Chapter 209: Big Guy
Seeing that the popularity value increased at a rate of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands per second, Ye Luo was in a happy mood, and he didn't immediately exchange these popularity points for prestige, but planned to keep them and exchange them together for a little more time in the future.
Now that the island is under great construction, he doesn't need to use his prestige.
Time passed for a long time, Ye Luo still couldn't calm down his excitement, just at this time he saw McCojie standing on the dock and waved at him to come over, he thought something was wrong, and hurriedly ran over.
When Ye Luo came to the dock, he asked McCojie, "You called me over, did something happen?"
"No, no, no, it's a good thing, it looks like we can have a seafood dinner at noon today. ”
McCojie smiled, pointed to the bottom of the old dock bridge that had been dug up, and said, "Look, little one, there are so many good things under your dock!"
Some of the sides of the old pier have been demolished, so that the space under the pier is exposed, the excavator blocked the position on the top of the pier with a bucket, and Ye Luo looked down and saw a big black guy.
"It's... This thing can't be a turtle, right?" Ye Luo said in amazement.
"Poof......
McCoger couldn't hold back his laughter for a moment: "No, little one, this is flounder, also known as turbot, which belongs to the more precious seafood." ”
As he spoke, he laughed, not because he was happy to eat seafood, but because he laughed that the fisherman didn't recognize the flounder in his fishery.
“……”
Hearing this, Ye Luo was speechless for a while.
Fuck, can you blame him for that?
At this moment, the sand under the pier was muddy, and he couldn't see the specific appearance of the things below, but he saw a dark back looming, and in such a situation, he subconsciously thought of turtles.
Although he is a fisherman, he really doesn't know much about the types of seafood, far less than Dast and the others.
Besides, no one says that as a fisherman, you must know most of the seafood.
Turbot is recognized as one of the world's high-quality flounder, native to the Pacific Ocean, and later introduced by various countries, there is no big requirement for the living environment, as long as it is not the kind of polluted waters.
In the past, almost all of Newfoundland's fisheries introduced this expensive economic fish, but because the pollution problem was so severe that it did not work well, turbot did not survive in all the fisheries of Newfoundland.
Unexpectedly, there were these guys hidden under the dock of Yeluo Fishing Ground, yes, not one, but a group.
As the turbulent waters settled, turbot revealed their true faces, their bodies were flattened, their bodies were oval, their eyes were on the left side of their heads, their skin was bare and scaleless, their mouths were large, and their dorsal and anal fins were mostly branched.
There were about sixty or seventy of these fish, the largest of which was a meter long, and the smaller one was only the size of a palm, and God knows how they could have gathered on the beach under the pier, knowing that this fish is a deep-sea bottom fish and should not be found in the near sea.
The turbot's distant relative, the Atlantic halibut, is an offshore sand-dwelling fish that may have been introduced to the fishing grounds of Newfoundland, and these creatures have been assimilated by their distant relatives.
In addition, for turbot, it is true that the beach under the pier is much safer than the deep sea.
Now that we're talking about the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, let's talk about the obvious differences between the fish that live in the two oceans.
Although the Pacific Ocean is larger, it is not as rich as the Atlantic Ocean, and the turbot, which can grow up to about one and a half meters at most, is considered a big thing in the Pacific Ocean, but it is cute in the Atlantic.
Not to mention sharks and whales, yellowfin tuna and bluefin tuna that can grow to two to three meters can kill them.
You must know that in the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlantic halibut, a distant relative of turbot, can generally grow to two and a half meters, with the largest body length of four meters and a weight of more than 400 kilograms.
It may be that these turbot have lived around the dock for a long time, so they are too dependent on this place, and even if they are attacked, they do not flee, but burrow further into the mud and sand below the pier.
Ye Luo felt it with his consciousness, there were at least nearly three hundred turbot under the entire dock, the largest was the one-meter-long guy that was exposed now, and there were more than a dozen guys with a slightly smaller body, about half a meter or so, and the rest were some small ones from ten centimeters to twenty or thirty.
Now that the entire wharf is about to be dismantled, Ye Luo has to consciously drive these turbot to leave the wharf and swim towards the coral reef waters.
Ye Luo generally uses consciousness as a radar, mainly because consciousness is consciousness, and he is about to see things far away, but he can't touch any objects, but since the system is upgraded, Ye Luo finds that his consciousness seems to be able to be controlled by himself, although he still can't take anything, but he has an extra function of commanding those fish in the fishing ground.
Ye Luo asked the excavator driver to lift the bucket away, and let go of the one-meter-long leading fish, as well as seven or eight turbot that were injured by stones when they started work before, and they were not small, and they had to add up to about thirty or forty catties, leaving these few enough for their group to eat at noon.
After the turbot left, Ye Luo's consciousness scanned under the bridge again, for fear that there was a turbot that did not leave, but he didn't expect that he would be happy when he saw it.
It turns out that under this pier is a small underwater world, not only turbot, but also crabs, snow crabs and red crabs, large and small, there are a lot of them.
