After adopting paranoid gods

"skeleton?……"

Ji Tang's heart sank completely, and he froze suddenly.

The cleaner shook his head: "It's not exactly a skeleton, it's just a part of the body. You can go in and take a look when this exhibition hall is open."

Ji Tang stood outside the exhibition hall and nodded.

There are still 10 minutes before the opening time of the second exhibition hall.Ji Tang first went to the stall at the entrance of the museum to buy food for breakfast.The breakfast is also very characteristic of the Oceanographic Museum. It is a box of octopus balls, which are served in plastic bowls in the shape of small dried fish.

Ji Tang took a bite of the octopus balls, and her cheek was suddenly touched by something else.

"Chirp~"

The little black air mass came out at some point, and Jiujiu wanted to eat it.

Ji Tang had no choice but to pick the biggest ball for it to eat.

The small black air mass is gas, and the way of eating is very special. It seems to wrap the whole small ball, and then "chirp ~", forcefully suck the whole small ball into it.

Ji Tang sat on the bench at the door, and after breakfast, it was time for the opening of the second exhibition hall.

He returned to the second exhibition hall.

The number of people in the museum gradually increased, but there was no one at the entrance of the second exhibition hall.

This is one of the least popular exhibits in the museum.

Ji Tang walked in alone.

The exhibition hall is empty and narrow, and there is only a small glass box inside, and the skeleton to be exhibited is placed inside.

When Ji Tang leaned over to catch a glimpse of what's inside, her heart sank.

This skeleton is only part of the animal's body.

A pair of fin bones.

There is an introduction to this pair of fins in the lower left corner.

This pair of fins is from a humpback whale calf.The cub, which suffered from fin deformity, died and the particular pair of deformed fins were put on display in a museum.Rather than calling it an exhibition, it’s better to say it’s a filling, to make the exhibits look more.

Fin deformity...

Humpback whales are known as "big fin whales" because they have a pair of huge fins that are two meters long.Once they swim, the stormy sea will shake the whole ocean.

But the fins of this little humpback calf look very misshapen and ugly.Like a pair of clumsy chicken wings.

Ji Tang looked at it, a little puzzled.

What kind of humpback calf did these fins come from, and where is that calf now?

Presumably that cub must have lost its life by now, but Ji Tang still wants to find it.

Ji Tang remembered that there are usually commentators in this museum.When visitors encounter different exhibits, they can find commentators to explain them.

He made a half-circle around the museum, found a narrator, and led him to where the fins were.

The narrator was a little surprised: "You are actually interested in this thing?"

"Hmm." Ji Tang nodded and asked, "I want to ask, do you know the story of the owner of this pair of fins?"

"It..."

The narrator explained: "The owner of this pair of fins is a humpback whale calf. It does not live in the ocean, but in a sea animal circus."

The marine animal circus, meaninglessly, uses various cruel means to train marine animals to be extremely well-behaved, and then let them perform with people.

Dolphins and seals are frequent visitors there, but there are also some informal circuses that buy whale cubs specially.Obviously whales are not suitable for performances, but in order to gain a sense of novelty, they forced to bring some small whale cubs that are convenient for raising.

Ji Tang: "Sea animal circus...?"

"Its mother is also a circus animal. It has been in the circus since it was born, and it has never seen the ocean in its life."

Ji Tang was stunned: "Then... how did it die?"

If it lived to be old, it wouldn't be called a "cub"

Narrator: "When it died, it was only six months old and only six meters long. It may be because of deformed fins, and then its movements are not very sensitive. The circus didn't like it and didn't pay much attention to it. One day the circus Changed the water in its water tank, but forgot to add water after changing the water, and the water tank was closed, no one saw that there was no water in it. It just stayed in it and died of lack of water."

"Its water tank is only six meters long and three meters wide. It can't turn over at all, and it just died in it."

Death from lack of water is not the most terrible thing for whales.The frightening thing is that if you get out of the water and lose the water pressure, the internal organs in your body will suddenly expand and open, and then you will explode and die.Some whales do not die immediately, but watch their internal organs flow out.

Ji Tang: "..."

He pursed his lips, remained silent for a long time, and said hoarsely, "Which circus did this happen in? How many years ago?"

"It's almost 50 years ago. That circus is an irregular team, well, the name is... Heidi Circus."

Ji Tang: "OK."

After the narrator left, only Ji Tang was left in the narrow exhibition hall.

Ji Tang's eyes sank slightly, and he raised his hand, through a thick layer of bulletproof glass, gently stroked the small fin skeleton inside the glass.

During the countless nights in that small dark tank, he couldn't imagine how much this little cub wanted to use the pair of small fins to fly out, swim out, and see the sea that he had never seen until he died.

