Chapter 276 Turtle

Chapter 276 Turtle

Chapter 276 Turtle
Li Changle stood in front of the air tube and waited anxiously for a while. Then he saw the fishing rope swinging a few times. He hurried forward, grabbed the fishing rope and pulled it up.

There were about seven or eight sea cucumbers, two net bags of abalone, and surprisingly, a red grouper. The other bags were full of nine-segment shrimps.

“My goodness, this guy can’t be the one that laughed at me the other day, right?” Seeing that Chen Yongwei had surfaced, Li Changle pulled up the net bag and took the fish to the live tank to deflate it.

Brother Li pulled Chen Yongwei onto the deck and asked, "Is the parking position suitable today?"

"Better than yesterday." Chen Yongwei took off his goggles and looked at him curiously, "Are you fishing?"

"Yes, I caught a blue spot."

"I netted a red grouper down there. Also, those sea cucumbers were really hiding in the seaweed."

Chen Yongwei handed the diving equipment to Li Changle, "Brother, be careful when you go down, there is a big guy more than one meter wide lying on the seabed below.

Its eyeballs were bigger than ping-pong balls, its thin tail was longer than a cow’s tail, and I couldn’t even find its mouth. I was really shocked.”

"It should be a yellow tiger fish. I have seen a big one that was two or three meters long, bigger than a bed sheet at home."

Brother Li looked at Li Changle and warned him, "If you encounter one, don't get close to it. This kind of fish has poisonous spines on its tail. If you get stung by it, you'll be in trouble."

Yellow tiger fish is the name for stingray here. In some places, it is also called boss fish. There is a highly poisonous red thorn on the back of the stingray. If a person is stung, it will die.

The eyes and blowholes are on the top of the head, and the mouth and nose are on the bottom. When breathing, water is inhaled through the pipes on the top of the head and finally flows out through the gill slits on the ventral side. It mainly hunts mollusks such as squid and octopus.

"Okay, I won't touch anything." Li Changle agreed, put on his diving equipment, and dived into the water.

It is still more comfortable to soak in the sea, which is much cooler than on the surface. Li Changle thinks that he should listen to his elder brother and install the tarpaulin to avoid sunbathing on the deck.

When he dived about four or five meters deep, Li Changle found that the sea water was more turbid than yesterday and the undercurrent was stronger than yesterday. He thought that since he was already down, he might as well get some sea cucumbers and abalone before going back up.

Driven by the water flow, the underwater plants swayed more and more violently, looking a bit like the long-haired water ghosts in horror movies.

Further down, they could see huge reefs and coral reefs. Li Changle saw a large clump of kelp whose leaves were as broken as torn banana leaves.

Wild kelp is a good thing. In his previous life, he heard from his doctor Li in a short video that the mucus of this thing contains alginate and alcohol.

Eating it can lower blood cholesterol, prevent cerebral thrombosis, improve blood vessels, clear away heat, promote body fluid production, and promote bowel movements.

Now that I think about it, that guy is also hard on the outside but soft on the inside. Why would he put all this in front of me? He must be afraid of me dying...

Li Changle thought happily and cut a large handful of kelp with a knife. Several large flower dragons hiding in the kelp looking for food were scared and fled in all directions.

"As expected of my son, he has the same koi attributes as his father!"

Li Changle threw down the kelp, picked up the scoop net and rushed over to the big flower dragon that was sliding its swimming feet desperately, arching its abdominal segments and stretching and contracting to speed up, and covered it.

I lifted the net, grabbed the half of the dragonfish's body that was exposed outside the net, and put it into the net bag. I felt excited:
It must be about five or six pounds, right? Eighteen pounds per pound, even if it weighs five pounds, it's nearly a hundred.

Haha! The price of a single piece has broken the record again. With this one as a base, if the others run away, then let them run away. Anyway, I can't catch up.

Li Changle closed the opening of the net bag and tied it to the fishing line. He went back and tore off the half-cut kelp and put it into the net bag. The combination of meat and vegetables was nutritious.

In front of us, there is a large patch of Sargassum swaying in the water, some small fish are swimming among the water plants, there are a few clumps of corals past the coral reef, and beautiful clownfish are swimming among the corals.

He swam quickly to the coral reef, rummaged in the algae, found a few large sea cucumbers and put them into the net bag. He looked around but didn't see the yellow tiger fish that Chen Yongwei mentioned. He thought it must have been frightened and swam away.

Li Changle tied up the net bag, picked up the chisel and swam towards the reef. When he reached the reef and hadn't done anything yet, he saw a dark shadow flash through the cracks in the reef. He was so scared that he quickly pulled his hand back.

Then I saw a flat gray tail and almost had a heart attack. I was glad I didn't poke it.

"Fuck! The flat-tailed sea snake almost became fish food!"

Li Changle cried out secretly, and swam his legs quickly in fear, moving far away from the reef, and swam back to the coral reef to continue looking for sea cucumbers.

I swung my legs forward and suddenly found a large sea cucumber in front of me. I swam over with my flippers.

When he swam over, he saw a big black sea bream foraging on the coral reef. When it saw him coming, it swam its tail and swam away far away with a "whoosh".

The fish's tail drives up the mud and sand attached to the reef, making the sea water even more turbid.

After the mud and sand sank to the bottom, I reached out to grab the sea cucumber and saw that its body suddenly contracted a few times, and a large ball of white stuff spurted out, and its body shot out far away like a cannonball.

