The sun shines into the water, making their surroundings bright, and everything is crystal clear. This is a world full of the strangest creatures. Some creatures are horribly big and have big mouths, which can swallow these 1,8 brothers and sisters in one gulp. But they haven't bothered about it yet, because none of them have been swallowed.
Small fish swim together, one next to the other, like herring and mackerel. Just as they were swimming freely and carefree in the water, with a terrible noise, a long and heavy thing fell into them from above. This thing will not stop idle for a while, and it will stretch longer and longer. As soon as it hits the small fish, the small fish will be smashed to pieces, or it will be seriously injured and will never recover. All the small fish and big fish, from the sea surface to the bottom of the sea, fled to one side in panic. That long and heavy thing is getting deeper and deeper, getting longer and longer, several miles long, across the whole sea.
Fish and snails, everything that can swim and crawl, or anything that can be driven by the current, have noticed this terrible thing. This huge long sea eel of unknown origin suddenly descended from the top.
what the hell is this? Yes, we know that. That's the telegraph cable that is countless miles long, and human beings sank it into the seabed between Europe and America. Wherever the cable falls, the legitimate residents of the sea feel frightened and cause a riot. Flying fish skimmed over the sea and tried their best to fly high. H rushes across the water like a bullet, because they can do it. All the other fish got into the bottom of the sea. They were so fast that they had run far before the cable fell. They frightened cod and flatfish, which swam safely in the depths of the sea and ate their own kind.
Several sea cucumbers were so scared that they vomited out their intestines, but they are still alive because they have this ability. Many lobsters and sea crabs stick out of their hard shells and have to leave their feet in the shells.
In this turmoil and chaos, those 1,8 brothers and sisters fled, and never got together again and got to know each other again. Only a dozen still stay together. After they hid quietly for an hour or two, the sudden panic disappeared and they began to be curious.
they looked around. Look up and look down. They seem to have seen something at the bottom of the sea that frightened them and frightened both big fish and small fish. That thing is lying on the bottom of the sea, and their eyes can't see its end. That thing is very thin, of course, they don't know that it will become so thick and strong. It lay quietly, but they thought it might be a trick.
"Let it lie there! It has nothing to do with us! " The most cautious little fish said. But the smallest one refused to give up the idea of figuring it out. It fell from above, where you can learn its ins and outs. So they swam to the sea, and the weather was very sunny.
on it, they meet a dolphin. That guy is arrogant, a prodigal son in the sea, and he can somersault on the sea; It has eyes to see things, and it must have seen and understood information. They asked him, but he only thought about himself and how he somersaulted. He didn't see anything, so he didn't know how to answer. It said nothing, showing a proud look.
next, they ask a seal, which just got into the water. It's polite. Although it's eat small fish, it's full today. It knows a little more than dolphins.
"I used to lie on a wet stone for several nights and look at the land. Many miles away from here, there are many stupid creatures. In their language, these creatures are called' people'. They arrest us, but in most cases, we can escape. Now I understand that the moray eel you asked about is controlled by them and lives on land. It has obviously been a long time. They transported it to the ship from there to take it across the sea to another distant land. I saw them go through hardships, but they could deal with it because it was tamed on land. They rolled it into a ball, and I heard them jingle when they placed it. However, it escaped from them. They pulled it with all their strength, and many hands held it tightly, but it still slipped away and got to the bottom. It lies there, I think it will always lie there! "
"it's very thin!" Small fish said.
"They are hungry for it!" The seal said, "but it will soon recover and return to its original strength." I estimate that it is the sea python that human beings are very afraid of and often talk about. I have never seen it before, and I have never believed in it. Now I believe it, this is it! " With that, the seal went down. "It knows so much! It can really talk! " Small fish said. "I've never had so much knowledge-I hope it's not a lie!"
"Can't we swim down and investigate!" The smallest fish said; "We can also listen to the opinions of other fish on the way!"
"just to inquire about this, I don't even want to swing my fin." Said the other fish, turning away.
