As famous long-lived creatures, sea turtles are very spiritual.
Xiang Yang also boldly touched the turtle's head.
The big guy did not refuse Xiang Yang's touch, and even squinted his eyes, looking like he was enjoying it.
Xiang Yang smiled and gently pushed the sea turtle's head, signaling it to go play aside and not disturb his work.
Unexpectedly, the big turtle seemed to understand what he said. It rubbed Xiang Yang's arm and then paddled to the side with its four limbs.
Once sea turtles grow up, they have almost no natural enemies on the seabed. Even sharks are reluctant to use their teeth to knock at their thick shells, and fishermen generally do not catch sea turtles.
However, such a carefree race has become rare in recent years, because sea turtles like to eat jellyfish, but they cannot tell the difference between jellyfish and plastic bags. There are countless marine garbage, and often only one plastic bag is enough to take the life of a large sea turtle.
After watching the sea turtle swim away, Xiang Yang continued walking forward.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in a patch of seaweed not far away. The mud and sand in the seaweed rolled over, and countless sea fish were suddenly panicked.
Xiang Yang looked in that direction and his scalp suddenly went numb. He saw a giant squid with a head as big as a bucket. Six of its ten tentacles as thick as arms were dancing wildly. Two of the remaining four tentacles fixed its body, and the other two were hidden in the seaweed, seemingly hunting prey.
"Hiss!" Xiang Yang took a breath and quietly took a few steps back. For such a big squid, Xiang Yang did not rule out the possibility that he was on the other party's menu.
Squid and octopus look very similar, and many people cannot tell the difference between them.
In fact, the two organisms are easy to distinguish.
The one with ten tentacles is a squid, and the one with eight tentacles is an octopus.
Both squid and octopus are very cheap seafood. Squid is better. After being dried, it can be sold for sixty or seventy yuan per pound inland. As for octopus, it can almost only be found at roadside barbecue stalls.
The giant squid that Xiang Yang saw in front of him was actually not the largest in the octopus family.
The largest giant squid ever recorded is eighty meters long and weighs fifty tons, as big as a small battleship. It is extremely terrifying. However, they usually live in deep sea areas and rarely attack fishermen on the coast.
The squid seemed to be injured, and Xiang Yang saw red liquid constantly escaping in all directions.
"It seems that the prey of this big guy is not simple either." Xiang Yang said in his heart, and at the same time his body floated up a little. He wanted to see clearly what kind of sea beast it was that could actually hurt a giant squid that was one or two meters long.
If it was an octopus one or two meters long, Xiang Yang would turn around and run away without saying a word. Not to mention that the octopus has a developed brain and a higher IQ than the squid, the most important thing is that there are suction cups on the tentacles of the octopus. Once you are sucked by the suction cups, you can't run away even if you want to.
As for the squid, Xiang Yang believed that his flexibility on the seabed was no less than that of the squid. As long as he was not entangled by the squid's tentacles, he could still fight with it.
After swimming up three or four meters, Xiang Yang, who was high above, finally saw clearly what the giant squid's prey was.
At just one glance, Xiang Yang's eyes widened.
blue!
What catches your eye is a deep blue color that looks like a sapphire, dotted with stars and yet extremely bright.
This blue color is as dazzling as pearls and as deep as the deep sea. It is like a work of art carefully crafted by God, so beautiful that it takes your breath away.
"French Blue Dragon!" Xiang Yang looked at the giant squid that had gone crazy due to injury, and forced a smile.
French Blue Dragon is not as famous as Australian lobster and Boston lobster in the huge lobster family, but it is the belief of countless gourmets. It is an extremely precious delicacy and is known as a romantic art. It is called French Blue Dragon because its main production area is in French territorial waters. In fact, it is distributed all over the world, but it is extremely rare all over the world, and it lives in deep sea areas and is extremely difficult to catch. Immature French Blue Dragon is a top delicacy second only to Chinese Jingxiu lobster over 55cm in price. Once it reaches adulthood, its price will soar again.
The blue color on the shell of the French blue lobster is not natural. It is because there is abundant protein somewhere on the seabed. The lobster consumes excessive protein to form the blue compound astaxanthin, which causes a gene mutation and makes the shell appear blue.
On average, there is only one French blue lobster among 3 million deep-sea lobsters. It is a rare marine creature that is truly comparable to a living fossil.
Moreover, the bright blue color is extremely eye-catching compared to the surrounding environment on the seabed. The bright blue color will make the French Blue Dragon easier to be discovered and hunted by carnivorous marine fish, thereby further reducing their numbers. The vast majority of French Blue Dragons do not survive beyond their infancy.
Moreover, the genetic mutation of the French blue dragon is irreversible. Once astaxanthin is produced, it becomes a completely different creature. The growth cycle becomes extremely slow. It takes 30 to 35 moltings to reach an adult height of 30 to 40 centimeters. The growth rate is several times slower than that of ordinary lobsters.
The French blue dragon that Xiang Yang saw in front of him looked very powerful. It was estimated to be at least 40 centimeters long. Its shell was a bright ice blue with a very uniform color. It sparkled with a pearl-like crystal luster. At first glance, it looked like a work of art. Its two pincers, which were larger than Xiang Yang's hands, had one raised high and the other clamped tightly on one of the tentacles of the giant squid. No matter how the giant octopus struggled, it would not let go. Judging from the flatness of the tentacle where it was clamped, it was obvious that it had broken.
Not far away on the seabed, there was a giant squid tentacle that had been clamped off, which looked shocking.
But the French blue dragon was still full of energy. Its six limbs, each as big as cucumbers, firmly grasped the seabed to stabilize its body, and its two dragon whiskers were like angry crowns reaching into the sky.
Seeing this, Xiang Yang couldn't help but feel ashamed. This French blue dragon was too fierce. It seemed that after driving away the giant squid, it would fight with him again.
This French blue dragon Xiang Yang must be caught.
As one of the top-grade ingredients, even the least valuable French blue crayfish weighing a few cents is a thousand times more expensive than ordinary crayfish.
In fact, calling French Blue Dragon a food ingredient is an understatement. Although this creature is not a protected animal, once discovered it definitely lives a more comfortable life than protected animals. This dish cannot be ordered in any restaurant in the world except in Paris, France, where food ingredients are regarded as art. Moreover, due to its scarcity, the supply exceeds the demand. France does not export French Blue Dragon weighing more than one kilogram.
In September 2008, several shrimp fishermen caught a 15-pound French blue dragon on the Isle of Man in the UK. The specimen is still on display in the British Museum.
On August 26, 2014, a fisherman in Maine, USA caught a French blue dragon shrimp. The shrimp is still alive in a local oceanarium.
In June 2019, the owner of a seafood restaurant in Massachusetts, USA, discovered a rare royal blue French blue dragon while purchasing goods, and eventually sold it at a sky-high price of $450,000.
This French Blue Dragon has many natural enemies and grows slowly. It takes several years to grow to the size that an ordinary lobster takes one year. Every time it grows a little bigger, its price soars. Immature French Blue Dragons are also sought after by gourmets. An adult French Blue Dragon is usually more expensive than a Ferrari, and you can't buy it without the money of France's upper-class celebrities.