live animal world

Chapter 221

The small cone snail walked on the instep, and Su Yun's back felt cold. Although he couldn't feel the opponent's weight, he didn't dare to move his feet no matter what.

The other party was crawling very slowly, and the direction also made Su Yun a little melancholy. The other party was not trying to step over the instep, but was slowly moving along the instep towards Su Yun's ankle, as if he wanted to climb up along the calf.

"This grandson must be sick, what are you doing crawling on me?" Su Yun complained, paused, glanced at the half fish tail in the hole above his head and said, "Wouldn't it be caused by the whitetip reef shark eating the wrasse just now?" The smell of blood must have attracted it here."

Looking at the conch snail that was still moving upwards, Su Yun wondered if his diving suit could withstand the opponent's attack?If you can, grab it directly, if you can't, you have to think of other ways to get out.

Su Yun didn't want to be stung by the other party. If he was stung by the other party, he would die. The current medical methods can't save the human beings who have been overwhelmed by the cone snail.

Just when Su Yun was thinking about cutting off the opponent's tip with a single knife, the cone snail that climbed up to Su Yun's ankle slowly stopped.

[Good guy, I'm terrified when I see it]

[If you give this thing to Su Yun, will Su Yun be gone all at once? 】

【Can you believe this thing was sold on Taobao before? 】

[Blue ring octopus can still find sellers on Taobao now! 】

"Huh!" Just when Su Yun was not sure what the other party was going to do, suddenly the other party slowly crawled up the instep. On Su Yun's ankle.

"Are you treating me like a rock?" Su Yun pinned his left foot to the sand, then slowly squatted down, trying to get closer to the cone snail.

[Super Tube: I hate you for being like a rock. 】

Su Yun's face darkened, "Super tube, don't do it."

Chao Guan's rambunctious remarks made the audience who were worried about Su Yun's safety directly burst into laughter, and the tense and serious atmosphere was directly spoiled by the other party.

Seeing stone-like things emerge from the place where the cone snail crawled, Su Yun raised his eyebrows and said, "This is laying eggs."

"Good guy, what's wrong with this place in Australia? Why do I either mate or lay eggs when I come here?"

After a pause, Su Yun began to popularize science, "Concrete snail is a common name for cone snail."

"This thing usually lives in tropical seas and belongs to molluscs. Spring and summer are just when it lays eggs, but I never expected that the other party would lay eggs on me. It seems to regard me as a reef."

The cone snail seemed to be very serious when laying eggs, even Su Yun didn't notice it when he approached.

"We also have this thing in our country, so if you are close to the warm sea, if you encounter a beautiful shell, don't touch it. Be careful, after all, the more attractive the more dangerous it is."

After a day of searching, Su Yun finally saw the coveted cone snail at night.

Squatting under the rock wall, like an old farmer basking in the sun under the wall in winter, with his hands in his hands, watching each other lay eggs with great interest.

Four or five slender white-tip reef sharks gathered around Su Yun again. While swimming next to Su Yun, they also discovered the cone snails on his feet. For creatures like cone snails, the two sides have always been in harmony with each other. Obviously, they I also know the power of cone snails.

Su Yun seemed to see pity in the eyes of the whitetip reef shark.

A whitetip reef shark deliberately finding fault stopped a little far above the cone snail and frantically swung its tail. The huge water fluctuations lifted the sand and stones on the ground, muddying the entire area, and the sand and stones flew around and hit Su Yun's mask. There was a clattering sound, if it wasn't for the fact that the other party had a conch snail on his foot, Su Yun would have decided not to give the other party any good fruit.

Although whitetip reef sharks don't eat cone snails, they don't want to watch them lay eggs, so making trouble must be done.

Watching the sand scrape off the egg sac on Su Yun's ankle, the cone snail immediately poked out its tip and aimed at the white-tip reef shark, but the white-tip reef shark was too far away and the attack range was not enough.

After the trouble was over, the whitetip reef shark happily left. Su Yunjing waited for the sand to settle and said, "The purpose of the whitetip reef shark to move the sand just now is to scrape off the cone snail eggs attached to my ankle."

"As I said before, the breathing method of the whitetip reef shark is different from that of the great white shark. The great white shark breathes impulsively and moves all the time."

"But the whitetip reef shark, which only swims no more than 3 square kilometers every year, is different. It rests on the bottom of the sand during the day."

"Then here comes the problem. The cone snail's way of predating during the day is not walking out like it is now, but lurking under the sand, only showing its tip and proboscis."

After thinking about it, he described it as "similar to the Flammulina velutipes protruding from the sand."

Saying that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the thinner part of the opponent's lower end, "This is the tip, and it can also be the location of the stinger, because there is a barb-shaped syringe inside the tube, which is used to paralyze the prey."

Then he pointed to the relatively thick and short part of the upper end and said, "This is the proboscis, which inhales seawater into the body and filters oxygen through the gills in the body."

Continued, "Speaking of the question just now, if the whitetip reef shark resting during the day is unlucky and lies on the cone snail hidden under the sand and poking out the tip, it will be directly attacked."

"How strong is the venom of cone snails? Medical science can't solve it anyway, so white-tip reef sharks can't solve it either. They can't handle it at all. Killing white-tip reef sharks with venom that can kill 15 adults is simply a small problem. "

"However, after killing the whitetip reef shark, the cone snail has no way to devour the opponent's flesh and blood, so it is tantamount to killing for nothing, and the whitetip reef shark is also tantamount to death for nothing, so the whitetip reef shark unilaterally formed a relationship with the opponent. Liangzi."

"But whitetip reef sharks dare not attack cone snails, because they are poisonous, so under normal circumstances, neither of the two parties knows each other, but once whitetip reef sharks get the chance, they will play tricks on cone snails."

[Love and hatred in the animal world! 】

[Can cone snails kill fifteen adults?Damn, last time I went to Hainan, I touched a conch snail on the beach. The tour guide panicked at the time and told me to throw it away quickly. Good guy, now that I think about it, I'll just kill myself. 】

[What is the natural enemy of the cone snail? 】

The cone snails were still laying egg sacs at a leisurely pace, and Su Yun was not in a hurry, so he replied, "If you want to say anything, the cone snails' natural enemies are their own kind and us humans."

"There are different types of the same kind, and the toxins contained in the body are different. Some contain tetrodotoxin, and some contain paralytic toxin, but no matter what the toxin is, don't worry, as long as it bites you, you will only feel it when you are bitten. Once stung by a bee, it doesn't hurt much afterwards."

"As for humans, the pollution problem can indirectly kill cone snails."

Time passed slowly. Long-term inactivity of one leg caused abnormal blood circulation, which made Su Yun's legs slow down. He could only do squats quietly to relieve the leg symptoms. The white tip reef shark patrolled the surroundings over and over again. Territory, trying to find prey.

Every time a whitetip reef shark appears, the cone snail will firmly protect the egg sac and keep a close eye on it.

The whitetip reef shark didn't care either, it just looked at Su Yun once, and when it looked at the conch snail, it was like looking at a fool.

(End of this chapter)