Just like how some people were born strong and some were born weak, elfins were the same. Many elfins had honed their indomitable will through their past experiences, but some elfins did not have such a personality. This was understandable. The world was so big, and there should be countless different personalities.
Having said that …
Outside, it was drizzling with spring rain, and inside the house, it was drizzling with tears. Zhang Zian and the others were very worried, afraid that Sihwa would start crying again. If the pets downstairs made an abnormal commotion again, he really didn't know how to explain it. It might even attract the attention of the "Approaching Science" program team …
Why did the pet shop owner die tragically on the street?
Why did dozens of pets run around in the day?
Why did the fish in the aquarium jump out so frequently?
Why did the nocturnal bats have sex in the day?
Was it a crazy outbreak or a helpless hunger?
Was it the distortion of human nature or the loss of morality?
Welcome to the Strange Sounds of the Pet Shop in the Land of Science!
Although it was very exciting to think about it, it was absolutely impossible!
The best way to stop Sihwa from crying was to turn her grief and anger into strength, but this was not easy for her, who was naturally weak.
Old Time Tea and Fina sympathized with Sihwa and could understand her loneliness, because they were also lonely in a sense. It was the kind of loneliness that came from being at the top.
Understanding was one thing, but they did not know how to comfort her. Although they were lonely, they were stronger and prouder.
Zhang Zian sighed and reached out to rub her head. "Don't cry. I'll tell you a story."
"Stop! Don't mess up my hair! " Sihwa shook her head in embarrassment, and the remaining tears in the corner of her eyes were thrown into the water.
In fact, her hair was already very messy, curled like dark green seaweed. She never combed it, and every day when she opened her eyes, she would start playing with her phone. But this was, after all, a world that looked at one's face. Because her face was unparalleled, even her messy hair exuded a natural beauty.
However, she was very curious about the story that Zhang Zian was going to tell, and it even overshadowed the sadness in her heart. She asked expectantly, "What story?"
"It's the story of a whale, a lonely whale," Zhang Zian said simply, making people think of the song of loneliness that Sihwa had just mentioned.
Fina and Old Time Tea were also very curious. After all, cats were naturally curious.
"Zhi zhi?"
Pi had appeared at the door of the bathroom and gestured, meaning: Can I listen too?
"Of course." Zhang Zian invited it to come in.
Being watched by four pairs of expectant eyes, he recalled the story he had read before, organized his words, and retold the story in his own words.
Ancient stories would often begin with the words "a long, long time ago" to make the audience quickly break away from reality. It was just like how web novels often began with traveling to another world to let the readers know that they could not use the rules of reality to judge the story.
Unfortunately, this was not a story that happened a long time ago, nor was it a story about someone who had transmigrated to another world. It was a real story that had happened before.
The story began at the end of the Cold War. At that time, the United States established an underwater acoustic monitoring system called SOSUS in order to fight against an imaginary enemy.
Many things were originally created for military purposes, but they were later used in unexpected ways, and SOSUS was no exception.
There were too many sounds at the bottom of the sea, and as soldiers, the United States Navy could only distinguish a small part of it. Even they did not know what made the rest of the sounds, but for national defense reasons, they wanted to know.
Therefore, they wisely decided to cooperate with scientists and share some of the military's recordings with them. The scientists would analyze the sounds that the military wanted to know, which could benefit both sides a lot.
Dr. William Watkins, a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was the first to hear an unusual sound in a recording. The sound was very similar to the song of a whale, but it was different from the song of the blue whale, which was the closest. The blue whale's sound band was basically between 15 and 20 Hz, but the frequency of this sound was as high as 52 Hz.
After the end of the Cold War, more original top-secret recordings were made public.
The voice of this elusive whale had been recorded more than once. Scientists had conducted more research and even mapped out its swimming route based on the recording location. However, the ocean was too vast and too deep, and no one had seen it with their own eyes.
In the 21st century, this unfinished research was published, and it aroused the curiosity of the world. People called this mysterious whale "52 Hz — the loneliest whale in the world."
More people joined in the research and tracking of this whale. People were able to record its sound almost every year, but they had never seen it.
It swam in the vast Pacific Ocean, mainly in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean and the West Coast of the United States, but it often appeared in places further away.
More than 20 years passed in a flash, and this whale was still singing alone in the ocean with a unique frequency.
Because its sound frequency was different from other whales, there was no way for it to communicate with its own kind. Just like that, it was excluded from cetacean society and had been lonely for more than 20 years.
It had been wandering in the depths of the ocean, singing a song that had no response from its own kind.
It had been wandering alone, looking for traces of its own kind on a journey that had no end.
In recent years, its voice had become even deeper, dropping from 52 Hertz to between 45 and 50 Hertz. People speculated that it might have matured, growing from an ignorant teenager to a young and strong youth, but this was just speculation. No one knew what the truth was.
No one knew whether it was male or female, young or old, or what kind of whale it was. No one even knew whether it was alive or dead … Because since 2004, people had not recorded its sound.
No one wanted it to die. If it had died alone, the story would have had a tragic ending.
It was probably just bad luck that its voice had not been recorded.
Because the place with the highest concentration of hydrophones was in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean and the West Coast of the United States, maybe it had swum to another place where there were not so many hydrophones, and there were not so many scientists who were passionate about studying the ocean.
People believed so.
In order to find its traces, in order not to let it be forgotten, people who loved it and sympathized with it even raised funds to shoot documentaries and movies, and to write songs for it.
Zhang Zian had read this story a long time ago. Like others, he did not want it to die like this, but reason told him that it was probably dead.
Maybe he was wrong.
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