"I do!" The smallest fish said. It swims quickly towards the depths of the water. But it's far from where the "sinking long thing" lies. The little fish looked around, explored and swam to the bottom of the sea.
it never realized that its world was so vast. Herring swam in groups, shining like a big silver ship. Mackerel followed closely, and the scene was even more spectacular. Fish of all shapes and colors came. Jellyfish, like translucent flowers, flutters with the current. There are huge aquatic plants, water plants more than ten feet high and palm-shaped trees on the bottom of the sea, and shiny mussels are attached to each leaf.
The little fish finally saw a long belt coming towards it. It was not a fish or a cable, but the railing of a sunken ship. The top and bottom decks of the ship have been shattered by the pressure of the sea. Small fish swam into the cabin, and many people who died when the ship sank were washed away by the water. Now there are only two people left: a young woman lying upright with a baby in her arms. The sea lifted them up and shook them like a cradle, as if they were sleeping. The little fish is so scared that it doesn't know if they will wake up. Marine plants hung on the fence, like a shade, covering the bodies of mothers and babies. It's so quiet and lonely here. Small fish leave here as soon as possible and swim to the place where the water is clear and there are fish. It didn't swim far before it met a small whale, but its body was terrible. "Don't swallow me!" The little fish said, "I'm not enough for you to have a bite." But what an important pleasure it is for me to be alive! "
"What are you doing in such a deep place? Fish like you don't come here. " Asked the whale. So the little fish talked about the strange long eel, whatever it was, the thing that sank from it and frightened the bravest creatures in the sea.
"ho, ho!" Said the whale, taking a gulp of water and drinking so much that it had to shoot a huge water column when it came up for air. "Ho, ho!" It said, "when I rolled over, it was the guy who tickled my back." I thought it was a mast that could be used as an itchy stick! But it's not here. That thing lies far away. But I have to study it, I have nothing else to do! "
so it swam forward, followed by small fish, leaving a distance, because when the huge whale rushed forward, it rolled up a vortex.
They met a shark and a sawfish. Those two also heard about the strange sea eel, which is long and thin. They haven't seen it, but they want to see it.
At this moment, a sea cat swam in.
"me too!" It said that it would swim in the same direction.
"If that sea python is not thicker than the anchor cable, I will bite it off." It opened its mouth, revealing six rows of teeth. "I can bite the iron anchor of the ship out of the mark, and I can bite that thing off without any effort!"
"there it is!" The huge whale said, "I see it!" " It thinks it can see more clearly than others. "Look at the way it floats, look at the way it floats around, twisting and rolling!"
however, that's not it. It's a huge moray eel, with a long handle, swimming over.
"I've seen it!" Saw fish said, "it has never played around in the sea or scared any big fish!" "
So they told him about the new eel and asked him if he wanted to find it together.
"If that eel is longer than me!" The moray eel said, "Then it must make trouble!" "
"it must be like this!" All the other fish said. "We certainly can't stand it!" Then they swam forward in a hurry.
At this moment, something stood in their way. It was a huge monster, bigger than all of them.
It looks like a floating island that can't float on it.
that's an old whale. Its head is covered with seaweed, its back is covered with reptiles, and there are countless mussels, which makes its black skin covered with white spots. "Let's go together, old man!" They said, "here comes a new fish that we can't stand."
"I prefer to lie where I used to lie!" " Said the old whale. "Let me be quiet! Let me lie down! Oh, yes, yes, yes I'm seriously ill! Only when you float to the surface of the sea and expose your back to the water will you feel more comfortable! Those lovely sea birds will peck at me. I am very comfortable. Just don't peck too deep. They often peck into my flesh. Look! I still have all the skeletons of birds stuck in my back! It pecked its mouth too deep, and when I sank to the bottom of the sea, it couldn't pull it out. Then the little fish pecked it. Look at it, and look at me! I am sick! "
"You came up with it all!" Said the whale. "I never get sick, and fish don't get sick!"
