Chapter 90
Chen Yunliang fixed the slender fish on a wooden board, and finally took out a pair of scissors and cut it along the connection between the fish body and the huge belly.
During this time, the fish kept struggling to escape. The spines on its back had exploded and stretched to the limit. It tried every means to deter the enemy, but unfortunately its head and tail were fixed with iron nails, and its struggle could not affect Chen Yunliang at all.
In just a blink of an eye, Chen Yunliang had completed separating the fish belly.
The feeling of cutting with scissors is not like cutting meat, but more like cutting a layer of fish skin, but this layer of fish skin can remain intact in water.
After separating the two, a huge gash appeared on the belly of the fish. Chen Yunliang felt that it was not much different from the fish he dissected in school. The real focus was on the cut belly.
There seemed to be something in the cut stomach, and a little bit of it was sticking out from the gap, but there was no movement, and it was unknown whether the person was dead or alive.
Chen Yunliang used tweezers to pinch the leaking part and pulled the contents out of the stomach.
Only then could I see clearly that there was actually a fish in the belly!
It was not fish eggs nor parasites in the fish's body, but a complete fish, a fish that was much larger than the dissected fish. The big fish actually appeared in the stomach of the small fish!
The big fish had already stopped moving and looked like it had been dead for a long time, waiting to be digested by the smaller fish. Its pale eyes stared at the air, as if telling the absurdity of the scene.
Chen Yunliang placed a big fish and a small fish side by side. The big fish was almost three times longer than the small fish, but the small fish ate the big fish that was three times its size, which completely contradicted the basic perception of most people that big fish eat small fish.
Because the big fish was too long, after being eaten, it could only stay in the stomach of the small fish in a curled up form, which formed the round pancake-shaped belly that several people saw, and the inside was actually a ring.
The reason why the small fish's stomach can hold a big fish that is three times its size is because it has an extremely elastic stomach. Its stomach is like a balloon. It looks only the size of a palm, but it can actually blow up a balloon that is bigger than a human head. The small fish's stomach can also expand to accommodate prey larger than itself.
However, Chen Yunliang soon found another dead fish. This fish was also a small fish that had eaten a big fish, but its belly was not a round cake, but more like a ball.
Its death had nothing to do with Chen Yunliang and the others. It was already dead before Lu Shiyu fished it out.
There were no external injuries on the fish, so the problem could only be internal. Chen Yunliang also dissected the fish whose cause of death was unknown. With the foul smell emitted after the belly was cut open, the cause of death was quickly determined.
The fish it ate was so big that it could almost go around twice in the small fish's elastic stomach. However, because the small fish was unable to digest the entire fish in time, the big fish began to rot in its body. The gas released by the rotting fish caused the stomach to expand further, and finally the stomach ruptured, leaving only the outermost layer of fish skin barely wrapping it. Even though it looked intact, the small fish was still dead.
It is really sad that it can swallow fish that are bigger than itself, but it kills itself because of greedy prey on fish that are too big.
Lu Shiyu looked at the fish placed on the wooden board and asked, pinching his nose, "The big fish and the small fish don't seem to be the same kind of fish."
It is an obvious fact that the skin of the small fish is a dark brown color that is difficult to detect, allowing them to hide perfectly in the mud underwater, while the big fish that was eaten looks similar to an ordinary fish, with silvery-white scales and a white and tender belly. If it were not as slender as a loach like the small fish, it would look like a normal fish.
"There may be two different species of fish in the pond, but we only seem to be catching small fish."
In fact, if you count the big fish in the belly of the small fish, it can be considered as catching a big fish.
Several people put the fish they caught into a basin and poured a little clean water over the fish to prevent them from suffocating to death due to lack of water.
On the other side, the two people by the pond were still throwing out the net and catching it back, and they were getting more and more anxious.
The two tried hard for a long time, but not only did they not catch any fish - to be more precise, they didn't even cast the net, and they turned the originally clear pond into a muddy one, making it impossible to tell where the fish were and where they were not.
Lu Shiyu looked at the two people who were still throwing out the nets from the same spot. He felt that they no longer cared whether they could catch fish or not, but were competing to see who could cast the net more successfully.
"It's my turn, it's my turn!"
"Let me try again, it will definitely work this time!"
"You're nothing! You've failed so many times and haven't succeeded once!"
"You talk as if you've already succeeded."
"Even if I don't succeed, I'm closer to success than you. Just wait, I'll definitely cast my net before you!"
"Everyone's good at bragging! I even said I'd be able to spread the net wider next time!"
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Looking at the two people who were still chattering, Lu Shiyu silently retreated.
It would be terrible if they caught me and made me a technical instructor...
A pink lotus flower was handed to Lu Shiyu. Lu Shiyu was slightly stunned and took the lotus flower with the stem wrapped in a tissue.
"Where did the lotus come from?" Lu Shiyu asked.
Tang Zeyu pointed to a group of lotus leaves in the distance, among which a few pink spots could be seen.
"I happened to see it when I went over to check," Tang Zeyu said. "There were quite a lot of fish under the lotus leaves. I guess they were hiding there from their predators."
Lu Shiyu stood on tiptoe and took a look in the direction of the lotus leaf. Naturally, he couldn't see anything from such a distance, so he retracted his gaze.
