really appear overnight. They occupy drinking water systems, industrial cooling systems near rivers, and agricultural irrigation systems, blocking pipelines. Obviously, they live as well in seawater as in fresh water."
"Yes, but you said larvae."
"million larvae"
"Hundreds of millions of larvae in Osaka port or off the coast, and what? Are you seriously telling me that they will mature in a few days and even grow shells? I mean, are you sure everything has something to do with zebra mussels? "
"This is the sum of many uncertain factors," he said. "If whales really attack tugboats, we have to find out why. Do they want something interrupted to continue? Like a ship should sink after a shellfish paralysis? And the object that escaped after I found it … What do you think? "
"It sounds like Independence Day’s sequel is different from the protagonist. Do you really think …"
"Wait, otherwise, let’s put it this way. The gray whale or humpback whale felt threatened by the Queen Baal. Snow and frost came again and two tugboats hit them, so they ran back. Besides, it happened that the ship suffered a biological disaster abroad and a squid got lost in Shell Mountain."
Roberts stared at him.
"I don’t believe in science fiction," Ann Navach continued. "Everything is a matter of interpretation. Please send some people to scrape some shellfish attached to the noodles to be careful. There may be unexpected visitors in it."
"When can I get the Nanaimo report?"
"A few days. I guess it might help if you could give me a report by the way."
"Keep it a secret," Roberts stressed
Of course, I also want to talk to the crew privately.
Roberts nodded. "I’m not the last person to make the decision, but I’ll try to make it."
They walked back to the truck and Ann Navach put on her coat. "Is it common to invite scholars to investigate this kind of situation?" he asked
"Not at all," Roberts shook his head. "It was my idea. I read about it. You know that the investigation team was not very happy to find you in vancouver island, but I think it was right. After all, we know only a little about whales."
"I’ll try my best to get the samples to Nanaimo as soon as possible with the helicopter, and give them directly to Sue Oliveira, the head of the laboratory. She is a sub-biologist and very capable."
Ann Navach’s cell phone rang and stringer called "You have to come as soon as possible!" She said
"What’s the matter?"
"We received a signal from the Blue Shark. They had a problem in the open sea."
Ann Navach guessed it was a bad thing. "Is it with whales?"
"Of course not," said stringer, who seemed to think that his skull was broken. "What’s the problem between us and whales? That creep bother that king egg again. "
"Which king egg?"
"Who else! Jack Grey Wolf "
① Humpback whale’s English common name is hupbak whale, which means humpback. Japanese "seat head" refers to the shape similar to pipa stringed instrument and whale back.
The unit of sailing speed is equal to 1 nautical mile per hour (equivalent to 152 kilometers).
April 6
Germany Kiel
Two weeks after giving Tina Lund the insect inspection report, Sigur Johnson took a taxi and went to the Gioma Research Center, the most famous marine geological research center in Europe. If he had anything to do with the seabed structure and origin history, he would definitely come to the Kiel Research Center to consult the scientist, film director James Cameron, and people like him often went to Kiel to confirm Titanic and Abyss.
It is difficult for the general public to understand that the workers of Gioma Research Center poke around in the sediments and measure the salinity of seawater. At first glance, it seems that there is no practical contribution to human beings. Few people can imagine what the seabed looks like. After all, it was not until the early 1990 s that scientists discovered that the seabed is not rocky desert but full of life, although it is far from light and heat.
Although it has long been known that there are unique species living in groups along deep-sea volcanic hot fountains, when elwin Juss, a geochemist, was hired from Oregon State University to the Gioma Research Center in 1999, he said that it was still regarded as a fantasy, such as cold springs surrounded by oases of life, mysterious chemical energy from the center of the earth, and a large number of substances that appeared at that time were considered as accidental products and ignored methane hydrate.
Until now, geography, like most scientific fields, has been out of the shadow for a long time. Geographers have tried to predict natural disasters, climate and environmental development, and then have an impact. Methane seems to be the answer to the Japanese energy problem, which has caused a wave of media reports. Scholars with reservations have gradually become hot stars to fully benefit from this awakened interest.
Johnson went to Kiel Fjord, and the taxi driver seemed completely ignorant. Twenty minutes ago, he looked puzzled and complained about how to hand over the research center worth more than one million yuan and go to sea on a cruise every few months. They even have problems getting enough to eat.
Johnson, who can speak fluent German, is not interested in talking about this topic, but the driver keeps bombing him, and when he talks, he keeps comparing various gestures and the car deviates from the lane several times.
"No one knows what people are doing there," the driver said reproachfully. "Are you from the newspaper?"
Johnson didn’t answer, and he couldn’t help asking.
"No, I’m a biologist."
The driver changed the subject and started the recent food scandal. Obviously, he regarded Johnson as the person in charge. He always raved about genetically modified vegetables and too expensive organic food and then looked at his passengers defiantly.
"You are a biologist. Do you know what else we can eat? I mean, no worries! As far as I know, there is no market to sell things, and nothing can be eaten and it is not worth paying for. "
The car deviated into the opposite lane.