Tomorrow's Ark is too real

Chapter 964
Penguin Logistics is indeed the world's top intelligence organization, but when Wei Na called the Emperor, she was rejected.

The reason given by the emperor was very professional, so professional that he didn't show any human feelings.

According to the tenet of Penguin Logistics, as long as a cooperative relationship is reached with the customer, it will never sell any information of the customer, including but not limited to assets, force, personnel, whereabouts and so on.

Of course, it sounds like he is very trustworthy, but in fact the emperor is also pretending to be professional.

There are so many countries and regions in the entire Terra world, Colombia, Bolivar, Rem Billiton, Kazdel, Victoria, Laitania, Casimir, Syracuse, Minos, Vaivan Alliance, Lateran, Sargon, Kjerag, Sami, Ursas, Yan Kingdom, Longmen, Dongguo.

If you want to find a very low-key person from so many countries with different national conditions, different cultures, and different technological backgrounds, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Even the professional couriers of Penguin Logistics spread all over the world, it is difficult to guarantee that they will be found.

Dongguo, the south coast of Xichuan.

The wind is sunny and the waves are playing.

Xia Feng didn't know anything about what happened to Victoria. What he was most concerned about at the moment was whether the creature with its head protruding from the sand in front of him was his meowing sandworm.

"Fengbao, quickly dig this thing out, don't let it get away!"

"Wang!"

Creatures like Qiulang standing at the top of the food chain are naturally fearless. Feng Bao raised his tail, pouted his big butt, and planed fiercely at the sandpit, with an efficiency comparable to that of an excavator.

Originally, this suspected sandworm creature had re-entered the soil after seeing the situation was not good, but within a short while, it was pulled out forcefully by Feng Bao, who had dug three feet into the ground, with his mouth in his mouth.

Minamino Village, Sorata's home.

Uncle Nanye frowned, and watched the dying strange creature in the middle of the living room for a long time.

In the end, as a veteran navigator, he gave a professional judgment.

"That's right, it's a sandworm."

After receiving an affirmative answer, Xia Feng's face brightened.

"Great!"

This sandworm is about half a meter long, covered with a hard carapace, with yellow and blue patterns distributed on the carapace, it looks like a mutated lobster.

However, although both sandworms and lobsters have carapaces, they are quite different when you look closely. The biggest difference is the "feet".

Lobsters have large claws and several pairs of very small feet, but sandworms have four pairs of regularly symmetrical feet and no claws.

The sandworm's feet are very strong, and the total weight even exceeds the body. Moreover, there is a stubby tentacles on the sandworm's head, which is said to glow at night.

In addition, the biggest difference between sandworms and other seafood is their size.

Uncle Nanye said that the sandworm he caught was only a larva. If it were an adult, it would be close to one meter in length, and the meat quality is incomparable to that of lobster and crab.

To Xia Feng, sandworms are no strangers to creatures. In Victoria, he was an "upper class" person who ate all kinds of delicacies, and sandworms were also Ifrit's favorite.

However, although he had eaten charcoal-grilled sandworm legs at that time, he had never seen a live sandworm, because sandworms were so rare.

The value of sandworms is very expensive, almost to the point that there is no market for it. This is a well-known fact among the former aristocrats and rich men in Victoria.

Sandworms in the wild are very rare. For the unfortunate experience of this sandworm, Xia Feng expressed his sympathy, then wiped away the tears flowing from the corner of his mouth, and said.

"It turned out to be a live sandworm. This time I got a great deal. I heard that this thing has super high nutritional value. I'll take it back and give it to the bagpipes later."

After that, he looked at Nanye Shimoda again.

"Uncle Nanye, whoever sees it has a share, why don't you cut it up and save half of it for roasting at night?"

Xia Feng's surname is not Nanye, and naturally he is not from Nanye Village, so the one-month sea closure order announced by the village chief has no effect on him.

Of course, for the villagers, the so-called closure of the sea means no fishing, and seafood is still edible.

However, facing Xia Feng's proposal to split the meeting in half, Uncle Nanye hesitated.

"Fuutarou, I advise you not to eat this kind of thing."

"Huh? Why don't you eat it?"

"this thing"

"Is it poisonous? No, I ate it in Victoria before."

Uncle Nanye shook his head.

"No, sandworm meat is not poisonous, it's just that this kind of thing is relatively evil on our coast."

Later, Nanye Shimoda specifically explained to him what the so-called "evil gate" meant.

To be honest, if Xia Feng hadn't believed in Uncle Nanye's character, he would have thought that this old guy was making up stories to lie to him, deliberately trying to get him to give up the sandworm so that he could stay and have a drink.

According to Minano Shimoda, such creatures as sandworms are very rare even in the eastern country surrounded by the sea.

How rare is it? Let’s put it this way, except for the villages around the south coast of Xichuan, people in the inland have hardly seen it, let alone eaten it.

That's right, creatures like sandworms only inhabit the south coast of Xichuan, to be precise, it's an isolated island very close to the coastline.

A hundred years ago, the ancestors of the villagers of Nanye Village accidentally found sandworms in the sand on the edge of the coast just like him, and then they searched there.

Unfortunately, apart from that one sandworm, there is no other of its kind.

A few years later, the villagers caught sandworms on the beach one after another, until finally they realized that these sandworms were all female and came to the beach to lay eggs.

This way of reproduction is somewhat similar to sea turtles. The difference is that the estrus and egg-laying periods of sandworms are different, and there is no exact time and no uniformity.

This method is obviously more advanced. It can choose the time of mating and spawning independently, which is not possible for many marine organisms.

Laying the eggs in the sand on the coast rather than in the sea is supposed to prevent the eggs from being eaten by predators before they hatch.

But after investigation later, there is a deeper meaning in it.

Because the sandworms are so fragrant, after a joint search by the villagers of Nanye Village at that time, they finally found an isolated island less than 2 kilometers from the coast.

The island is too small to have any natural resources at all, so it has been ignored by the villagers who went out to sea before, but the villagers only discovered it after they got close to the island.

It turns out that this island is the base camp of sandworms!

Seeing the sandworms on the island, the villagers salivated with excitement. If the island is completely conquered, the descendants of Nanye Village will have an inexhaustible supply of sandworm meat to eat.

However, just as the villagers gradually approached the island and were about to disembark and start catching them, a huge black shadow emerged from the sea without warning.

Afterwards, the huge waves raised by the black shadow mercilessly swallowed the villagers' boats.

(End of this chapter)