Chapter 4 The poor really rely on mutation
Xiao Peng lowered his head to organize his diving tools and didn't know what the two were whispering about. But after they arrived at the diving spot and parked the boat, Daniel winked at him and asked him to take Miao Pei into the sea first. Xiao Peng then understood everything.
People change when they leave their familiar surroundings. Xiao Peng was a hot-tempered guy back home, but after a few years abroad, his edges have been smoothed out! He has also seen many international students who were well-behaved at home but became completely different after leaving school.
Just like Wang Shuang, she was probably not such a girl when she was in China, but after coming out, she completely let herself go. Xiao Peng saw too many people like this in Marseille.
It is not surprising at all that Daniel chose Wang Shuang instead of Miao Pei and Xiao Peng.
Miao Pei is a standard beauty in the eyes of Oriental people. She is slim, tall, has double eyelids and big eyes. In China, I don’t know how many men regard her as a goddess.
As for Wang Shuang? Although she is not fat, she is much rounder than Miao Pei. She has a dark complexion and unremarkable single eyelids. She is just an ordinary girl in China.
But it’s different in France.
In the eyes of foreigners, can your eyes, no matter how big they are, ever catch up to ours? Can your skin, no matter how white they are, ever catch up to ours? Their aesthetic standards for Asians are completely different from those of the Chinese. Just look at the costumes of the female characters in Disney's live-action version of "Mulan" to get a sense of their aesthetic standards.
In a nutshell: What you think is ugly? We think it is beautiful; what you think is beautiful? We think it is ugly!
Xiao Peng welcomed the fact that Wang Shuang did not go into the water. After all, the energy required to take care of one novice and two novices under the sea was different, so he was happy and relaxed.
After helping Miao Pei put on her diving gear and checking it again, he jumped into the sea to wait for Miao Pei.
Miao Pei was about to follow Xiao Peng into the sea when she noticed something strange: "Xiao Peng, are you okay?"
Daniel and Wang Shuang heard Miao Pei's cry and looked at Xiao Peng together. They also found something wrong: Xiao Peng was now lying in the sea with a dazed look on his face, as if he had been pricked by someone and couldn't move!
"Xiao!"
"Xiao Peng!"
Several people on the boat shouted Xiao Peng's name. At this time, Xiao Peng came to his senses and waved his hand, saying, "Don't worry, I thought I saw a shark in the sea when I went into the water just now. Don't go in the water yet, wait here for me for a while, I'll go down and explore the way!"
After saying this, he didn't wait for the response from the people on the boat, but put on a mask and dived into the seabed.
What the people on the boat didn't notice was that Xiao Peng secretly closed the valve on the oxygen tank while diving.
He felt something was very wrong the moment he entered the water: he felt as if he could breathe underwater! He felt his skin constantly transferring oxygen and carbon dioxide into his body!
Xiao Peng's first reaction was to think of jellyfish.
Jellyfish breathe through their skin on the seabed!
The digestive cavity in the jellyfish has two functions: one is to digest food, and the other is to transport oxygen and carbon dioxide. This is the oldest form of respiration on Earth.
Xiao Peng was a little surprised. Had he really turned into a jellyfish?
When he dived into the seabed, he made another discovery: his vision had changed dramatically. The sunken ships and reefs under the water were clearly visible.
Although the Mediterranean Sea is relatively clear, the visibility on the seabed is not very good due to the refraction of light. However, Xiao Peng's vision in the sea is surprisingly good! He is especially sensitive to bright spots!
Could it be because of the octopus?
For a long time, human eyes were praised as "God's masterpiece". It was not until people discovered the eyes of octopuses that they realized that human eyes were "inferior products" and octopus eyes were the real "masterpieces".
From an anatomical point of view, the structure of octopus eyes is similar to that of humans, but the three layers of retinal cells are exactly the opposite of those of humans. From a scientific point of view, the three layers of retinal cells in humans are actually "installed upside down", with ganglion cells in front and photoreceptor cells in the back. This greatly affects human vision, and this problem exists in the eyes of all mammals.
Octopuses, whose eyes have photoreceptors in the front and photoreceptors in the back, don't have this problem. They can see their prey even at depths of thousands of meters, where there's no light at all. This is a power unmatched by any mammal!
He even had the urge to take off the mask to further judge his eyesight!
Of course, this is just a thought.
The mask he was using was Daniel's high-end one, the kind with underwater communication equipment inside. If it got soaked and couldn't be used, the people above would definitely be worried. "Let's talk about the experiment when no one's around!"
Just as he was about to surface, a tiny glint of light on the sandy seafloor near the sunken ship caught his eye. He swam over, parted the sand, and took a closer look. The object, half-buried in the sand, surprised Xiao Peng: a gold coin! It was unknown what era it was from, and the workmanship was crude, like a small piece of gold with a pattern embossed on it. Both sides of the coin depicted a white-bearded old man holding a sword, the lines in the coin were extremely simple and childish.
But it was still a gold coin, wasn't it? Xiao Peng was just about to search the beach near this gold coin to see if there were any other gold coins when the underwater communicator in his mask suddenly spoke: "Xiao, are you okay underwater?"
This was Daniel's voice, but it also calmed Xiao Peng down - people should be content, finding a gold coin is already very good!
The key is not to let others discover his secret.
He quickly replied: "I'm fine, everything is fine underwater!"
"Damn it! You didn't say anything and made us so worried!" Daniel said, "Do you Chinese people like to scare people?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Don't worry, I found something good on the seabed! Tell them to come down quickly, otherwise we won't be able to see it!"
"What makes you so happy? Is it an antique?" This was Miao Pei's voice.
Xiao Peng wasn't talking about the gold coin he'd found, but a large fish in the nearby reef area. "Miao Pei, you're really lucky! There's a three-meter-long nurse shark foraging in the reef area right now. These creatures don't feed much during the day. Come down quickly! Swimming with sharks is an experience not everyone can get!"
Wang Shuang's voice came through the communicator again: "There's a giant shark on the seabed, and you still want us to go into the sea? Are you crazy?"
Xiao Peng thought for a moment, put the gold coin he found in the small pocket of his swimming trunks, and said, "I'll go up and explain it to you guys right away!"
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