Nightfall.
Everyone picked a lot of amanita argitis and everyone returned home with a full load.
Xiang Yang's harvest was also quite good. The goose mushrooms in a small net bag were all the size of beverage bottle caps.
Everyone is tired from playing today.
Xiang Yang turned on the ship's searchlight early, left two crew members on duty on the deck, and drove the rest of the crew back to the cabin to rest.
Xiang Yang himself quietly moved to the stern of the ship and slipped into the sea along the ladder.
Almost all the small yellow croakers on the boat were lying in the freezer. The small yellow croakers would become worthless if they were frozen for too long. Xiang Yang planned to drag one or two more nets tomorrow, and then the fishing boat would have to return.
Xiang Yang still had some things to do before the fishing boat returned.
The first thing Xiang Yang had to do was to determine the fishing boat’s route for tomorrow.
Most fishing boats do not have fixed routes when they go out to sea to fish. They catch fish wherever the boat goes. If they are lucky, it's fine. If they are unlucky, there may be no catch on the entire route. If the fishing boat comes up with empty nets for several consecutive times, even the fuel costs will be lost.
Xiang Yang certainly would not allow his fishing boat to lose money on fuel.
After entering the sea, Xiang Yang first swam towards the south.
Xiang Yang swam very fast, and the scenery he saw while swimming under the sea seemed to be rapidly receding as if he was sitting on a high-speed train and looking out. The only difference was that the scenery under the sea was very different from that on land. Schools of playful fish, ferocious marine predators, giant seaweeds as big as tall buildings, and rolling underwater forests all passed by Xiang Yang's eyes one by one.
"Hmm?" Xiang Yang, who had been swimming for a long distance without any change in expression on his face, suddenly hummed lightly, with a look of surprise on his face.
Xiang Yang encountered many schools of fish along the way, but each school of fish was not valuable. They were all very common marine fish and were not worth Xiang Yang's special route for the fishing boat to catch them.
Disappointed Xiang Yang was even ready to turn back and continue searching for the fish in another direction, but he unexpectedly found something good.
What caught Xiang Yang's eyes was an underwater mountain covered with coral reefs.
The mountain is rocky, and mud, pebbles and coral reefs can be seen everywhere.
There are many very beautiful golden tropical fish swimming among the coral reefs and rugged rocks, which is very beautiful.
There is also a strange little fish that looks very much like a swordfish. Like the swordfish, it has a long mouth and a crescent-shaped tail, but it has a huge fin on its back and is hunting beautiful golden sea fish.
Xiang Yang's attention was not at all on these sea fish.
"Christmas tree worm!" Xiang Yang stared excitedly at a marine creature with a spiral body that looked like a Christmas tree.
The Christmas tree worm is very small, with an average span of only three or four centimeters, but it is hailed as one of the ten most beautiful marine creatures and is a very beautiful ornamental marine creature.
Christmas tree worms have no limbs to swim, and cannot even swim out of the tubes they live in, so they can only live inside the tubes, but their traces can be found almost throughout the tropical oceans.
The spiral structure is actually the Christmas tree worm's respiratory system, which is not only extremely powerful but also very beautiful.
Xiang Yang carefully searched the sea area, searching for the Christmas tree worm, which is known as one of the ten most beautiful marine creatures.
Soon Xiang Yang found a lot of Christmas tree worms nearby. They were very colorful, including yellow, orange, blue, red, pink and white. The different colors gathered together made them look even more beautiful.
Xiang Yang reached out for a blood-red Christmas tree worm that looked like a miniature Christmas tree.
Feeling Xiang Yang's touch, the Christmas tree worm immediately burrowed back into its hole**.
Xiang Yang laughed immediately, almost forgetting that marine creatures like Christmas tree worms are very sensitive and will quickly retreat back into their caves at the slightest contact or interference.
It usually takes a minute or two for the Christmas tree worms to slowly reappear after retreating into their burrows, and then to extend their beautiful feathery spiral respiratory systems again in the sea water.
This habit of the Christmas tree worm may seem similar to that of the mimosa, but it is actually completely different.
Although the leaves and branches of the mimosa will close when touched, the mimosa is a plant, while the Christmas tree worm is not.
Don't be fooled by the beautiful appearance of the Christmas tree worm. In fact, the Christmas tree worm is a predatory worm whose main food is various small floating marine organisms.
Christmas tree worms are extremely difficult to catch.
Because most of them like to live on the edge of tiny holes on the surface of coral reefs. When encountering danger, they will immediately retreat into the hole. The speed at which they retreat into the hole is even beyond human imagination, and they are more sensitive than the most sensitive cats.
There was almost only one way for Xiang Yang to capture this Christmas tree worm, and that was to use tools to pry open the small hole in the coral reef and then take the Christmas tree worm out of the small hole.
As for sneaking up on him and grabbing him when he's not paying attention? If it was on land, someone like Ye Wen and Chen Zhen might be able to do it, but in the water, even a god can't.
"Fortunately, there are a lot of tools on the boat, including knives, hammers, and mallets." Xiang Yang touched his chin and began to think about the plan of taking his crew to catch Christmas tree worms tomorrow.
Currently, there are almost no Christmas tree worms for sale in the market, whether it is the aquatic market or the ornamental fish market. These little guys are extremely difficult to catch under the sea. With normal human speed, it is impossible to even touch them on the seabed, let alone catch them. Therefore, Xiang Yang is not sure how much each Christmas tree worm is worth.
However, the Christmas tree worm has a beautiful appearance, so Xiang Yang has no worries about not being able to sell it if he takes it to the ornamental fish market.
It is worth mentioning that Christmas tree worms always appear in pairs. These two pairs of Christmas tree worms are actually two respiratory organs of the same Christmas tree worm, not two loving Christmas tree worms.
Xiang Yang stayed there and waited for a minute or two. The pink Christmas tree worm finally drilled out of the small hole in the coral and slowly stretched out its crown.
Xiang Yang carefully reached out his hand again, trying to see if he could quietly catch the red Christmas tree worm, just like a child carefully catching a dragonfly or butterfly.
As a result, Xiang Yang still underestimated the sensitivity of the Christmas tree worm. Before Xiang Yang's hand fell, and even his shadow didn't get close, the Christmas tree worm immediately shrank back into the small hole at the slightest ripple of the water.
"There's no other way." Xiang Yang sighed helplessly and memorized the location of this sea area. He thought about the specific steps of driving the fishing boat to this sea area tomorrow and leading the crew to go out to sea to catch Christmas tree worms.