Chapter 538: Picking Up the Sea
15 hangs up the phone, ends the conversation with Aurora, and returns the phone to Mio, but the latter's hands and face are covered in wet sand, like a husky that has just rolled in the sand.
What the Red Leaf Academy will do next is none of her business, and it is very likely that it should be as she said, bring the dead dog back, and then negotiate with the sect master to send the dog's body to the nameless island in the south.
There are many islands like this in the native south, most of them have no names, and there are no people on the islands, and the Ninja Academy has bought several reserves many years ago, one of which is used as a breeding ground for cloning technology, with some scientists at high salaries, regular ships to deliver supplies, and the sea as an isolation to prevent cloned animals from escaping.
"Wherever you put it!" Miao was too lazy to pick up her phone, if it weren't for the teacher's emphasis on bringing her phone to receive push notifications today, she wouldn't have brought her phone, and she usually doesn't bring her phone, she always loses it.
Mio's trouser legs and sleeves were rolled up high, her shoes were taken off, she squatted barefoot on the beach and vigorously built sandcastles, and it didn't take long for the 15th to call, and she actually built a sandcastle that was beginning to take shape.
"Come on, take a picture of me!" Mio raised his hands and drew a V, asking Number 15 to take a picture of her with a sandcastle backdrop.
On the 15th, he crossed his mobile phone and took a photo, and when he looked at the photo, he found that Rafe was still in the corner of the photo.
When she came to the beach, Rafe stood quietly, but she didn't know when, but she stood on the reef in the tide, still holding her bow and arrows, as if she was looking down at the sea.
The 15th knew only a little about Rafe's past, and she was about to call Rafe back, because the tide was high, but she saw the latter suddenly draw an arrow like lightning and pull the bow and string, and a deep sound sounded, and even the sound of the tide could not be drowned, and a sharp arrow whistled out of the string.
At this moment, the impact of the tide on the reef caused a huge wave nearly two meters high, and the blue wave fiercely blocked the front of the arrow, but the arrow actually tore a gap in the wall of water and shot into the water unabated.
The wall of water slammed into Rafe's face, and No. 15 was shocked, the impact of the wave weighed several tons, and in her mind, it would definitely knock Rafe off the reef.
However, the waves fell to the ground and turned into flying beads, and Rafay's figure only shook a few times, still standing on the reef without moving, and the 15th saw her toes buckled down, as if she was holding the reef with her toes.
Immediately afterwards, the next wave came again, this wave was not as fierce as the previous wave, there was a black shadow in the wave, Rafe was quick to move, and when the wave fell down, he reached out and grabbed it, and when the wave landed, No. 15 saw that what she was holding was a grouper pierced by an arrow, which weighed more than ten pounds.
Rafe drew an arrow from the fish and threw it back, throwing the still twitching dead fish onto the sand, her special dress not getting a drop of water.
No. 15 didn't expect Rafe to have this kind of ability, eyesight, foot strength, balance and archery seem to have been born to shoot fish at the seaside, and I am afraid it will be impossible without a few years of hard training.
Either way, at least lunch is over.
"This one fish is enough, no more shooting. She shouted to Rafe's back, but the latter ignored her, his eyes fixed on the sea, seemingly unsatisfied.
No. 15 didn't force her, he found a puddle between the rocks in a sheltered reef, drew a short knife to disembowel the grouper, collected some branches from nearby, and made a fire to grill the fish.
At this moment, everyone else is looking for the hidden monkey across the sea with their own powers, but the three of them are lazy here, and no one feels guilty.
When the fish was grilled, she called Mio to wash her hands and eat.
Miao hadn't had such fun and no pressure for a long time, except for a slight complaint that she couldn't play the blindfolded watermelon game because she didn't buy watermelons on the 15th road, she already regarded the 15th as a confidant - her principle is very simple, whoever plays with her can brush her favorability.
"It's delicious! I can be my bride!" Mio praised the half-grilled fish in his arms, but it was too bad.
"Thank you so much. ”
It's a pity that it is not served with rice, otherwise it would have tasted better.
The two of them ate until they were able to eat, but there was still a lot of fish left, and there was no way, and Rafe didn't need to eat, so he could only waste it.
