After hearing Harris' report, Colonel White said seriously: "So, all the fleets at sea have been withdrawn?"
"That's right, with such a severe typhoon, they must have evacuated in a hurry, so they didn't have time to notify us."
"Okay..." White turned his head and said to us, "Everyone, you have heard that, including the time on the way back and forth, it will probably take at least four days for our fleet to come back. During this period, I hope everyone will improve
Be careful, I don’t want to see another accident like Fiona’s…”
Having said this, White lowered his head and glanced at the body carried back by Harris.
"Harris, I remember that there is a body bag in the base that was originally intended to be used to transport alien bodies. Look for it and put Fiona's body in it. When the fleet comes back, we can let them put Fiona's body in it."
Take Na back for burial."
Harris nodded and was about to leave, but Elizabeth suddenly stood up and stopped him.
"Sorry, Colonel White, I was hoping to perform an autopsy on Fiona."
White frowned and said, "Anatomy? Why?"
Elizabeth replied: "There is no special reason, it's just that I think the group of sharks that attacked her seems a little strange, and I want to verify my idea through anatomy."
"Okay..." White nodded, "Then Harris, please help Dr. Elizabeth carry the body. Doctor, is this okay?"
Elizabeth was a little embarrassed and said: "Actually... I hope to find someone to help. Although I have dissected animals before, I didn't have much experience in dissecting human corpses at the time..."
"this……"
While White was still thinking about who was more suitable, Mo Xi beside me suddenly stood up and said: "Colonel, let me help Dr. Elizabeth."
"You?" White looked at her in surprise, trying to understand Mo Xi's thoughts.
But at this time, Mo Xi had already explained: "Just now, Dr. Elizabeth said that this shark attack was a bit strange. I was very interested in what she said and wanted to know what she meant..."
"Okay, then you can go and help, but Elizabeth, no matter what you find, you must report it to me."
"clear."
After explaining the matter, White left here. After he left, Mike and Jamie also left with livid faces. They were not very familiar with Fiona, so they had no feelings about her death, but
Because Fiona's death was so tragic, their faces didn't look very good.
After everyone left, Harris began to help Dr. Elizabeth carry the body. When they were busy, because there was nothing to do, I suggested to Mo Xi that we go and watch them dissect the body.
Put a hand on the side.
After Mo Xi communicated with Elizabeth, they agreed.
…
Ten minutes later, in a medical room inside the base.
"What the hell……"
When Elizabeth and Mo Xi began to dissect Fiona's body, I, standing on the side, couldn't help but make the same noise just now.
I was just bored and wanted to come over to help, but now I started to regret why I didn't lie down in bed and rest properly.
All this is because the body of Fiona I see now is ten thousand times more disgusting than before!
When Harris brought her body back, she was still wearing a tattered diving suit. Although the diving suit had been riddled with holes from shark bites, the dark-colored diving suit had been damaged for a long time.
To a large extent, the tragic situation on Fiona's body was covered up.
After Elizabeth and the others took off Fiona's diving suit in order to examine the body, the true appearance of Fiona's body was completely exposed to me. From the appearance alone, there was no trace of the body.
In the intact parts, ferocious tooth marks and open wounds can be seen almost everywhere. Fiona's head was also half bitten by a shark, and the skull where her brain was located had already been eaten by a shark.
.
Compared with me who had to look away because I felt nauseated, Elizabeth and Mo Xi, who were doing the autopsy, were in much better mental condition. Although they also uttered exclamations of exclamation at first because of the tragic state of the corpse, after a while they
Got used to it.
At this time, Mo Xi suddenly ordered me: "Sijiu, bring the basin next to you."
I turned around and saw a large bowl-like basin at my hand, so I picked it up and handed it to Mo Xi, but she didn't take it. Instead, she held a pair of tongs in her hand and threw something into the plate.
I looked down and saw that it was a tooth as thick as my thumb.
"Oh my god, such big teeth? Dr. Mo Xi, was the shark that attacked Fiona a great white shark?"
"This is the strange thing..." Mo Xi replied to me first, and then started communicating with Elizabeth next to her. After a while, she said to me: "You also know that Elizabeth is a biologist.
Just now I was told that based on what we saw on the monitor, it was a shark called a mako that attacked Fiona."
"Mako shark? But isn't that shark more than 5 meters long? Isn't it said that the great white shark is the largest shark in the world? Why is that mako shark so big?"
At this time, Elizabeth seemed to have finished the examination she wanted to do. She put down the scalpel in her hand and began to wash her hands by the sink.
After hearing my discussion with Mo Xi (Mo Xi has been translating my questions into English for her), Elizabeth said: "You are wrong. The largest shark in the world is actually the whale shark, which is as big as a whale.
A huge monster. But in fact, the mako shark we just saw is indeed a bit too big. As far as I know, the largest mako shark size record recorded by humans so far is only more than 4 meters.
.5-meter-long mako sharks, and such a large group, I have never heard of them.”
Mo Xi also added on the side: "It's not just about size, Dr. Elizabeth, if I remember correctly, mako sharks should only be found in seawater with a depth of more than 500 feet (about 150 meters), right? But those sharks
But they swam to a place that was twice as deep as their limit depth. Could it be that what Fiona encountered was actually a new species of shark that humans have not yet discovered?"
"It is possible, but in a place like this?" Elizabeth sighed and said, "There have always been fishermen fishing in this sea area. If there is such a large group of new species of sharks, humans should have discovered it long ago. And said
Get up, have you noticed something strange?"
Seeing Mo Xi and I's confused faces, Elizabeth didn't mean to sell it off: "Actually, I once heard Dean say that this base has sonar to detect nearby seabed creatures, but today such a large group of sharks swam to the base
All around, the previous sonar did not give any warning at all."
I was surprised: "You mean, those sharks suddenly appeared?"
"Yes, it's like falling from the sky..."
Elizabeth fell into silence after saying this, and Mo Xi and I were speechless for a while. A shark falling from the sky, could such a thing happen in this world?
Finally, due to numerous doubts, Fiona's autopsy came to an end. Elizabeth just kept the shark teeth she collected from the body, hoping to investigate again after returning to the sea.
After packing her things, Elizabeth was going to go to Colonel White to make an autopsy report. Mo Xi had not originally planned to go with her, but Elizabeth felt that because the things about sharks were a bit weird, it was best for Mo Xi to go with her.
Go there. If she is there to testify, Colonel White should not have any doubts about her words.
So, the two of them went to find Colonel White for safekeeping. Since I had nothing to do, I followed them again.
When we found Colonel White, he was in the central control room. Besides him, Jamie was also there, and he seemed to be talking to Colonel White about something.
Seeing us coming, White asked Jamie to stop temporarily, and turned around to listen to Elizabeth and the others recount the doubts about the shark that attacked Fiona.