That was the idea that Zhang Zian had come up with. He had asked Vladimir to call the stray cats nearby and have them spray urine on the onlookers to drive them away. This could also be considered a non-lethal weapon.
It was definitely not okay to let the stray cats bite and scratch people directly. Binhai City was already surging with undercurrents. People were quite critical of the incident of stray cats and dogs spreading rabies. It was best not to further intensify the conflict. If groups of stray cats attacked people, it was likely that a major cleansing of stray cats was about to take place.
But it was okay to spray urine on people. The people who were sprayed could only sigh at their bad luck, because sometimes bird feces would hit them on the head while walking on the road.
Not only were the onlookers scared, but even the seabirds circling in the sky, ready to move, were scared away. One reason was because of the strong smell of urine, and the other was because cats were the natural enemies of birds. They did not want to die just to peck a few mouthfuls of whale meat.
Zhang Zian took the opportunity to say loudly, "These cats may have been attracted by the smell of the whale. They may be hungry, and they want to eat whale meat."
Although this explanation was forced, there seemed to be no better explanation for the others.
Soon, there was not a single person left within ten meters of the whale's corpse. The wind blew the smell of urine to one side, and the people standing on that side covered their noses and retreated. They could not stand the smell.
Zhang Zian saw that it was about time and gave Vladimir a look. It whistled, and the group of cats retreated as quickly as they had come. They disappeared into the grass one after another, leaving only the smell of urine lingering in the air.
They came like the wind and left like lightning. Their actions were efficient, and they attacked and then they ran. They were not sloppy at all. This was Zhang Zian's impression of the group of stray cats. It was as if they were fighting guerrilla warfare.
The others who were a little further away were also amazed when they saw this scene. It was just that the group of cats came and went quickly. They did not even have time to record what had just happened. Occasionally, someone recorded it, but it was too far away, so it was blurry.
Zhang Zian walked to Vladimir and said sincerely, "Thank you. You've really helped a lot."
It smiled slightly. "It's not entirely a help. It's mainly to use this opportunity to train soldiers. Soldiers can go a thousand days without fighting, but they can't go a day without training. The opportunity to train soldiers in actual combat is very rare. I should thank you for thinking of this method."
Just as they were talking, a few speedboats appeared at the horizon and sped towards the shore.
Zhang Zian raised his binoculars to take a look. The speedboat was painted with the words "China Fishery Administration." The people on the speedboat were wearing the same uniforms and life jackets. Ke Shaohui must have brought people here as fast as he could.
At this time, sirens also sounded on Huanhai Avenue.
Zhang Zian and the crowd looked back. He thought it was the police, but it was not. It was the fire department. Two red fire engines drove towards them, and the other cars on the road made way for them.
He thought about it and agreed. It was not convenient for the police to deal with this kind of thing, but the firefighters wore fire jackets and helmets, and had water cannons and fire axes. They were more suitable to deal with this kind of thing.
The fire brigade arrived a little late, probably because there was some problem with the communication between the administration and the fire department. It took some time for the fire brigade to understand the urgency of the situation.
The speedboats needed to slow down and stop, but the fire brigade arrived first. Before the fire engine could completely stop, the firefighters jumped out of the car and surrounded the whale carcass. They began to maintain order at the scene.
"Comrade, please step back. It may be dangerous here," a firefighter said to Zhang Zian, pointing into the distance.
"Wait! He's one of us. Let him stay! "
Ke Shaohui ran over, sweating profusely. His pants were almost all wet. He did not wait for the speedboat to stop before jumping out of the boat and wading through the water.
The firefighter nodded and went to persuade the others to leave.
Although the onlookers did not listen to Zhang Zian's advice and consciously stepped back in the face of the firefighters and the administration, the two departments, which had nothing to do with each other, actually acted together. This made the onlookers even more curious. They wanted to know what was going on.
Ke Shaohui nervously stared at the whale carcass lying not far away and explained embarrassedly, "Mr. Zhang, to tell you the truth, I'm a layman when it comes to whales. Although I've responded to the call of my superiors these days and read a few books about whales, I'm old and I can't get into them. So, I need your advice. What should we do now?"
"You're welcome. I just happened to encounter this, so I can't just ignore it," Zhang Zian said. "No one knows when the whale carcass will explode. The most urgent thing is to evacuate the people at the scene to prevent large pieces of whale meat from falling from the sky and hitting people. The second thing is to find a way to decompress and deflate the gas in the whale carcass. If we can let it expel the gas in its body, it will naturally not explode."
Ke Shaohui readily accepted his advice. "Okay, we'll do what you say! How far do you think we should evacuate the people? "
"The farther, the better."
However, the situation at the scene was not optimistic. The beach was too empty, and the firefighters and the administration of fishery were understaffed. The onlookers wanted to get closer to watch the fun, and more onlookers were coming.
