Hearing this, Ning Yi raised his eyebrows, showing curiosity, and asked: "What's the problem?"
For Zheng Beibei to be so concerned about the subject and work overtime so late, it is definitely not a small subject. ≥,
Zheng Beibei saw Ning Yi staring at the electronic board with a confused expression, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Sorry, I forgot that you don't understand this."
She paused and then said: "That's it. To put it simply, we are studying a topic, where did the Ghostclaw go?"
"Huh?" Ning Yi pinched her chin and stared at Zheng Beibei. This subject was indeed quite big.
"Look, three days before this beast tide occurred, we measured data about 400 nautical miles in the open sea. After calculation, we found that the q value reached 0.313 at about 400 nautical miles. One hour before the beast tide occurred, the q value
It reaches 0.296, which is basically consistent with the value of the beast tide we calculated."
"And what we call the q value is actually a very critical one, which reflects the number of Spectral Claw monsters active in a certain space. In other words, in a certain space, the number of Spectral Claw monsters reaches saturation. In order to squeeze out the living space, the number of Spectral Claw monsters will increase.
The claw monsters had to expand outwards and head towards the land, thus forming a tide of frontal beasts. Can you understand what I say?"
Ning Yi smiled: "Of course, you have said it many times."
"Okay, then let me show you another piece of data." Zheng Beibei switched the electronic screen, and another large series of weird characters and data appeared.
But these are not important, because Ning Yi can't understand it, but there is a numerical value below.
0.65. This should be the calculation result.
"See, this is four hundred nautical miles away. The current q value has been calculated. We found that the q value is 0.65. Theoretically, this value means that the Spectral Claw monster can live comfortably in this place."
Ning Yi nodded: "Is there anything wrong with this data?"
"It seems that there is no problem, because we don't have the survey data after the end of the previous beast tide to compare, so we can only treat it as a normal situation." Zheng Beibei said.
"So, what does this have to do with your research topic?" Ning Yi asked curiously.
"Of course it's related. For the same location, if the q value changes from 0.296 to 0.65, it's equivalent to the number of Spectral Claws in that place dropping to only a quarter of its original size. This variable is too big."
Ning Yi heard this and said thoughtfully: "I understand, you mean, after the beast tide ended, why did these ghostclaw monsters disappear all of a sudden?"
"Yes, we collected a lot of data and verified our Q-value company. No problems were found. Then we also checked our detection equipment. We also found no problems. Therefore, the location 400 nautical miles away, Youhu
The number of claw monsters has indeed decreased. Even closer, the situation is the same at 300 nautical miles, 200 nautical miles, and 100 nautical miles, all of which are significantly reduced."
"Then here's the question. During the beast tide, the number of Ghostclaw monsters that swarmed up the coast was estimated through a rough model. In the Haiyang District alone, there were more than 30,000 monsters, but now the reverse calculation is based on the q value. Taking a width of ten kilometers
, extending 400 nautical miles outward, the current number of Ghostclaw monsters in this area is only two to three thousand. Compared with the number of Ghostclaw monsters during the beast tide, it is simply like the sky and the earth. So we have to ask, these
Where did the missing Ghostclaw go?"
"Is it possible that they continued to retreat to a deeper place of 400 nautical miles or 500 nautical miles? Moreover, after the beast tide occurred, a large number of Spectral Claw monsters were killed by us." Ning Yi said.
"Yes, these two factors are indeed very important, but in fact, when the beast tide occurred, we found that the number of ghostclaw monsters swarming up the coast was almost 30,000, and the number of ghostclaw monsters at that time was four hundred nautical miles away.
The number is still quite large, so in fact at that time, the number of Spectral Claw monsters appearing in the 400 nautical mile area was at least doubled, to 60,000."
"Sixty thousand heads, excluding the ones we killed this time and those we trampled to death, there are about 1,400, and there are more than 50,000, but now there are less than 3,000, a difference of nearly twenty times."
"We use a conjecture formula to calculate. If the remaining Spectral Claws retreat to the open sea, then the number of Spectral Claws at 500 nautical miles, 1000 nautical miles or even 5000 nautical miles should not be much less.
