Fu Ming made a bold guess, but Fu Wan shook her head, "I don't know, bring me a net, I'll scoop it up and find out!"
After saying this, Fang Min immediately picked up the net and handed it over.
Fu Wan gestured for the baby orcas to move aside, and was about to reach out her net towards the source of the sound when, in the next second, Fu Gui jumped into the water with a splash and swam towards the bottom of the boat without looking back.
"It doesn't seem to be its enemy, no, its nemesis turtle."
Fu Wan muttered to herself, then decided to put the net away again.
Now that Fugui has swum across, it wouldn't be good if she used the net again and got tangled up with him.
Everyone stared at the sea for a full two minutes. Just as Fu Wan was feeling uncertain and wondering whether she should go down to take a look, Fu Gui finally poked his head out from under the boat.
After checking to make sure the orca pod wasn't near the boat, but rather playing about ten meters away, Fugui turned around and disappeared from everyone's sight again, only to reappear shortly afterward.
This time, it wasn't just him who appeared as a sea turtle; Hua Kai, whom everyone had been missing, also appeared. To Fu Wan's surprise, there was a sea turtle following behind Hua Kai!
What's going on? It's only been a few months since we last saw them, and a third party has already appeared in their little family?
The sea turtle was clearly a hawksbill turtle, but when it swam to the side of the boat, Fu Wan realized that her guess was wrong.
What third party? Hua Kai has brought her own kind to ask me for help!
The sea turtle hadn't surfaced yet, and the seawater was a bit murky because of the orca's playful antics, so Fu Wan hadn't been able to see that the sea turtle's head was covered in barnacles!
Even its mouth is covered with countless barnacles!
The moment she saw it clearly, Fu Wan felt a chill run down her spine, and goosebumps instantly rose all over her body.
Good heavens, that must hurt so much!
No wonder that turtle, even though it was a hawksbill turtle, didn't have the same eye-catching patterns as the rich and beautiful ones. In fact, the turtle swam very slowly and looked listless.
"Holy crap, what's that turtle's mouth?!"
Fu Ming also saw the pitiful state of the sea turtle being parasitized. Ye Lin rubbed his arms and said that, to be honest, of all the marine creatures, barnacles were the most disgusting. They looked even more disgusting than the golden apple snail eggs by the river in Qingshan Village!
"Don't be afraid, I'll pull you out and save you."
Fu Wan lowered her voice to comfort it, and then, before the sea turtle could react, she quickly scooped the somewhat frightened turtle onto the deck.
Once pulled ashore, everyone could see the turtle's pitiful state more clearly.
In fact, it's not just the head and mouth, but also the area under the turtle's neck and its limbs.
The limbs are not completely parasitized yet, but if Fu Wan doesn't intervene, the sea turtle may be completely parasitized by barnacles in less than a month, making it unable to move or forage, and eventually starving to death.
Fu Wan hurriedly drew the short knife she carried with her, preparing to help the sea turtle get rid of the barnacles.
However, this sea turtle was much more timid than the 'Wealthy Flower' turtle. Upon seeing this, it was instantly frightened and flailed wildly at its still-movable limbs.
Upon seeing this, Fu Wan quickly put down her knife and first picked up the sea turtle to comfort it.
"Little one, don't be afraid. I'm not going to hurt you. These barnacles are making you uncomfortable, aren't they? Once I remove them, you can swim freely and eat your food properly."
After saying that, Fu Wan was worried that it wouldn't understand, so she carried it to Fu Gui and Hua Kai.
After Fu Wan carried the sea turtle onto the deck, Fu Gui and Hua Kai, with the help of Ye Lin and Fu Ming, also got back onto the deck.
As soon as he got on the deck, Fugui immediately climbed to the spot where he had been eating fish and brought all the fish he had left over—no, the fish he hadn't had a chance to eat yet—to Huakai.
They didn't mind the flowers blooming and ate them with great relish.
"Wealth and prosperity, flowers are blooming, quickly tell your friends that I will not harm it."
I know you brought it here to save him, but it will definitely hurt a bit when it goes into the barnacles. Try talking to it!
As Fu Wan spoke, Fu Haishun and Fu Mancang began to have doubts.
This is a sea turtle. Can it understand human speech?
Tom thought so too, but the next second, Fugui and Huakai's actions made them widen their eyes.
After Fu Wan finished speaking, she placed the sea turtle next to Fu Gui and Hua Kai.
Fugui first touched the turtle's head with his own, as if they were communicating. The turtle shrank its head, still looking somewhat frightened.
Fugui shook his head, about to continue persuading, when Huakai looked up, impatiently raised its front paw, and slapped the sea turtle so hard it spun around halfway in place.
This action startled everyone. Not to mention the sea turtle, even Fugui dared not make any further moves, and instead carefully pushed the fish towards Huakai.
Fu Ming was amazed by what he saw.
However, Hua Kai's violent actions were effective. At least after that, when Fu Wan picked up the sea turtle again, it stopped moving around. Its head was still trembling, and it seemed to be still a little scared.
It's normal to be scared, after all, in the world of sea turtles, humans look strange and are so tall, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them monsters.
Fu Wan could understand the sea turtle's fear, so she tried to be as gentle as possible and first used the back of her knife to pry the barnacles off the sea turtle's leg.
Perhaps it was because Fu Wan's movements were very gentle, or perhaps the sea turtle sensed that the barnacles were gone from its legs, but when Fu Wan began to clean the barnacles off its head, the sea turtle became very cooperative.
The barnacles on the turtle's head were actually relatively easy to clean. While Fu Wan was cleaning the barnacles on her head, Fu Ming and Ye Lin couldn't bear to watch and also helped clean the barnacles on the turtle's neck and forelimbs.
Without exaggeration, those few barnacles, once cleaned and put together, would weigh at least two or three pounds.
"Barnacles are such a nuisance, they're like mosquitoes and flies in the summer, you just can't get rid of them!"
Fu Ming frowned and complained in a low voice, while Ye Lin nodded in agreement.
"I don't think it's just mosquitoes and flies. They feed on their fill and then run away. This thing looks like a leech in the ground, no, it's even more terrifying than a leech!"
Leeches don't multiply in large numbers on people, but barnacles grow rapidly and can spread in large numbers in just a few days.
As they were talking, the barnacles on the turtle's body had been mostly removed. Fu Wan didn't dare use the back of her knife to remove the barnacles in its mouth, so she had Dong Haiyang find a small pair of pliers from his toolbox to help her pull them out one by one.
With so many barnacles, it was unlikely that all of them could be removed without causing bleeding. After all the barnacles were removed, Fu Wan asked Fang Min to bring the spare first-aid kit and used iodine to disinfect the bleeding areas of the sea turtle.
There was nothing she could do; this was how the locals treated wounds. Fu Wan wasn't a veterinarian, so she didn't dare use mercurochrome or gentian violet on the sea turtle.
Without the barnacles covering its body, the sea turtle moved much faster.
It first crawled slowly for two steps, and then, finding itself feeling light and agile, it immediately sped up and crawled towards the direction of the blooming flowers.
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