"I'm sorry!" The old whale said, "Eels are harmful to skin diseases, carp are harmful to smallpox, and we all have roundworms and hookworms!" "
"Nonsense!" Said the shark. It doesn't want to listen any more, and other fish don't want to listen, because they have other things to do.
they finally reached the place where the cable was lying. It lies on the bottom of the sea for a long time, from Europe to America, across the seabed sand hills, mud, rocks and seaweed-covered areas. Yes, it even passed through the coral forest as dense as a forest, where the current changed and the vortex whirled. Fish swim in groups, and the number is much more than the birds people see in the migratory season. Here is a commotion, splash, swish, swish; When we put the conch close to our ear, we can hear the rustling slightly.
now they have come to that place.
"The monster is lying there!" The big fish said, and the small fish echoed. They saw the cable, and the head and tail of the cable were out of their sight. Marine bacteria, polyps and corals swim on the bottom of the sea. Some sink below, and some are attached to it. So sometimes this thing is invisible, and sometimes it is exposed. Sea urchins, snails and earthworms all surround it; A giant spider with a lot of reptiles on its back crawled towards the cable. Purple sea cucumber, no matter what the reptile that eats with its whole body is called, is also lying down, smelling the new monster lying on the bottom of the sea. Flat fish and cod are tossing and turning in the water, listening to the movements coming from all directions. Starfish, which are always drilling in the mud and sticking out two long-eyed tentacles, also lie there and stare at what will happen in a riot.
the telegraph cable lay there motionless. But there is life and thought in it; Human thoughts flow through it.
"that thing is very cunning!" The whale said, "it can hit my stomach, which is my most vulnerable place!" "
"Let's feel our way forward!" Hydra said. "My arms are very long and my fingers are very flexible. I've already touched it, now let me hold on tight. " It stretched out its dexterous long arm to the cable and entangled it.
"It has no scales!" Hydra said. "It has no skin! I think it will never give birth to a living child! "
The moray eel lies down along the cable and stretches itself as far as possible.
"That thing is longer than me!" It said. "But the problem is not long, but should have skin, belly and flexible vitality."
whale-this strong young whale sank, deeper than usual.
"Are you a fish or a plant?" It asked. "Maybe you're just something falling from above, and you can't live here?"
but the telegraph cable doesn't answer. It doesn't have this function. There are thoughts passing through its body-human thoughts; Ideas travel from one country to another in one second and run hundreds of miles.
"Do you answer or do you want to be bitten off?" The rough shark asked, and other big fish asked the same question: "Do you want to answer or be bitten off?" The cable does not move, it has its own unique ideas. This unique thought belongs to it, and it is full of thoughts.
"let them bite me! In this way, I will be salvaged and repaired. My kind has encountered such a thing in the shallow sea! "
so it doesn't answer, it has other things to do; It sends telegrams, and it legally lies on the bottom of the sea to perform its tasks.
above, the sun went down, just as people say, it became a red fire. All the clouds in the sky glow like fire, and each one is more spectacular than the other.
"There is red light shining on us now!" Hydra said, "You can see that thing more clearly in this way-if it is necessary."
"bite it, bite it!" Cried the sea cat, showing all its teeth. "Bite it, bite it!" Saw fish and whales and sea eels said.
they rushed forward, with the sea cat at the front. Just as it was about to bite the cable, the saw that saw the fish plunged into the tail of the sea cat. This is a big mistake, and the sea cat has no strength to bite anymore.
there was a mess in the mud. The big fish collided with the small fish, the sea cucumber and the snail, biting and hitting each other. The cable lay quietly and did what it had to do.
the night is coming at sea, but there are thousands of living creatures in the sea, shining. Crayfish less than the size of a needle are also glowing. It's wonderful, but that's exactly what happened.
the creatures in the sea look at the telegraph cable.
"What is that guy, and what isn't it?"
yes, that's the problem.
at this moment, a manatee swam in. Humans call it this: Mrs. Hai or Mr. Hai. This is a lady of the sea, with a tail and two short arms for paddling, and her chest is drooping. She is proud of algae and shellfish on her head.
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