Chapter 92 Killer Whale (Seventeen)
Watching the first half of the video, Yu Yiyun silently tried to convince herself to accept the solution proposed by the researcher.
My mother was captured by humans when she was 4 years old and has lived in an environment created by humans for a full 20 years.
Professor Yu was once dedicated to the rewilding of South China tigers, so he knows very well how difficult it is to release them into the wild.
Now, she has a relatively comfortable living environment and does not have to work hard to hunt.
With companions and cute cubs by my side, there is no need to take risks...
“Hmm.”
"Hmm."
However, I heard the mother's still clear and tender voice trying to convey her longing for her baby who had been separated from her for many years.
Fat Tiger's defense is broken!!!
“Oh!”
Mommy! Wait for me!
“Boohoo!!!”
Baby, I'll take you home right away!!!
Fat Tiger stood up, with the courage of "never return until Loulan is conquered", turned around and dived into the sea, ready to say goodbye to his companions and travel thousands of miles alone to find his mother.
As a result, as soon as we approached the sand sculpture blackfin party, we found that they were eating seals.
"Hmm~"
I want to eat Leopard too!
Yu Yijun's nature as a foodie temporarily suppressed his emotions, and he immediately rushed over and smacked his lips, as if he hadn't eaten for five minutes.
Even if you want to find your mother, you have to eat first~!
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Fat Tiger, who had become a glutton, inhaled the food violently and quickly finished his share of the meat, then reloaded the main mission.
"嘤嘤~" Listen to me, the baby is leaving!
"Chew chew!" Seal is so delicious~
"Oh, oh, oh!" Yes, yes ~
"Eh?" I caught seals and gave them to my ex-lover whales. Will they love me again?
"Woo." No, they can catch it themselves.
"Eh ...
Yu Yiyun muttered seriously, but found that no one reacted at all.
Fat Tiger wagged his tail, swam over again, and told his brothers in a whimpering voice, "I'm leaving now. I won't eat seals with you anymore."
The stupid black fin party responded perfunctorily and continued to discuss the handsome guy’s ex-lover...
"Bing!"
Fat Tiger is a little emotional!
I'm going to be angry!
"Hmm!" I can swim very far!
"Oh!" You won't see me anymore!
"Boo-hoo!" Humph! I'm sailing away now, immediately, right away!
After listening to him cursing and yelling for a long time, the prodigal son glanced at the little guy coldly and threw out a fatal shot calmly.
"Woo?" Little guy, do you know the way?
“……” Fat Tiger was silent.
"..." Fat Tiger was in a dilemma.
“…嘤嘤嘤~” Fat Tiger quickly slid to his knees, stopped throwing a tantrum, twisted his tail and muttered to his brothers.
"Ying!" Come with me~
"Oh oh oh!" Let's eat the seal next time, I'll be responsible for catching it!
"Hmm?" Just you?
The foodie completely believes in Fat Tiger's hunting skills, but does not believe in Fat Tiger's whale ethics.
He was in charge of catching the seals, and he would certainly eat most of them himself.
"Bing~" The baby needs to grow up~
Fat Tiger blinked his big eyes, trying to get away with it by being cute.
"Woo." Let's go.
The prodigal son made a short sound, wagged his tail and turned to the north.
"Eeh~" Let's go~!
"Chirp!" Wait for me!
"Hmm?"
Fat Tiger looked at their receding backs, feeling deeply confused.
It doesn't matter if you don't want to accompany me, but is it necessary to abandon me? !
"Hmm?" The foodie bumped his butt hard from behind and urged him in disgust: You don't even know the north, and you want to sail with a whale?
"Ying!" Hurry up and catch up!
"Hmm~" Yu Yiyun, who had a terrible sense of direction, quickly followed over, humming and praising the brothers loudly for being the best in the world!
"Eh~" Then I want to be the first one~
"Chirp!" It's not fair, I am the best!
"Oh." You all are first, so I'll be second.
"Woo." So noisy.
The culprit who had caused the dispute was swimming among them, twisting his tail, bubbling with happiness.
