After Song Tiantian and the others agreed to look for the Dragon Palace Wengrong Snail, they did not go looking blindly.
Instead, they first went to learn from the experts who were taking samples in front. After knowing where the dragon palace snail likes to live and what it likes to eat, they began to divide the work and cooperate to search on the beach.
The reef archipelago is worthy of being called a reef archipelago. As long as it is near the island, there is almost no place without reefs.
The drone followed behind Song Tiantian and recorded everything she saw.
The interlaced reefs on the seabed, the limpets that live on the reefs, the pointed horns of the sea snails, the barnacles that parasitize on sea turtles, etc. can all be found here.
If you look closely, you will see that a complete ecosystem has formed near these reefs.
And because of the existence of the reefs, almost no one would come to this inaccessible island specifically to mine and excavate them, so the creatures here grow extremely wildly and with plenty of room.
The sunlight shines into the sea through the waves on the surface, casting a halo of color on the bottom, reflecting that everything in the sea looks even more dreamy and colorful.
Song Tiantian, like a little elf, broke into this dreamy ocean, and explored the seabed with the sea fish that swam past them from time to time, looking for the trace of the Dragon Palace Conch.
While Song Tiantian and the others were busy looking for the Dragon Palace Conch, the sea turtle they sent to the expert's boat was moving its limbs restlessly and paddling in the fish hold.
On the ship, apart from the captain who dozed off in the wheelhouse and the crew member who was resting in the next room, there were only a few ocean experts in the cabins who were analyzing and interpreting the sampled seawater with the instruments they brought with them.
At this time, the turtle had already paddled to the edge of the fish hold and was using its fan-like front legs to scratch at the deck and climb out of the fish hold.
I saw it moving its limbs quickly, crawling quickly on the deck, and soon it quickly climbed down from the ladder at the bow.
As soon as it came into contact with the sea water, the turtle began to paddle its limbs quickly, and in a short while, it swam a long distance.
All this happened without alerting anyone on the boat. Only the drone, flying overhead, vaguely recorded the turtle's back as it left, but no one could connect this turtle with the one they had just rescued.
Only a few fans posted comments saying that they seemed to see a turtle swimming across the sea, but they were then drowned out by other comments.
Song Tiantian searched around the beach but didn't see the unique figure of the Dragon Palace Conch.
But just as she stood up from the sea and was about to look for it somewhere else, a black figure quickly passed through the sea, climbed up the shore quickly, and walked towards the island eagerly.
Song Tiantian didn't care about being frightened, and saw a familiar figure quickly disappear from her sight and disappear into the grass on the shore.
"Wait, isn't this the turtle we just rescued?" Song Tiantian said in surprise, looking at the direction the turtle left.
Xiangfangnan, who was not far away, quickly turned around and said, "Tiantian, what did you say?"
"I saw the turtle we just rescued." Song Tiantian pointed to where the turtle had gone in and asked Xiangnan with a puzzled look on her face, "But didn't we send it to the expert's boat? Why did it come down again?"
"Could it be that you saw it wrong?" He Jingnian said as he stood up from the sea.
"No." Song Tiantian said quickly: "There are still marks on its back left by my father and his men shoveling barnacles, and..."
Song Tiantian stuck out her nose and sniffed, "There's still the smell of the medicine left here."
Upon hearing this, Xiangfangnan's expression immediately became serious: "Could it be that the turtle escaped from prison?"
"No way, shouldn't it be on the boat now?" He Jingnian still had some doubts.
"I believe Tiantian, Tiantian's nose will never be wrong!" Xu Anjia ran over from the other side and said hurriedly.
Song Tiantian nodded: "Yes, my nose is very sensitive!"
Hearing this, He Jingnian also remembered that Song Tiantian had found the black truffle by relying on her nose in Beiyang Village last time. Thinking of this, the little guy's expression also became bad: "Could it be that it really ran away?"
"I'll go ask an expert." Xiangfangnan said, and went to the shore in front to find the expert who was testing and taking samples to ask about the condition of the sea turtle.
After hearing Xiangfangnan's concerns, the expert couldn't help but laugh: "Impossible! The turtle is still on the boat. How could it possibly have run back to the island? You must have seen it wrong."
"No, the sweet sense of smell will not be wrong." Xiangfangnan said with certainty.
