MTL - A Day In a Japanese Fishing Village-Chapter 126 squid legend
At the bow of the Jun Raid, there were several sailors smoking inferior cigarettes and blowing cows in the cool sea breeze.
"Watanabe-kun, this time we're going back to the city to play around, will you go?"
"Going into the city to play, what to play?" Watanabe-kun asked.
"Of course, hehehe... The women in the city are very good-looking, much prettier than the woman in my family..." The few people looked at Watanabe-kun and smiled at each other, as if you know what you mean.
"I'm not going, you guys go." Watanabe-kun shook his head, he wouldn't waste money on this.
"Hey, why are you so honest?" The sailors looked at Watanabe-kun with contempt.
"Huh, what is that?" At this time, Watanabe-kun saw a huge creature dozens of meters in front of the fishing boat, which looked like a 'monster'. This monster looks a bit like a squid because it has eight tentacles.
I saw this monster floating on the sea, and it looked like it might sink at any time.
"Dead sea monster?" A sailor looked in shock. He was obviously shocked by the ten-meter-long guy.
"Hurry up and tell the boss, let's salvage the tool and see what kind of guy it is!" An old sailor said decisively.
"Okay, I'll tell the boss, you can figure it out."
Minamino Xiu had been waiting for this moment early in the morning. After he came out, he looked at it and immediately organized manpower to salvage the king squid floating on the sea. This guy is more than ten meters long and is estimated to be about 1.5 tons!
It is estimated that it will take the boss's work to get this big guy on the fishing boat. Its tonnage is out there, it's too heavy!
At this time, everyone didn't know that this thing was the king squid, they just thought it was a monster, it looked like a squid.
"Wow, what kind of guy is this, so big! Looking at its tentacles and teeth makes my scalp tingle!"
"You see its eyes are so big, so big, so scary."
"It looks like a squid, is it a squid?"
"Is it dead now or not? How did I see its tentacles move just now, am I blinded?"
A group of sailors pointed at the king squid that was being salvaged.
"Why does it look a bit like a tentacle sea monster!"
"Well, I see it too, I heard that this is the devil of the ocean..."
"It's a sea monster..."
In the 1950s, the world's understanding of the king squid was not popular enough and thorough. Even in ancient times, people occasionally saw the king squid and were frightened by its huge body, thinking that they had encountered a deep-sea sea monster.
A legend like this is also circulated among the older generation of Nemuro fishing port.
The real understanding of the giant squid began in the 1970s (more than 20 years later), when the wreckage of the giant squid was washed ashore on the Canadian coast several times, and at least one of them was still alive. With the help of these entities , people finally understand some of the situation of the king squid.
Until the beginning of January 2013, the island TV and the American Discovery Channel first photographed the sight of the king squid swimming in the deep sea. The shooting team dived into the 630-meter deep sea in the North Pacific Ocean by submersible, where they photographed the 3-meter-long giant squid. This is the world's first moving image of a giant squid in the deep sea.
So the world's understanding of the king squid did not really begin to understand until modern times. For example, in the 1950s, people didn't know much about the king squid, so most people didn't know the king squid. Even many people see such a giant and believe that the king squid is a 'sea monster'!
Since ancient times, stories of terrifying sea monsters have been circulated among fishermen and sailors from all over the world. In legends, these sea monsters tend to be huge, bizarrely shaped, and even have seven or nine heads. The most famous of these is the "Norwegian Kraken" described in "Norwegian Natural History" in 1752, except that the Kraken describes a giant octopus, not a squid.
It is said, "Its back, or rather the upper part of its body, seemed to be about a mile and a half around it, like an island. . . As tall as the masts of medium ships, these things were presumably the arms of monsters, said to be able to pull the largest warships down to the bottom of the sea.
Later, in the nineteenth century, with the development of modern zoology, the too absurd legend of sea monsters gradually disappeared.
"Old Kimura, do you know what kind of monster this is?" Ishida asked to Kimura old man. At this time, everyone gathered around the edge of the boat to watch the king squid being salvaged from the side of the boat.
"I don't know, I haven't seen it!"
"Everyone work harder, this guy is so heavy!" A dozen sailors worked with some machines for a long time, but they couldn't get this guy up.
Minami Shuuichi looked at this king squid and saw that its tentacles moved occasionally, and knew that this guy was not dead, but just fainted, but he had to get it up as soon as possible, otherwise it would be bad for it to wake up. The king squid can be very ferocious! In case a bunch of people and some things are rolled down, it will be gone in minutes. The king squid is extremely ferocious.
It took a lot of effort and the cooperation of the other two fishing boats to get this big guy into plate armor.
Looking at this giant squid piled up like a hill on the deck, everyone was curious, but they didn't dare to get too close. No one knew if it died, because they also saw its tentacles move from time to time.
"Boss, do you know this sea monster?" Ishida asked to Minano Shuichi.
"I don't know, but I think it looks like a squid and its size is so big. I think it belongs to the king of squid, so I'll call it the king squid!" Nanye Xiuyi was talking nonsense.
Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard it, and they praised Minamino Shuichi for being right.
"It's really good to hear what the boss said. It does look like a squid, but it's much bigger than the average squid. Its eyes are also different, too big. There are some changes in its color and tentacles, but overall It's still like a squid. Its size really belongs to the strong among squids, that is, the king. It's really appropriate to call the king squid, boss, you are really talented!" Kimura old man and this guy started to flatter.
"Boss, should we give it a knife, if it doesn't die, I'm afraid something will happen." Ishida Yu said worriedly.
"It's alright, just send it to the refrigerated warehouse to refrigerate, and let it freeze to death and suffocate to death!" Nanye Xiu waved his hand.
"Okay!" Ishida Yu thought about it and it was true. With the efforts of a group of people, the giant squid was finally moved into the refrigerator for refrigeration. It's almost too big to fit in.