"The fish here are abnormal. I wonder if there's anything different about the lotus flowers and lotus leaves here..."
Lu Shiyu gently parted the petals of the lotus flower, and when he saw the receptacle in the center of the lotus flower, which is the lotus pod, he suddenly stopped talking mid-sentence.
Now she knew what was different.
The color of the lotus pod is a refreshing light green, which is very pleasing to the eye when paired with the light pink lotus petals, but the lotus seeds in the middle seem very...unusual.
Normally, the receptacle of a lotus flower will gradually grow into a lotus pod after the petals fall, and lotus seeds will grow in the holes on the lotus pod.
Lu Shiyu had prepared herself mentally beforehand. She had seen normal lotus pods and some creepy-looking ones.
Some lotus pods shrink due to lack of water in the outer layer, and some of the lotus seeds inside are squeezed out. They look like round eyeballs staring at people without blinking. If you look at them for a long time, you will feel uncomfortable, as if they are really the eyes of something.
But the lotus flower in Lu Shiyu's hand contains much more than just lotus pods.
In the holes on the lotus pod are not round and plump lotus seeds, but small fish with their tails facing outwards!
The fish was estimated to be only the size of a thumb. Half of its body, including the head, had entered the eye of the lotus pod, leaving only the other half outside. It occasionally swayed a few times and looked alive.
"What's wrong?"
When Tang Zeyu saw Lu Shiyu's face froze, she thought she didn't like lotus flowers, so she reached out to take the lotus flower back, and then she saw what was inside the lotus flower.
Tang Zeyu: ...
When he picked them, he deliberately picked the one in the best condition, the one that was about to bloom.
The other flowers had either lost many petals or had completely turned into lotus pods. After several rounds of selection, Tang Zeyu finally picked this one, and it turned out to be like this inside.
"I'll help you throw it away."
Tang Zeyu turned around and was about to throw the lotus into the cafeteria, but was stopped by Lu Shiyu, who was in a dilemma.
"Why throw it away? Keep it for my cooking."
Tang Zeyu glanced at the lotus in her hand, hesitated for a while, and seeing that Lu Shiyu did not seem to be lying, she slowly returned the embarrassing flower.
"Shit! This is over."
The two people on the shore were holding the torn fishing net in their hands, their eyes full of regret.
"What's in the water? It's even broken the fishing net."
The two were just casting and pulling up the net normally, but in the process of retrieving it, they suddenly felt a resistance. Thinking that the net might be entangled by seaweed or something, they pulled it hard and ended up breaking the net.
A huge gap in the fishing net seemed to be mocking the two men. Not only did they fail at all, but they also broke the net.
"Damn it! Who is so uncultured as to throw things into the water?"
Yan Hong was furious and wanted to take a closer look to see what was in the water, which prevented them from using the fishing net.
But after the unremitting efforts of the two, the silt in the pond was brought up, and now you can almost see nothing in the pond, the visibility is 0, even the fish can't be seen.
Yan Hong was unwilling to give up and thought about waiting for the mud to sink before seeing what happened. However, she did not notice that the land under her feet, which had been wetted by the water they brought up, had turned into mud. Yan Hong was not paying attention and fell down.
"ah!"
Plop——!!!
The sound of huge waves came from the edge of the pond. Chen Yunliang, Lu Shiyu and Tang Zeyu turned their heads and saw that only Shaoxingyang was left on the shore, while Yanhong had disappeared. At the same time, ripples were set off on the water surface.
Lu Shiyu exclaimed: "Oh no, Yan Hong seems to have fallen into the water!"
Lu Shiyu turned his head and looked at Tang Zeyu: "Does Yanhong know how to swim? Is there anyone in the team who can swim?"
Before Tang Zeyu could answer, there was another plop.
When the three looked over again, there was no one on the shore.
Before falling into the water, Yanhong subconsciously held her breath and pinched her nose with her hands to prevent air from escaping.
After adjusting her position at an extremely fast speed, Yan Hong regained control of her body, swinging her arms to slide and using her legs to kick water, putting herself in a head-up position.
She originally planned to go up directly, but after adjusting herself, Yan Hong realized that the water was so deep.
After swimming in the water for a while, the surrounding fish were scared and fled in all directions. Yan Hong felt that there was no danger. Thinking that she could swim, she began to swim towards the bottom of the water, observing the depth of the pond while looking for the culprit who had broken the fishing net.
Yan Hong's sight instantly locked onto a pile of earth with a corner exposed. Because it was covered with a thick layer of silt, it was impossible to see whether there was anything under the silt. However, Yan Hong and Shao Xingyang's continuous stirring of the water had successfully removed some of the silt, allowing the things buried under the silt to leak out a little.
Just as Yan Hong was about to pick up the thing under the mud to take a look, she heard a huge sound of breaking the water surface.
When she turned around, she saw a figure swimming quickly towards her.
Yan Hong realized the other party's intention and immediately quickened her pace and went downstream. She barely managed to get the thing under the mud before being caught up by the man.
Then she was dragged back to the surface.
The two came out of the water. Yan Hong seemed to be fine, just choked on some water. Shao Xingyang's head was completely red, and he looked like a red ball floating on the water.
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