It was unknown how long it had been before Xiang Yang slowly woke up.
The first thing Xiang Yang did after waking up was to look at the palm of his hand.
"This, what's going on?" Xiang Yang stared at the palm of his hand in a daze. The wound on his palm that was cut by the mysterious seashell in his memory had disappeared, and the palm of his hand was extremely smooth.
Along with the wound, the mysterious sea shell also disappeared. However, Xiang Yang felt a strange feeling in his heart. It seemed that he only needed a thought to summon the mysterious sea shell.
"Come out." As Xiang Yang's mind moved, a deep blue seashell appeared in Xiang Yang's hand.
"Disappear." Xiang Yang's mind moved again, and the deep blue seashell suddenly disappeared.
Appear, disappear, appear, disappear.
It was very magical. Xiang Yang tried it more than ten times before he looked at the shell with great interest.
The azure surface is full of stone texture and emits a faint glow.
Holding this jade shell, Xiang Yang suddenly had a very absurd idea in his mind. He felt that he could swim and breathe freely under the water like a fish, without worrying about the underwater pressure and oxygen issues.
Once this thought was born, it could not be shaken off and became stronger and stronger. The desire to transcend life prompted Xiang Yang to walk towards the sea in front of him, unable to control himself.
“Wow!”
Diving into the sea, Xiang Yang instantly woke up.
Why did I jump into the sea
Xiang Yang was stunned at first, then he was ecstatic.
Being in the sea, Xiang Yang seemed like a fish in water and did not feel any discomfort in his body.
With a sudden dive, Xiang Yang reached the bottom of the sea. He swam for hundreds of meters on the seabed, swaying his body, before surfacing in ecstasy.
Sent.
Sent.
This time it’s really prosperous.
How big is the ocean
Anyone who has studied geography knows that three parts of China’s earth are land and seven parts are ocean.
The ocean, which occupies one seventh of the earth, is rich in fish, shrimps and crabs, as well as countless shipwrecks and endless treasures.
Xiang Yang, who graduated from an ocean university, knows better that humans know very little about the ocean. Light can only travel 200 meters in the ocean, which means that the ocean below 200 meters is completely dark. Currently, the ocean that humans can explore only accounts for 5% of the entire ocean area, and the remaining 95% has not yet been developed.
He can move freely in the sea like a fish and can see things in the sea regardless of the darkness. The seabed has completely become Xiang Yang's back garden.
Without any hesitation, Xiang Yang dived into the seabed again.
Xiang Yang looked at this mysterious underwater world curiously. Within a hundred meters from the shore, the water was not deep and fish were relatively scarce. The seabed was covered with fine gravel, and occasionally some crabs could be seen holding up two pairs of large claws to show off their power.
A hundred meters offshore, the sea water gradually became deeper, and some coral reefs appeared on the seabed. Beautiful sea fish shuttled among the coral reefs. Xiang Yang swam more than ten meters away in an instant, approaching a coral reef.
There were a lot of sea fish swimming over there. Xiang Yang grabbed one, put it in front of his eyes to look at it, and then let it go. This was the least valuable bighead carp, which only sold for a few yuan per pound in the market.
Looking here and there, Xiang Yang was almost dazzled.
Suddenly, Xiang Yang's eyes lit up. Under a coral reef, Xiang Yang saw something as thick as a finger and looked like a caterpillar.
"Sea cucumber!" Xiang Yang grabbed the sea cucumber that was slowly wriggling under the coral reef, feeling ecstatic.
Although sea cucumber has the word "sen" in its name, it is not a plant but an invertebrate. There are more than 900 species in the world. The most precious of them is the dried sea cucumber. The cultivated ones can be sold for thousands of yuan per catty. As for the wild ones, they are priceless in the market and are revered as one of the "Eight Treasures".
The reason why it can be sold at this price is that there are more than 900 species of sea cucumbers, most of which are inedible. Most of the edible sea cucumbers live in the hard stone bottom of shallow seas or under coral reefs. They usually crawl under the sand and rocks. When they encounter danger, they will eject their internal organs and use the huge propulsion generated by the ejection of internal organs to escape.
Interestingly, sea cucumbers are afraid of heat but not cold. Most sea cucumbers hibernate in the summer, and they look dead and stiff like stone. Isn't that interesting? In fact, sea cucumbers are far more afraid of heat than that. There is an autolytic enzyme in the body wall of sea cucumbers. Once the temperature is too high, sea cucumbers will undergo autolysis. In about five or six hours, they will completely turn into a pool of water and disappear without a trace.
Not only will sea cucumbers melt when exposed to heat, but they will also melt into a pool of water when exposed to oily substances.
What’s even more amazing is that this creature, which automatically melts when exposed to heat, actually has an extremely strong vitality. As long as it is not exposed to oily substances or high temperature environment, even if its body is cut into several pieces, it will grow into several sea cucumbers after a while.
Xiang Yang carefully searched the bottom of the coral reefs, and even greater surprises were yet to come. There were actually quite a few of these sea cucumbers in this area. Some of them were so big that they were as thick as arms, and one of them weighed over a kilogram.
"Now we're in for a treat." Xiang Yang picked the big ones. This kind of sea cucumber is large and thick, with excellent quality. It is a delicacy sought after by wealthy people. Xiang Yang does not plan to sell them all, but to keep two for his family to enjoy as a delicacy.
It's a pity that I didn't bring a sack with me. Soon, Xiang Yang, shirtless and wrapped in clothes with a large bag of sea cucumbers, floated to the surface of the sea with satisfaction. He had no regrets about the remaining ones he didn't catch. Although the diving time was not long, he saw that there were actually a lot of seafood on the seabed, but it was difficult to salvage and it was relatively scattered, so most people mistakenly believed that the fishery resources on the seabed were almost exhausted. Even people on the beach gave up fishing and went out to find other ways out.
On the way home, he inevitably met some fellow villagers. The villagers were surprised to see Xiang Yang wrapping a large package of sea cucumbers in clothes. Sea caterpillars, there used to be a lot of these things, but now they are almost extinct, right
"Xiang Yang, this sea cucumber is almost as thick as my arm, right? Where did you catch it?" A fat boy who was Xiang Yang's elementary school classmate asked enviously. This big bag, even if it is processed into dried goods, must be more than ten kilograms. There are people buying sea cucumbers in Fanhai Town, more than three hundred yuan per kilogram, several thousand yuan, it's like picking it up for free.
Fortunately, Xiang Yang didn't know what the fat man was thinking. If Xiang Yang knew that such a precious seafood delicacy was only sold for three hundred yuan per pound, he would probably laugh to death.
"It's Fatty Zuo. This is not a sea caterpillar but a sea cucumber. We caught it by rowing out more than 100 meters in front of Qinglong Bend. You can also try your luck there." Xiang Yang greeted the fat man with a smile and did not hide where he caught it. Firstly, the water there was not very shallow. Even if the villagers could dive there, it would be almost at their limit and they would not be able to catch it at all. Secondly, most of the ones as thick as arms were caught by Xiang Yang. As for those as thick as fingers, Xiang Yang didn't care as he had the jade shells in his hands.