There was still about half an hour left for underwater activities, and Zhang Ze did not delay. After all, every extra moment spent cost money, and oxygen was not cheap.
Of course he couldn't calculate the time accurately, but the oxygen cylinders were equipped with pointers that would tell him how much oxygen was left inside, which was more accurate than time.
After catching most of the conspicuous large orchid crabs, he went to look for the small bulges.
Basically, there was one every time he pressed his hand down, and occasionally one would run away when he got close.
If this crab starts swimming, Zhang Ze won't be able to catch up with it with the speed he carries an oxygen tank at, but free diving might give him a chance.
However, compared to before, the efficiency of finding the small drum bag is undoubtedly much slower.
Seeing that the oxygen in the oxygen tank was reduced to one third, Zhang Ze simply gave up looking for crabs and prepared to wander around the nearby seabed.
Check to see if there are any algae that can produce ciguatera toxin. If there are, then the groupers caught here, such as mouse grouper and tiger grouper, must be released.
He has grown to over ten kilograms, so there must be a lot of toxins in his body.
Zhang Ze began to swim slowly at the bottom of the water. Some brave little fish dared to swim to his side, as if they were curious about what kind of creature it was and why they had never seen it before.
He was not interested in these small fish either. One reason was that he couldn't catch them with his bare hands, and the resistance he faced in the water was much greater than that of the small fish.
Secondly, these fish don’t give you much experience points, so there’s no need to waste your time and energy on them.
After swimming for a while, Zhang Ze didn't know where he was going. He just swam along the isolated island.
At this moment, a colorful and beautiful scenery slowly appeared in the sight ahead.
Zhang Ze didn't expect that there was a coral area under the water here. He thought it was all reefs! Unlike some places, there are shallow water areas and deep water areas here, and you can directly see the situation under the water.
This place is all submerged in water, so you can't see what's happening underneath from the surface.
Zhang Ze swung his legs and slowly approached. The ecology of this coral area looked particularly rich and beautiful.
Then he saw a chariot crawling on the edge of the coral, and his eyes lit up, it turned out to be a fan shrimp.
This is a species comparable to a large lobster, and tastes similar.
Zhang Ze, who was originally attracted by the beautiful scenery, swam over immediately, but when he was about to get close, he slowed down and approached slowly.
This fan shrimp is over 20 centimeters long, which is considered relatively large.
Fan shrimps are similar to lobsters in one respect: when they crawl, they move very slowly and are easier to catch.
If it starts swimming, it can fly far away with a flick of its tail, and it will be difficult for Zhang Ze, who is carrying an oxygen tank, to chase it.
As he approached, the fan shrimp seemed to sense the danger and began to consciously drill towards a place it thought was safe, which was the coral cave.
But after Zhang Ze slowly came above it, he suddenly reached out and pressed down the fan shrimp, and put it into the space before it had time to struggle.
[Successfully caught a Han's shrimp, weighing 2.83 catties, experience +18. ]
"Wow, the experience points are quite high!"
The experience value of 18 points really surprised Zhang Ze, which is much higher than that of ordinary lobsters.
Unfortunately, fan shrimps are different from lobsters. They will not hide in groups in one place. They usually live in twos and threes in a large area, so the catch is much less than that of lobsters.
However, Zhang Ze was lucky. When he looked up and was about to swim forward, he found another fan shrimp.
This one was even bigger, with most of its body hidden in a cave, with only its head exposed.
However, this is only a small part of the head that is exposed. It is obviously larger than the previous one. It is estimated that this fan shrimp is more than 30 centimeters long and must be very large.
Zhang Ze approached and pressed his hand on it. The cave was relatively small, so the creature couldn't get in completely and was easily caught by him.
[Successfully caught a Han's fan shrimp, weighing 7.67 catties, experience (Fan shrimp king) +1800. ]
"What the hell!"
A series of bubbles suddenly appeared in the water. Zhang Ze never thought that he just came here to take a look, but he was lucky enough to catch a king fan shrimp and gained 1,800 experience points for nothing.
He felt that he was very lucky on this voyage as he encountered king-level creatures three times.
Manta rays, mouse groups, Han's fan shrimp, maybe you will encounter others in the future.
For an area that has not been developed much and no one has paid attention to yet, it is not surprising to encounter some top-notch big guys.
However, this made Zhang Zesheng want to explore this vast area of water.
