Chen Qingsheng, who was on the sea, saw Xiang Yang swimming up from the bottom of the sea with empty hands, and asked in confusion: "Captain, is there nothing under this sea?"
In Chen Qingsheng's memory, no matter whether Xiang Yang went into the water wearing diving equipment or diving with his bare hands, as long as he went into the water, he would generally catch some fish more or less, and there would basically be no time when he would be empty-handed.
"No, this sea area is covered with coral reefs and lush aquatic plants. Swimming crabs, scallops and conchs can be seen everywhere." Xiang Yang said.
"The fishery resources are so abundant?" Chen Qingsheng was shocked and asked quickly, "Captain, if the fishery resources are so abundant down there, why did you come up empty-handed?"
"Is the sea too deep to dive with bare hands or did we encounter a marine predator that would attack humans?"
In Chen Qingsheng's opinion, there are only two reasons why Xiang Yang encountered valuable seafood on the seabed but did not catch it. One is that it was too difficult to catch it, and the other is that he encountered danger and had to escape.
"Neither." Xiang Yang shook his head. "Although this area of the sea has abundant aquatic plants, there are not many plankton, so it cannot support large schools of fish. Swimming crabs and lobsters should be at the top of the food chain."
Xiang Yang has carefully observed the marine life under this sea area, and found that it is basically dominated by crustaceans, supplemented by octopuses, squids and other mollusks, and the number of fish is still very small.
Usually no marine predators would be willing to come to such waters, because they simply cannot find enough food to survive in such waters.
As for the sea being too deep to dive
That is even more nonsense. The sea area where Xiang Yang is currently located is not beyond the continental shelf. Unless he encounters a trench or an abyss, it is impossible for the pressure to be too great to dive down.
Chen Qingsheng was even more surprised when he heard this, "Neither of them, then how did you get up here, Captain?"
Xiang Yang smiled mysteriously, "Let me keep you in suspense for now. I found a good thing on the bottom of the sea. If you want to know, why don't you come with me to take a look?"
"Good stuff?" Chen Qingsheng's eyes lit up. If Xiang Yang could call it a good stuff, it must be something that would not be ordinary stuff.
Chen Qingsheng said quickly: "Captain, please stop keeping us in suspense. I am almost dying of anxiety."
"No, that won't do." Xiang Yang said with a smile, "This thing can't be said. If you say it out loud, it won't be a surprise. If you want to know, then follow me."
As he said this, Xiang Yang took a deep breath and dived suddenly under the water.
"Captain, wait for me!" Chen Qingsheng shouted hurriedly, then took off his coat and jumped into the sea from the rubber boat.
It might have been a while since Chen Qingsheng had gone into the water with his bare hands, and he jumped into the sea without warming up. He was choked by a large mouthful of sea water, and quickly floated to the surface, wiped the water off his face, and then gasped for breath.
"Can you do it?" Xiang Yang surfaced and asked with a smile.
Chen Qingsheng blushed immediately. As an old sailor and the first mate on an ocean-going fishing boat, he was choked by the sea water. This made Chen Qingsheng very embarrassed, especially since Xiang Yang saw him choking on water. This made Chen Qingsheng wish he could find a trench on the seabed to crawl into.
"I'm just used to the diving equipment. I haven't dived barehanded for a while and my hands are rusty." Chen Qingsheng said loudly, "Now I have regained the feeling of diving that I used to have. Captain, let's compete to see who can dive to the bottom of the sea first."
As he said that, Chen Qingsheng took a deep breath and suddenly dived into the sea.
Xiang Yang smiled. Of course he would not compete with Chen Qingsheng in this. It was meaningless. Even if he won, he would not have any sense of accomplishment. When it came to diving, Xiang Yang was already unrivaled.
After Chen Qingsheng had dived one or two meters, Xiang Yang slowly dived to the bottom of the sea and slowly hung behind Chen Qingsheng. He calculated Chen Qingsheng's diving time. If he had to dive freehand again in the future, Xiang Yang would calculate how long he should dive based on this diving time, so as not to arouse unnecessary suspicion from those who were interested.
There are no large schools of fish on the seabed of this sea, but there are many lonely small fish. Most of them are brightly colored and look very beautiful. This may be because the seaweed is abundant and organisms follow the direction of natural selection and survival of the fittest. Most of the sea fish are blue. This is a sea with blue as the main tone.
Xiang Yang looked around while diving, and thought to himself, "What a blue sea, with so many blue fish. I wonder if there are any blue lobsters."
Xiang Yang has a special liking for the color blue, because all his career started with a French Blue Dragon. Unfortunately, French Blue Dragons are indeed very rare, and Xiang Yang has not seen such a creature for a long time.
In fact, blue is the rarest color in nature.
In the entire natural world, the number of animals with blue pigment in their bodies can be counted twice on one hand. Most creatures that appear to be blue in color are actually influenced by external factors and do not have blue pigment in their bodies.
Soon, Chen Qingsheng dived to the bottom of the sea. He touched the bottom of the sea with one hand, then looked up at Xiang Yang, and raised a thumb to Xiang Yang with his other hand, with a look of pride on his face not concealed at all.
Xiang Yang grinned. This guy Chen Qingsheng actually thought that he had defeated Xiang Yang by diving.
Of course, Xiang Yang didn't care. He patted Chen Qingsheng on the shoulder, pointed in a direction, and motioned Chen Qingsheng to look there.
At first glance, Chen Qingsheng saw nothing but a cluster of seaweed swaying with the waves.
Chen Qingsheng turned around and looked at Xiang Yang again. He spread his hands to indicate that he saw nothing.
Xiang Yang smiled and gestured with his hands, indicating Chen Qingsheng to swim in that direction.
Although Chen Qingsheng was confused, he still strictly followed Xiang Yang's instructions and swam quickly towards the cluster of seaweed.
As soon as Chen Qingsheng approached, the cluster of seaweed immediately moved. A strange fish with a red body, blue S-shaped stripes on its back, blue spots, fins like colorful fans, a tail as red as a ball of flame, and an ice-blue tail tip emerged from the seaweed and swam away in a flash.
Chen Qingsheng was startled at first, then he immediately waved his hands desperately and chased after the strange fish. Although he didn't know what the strange fish was, since Xiang Yang had specially asked him to come down and see it, and said it was a good thing, it must be a precious species of fish.
Xiang Yang immediately grabbed Chen Qingsheng's arm, then shook his head, signaling Chen Qingsheng to stop chasing.
Chen Qingsheng immediately looked at Xiang Yang in confusion. Such a beautiful fish, obviously worth a lot of money, would run away if he didn't chase it. Why didn't he chase it