While they were cooking and eating, Rafe shot more than a dozen fish, not small, and on the 15th, he thought that if Jiang Chanji took Rafe to set up a stall to sell fish, he should be able to get rid of poverty and become rich, but the distance to the beach was not close.
After eating the fish, Mio started playing again, she lost interest in the sandcastle and began to have fun picking up the sea, because the sea washed some shells, fish, crabs, jellyfish, etc. on the beach at high tide.
Rafe was still shooting fish tirelessly, and on the 15th, he was bored, so he found a comfortable reef to lean on, and began to nap in the afternoon sun.
In the haze, 15 noticed something tiptoeing closer, her feet squeaking slightly on the sand, and her first reaction was that of a hidden monkey, her body jumped up like a spring, and she drew a knife with one hand, and the other hand was ready to snap her fingers at any time - this was her body's instinctive reaction, forgetting that the hidden monkey did not eat the snap of her fingers.
But she looked at it, and suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, it turned out that Mio was doing something wrong, Mio had a strange thing on his head that didn't know what to doze and wanted to scare her while she was napping, but she didn't expect that she was also alert when she was napping, but she was so frightened that she sat on the beach with an ass, and the strange thing also rolled to the side.
"Nasty! why are you scaring people!" Mio rightly accused.
Number 15 already knew Mio's personality very well, and was about to make a few mistakes, when his eyes fell on the strange thing, and he was immediately attracted to it.
She walked over to the strange thing, crouched down to take a closer look, and asked, "What is this?"
"Big head!" said Mio, forgetting what had just happened, patting his ass to his feet, crouching next to her, and excitedly.
"Big head?" No. 15 was stunned, "What is Big Head?
Many fishermen in coastal areas have localized names for marine creatures, and few have scientific names, such as Fengnian shrimp, which has a very bluffing common name - sea dragon.
"Hey, hey, I'll give it a name!" Miome pointed to her face, "Don't you think it's a big head?"
Number 15 knew that she shouldn't have any unrealistic expectations of Mio, how could she possibly know the common name of sea creatures?
This weird thing...... How to say it, some of them are like pumpkin lanterns, which are the ones that hollow out the inside of pumpkins on Halloween in the West and carve out eyes, noses, and mouths on the pumpkin skin.
But it could never be a pumpkin, let alone a lantern, apparently the remains of some kind of sea creature.
Its general shape is similar to a pumpkin lantern, and the size is close to that of a larger pumpkin, the inside is empty, and there are holes similar to eyes, nose, and mouth, and the flesh looks like some kind of gelatin, No. 15 picked up a branch and poked it, and there is cartilage inside the meat, but I don't know what is going on with this hollow inside, maybe it was eaten like this by scavenging fish, shrimp and crabs.
"Where did this thing come from?" asked 15.
Miao pointed to the sea and said as if asking for merit: "I was washed up by the sea just now, and now I am about to be swept back by the sea, so I picked it up!"
On the 15th, he looked at the sea, as if nothing had happened, the eternal ebb and flow of the tide, and there were many secrets hidden under the tide.
Mio tries to pick it up and put it on her head to scare Rafe, but 15 whips her on the hand with a twig and tells her to go to the sea to wash her hands, but Mio reluctantly goes, muttering that 15 wants to keep her new toy for himself.
No. 15 knows that there are many creatures in the sea that humans have never seen at all, as if scientists speculate that the species of marine organisms currently known to humans only account for about a few percent of the total number of marine organisms, but most of those strange and mysterious ocean dwellers live in the deep sea or on the bottom of the sea, and have little intersection with the range of human activities, and ordinary people basically will not encounter them.
There are often curious news on the Internet, saying that the wreckage of a sea monster has been stranded on a beach by the sea somewhere, and some even say that it is a legendary dragon, but after testing by scientists, the so-called dragons are often sea creatures such as emperor ribbon fish...... In short, this kind of thing is not new, but in these incidents, can every wreck washed up on the beach be equated with some known creature? Not necessarily, no one seems to have counted it, anyway, this kind of news will be forgotten by the public in a few days, and the wreckage itself will soon decompose and become a meal for scavenging seabirds.
