Barnacles were practically a nightmare for whales.
The usual way they dealt with barnacles on their bodies
was to pound the water's surface with their bodies to ease the pain.
Some whales even went so far as
to scrape against reefs and beach themselves just to rid their bodies of barnacles.
Perhaps some people found that hard to believe.
Could tiny barnacles really cause such huge trouble for the rulers of the ocean?
But in fact, according to the statistics of some biologists,
quite a few whales lost their lives to barnacles every year.
Although barnacles were among the most fragile creatures in the ocean,
they had no offensive capabilities.
Yet for the sake of survival, barnacles possessed an ability no other creature had.
That was, after coming into contact with a whale's skin,
they secreted an extremely strong adhesive substance from their bodies.
This allowed them to firmly stick themselves to the whale's body,
thereby completing their parasitism on the whale.
Ye Yuan reached out and touched the hard shells of the barnacles attached to the Humpback Whale before him.
These barnacles were like scars that would never heal.
They had been tormenting this Humpback Whale all along.
This was not the first time Ye Yuan had helped marine creatures remove barnacles.
He had already gained a certain amount of experience in removing them.
Under Ye Yuan's efforts,
after half an hour, most of the barnacles on the Humpback Whale's belly had been cleared away.
But although the barnacles had been removed,
they left pitted scars across the Humpback Whale's skin.
Fortunately, Ye Yuan had the Spring of Life. Applying it to those wounds from time to time could help the whale recover faster.
"Bear with it. This is a vital area, don't
move around!"
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