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Chapter 1615 The pier collapsed (2)

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    Normally, this seafood pier is very busy. Both sides of the road on the pier are full of vendors setting up stalls, as well as porters waiting to do coolies, all waiting on the pier.

    This 100-meter pier can accommodate hundreds of people.

    He Fan couldn't imagine the situation where the hundreds of meters of pier collapsed and hundreds of people fell into the water. Fortunately, the people working on the seafood pier or setting up stalls were basically locals, and the water quality was pretty good.  Be able to save yourself immediately.

    Even some people who were injured due to the collapse of the pier and were unable to save themselves were rescued by others.

    Therefore, it was unnecessary for He Fan and others to rush over to help, but going up now would only cause more trouble.

    He Fan focused his attention on the ruins in front of him. The seafood pier was all made of wooden structures. How could it collapse?

    And recently, there haven't been any big waves or storms. The waves this morning were not that big. Normally there are more tides than this, and there haven't been any waves that could collapse the seafood pier.  ah?

    Don¡¯t underestimate the structure of these wooden docks. In the eyes of ordinary people, docks made of steel are definitely stronger than docks with wooden structures.

    In fact, due to long-term immersion in seawater, seawater erosion, and attacks by some anaerobic bacteria in the ocean, the service life of a steel dock without maintenance will not even exceed ten years!

    ????????????? But with a wooden structure and a pier made of some stones, you don¡¯t have to worry about these.

    As long as waterproofing measures are taken, the service life will be very long, the construction cost is much lower than that of steel piers, and it is also practical.

    A small coastal city like Yangcheng does not have any large-scale shipping. At most, it only accommodates some fishing boats that usually dock. It is not that big at all, so it only needs these wooden piers, which are not used at all.  Not touching the steel dock.

    Facts have also proven that these wooden structure piers have been standing firmly on the Yangcheng coastline without any safety hazards until today.

    Just when He Fan was confused, the seafood sellers who were anxiously directing on the beach also discovered He Fan's arrival.

    The most important and most anxious loss of this seafood terminal is these seafood traffickers.

    They rely on the seafood pier for survival. After the seafood pier collapses, it will take a lot of time to rebuild, which will definitely have an impact on their business.

    However, after seeing He Fan, these seafood vendors immediately came over to greet him. They still had to entertain the God of Wealth.

    "Boss Xiao He, why are you here? It's a mess here now, so you have to pay attention to your safety!"

    "Oh, I didn't hear that the pier collapsed. Come over quickly and see if you can help. What is the situation? Why did you say it collapsed?"

    Faced with the reminders from these seafood sellers, He Fan casually asked,

    I am afraid that only these seafood sellers know the situation at the seafood pier best.

    After hearing He Fan¡¯s inquiry, the seafood sellers all showed a look of helplessness on their faces, and then they said to He Fan:

    "Oh, it's also unlucky. Boss Xiao He, please come here and take a look with us and we will know!"

    After hearing this, He Fan and Lin Guo immediately followed behind the seafood sellers and walked towards the collapsed pier.

    After walking into the collapsed pier, He Fan's face showed a strange color, and there were some abnormal things in his sight.

    On the collapsed wooden pier structures, hollow-like holes appeared one after another, and the length was quite long.

    Seeing this situation, the three people behind Lin Guo were also dumbfounded:

    "Why are these woods so corroded? No wonder they collapsed!"

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t look like it¡¯s been corroded by sea water. The outside of the wooden structure hasn¡¯t been corroded that badly. It looks like it¡¯s been hollowed out from the inside.¡±

    "Fat man, I'm about to suffer from trypophobia, my scalp is numb!"

    Listening to the words of these three people, He Fan had the same look on his face. These collapsed wooden piers really looked more like they had been hollowed out by something.

    "What kind of thing is so capable of digging? Can it hollow out all the piers that are about a hundred meters long?"

    Lin Guo asked everyone their doubts, and soon, everyone also saw the culprit of the pier collapse!

    The seafood seller walking in front pointed directly at the collapsed ruins.A corner in the market said:

    "No, this is what these guys did!"

    Brother He Fan and others looked in the direction of the seafood seller's finger and saw a strange-looking creature on top of the ruins.

    The shape is like a worm like an earthworm, but the body is much thicker than an earthworm.

    But there are two symmetrical small shells wrapping the body in front of the body, but the back half is exposed. It seems that there is only a thin layer of white something similar to a lime tube wrapping the body.

    "What the hell is this thing? I've never seen it before. It looks really weird, it's part bug and part shell!"

    "This thing is so powerful, can it hollow out the entire dock?"

    "Guigui, these weird-looking people are usually ruthless people. It seems that I am right!"

    Naturally, Lin Guo and the other three had never seen this kind of creature, but the ship boss and Brother Yong on the side recognized this kind of creature and exclaimed in unison:

    "Shipworm!"

    The ship boss and Brother Yong both had palpitating expressions on their faces at the same time!

    He Fan¡¯s face suddenly changed when he heard what the ship boss and Brother Yong said, and information about shipworms that he had learned before appeared in his mind!

    Shipworm, as the name suggests, is a maggot that grows on ships.

    In fact, this shipworm is not the same kind of creature as the maggots you see commonly. Shipworms are serious marine creatures!

    It¡¯s just that these creatures use wood as food, and in the past, ships were mostly made of wood, so these creatures will basically be parasitic on wooden ships.

    "And these creatures have very strong reproductive capabilities and can lay hundreds of millions of eggs at a time. If there is no protection, a brand-new wooden boat will be scrapped due to these terrifying creatures in less than a quarter.

    This is also one of the reasons why wooden boats are gradually being eliminated.

    After all, there are threats from these terrifying creatures!

    In those days, if shipworms were found on a wooden boat, it would be a big deal.

    ¡°After all, it¡¯s a wooden boat, but if the life of the whole family is eaten away by these shipworms, it¡¯s the end of the world!

    The work of removing shipworms must be carried out immediately. If the shipworms are found and removed again, there will be no good places in the entire ship!

    Therefore, when the ship boss and Brother Yong saw the shipworm, their faces showed palpitations. After all, people who came from any era were still very afraid of this kind of creature.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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