Adult sperm whales are definitely much more alert than juvenile sperm whales.
When the sperm whale mother saw a two-legged creature she had never seen before next to her calf, she rushed to the calf's side at a speed visible to the naked eye, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the calf was alright.
When the sperm whale mother arrived, Fu Wan had already swum far away from the baby sperm whale, fearing that the mother would misunderstand and attack her.
The mother sperm whale was clearly very aggressive. Since her fins were too short to hit her baby sperm whale, she simply used her large head to nudge the baby sperm whale several times, causing the baby sperm whale to tumble over several times.
Sperm whales are social animals, so Fu Wan shouldn't have encountered such a lone baby sperm whale. Seeing how angry the mother sperm whale is, she guessed that the little guy had run away from the group.
No wonder he's not afraid of people and even dared to ask her for fish.
However, the mother sperm whale clearly didn't intend to make things difficult for her calf. The two sperm whales, one big and one small, cuddled for a while. Fu Wan felt rather superfluous, so she prepared to turn around and leave.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she made a move, the little sperm whale let out another urgent and loud cry.
If it's not an ancestor, then what is this all about?
Never mind, Fu Wan pretended not to hear and continued swimming deeper into the sea.
As she swam, she noticed a dark shadow beside her. Turning her head, she saw the little sperm whale staring at her with its large, clear black and white eyes, looking completely innocent.
If it weren't for the fact that it couldn't understand what Fu Wan was saying, Fu Wan would definitely have cursed its ancestors right now.
It's okay, let's just follow her. We're not going to follow her all the way ashore!
Fu Wan could only console herself with this thought, but then she immediately noticed a dark shadow appear on her other side as well. This time, when she turned her head, it wasn't a big eye, but the robust body of a sperm whale mother.
Well, this mother and daughter have surrounded her from both sides!
Fu Wan simply stopped swimming and just watched to see what they were up to.
When the baby sperm whale saw that Fu Wan wasn't moving, it nudged her with its head and then pushed her next to its mother.
As Fu Wan got closer, she noticed that the sperm whale mother also had a lot of barnacles on her head and back, densely packed, even more exaggerated than those on the baby sperm whale.
So this little guy wants to help its mother get rid of these barnacles, right?
But looking at the size of the sperm whale, Fu Wan was so scared that her heart pounded just standing next to it, let alone cleaning the barnacles off it.
This sperm whale was enormous, measuring over ten meters in length. To it, Fu Wan, who was less than 1.7 meters tall, looked about the size of a fish.
Seeing that Fu Wan didn't make a move, the little sperm whale nudged Fu Wan with its head again. She tentatively touched the back of the sperm whale mother with her hand. The sperm whale mother was no longer as irritable as she had been towards her baby. She only gently swayed her large tail.
This...this is rather docile.
Seeing that it did not resist her, Fu Wan first put the harpoon on her back, and then took out the small knife she had used before and began to clean the barnacles from the sperm whale mother.
Having just cleaned the baby sperm whale, Fu Wan felt that her hands had developed muscle memory, and she was almost finding the knack for shoveling barnacles.
However, perhaps because the sperm whale mother had been exposed to these barnacles for a longer period of time, many of them had become embedded in her skin. Fu Wan looked at the bloody mess and felt sorry for the sperm whale.
However, the sperm whale mother seemed completely unfazed, letting Fu Wan clean her without moving, only occasionally swaying her large tail.
Fu Wan's hands moved much faster, and in no time, the barnacles on the sperm whale mother were cleaned off.
Now I can gracefully retire after achieving my goal!
Just then, a long whale call rang out from the sea. Before Fu Wan could even swim off the sperm whale, she was carried by its mother directly into the depths of the ocean.
Fu Wan was already a bit tired, and seeing that the sperm whale was heading towards the deep sea where she was originally going to dive, she simply stopped struggling and hugged the sperm whale's head as they headed towards the deep sea.
Hey, you know what? While others hitch a ride, she got to ride a whale on her way to the deep sea.
Fu Wan didn't know how long the sperm whale swam, but she remembered passing through many coral reefs and seeing many colorful schools of fish. When the sperm whale stopped again, she was stunned by what she saw.
There were at least a dozen sperm whales standing vertically in the sea, their heads facing the surface and their tails towards the seabed. In the middle was a huge sperm whale, which Fu Wan estimated to be at least 20 meters long, much larger than the sperm whale mother that had brought her there.
The sperm whale mother has brought her to the sperm whale pod!
But what are these sperm whales doing?
In fact, Fu Wan found the scene before her quite terrifying, especially since it was the dead of night in the deep sea. The sperm whales standing upright looked like stone pillars. If it weren't for their tails swaying from time to time, Fu Wan would have thought she had encountered some kind of supernatural event.
Are these sperm whales sleeping?
The next second, Fu Wan rejected her idea, because at this moment, a sperm whale in the pod let out a long cry, but this cry was different from the one before. Even Fu Wan, who was not a member of the pod, could hear the sadness in the sound.
Then, Fu Wan was incredulous to discover that the large sperm whale that the sperm whales were surrounding was slowly descending until it landed in the mud and sand next to her and remained motionless.
Normal sperm whales wouldn't behave like this. Looking around, Fu Wan noticed that there were also many remaining skeletons of sperm whales nearby where the whale had fallen.
This place is clearly a graveyard for sperm whales!
She wasn't mistaken; the sperm whale that was very close to her had already lost all its breath.
You can't take anything with you when you're born, and you can't take anything with you when you die. Fu Wan hadn't understood the sperm whale's intention in bringing her here, but now she was glad she had witnessed this scene.
Such a magical sight as a whale fall is something that perhaps only a handful of people out of a million will have the chance to witness.
After whales die, they sink to the seabed, where their bodies are eventually decomposed by various fish and microorganisms over time, thus contributing to the development of the marine environment.
This is a truly remarkable act. Fu Wan knows that as a fisherman, she can reap so much wealth from the ocean, and the remains of these sperm whales are all heroes.
She bowed respectfully to the dead sperm whales, and just as she composed herself and prepared to leave, she nearly tripped over a large rock beside her.
Fu Wan hadn't noticed at first that the stone had just tripped her, but when she saw what it looked like, she was stunned.
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