Li Xiaofeng swam forward while enjoying the scenery along the way.

As he kept swimming, the beautiful scenery of the South China Sea was slowly opening up in front of him like a painting scroll.

Beneath your feet are white sand and clusters of colorful corals covered with a variety of seaweeds, and occasionally a school of colorful tropical fish swim through the corals.

The midday sun shines through the water and hits the bottom of the sea, making them look more beautiful and serene.

At this moment, every cluster of corals and every piece of aquatic grass on the bottom of the sea has a different charm.

While Li Xiaofeng was enjoying the beautiful scenery of the wireless under the sea, at this time, a big fish more than one meter long and nearly two meters long, with an iron-blue body and a high forehead bulging, suddenly swam out of the coral bushes.

This big fish had a simple appearance, not afraid of people at all, and even swam towards him slowly.

Seeing this big fish, Li Xiaofeng did not feel the slightest nervousness, because he knew that this was a napoleon wrasse with a simple, spiritual and human personality.

The scientific name of the wrasse is corrugated lipfish, mainly because of the curved lines on its body and the abundance of lips.

And because of the bulge on its head, like Napoleon's hat, some people also call it Napoleon fish. In some places, it is also called the dragon sea bream, the sea brother dragon king, the corrugated parrot sea bream, the curved lip fish, etc., and it is a fish of the family of radial-finned fish class Perciformes.

Napoleonard wrasse is a giant fish that prefers to live in coral reefs in tropical oceans, and is currently the largest reef fish in existence.

Napoleon wrasse is known as the umbrella of coral reefs, which comes from an event abroad.

In the 90s of the last century, divers found that there was a large area of coral reef desert on the Green Island of the Great Barrier Reef, and an entire area was devoid of grass.

Later, after investigation, it was discovered that it was a demon made of disgusting starfish, which is called the Crown of Thorns starfish, and because they are so terrible, they are also called devil starfish.

The Crown of Thorns starfish is different from ordinary starfish, the average starfish only has five arms, but it has twenty-one arms, each arm is covered with suckers, and a stinger can even pierce the diver directly to crying dad and mother.

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If you are pierced by their stinger and cut off in your hand, your entire arm may be scrapped, and sometimes even amputated.

So how did this guy behave like a demon?

This is because this guy has a special taste, and they don't like to eat other things, so they like to eat polyps. Every time they pass through the coral area, they spit out their stomachs and wrap the coral directly into it, digesting the polyps and then absorbing the nutrients into it.

It's disgusting, but it's straightforward and thorough enough to digest it, and they usually leave white marks on the corals they eat.

In just one year, the Thorn Crown starfish has eaten a large number of corals, and they have reproduced very quickly, breeding millions of them in a few years, all over the sea.

Because of their spikes and poison, other sea creatures generally don't dare to provoke them, and they hide as far as they can.

Isn't there anyone in the great sea who can cure them?

Later, scientists found that there are only four animals that are brave enough to eat the thorn crown starfish, and they are the large conch, the napoleon wrasse, the trigger fish and the pufferfish.

The Great Conch is able to use its tentacles to directly anesthetize the Thorn Crown Starfish, and then slowly gnaw on them. However, the number of large conch itself is limited, and the amount of food is also limited, and if you eat a starfish, they basically don't have to eat for a week, so scientists can only give up.

Napoleona wrasse, trigger fish, and puffer fish are all naturally immune to poisonous substances, and all three of them have good teeth, and biting the stinger of the Crown of Thorns starfish can be said to be a breeze for them.

It is precisely because they often eat poisons in the sea that they have accumulated more or less toxic substances on their bodies, such as tetrodotoxin accumulated in puffer fish and ciguatoxin accumulated in Napoleonium wrasse.

Ciguatoxins are even a hundred times more toxic than tetrodotoxin, but the amount of toxin in Napoleona wrasse is much less than that of puffer fish.

Although Napoleona wrasse, triggerfish and puffer fish all have the strength to eat the Thorn Crown starfish, in terms of size, the triggerfish and puffer fish are small and have limited appetite, so the final task of eliminating the Thorn Crown starfish still falls on the head of the Napoleon wrasse.

Finally, after two years of tracking and monitoring, it was found that the Napoleona wrasse had indeed completed the task well, and the sea area of the Napoleon wrasse was introduced, and the number of thorn crown starfish had decreased significantly.

Therefore, the title of Napoleon wrasse coral reef umbrella is indeed worthy of the name! Napoleonard wrasse was once widely distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and had few natural predators except humans.

However, because of their delicious meat, they are still fished by humans and are on the verge of extinction, although their bodies are highly poisonous. The global population of Napoleon wrasse has declined by almost 99%, and in many places it has even disappeared, and it is said that there are only tens of thousands of fish left in the world.

The number is getting smaller and smaller, which leads to their price is getting more and more expensive, and in some places it can even be sold for one or two thousand yuan a catty, and a pair of napoleon wrasse lips alone can be sold for thousands of yuan, which is not even cheaper than bluefin tuna!

Of course, we are talking about wild sea-caught Napoleon wrasse, and there is also a kind of farmed Napoleon wrasse on the market, which is far worse in price and taste than wild Napoleon wrasse.

In addition, the reproduction of Napoleona wrasse is also very slow, a Napoleon wrasse must be over six years old to be able to spawn, to have the ability to give birth, but they often grow to 2~5 catties, that is, just two or three years of small fish, are caught by humans. Such destructive fishing is still very damaging to Napoleon wrasse. Fortunately, the international community has now discovered this situation, and in 2004 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the wrasse as critically endangered, ranking second.

Various countries or regions have also introduced corresponding laws to protect them, and in our country they have also become national second-class protected animals, commonly known as prison bottom fish.

But even so, because the price of Napoleon wrasse is very expensive, the international community has never stopped poaching, smuggling, smuggling, black market trading and other illegal activities.

Looking at the approaching Napoleon wrasse in front of him, Li Xiaofeng was also very happy to open his arms to greet it.

The spiritual Napoleon wrasse swam into his arms, and then gently touched his body with its sensual thick lips.

This power is very small, as if this Napoleon wrasse is afraid that it will hurt him with force.

Li Xiaofeng was also very happy to hold it in his arms, caress its body, and finally gently touched the raised forehead of the wrasse with his hand.