One Thousand Two Hundred Sixty-Seven. Revenge Little Expert

Qin Shiou carefully looked at these thieves and fat bugs. He didn't recognize them at first, but suddenly remembered their identities. These things are shipworms.

Despite the disgusting name, they are called maggots. In fact, they are not worms, but a kind of clam. They are close relatives to the clams that Qin Daguan loves very much, and distant relatives to the goose-neck barnacles that he loves even more.

From the appearance, they are no different from some worms. If you look at them with a magnifying glass, you can see that there are actually some very thin white shells on their heads, which are hard in texture. They use this shell to twist their bodies to turn themselves into small The drill, eventually bored into the wood.

Shipworms feed on wood, and they will select a piece of wood from birth, and then burrow into it, devour the wood, digest the wood, and survive successfully.

There are many wood-eating animals on land, but they are rarely seen in the ocean. Shipworms are the only one that has been seen so far. And this kind of small thing can cause more damage to the world's ocean transportation industry every year. tens of billions

For example, in the summer of 2000, several piers in Maine in the United States collapsed inexplicably. The oak piles supporting the piers were more than 9 meters long and 25 centimeters thick. They looked indestructible from the outside, but they were destroyed by shipworms inside. up.

Similar incidents have also occurred in Canada. In 1997, a pier suddenly collapsed at the southwest wharf of Hafachek, and six people fell into the water. Afterwards, the police investigated the cause of the accident and found that it was also a masterpiece of shipworms.

In this way, Qin Shiou had an idea, why not cultivate a super shipworm to disgust the Japanese?

He didn't know much about shipworms. He just saw them by chance when he was looking through marine biology books, and knew that they were a kind of tough fishery pests.

As the saying goes, the enemy of an enemy is a friend, the dolphin butcher near Tokyo Bay is his enemy, and the shipworm is also the enemy of the dolphin butchers, so they can be friends?

Qin Shiou swears that the shipworm is the most disgusting friend in his life, but it is also the friend who can help him the most now.

But for this new friend, he is still relatively unfamiliar. He got up and searched for information. Thinking that there is a way to deal with those Gulf butchers, Qin Daguan was so excited that he couldn't help laughing.

Weini slapped him, and said shyly and angrily: "Why are you restless? Get down honestly. The massage has just begun..."

Qin Shiou stretched out his hand to pick Wei Ni's chin with a playful smile, and said frivolously: "Little lady, what are you doing behind the scenes, brother, I want to listen to music now, let me play a flute."

"My daughter is here.

Virtuousness" Winnie grabbed something and threw it at Qin Shiou. Brother Diao, who was flying in the air, had tears in his eyes, why is it always me who gets hurt.

Qin Shiou turned on the computer and searched, and found that these disgusting little friends are really disgusting. Moreover, it is very suitable to use them for revenge, they can be called revenge masters

Shipworms feed on wood, or rather, they feed on cellulose, the main component of wood. Cellulose is a polymer of sugar molecules, which contains rich nutrients. But other sea creatures cannot digest wood because they lack a substance in their bodies: cellulase.

The enzyme unlocks tightly locked sugar molecules, which is essential for land animals to enjoy the nutrients in wood. Among marine organisms, only the bacteria on shipworms can secrete cellulase, so they have the extraordinary ability to digest wood.

In this way, the wood becomes a cake in their eyes. Kachi Kachi Kachi Kachi, a wooden boat sank; Kachi Kachi Kachi Kachi, a pier pillar collapsed; Kachi, the port is going to be abolished

in addition. Shipworms are particularly ideal avengers. They can only survive in wood. They used to be able to drift around the world with wooden boats. Where are there wooden boats now? They were all iron boats, so no matter how powerful Qin Shiou created the shipworms, there was no possibility of them flooding.

Unless someone foolishly takes the wood containing super shipworms to other docks, or the shipworms can eat iron after being modified by Sea God energy, otherwise they cannot leave Tokyo Bay.

Just do it, after Qin Shiou sent the dolphins out of Tokyo Bay. Immediately mobilized the four sea god consciousnesses back, and attacked around, looking for logs along the bay, and there were shipworms in these logs.

Because of the different types of wood, the types and sizes of the shipworms that live in them are also different. The small ones are only 2 cm to 3 cm long, while the large ones can grow up to 1 meter, which is as thick as a baby's arm, like a snake.

Regardless of the type, when Qin Shiou found the shipworm, he input the Seagod's energy into it. This time, he spent a lot of money, regardless of the cost, and output as much as he could.

His purpose is to let these shipworms evolve as soon as possible, and then multiply as soon as possible. As long as the super shipworms multiply, Tokyo Bay will have to be renamed Tokyo Steel Bay in the future.

According to Qin Shiou's research, shipworms have a strong reproductive ability. They are especially capable of laying eggs, and they can produce about 5 million eggs per year.

After the larvae of the shipworm hatch, they are small at first, invisible to the naked eye, so their existence cannot be detected.

After a period of swimming in the water, the larvae start to attach to the wood. Their lives are very happy, and the wood can solve their board and lodging problems together, including eating and living together.

As long as the larvae start to eat wood fibers, they will grow very fast. According to statistics, at this time, the shipworm larvae can grow a hundred times in 16 days; they can grow a thousand times in 36 days, and grow for about a month. Reach sexual maturity, then start laying eggs...

The more he understood, the more Qin Shiou felt that this thing was scary.

What kind of parasites of alien dinosaur blood are not enough to look at in front of this thing. As long as the size of shipworms can be enlarged ten times, as long as they change their feeding habits and become meat-eating, the end of the world will come immediately

Moreover, even if the Japanese discovered shipworms in the future, they would probably have to catch them blindly. This thing is very difficult to deal with.

First of all, they are parasitic in wood, so if you want to completely exterminate them, you have to destroy all the surrounding wood, but is this possible?

Secondly, shipworm larvae are tenacious, and conventional methods cannot kill them. fire? No, they live in the wood, and once the fire is lit, the wood is gone. freezing? Yes, but how to freeze all the wooden docks at low temperature?

Even using chemical methods to deal with shipworms is also very difficult. Wood has become their protective shell. It is not easy to pass through wood and act on shipworms.

The widely used method is to use high pressure to inject chemicals into the wood. In seawater, these chemicals will be slowly released, and then kill the shipworm.

But just by looking at it, you can see how expensive it is to deal with shipworms in this way

And the cost is not the main reason to limit the chemical method to get rid of the shipworm, to be continued.

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