Snow crab is a scientific name, and it has two common names, Queen Crab in Canada and Leathersmith Crab in the United States, which are also two subspecies of it, and the taste is very delicious.
Red crabs, also known as red ground crabs, are a variant of purple crabs living in Southeast Asia, which are omnivorous animals and usually feed on mollusks, and red crabs are famous for their annual migration to the sea to lay eggs.
The queen crab and the red crab live quite comfortably here, and Ye Luo found that there were some cuttlefish larvae and squid larvae under the pier, and immediately realized that these were obviously their masterpieces, and it was refreshing to introduce these mollusks himself.
As the saying goes, if you come out to mix, sooner or later you will have to pay it back.
Now is the time for them to pay their debts.
Ye Luo knew that this island was a new island made by the system, and judging from his understanding of the system, it would definitely be done seamlessly, and it would not make it easy for people to see the problem, and even an experienced person like McCojie couldn't see anything wrong!
Looking at it now, it really didn't disappoint him, just the posture of the dock anyone who saw it would think that there were at least decades of 'old guys'.
These crabs don't know how many years they have lived under the bridge, and they are very fat, there are hundreds of them just more than ten catties, not to mention the other ones that are less than ten catties, a dense group.
Perhaps because of the fright, the crabs gathered together one by one, waving two hideous crab claws, and you dare to provoke me to try, and I lose if I don't have short fingers.
Ye Luo naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to be tough with these crabs, he was only one person and empty-handed, and let him catch these crabs, which was undoubtedly boring, but he didn't want to let go of these big crabs.
So, he hurriedly called Daxter and them.
Coincidentally, Dast and the others had just returned to the dock after inspecting the fish when they received a call from Ye Luo, and the new pier was still far from the old dock
There was a distance, but the new pier was too far from the fishing grounds, and Dast and they were very good at boating, and after going back to the warehouse to get some fishing nets, they rushed over.
"Oh my God, I didn't expect there to be so many big guys under the bridge. ”
When Daxter, who came over in full gear, saw the big crabs under the bridge, he was first surprised, and then a little disappointed: "It's a pity, it's past the best season to eat, and they set seeds in April, and now they are not so fat." ”
"Okay, it's good to eat some, what are you picky about?"
Ye Luo urged angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, according to the number of people, hurry up and catch all those big guys, and make them to eat at noon." ”
"Boss, are you all caught?" Renison smacked his tongue and hesitated, "That's the number of hundreds, can we eat them all for a few of us?"
As soon as this remark came out.
“……”
Ye Luo couldn't help but be silent.
At this moment, he realized that almost all of these big crabs weighed more than ten catties, and two or three people might not be able to eat one, let alone one person.
After thinking about it, Ye Luo said with some embarrassment: "I can't finish eating, or I can't catch ten, if we share so many of us, we can still get a lot, not to mention that we don't just eat crabs at noon, just now I picked up seven or eight turbot and it is estimated that there are thirty or forty catties, which is enough for us to eat." ”
"No problem, let's do it. ”
Hearing Ye Luo's words, Dast and the others didn't say anything, those who fished the nets fished out the big crabs, and those who didn't catch the nets were responsible for tying them with ropes next to them, so as not to let the crabs run away.
Soon, Daxter caught more than a dozen of the largest queen crabs, all of which Robert and Wiggins tied up with rope and threw them on the beach.
Standing on the pier and looking at it up close are two completely different sights.
Ye Luo had to sigh, it was really shocking to see these big guys up close.
These queen crabs are all big guys over ten pounds, and there are two crab uncles with a body diameter of more than 40 centimeters, these two uncles weigh at least 20 pounds, and the big chela in front of the body is 60 centimeters, as if they have two big scissors.
Looking at the seven or eight turbot and a dozen or so big crabs put together, the scene like a small mountain made Ye Luo silent for a long time.
At this time, Renison next to him suddenly asked: "Hey, boss, it will take a lot of time to deal with these guys, and they will definitely not be able to eat at noon, or we will have a party in the evening?" There are some Asian carp in the freezer, which can be eaten with these two." ”
"Well, your proposal is good, so let's do as you say. ”
Ye Luo agreed without any hesitation, and then he looked at the workers who were working, muttered for a while, and said to Dast and a few people: "Since we are going to hold a party, it's always boring for these people on our island, there are so many people, I decided to call these workers together, but once these people are added, then we will definitely not have enough food to eat, otherwise, Daxter and you just go to the shallow water of the coral reef to see if you can catch some lobster and abalone and other seafood back." ”
"Okay, let's get these guys back for you first, and then we'll go over. Daxter happily took on the task.
Ye Luo nodded and didn't say anything, but walked up to McCojie's side and said to him: "Old man, tell the guys in the evening, stay and have a seafood party, try turbot and snow crab in our fishing ground, and some other food, all of which are good." ”
"Okay, I'll tell them when they're done with today's work. McCoggie smiled and agreed.
Subsequently, Ye Luo, Daxter and others brought the turbot and snow crab on the ground back to the yard.