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Chapter 217 The rich man hidden deep in the sea

One hundred meters, two hundred meters, three hundred meters...

When you dive 400 meters deep, the seabed is pitch black. Even with the titanium-alloyed turtle's eyes, it is difficult to see things dozens of meters away. You can only see a blurry approximation. The seabed terrain in the deep sea begins to become steeper, and the seabed mountains are sometimes undulating.

The sperm whales rely on the ability to emit sonar to sense the dark sea, but the snapping turtles were a hundred meters away from them, so they didn't notice it, which surprised Lin Yang. The snapping turtles' control over the sea water was so perfect that the sound made in the sperm whales thought it was just a small fish.

When diving 500 meters, a terrain of continuous ridges and trenches appeared in front of me, sometimes protruding, sometimes concave, and steep rocks. Many places are snapping turtles that cannot be crossed because they are too big.

There can only be three injured sperm whales from above the ridge!

Half an hour later, the sperm whale finally stopped in a trench. It was an abyss. It was a little wider. Three sperm whales slowly dived into the abyss and disappeared.

Rather than saying that those who dive down, they are sinking. They have not been on the air for too long, and they are seriously injured and have already exhausted.

Seeing the three sperm whales disappearing into the abyss, Lin Yang hesitated a little. He was very curious about the abyss. What was there? Why did the sperm whales come here before they die?

The snapping turtle stretched out its claws like a mountain digger. With one claw, even the hard rock under the sea was overturned. Lin Yang was immediately full of courage. No matter how dangerous the deep sea was, there should be no creature that could threaten the snapping turtle, right?

Thinking of this, Lin Yang no longer controlled the snapping turtle, and the snapping turtle that received Lin Yang's instructions was like a wild horse. It could not help but want to rush down.

It was pitch black and there were granular things everywhere, and Lin Yang could feel a little water pressure increasing from the snapping turtle. An abyss was about 150 meters deep, and the snapping turtle reached the bottom. It was surrounded by ridges of rock walls and small peaks.

Under Lin Yang's instructions, the snapping turtle walked forward along the abyss. Soon he found the corpse of a sperm whale in front of him. He looked closer and there were two heads lying quietly at the bottom, and the one that attracted Lin Yang's gaze was twenty meters above.

The third sperm whale kept struggling, and its head was caught by some creature. Lin Yang looked at it intently and found that it was a king squid.

The tentacles of the King Squid are 10 meters long and can entangle all the sperm whale. Moreover, the terrifying force coming from the tentacles almost made the sperm whale painful.

The king squid sucked the giant of the sperm whale tightly, and then used its serrated tentacles to continuously cut the sperm whale's body, attracting a terrifying suction force.

If it were normal, the king squids were usually a sperm whale's meal on the plate, but now, the sperm whale was already in full injury, and after struggling for a few times, it was dying.

"Depend on!"

The snapping turtle received Lin Yang's instructions and attacked quickly. The king squid reacted quickly. When he saw the giant snapping turtle, he was already scared to his soul. He quickly let go of the sperm whale and shot into a crack with a "swoosh".

However, the snapping turtle's speed was 60 knots, and it reached 110 kilometers in an hour, and nearly 2 kilometers in a minute. As soon as the king's squid ejected twenty meters, it was bitten by the snapping turtle's giant mouth.

The king squid kept struggling, and the tentacles of about ten meters were sucked on the snapping turtle. If it were a sperm whale, it would have been too painful to let go. Unfortunately, the shell of the snapping turtle is harder than steel, and the skin on the body is even more comparable to that of the rock. This king squid is 15 meters long and cannot be formed into a Shanghai shape for the snapping turtle.

“Crunch!”

The snapping turtle's squid was bitten to pieces with a few sharp serrations, and its tentacles were shattered.

The snapping turtle was already full just now. According to common sense, it would spit out the corpse of the king's squid, but this time the snapping turtle ate with relish. Even the two tentacles that fell were rolled up by its tongue and swallowed it.

Lin Yang could feel the message from the snapping turtle's brain that he liked to be quick. It seemed that he liked eating the king squid!

"Damn. I didn't expect this guy to like this kind of octopus!"

Lin Yang controlled the snapping turtle and looked at the sperm whale. He saw that the third sperm whale had sunk to the bottom of the sea and was lying with the other two sperm whale, looking very peaceful.

"Can it be the cemetery of sperm whales in this sea area?" Lin Yang secretly guessed that he knew that in fact, the loyal good friend of human beings would run away from home before their lives ended, and find a quiet place to quietly wait for the end of life, which is similar to the sperm whales here.

Three sperm whales lay there quietly, and they sacrificed their lives to protect the young sperm whales, and they did even more admirable than humans who claimed to be of higher intelligence.

After taking a silent look, Lin Yang asked the snapping turtle to go back.

