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Chapter 1,616 Wan Duzi

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    "But, wasn't everything fine in the past years? These wooden piers have also undergone corresponding protective treatments. Why did this happen all of a sudden this year?"

    He Fan also asked doubtfully,

    Organisms like shipworms are widespread in oceans around the world and have caused many disasters similar to this dock collapse.

    The most famous one is that it is said that Columbus suffered heavy losses due to shipworm damage during his fourth voyage.

    In inland rivers, shipworms cannot survive, so the service life of some inland wooden boats is generally very long, but it is different at the seaside. If you are not careful, new boats may be scrapped.

    Therefore, shipworms may be unheard of in the eyes of ordinary people, but for those who live by the sea all year round, they are very famous!

    Basically, it¡¯s all about taking precautions against shipworms, just like people who engage in planting and breeding take precautions against some common pests and diseases.

    ¡° Wooden buildings like seafood piers that extend into the sea should also take precautions against shipworms, but the current results are obviously not ideal, so He Fan asked this question.

    And the seafood sellers also said helplessly:

    "That is to say, the docks are protected every year. Caulking and applying tung oil are not bad. Basically, they are like this every year and there are no problems. But I don't know why this year's shipworms have multiplied in particularly large numbers.  I don¡¯t know when there were so many of them that they invaded the seafood pier. Normally, these shipworms are hidden among the wood, and no one can detect them. If they suddenly break out, something big will happen!"

    After He Fan heard this, he also frowned:

    ¡°An explosion of shipworms?¡±

    By this time, Lin Guo and the other three people had roughly understood clearly what this shipworm was and what harm it had. At this time, they also said to He Fan:

    ¡°Brother, won¡¯t our beach pier also suffer?¡±

    After hearing this, He Fan's face also changed. How could he have forgotten this? Most of his beach piers are made of wood!

    At the moment, after seeing that there were enough people helping on the seafood pier, He Fan took Lin Guo, the three of them, the boat boss and Brother Yong back to the villa area, and turned directly to the beach pier next to it.

    Looking at his own wooden pier that also extended into the water, He Fan also had a headache. From the outside, he couldn't tell much.

    But soon, He Fan also thought of a way. If these shipworms wanted to enter the wooden structure, they had to drill holes.

    As the saying goes, there must be traces wherever you walk. At that moment, He Fan used his spiritual consciousness and spread it into the sea water to check the part of his beach pier that extended into the water.

    Fortunately, I didn¡¯t see anything unusual, and the surrounding wood was still intact, with no holes.

    But Congratulations, Fan didn't relax. Instead, he thought of something, ran to the side and asked the construction team to borrow a construction shovel.

    Afterwards, He Fan went straight into the water and swam forward for a short distance before stopping. Because of its small size, his beach pier was not built very long.

    He dived directly, and with his engineering shovel, He Fan dived to the bottom of the part of his dock that extended into the water, and firmly inserted it into the seabed.

    Then in the water, He Fan waved the construction shovel and began to dig up the soil on the seabed. After just a few shovels, the look on He Fan's face became extremely ugly:

    "Damn shipworms!"

    The dock foundation timbers revealed by digging out the seabed soil in front of you are dotted with circular holes and some traces of shipworms.

    ¡°Obviously, my own beach pier has not escaped the fate of being invaded by shipworms.

    ¡°If I hadn¡¯t been overly cautious and had been fooled by these shipworms, my own beach pier would probably not have been able to escape the fate of collapse.

    At the moment, He Fan returned to the coast with the construction shovel, and everyone waiting on the shore also came over. Lin Guo and the other three couldn't wait to ask:

    "How are you, brothers? We won't suffer too, right?"

    He Fan said nothing, with a livid face, he waved the construction shovel in his hand and struck it directly on the wooden pier beside him.

    He Fan¡¯s master level strength, what a strength, with this chop, the construction shovel was directly embedded deeply into the dock.

    Then, He Fan exerted another force with his wrist, flipped the construction shovel over, and immediately lifted up a large piece of wood from the wooden pier in front of him.?

    Suddenly sawdust was flying and smoke was everywhere.

    And after everything subsided, the people standing on the side of the pier looked at the scene in front of them, their expressions were a little ugly.

    There was a fat shipworm squirming in the pried open area. This shipworm was much larger than the shipworms everyone saw at the seafood pier!

    Ordinary shipworms are only two to three centimeters in size, and the larger ones can even grow to about one meter in length.

    And everyone present was very lucky to see a shipworm that was nearly one meter in size!

    Moreover, this shipworm seemed to have not yet realized what was happening. It was still squirming and eating in the wood. Because the shipworm seen before was too small, everyone could only clearly see what this shipworm looked like.  .

    However, with the presence of the super-large shipworm in front of them, He Fan and Lin Guo could clearly see how the shipworm ate.

    The symmetrical small shell on the head of this shipworm has fine and neat tooth patterns on it, just like a wooden file. After repeated rotation and friction, the wood is ground into sawdust and falls down, and this ship  Maggots live by eating these sawdust!

    And it is said that the feet of this shipworm will also release some wood-dissolving materials, allowing it to penetrate into the wood more easily.

    In fact, the body of shipworms is very soft, but their body surface will secrete a kind of mucus, and then form a layer of white tube on the body surface to protect their soft body from rubbing against the wood.

    "Guigui, how much wood did this guy have to eat to grow so big?"

    "Hell, even our pier has been eaten by these guys. This is too much trouble!"

    ¡°It¡¯s over, our pier is also going to collapse, right?¡±

    He Fan pulled out the construction shovel, then pushed another shovel down, and once again pried open a part to check. Not surprisingly, there was another shipworm sleeping soundly inside.

    And the shipworm from earlier reacted belatedly at this time, seeming to be aware of the danger. A small shovel-like part of its tail directly blocked the hole where it entered the wood.

    This will prevent enemies from entering and posing a threat to it.

    But the problem is that the part He Fan pried open was the top of it. This can be regarded as ignoring the head and the buttocks!

    Afterwards, He Fan swung his shovel again and again and found that his beach pier had completely become the territory of these shipworms.

    ??You can see the shipworms wherever you pry open a position.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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