Chapter 637 The Magical Place
Even Bai Yu felt a chill run down his spine at the sight of this magical crab, let alone Liu Yu and the others who were seeing something like it for the first time.
"Brother Yu, you said that the places that specialize in selling crab claws in the market, could they be getting their supplies from here?"
At this moment, Liu Yu was a little numb, because he was a seafood lover and he especially liked to eat crabs, especially crab claws.
Besides the fact that there's a bit more meat in the crab claws, the most important thing is that it's quite fun to take the meat out of the crab claws, so every time he goes to a buffet, he looks for restaurants that have crab claws.
The main selling point is that it's delicious and fun!
"Hey, you have a pretty unique hobby, you like eating crab claws?"
"The crabs in China should be fine. The claws and legs sold in the market are normal parts that detach from the crabs. My company sells normal ones, but I don't know about others."
Hearing what Liu Yu said, Bai Yu also looked at him curiously.
Well, there are quite a few people who like to eat crab claws and legs, so it's not unusual. However, for these people, seeing this crab in front of them is a bit of a shock to their worldview.
Anyway, after seeing the crab, Liu Yu felt a bit repulsed by its claws.
After all, for a crab to grow into this shape, it must have undergone mutation, and the mutation process must not have been good.
How can a hobby be changed so easily?
Then Liu Yu thought, why not just buy safe crab claws to eat from now on?
As for where to find safe crab claws, is that even a question? His senior colleague owns a seafood processing plant, so getting some normal crab claws is a piece of cake for him.
Bai Yu simply took a picture of the crab in front of her with her camera, without making any attempt to pick it up.
They then walked around the crab and continued deeper into the area, intending to see if there were any other magical creatures there.
Although, as Liu Yu said, we share the same ocean as the Japanese, there are indeed some differences when it comes to marine life.
The main problem is that there are a lot of oddly shaped creatures, like those with multiple legs, multiple heads, or multiple tails. Even if such creatures exist, they are not something you can just see whenever you want.
At most, the chances of seeing them are dozens or hundreds of times higher than in our family, that's all.
However, there are quite a few oddly shaped and deformed marine creatures.
Bai Yu was strolling around here peacefully, but there weren't many sea fish to be seen, so he decided to attract some of them.
Then he set his sights on the small sea snails on the rocky beach. These things are really everywhere, even in our own waters.
However, because they are all relatively small, these seafoods rarely appear on the market and don't fetch a good price. At most, fishermen pick some up to take home as a snack with their drinks.
However, the conch shells here are different. Although the varieties of conch shells here are similar to those at home, they are larger in size.
I don't know if it's because these guys have lived a long time, or for some other reason.
Anyway, Bai Yu collected a lot of sea snails, then smashed them all and threw them on the beach to attract fish and crabs.
To be honest, Bai Yu's method worked quite well. In no time at all, a fish with patterns all over its body and a fairly large size appeared.
However, upon seeing the fish, Bai Yu fell into deep thought.
Bai Yu recognized the fish by its species—it was a grouper—but he didn't quite recognize it by its appearance.
It looks so strange! As a grouper, its eyes are positioned so haphazardly. The right eye is normally on the right side, but the left eye is on the top of its head!
Then there is a raised area on its back, which looks like a camel hump. If you didn't know better, you would think it was a wrasse.
Fortunately, the strange part ended there, and there was nothing particularly different left.
Upon seeing that the first fish to appear was a deformed grouper, Bai Yu became very interested. He immediately picked up a large pile of conch shells with Liu Yu and the others, and then smashed them all.
Along the coastline, the group threw all the seashells they had smashed into the water, wanting to see just how many deformed creatures would appear after their actions.
At first, things were going quite normally. The conch meat attracted a lot of crabs and sea fish. Apart from the sea fish being a little too big, there was nothing wrong with them.
However, as time went on, the conch meat soon attracted some slow-moving creatures, such as multi-legged crabs. Although they had more legs than ordinary crabs, they moved much slower.
There is also a sea wolf fish that resembles a bow. It's as if someone used a hardening agent on it, forcibly turning its originally slender body into a bow shape.
Even when this thing is swimming, it moves using only its head and tail; the middle part doesn't move at all.
So naturally, this speed is extremely slow.
When Bai Yu saw this sea wolf fish, he was curious about how it managed to survive in such a state and not starve to death. Instead, it seemed to be living quite comfortably.
Besides this sea wolf fish, there are quite a few others with forked tails, the kind that fork naturally, with an extra fin, or with certain parts growing off-center.
