On the beach, Professor Chen Yu was standing in front of a folding table.
There was a very thick laptop computer on the folding table. At first glance, the picture on the computer screen looked like an endless sea, but if you looked closely, you could see that it was exactly the scene in front of Xiang Yang.
"Chew some betel nut to warm your body?" Director Li Bo handed Professor Chen Yu a box of betel nuts.
"Thank you, I can't chew with my teeth." Chen Yu pointed to his cheek.
Director Li Bo stuffed a betel nut into his mouth and glanced at the screen. "Hmm? Something seems wrong. This steepness doesn't look like a normal continental shelf. It looks more like a continental slope."
"I also discovered that the normal distance from the beach to the sea that is more than one meter deep is more than ten meters. He only walked ten meters and the water reached his neck." Chen Yu said.
It is difficult for most people to distinguish between the continental shelf and the continental slope. In fact, this is geography knowledge learned in middle school. It is actually very simple to distinguish. The underwater part of the continent that naturally extends to the ocean is the continental shelf, which generally forms a beach and has a relatively flat terrain. The transition stage from the continental shelf to the ocean basin is the continental slope, which has an extremely steep terrain.
"Xiang Yang, Xiang Yang, please reply if you get it." Professor Chen shouted, putting on a headset on his laptop.
Xiang Yang, who was walking in the ocean, was suddenly stunned. He actually heard the voice of Professor Chen Yu inside the hood.
"Are you the teacher?" Chen Yu asked tentatively.
"It's me. Are you walking upright or half-squatting now?"
Although Xiang Yang was very surprised why the teacher asked such a question, he still answered: "I am walking upright. The water here is almost one person deep. I need to stand on tiptoe to step on the seabed." After saying that, he was amazed. This was his first time to communicate with someone on land underwater.
"Well, it's clear. You should be careful next time. The steepness of this coastline is a bit problematic. In my experience, there may be canyons or trenches ahead."
Xiang Yang was suddenly surprised.
The most advanced diving suit was also unable to block the effect of the mysterious jade shell. Xiang Yang had seen through the jade shell that there was a huge underwater ravine less than a hundred meters ahead.
Chen Yu obviously did not have a mysterious jade shell that could see things on the seabed, but he could tell the seabed topography of the sea ahead at once, based on the fact that the terrain of the sea area close to the shore was a little steeper. This was the power of knowledge.
Xiang Yang took a few more steps forward, and this time his entire body sank completely into the sea.
Considering the weight of the diving suit, most divers can still walk slowly on the seabed, but Xiang Yang was too lazy to walk. He bent his body slightly and swam on the seabed using the dog paddle style.
As soon as Xiang Yang dived into the seabed, Professor Chen Yu on the beach narrowed his eyes.
What was reflected in Xiang Yang's eyelids and on the laptop screen was a complete paradise for marine animals, from floating jellyfish to turbot hiding on the seabed and burying itself under the fine white sand, from beautiful tunicates to ugly sea scorpions, floating plankton of various colors, and countless animals and plants living peacefully under this sea.
"Fuck, a sea scorpion bigger than Brother Xiang's head?" Li Chao, who had been smiling since meeting Chen Yu and other experts and professors, stared at the computer screen and cursed, "Professor Chen, is the proportion of your image okay?"
"There are actually tunicates, which are also good things. Jellyfish, tunicates, sea scorpions. Boss Li, is your old house really around here?" Zhang Qicheng asked with a look of doubt on his face.
Li Chao said: "Don't you know where my old house is?"
Mr. Peng exclaimed in amazement. "It's a miracle that such a big sea scorpion can live in front of Mr. Li's house. By the way, such a big sea scorpion is no longer considered food but ornamental fish, right? Give it to me?"
"That won't do. You said it's my family's stuff, so how can I give it away?" Li Chao shook his head.
Mr. Peng shook his head, smiled and said nothing more.
Li Chao looked at Chen Yu, "Professor Chen, can your diving suit protect you from the poisonous needles on the back of a sea scorpion? If it can, please tell my brother Xiang for me. If he can fish the sea scorpion out for me, I will give him 20,000 yuan."
Zhang Qicheng and Mr. Peng looked at Li Chao with some amusement. It was clearly something outside his house, but he had to wait for others to come and discover it.
However, Zhang Qicheng and Mr. Peng also knew that the 20,000 yuan Li Chao spent was not in vain. There were many extremely dangerous species in the ocean. None of them were diving enthusiasts. Even if they swam, they would usually go to private bays that had been developed, explored and fenced off. They would never swim in such an unfamiliar and unexplored sea area just because it was close to home.
But 20,000 yuan for a sea scorpion is a bit high.
Even Chen Yu said, "Mr. Li, the sea scorpion doesn't seem to be worth this price, right?"
At the seaside, you can often see some restaurants with signs saying "Stonefish Restaurant" and stonefish as a signature dish. In fact, stonefish is a general term for several types of "sea scorpions" that people often talk about. The sea scorpion that Xiang Yang saw now, lying on the ground like a stone, is more poisonous than the group of toad-like sea scorpions he encountered in the nameless sea last time. It is almost the most poisonous of all sea scorpions, and also the one with the most delicious meat. It can usually be sold for one or two thousand yuan per catty in the sea restaurant.
"It's worth it, of course. I caught it with my personal participation. It's different from ordinary sea scorpions." Li Chao said excitedly.
Director Li Bo was speechless. If standing on the beach and watching was considered as participating, then he had participated in more than one major event in his life that benefited the present and future generations.
In fact, Xiang Yang didn't need Chen Yu's reminder at all as he had also set his eyes on the sea scorpion. In Xiang Yang's opinion, the weight of this sea scorpion must be more than three kilograms, or even four kilograms. It would be worth at least four or five thousand yuan after it was caught and sold on the shore.
However, sea scorpions are not easy to catch. The poisonous needles on their backs can even penetrate thick shark skin. Xiang Yang did not dare to act rashly.
Although Chen Yu said that the surface of the diving suit he was wearing was so thick that even sharks couldn't tear it, he still had to be prepared for the worst.
"It would be nice if I had a net bag." Xiang Yang thought to himself.
Then Xiang Yang swam slowly towards the sea scorpion. It was not because he was afraid of swimming too fast and scaring the sea scorpion. It was simply because Xiang Yang was afraid that swimming too fast would make Chen Yu think of something. Sea scorpions, which have evolved themselves into poisonous hedgehogs, are even more powerful than leatherback turtles. They have no natural enemies since birth. They eat everything. Clams, scallops, small fish, shrimps, and seaweed are all on their menus. They almost never worry about food in their lives.
The lack of natural enemies and abundant food have caused their swimming ability to degenerate drastically, and their swimming speed underwater is even comparable to that of turbot.