The tingling sensation became more and more intense, Xia Qiu couldn't bear it anymore, and slowly floated up, leaning against the cabin, rubbing it gently.

Zira.

Xia Qiu felt that the itching had eased a lot, but with the friction, something fell off on the body.

What is it?

Xia Qiu hurriedly stopped his movements and looked there, but it was too dark to see clearly.

So Xia Qiu swam out of the cabin, found a rock, and continued to rub it.

With friction, pieces of scales fall off.

The scales have fallen off.

Xia Qiu stopped and looked at the scales on the ground, gray, yellowish, and yellowish brown.

Even though Xia Qiu stopped moving, the scales were still slowly falling off.

What's going on?

Falling off the scales is not a good thing.

Scales play a large role, acting as a protective barrier for the body, preventing water loss from the outer shell, and can also be used for camouflage, as well as to isolate microorganisms as well as infections.

Scales can also reduce friction, reduce drag, and make it impossible for predators to catch onto the body.

Fish scales come in a variety of shapes, including shield scales, hard scales, round scales, and ctenophoric scales.

Its own scales are Yuanlin, which is also a type of bone scale.

I didn't expect it to fall off.

Most fish do not change their scales throughout their lives, and the scales will slowly grow as the fish grows, and the wide and narrow rings will be formed on the scales, and the age of the fish can be distinguished according to the number of groups of wide and narrow rings.

Fish lose their scales, some because they fall off more easily, but most because of parasites and bacteria.

Parasites and bacteria in your own body?

The tingling sensation kept appearing, and Xia Qiu was a little nervous, but he could only return to the cabin despite the change, and waited cautiously.

The scales kept falling off, and after about two hours, there was a large scale on the ground, and almost half of the scales were shed.

Xia Qiu accidentally touched the mud and sand on the cabin and the ground, and he could feel the perception more clearly, and there was a slight pain.

That's not going to work.

Without the protection of scales, your body will become fragile.

But at this time, Xia Qiu felt a tingling sensation coming from the surface of his body, the scope of the pain was small, but it was like a pinprick in the body.

Well?

Xia Qiu's nerves immediately tightened, what is this pain?

The pain is getting worse and wider, first near the tail, then spreading, and finally the small half of the body has a tingling sensation.

It's like being pricked with a lot of needles, and it's very painful.

Is it the effect of scale shedding?

But the next moment, the pain intensified again, as if something had penetrated the skin and slowly generated.

This is?

Xia Qiu felt the surface of the body slowly covered, starting from the tail part, slowly producing a feeling of fullness.

Xia Qiu hurriedly swam out of the cabin, came to the cabin, landed on the sand, endured the pain from the mud and sand touching his body, and then swung his body and bent his body.

The body was bent to a certain extent, and Xia Qiu saw the scene near the tail.

New scales.

Gave birth to new scales on their own.

Although scaling is relatively rare, there are many fish on Earth that change scales.

And in the world of One Piece, it's even more unsurprising.

Xia Qiu observed the new scales, which were similar in appearance to those of a detached round lin, but with jagged bumps around the edges.

It's ctenophores.

Originally, he was Yuanlin, but now he has become a ctenophore.

Ctenophores and ctenophores are bony scales that are unique to bony fish, but ctenophores are more common in higher fish, such as perch.

Fish with ctenophores are relatively large and can grow to more than two meters.

The more famous one is the herring carp, which is the round lin when the juvenile fish are the round lin, and the adult fish will be replaced with ctenophore scales.

The color of its own scales has also changed.

It is originally pale gray, but it is yellow near the belly of the fish, and yellowish brown near the back of the fish.

Now it's silvery-white, with silver scales and whitish edges, and it's very beautiful.

Sensing that his scales were growing, Xia Qiu relieved himself.

It's just changing scales.

It's not diseases and parasites, or whatever.

Xia Qiu breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the cabin to wait quietly, and the pain seemed to have become a lot lighter.

But at this time, hunger pangs came.

So fast?

I ate a lot this time, and I could last at least three hours, but now I am hungry in less than two hours.

Xia Qiu had to swim out of the cabin to forage for food.

Click.

Xia Qiu swallowed two or three shrimps, and now it swallows shrimp, and it no longer needs to spit out its head and tail and shrimp guns, and after biting it, it all goes into its belly.

Schools of sand diamond fish.

Xia Qiu found a group of sand drill fish and immediately rushed up, and the group of sand drill fish immediately scattered and fled.

But Xia Qiu's speed was extremely fast, and he directly found a sand diamond fish, bit it, and the three layers of sharp teeth were directly bitten off, swallowing most of the body, leaving only the head.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Summer and autumn are constantly chasing after the fish, and they can often catch up with the fish that have fled in the opposite direction and swallow them into their stomachs.

It didn't take long for most of the sand drill fish to eat, and there were seven or eight of them.

It's not enough.

Then he continued to search, close to the bottom of the sea, looking for shrimp and crabs.

After eating two crabs and a few shrimps.

Xia Qiu ate two more lone fish, filled his stomach, and then slowly returned to the cabin.

The scales continue to fall off, and new scales slowly grow.

In the process of growing scales, the digestion speed of summer and autumn is also greatly enhanced, so they have to continue to hunt.

In this way, two days were passed.

In summer and autumn, all the round lins fell off and replaced them with ctenophores, the scales were finer and tighter, and they were shiny silver.

In the process of changing the scales, Xia Qiu's body shape has also changed, and the body shape is more rounded.

Syllable.

Xia Qiu approached a cocked plank, suddenly swung his body, and his body jerked out.

Click.

The planks of the ship snapped and were pumped out of the air, but there was no pain in the body.

The scales become harder, and the body becomes tough and powerful.

I've gotten stronger.

Xia Qiu felt the changes in her body, and she was very happy.

When you become strong, it is easier to survive.

Xia Qiu doesn't expect to be as powerful as a sea king, but at least he must have the ability to protect himself.

Now I don't have any enemies in the area near the island.

Most of the fish here are between 20 centimeters and 30 centimeters, and the longest is no more than 50 centimeters, which is already relatively large.

Xia Qiu is now more than a meter long, with hard scales, a tough body, and a huge pectoral fin with a powerful speed, with three layers of sharp teeth, even a crab shell can bite open.

In this sea, summer and autumn are invincible.

But a little deeper into the ocean, still in the inshore area, you can find even more large fish.

Behemoths more than two meters long and more than three meters long.

The occasional shadow scared Xia Qiu back and extinguished the desire to explore.

Due to the depth of the water, they are used to staying in areas of high pressure and do not come here.

But Xia and Autumn are afraid that one day, they will come here by chance and find themselves.

So it's not enough, we need to continue to get bigger and stronger.