However, the random sampling results of our unmanned reconnaissance aircraft showed that the number of Ghostclaw monsters there is not very large. Considering that there are beast tides in other places, and many Ghostclaw monsters have also disappeared, the number of Ghostclaw monsters in the outer sea should still be the same.
There are a lot of them, but the current investigation result is that we can't see where they are."
"So, you have something to say. Did you discover this secret?" Ning Yi asked.
Zheng Beibei nodded, but then shook her head: "You can say yes, you can also say no."
"Huh?" Ning Yi didn't understand this.
"That's right. When the beast wave was about to end, in order to obtain detailed information, we took the risk of placing trackers on several ghostclaw monsters that had escaped, trying to track where they would go."
"Oh, I do remember this. What Zheng Wu and the others were doing at that time was to help you install trackers, right?" Zheng Beibei said this, and Ning Yi had some impressions in his mind.
"Yes!" Zheng Beibei nodded, "We successfully installed five trackers in total, but three of them must have been thrown away along the way, leaving only two usable."
"What was the result?" Ning Yi asked with interest.
Zheng Beibei stretched out her hand and swiped a few times on an electronic screen placed on the table in front of her, and then a schematic diagram of the outer sea appeared.
Ning Yi discovered that there were two bright spots on the electronic live map, and the distance between the two bright spots was quite far.
"There are two ghost claw monsters, one is still cruising at a position of more than 300 nautical miles, and the other is more than 1,500 nautical miles." Zheng Beibei explained.
"Is there any problem with this?" Ning Yi asked puzzledly.
"Yes, this ghostclaw monster that is located at 300 nautical miles. These days, its activity range has always been from 350 to 250 nautical miles, with a depth of 40 to 60 meters.
It cruised back and forth. We drew its activity track for half a month and found that it never exceeded this range."
"Furthermore, we have also tracked the activity habits of some ghostclaw monsters on Linglan Island. We also discovered a problem, that is, the ghostclaw monsters are all in their own territory, and they only patrol within their own territory, unless they are beasts.
When a tide occurs, otherwise they generally won’t swim out of their own territory.”
Ning Yi frowned slightly, pondered for a moment and said, "Then what? Is there something wrong with the Ghostclaw monster that's 1,500 nautical miles away?"
Zheng Beibei nodded: "Yes, after observation, we found that the activity width of the Ghostclaw monster is generally about a hundred nautical miles, but this Ghostclaw monster that is 1,500 nautical miles away is definitely rare. This is equivalent to
It spans more than 2,700 kilometers, which is equivalent to spanning half of the length of the country from north to south."
Zheng Beibei paused, looked at Ning Yi and then said: "And we found that when it swam to 1,500 nautical miles away, and dived about 10,000 meters, the signal was cut off, and it was cut off for a long time.
time."
"Fifteen hundred nautical miles?" Ning Yi looked at the map and said in surprise, "Marinaya Trench?"
"Yes, it's the Marina Bay Trench." Zheng Beibei said.
"Does that mean it has returned to the birthplace of the Ghostclaw monster?" Ning Yi asked.
Zheng Beibei nodded: "Yes. It went to the Marina Ya Trench, where we believe the Spectral Claw originated. But strangely, our tracking signal disappeared for a while."
"Can your signal transmitter send signals upward deep under the sea?" Ning Yi asked in surprise. He knew that undersea communication is definitely a super problem, let alone short-wave communication. Long-wave communication can only passively receive signals.
Even if the signal meter is put down, it will not be able to actively transmit a signal to inform it of its position.
Zheng Beibei nodded: "These are some special signal transmitters, which are not small in size. Theoretically, our signal transmitter developed together with the American Academy of Sciences can withstand the deep sea pressure of at least 10,000 meters, even if
It can also automatically eject signal buoys to the sea surface at the deepest point of 11 kilometers in the Marina Bay Trench."
Zheng Beibei paused and continued to explain: "After the signal buoy is ejected to the sea surface, it will automatically send out a signal to connect with the laser signal of the satellite in the sky, or with our long-wave signal station. We can analyze the pressure installed in the signal generator
Sensor data, through calculation, we can know the location of the signal point and the depth it reaches, so that we can calculate the specific location where the Spectral Claw has reached. Of course, this process is quite complicated and also requires luck."
