Qin Shiou looked at these thief-headed and thubby little bugs carefully. He didn't recognize them at first, but suddenly remembered their identities. These things were shipworms.

Although the name is disgusting and is called maggots, they are not insects, but rather clams. They are close relatives to the clams that Qin Daguanren loves very much, and are distant relatives to the gooseneck barnacles he loves more.

From the outside, they are no different from some worms. If you look at it with a magnifying glass, you can see that there are actually some very thin white shells on their heads, which are hard textures. They use this shell to twist their bodies and turn themselves into small drills and eventually drill into the wood.

Shipworms feed on wood. They will choose a piece of wood from birth, then drill in, swallow and digest the wood, so as to survive successfully.

There are many animals that feed on wood on land, which are rare in the ocean. Shipworms are the only ones seen so far. This kind of small thing can cause more than 10 billion damage to the world's marine transportation industry every year!

For example, in the summer of 2000, several piers in Maine, USA collapsed inexplicably. The oak piles supporting the pier were more than 9 meters long and more than 25 cm thick. They looked indestructible from the outside, but were destroyed by shipworms inside.

Similar things have happened in Canada. In 1997, a pier at the southwest terminal of Kazakh Judicique suddenly collapsed and six people fell into the water. Afterwards, the police investigated the cause of the accident and found that it was also a masterpiece of shipworms.

In this way, Qin Shiou had an idea, why not cultivate a super shipworm to disgust the Japanese?

He didn't know much about shipworms. He just saw them by chance when he was reading books on marine life and knew that this was a very tough fishing pest.

As the saying goes, the enemy is a friend. The dolphin butcher near Tokyo Bay is his enemy, and the shipworm is also an enemy of the dolphin butcher. So can they become friends?

Qin Shiou swore that the shipworm was the most disgusting friend of his life, but he was also the biggest friend who could help him now.

However, he was still unfamiliar with this new friend, so he got up to search for information. Thinking that there was a way to deal with the bay butchers, Qin Daren was extremely excited and couldn't help laughing.

Winnie slapped him and said shyly and angryly: "Why are you restless? Just lie down honestly, the massage has just begun..."

Qin Shiou smiled and reached out to pick Winnie's chin. He said frivolously: "Little lady, why are you touching your hands and feet behind? Brother, I want to listen to music now, just play a flute!"

"My daughter is here, virtue!" Winnie grabbed something and threw it at Qin Shiou. Brother Diao was flying in the air with tears in his eyes. Why is it always me who was injured?

Qin Shiou turned on the computer and searched, and found that these seemingly disgusting little friends were really disgusting! Moreover, it was very appropriate to use them to avenge them, they were a master of revenge!

Shipworms feed on wood, or in other words, they feed on cellulose, the main component of wood. Cellulose is a sugar molecule polymer that implies rich nutrients, but other marine organisms cannot digest wood because their bodies lack one substance: cellulase.

This enzyme can open and lock together sugar molecules. This is the basic condition for land animals to enjoy the nutrients in wood. In marine organisms, only the bacteria on shipworms can secrete cellulase, so they have extraordinary skills in digesting wood.

In this way, the wood becomes a cake in their eyes. A wooden ship sank; another one, a pier pillar collapsed; continued to sank, and the port was about to be scrapped!

In addition, shipworms are particularly ideal Avengers, and they can only survive in wood. In the past, they could drift around the world with wooden boats. Now there are wooden boats everywhere, all of which are iron boats. In this way, no matter how powerful shipworms Qin Shiou created, it is impossible for it to flood.

Unless someone foolishly takes the wood containing super shipworms to other docks, or the Sea God's energy transforms shipworms to eat iron, they will not be able to leave Tokyo Bay.

He did it as soon as he said that after Qin Shiou sent the dolphins out of Tokyo Bay, he immediately mobilized all four sea god consciousnesses and attacked everywhere to find wood along the bay, which contained shipworms.

Because of the different types of wood, the types and sizes of shipworms boarding are also different. The smaller ones are only 2 cm to 3 cm long, while the larger ones can grow up to 1 meter, which is as thick as a baby's arm, just like a snake!

Regardless of the type, Qin Shiou found the shipworm and input the sea god's energy. This time he spent a lot of money, regardless of the cost, and output as much as he could.

His purpose is to allow these shipworms to evolve as soon as possible and then reproduce as soon as possible. As long as the super shipworms breed, Tokyo Bay will have to be renamed Tokyo Steel Bay in the future.

According to the information Qin Shiou found, the reproductive ability of shipworms is very strong, and they are particularly able to lay eggs, and can produce about five million pieces per year.

After hatching, the larvae of shipworms are small at first and cannot be seen with the naked eye, so they cannot detect their existence. When they find something wrong, the larvae of shipworms is often spread throughout the area.

After larvae swim in the water for a period of time, they start to adhere to the wood when they encounter it. They live a happy life. The wood can solve their food and accommodation problems together, and they can handle them with food and accommodation.

As long as the larvae eats wood fiber, they will grow very quickly. According to statistics, the shipworm larvae can grow 100 times in 16 days; it can grow 100 times in 36 days, and it will grow about one month before it reaches sexual maturity and then start laying eggs...

The more I understand, the more Qin Shiou feels this thing is terrifying.

What aliens, dinosaurs, and blood parasites are not enough to see in front of this thing. As long as the shipworms can be enlarged ten times, as long as they change their diet and become meat, the doomsday will come soon!

Moreover, even if the Japanese find shipworms in the future, they will probably have to catch them blindly, as this thing is very difficult to deal with.

First of all, they are parasitic in wood. If you want to completely exterminate them, you have to destroy all the surrounding wood. But is this possible?

Secondly, shipworm larvae have strong vitality and the conventional method cannot kill them. Fire? No, they are parasitized in wood, and once ignite, the wood is finished. Freezing? Yes, but how can you freeze all wooden docks at low temperatures?

Even if chemical methods are used to deal with shipworms, it is difficult. Wood becomes their protective shell, so it is not easy to cross the wood and act on the shipworms.

The widely used approach now is to use high pressure to inject chemicals into wood, which in seawater will slowly release these chemicals and then kill shipworms.

But just looking at it, you can tell how expensive it is to deal with shipworms in this way!

And cost is not the main reason for limiting chemical methods to remove shipworms! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!