After collecting the mackerel, Li Yao continued searching in the sea.
The mutated level 2 lobster was two-thirds the length of Li Yao's arm, with very powerful claws, so she promptly put it into her space.
The mutated level 3 abalone was as big as a plate, and its shell was a pearly white color, which was very rare. Li Yao decisively put it into her space.
A level 3 mutated sea urchin, the size of a basketball. Its spines gleamed with a metallic sheen, and Li Yao promptly stored it in her spatial storage.
As Li Yao glided along, she saw a school of fish. To be honest, seeing a large group of fish swimming and circling beneath her feet on the vast sea, with such clear water that she could see the active bodies of each fish, was a truly awe-inspiring and magical experience.
They hunt and play together in groups, and other fish are often caught up in the process, which is really interesting.
Li Yao initially came to see something novel, but upon closer inspection, she realized it was actually a school of barracudas.
Barracuda, also known as sea wolf fish, is a species of fish belonging to the family Barracudaidae in the order Perciformes.
Its body is long and cylindrical, with a pointed mouth and a broad chin; its head is shaped like a shuttle and has prominent canine-like teeth.
The two dorsal fins are separated, with five spines on one side and one spine and nine radial lines on the other side;
It has distinct horizontal lines all over its body, sharp teeth on its upper and lower jaws, and a slightly reddish-yellow color around its eyes.
Barracuda are distributed in the South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea of China. They are also found in tropical and subtropical waters, and are more commonly found near coral reefs and rocks.
They prefer to inhabit river estuaries and bays, and also enter freshwater.
Lively and energetic, with a love for jumping.
Barracudas have a wide diet, mainly feeding on benthic diatoms and organic debris deposited on the surface of the bottom mud. They also eat some filamentous algae, dinosaurs, polychaetes, mollusks, and small shrimp.
They breed once a year, with the breeding season in late spring and early summer. Their lifespan is 50 years.
Barracuda is mainly used for ornamental purposes, but it can also be eaten. It is rich in nutrients, with tender and delicious flesh and high protein content. It is a delicacy at high-end banquets, especially the barracuda caught in spring.
When cooking mullet, the head is considered the most flavorful part, hence the saying, "You might lose your car and your life, but you won't lose the mullet head."
Everyone has probably heard of swimming crabs, but unless you specifically go to coastal areas or islands for vacation, people inland rarely eat swimming fish.
Barracudas are also known as "the most united fish" because they often appear in groups.
Seeing several level-three mutated barracudas and many level-two mutated barracudas in the school of fish, Li Yao collected 5 level-three mutated ones and 30 level-two mutated ones.
There are enough barracudas to eat.
Leaving the school of fish, Li Yao looked at the scallops again. The way the scallops swam in the sea was actually quite funny. The reaction force generated by their opening and closing propelling the water supported their movement.
Li Yao passed by a large coral reef with many exceptionally beautiful mutated scallops underneath. Each scallop's shell seemed to have a pearly luster, sparkling in the sea.
Seeing the scallops gathered here, Li Yao collected over a hundred of them at once.
Where there are many coral reefs, there are also many lobsters; several large lobsters were hiding in the crevices of the rocks.
Li Yao used [Spatial Control] to bring the more than 30 large lobsters to the surface and put them into her space.
However, as soon as she put them into her space, Li Yao felt something was off. Several of the lobsters were unusually large, and their shells were multicolored.
Li Yao opened the [Infinite Space] and confirmed it again; it was indeed the colorful, brocade dragon. She grinned from ear to ear.
"I'm in for a treat today," Li Yao thought.
Finding such a large, wild, level-two mutated brocade dragon is incredibly lucky.
The variegated lobster, scientifically known as *Scalylobus variegata*, has a slightly cylindrical carapace with spines of varying sizes along its anterior edge.
The body surface is green with a slightly blue cephalothorax, the second antennal peduncle is blue, the stridulatory organ is slightly pink, the first antennae and walking legs have conspicuous pale yellow and black ring spots, and each abdominal segment, including the caudal peduncle, has a wide black transverse band on the dorsal midline.
It is the largest of the lobster species, reaching a maximum length of 60 centimeters before the end of the world.
The spiny lobster was once known as the "divine lobster".
The Taiping County Annals contain the following description: In the first year of the Tiansheng era of the Song Dynasty (Northern Song Dynasty), a fisherman caught it in the sea. It was over three feet long, with two front claws about two inches long, and red whiskers over a foot long at the end. Its head was the size of a large vessel, resembling a painting. It had two eyes, twelve legs, and markings like a tiger or leopard. It was generally multicolored, and its robust appearance was particularly unusual. The imperial envoy Wu Zhonghua painted its image and presented it to the emperor, who named it the Divine Shrimp. This description is very close to the one in the county annals, and it probably refers to this kind of 'Chinese Splendid Lobster'.
Therefore, many people later referred to the spiny lobster as the spiny dragon.
The magnificent dragon, due to its large size, auspicious symbolism, and vibrant colors, is bred for food.
Moreover, the ornate lobster is the largest of the lobsters, weighing up to 5kg. With its large size and thick meat, it is a valuable species and an important economic shrimp species.
However, wild populations of the ornate lobster have long been listed as Class II in the "List of Key Protected Wild Animals in China".
So, Li Yao really felt she had struck gold to find such a large wild Echeveria 'Rainbow Dragon' here.
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