Just when he was playing with the sea urchins for a while, he saw five or six jellyfish floating out of the trench. He had to go and see what this trench looked like.

Anyway, there is still enough time, and there is still time to go up after reading it.

Ye Yaodong held the stinging sea urchin in one hand and floated it towards the trench.

There was a long gap in the darkness. It was hard to tell how long it was. His vision on the bottom of the sea was blurry. He couldn't see the head as far as he could see. However, his visibility was only a few meters, and he didn't have the time to see if it was there.

How long.

Carefully avoiding a jellyfish that had just floated up, he looked under the gap on the side and saw many transparent jellyfish floating in the dark gap, squeezing together, sinking and floating, and some upwards.

, some are downward, particularly obvious.

He felt at ease. It seemed that he could still catch fish slowly just by guarding this trench. As for the reason why the sea surface was empty, it might be because their fishing boats were overfishing, and the speed of floating could not keep up with the speed of fishing, so there were large areas.

Visible reduction to the naked eye.

If it's just two boats, it should be possible based on the supply.

Even if the number is not as high as the previous two days, it should still be better than searching everywhere on the sea.

He squatted in front of this trench and wanted to carefully check the number of jellyfish, but he found that the rock walls of this trench were full of black thorns!

sea ​​urchin???

It looked like the black thorns on a sea urchin, densely packed. He opened his eyes wide and lowered his head again.

They are really all sea urchin thorns!

He looked across the gap again. Although it was foggy, the rocks on the opposite side were also covered with sea urchin spines.

So many?

Visible to the naked eye, the rocks on both sides of this trench are covered with dense black spines, which are all sea urchins?!

With a happy face on his face, he pulled the tube and felt that it still had a little length, so he moved forward and went down a little along the gap.

Although it is a gap, it is not a problem to accommodate two or three people side by side.

I don’t know how it was formed, but there is a natural trench at this location. Although the seabed in this offshore sea is a bit shallow, this trench is indeed real.

He went down to the trench, which was at the same height as a person and the seabed, and he did not dare to go down any further.

From this distance, he could clearly see that the rocks on both sides were really densely covered with sea urchins, and they were all very big. They were even bigger and denser than the ones that just grew on the strange-shaped reef.

He reached out and tried to break off one, and compared it with the ones in the net bag. There was obviously a big difference in size.

The previous one can be said to be only a little bigger than a table tennis ball, but now the ones growing on these rocks are roughly the size of an adult's fist. One estimate is about seven or eight taels, which is not much different from the deep-sea species.

Perhaps this trench goes all the way down, and the rocks on both sides may be densely covered with sea urchins. At least he can see it with the naked eye now, and there are long black thorns on both sides, and he doesn't know how many meters they extend downward.

I don’t know how many meters deep it is, but it may be equivalent to the depth of the deep sea, so the sea urchins grown are also equivalent to deep sea species.

His eyes were filled with joy.

Within a few meters that he could see with his naked eyes, there were tens of thousands of them on the rocks on both sides, and maybe no one knew how many there were further down.

Not to mention anything else, just prying off everything visible to the naked eye is enough for him to earn. Even if he doesn't catch many jellyfish, these sea urchins alone are probably enough to rival the previous jellyfish collection.

It doesn't take long to collect these sea urchins. Just grab an iron hook and you can collect them. It's much easier than prying abalone and conch.

After roughly understanding the situation, he floated up with a net bag in one hand and a sea urchin in the other.

Father Ye saw that he came up not long after he went down, and was relieved. He only saw him holding up his two hands.

"sea urchin?"

Ye Yaodong handed the things in his hands to his father first, then climbed up and took off the mask and tube.

"Are there a lot of sea urchins down there? Why is one so big? The one in the net bag is small. Such big ones are not common."

He saw that there were no workers on the boat. He must have been driven to another boat by his father. He also said with relief and joy: "It's not deep down there. There are sea urchins growing on the messy rocks. They are the ones in the net bag. They are not big."

big."

"This one was broken off from that trench. The rocks on both sides of that trench are also covered with sea urchins. They are all large in size and densely packed. I can only see within a few meters. Anyway,

All I saw were sea urchins, at least tens of thousands."

"I guess the places I haven't seen must be full of sea urchins, so there's no way to predict the number."

Father Ye was extremely surprised, "The rocks on both sides of the trench are all sea urchins? I heard that there are trenches that can go down to several thousand meters. So if they are all sea urchins, what's the point?"

"We can't go down even a few thousand meters. The sea surface here is only ten meters from the bottom of the sea. We can't go down too deep into the trench. If we want to pry more, we can only go along the gap in the trench. Our fishing boats on the sea can't go down too deep."

