Chapter 1744
There were many small and micro-sized creatures in the sea. The seawater looked clean and clear, but in fact, if some strange guests drank a mouthful of seawater, they might end up in their stomachs.
Most of these creatures were harmless to the healthy, but there were always exceptions.
The thing that Zhang Zian had picked up was too small, about the size of a rice grain. At first, he thought it was a small worm on land that was attracted by the fishy smell of the seaweed, so it was like a moth flying to the fire in search of food. However, when he looked at it carefully under the sun, he noticed that the body structure of this "bug" was quite special. It didn't look like a bug on land, but more like a crustacean animal in the water, such as a shrimp or something.
The more detailed things could only be seen with the help of a magnifying glass or microscope.
Ke shaohui saw his actions and smiled.""Did you pick up something good?"
"What is this? Do you know him? Is it a prawn?" Zhang Zian handed the shrimp to ke shaohui with a tissue.
This thing was really too small. Zhang Zian had to put it almost in front of his eyes to barely see its outline. He was too embarrassed to directly reach out his hand in front of people's eyes.
Ke shaohui's vision wasn't bad, but he still couldn't see it clearly from a distance. He had been a sailor before, so he had a rough personality. He stretched out two fingers and wanted to pinch it to see it.
Zhang Zian felt that it was a little inappropriate. It was obviously not a wise move to touch an unknown creature, but it was too small, and he had never heard of any kind of shrimp that was poisonous, so he hesitated and did not stop it.
As a result, ke shaohui had just picked it up when his facial muscles suddenly twitched and he sucked in a cold breath.
"F * ck! This thing ... It bit me!"
He subconsciously swung his hand to get rid of it, but he regretted it as soon as he got rid of it because it was too small. It fell to the ground and mixed into the soil, unable to be found.
"Where did it go?"
He jumped from the tire to the ground and crouched down to search for the item.
"Forget it, stop looking. Is your hand okay?" he asked. Zhang Zian asked.
Ke shaohui lowered his head and looked at his hand. There was a wound the size of half a grain of rice on the tip of his right index finger that was bleeding.
"What the f * ck? This little thing is so fierce?"
He stared at his finger in disbelief.
He used to be a sailor on a ship, and he often traveled for half a year on the ocean. The life at sea was not as delicate as a pig girl 's. The sailors lived very rough lives, and they spent all day with machines, ropes, duners, and railings. Every sailor's palms were rough.
He retired from a sailor a few years ago and was admitted into the administration of fishery. The things he often touched changed from cables to keyboards. The calluses on his fingers had been smoothed out, but they were still much rougher than ordinary people's fingers. Even so, when he saw the little thing, he was bitten and bled.
If it had been any other part of his body that had been bitten, he might not have reacted so violently and directly flung it away, but the fingers were connected to the heart.
"What is that thing? Why was he so fierce? You're biting me right away!" He looked at Zhang Zian in fear because he didn't see anything clearly, but Zhang Zian at least saw more clearly than him.
Zhang Zian also looked at his fingers and shook his head.""It's hard to say. It could be some kind of shrimp or something else."
"Shrimp?"
Ke shaohui was stunned."Prawns bite people?"
This was something he had never heard of in his many years as a sailor.
"I don't know, but the ocean is so vast. There are always species of creatures that humans don't know about." Zhang Zian didn't jump to conclusions."By the way, has the fishery administration received similar reports recently, such as incidents of tourists or citizens being bitten by the sea?"
"This ..." Ke shaohui thought about it awkwardly."Even if there is such a thing, we should ask the hospital. Unless it gets out of hand, I'm afraid we'll be the last to know ..."
This was true. The jurisdiction of the fishery administration was very wide, but because it was too wide, it couldn't be very detailed. If someone was bitten by this creature at the beach, if it was serious, they would go to the hospital to treat the wound and then go home. Basically, no one would consciously report it to the fishery administration.
"You suspect that there are a lot of those things in the sea?" Ke shaohui asked.
"There must be a lot of them. Such small creatures must be gathered in large groups to survive. I was born in Binhai city, and I've never heard of these biting creatures near the sea. They must have attached themselves to the seaweed and were blown here by the typhoon. " Zhang Zian nodded.