The thing that Miao picked up was probably the remains of some kind of deep-sea creature, right?
Although it is not clear if marine biologists can recognize the remains of what kind of animal this is, anyway, the 15th can't recognize it, to put it bluntly, this thing looks like a head, but in fact it may not be a head at all, and marine creatures basically don't have this kind of head...... But I can't say for sure, there are so many strange-looking sea creatures that some of them look like alien visitors.
Even if you don't know a marine biologist, it's really nothing, after all, there are so many marine creatures that humans have never seen before that it's not worth making a fuss about.
Miao ran back after washing his hands, and said whimsically: "How about using this 'big head' as a watermelon and letting Rafe put it on his head, and playing a game of blindfolded watermelon smashing?"
It seems that she doesn't understand why 15 asked her to wash her hands at all, and 15 doesn't understand why Miao can just pick up and play with something so disgusting, normal people don't even want to touch it when they see this kind of strange thing, right?
"Let's play here today, it's time to get down to business. "On the 15th, I looked at the time, it was already about two o'clock in the afternoon, and the three of them stayed here for too long, I don't know if their infrared mirrors would send back a signal, if they stayed here for a long time, maybe the Red Leaf Academy thought that something had happened to them, and then sent someone to look for them, and it turned out that they were having a lot of fun.
"No! I'm going to play!" Mio sat on the ground, holding back.
No. 15 didn't tell her any big reason, but asked: "Of course you can continue to play, but there are still a few days to go before the crusade against the hidden monkeys, do you want to be cool for a day or every day?" ”
Mio rolled his eyes, easily persuaded, patted his ass and reluctantly stood up, "Okay, what are you going to do then?"
"Even if it's pretending, looking for a hidden monkey, you can't stay here all the time. 15 glanced down at the strange wreckage again, "Let's walk along the coast and see if we can pick up anything interesting." ”
"Okay, but I'm going to buy a watermelon on the way back!" Mio hagged.
"Okay, remember to remind me. ”
15 throws a small stone at Rafe's body, signaling that it is time for the latter to leave.
Rafe waded back to shore, looked at the pile of dead fish he had thrown into the sand, seemed pleased with the day's catch, picked up the soft branches, and skilfully threaded them through the gills, as if trying to take them all away.
No. 15 didn't want to take these fishy dead fish with her, and the car rental company shouldn't be willing either, so she wondered how to get Rafe to give up the dead fish, and then Rafe noticed the "big head", and his eyes were firmly drawn, and he forgot about the dead fish for a while.
Rafe stared at the Big Head, muttering a syllable in her throat, but her sanity was far from recovering, and she was wearing a metal mask that was so inaudible that she couldn't hear it.
"What?" Tenth approached Rafe, "Say it again?"
Rafe muttered a few more times, but it was the same syllable, certainly not Chinese, English, or Japanese.
No. 15 took the mobile phone and checked Rafai's pronunciation, it seems that the closest pronunciation is the Sanskrit "Yaksha", of course, it may also be a misunderstanding, after all, this pronunciation is too vague, maybe it's just a meaningless onomatopoeia.
If this wreck is the head of some kind of sea creature, it is as ugly and hideous as the mythical Yaksha.
No. 15 held up the "big head" with two branches and led Rafe to a place where the pile of dead fish could not be seen, and the latter was at a loss, as if he had forgotten something, but could not remember, and his mind was like a thick fog that could not be dissolved.
"Let's take the 'big head' away!" Miao excitedly proposed, "Take it back and scare Chan Ji Junior!"
“...... Your Chanji junior sister doesn't seem to be the one who will be scared by this thing. Number 15 said.
"Then scare Olara!scare her into peeing her pants!Meowhahaha!" Mio laughed wildly.
"Then I guess you'll be beaten ......"
No. 15 leaned in with the "big head" and sniffed it, this thing did not have the fishy smell of common sea creatures, but had a ...... It has a light smell similar to sandalwood, so it shouldn't cause trouble to the car rental company.
Half out of curiosity, half out of coaxing Mio, the 15th decided to put this thing in the trunk of the car and take it away, just hoping not to be stopped by the traffic police on the road and check the trunk...... Otherwise, I can't really tell.