Bai Yu looked at the two long-legged octopuses wrapped around his hands, and he was filled with helplessness.
He never expected that after carefully digging the hole, he would only find two octopuses. Had these guys taken over the hole?
Logically speaking, these holes should be filled with lobsters or crabs, and octopuses should only become their food!
No matter how confused Bai Yu was, the result was that after all that work, he only managed to catch two octopuses.
Bai Yu then put the two octopuses into the bucket and continued searching the mudflats.
Sure enough, there are quite a few caves in this mudflat. He had only taken two steps to the side when another cave came into view.
This hole is even smaller than the previous one. If Bai Yu hadn't had good eyesight and was more focused, someone else might not have been able to find it.
Having learned from the experience of digging a hole, Bai Yu didn't hesitate at all this time and directly reached in to dig.
The entrance to this hole is not only small, but the space inside is also small and shallow.
Bai Yu quickly felt something hard inside, and then his finger felt a sharp pain, causing him to immediately pull his right hand back.
"Holy crap, a stone crab? The last hole gave me two octopuses to lower my guard, and this hole is full of crabs that are pinching me. Are you trying to play the art of war with me?"
"Ugh, are you still not done? It's already out, why aren't you letting go? Let go right now!"
Bai Yu looked at his gloved right hand and saw a stone crab hanging on his index finger. The crab's pincers were clamping down on Bai Yu's finger and wouldn't let go no matter what.
Fortunately, it was a stone crab, and it wasn't too big. If it had been a large blue crab weighing over a pound, that one claw would have been enough to hurt Bai Yu.
After removing the stone crab from her hand, Bai Yu tied its weapon with a cable tie and then put it into the bucket.
They then resumed their search.
I don't know if Bai Yu was lucky or unlucky.
He discovered numerous caves and breathing holes on this mudflat; they were so numerous that he could see one every two steps.
Faced with this situation, he decisively called for help, summoning Wang Hai and Bai Yue. He refused to believe that there wasn't a single lobster in these caves.
"Ah Hai, Yue Yue, be careful when you're digging through these holes later. There might be crabs hiding in them. I just got pinched by a crab, and you don't want to experience that feeling."
"Yueyue, here, you can use this glove. It's a bit heavy, but it'll protect your hands a lot. You won't have to worry about crab claws at all while wearing it!"
After telling Wang Hai about the situation, Bai Yu gave Bai Yue the iron gloves that her second uncle had given her.
The little girl's fingers are quite thin. If a big crab were to pinch her finger, it could really break her bone instantly. Those crabs are very powerful attackers!
"Brother, you and Hai should also be careful. If it doesn't work, we'll go ask Uncle for some more gloves."
"It's alright. Your brother Hai and I have plenty of experience. Just be careful and everything will be fine."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he took the lead and attacked a cave at his feet, reaching in with his right hand.
This time, Bai Yu was much more careful. After feeling his fingers touch the creature inside, he immediately pulled back a little and then slowly groped his way forward.
A few dozen seconds later, Bai Yu pulled out a blue crab weighing more than half a pound. He had pulled it out by holding down its two pincers.
As usual, Bai Yu then tied a cable tie around the crab before continuing on to the next cave.
After digging through four or five burrows, clearing out six or seven breathing holes, and catching about ten crabs of various sizes, as well as a few clams, he arrived at a large cave.
This cave was larger than any of the caves Bai Yu had dug before, and there was a large patch of silt in front of its entrance to cover its existence.
Upon seeing the silt, a thought flashed through Bai Yu's mind: This looks like a lobster hole!
"Yo-ho! After all this time, I finally found a burrow that looks like a lobster. I wonder if there are any lobsters living inside."
Bai Yu still boldly began to dig into this cave.
The cave appears very large from the outside, but the interior space is extremely narrow, barely wide enough for Bai Yu to reach in with his forearm.
In addition, the hole was particularly deep; Bai Yu couldn't reach the bottom with just his forearm. So, as Bai Yu stretched his arm further in, the water inside the hole kept gushing out, and the cave was stretched wider and wider.
The sound was accompanied by a series of soft, popping noises, which might conjure up unpleasant images, but the actual result was surprisingly simple and straightforward.