The silly blackfin gang is willing to accompany me on this journey, and I am sure we will find our mother soon!
Yu Yiyun swam happily for a long distance, almost leaving the Antarctic Circle, when he suddenly stopped for a few seconds.
Wait, I feel like there's something I've forgotten...
Fat Tiger thought hard, but the search in his brain failed.
Forget it, never mind!
Finding mom is the most important thing~
At the same time, in the Antarctic Circle near the polar glacier, the big whale finally pulled a penguin off the ice after many efforts.
"Buzz?" I caught the penguin, where's the little guy?
"Squeak." Don't you know? The little guy has left.
"Coo!" He wanted to find his mother, and many whales came to help!
"Chirp, chirp, chirp~" Yes, yes, come to think of it, why are we still catching penguins here?
“…”
The big whale stood there in a daze, recalling that before arriving in Antarctica, the cute little guy asked himself if he could catch penguins.
All this was in vain after all!
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Little Man Mi only showed Fat Tiger the video and did not tell him the specific location of the ocean rescue base.
Even if Fat Tiger knew the address, the ocean is so vast that it would be difficult for him to describe it in detail to his companions.
It is almost impossible to find such a small rescue base in such a vast ocean with the power of only five whales.
Fortunately, Yu Yiyun swam all the way here and made good friends everywhere.
There is no old saying: Good friends should be used where they are needed most!
In addition to the passing whales who came to help and searched everywhere in the ocean.
Yu Yiyun swam along the way she came. When she met a group of whales she knew, she would go up to them and act coquettishly, asking them to help keep an eye on her mother's location and notify her in time if there was any movement.
Although from the environmental point of view, there are no killer whales in the sea where the mother lives.
However, this group of sea gamblers are very curious and have a particularly wide detection range.
If they spot a strange killer whale, they may swim over to see what's going on and share the news with the killer whales they meet.
Then, word of it spreads from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and it will definitely reach Yu Yiyun’s ears!
After leaving the Antarctic Circle, Yu Yiyun first encountered a large group of pelagic whales.
Pelagic whales have lived in waters far from the coast for a long time, so they certainly don't know the specific location of the rescue bases built by humans in offshore areas.
However, upon hearing the little guy's call for help, the huge group of pelagic whales immediately took action.
Large whale groups consciously expand their range of activities, shorten the distance from the coastline, and help search more sea areas.
Yu Yiyun thanked the ocean-going whale with gratitude, and then continued to head north, returning to her first home in the ocean.
After a long separation, the grandmother whale heard about the baby's experience and convened a clan meeting without hesitation, asking all the grandmothers and aunts to help find their children who had been separated for many years.
However, there are fewer Southern Resident Whales and their habitat is limited.
In order to find the rescue base as quickly as possible, the resident whales broke the north-south barriers for the first time and sent out signals, asking resident whales from several other populations to lend a helping hand with their fins.
You know, the three major resident whale populations have not had any contact with each other for a very long time, and have gradually formed different eating habits and cultures.
If this trend continues, in a few thousand years they may differentiate into different ecotypes like Antarctic killer whales.
The appearance of Fat Tiger reminded the Resident Whales of their common ancestry going back millions of years, and they decided without hesitation to help the little guy picked up by the Southern Resident Whales.
In addition, the little fellow who served as the internal translator of the resident whale group also delivered a message to everyone:
There is a female resident whale at the rescue base where the mother is.
No need to guess, she was also a poor child who was taken away from domestic whales by whalers.
With her excellent memory and language skills, Yu Yiyun carefully described the characteristics of the resident whale in an attempt to get the domestic whale to recognize her baby.
In the end, two resident whale families with completely identical characteristics decided to leave the habitat where they had lived for generations and follow Yu Yiyun on a journey to find their relatives.
Yu Yiyun never expected that even though she described it in such detail, it still couldn't match it 100%.
It was a pity that he couldn't talk to the resident whale through the video, so he didn't know whose child she was.
Now two families have renewed their hopes, and even in the best case scenario, only one of them will be able to successfully find their child.
How sad would the resident whale family be when they couldn’t find their baby and saw their hopes dashed?