In short, there were all kinds of creatures there, which really broadened Bai Yu's and the others' horizons.
"My goodness, Brother Yu, the fish here in the UK are really wild! Look at this dark-colored guy, it has two tails, does that mean it was born to cheat?"
"And this one, this guy's body is fat on one side and thin on the other, and he can flip over by himself while swimming, but why does this guy have two small holes on his stomach?"
"Brother Fisherman, if I remember correctly, this small hole should be the fish's reproductive organ, right? These two small holes..."
"Brother Yu, there's another one over here, the two-headed one you mentioned..."
The four fishermen walked along the coastline, stopping frequently to see what the marine creatures they had attracted with conch shells looked like.
It was just a simple stroll, but it really broadened the horizons of Bai Yu and his companions, showing them so many things they had never seen before.
Seeing the final result, Bai Yu simply took off his action camera and started filming.
Of course, Bai Yu and the others were just taking pictures; they wouldn't actually try to catch them.
After all, no one knows how these marine creatures came to be, or whether they carry bacteria or parasites.
The above only refers to those with unusual appearances, but whose physical appearance is relatively intact.
In fact, during Bai Yu and his team's search, they also found many other sea fish in even worse condition, such as those with ulcers on their bodies or missing limbs.
In this situation, those who dare to take action and capture them can be called warriors by Bai Yu.
Anyway, if you ask Bai Yu to do it, he definitely won't be willing to.
After all, he only wanted to shoot some video footage and was not prepared to risk his health here.
After filming, Bai Yu looked at Liu Yu and Lin Cheng and said:
"Are you two hungry? Do you want your senior brother to treat you to a meal? I heard the sashimi here is pretty good. Shall I take you two to try it?"
Bai Yu was smiling at Liu Yu and Lin Cheng, but in their eyes, when she heard the words "fish sashimi," her smile suddenly turned terrifying.
As if they had heard something unbelievable, they waved their hands repeatedly in refusal.
"Tsk, neither of you wants to eat sashimi? I heard it's quite expensive. I wanted to treat you to a nice meal, but neither of you wanted to."
"Let's go get some eel rice then. There's a pretty good eel rice place around here, want to try it together?"
Even though Bai Yu replaced the sashimi with eel rice, he still received resistance from Liu Yu and the other man.
The reason for this was that just a few minutes earlier, they had found a moray eel on the beach covered in abscesses; it looked like it was rotting.
Now Bai Yu is inviting them to eat eel rice. Eating eel rice here? Is he planning to kill the two brothers?
Actually, Liu Yu and Bai Yu misunderstood Bai Yu. When he first suggested going to eat raw fish, he was clearly teasing the two of them.
However, he was genuinely planning to eat eel rice, and the eel rice restaurant he mentioned was indeed quite good; Bai Yu had eaten there before.
However, there was one thing Bai Yu didn't mention: the restaurant he mentioned serving eel rice was actually a Chinese restaurant.
If he had said that, Liu Yu and the other man wouldn't have reacted this way.
Because it's a Chinese restaurant, the eels they use are all imported from our country; they are all farmed eels.
It's not just this one restaurant that imports eels from us; nearly 80% of the eels consumed in this area each year are imported from us.
But what's really strange is that our market still has eels imported from Japan. I don't really know what's going on here.
"No, what's with those expressions on your faces? I offered you sashimi and you didn't eat it, I offered you eel rice and you still didn't eat it. You two don't think I'm going to feed you the eel here, do you?"
What are you thinking? Even if you want to eat there, I'm not willing to go with you. The eel rice place I'm talking about is a Chinese restaurant. Eel rice is just one of the dishes. The eels they use are all farmed by our family.
I've already said all this, and if you two still aren't willing, then there's nothing I can do.
"Brother Sun, let's go to my place for dinner. I'll treat you to eel rice, the kind that's all you can eat."
"Okay, I'm not picky about food, I'm fine with anything."
Bai Yu then prepared to leave with the translator, Brother Sun, heading back in the direction they had come from.
Seeing the situation, Liu Yu and Lin Cheng quickly caught up, shouting as they ran:
"Senior brother, senior brother, we misunderstood you. Don't leave us behind. We also want to eat eel rice."
With Bai Yu and the others gone, the place returned to tranquility, perhaps only the broken shells scattered on the ground telling the story of what had just happened.
Apart from that, there was no other sign that anyone had been there.
It's even more uncertain when someone will come next.
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