The firefighters pulled up a circle with a radius of about 25 meters around the whale carcass. In Zhang Zian's opinion, this distance was barely enough. Old Huang and Xiao Zhi were quite obedient. They stood near the car that they had driven over, about 50 meters away from the whale carcass.
"How do we decompress the whale carcass?" Ke Shaohui asked the most critical question.
Regarding this problem, Zhang Zian also felt that it was very tricky. There was no good solution. Not to mention him, even foreign marine experts had no good solution.
Over the years, once the giant whales that had been washed ashore died and began to rot, the local government would often take the approach of pulling up the isolation belt and leaving them to fend for themselves. The more radical ones would use explosives to blast the whale carcass, but the effect was often adding fuel to the fire. The explosives would detonate the high-pressure flammable gas in the whale carcass, causing a big explosion.
The current situation did not allow them to wait. Sooner or later, someone would be driven by curiosity and cross the isolation belt. The natural decay process of the stinky whale carcass was very slow, and it would bring serious pollution to the area.
A firefighter took the fire axe from the car, walked over with it, and volunteered. "I'll go cut a hole in the whale carcass and let it deflate. Is that okay?"
Zhang Zian shook his head repeatedly. "Do you want to die? Do you know how high the air pressure in the whale carcass is now? If you want to cut, you can only cut the whale's abdomen. It's soft there, easy to cut, and a lot of gas is gathered there. But when you cut open the hole, tons of internal organs will spurt out at high speed and all hit you. Unless you drive a tank to cut it, your life may be in danger. "
He described the imagined scene and what might happen. Ke Shaohui and the firefighter also felt a burst of fear after listening. They did not expect the whale carcass to be so dangerous. It really could not be underestimated.
"We can't wait, and we can't cut it. What should we do? Should we ask the police to come over and shoot it from a distance to make it deflate? "Ke Shaohui said anxiously.
Zhang Zian still felt that it was not appropriate. The biggest problem with this method was that the bullet hole was very small. Even if the bullet hit the whale's body, the bullet hole would quickly close under the heavy pressure of the fat. No matter how big the bullet hole was, could it be bigger than the whale's anus and nostrils? Even the anus and nostrils were blocked by fat. What use was the bullet hole made by the bullet?
If this method was feasible, foreign countries that did not forbid guns would not also be helpless against the whale carcass. Wouldn't it be better to just pick up a gun and shoot it a few times?
Ke Shaohui proposed a few more methods. Several firefighters maintained order while working together to think of a solution, but these methods were all rejected by Zhang Zian one by one.
"This won't work, and that won't work? The whale carcass can't stay here forever. How about … we use a boat to drag it back to the sea? If it explodes in the sea, there should be no problem, right? Anyway, whales are supposed to die in the sea, and the carcass will be eaten by the fish and shrimp. We don't have to worry about pollution. "Ke Shaohui was desperate and tried to find a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
As a member of the Fishery Administration Department, he was most worried that the whale carcass would explode near the crowd and hurt people, which would cause a bad social impact. So his bottom line was not to hurt people. As for the whale carcass itself, that was a secondary problem.
The firefighters also held the same position.
Zhang Zian still rejected it. He pointed to the huge whale carcass and said, "Do you think that with just a few speedboats, you can drag the whale carcass that is deep in the sand? Taking a step back, even if you call in a large tugboat and successfully drag it back to the sea, its body is full of gas and will always float on the surface of the sea. We don't have sharks here, and ordinary fish and shrimp can't bite through its skin at all. It will still explode in the end, and if a boat happens to pass by it, it may still hurt people. In addition, it may be washed ashore again by the waves. "
Ke Shaohui and the firefighters felt discouraged and sighed.
Zhang Zian frowned and glanced around. Suddenly, he saw something sharp flash on one of the speedboats.
"What is that?" he asked, pointing to the shining thing.
"Hmm? Oh, that … That is a homemade harpoon gun that was confiscated from the fishermen. Some fishermen used this thing to fish in the sea during the fishing ban. They didn't listen to us, so we confiscated it. We didn't have time to store it in the warehouse before we rushed over, "Ke Shaohui explained.
Zhang Zian stared at the harpoon gun and thought of the minke whale that had been stabbed by the harpoon. He pondered for a moment and asked, "Does the harpoon also have barbs?"
"Yes, harpoons basically have barbs." Ke Shaohui was afraid that he would misunderstand, so he added, "That fisherman didn't use harpoons to catch whales. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been confiscation of the harpoon, but administrative detention according to the law. Besides, no one in China eats whale meat. Even if they catch whales, they can't sell them … "
Zhang Zian waved his hand and stopped him from continuing.
"How far is the range of the harpoon?" he asked. "Maybe we can use the harpoon to solve this problem."
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