Although lampreys look like eels, lampreys are not eels. To be more precise, they are not fish at all.
They are a very ancient marine creature that have existed on Blue Star for at least 300 million years.
Even dinosaurs are younger brothers to them.
The biggest feature of lampreys is their mouth. Their mouth is like a round suction cup with circles of teeth inside, which can suck on the surface of some large fish.
Their eating method is very cruel. They use the suckers on their mouths to suck in some large fish, and then use their teeth to bite through the fish skin and suck out the fish's meat and blood.
It can be said that of the large fish they have sucked, there is usually only a pile of skeletons left, and the corpses of many sea beasts are also one of their food.
They are not afraid of food, whether it is live fish or dead bodies, they are their food. It even has the terrifying title of "Vampire of the Sea".
As long as you are targeted by them, it will be the end of this fish, whether you are salmon, cod, basking shark, whale shark, or even great white shark.
The scariest thing is that they have almost no natural enemies. They only eat other creatures, and few creatures will use them as food.
The reason why they have almost no natural enemies is because during the 300 million years of their existence, they had no natural enemies. However, with the birth of humans, their natural enemies finally appeared.
For humans, lampreys are simply a rare food. They not only have medicinal value, but are also a very delicious delicacy.
In medicine, lamprey is very effective in treating night blindness.
Because there are no hard bones in the body of lamprey, only cartilage, and the high oil content makes the fish meat very elastic, in some countries, lamprey has become a highly-priced delicacy.
In many European countries, even in Nanbang and Japan, lampreys are in short supply. Henry I, the former King of the Eagle Kingdom, died because he ate too many lampreys despite the dissuasion of doctors.
I wonder how some Chinese foodies would feel if they knew about this. In Ye Yuan's opinion, this is the highest realm of foodies, right?
Ye Yuan had no intention of raising this thing in space. Even though it was expensive, it would cause devastating damage to the fish in his space fishery.
Not breeding does not mean that Ye Yuan will let these lampreys go. Looking at the densely packed lampreys on the basking shark, the longest one is about one meter long.
Regardless of whether the basking shark intentionally attacked his yacht for help or accidentally attacked his yacht because he wanted to get rid of the lampreys on his body, Ye Yuan decided to help this poor basking shark.
Taking a net bag with him, Ye Yuan jumped straight into the sea and soon came to the side of the basking shark.
The basking shark ignored the human who came to him, but continued to open his mouth on the seabed, waiting for his food to enter.
Ye Yuan came to the basking shark and pulled off the lampreys one by one. Due to the strong suction of the lampreys, every time a lamprey was pulled off, it would leave a small trace on the body of the basking shark. Wound.
Maybe it's because the basking shark knows that the human in front of him is here to help him.
Or maybe such a small wound didn't cause much pain to the basking shark.
In short, no matter how Ye Yuan pulled the lamprey on his body, the basking shark remained motionless and allowed Ye Yuan to pull it away.
Ye Yuan threw all the lampreys he pulled off into the net. This was a rare delicacy, how could he let it go?
Ye Yuan was cautious at first. After all, the body of the basking shark was there, and if he really had to be hit by it, he would not be in a good position.
But as the lampreys were pulled down one by one, the basking shark still maintained its motionless posture, and Ye Yuan began to gradually increase the pulling force.
Soon Ye Yuan's net bag was filled, and the number of lampreys on the basking shark was reduced by half.
Ye Yuan took out another net bag in the space. After 40 minutes of hard work, all the lampreys on the basking shark were cleaned.
Ye Yuan looked at the basking shark whose body was full of scars, released some spatial lake water directly into its mouth, and then turned around and swam towards the fishing boat.
When the space lake water entered the basking shark's mouth, the scars all over its body began to scar at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Ye Yuan knew in his heart that even though there were many scars on the basking shark, they were all very small. For such a huge creature, such scars would not kill it.
The reason why Ye Yuan gave him space in the lake was because he hoped that the poor basking shark could recover quickly. After all, relying on his own recovery ability, it would take at least a few days to recover.
Back on the yacht, I found a big bucket and put all the lampreys in the two net bags into it.
"Sister Zhengchou and the others don't have any good ingredients here. I will eat you tomorrow."
Ye Yuan looked at the lampreys in the bucket and kept mumbling.
After sorting these out, Ye Yuan and the others continued to move forward. Ye Yuan planned to use 2 days to circle around the surrounding sea area.
Let’s not talk about whether we have enough time, but we must take a look at the sea area near Newcastle Island, otherwise it will be bad when Niu Niu and Nian Xin come tomorrow and be in danger on the beach.
Don't think Ye Yuan's thoughts are unnecessary. Many incidents of sharks swimming into beaches and attacking people have happened many times in South America.
Ye Yuan's yacht continued to move forward. This place was already far away from Newcastle Island. Ye Yuan, who was planning to turn around and go back, suddenly discovered that there was a dark trench on the seabed here.
There should be many trenches like this on the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. Ye Yuan did not hesitate and went directly to the bottom of the sea and swam towards the trench.
Ye Yuan has been to many trenches, but the trench in front of him is the narrowest one that Ye Yuan has ever seen. The width of this trench is only about 30 meters.
Looking at the dark trench, for some reason, this trench gave Ye Yuan a sense of danger.
However, Ye Yuan would not stop here just because of this feeling. After hesitating for a while, Ye Yuan still swam towards the bottom of the trench.
As Ye Yuan went deeper, the feeling of danger became stronger and stronger. Ye Yuan had the intention to swim back several times along the way.
But his curiosity drove him to continue swimming downstream. For some reason, there seemed to be a voice telling Ye Yuan that if he didn't continue, it felt like he would lose something.
In his mind, Ye Yuan guessed that there was some high-integration substance underneath, and the system used this method to remind himself? Otherwise, how can I explain the inexplicable obsession in my heart?
When Ye Yuan arrived at a depth of 4,500 meters, it was already close to the bottom of the trench. While swimming down, Ye Yuan also discovered some creatures that he did not recognize, but they did not bring him any sense of danger.
ps: Thanks to Xiao Jiao, the boss of Zhuibang, for the 500 starting coin reward
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