Volume 3 The Adventure of the Green Star Chapter 9 Strange Creatures

I took off my shoes and walked barefoot on the beach, feeling a long-lost sense of intimacy. The soft sand always greeted me warmly, and they fluttered and fluttered on my ankles and calves. They always warmly kept me, and built one comfortable little pit after another for my feet, and the series of pits were like a long chain of pearls and jade left on the beach. I was finally embarrassed to beg and stopped.

At this time, the sea rushed up, and they also washed my ankles softly, squeezing some of the sand, but the sand next to me did not miss this opportunity to greet me, and as soon as the sand was taken away, they rushed up as soon as it was carried away. So my feet sank deeper and deeper.

I looked at the beach up close, and there were countless unknown shells on the beach. These shells were generally larger than those on Earth, and I picked up the nearest medium-sized one at my feet, which completely occupied the palm of my hand. It is snow-white as a whole, but it has three dark brown lines, so let's call it a three-striped shell for the time being! The shell was so tightly closed that I couldn't peek inside, believing that there was rich flesh inside.

Alien shellfish meat is still easy to cause allergies, I picked a few pieces in my pocket, ready to try shellfish myself at night, my physique is still not too afraid of allergies, according to past experience, such as food that will be allergic to others I will eat gastrointestinal discomfort, that's all. It's okay to eat these shells, but it's definitely not okay to eat them in large quantities as food, so you have to find something else.

I walked towards the beach reef, which has always been a paradise for marine life, and there will be a lot of abundant reptiles or shellfish food, which will be one of our food sources in the future. Some shellfish can be made into dried shellfish, and it is a rare delicacy to soak them in water and cook them, and I hope there are similar foods here.

I put my shoes back on and stepped onto the reef to scour it up. As I expected, several animals resembling crabs on Earth were running fast on the rocks. They are about twenty centimeters tall and have three pairs of six transverse limbs, but they do not have chelae. I was happy that this should be a good protein. There are many crab-like creatures on various planets, and most of them have been proven to be safe for people from other planets, but I decided to grab a few and try them myself just to be safe. I waited for a good opportunity to grab one, and the crab that was about to be used as an edible test product danced desperately at all six of its parts, and kept spitting small foam in its mouth, but it was grabbed by the shell on its back, and there was nothing I could do about it.

I brutally broke the crab's six legs and put it on the reef. Without the six legs, the crab's other organs moved faster, its mouth squirmed rapidly, and it was crying about what happened to it; Its mutilated six-legged trembled helplessly, but it could no longer support its body. All of this happened to it only because I couldn't hold it in my hand to find food. I looked at the crab that dared to be pitiful, and I didn't have any apologies in my heart, food is the most basic need of human beings, all the delicacies of nature are prepared for higher creatures, human beings, as the highest creatures, stand at the top of the food chain, and all creatures we can enjoy. It's just that for the higher civilizations, are those lower civilizations also their food!

I don't think much of it, I keep looking. After catching another crab and breaking off its six legs and placing it on the reef, I went looking for other food. Along the waterline, there are many palm-sized arthropods with calcareous shells. This arthropod attached to the beach rocks is found on all planets, and a species called barnacles is very common on Earth. Barnacles are a very delicious food, but I've only seen them in movies and TV shows, so if you have the opportunity to go to your home planet, you must try them. I took a pebble and tapped it. The bottom is about ten centimeters, and it is firmly attached to the reef, so that I can't do it for a while. I replaced it with a more convenient pebble and found a small target to tap on, and in a few clicks I cracked open the thick shell, but disappointingly, the inside shell was empty, and there was nothing.

I continued to search the reef, sometimes climbing up to a piece taller than my man, then jumping down and walking along the waterline. I finally found a low-lying shallow paradise.

This low-lying shoal is only about ten square meters and about forty centimeters deep. The golden sand looks particularly lovely against the backdrop of the seawater, and what is even more pleasing is that there are various colored snails on the beach, some are light yellow, some are white, some are striped, and some are light gray but have a little red spots. But what attracted me even more were five or six mollusks with gray shells on their backs and colorful patterns on their shells. Each of these guys is about ten centimeters long, and the colored patterns on the shells are more colorful than one flower, some of them look like a terrifying big flower face, and some of them look like ghost charms drawn by wizards. This is their protective color, but it will only add a few beautiful shell ornaments to humans.