The little guy's worry was so obvious that two older female whales from the resident whale family came to comfort him.
"Buzz." Don't worry, little guy.
"Coo, choo." Even if we can't find the home whale, it's a happy thing to see other families reunited.
"Buzz." Yes, it proves that we still have hope.
Even if they cannot find it this time, as long as there is a family reunion in the ocean, it is equivalent to opening a door for the whale group to reunite.
In time, more captive killer whales will surely be reunited with their families, and maybe next time it will be their children.
Therefore, the lost whale group is full of expectations.
"Hmm..."
Yu Yiyun was so moved that she burst into tears.
After coming into contact with many killer whale families, he fully realized that the female leader is absolutely the treasure of the entire family.
They are kind, knowledgeable and sensible, and therefore they can lead the entire family through all the storms in the ocean and pass on the family culture from generation to generation.
Yu Yiyun prays sincerely that in the near future, the land overlords will quickly master the balance of coexistence with the ocean overlords and jointly protect the blue planet on which we depend for survival.
When Fat Tiger set out again, he was not only accompanied by fellow passerby whales and two resident whale families who were also looking for their home whales, but also by Zhuangzhuang and Bubble following behind him.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, Zhuangzhuang and Bubble have become ten-year-old adolescent killer whales.
The two naughty children couldn't stay at home, and when they heard that the little guy needed help, they cried and made a fuss and insisted on going with him.
Resident whales have a fixed habitat from generation to generation and rarely leave their family territory.
But the two grandsons had strong desires, and after careful consideration, the grandmother whale decided to let go of her fins and let them go out to explore the world.
Because the little one told them that the ocean is really beautiful and magnificent, and there are all kinds of adventures.
It would be a pity if you don’t see those beautiful scenery during your long life.
The sea area where the resident whales live is too small for the young man who yearns for the stars and the sea.
Today, due to various factors, the number of Southern Resident whales is less than 100 at most.
If there is a slight accident in the future, the history of Southern Resident Whales will come to an abrupt end.
It would be better to let the next generation travel across the ocean, perhaps they can find new opportunities for the family and leave a spark for the entire ethnic group.
“Chirp~”
“Squeak!”
Bubble and Zhuangzhuang rolled around excitedly as they left their family habitat for the first time in their whale lives.
They had no idea what they were carrying and were chattering excitedly all the way. Even the turtles with their heads curled up aroused their curiosity.
"Chirp~" Look, the passing whale is catching the dolphin!
“Squeak?” So are dolphins delicious?
Fat Tiger, the royal translator of the whale world, heard his companions' words and immediately relayed them to his brothers.
"Hmm." They asked the dolphin if it tasted good.
"Woo." The prodigal was still a quiet man. He skillfully picked up two pieces of meat suitable for the little killer whale to swallow and threw them directly in front of them.
Bubble and Zhuangzhuang looked at each other for a few seconds, then opened their mouths at the same time and ate the dolphin meat.
After eating the dolphin meat, the two killer whales chirped and turned into food critics.
"Squeak!" Such a strong smell.
“Chirp~” Yeah, dolphins are different from salmon.
"Squeak~" The salmon is sweet, and the dolphin tastes a bit fishy.
"Chirp, chirp..." I didn't taste anything...
As soon as Bubble finished speaking, the handsome guy threw two bigger pieces of meat at him.
Speaking of which, the two young killer whales are exactly the same age as his long-lost baby.
Because the handsome boy "made the same mistake that all whales passing through the ocean would make", his children no longer acknowledged him as their father.
The old father, Mengjing, burst into tears and had to raise other whales' children as substitute meals.
With his feeding, Paopao and Zhuangzhuang ate several pieces of meat in a row and gradually became a little drunk.
Although dolphins are not on their menu, it feels very novel to eat strong-tasting food occasionally.
It’s like eating too many healthy and nutritious meals and suddenly having a hamburger and fries.
Evil, but addictive!
In the following journey, Bubble and Zhuangzhuang progressed from "often following resident whales to eat fish, and occasionally eating dolphins" to "often rubbing against dolphins that pass by guest whales, and occasionally eating fish."