I have caught sea cucumbers several times, but this is the first time I have encountered a sea cucumber that uses the method of expelling internal organs to escape. Since it is so smart, I will let you live until the end of your life.

Li Changle shrugged and continued to search among the seaweed.

After finding three or four more sea cucumbers, he felt that the visibility at the bottom of the water was even lower than when he first came down, so he simply put away the net bag, tied it up, pulled the fishing line and shook it a few times, then swung his legs to swim upward. At this time, a sea turtle with a shell almost as big as his washbasin swam over from the front, and he quickly made way for it.

Who knew that guy would actually swim towards him and get close to him. Li Changle then saw that this guy's back was covered with barnacles, and there were even a few on his head.

Could it be that it wants me to help it clean the barnacles?

Li Changle thought of this and gestured to the turtle. "I can't do it for you on the seabed! If you really want my help, come with me. I promise I won't hurt you."

After finishing the gesture, I didn't care whether it understood or not, and swung my legs to float to the surface of the water. I turned my head and didn't see it following me, which I thought was normal, because after all, there are very few marine creatures as smart as the Hu brothers.

He surfaced and swam to the side of the fishing boat, took out his snorkel and placed it on the deck. He turned his head to look behind him, but did not see the big turtle. He sighed, reached out his hand and was pulled onto the boat by Chen Yongwei.

"Brother, why did you come up so quickly?"

"The water is a bit muddy and visibility is too low. I was worried about something happening so I just came up." Li Changle said as he took off his equipment.

"If I stop diving, I'll just put my stuff away, right?"

"Hmm!" Li Changle scratched his hair a few times, "Brother, how's the catch from the trawl?"

"Not bad, they are planning to drag another net." Chen Yongwei pointed at the water with a surprised look on his face and shouted, "Brother, look, there is a big turtle with barnacles on its back."

"Oh! It really came here." Li Changle turned his head and just happened to look at the big turtle. He walked to the side of the boat, looked at it and said, "Wait, I'll help you right away."

Chen Yongwei was extremely curious, "Brother, what's going on? Did it follow you up here?"

"Just like Brother Huzi, he asked us for help." Li Changle quickly put on his warm clothes and pants that had been exposed to the sun, "Use the big scoop net to get it out."

"Oh oh!" Chen Yongwei quickly put away his diving equipment and went to get a scoop net to scoop up the turtle. Seeing it floating on the surface motionless, it allowed him to scoop it up and looked at the green-skinned turtle with surprised sounds of "tsk tsk".

"Brother, could this guy be a spirit? He just sits there and lets us fish him out."

"Why don't you think about the fact that we are Prime Minister Turtle, whose little head is as smart as Tiger's brothers. They know that we are kind people, not the bad guys who want everything they see."

Li Changle stepped forward and grabbed the iron ring, and the two of them pulled the big turtle onto the deck and freed it from the net bag.

The tortoise shell was densely covered with barnacles, which had spread to the edge of the shell and the head.

The largest number of them are on the turtle's back, where they are clustered together in layers, as if the turtle is wearing a piece of uneven armor.

"That seems to be the case. Otherwise, why didn't Brother Hu find another fishing boat to rescue them?" Chen Yongwei looked at him with admiration. "Brother, maybe you were really the son of Lord Hailong in your previous life!"

"Definitely not!" Li Changle picked up the chisel and started working.

Others don't know about his past life, but doesn't he know it himself? The second son of the Li family in Shatou Village, the third son of Li Guitang's family.

"A Le, what's going on?" Big Brother Li and Second Brother Li, who were sorting fish on the fishing boat nearby, also stood up and asked.

Chen Yongwei stood up and pointed at the turtle that let Li Changle pry the barnacles off it. "Brother, look, this big turtle asked my brother to help it dig out the barnacles. Isn't that amazing?"

"Amazing!" Brother Li laughed, "Ah Le, you've loved cats and dogs since you were little, and now even sea turtles are asking you for help. Next time, let it carry you to go diving in the sea to look for treasures."

Li Changle smiled and touched the green-skinned turtle, "Did you hear that? Big brother asked you to lead us to find treasures?"

"You little brat! It's much older than us." Brother Li threw a water streamer at him.

Li Changle and Chen Yongwei pried the barnacles off the green-skinned turtle's shell, and then pried off a few on its head. When they turned it over, they found that there were also barnacles on its belly.

"Tsk tsk, why are these things so disgusting? Aren't the reefs on the seashore enough for them to grow?" Chen Yongwei pried off a piece of barnacle and smashed it with disgust.

Brother Li took over and said, "This is nothing strange. Last year we saw a whale in the deserted ocean that was also covered with barnacles. Even they couldn't do anything to it."

"The reefs don't move, so they attach themselves to the turtles and without any effort, they can travel around the world and eat different foods."

Li Changle turned the cleaned turtle over, and Chen Yongwei lifted it up and put it back into the water. "Swim faster. If you swim too slowly, you'll be attacked by barnacles again one day."

The sea turtle floated on the sea, stretched its little head to look at them for a while, and then slowly swam away.

Barnacles secrete a substance like super glue, which fixes themselves firmly to marine creatures such as turtles. In addition to the lively and fast-swimming killer whales, even the deep-sea giant humpback whales are not immune.

Barnacles not only attach to marine life, but also to the bottom of ships. The Li family's wooden boat is cleaned of barnacles every once in a while.

(End of this chapter)