space fisherman

Chapter 188 Cleaning Up the Lamprey

Lampreys may look like eels, but lampreys are not eels, or more accurately, they are not fish at all.

They are a very ancient marine creature that has existed on Blue Star for at least 3 million years.

Even dinosaurs are younger brothers in front of them.

The biggest feature of lampreys is their mouths. Their mouths are like a round suction cup with a circle of teeth distributed inside, which can suck on the surface of some big fish.

Their eating method is very cruel, that is, they use the suction cups on their mouths to suck some large fish, and then bite the skin of the fish with their teeth to suck the flesh and blood of the fish.

It can be said that the large fishes they have eaten usually only have a pile of skeletons left, and the corpses of many sea beasts are also one of their food.

They are not afraid of anyone who comes to eat, whether it is a living fish or a dead body, it is their food.It even has the terrifying title of "Vampire in the Sea".

As long as you are targeted by them, it is the end of the fish, whether you are salmon, cod, basking sharks, whale sharks, or even great white sharks.

The most terrifying thing is that they have almost no natural enemies, they are all eating other creatures, and few creatures will use it as food.

The reason why they have almost no natural enemies is because they had no natural enemies during the 3 million years of their existence, but with the birth of human beings, their natural enemies finally appeared.

For humans, lampreys are a rare food. They not only have medicinal value, but also a very delicious delicacy.

In medicine, lampreys are very effective in treating night blindness.

Because the whole body of lamprey has no hard bones, only cartilage, and the high oil content makes the fish meat full of elasticity. In some countries, lamprey has become a sky-high delicacy.

In many European countries, even Nanbang and Japan, lamprey is a food material that is in short supply. Henry I, the former King of the Eagle Kingdom, died because he ate too much lamprey despite the doctor's dissuasion.

I don't know how some Chinese foodies will feel about this matter, but Ye Yuan thinks this is the highest level of foodie, right?

Ye Yuan didn't intend to put this thing in the space to breed, despite its high price, but this thing will bring devastating damage to the fish in his own space fishery.

Not breeding does not mean that Ye Yuan will let these lampreys go. Looking at the densely packed lampreys on the basking shark, the longest one is about one meter long.

No matter whether the basking shark attacked his yacht on purpose to ask for help, or because he wanted to get rid of the lampreys on his body and accidentally attacked his yacht, Ye Yuan decided to help this poor basking shark.

Bringing a net bag with him, Ye Yuan jumped into the sea, and soon came to this basking shark.

The basking shark ignored the human who came to him, but continued to open his mouth wide on the seabed, waiting for his food to enter.

Ye Yuan came to the basking shark, and pulled off the lampreys one by one. Because the lampreys have a strong suction, every time a lamprey is pulled down, it will leave a small trail on the body of the basking shark. Wound.

Perhaps it was because the basking shark knew that the human being in front of him was here to help him.

Or maybe such a small wound didn't bring much pain to the basking shark.

In short, no matter how Ye Yuan grabs the lamprey on his body, the basking shark will remain motionless and let Ye Yuan grab it.

Ye Yuan threw all the pulled lampreys into Wangdu, this is a rare delicacy, how could he let it go?
Ye Yuan was cautious at first, after all, the basking shark's body was placed there, if he really wanted to be hit by it, he wouldn't feel better.

But as the lampreys were pulled off by him, the basking shark still maintained a motionless posture, and Ye Yuan gradually increased the pulling force,

Soon Ye Yuan's net bag was full, and the lamprey on the basking shark was only reduced by half.

Ye Yuan took out another net bag in the space, and after 40 minutes of hard work, all the lampreys on the basking shark were cleaned up.

Ye Yuan looked at the basking shark full of scars, released some space lake water into its mouth, then turned around and swam towards the fishing boat.

When the space lake water entered the basking shark's mouth, the scars all over his body began to scar at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ye Yuan knew in his heart that although there were many scars on the basking shark, they were all very small scars. For such a huge monster, such scars would not kill it.

The reason why he gave him space for lake water was that Ye Yuan hoped that this poor basking shark would recover quickly. After all, relying on his own recovery ability, it would take at least a few days to recover.

Back on the yacht, I found a large bucket and put all the lampreys in the 2 net bags in it.

"Sister Zhengchou and the others don't have any good ingredients here, so I'll eat you tomorrow."

Ye Yuan looked at the lampreys in the barrel, muttering non-stop.

After finishing these things, Ye Yuan and the others continued to move forward. Ye Yuan planned to use 2 days to go around the surrounding sea area.

Let's not talk about whether there is enough time, but the sea area near Newcastle Island has to be seen, otherwise it would be bad if Niu Niu and Nian Xin came to the beach tomorrow.

Don't think that Ye Yuan's thoughts are superfluous, there have been many incidents of sharks swimming into the beach and attacking people in South America.

Ye Yuan's yacht continued to move forward, and this place was already far away from Newcastle Island. Ye Yuan, who was planning to turn his head back, suddenly discovered that there was a dark trench on the bottom of the sea here.

There should be quite a few trenches like this in the bottom of the Caribbean Sea, Ye Yuan didn't hesitate, he went down directly to the bottom of the sea and swam towards the trench.

Ye Yuan has been to many trenches, but the trench in front of him is the narrowest one Ye Yuan has ever seen. The width of this trench is only about 30 meters.

Looking at the dark trench, for some reason, this trench gave Ye Yuan a sense of danger.

But Ye Yuan won't stop here just because of this feeling, after hesitating for a while, Ye Yuan still swims towards the bottom of the trench.

As Ye Yuan went deeper, the feeling of danger became more and more intense, Ye Yuan had the intention to swim back several times on the way.

But his curiosity drove him to continue downstream. For some reason, there seemed to be a voice telling Ye Yuan that if he didn't continue, he would lose something.

Ye Yuan guessed in his heart, could it be that there is some substance with high points below, and the system uses this method to remind himself?Otherwise, how can I explain the inexplicable obsession in my heart?
When Ye Yuan reached a depth of 4500 meters, it was already close to the bottom of the trench. During the process of swimming down, Ye Yuan also found some creatures that he didn't recognize, but it didn't bring him any sense of danger.

PS: Thanks to Xiaojiao for the 500 starting coin reward

(End of this chapter)