"Then ... What should we do?" Ke shaohui's face looked as if he was constipated. First, there was a Typhoon, then there was seaweed, and now there were mysterious biting bugs. If this continued, the fishery administration would have to resign collectively.
A single bug could bite through his rough fingers. If it was a group of these small bugs ... He didn't dare to think further.
What to do?
The simplest solution was, of course, to prohibit citizens and tourists from swimming in the sea. However, once this decision was announced, it would definitely cause a great uproar. People would not believe that it was a biting bug at work, but would make wild guesses about whether there was some terrible danger in the sea. From the leakage of nuclear fuel to Godzilla's appearance, people's imagination in this regard was always very strong.
Zhang Zian picked up a handful of seaweed and observed it carefully in his palm.
As a pet practitioner, he was good at identifying pet-related animals. He was not good at plants unless he had done his homework. For example, before entering the mahogany forest, he had studied which plants in the forest were edible. However, as a child who grew up by the sea, he had some understanding of seaweed and could recognize that it was algae of the genus Ultis.
Ultis algae was the general name of a large species of algae, including more than 40 kinds of algae. He couldn't tell which kind of algae the algae in his hand belonged to.
The pollution of the ocean, the deterioration of water quality, and the explosive reproduction of algae would often lead to a red tide, leading to the death of a large number of marine creatures, also known as red spirits.
Not all red tides were red. There were also green tides formed by the explosion of green algae, and a typical example was the algae of the Ultis family.
Recognizing that it was algae of the algae family, Zhang Zian remembered a piece of news he had seen before. It was about some kind of shrimp that bit people, so he had a deep impression of it. It was the first time he had heard that shrimp bit people.
In August 2017, a 16-year-old Australia teenager ran to the beach and soaked his feet in the sea because he felt his leg muscles were sore after playing football in the afternoon.
This was not the first time he had done this. He and his friends would swim in the same spot almost every day, and nothing had ever happened.
However, about half an hour later, when he lifted his feet from the sea, he was horrified to find that both of his feet were densely covered with small wounds from the middle of his calves down. They had been bitten to a bloody mess, and there was almost no intact skin left.
When he soaked his feet, he felt a tingling sensation, but he thought it was a normal reaction caused by his muscles, which were hot and bloodshot from exercise, coming into contact with the cool sea water. After all, it was winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
After he was sent to the hospital, the doctor could not determine what had bitten him.
In order to find out the truth, his father came to the same beach again and put the raw meat into the sea. When he picked it up again, he found a group of bloodthirsty small crustacean-like creatures. After identification, they seemed to be some kind of glass hook shrimp.
This dangerous glass hook shrimp did not only exist in the Southern Hemisphere. As early as 2007, there was a record of more than one citizen being bitten by them in the Shandong Peninsula. What was certain was that this glass hook shrimp would swim with the seaweed in the sea and not too far away from the seaweed.
In adventure novels, people often described the Army ants as gods. It was said that a group of army ants could instantly eat a living person into a skeleton. Of course, this was an exaggeration. A living person was not stupid. Who would stand there and wait to be eaten by army ants?
These bloodthirsty glass hook prawns were like army ants in the sea. It was not easy for people to run away in the sea. It should be very dangerous to encounter groups of glass hook prawns when swimming, but normal people would not swim in large patches of seaweed, right? The probability of being entangled by seaweed and drowning was much higher than being gnawed by glass hook shrimp.
Therefore, in general, these glass hook shrimp and humans did not interfere with each other. There were not many cases of humans being bitten, at least not reported. They were too small and their bodies were translucent, which made their movements extremely concealed. If you were bitten when you were swimming in the sea, you would not think that it was a kind of small shrimp that had bitten you.
Zhang Zian told ke shaohui everything he knew and comforted him,""As long as no one is swimming near the seaweed, there shouldn't be any major problems. There's no need to take any special measures to avoid panic. At most, a few signs will be set up on the beach where there is seaweed to warn citizens and tourists not to swim in the sea, or they may be entangled by the seaweed and cause danger."
Ke shaohui nodded repeatedly and heaved a sigh of relief. What he was most worried about was to make the matter a big deal. Whether or not people were injured or even killed because of this, the Department of Fishery administration would be the one to suffer in the end. It would be best if the problem could be solved by putting up a few signs.