Ji Tang left the museum, stood at the door and searched for "Heidi Circus" on her mobile phone

Sure enough, since the death of the humpback whale, the circus has been forced to close by the government.Currently only the abandoned building where the circus was located remains.

The circus has a small zoo with captive animals used for performances.After the circus closed down, all the animals were released, but the zoo was not demolished in time, and it is still here today.

There is a small stone pool in the zoo.

That was used to hold that humpback calf in captivity.

Ji Tang wanted to rush over to have a look immediately.

Ji Tang felt that its soul was still imprisoned in that small pool.

If that was true, he couldn't imagine what a day it would be for it.

He glanced at where the ruins of the circus were.Fortunately, it's not that far away. On the outskirts of the capital, it only takes half an hour to get there.

He stood at the gate of the museum, hailed a taxi, and rushed to his destination without stopping.

The small pink air mass floated beside Ji Tang, and her chubby body gradually became transparent, showing a tendency to turn back into a human being.Ji Tang could only hold it up, and slapped Bubble's face again.

"Chi Chi Chi Chi ~~" Pao Pao turned red again from embarrassment, his body swelled up little by little, and then floated to the roof of the car.

"Chirp!!"

The little black air mass came over and wanted to kiss.

Immediately, the little rabbit and several other items also got out of the backpack, vying for a kiss.

Ji Tang had no choice but to sneak a kiss one by one while the driver was not paying attention.

There are not too many ghosts now, if there are more ghosts in the future, wouldn't he have to kiss each other for a long time?

Ji Tang thought.

After he finished kissing the ghosts one by one, the taxi drove to the destination.

The place where the circus site is located is very remote, an unknown small suburb.The taxi stops at the gate of the suburb, and Ji Tang needs to walk in by himself.

Ji Tang turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and walked for a long time in the dense forest, finally seeing a building at the end of the dense forest.

The dense forest is very dark, and even in daytime, there is no light to be seen.With the help of the flashlight, he could barely see the appearance of the building.

The building is surrounded by a high fence. The cement fence has long been corroded black by the years, and many large holes have been broken, making it difficult to see the things inside.

Presumably this is the zoo of Heidi Circus.

Ji Tang chose a big hole in the wall and carefully drilled into it.As soon as he got in, he was greeted by thorny weeds, accompanied by an unpleasant smell of decay.

Ji Tang coughed a few times and got out from the weeds.He took a picture of the front with the flashlight of his mobile phone, and was stunned for a moment by the scene in the animal breeding yard.

Even though 50 years have passed, you can still see what it looked like back then.

— There are no enclosures for animals, and no huts for animals to live in.There are only empty cages, densely packed in this open space, like a large cemetery.

Those little animals, in addition to undergoing cruel training every day, are imprisoned in these small cages.

Without light, there is no freedom.

Obviously there were no more animals in these cages, but Ji Tang couldn't help but tremble.

He went around the cage and started looking for the pool where the calf was kept captive.

Before long, he found a small pool at the end of the garden.

If it could indeed be called a pool, rather than a giant puddle.

The pool has no fence, just dug a nearly seven-meter-long hole in the ground, and then filled it with water.

He remembered that when the whale calf died, it was winter.The breeder used a tin box to seal the pool, which led to people not finding out that there was no water in the pool in time, which led to the death of the baby whale.

In winter, the small pool must be very cold.

Ji Tang squatted down and carefully looked at the small pool.Unexpectedly, there was still water in the pool that should have been dry.

Perhaps it was rainwater that was filled because of the rain.

The small pool is so small that it can only allow the cubs to turn over and not move a little.

and……

On the edge of the pool, there are many traces of whips being thrown across the ground.Thick and dense, even after many years, it still looks shocking.

Some breeders often resort to violence in order to force animals to perform.

He couldn't imagine how the baby whale, which was only six months old, survived here.

Humpback whales are more docile animals than dolphins. They like to swim slowly, and their calls are like an old and gentle tune.They are powerful yet gentle overlords of the ocean.

They are not born to belong to everything, but to the sea.

Ji Tang's eyes darkened slightly, he put his backpack aside, squatted down, and swept the water surface of the pool with his fingertips.

He had to summon the soul of this baby whale.

Hug it, kiss it, give it a little warmth.

The water in the pool doesn't look deep, and Ji Tang knows a little about water.

He stood by the pool, took off his clothes, and quickly changed into swimming trunks.

The little rabbit was the first to notice that Ji Tang was going into the water, so he jumped out and chirped.

"Doctor Fu, let me go into the water first. If I haven't come up for a while, you can go down and find me."

Ji Tang smiled.

"Gee chi! Chi chi!"

The little rabbit was in a hurry, black air gushed out from behind it, trying to change back into a human form.

But before it turned back into a human form, Ji Tang had already jumped into the water, leaving only a pool with faint waves on the water surface.