It's like all whale children who have lost the restraint of their parents, and they are as rebellious as they can be.
The large group of killer whales traveled day and night for another half a month. Yu Yiyun swam almost along the coast and petted many small people along the way, but still could not find the ocean base set up by the rescue station.
As he swam, he heard familiar voices in the distance. It was his grandmother and aunt teaching his cousin how to hunt.
After meeting the little creature, the grandmother learned that her daughter, whom she had been looking for for the past twenty years, had not been in the ocean at all, so she quietly stopped looking for her.
She still misses her daughter and keeps her in her heart.
Now, grandma has digested all her emotions and is concentrating on raising the next generation of her family.
Fat Tiger secretly observed for a long time, not knowing whether he should tell them the news about his mother.
Logically speaking, grandma and aunt have finally regained their spirits and stopped their hopeless search, and Yu Yiyun should not disrupt the current peace.
In the past few months, Yu Yiyun has traveled half the world and shaken so many whales, but has not received any news.
Searching for such a small base in the vast ocean is like searching for a grain of sand in the desert.
If you are not careful, you will miss your goal.
Yu Yiyun couldn't even be sure whether they had missed any clues in the sea area they had searched.
If nothing happens after swimming from south to north, it will definitely be a heavy blow to the whale group that is full of expectations.
What is more cruel than disappointment is:
He gave me hope, but then shattered it himself.
However, Yu Yiyun could clearly feel that the older female whale had not forgotten the pain of losing her daughter at all.
She realized that it would be futile to search any further, so she sadly chose to give up.
Yu Yiyun thought for a long time and finally mustered up the courage to swim over.
Even though hope may be shattered, days without hope are too hard to endure.
Moreover, Yu Yiyun is ready to face all the consequences together and is determined to do her best to find her mother.
We will definitely be reunited this time!
"Hmm~" Grandma~
"Oh oh!" I know where my mother is. Shall we go pick her up?
The female whale, who had seemed calm at first, suddenly lost control of her emotions after hearing what the little guy said. She swam over and kept asking questions, urging him to set off quickly.
The older female whales have experienced many storms and have become strong and calm inside.
Grandma missed her daughter so much that she revealed her weakness so easily.
After being excited for a while, grandma suddenly thought of something and looked at her eldest daughter and youngest granddaughter.
Over the years, in order to find his lost daughter, he had to make the two of them travel back and forth with him.
Especially the little granddaughter, she had never even met that aunt, but was taken around by her mother and grandmother.
There is no time for play or interaction with others.
Grandma had already made up her mind to let go of her obsession with her daughter and raise her granddaughter well.
Now, hearing the news about her daughter again made her very embarrassed.
My cousin is young and her emotions are not that deep.
She heard the conversation between her grandma and the little guy and swam over on her own initiative.
"Chirp?" Shall we set off soon?
My cousin has indeed never met Hill's mother, so there is no way they have a deep bond.
But she has lived with her grandmother since she was born, and knows how much she cares about that aunt.
Even though they are separated by oceans, the bond between them is unbreakable.
Therefore, in my cousin's opinion, finding my aunt is the highest priority.
The aunt rubbed her baby daughter lovingly, and then rubbed her mother who had been with her for forty years.
"Gu." Let's go.
“Buzz.”
The grandmother no longer hesitated. Even though she knew that this trip might not yield any results, she still decided to embark on the journey to find her daughter again.
When my uncle heard the news, he told all his companions in the sea area and asked them to help search for the ocean rescue base.
Type 2 killer whales living in the North Atlantic are basically aware of a brave female whale who has been searching for her daughter for twenty years.
Upon hearing that there was news about the lost killer whale, they didn't bother to tease the sperm whale or the pilot whale, and collectively launched a search for the base described by Fat Tiger.
The Atlantic Type 1 killer whale that lived nearby was also shaken over by the little guy.
They often dealt with fishermen and were relatively familiar with human habits, and began to check every coast one by one.
In just a few months from south to north, almost all the killer whales in the ocean knew that "the poor and cute little guy is looking for his mother, and his mother is locked up in a human rescue base."
