Chapter 284: White Coral
After being tired of this humane giant Napoleon wrasse for a while, Li Xiaofeng let go of it and prepared to continue swimming towards the depths of the coral thicket in front of him.
Let's try it soon, everyone. 】
But what he didn't expect was that this Napoleona wrasse didn't leave, but just followed him, as if it was relying on him, but it seemed to be escorting him.
Li Xiaofeng didn't pay much attention to it, but continued to swim forward, carefully avoiding the sharp corals around him. Keep in mind that some hard corals have sharp edges, and they can even easily cut through the wetsuit, causing injury to the diver.
In this way, a man and a fish swam forward for another five or six hundred meters, and at this time, in the seaweed in front of him, suddenly a creature as ugly as a snake opened its mouth full of fangs, and rushed straight towards him.
Li Xiaofeng, who would look at the map every once in a while, was certainly not completely unprepared for this, and even knew that this was not a sea snake at all, but a bare-breasted eel that he had encountered before.
The most popular habitat for bare-chested eels is near the coral reefs of this tropical and subtropical ocean, so Li Xiaofeng is not surprised to meet them here.
This Li Xiaofeng was about to pick up the speargun hanging on his body and give this bare-breasted eel who didn't know what to do. But what he never expected was that the wrasse wrasse, who had been following him just now, saw this situation and rushed in front of him at an accelerated speed, blocking the bare-breasted eel that was rushing towards him.
This time it was the turn of the bare-breasted eel to be a little flustered, don't look at the usual kind look of the Napoleonus wrasse, but after all, it is the top predator in the coral area, and it is at the top of the food chain.
The bare-breasted eel in the same environment as it is usually on top of the Napoleon wrasse recipe!
So the bare-breasted eel, which was more than a meter long, quickly turned around, ready to flee back in the direction it had just swam over.
But the Napoleon wrasse that has already been eyed by it will allow it to escape easily. It also changed its usual lazy appearance, and with a wagging tail, it rushed to the front of the bare-breasted eel with an acceleration.
Then, with lightning speed, it bit the tail of the nudi-breasted eel that was about to burrow into the seagrass, and its sharp teeth pierced into the skin of the bare-breasted eel mercilessly, and blood instantly emerged from the bare-breasted eel's body.
The bare-breasted eel, which had eaten the pain, could no longer care about burrowing into the nets and grass, but went berserk, quickly turned its body, and then opened its mouth full of fangs and bit at the body of the napoleon wrasse.
However, this Napoleonard wrasse, which has lived in the coral reefs of this sea area for at least one or two decades, is also very experienced in fighting enemies, and it did not wait for the bare-breasted eel to bite it, so it directly used the swing of its body to throw the bare-breasted eel far away.
Under the water, the power of this more than 100 catties of wrasse is not small, this time not only threw the bare-breasted eel far away, but also made it crash into the sharp coral next to it.
At this moment, this bare-breasted eel can be regarded as an injury on top of injury.
The wrasse wrasse didn't even give it the slightest chance to react, but took advantage of the bare-breasted eel being hit and dizzy, and before it could react, it rushed up directly and bit off its head, showing its true colors as a little overlord in the coral area in an instant!
In the end, like eating spicy strips, I slowly ate the bare-breasted eel.
After eating, he didn't forget to swim back, and came to Li Xiaofeng's side, this little expression was like a puppy that was spoiled to its owner.
Although even if this bare-breasted eel rushed over, it wouldn't hurt him in the slightest, but Li Xiaofeng was also very happy to stroke its body again, rubbing its fleshy bulging forehead. This napoleon wrasse also showed a very pleasant micro-expression.
Then one person and one fish swam forward for another seven or eight hundred meters, and Li Xiaofeng finally swam to the destination of his trip.
At this time, standing in front of him was a cluster of white coral, like a small white tree, exuding a porcelain-like texture all over its body.
This is the white coral that is abundant in the South China Sea and the South China Sea!
Although white corals are not uncommon in the South China Sea, most of them are loose-textured reef-building corals that are not very collectible, such as this kind of white coral with a porcelain-like texture and has reached gem quality is still very rare.
Coral and clams, pearls, and amber are known as the world's four major organic gemstones, and are revered as the seven treasures of Buddhism together with gold, silver, glass, clams, agate, and pearls.
They are like sentinels of the ocean, silently guarding the peace of the ocean for thousands of years; They are like trees, grasses and flowers, bright and beautiful, charming and delicate, crystal clear.
Take out a bunch at will, they are all graceful and beautiful natural works of art!
The color of the coral is also rich and colorful. The common ones are white, black, blue, red, gold, and so on. The color of a coral depends mainly on the environment in which it grows. The predominant metal content in seawater is the root cause of the colorful colors of corals.
The South China Sea has the clearest water quality, the warmest climate and the deepest seabed in China. In addition, due to the good green vegetation coverage along the Red River, Mekong River, Chao Phraya River and other rivers flowing into the South China Sea, the river water has less sediment content and low metal content, which makes the South China Sea appear turquoise or dark blue all year round, so the corals growing in the South China Sea are mainly white.
However, the most valuable coral among the coral is not the warm white coral in front of him, but the red coral, the top Aka-grade red coral, one gram can even reach tens of thousands of yuan, which is much more valuable than gold.
But even if he found that this is not the most valuable red coral, then this is also the top white coral, conservatively estimated that it can be sold for one or two thousand yuan a gram, and such a large cluster of white coral can also be worth a lot of money!
Although he didn't come here for these white corals, in the face of this low-hanging fruit, to be honest, he was still a little tempted at this moment.
But in the end, after hesitating for a long time, he still shook his head and chose to give up.
The reason why I chose to give up, of course, is because whether it is white coral or red coral, it has now become a national protected animal, among which white coral is a national second-class key protected wild animal, and red coral is a national first-class key protected wild animal.
The second is also because these white corals grow on the territory of our own country and shelter the marine life in the territory of our own country.
So after thinking about it, let's let them stay and guard our own oceans!
If he found white coral of this quality on the high seas or in the waters of another country, he would have managed to get them back anyway!
Even if he can't sell it publicly, he can still collect it himself!
To be honest, he is no longer short of these millions of dollars, but there are still a lot of empty spaces in his private collection room!