Suddenly, Lin Yang found a scattering of sunlight, illuminating the entire abyss.

Lin Yang felt incredible. This place is a deep sea of ​​five or six hundred meters. Generally speaking, there is no sunshine in 400 meters. But at this moment, the sun is indeed shining, pouring down from the cracks on the rocks above his head.

In the end, Lin Yang can only attribute it to the magic of nature. Perhaps it is precisely because the sun is about to set and forms a special angle with the sea that the sun can shine into the deep sea.

With the sunshine, Lin Yang could see a very far away clearly. He saw many huge skeletons, probably the corpses of sperm whales, for at least decades or even hundreds of years.

When passing a section of the trench, Lin Yang found several large beige stones, and the surface of the stone seemed to be coated with wax. When Lin Yang remembered, it seemed that there were several large stones of these under each white skeleton.

Suddenly, Lin Yang's breathing became a little rapid. As a college student, especially a student majoring in aquaculture, he has studied many fish in the ocean. The sperm whales were extremely attractive to him, and the stories that sperm whales and the king squid had to tell.

It is said that some people in the UK found sucker scars with a diameter of 40 cm on a stranded sperm whale. Some experts speculated that this was left by the sperm whale's mortal enemy, the king squid, and the size may be unprecedentedly large. A 17-meter-long king squid tentacle is only 9 cm in diameter. It can be imagined how long the king squid with a diameter of 40 cm is, which is probably far greater than the snapping turtle.

But this is just a legend, while ambergris is real.

As a medicinal use, it can promote qi and promote blood circulation, disperse nodules and relieve pain, promote diuresis and promote irritation, treat cough, asthma, qi node accumulation, heart and abdomen pain, and gonorrhea.

As a spice, after the spice company grades the purchased ambergris, the ambergris perfume is ground into extremely fine powder, dissolved in alcohol, and then mixed into a 5% concentration ambergris solution for configuring perfume or as a scenting agent. Therefore, ambergris is expensive, almost equivalent to gold.

And this ambergris priced at gold is just a sperm whale excrement.

It turns out that the big squid and octopus have tough horny jaws and tongue teeth in their mouths, which are difficult to digest. When the sperm whales devour large molluscs, the jaws and tongue teeth accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, stimulating the intestines, which secrete a special waxy substance, wrapping the residual core of the food, and slowly forming ambergris.

Some sperm whales will vomit the condensation, and some will excrete it from the intestines. Only a small number of sperm whales will leave ambergris in their bodies.

In fact, the newly born ambergris is not only not fragrant, but also extremely smelly. It requires the odor to slowly subside under the caress of sea water, sunlight, and catalyzed by the air. Then the light fragrance appears and gradually becomes strong.

The color also changed from light black at the beginning to beige, light gray at the beginning, and finally became white under the action of seawater. The white ambergris has the best quality. It has to be soaked in Shanghai water for a hundred years and floated out all the impurities before it can become the best among ambergris; the lowest value is brown, which has only been soaked in seawater for more than ten years.

Ambergris taken from the intestines of the killed sperm whale is of no value, it must float in the sea for decades to gain high status.

This is simply a miracle. Generally speaking, you can't see ambergris in the deep sea.

Ambergris has a smaller density than water, and they usually float on the surface of Shanghai! However, all the ambergris in front of you are pressed down by the skeleton of the sperm whale and cannot float.

Ambergris cannot be formed without exposure to the sun. Just one hour after sunset every day, the abyss five or six hundred meters will be shining down.

It is not an exaggeration to describe Lin Yang's mood at this moment. Unexpectedly, he kindly helped the sperm whales and got such a high profit return.

Yes, Lin Yang instantly transferred these ambergris to his account.

Along the way, Lin Yang didn't look at how many of them were, but the number was definitely quite large, all of which were stuck to the huge skeleton.

With excitement, Lin Yang spent a lot of time to count the ambergris under the skeleton of each sperm whale in the trench. The number was a lot, about a few hundred kilograms.

You should know that a sperm whale can discharge four or five hundred kilograms of ambergris. Of course, the weight will shrink a lot after bleaching and exposure to the sun, but at least two or three hundred kilograms.

There are hundreds of sperm whales here, but most of them do not have ambergris under them. I think more than 95% of ambergris have been washed away by the undersea tide. Ambergris will float up, and only ambergris stuck by the skeleton will remain deep in the seabed.

"I've sent it!"

I really got rich this time, probably I’d never been rich!

Lin Yang clearly remembered that there was a news report at that time: In March 2008, two Welsh men accidentally picked up two pieces of off-white ambergris with a total weight of about 50 kilograms while walking their dogs by the beach. According to experts' estimates, their market value is at least 550,000 pounds, which is about 7 million yuan!
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