However, despite the unprecedented collective action of the killer whale community, they still did not get any news from Laura.
That day, Yu Yiyun approached the coast again with great hope, but she was disappointed to find that this was the Little Renmi Resort.
In order to protect killer whales, the marine rescue agency deliberately enclosed the base in an area far away from human activities.
Yu Yiyun could clearly see from the overhead shot that there were no tourists within dozens of nautical miles.
So, once you encounter a little person on the shore, it is basically impossible to find a rescue base.
Fat Tiger drooped his tail in disappointment, turned around and swam back silently.
But before I had swam far, the sound of a jet yacht was heard behind me.
The little people on the boat raised their horns and shouted his name at the top of their lungs.
"Hill! Wait for me!"
"Mommy has been looking for you for a long time!"
"Slow down, Hill, you're swimming too fast!"
Yu Yijun heard the little people crying heartbreakingly, as if they did not just want to take a look at her.
Although Fat Tiger was busy looking for his mother, he was already here, so a few minutes wouldn't matter.
The little killer whale stopped there, waiting for the cat to slowly come over.
"Hill is so good. Mom is so touched. He is worthy of being my good son!"
The little guy praised excitedly and took out a thick notebook from his arms.
"Baby, the mothers on the Internet know that you can understand human speech, so they agreed with each other that when they see you, they must pass on the highly praised comments on the forum to you."
She opened her notebook and flipped through several pages, muttering, "I won't read out words like 'Mom loves you' and 'Take good care of yourself'. Pick something more meaningful. Oh, this one, this one..."
The little man cleared his throat excitedly and said:
"@希爾, this is the longitude and latitude of the ocean rescue station I searched for. Mommy can only help you get here!" After reading the comment, she asked with concern, "Longitude and latitude are concepts created by humans. Baby, do you understand?"
As she spoke, she gestured with her hand. "Longitude is roughly between where you eat salmon and where you eat dolphins. Let me think about latitude... It's on the coast of Asia, further west than where you eat sea lions. Oh... You don't understand east, west, south, or north."
The little guy rubbed his hair in annoyance, and decided to just give up and take out the map to draw a route for Hill.
"This is the sea we are in. This is where you eat sea lions. This is the rescue base. You should swim here first, and then... do you understand?"
"Bing!"
Yu Yijun stared at the pen and map in her hands without blinking, and excitedly raised his tail, splashing high waves, which splashed all over the little man.
"I'll assume you understand. Mission accomplished."
The little man wiped his face and hypnotized himself, "It's okay, this is the baptism of love."
“Oh…”
Fat Tiger, who got into trouble again, apologized in a coquettish manner.
The wet human glanced at the cute big eggplant and had a dangerous idea.
"Baby, can you let mommy touch you?"
Hearing his request, Hill obviously thought for half a minute, then stretched out his big pectoral fin.
"Bing!"
Okay, I can only touch it once~
With a perverted smile, the little man touched the pectoral fin that Hill had extended, and there was only one thought in his mind:
This life is worth it!
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Asia.
The atmosphere in the meeting room where the researchers at the ocean rescue station were sitting was almost suffocatingly depressing.
"…Is there really no other solution?"
"Alas, we've thought of everything we can think of, but Laura doesn't meet the standards for release."
"How about going to the South China Tiger Rewilding Team to learn from them? I heard that the progress there is very smooth. There is a two-year-old tiger named Yunxiao who has completely adapted to the wild environment."
"That's too far-fetched. How can killer whales be the same as South China tigers? We don't have the conditions to create a realistic ecological environment for killer whales. Laura can't come into contact with the wild environment, and there are no wild killer whales to teach her survival skills. I'm afraid..."
Before he could finish his words, the breeder opened the door of the conference room, panting, and told everyone breathlessly:
"The tiger, the killer whale is coming."
"Ah? Another killer whale was sent to the rescue station?"
The keeper shook his head and said seriously, "They are wild. There are a lot of them. They are all crying outside the net now."
"???"
Are you sure that it was a killer whale and not a crying monster?
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