He has more than one oxygen tanks on his boat, and going into the water continuously would put a great strain on his body, but he could definitely go into the water once every afternoon.
Anyway, it’s hard to catch fish in the afternoon, so it’s just the right time for diving.
We caught a huge one. After using the growth function, this king fan shrimp can reach nearly ten kilograms. It is estimated that it will be quite eye-catching when it is taken out.
Once the 50-60 cm big thing is displayed in the store lobby, it will definitely attract a lot of customers. I believe Zhao Xianghua will like it.
The only pity is that the experience points are not enough, so I can only show it later.
Continuing to explore forward, Zhang Ze soon found a large cave with its entrance facing the sky. He stuck his head to look inside and was immediately stunned by the dense tentacles.
Don't get me wrong, these are not two-dimensional tentacles.
These swaying tentacles all come from giant lobsters.
Obviously, Zhang Ze found a lobster nest.
Lobsters tend to aggregate in groups and prefer this kind of natural shelter. You can only say you are lucky to see one, but it is not uncommon.
"It's rich!"
Zhang Ze looked excited. There were at least a hundred lobsters in this nest, and their value might be up to thousands of yuan.
Of course, this is not the point. The point is that he saw several particularly huge ones in it, which might be king lobsters.
[Successfully captured a dense-haired lobster, weighing 2.56 catties, experience +8. ]
[The dense-haired lobster was successfully captured. The prompts kept coming out, and most of the hole was blocked by his body. The lobsters inside were basically lambs to be slaughtered, and only a few small ones occasionally escaped from the gaps beside.
[Successfully captured a dense-haired lobster, weighing 5.68 catties, experience (Lobster King) +800. ]
[Successfully captured. When Zhang Ze finished dealing with all the lobsters in the cave, his experience points increased by more than 3,000.
Among them, there are three king lobsters, weighing more than five kilograms.
The dense-haired lobster does not grow very large, averaging only about 30 centimeters and weighing about two or three pounds.
However, if they could survive well and not be harmed, the size of most marine creatures would exceed the limit of their own species.
A lobster weighing more than five kilograms is considered very large.
Zhang Ze couldn't stop smiling. There were treasures everywhere here. He decided to come here every time he went out to sea.
At the same time, I felt a little regretful that I didn't come here at the beginning.
Of course, there is a reason for this.
The main reason is that this place is too far away. It takes more than ten hours to get here each time, and a whole day to go back and forth.
Secondly, the resources in Dongsha and Hailing Island are not bad either, so I never thought about coming here.
This time, I have been to those places before and nothing is new to them.
Today's gains can be said to be more than Zhang Ze has ever gained, not only in terms of money, but also in terms of experience points.
However, he had only explored a corner of the coral reef, and he didn't know whether he could explore the entire archipelago before the end of the year.
Retracting his thoughts, Zhang Ze continued to swim forward.
It didn't take much time to catch the dense-haired lobster just now, and there is still half of oxygen in the oxygen tank.
He can continue the activity for a while and then go back.
Along the way, he saw a lot of groupers, some big and some small, but unfortunately he couldn't catch any of them, no matter how big or small.
Among them, there was a large green spot that was nearly one meter long. Despite its huge size, it jumped out as soon as Zhang Ze approached it.
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He originally thought that such a big grouper would be very ferocious and would attack him, but he didn't expect it to be so timid.
So along the way, Zhang Ze only picked up a lot of immovable seafood such as conchs, scallops, and abalone.
He also picked up some sea cucumbers and sea urchins. It’s not that there were few of them, but that he didn’t recognize many of them. After putting them into the space and seeing their scientific names, he guessed that some of them were inedible, so he released them back into the wild.
[Successfully captured a coconut snail, weighing 26.55 catties, experience (snail king) +500. ]
Zhang Ze put the coconut snail in front of him, which was as big as a washbasin, into the space. He was not surprised at all that it was the king of snails.
The basin is so big, what else can it be if it's not the king snail? He has also picked up several coconut snails, and with this king snail, Zhang Ze suddenly lost the desire to continue treasure hunting.
It's not too much to get a Melo pearl from such a big coconut snail, right? Seeing that there was only one-third of oxygen left, Zhang Ze decided to change the route back. Who knows, maybe he will get something else!
There are so many treasures in undeveloped places.
Afterwards, Zhang Ze swam to the surface of the water, stuck his head out to look at the location of Duoyu. After deciding the direction, he returned to the water and swam towards the location of Duoyu.