"But all in all, we know that it reached a depth of more than 10,000 meters, and then it stopped sending back signals. After missing for a few days, it suddenly reappeared and surfaced to the depth that the Spectral Claw loves best.
It’s about 40 meters away.”
"How many days have you been missing?" Ning Yi asked with a frown, "Could it be that your equipment failed? After all, it is the Marina Bay Trench with a depth of more than 10,000 meters, and you said it yourself, this kind of positioning
The method itself is not very accurate, and it is normal for your buoy signaling device to malfunction."
"At first, we thought so too, but this happened twice, each time at a depth of more than 10,000 meters, and the signal disappeared."
"Then is there something special about that place that will cause your signal transmitter to temporarily malfunction?"
Zheng Beibei shook his head: "The signal transmitter is equipped with a total of twelve signal ejection devices. Each device can record all the journeys of the Spectral Claw monster. So far, four signal devices have been ejected. Yesterday we
All its whereabouts in recent days have been retrieved, and we found that this Spectral Claw monster began to swim back to the Marina Ya Trench after the beast tide ended. The depth is probably between 36 meters and 50 meters, with occasional intervals in between.
It floated to the surface, but after reaching the Marina Bay Trench, it began to swim straight to the depths of the ocean floor."
"Then he surprisingly dived directly to more than 10,000 meters. You have to know that a depth of 10,000 meters on the seabed has to withstand almost 1,000 atmospheric pressures. In other words, one square centimeter has to withstand a thousand kilograms of pressure.
An ordinary submarine would be crushed into a steel plate if it went down. As far as the shell of the Spectral Claw is concerned, it cannot withstand such a huge pressure, but it just did it."
Ning Yi nodded. He knew that although the strength of the Ghostclaw monster's shell was so strong that it made people speechless, it was not yet so powerful.
"Let's not worry about how it dives down." Zheng Beibei said, "The weird thing I'm going to talk about now happened at this time. The launcher we installed on the Ghostclaw monster installed a pressure
Sensor, this pressure sensor can calculate the external pressure in real time at a frequency of once per minute. Through the pressure value, we can calculate the depth of the seabed where the Spectral Claw is located. When our instrument records a depth of 1098 meters
, the signal failed and was interrupted in an instant, and the pressure value suddenly became a standard atmospheric pressure."
"A standard atmospheric pressure?" Ning Yi thought for a moment and said in shock, "Isn't that the normal land pressure?"
Zheng Beibei nodded: "Yes, so we think the pressure sensor may have failed. Otherwise, there is no possibility of a standard atmospheric pressure at a depth of 10,000 meters."
"So the pressure sensor really failed?"
"Of course not!" Zheng Beibei shook his head, "Judging from the recorded data, it suddenly became a standard atmospheric pressure for three days, and three days later it suddenly became a thousand and five atmospheric pressure values.
That is to say, it is equivalent to a position of 10,50 meters, and the Spectral Claw is rapidly floating towards the sea level."
Ning Yi took a long breath. He was not a scientist, but he really couldn't understand this phenomenon.
"So" Ning Yi pondered for a moment, "What else did you find?"
"Because the same thing happened twice, we came to the conclusion that something must have happened over the Marina Bay Trench that we don't know about." Zheng Beibei said, "We have calculated a lot of data in the past few days.
, the conclusion is that if all the Spectral Claw monsters in the world were concentrated there, that place would not be able to support so many Spectral Claw monsters at all, because there basically wouldn’t be much food they want in such a deep seabed.
."
"But our data calculation results show that the Marina Ya Trench is indeed the birthplace of the Spectral Claw. If we want to know what happened, there is only one thing we can do, and that is to conduct on-site inspections." Zheng Beibei
At this point, he shrugged and said helplessly, "But so far, I'm afraid humans can't do this. It's too deep there, and there are too many monsters gathered there."
Ning Yi frowned slightly. Of course, he knew that no human being in this world had ever gone to such a deep seabed. (To be continued...)