With Bai Yu's efforts, he soon found a creature with a hard shell inside the cave. Judging from its size, this time it was no longer a crab, but a lobster, the lobster he had been longing for.
Just as Bai Yu was about to take this thing out, his hand reached down again. Hey, there was another hard thing down there. It seemed that there were two lobsters hiding in this cave.
With another lobster in the way, Bai Yu was unable to grab the lobster above her. In the end, Bai Yu had no choice but to grab its tentacles and pull it upwards.
A few seconds later, he pulled out a lobster that was about 20 centimeters long. When he saw its size, Bai Yu thought he had pulled out a small green dragon.
But after Bai Yu washed the mud off its body, he realized he had made a mistake. It wasn't a small green dragon, but a dark red lobster.
The color of the small green lobster is green or mottled green, which is obviously different from this dark red color, but this guy is not a flower lobster, so what kind of species is it?
However, Bai Yu didn't have time to identify its species. There was a lobster waiting for him in the cave. He put the lobster into the bucket and continued scooping.
Soon, two dark red lobsters appeared in the bucket; the pair had been caught by Bai Yu and his net.
It was at this moment that Bai Yu had time to explore the species of this creature. He took out his phone and started searching online, mainly looking for species of lobsters along the Chinese coast.
Soon a comprehensive guide to lobsters appeared on his phone, and one type of lobster called the Chinese lobster caught his attention.
This Chinese lobster looks very similar to the two that Bai Yu caught, both in appearance and color. If there are no doubts, these two lobsters are Chinese lobsters.
Furthermore, through online information, Bai Yu also learned that Chinese lobsters have another name, called green lobsters, which is what we call small green lobsters.
In other words, Bai Yu's previous statement was correct; these two lobsters could also be called baby lobsters.
However, since most of the small green lobsters sold in the market are greenish-blue, Bai Yu initially mistook them for another type of lobster.
The two Chinese lobsters that Bai Yu caught were one large and one small. The large one weighed nearly a pound, and the small one weighed about six or seven ounces. They were slightly larger than the average small green lobster.
Bai Yu prefers to call these two lobsters Chinese lobsters, since their dark color and bluish-green color are really not related.
Meanwhile, online descriptions of the habits of Chinese lobsters state that they are gregarious lobsters, and they usually appear in groups.
Based on this, Bai Yu had a bold idea: there might be quite a few Chinese lobsters on this mudflat!
Moreover, the spawning season for lobsters is from March to September each year. During this time, they flock to the shallows to mate and lay eggs.
Although it is only February, it cannot be ruled out that these lobsters have come to the shallows early to burrow and find mates.
For example, the two lobsters that Bai Yu caught are the most direct evidence that lobsters dig burrows to find mates.
Just as Bai Yu had guessed, when he was looking for the next cave, the cave he saw was exactly the same as the previous lobster cave.
The only difference is that there's only one lobster in this hole, and it might be a bachelor who was caught by the white fish before finding a partner.
With this discovery, Bai Yu became even more enthusiastic about the search. Whenever he saw a lobster hole with the same shape, he would strike without hesitation, grab the lobster inside as quickly as possible, and then move on to the next one.
All the lobsters that Bai Yu found, except for those that already had roe in their tails, were collected into a bucket by Bai Yu.
In a short while, he caught eleven Chinese lobsters, eight of which were dark red and only three were green.
Moreover, just as Bai Yu judged, the dark red lobsters were generally larger than the blue ones, and their shells were thicker and heavier, and they were also more rugged in appearance, with more sharp spines on their bodies.
In his view, the dark red and blue lobsters should belong to two different species: Chinese lobster and Chinese lobster-blue lobster.
The largest lobster weighed over a pound, a weight that a small lobster could not easily achieve.
While Bai Yu was reaping lobsters, Wang Hai and Bai Yue also had their own harvest, though their numbers couldn't compare to Bai Yu's.
There's nothing we can do; Bai Yu's luck is exceptionally good today, he's in an unparalleled state.
Just as Bai Yu was having a great time catching lobsters, he suddenly looked up and around. The lobster hole was gone, and so was his joy!
He's explored all the caves in this area...
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