"——The noise from underwater explosions can disrupt the echolocation system of whales."
Lu Xiao saw her eyes slightly downturned and silent, raised his hand to embrace her shoulders, and let her lean against him.
After a while, Lu Xiao said:
"Wen Xian, every minute, every second in this world, life leaves us and new life is born, and as long as we remain true to ourselves and do our best, that’s all that matters."
She hoped the whale’s death was an accident.
However, what happened afterward was increasingly beyond her expectations.
In the morning, after the whale had stranded, the locals dissected the whale, because if it was left for too long, the food that had been digested inside it would be decomposed by gastric juices, creating a lot of gas. As time went by, the whale’s body would become increasingly bloated, until suddenly it would explode, bursting the whale’s body open.
It was like a time bomb, very dangerous.
And once it exploded, all the decomposed food inside the whale would spew out, a sight too horrible to endure.
However, this morning, after the locals had dissected the whale, when they saw what was in its stomach, they were deeply shocked.
They found several kilograms of plastic inside the whale’s stomach.
There it had lain for so long, indigestible, gradually affecting its body.
This scene was captured by the team members, who simultaneously fell silent.
Because the plastic came from human hands...
The whale stranding left a deep imprint in everyone’s hearts.
However, nobody expected that this would not be the most shocking thing, the most shocking was— the day after, another whale was found stranded.
This whale was smaller and was discovered early; through the relentless efforts of everyone, it finally made its way back to the seafloor.
At that moment, everyone cheered.
But Wen Xian then asked, "Why do whales keep stranding one after the other?"
At this, David was taken aback, as if he hadn’t expected her to suddenly raise this question.
"This... Yeah, why would there be stranding incidents two days in a row?"
David looked at Ailin, who spread her hands and furrowed her brows, both appearing clueless.
And that’s when someone slowly said:
"Perhaps these are all accidents, knowing that whales are social animals, if one strands, the others might follow suit."
At these words, Wen Xian startled slightly and looked over.
The speaker, with long hair neatly tied back, revealing a fair and beautiful face, was none other than Ruan Yiyi.
Wen Xian looked at her, with a complex emotion flickering in her eyes.
After all, it had been a long time since they had been in contact.
And when she found out from Lu Xiao that the person Ruan Yiyi had set her sights on was herself, she: "..."
Suddenly regretted sleeping with her that night in Kekexili, even though she felt everything was normal, who knows if she had done anything to her.
Wen Xian did not continue to stay there, turning to leave.
In the afternoon, when they prepared to go out for a rescue at sea, Lu Xiao went to start the boat.
Wen Xian and others waited on the beach for their return.
And in that moment, she faintly felt a gaze on her, and subconsciously turned around——