"This is only a temporary solution. The real solution is to wait for the monsoon to come and blow the seaweed back to the deep sea. If we're lucky, the wind might start in a few days." Zhang Zian added.
"I hope so." Ke shaohui sighed."You're really good at causing trouble for the administration of fishery ... I'll go first. Bring this truck of seaweed to the place, and I'll get a few more signs to plant on all the beaches with seaweed."
Zhang Zian suddenly thought of welder Zhao and electrician Wu, and asked,""Wait a minute. Is there a tidal flat in the South? Someone's digging for giant Taotie prawns there?"
"Y-yes, there's such a large tidal flat." Ke shaohui confirmed."What's wrong with the tidal flat?"
"Uh ... Are there any large patches of seaweed in the ocean?" Zhang Zian asked.
"Yes, it's one of the areas with the densest algae. There's a large outbreak of algae, and the big tadpole shrimp, big bamboo clam, and clam are all fed with seaweed. Someone is catching shrimp there." Ke shaohui smiled embarrassedly."To be honest, my colleague used to be a shrimp catcher there, but he's been too busy recently and hasn't been there ..."
Zhang Zian was speechless.
Other people might just be catching prawns there, but as long as it was a dangerous place, welder Zhao would definitely be in danger.
He even suspected that welder Zhao was a person with hidden superpowers, who could increase the risk of danger from close to zero to one ...
As soon as he thought about it, his phone rang. It was electrician Wu.
Seeing this, ke shaohui waved goodbye to him and gestured to keep in touch in the future. Then, he returned to the car and drove the municipal engineering vehicle away.
"Hello? Master Wu, did something happen to master Zhao?" He answered the call.
Before electrician Wu could say anything, welder Zhao's shrieking came from the other end of the phone.
"Cough! Don't even mention it!"
Electrician Wu briefly explained what had happened.
It turned out that the two of them had calculated the time when the tide would fall. When they arrived at the beach, the tide had already fallen. They parked the electric car on the shore and carried their tools to catch the giant Taotie shrimp.
Welder Zhao had heard his fish friends talk about how to catch shrimp, but he thought he had learned it after listening to a few words. He walked into the tidal flat after the tide fell with confidence, but it was not that simple when he actually did it.
To fish for the giant Taotie shrimp, one had to shovel away a layer of sand from the flooded mudflat with a shovel. After shoveling away the sand, if there was a hole below, one had to insert a bamboo stick or something similar into the water. If the bamboo stick moved, it meant that there was a giant Taotie shrimp in the hole. Next, he had to stick the brush into the hole.
The Taotie shrimp was a clean freak and knew how to clean up the foreign objects in the cave. If it thought that a writing brush was a foreign object, it would push the writing brush out. As it pushed the writing brush, it would pop out of the cave. At that time, it would be fine to catch it quickly.
It seemed simple, but the timing was not so easy to grasp.
Welder Zhao was impatient. He boasted that he would catch 10 pounds of giant Taotie shrimp that day. In the end, a few of them came out of the hole but went back in. He couldn't help it. He threw away his brush and reached into the water-filled hole to get the shrimp.
He took out several big Taotie prawns in a row and laughed at electrician Wu, who was fishing for prawns step by step with a brush. Unexpectedly, when he put his arm into the water again to look for prawns, he didn't get any, but his hand was bitten.
He thought it was a shrimp using its pincers to pinch him, so he didn't care and continued to dig deeper. In the end, the hole was more twisted, and his hand was stuck.
Then, he felt a sharp pain in his palm and forearm, as if he had been electrocuted. It wasn't very painful, but he was still wondering what was going on.
When he finally pulled his arm out of the hole, he found that his palm and forearm were covered in blood. There were also many semi-transparent bugs hanging on his skin, not letting go.
The visual impact frightened him more than the pain on his skin. He screamed in fear, and electrician Wu almost had a heart attack.
Electrician Wu was also dumbfounded when he saw his arm. He threw his tools aside and pulled him up to the electric bike by the beach. He planned to take him to the hospital and call Zhang Zian while running.
Zhang Zian sighed after hearing this. This time, it was just a flesh wound, so there would not be any danger. But if welder Zhao continued like this, the rest of his life would be full of passion and adventure.