I seemed to startle them, and one of the shells suddenly moved, slowly stretching its waist. Can it stretch its waist? I read that right, it stretched, it shook its back shell, and the back shell actually lifted upward, and the whole shell showed a diagonal upward posture. What is the situation, that there are shellfish that can do this kind of action, I looked closely and found that this shell actually has soft feet to support, I counted the crabs that had six legs like before. The six-legged shell stood up on six legs, shook its body, and crawled quickly for more than a meter and then squatted down again, becoming an ordinary shellfish.

I am overjoyed that shellfish with soft feet like this is unheard of, and I believe that its strong soft feet will be rich in protein and amino acids, and that the thick and soft shellfish on the planets will taste very good and be delicious on all planets. It was as if I saw it turn into a hearty delicacy and put it on the table.

At this time, the sea gently caresses the reef and shellfish like a gentle mother, and those shellfish are motionless in the water. I couldn't help but be curious to find out the truth about its soft feet, so I took off my shoes and went into the water again. I reached for the nearest shellfish as lightly as I could, and grabbed it without any problems. I look at its abdomen, its belly shell is relatively flat, and the back has a clear arc, and the overall shape of the shell is like a turtle, so let's call it a turtle shell for the time being! There was a slight gap between the dorsal shell and the sides of the abdomen, and at this point its six soft feet were completely retracted, so that I could not see the soft feet.

I put it back in the water, and I plan to bring some more when I go back, but it's not convenient to hold it now. As soon as it entered the water, its soft feet stretched out, and when it was put on the beach, it stood up and ran to its original position, as if that place was its home. I smiled, it was so cute if I didn't really need to fill my stomach and I couldn't bear to use it as food.

I continued to search, and in addition to turtle shells, there were a large number of small shells and conch shells on this beach. No large turtle-like animals have been found. You can't see the fish in the sea, and you need certain tools to catch fish. The most on the beach is something similar to Teng Pot that grows on the reef, and this Teng Pot is so big, it is called a giant Teng Pot. It's so much that it seems to be our main source of food in the future.

I walked towards the most vigorous Juteng pots, which were much larger than all I had seen before, each about twenty centimeters in size, and relatively large in space, nearly twenty centimeters, not almost next to each other before. Each one seems to have a separate piece of territory. I held a very handy rock in my hand and aimed it at a smaller one and struck it hard.

I knocked and knocked, and suddenly my calves felt like something was being sucked tightly even through my pants. Momentarily. I turned my head to look, only to see a huge jug near my leg sticking out its long white tentacles and sucking my leg. The tentacle was two fingers wide and twenty centimeters long, and it sucked so hard that it took me a little bit of force to get rid of it. As soon as I broke free, the long tentacles retracted into the gray shell.

I was amazed and delighted, I had never seen such a tengju-like creature that grew on a reef with such powerful tentacles. Teng pot is to catch plankton for food by small tentacles, and this giant Teng pot is afraid to directly catch small fish and shrimp. This Teng pot is so different and has a terrible predatory ability, I don't know what will happen to other creatures on this planet, I have a faint uneasiness in my heart. I've seen too many stories of alien expeditions encountering dangerous creatures in movies, TV shows and books.

I like that we have a large source of food. The juteng pot with its strong tentacles means that it has an unusually rich amount of musculature, which is as delicious as the turtle shellfish, which is so important to us who don't know how long we will be here. I picked up the stone and continued to knock it, and it was easy to crack open the shell of the giant teng pot.

The shell of the Juteng pot is nearly two centimeters, and the snow-white flesh is undoubtedly exposed. It has a huge foot about ten centimeters in diameter, and its tentacles have been completely retracted, forming a fleshy cone as a whole. I pressed its thick flesh, and its tentacles no longer stretched out but contracted even more. I carefully peeled my feet off the rocks with the knocked-off shell, and I was already imagining what it would taste like when it was cooked.

I knocked on a jug pot again, went to the shoals to get two turtle shells, picked up the two crabs that I had crippled, and hurried back. Song Mingsheng and the others saw that the strange creatures I had recovered were all surrounded, and I introduced the turtle shell with six soft feet and the powerful tentacles of the giant teng pot, and they were stunned for a while. If I hadn't sworn it, they wouldn't have believed me.

I brought back three things, and the food was given to Dabao. He didn't know where to start, so he had to use steaming, which is the fastest and most delicious way to preserve the flavor of food. For the sake of insurance, Song Mingsheng chose himself and Lao Mai as food tasters, and tried one thing by himself. As long as there are no adverse reactions tomorrow, prepare for large-scale capture.