Blue Star Survival Project: Animal Edition

When the sun lit up the sea, Shengcun felt the giant beasts beside him start to move.

They floated to the surface of the sea one after another to take a breath, their huge bodies like driftwood floating in the sea.They shoot out slanted jets of water that spread out like bushes in the air, refracting tiny rainbows.

Although he lived by the sea in his previous life, Sheng Cun has never seen a live whale.With the help of underwater light, he observed the body of the sperm whale at close range, and felt deeply shocked countless times.

They are really too big, longer than two classrooms, they slowly swim past him, first with a blunt square head, then a huge streamlined body, and finally a light and small tail that is out of proportion to the body , inexplicably a bit like a giant tadpole.

But anything that grows to the size of a sperm whale is hard to find cute. Shengcun watched them dive into the water one by one, only feeling a suffocating sense of oppression, almost unable to breathe.

After all, he is still a human soul. Human beings have a strong yearning for the sea that breeds life, and they also have an instinctive fear of the dark deep sea.The Hebrew myths I read in the early years came to my mind very appropriately, and the image of the sperm whale gradually overlapped with the sea monster Leviathan.

What are you thinking, isn't the crab boss's daughter in "SpongeBob SquarePants" also a sperm whale, how cute she is!

Sheng Cun twisted his body uneasily, trying to drive out these messy thoughts.

"Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and change your breath, you're going to eat!"

The clicking sound flowed down the water to Sheng Cun's ears, turning into the low growl of the mother whale, very much like the tone of his mother shouting for breakfast when he was lying in bed for online classes.

Shengcun floated lazily to the surface of the water, exhaling the stale air in his lungs through the nostrils on the top of his head.

He felt a slight strangeness, the right nostril seemed to be blocked, and there was no feeling of air circulation.

Does this sperm whale have a cold?He opened his mouth wide and tried to sneeze to clear his nose, but accidentally spit out several bubbles in the water.

The female whale next to him silently stepped forward and hit him with her broad head. He lost his balance and fell to the ground, with the left half of the blowhole protruding from the water.

He saw the worried look in the mother whale's eyes hidden under the folds of skin, as if wondering if the child had gone stupid overnight.

It seems that sperm whales only breathe through the left nostril, no wonder the water column they spray is crooked.Shengcun took a deep breath of the fresh air above the sea, feeling that he had gained some useless knowledge.

This breath was particularly long, and the female whale waited patiently beside, because the air stored in the lungs for each breath needs to be enough to support the next two hours of deep diving.

Seeing that Sheng Cun was almost ready, the female whale turned around and swam to the bottom of the sea.

The Great Bank where they are located is a famous Newfoundland fishing ground.The cold Labrador Current from the Arctic Ocean and the warm Gulf Stream collide here. The denser cold current sinks slowly, and the warm current rises with it, bringing out nutrients from the deep sea and spawning a large number of plankton along the way. There are countless fish.

In the middle of the 19th century, the Newfoundland fishing ground still maintained the reputation of "walking ashore by stepping on the back of the cod". People who depend on the water for water would never imagine that this treasure of geomantic omen will no longer exist a century later.

However, these problems are not what Shengcun needs to worry about now. The big shoal in front of him is still a paradise for marine life.

He dived all the way, admiring the ocean scenery he had never seen before.

At the beginning, the sea water was a clear dark blue, and the glistening phytoplankton floated up and down with his movements. Sheng Cun always had the illusion that he was cutting a piece of blue amber.

As the light gradually decreased, the planktonic algae gradually disappeared, and the pressure at a depth of more than 500 meters had reached five times the atmospheric pressure. Shengcun clearly felt that the streamlined body was evenly sharing the pressure from the sea water, and the lungs slowly contracted. Adapting to the change in pressure, the heart beats slowly and vigorously, pumping blood to every corner of the body.

Sperm whales are the deepest diving mammals, and 500 meters is just the beginning of the deep water world for them.Even if the body is not fully developed, it is not a problem to dive to a depth of nearly 1000 meters.

The visibility was already very low, and Shengcun felt a deep fear. What he feared most was not the bottomless abyss, but the silence in the dark, because this feeling would always remind him that he was dead. Not of this world at all.

He makes a "click-click" sound and scans his surroundings with a sonar system.

Fortunately, although it was pitch black in front of him, the sonar system told him that the mother whale was always by his side.The voices of other companions came from a deeper place, indicating that they were still moving not far away.

Sperm whales are a united group, they keep in touch at all times, and they will not give up any member easily.

Sheng's fear finally eased a little.

The sonar system clearly outlined the terrain in front of him, and he found that the terrain of the seabed was not as flat as he imagined, but rather complicated and varied like the mainland.

For example, what appeared in front of him now were two raised submarine mountains with a wide canyon in between.

The canyon is like a bottomless black hole, swallowing the last gleam of light. Shengyu hesitates at the entrance, watching the female whale swim firmly into the abyss.

The female whale flicked its tail, and a deep voice came from the front, both comforting and urging.

Sheng Cun hesitated for a while, and then he followed closely.

The canyon provides shelter for deep-sea animals, and only where there is a support point will a large number of life gather, and the food of the sperm whale is hidden there.

This is the entrance to the abyss, and the home of the sperm whale lies in the mysterious depths of the ocean.

The author says:

1. Little knowledge about sperm whales: Because their blowholes are on the left side of their bodies, the sprayed water column will be inclined at 45°, which is very recognizable.

2. About the Newfoundland fishing ground: Although it is still one of the four classic fishing grounds in geography books, the fish resources of the Newfoundland fishing ground are almost exhausted due to human greed. The once iconic product - cod, is now hard to find trace.