Chapter 27: A Gift for You
When Yin Dong's foot stepped on the stone, he slipped and kicked the stone over, and he saw the sea mud below bubble out, hitting him, like countless cool air currents seeping into his skin crazily.
This is...... Nimbus?
A thought popped up in Yin Dong's mind, and he felt ridiculous, even he couldn't believe that he had such good luck. But his hands couldn't control the mud digging for the sea, and the more he dug, the more bubbles came out.
He directly ran the exercises, and the trace of dragon power in the dantian was like a cat that smelled fishy smell jumping out, swimming in his body, catching the cool air flow that seeped into his body, refining it quickly, and then that trace of dragon power slowly increased.
Although the magnitude of the increase is almost invisible, it has grown from one-tenth to one-eighth of a hair...... Fifth...... Third......
It wasn't until that trace of dragon power was as thick as a hair that he retracted his dantian, and Yin Dong also felt a sense of fullness in his body, so he stopped running the exercises and lay directly in the sea mud, only to feel very comfortable, and grabbed a palm-sized conch with his hand, and was about to throw it, when he suddenly thought that he could take it back to Xiaobao as a toy, he looked at it and was stunned again.
This conch is coiled in a spiral shape, with a milky white shell smooth like a disc, and reddish-brown growth patterns radiating from the umbilicus of the shell, and the whole conch is shaped like a parrot's beak...... I'm struggling, isn't this a nautilus, it seems like it's still alive?
This is a living fossil in the ocean, a species that has been on the earth for hundreds of millions of years, and in the Ordovician oceans, when the marine invertebrates were in their heyday, the nautilus could reach eleven meters in length, which was the apex predator and dominated the entire ocean.
The Nautilus, which was almost all over the world in the Paleozoic Era, has now been basically extinct, and has suffered the fate of extinction with the dinosaurs, and only a few remaining descendants of the living Nautilus have no ancestor ferocity and have become smaller. The biggest one wasn't much bigger than the nautilus in his hand.
Looking at the still alive nautilus in his hand, Yin Dong suddenly thought that this seemed to be a first-class protected animal, according to national laws, if it needs to be sold, it only needs to pay 30,000 yuan for resource protection, and it can only be operated with the approval of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Of course, he didn't plan to sell it, but he was going to leave it for his son to play with...... Well, you can't let your son die, after all, it's a living fossil, as rare as a giant panda.
Since the nautilus is living well in this place, it must be suitable for the living environment here, Yin Dong wants to bring some of the water and sea mud here, but what is it to put on?
He searched around, and found a concave stone, and filled it with some white bubbling mud and seawater, and then put the nautilus in it, and covered it with a stone chip, and covered the stone with another layer of sea mud, and then floated to the surface.
On the sea, the cold moonlight sprinkled down, and at a glance, it was like a silver yarn, but Yin Dong didn't have the slightest interest in appreciating it, because he seemed to be too far away from the previous island, so far away that there was no island in his field of vision, and there was only a vast sea, and he couldn't see the edge.
Even if a boat went to pick him up on that island, it would not be able to find his people. His clothes and shoes were still on the same island as before, and he was wearing only a pair of trousers, so did he want to swim back to the village?
Yin Dong struggled for two seconds and decided to swim back to the previous island first.
When there is a moon, he can still know the difference between the east and the west, and if even the moon is gone, he will really have to float on the sea all night. He looked up at the rolling clouds beside the moon and howled, "You have seen the red moon......"
On the surface of the sea, it was as if a wolf howl suddenly sounded, and a few fish not far away jumped up, plunged into the water, and swam away quickly. Yin Dong took a sip and scolded: "Made, a group of fish who don't know how to appreciate music." ”
After scolding the fish, Yin Dong continued to sing the red moon, unable to remember the lyrics, and then kept singing "Red Moon Red Moon, gentle and beautiful", the song was like a wolf howling, and it spread far and wide.
Yin Dong's sense of orientation was really good, and after swimming for about an hour, the island finally appeared in his field of vision, even though it was only a small dot the size of a sesame seed, which also lifted his spirits.
Soon, a scene that surprised him even more appeared, a speedboat drove from the side of the island, the speed had been increased to the maximum, cleaving the waves, roaring from the sea.
It's Qiu Ying's speedboat, and she's been waiting for him here on the island!
Yin Dong watched the speedboat getting closer and closer, full of joy, holding the stone containing the nautilus in one hand, waving it desperately with the other, shouting at the top of his voice: "I'm here!"
The waves rolled, and as the speedboat rushed to the front, Yin Dong was hit by the waves, and swam to the speedboat as nimble as a fish, and then saw Qiu Ying appear on the side of the boat, her face full of anxiety.
Yin Dong suddenly became stupid, wiped a handful of seawater from his face, lifted the stone he was holding, and said with a smile: "Axia...... No, Qiu Ying, this is my gift to you...... Yes, freshly dug up from the bottom of the sea, nautilus, alive. ”
Qiu Ying has been waiting for Yin Dong, waiting for the fire, at first glance Yin Dong, it was like an active volcano on the verge of eruption, at this moment listening to Yin Dong's words, all the fire suddenly dissipated, there was a strange feeling rippling in the bottom of her heart, but she still pulled down her face and reprimanded: "Where have you gone? I have been waiting for you for hours, Xiaobao refuses to go back, and his voice is hoarse!"
At this time, he must not be able to tell the truth, Yin Dong decisively lied: "I'll find you a nautilus." ”
"Are you stupid!" Qiu Ying said angrily, and when Yin Dong got on the speedboat, he noticed the stone he was holding, and suddenly became annoyed again: "I don't read much, don't lie to me! You don't want to say that a big stone is a nautilus, right? Although the nautilus is a living fossil, it is also a snail in the first place, and your stone is square." ”
Yin Dong smiled, threw away the covered slate, fished out the nautilus from the sea mud inside, and said shamelessly: "In order to find this gift for you, I swam far away, and I almost didn't tire me to death." You're going to love it, right?"
He did swim a long way, but the rest were all lies, but Qiu Ying didn't think he was cheating, and was so moved that in addition to nodding, he also said coquettishly with red eyes: "Are you stupid, swimming so far alone, in case something happens, you let ...... Let Xiaobao do what?"
Yin Dong said: "Isn't that still you! If I have three long and two short, you will definitely not ignore Xiaobao, right?"
"Nonsense!" Qiu Ying gave him a roll of the eyes, took the nautilus and twisted his waist and left. Later, Yin Dong followed with the stone containing sea mud, his eyes fell on her writhing little waist, he didn't notice it for a while, and hit the door frame, with a muffled "bang", and couldn't help but scream "ouch".
Qiu Ying turned around sharply and asked, "Did it hurt?"
Hearing the concern in her words, Yin Dong shook his head stupidly and smiled: "It doesn't hurt." ”