There is no high-tech underwater navigation now, but with a compass, he will not get lost in the water.
Looking at the compass, Zhang Ze wondered whether he should buy a diving watch.
If there is no domestic one, he can go to Hong Kong Island and buy foreign ones. But I don’t know if he can afford it now.
On the way back, Zhang Ze was still searching and picking up things along the way. After swimming more than fifty meters and climbing over a small hill, a beautiful pure white coral in front of him immediately attracted his attention.
It's not that he hasn't seen white coral before. He had been fishing in the coral area before and occasionally saw it when passing by shallow water.
Those white corals are very beautiful, but they are not very big, probably only about 20 centimeters in diameter.
Compared to white coral, red coral is the truly precious and rare coral.
Unfortunately, red coral is only produced in the Taiwan Strait, and the depth is at least 100 meters under the sea, which is not something that ordinary people can dive into.
White coral can be sold for money. In later generations, one gram of high-quality white coral can be worth hundreds of dollars. However, the value of white coral has not been hyped up in this era.
The main reason why Zhang Ze was attracted to this white coral was that it was so huge. He estimated that the width of the white coral was at least one and a half meters and the height was close to two meters.
The most important thing is that the patterns on it are very beautiful and almost do not require further manual carving.
Most of the beautiful corals on the market have been "beautified" by sculptors. After all, things that grow naturally will still have many defects.
There are some that are naturally beautiful like this, but they are all treasures after they are born.
'It seems that the house is still lacking some large decorations! '
Zhang Ze swam to the coral and circled around it, seeing the whole picture of the coral, and became more and more satisfied with it.
He reached out and wiped some areas covered with mud and sand, and its white jade-like body immediately appeared in the areas where it was wiped.
However, due to the light problem underwater, the coral looks a little yellowish, and the specific color can only be seen after it is on the boat.
That’s right, Zhang Ze has already noticed this coral.
He looked at the compass, determined the exact location of the coral, and then hurried back to get tools and change the oxygen tank.
With his physical condition, he would have no problem staying in the sea water for another hour, so he didn't plan to wait until tomorrow. He wanted the coral today.
So he swam back quickly, and in less than ten minutes, he had returned to the stern of the Duoyu.
After taking off his fins, Zhang Ze took a towel hanging next to him and roughly wiped the sea water off his body. Then he changed the oxygen cylinder and went to the warehouse to get tools.
In order not to damage the corals, he decided to dig up the bottom of the corals, so he brought tools such as a shovel and a hammer.
After re-entering the water, Zhang Ze, carrying dozens of kilograms of weight on his body, quickly sank to the bottom.
Then find the right direction and swim towards the coral.
Soon, he came to the coral.
The bottom of this coral is covered with mud and sand. I hope it is not growing on any reef, otherwise it would be difficult to remove it intact after it is connected to the reef.
Zhang Ze put the tools he brought aside, then picked up a small shovel and began to slowly dig up the mud and sand around the roots of the coral.
The mud and sand under water pressure are very hard and much more difficult to dig than the sand on land. In order not to damage the roots of the corals, he can only dig little by little.
After a while, the sand spread with the sea water and gradually blocked his sight.
Zhang Ze was helpless about this. He had tried to do it as gently as possible, but unfortunately, digging up the sand would muddy the water.
Fortunately, the water on the seabed is quite mobile. As long as he doesn't move for a while, his vision will become clear again, and he will continue.
After digging for a while, Zhang Ze saw the roots of the coral.
It is a bit like a tree trunk, and it is not buried very deep. The area buried in the sand is only about 20 centimeters. This is good news.
Unfortunately, as Zhang Ze continued to clear the sand, bad news soon came.
There is indeed a reef under the sand, and the corals grow on the reef and are tightly connected to it.
If he wanted to get the coral down, he had to pry open the bottom bit by bit, destroying some of the coral.
Zhang Ze gestured with his hand and found that it was okay if the bottom was slightly damaged. He could take it back and cut it flat. The missing part of the coral would not affect the overall beauty.
But it would probably take a lot of time to get this coral out, and one oxygen tank would definitely not be enough.
Zhang Ze didn't care about this. What he had the most was time. There were three oxygen cylinders on the boat, so he could use them up first.
So he continued to work hard, causing all the big and small fish nearby to gather around curiously, as if wondering what this strange creature was doing. (End of this chapter)
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