Follow the movement and pry."

"Then you can't dig much by yourself, and you can't stay in the water forever."

"So we have to ask the boatmen to take turns digging in the water. We don't need so many people. We can just ask a few cousins ​​to come over. The others will still fish for jellyfish on the boat."

"Isn't it unsafe?"

"It's only about ten meters. It's not bad. Teach them how to use these things. Take turns to go into the water and try it out. Just don't go too deep at the beginning. When Azheng looked at the water at the beginning, wasn't it the same?

Is that right? It’s just that the eldest brother and the second brother are a bit incompetent."

Father Ye hesitated, "How about letting other people know about your weird stuff?"

"It doesn't matter, we are just our own people. It doesn't matter if we tell anyone. At most, I have special tools in my hand that can go down to more than ten meters into the water. Some people can go down that deep without using tools, but they just can't stay for long.

It’s just a long time.”

"There is nothing that cannot be known to others. I have not done anything illegal and I bought this. It was only when the authorities were salvaging the sunken ship that they thought not to expose it, so as not to be directly requisitioned. I will go there when the time comes.

No return.”

In the future, this thing will be very common, but now it's a little more strange, but it's not something outrageous.

At that time, he was also afraid that after the official requisitioned it, he would ask about its origin. What should he say? That it was smuggled?

"Okay, if you think it's okay, then it'll be okay."

"Try it and try it. If you feel uncomfortable, don't force it. Then, the salary of those who work in the water will be increased from three yuan to five yuan. The two yuan supplement is considered as a subsidy. I believe they will work hard to adapt."

"That's okay, then call them over now?"

"Wait a minute. I'm going to get a big net bag. Wait for me to go down again and see how much I can harvest in one trip?"

He walked into the cabin as he spoke, "Didn't my mother make a large net bag for me before? I need to use that one to fit it in. The one tied around my waist is too small and can't hold much before I have to put it up."

"How about I try entering the water again?"

"Forget it, Dad, you are already old, don't bother with it, and you also have rheumatism."

If you dive too much, you may easily develop corresponding diving diseases, such as decompression sickness, otolithiasis, etc.

Fortunately, he only got into the water occasionally. He didn't regard this as a sport, but as a means of making a living and out of curiosity.

"Okay then, I'll just watch from the shore."

"Move the boat two meters forward."

"good."

Ye Yaodong took out a large mesh bag, shook it, and sorted it out. It was not a problem to carry a hundred pounds in this one.

Seeing him adjusting the position of the fishing boat again today, he put on all his tools again, and handed the long rope tied to the net bag to his father to look at, so that he could pull it up later.

"I'm going down again. I was only down for a few minutes just now. This trip will be longer."

"Then be careful."

Ye Yaodong dived into the water again. A dark gap was particularly easy to identify in the water, so he dived directly into that gap.

It's still the same as before, the head is level with the bottom of the sea, and the person falls into the gap.

After the goal is clear, of course it is simple and crude to get started.

He took the hook attached to his back waist, opened the net bag with his other hand and faced the rock, and lightly hooked the sea urchin on the stone wall with the hook, and a sea urchin fell directly into the net bag.

It takes no effort or effort at all, but because of the resistance of the sea water, the movement is a little slower and not as smooth as on land.

He brushed his teeth, started working mode, transformed into a ruthless robot, and completed one hook after another.

At this time, he couldn't help but think that it would be great if there were two devices. If he asked one more person to come down, the two of them would have company. It would be lonely if one person was busy working in the sea.

However, I don’t know what will happen next year.

The entire side of the rocks was densely packed, with some gaps between them. He first hooked off all the places that could be seen with the naked eye and within reach of his hands, and placed the bottom part first.

I don’t know how long the trench is, so I can only move it while working and watch it. I guess I won’t be able to finish it on the return trip.

His wandering thoughts did not affect the movements of his hands at all. After only a few minutes, his hands felt heavy.

As time went by, and he felt a little uncomfortable, he stopped being greedy and carried the net bag to the bottom of the sea. He casually placed the contents of the net on the bottom of the sea, and then went straight up.

His father was still the only one on the boat. He watched him come up eagerly and expectantly, "How is it?"

"You pull the rope and collect that bag of goods. It weighs at least fifty or sixty kilograms."

If it weren't for the buoyancy of the sea water, he wouldn't have been able to lift it with one hand just now.

Father Ye quickly did as he was told. He hung the rope on the rolling wheel and let the rolling wheel slowly collect the things.
To be continued...