Chapter 12 Undersea Footprints
Chen Xuan entered the "East Sea" again with an adventure. This time he was much more cautious and did not find any abnormalities before. He was fearless by the unaware.
After entering, he carefully observed the seabed while looking for precious seafood. This time he observed it more carefully, so he saw the rich seabed plants in his eyes. While sighing about how beautiful he was, he blamed himself again for noticing it before. There was nothing he could do about it. After all, these seabed scenery is not as attractive as ginseng, bread crab, and grouper.
After a while, Chen Xuan swam to the reef area he had been to last time and saw a large group of groupers again. In Chen Xuan's eyes, they were so cute.
Chen Xuan observed the surroundings and saw that there was nothing unusual, so he started fishing. The last time he didn't have diving equipment, he also used his hands and mesh bags to catch a mouse spot. He was lucky to catch a mouse spot. But this time, he was much more prepared.
Chen Xuan put the fish arrow on the strings and aimed at a mouse spot not far away. With a whoosh, the fish arrow quickly passed through and then pierced through the mouse spot's body.
"Hehe, accurate." Chen Xuan grinned, stepped forward and grabbed the struggling mouse spots, put them in the net bag, and pulled out the fish arrows.
Then, continue hunting.
Of course, Chen Xuan is not accurate every time, with a success rate of less than 30%. However, there are so many fish nearby, and some fish are not swimming fast. So after a while, Chen Xuan's mesh bags were filled with many, most of them were precious groupers.
However, after repeated frights, no grouper emerged nearby. They either ran away or crawled into the cracks of the rock and refused to come out.
Chen Xuan had no intention of waiting here and was ready to leave.
At this moment, he saw many small particles floating in the sea water in the middle of a large reef, with transparent colors. When he looked closely, it seemed to be fish eggs.
"This is probably the grouper's eggs." Chen Xuan's eyes lit up, he took out a plastic bag, took out a fish eggs as much as possible, and of course he also packed a bag of sea water.
After sealing the plastic bag, he swam elsewhere. Because he became afraid of this place, he did not dare to continue swimming deeper, but swam along the edge of the East China Sea.
After swimming for a while, I saw many shrimps at the bottom of the sea. They were more than ten centimeters long, between the shrimps and lobsters. They had red spots on their bodies, huge eyes and strong legs... Chen Xuan looked at them for a long time, but he couldn't recognize what shrimp it was.
However, I thought that since it was a shrimp, it must be edible, so he started catching it. These shrimps didn't run fast, but it was not easy to catch them in the sea. It was so small that they couldn't use a fish gun, so they could only use a mesh bag to cover them.
It took a long time to catch more than a dozen pieces, which made Chen Xuan a little discouraged. He felt that it was not worth wasting too much time on them, so he continued to swim forward.
"Huh? What is that?" Chen Xuan suddenly narrowed his eyes, swam forward quickly, and stopped above a sand layer. Looking down, he saw a whole row of footprints at the bottom of the sea. Those footprints did not look like the footprints of any marine creatures such as sea crabs, sea turtles, etc., but they were a bit like human footprints, but they only had two thick toes, and they were not entirely human footprints.
"Wait, isn't the neat footsteps I heard yesterday an illusion? But... maybe I'm thinking too much. This may be just the footprints of some kind of marine creature, but I can't recognize them." Chen Xuan's eyes twitched for a moment, trying to relax himself a little. However, he couldn't let it go at all, so he took a few photos with his mobile phone.
The more he looked, the more he felt panicked. He looked around and felt the silent bottom of the sea, which was inexplicably terrifying. He looked at the fish that were about to die in the net bag and decided to go ashore first. The success rate of fishing with a gun shot was much higher, but the fish would die soon. It would probably not be new if it was too long.
Chen Xuan then floated to the beach, and then realized that he had already arrived at the beach close to his backyard, so he chose a place to go ashore and returned home with everything. Grandma and sister were not around, so they probably went to a small restaurant for breakfast and help. Chen Xuan found a glass water tank and poured the sea water and fish eggs in the plastic bag.
Then, Chen Xuan was about to deal with the fish that had just died, but it was really not easy to handle. He was not good at this and the refrigerator was almost full. After thinking about it, he simply carried all the fish and ran to the beach by the beach and handed it over to his father to prepare.
"Uncle Ying, I promised to give you a fish." When passing by Chen Yinghao's shop, Chen Xuan stopped and took out a fish from the net bag.
"Haha, you kid is really trustworthy. I just said casually... Wait, isn't this a six-belt grouper?" Chen Yinghao walked out with a joke, but after seeing the fish that Chen Xuan handed him, he couldn't help but widen his eyes. The fish was brown, with 6 brown horizontal bands on the side, the tail fins were round and fan-shaped, and there were many irregular black spots.
Chen Yinghao recognized that this is clearly a six-belt grouper. This is one of the better grouper species. Although it is not as good as mouse spots, the price is 80-100 yuan per catty. This fish is not big, more than a catty, but it is estimated to cost hundreds of yuan.
Looking at the fish in Chen Xuan's net bag, his eyes widened because he could see a lot of grouper inside, and he could also see mouse spots.
"I'll go, you kid has only been there for a while, why have you got so many groupers? Where can we get so many groupers by the beach?" Chen Yinghao was shocked.
"Uncle Ying, I don't have time to explain in detail to you. I have to deal with these fish as soon as possible." Chen Xuan said, stuffing the six-belt grouper into Chen Yinghao's hand, and then turned around and ran away.
"Hey, just give me an ordinary fish. This one is too expensive and I can't collect it." Chen Yinghao said, but Chen Xuan didn't run back.
The owners of two nearby stores also came out.
"I saw Ah Xuan as if carrying a bag of grouper."
"Where are so many groupers on our beach?"
"This kid has really become a fishing expert."
Chen Xuan quickly ran to a small restaurant run by his parents, and his sister and grandma were really helping. His family didn't want his grandma to be tired anymore, but she just couldn't sit still.
Seeing Chen Xuan carrying so many groupers, grandma, Chen Xi, Chen Yi, and Li Fengjiao were all surprised. If it weren't for being shocked yesterday, it would be hard to believe it at this moment.
Chen Xuan took some of Chen Yi's work, and Chen Yi came to deal with the fish, and quickly removed the internal organs and kept them freshly. In addition to grouper, there were a few ordinary fish that were not preserved and cut them directly to make fish fillet porridge.
Chapter completed!