"What a good stuff!" Xiang Yang watched it closely, his eyes were quite obsessed but he didn't dare to grab it with his hands.
The tentacles of bubble coral are highly toxic, which can not only kill plankton, some fish and shellfish, but is also an important means of defending against enemies. Being touched by the tentacles of a bubble coral is definitely much more serious than being touched by an ordinary jellyfish.
"Forget it, it's not a golden bubble coral, it's not worth the risk." Xiang Yang watched for a while and continued to walk slowly towards the higher seabed mountains in front. Bubble corals are mostly milky white, pure white, and yellow. Yellow is the cheapest, white is average value, and there are very few variant golden bubble corals. The golden and dazzling golden bubble corals are very valuable for viewing, but the one Xiang Yang saw was just the more common pure white one.
Continuing to walk up the "hillside", Xiang Yang saw more coral creatures, including finger corals, which are the most common types of corals in people's mouths. The finger corals of different colors, such as yellow, green, pink, and brown, formed clusters, which were very beautiful.
Xiang Yang searched around for a while and didn't find the blood-red finger coral. He sighed slightly but was not too disappointed, because blood coral is not so easy to get.
Going further up, you will reach the "top of the mountain". This place is really close to the sea. The seaweed is no longer as dense and abundant as at the foot of the mountain. Various beautiful fish are gradually becoming scarce. Only some huge leather mushroom corals are left clinging to the rugged rocks.
Leather mushroom corals are not corals in the strict sense. They are actually a type of large coral polyp and a soft coral. They do not have the hard skeleton of corals in the popular sense, and unlike most corals, they do not live in groups. They usually like to attach themselves to a rock independently and can move short distances at any time.
Xiang Yang had no interest in the leather mushroom coral. He passed the "top of the mountain" and walked towards the deep sea on the other side of the "mountain range".
The other side of this underwater mountain range is the sunny slope. The scenery of the sunny slope is completely different from that of the sunny slope. There are no coral polyps that grow facing the sun, nor schools of tropical fish that like the sun. Instead, there are transparent jellyfish and yellow seahorses that like shade and are colorful, and schools of fish that are completely different from those on the sunny slope but equally colorful. Countless beautiful marine creatures are like moving colored pencils, painting a gorgeous underwater world together.
Xiang Yang looked at the colorful and various marine creatures in the vast sea at the bottom of the mountain, some floating, some diving, and some lying quietly on the seabed. He couldn't help but marvel at the magic of nature and the Creator, who could depict such a beautiful scene.
While watching along the way, Xiang Yang continued to walk slowly towards the depths of the trench. He knew that these brightly colored tropical fish were actually extremely vulnerable in the entire ocean. Sometimes a large fish could swallow up their entire group in one bite. The bright colors on their bodies were actually warning colors. Whenever a large fish approached, they would gather together, so that from a distance they looked like a colorful sea snake, which could scare away a large number of marine predators.
There are also marine fish that have evolved over millions of years to change their colors to the colors of their surroundings. This allows them to use the surrounding environment to better hide themselves when encountering predators.
"Survival of the fittest." Xiang Yang casually broke off a bowl-sized sea snail from a rock and threw it into his net bag. Survival in the vast biosphere of the ocean is a very difficult thing. In countless years of natural competition and elimination, various animals have been trying to protect themselves. For example, snails and scallops have evolved hard shells. Some marine creatures are even more extreme. When they are forced into a corner, they have even evolved "special abilities" such as discharge and poison.
Sea snails are considered a relatively valuable high-end seafood product. After Xiang Yang caught one, he continued to look for the second one.
Xiang Yang, who was looking for the sea snail, suddenly shuddered all over and stepped back in fear.
"How could there be box jellyfish in this sea area?" Xiang Yang retreated more than ten meters before looking grimly at a huge jellyfish with a light blue and transparent body, shaped like a small box, with four sides, each side more than 20 centimeters long, swimming silently in front of him where he had been standing before.
If someone asks what is the most poisonous creature in the ocean, most people will probably answer sea snakes. Everyone knows that sea snakes are highly venomous.
But in fact, there is no most poisonous creature in the sea, only more poisonous creatures.
The box jellyfish is one of the most toxic creatures among countless highly venomous marine creatures. It is known as the transparent killer in the ocean and is second only to the notorious great white shark among the top ten deadly marine animals.
The box jellyfish is one of the most deadly creatures known in the world. Once a person is stung by its tentacles, he will definitely not survive for more than three minutes, and there is no effective antidote except serum.
Xiang Yang's face looked very ugly. Although this rich sea area had encountered some highly poisonous marine creatures before, those marine creatures were either not very aggressive or their toxins were not deadly enough, so they were harmless at all.
But the box jellyfish is different. It is definitely one of the most hated marine creatures by fishermen from all over the world, because the box jellyfish likes to surface in the morning and evening, and especially likes to swim quietly to crowded places such as docks and beaches. Every year, the number of fishermen and tourists who die because of box jellyfish is not small.
After hesitating for a while, Xiang Yang decided not to provoke this box jellyfish for the time being. He decided to note the location of this sea area first, and then come to this sea area to seek profit after the ship has upgraded its diving equipment that can cover a person's entire body.
After bypassing the box jellyfish, Xiang Yang continued to walk down the "hillside". Not long after walking, Xiang Yang's eyes lit up. He saw a large group of sea scorpions living between two coral reefs not far away. This sea scorpion has a fish face but a toad body. It has 13 stingers on its back that can release highly toxic venom. It is an extremely precious delicacy.
Catching one of these precious seafood is worth half a month's work for an average person, and if you come across a large group of them, no one would want to let them go.
Xiang Yang was no exception. He swam to the side of the group of sea scorpions in a flash, looked at the largest ones among the group of sea scorpions, and reached out several times to catch them into his net bag.
But looking at the hideous and terrifying poisonous thorn on the opponent's back, Xiang Yang felt like he had a treasure mountain but didn't know where to start.