"Don't worry, kid," the expert said tactfully. "The turtle is on the boat, and there are many experts and crew members watching it. If they really see the turtle run away, they will definitely send someone to notify and bring it back."
"But……"
"Okay, we have things to do here, you guys go play over there."
Just like that, Xiangfangnan returned without asking anything.
"What's going on? Did the sea turtle we rescue run away?" He Xuebin asked Xiang Nan hurriedly.
Xiangfang Nan shook his head.
"What does this mean?" Xu Anjia asked doubtfully, "Didn't the turtle run away?"
"Impossible, I saw it!" Song Tiantian said very confidently.
"The experts said the turtle was still on the boat, and even if it had escaped, the boat crew would have sent someone to bring it back."
"But the turtle has already run out, why doesn't anyone come to catch it?" Song Tiantian was puzzled.
"Could it be that they haven't discovered it yet?" He Xuebin guessed.
"That's impossible. There were so many people on the boat, and they didn't even notice the missing turtle?"
[So, is that the turtle they just rescued?]
[Uh, oh, oh, oh... I just saw the back of a turtle. It darted past Tiantian in a flash. I didn't even get a good look at what it looked like.]
[Me too. This is the first time I've seen a turtle run so fast!]
[So is that the turtle that Tiantian and the others rescued this morning?]
[I think it should be, the sweet smell is unmistakable. ]
[But just like the experts said, with so many people on the boat, they couldn't have missed even a lost turtle, right?]
[However, it could also be another turtle. After all, this island is so large, it is not impossible for another turtle to appear.]
[That being said, Tiantian’s nose is very sensitive! ]
[Plus one, I stand for Tiantian. Being able to identify black truffles with your nose is never wrong!]
After knowing that the experts could not help them confirm whether this turtle was the same one from the morning, Song Tiantian and the others decided to find out the truth.
Look, the four little guys came to the shore one after another and walked towards the grass where the turtle had hidden.
The staff hurried forward and handed the shoes to the little ones.
After changing their shoes, Song Tiantian and the others hurried towards the island.
There were still traces of turtles crawling on the grass, and some leaves were still stained with sea water, appearing a little wet, which also pointed Song Tiantian and the others in a clear direction.
But the further they walked, the more confused Song Tiantian and the others became.
All they saw before them was an uneven stretch of sand with some weeds growing here and there, but these were not what surprised them.
But it was the footprints on the ground that were disorganized, of varying depths, heights, and sizes.
At a glance, these footprints are almost dizzying. What surprised Song Tiantian and the others even more was that some of these footprints were of different sizes, but as long as they were compared, they could find that they were almost all left by sea turtles.
The footprints of the turtle that Song Tiantian and the others followed were also mixed in, and they could barely distinguish them at first.
But once we reached this sandy area, simply relying on footprints to distinguish them was no longer enough.
"Why are there traces of turtles crawling everywhere here?" He Xuebin looked at the footprints on the sand and felt a little uneasy.
"So many turtle footprints, does that mean there used to be a lot of turtles here?" Xu Anjia guessed.
[Of course, all these footprints are definitely not left by just one turtle!]
[So, Tiantian and the others found the turtle nest? There are so many footprints, how many turtles must be roaming around here?]
[What's going on? Will the turtles still get together? ]
[We won't be having a party, but it seems like it's turtle laying season now...]
What? Laying eggs?
"Tiantian, come and take a look!" Xiangfangnan discovered something and shouted to Song Tiantian and the others, "There are eggs here!"
"Eggs?" Song Tiantian hurried over.
"Is it an egg?" Xu Anjia suddenly became excited.
"Let me see, let me see." He Jingnian ran over hurriedly and looked in the direction where Xiangnan was pointing.
When they looked, they saw turtle eggs as big as quail eggs hidden in a place buried in the sand.
Turtle eggs are oval in shape, about three to four centimeters in size, and are small, white eggs nestled together.
And near this place of turtle eggs, Xiangfangnan and his team found another nest of turtle eggs.
“There are some here too!”
“I have some here too!”
"I have them here too." Song Tiantian looked at the turtle eggs buried everywhere in the sand and couldn't help but wonder, "Why are there turtle eggs everywhere?"
So, that turtle that just escaped from the boat is here to lay eggs?
[I guess so…]
[I really didn’t expect this development…]
[Yeah, who would have thought that a sea turtle would go through so much trouble to escape from a ship just to come to the island to lay eggs?]
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