913 Underwater Recording (1/2)
Zhang Zian dried his hair and shared a few words with the customer, then he had Li Kun and Jiang Feifei return to the aquarium to take care of the business there. Once they went back, he made his way up to the second floor.
The customer's whale watching proposal was pretty good, but it was another matter entirely when there was a moody whale in the shallow sea… God only knew when it would suddenly appear on the side of the ship. There was also going to be trouble when it overturned the boat and brought danger to the customers.
Zian knocked on the door to the bathroom. After waiting for a brief moment, he entered.
Sihwa looked at him from head to toe then asked, ”The water on your body––was it really sprayed onto you by the whales?”
”Yeah, I met the giant whale again and my boat was almost overturned by it.” Zhang Zian emptied his pockets and threw the wet clothes into the laundry basket. He had planned to accumulate more clothes before washing them.
”What happened? Did you not play my song?” Sihwa frowned, suspicious. She didn't dare to assert other things, but she was very confident in her own voice. So far, she had yet to encounter any problems in communicating with whales through her songs.
”Of course I did, but it didn't seem to work. It had a counter effect,” Zhang Zian replied truthfully. ”The strange thing was that your singing affected the minke whales, but it wasn't effective against the giant whale. Do you know the reason for this?”
Sihwa innocently blinked her eyes. Except for white whales, she couldn't really differentiate between other types of other whales. Even if Zian mentioned that it was a minke whale, she wouldn't know what kind of whale that was.
Zhang Zian told her about his trip out to sea, picking out only the important things to tell her. ”Currently, your songs have only been played on two kinds of whales, and it's effective to one, but ineffective on the other. I had wanted to find more whales and test it on them to gather some data samples, but unfortunately, I couldn't find any. The problem now is that there are only two possibilities for this: There's either a flaw in your song, or a problem with the whale. Which do you think it is?”
”Impossible! There's absolutely no problem with my song! You must have played the song with the wrong posture!” She shirked her responsibility, for fear that Zian would blame her.
Zhang Zian placed his hand on his forehead. ”Then what if you temporarily exclude posture problems?”
”Then… then it must be that whale! Yes! It's probably deaf!” Sihwa rolled her eyes. She said with a sudden realization, ”Since there are deaf people, there must be deaf whales, too!”
She even felt proud of herself after she was done speaking. She had an ”I am so smart” look on her face.
Zhang Zian said, ”…Although deaf whales do exist, this whale didn't seem like one. It seemed to have been attracted by your song.”
Sihwa had a momentary pause. ”Impossible! There's no way it'd attack you after it listened to my song!”
”I mean, it does hear your voice, but for some unknown reason, it doesn't understand your song. What do you think about such a possibility?” Zhang Zian explained patiently. ”Remember when I asked you about it? I asked if all cetaceans can understand your songs. If they don't, would there be any misunderstandings?”
If it was like before, then Sihwa would give a positive answer to his question without much thought. Now she wasn't so sure. If there were no problems with the giant whale, it would mean that the problem was in the song itself, and she really didn't want to admit that.
She tried to recall and said, ”I guess… Most whales should be able to understand my song. At least… the whales in the vicinity of Germany could all understand my song, and I could learn their songs after I listened to them. I can't do anything if I can't hear it, though. After I arrived in Binhai City, I could understand the whale songs in the nearby sea… Maybe that giant whale's from a remote country!”
The low-frequency sound waves of whales could be transmitted far, but they were not infinite. They could spread thousands of kilometers depending on the sea conditions, and Sihwa, who was born near Northern Europe, could only hear the whale songs in that range.