After marrying the interstellar boss, I was taken away!

Chapter 492 Body protection mechanism?

Seeing that the other party finally left, Jiang Huaicai was secretly delighted and decided to use this trick next time he encountered a similar situation.

Haha, I can only say that it’s too early for young people to be happy. She will come back.

When Qi Zhen saw so many mutated animals on the seabed, he suddenly didn't want to swim anymore. He clung to the shell of a large sea turtle, admiring these creatures like a tourist.

The scene, especially the one where they swam together, was so shocking that it was truly a visual feast.

Qi Zhen kept taking photos while holding the photo stone in his mouth, and had completely forgotten his previous plans.

The start was too smooth, so she always inadvertently lost the sense of urgency. It was really bad. Qi Zhen shook the fish's head and wanted to take back the photo stone and focus on exploring the seabed. Then the next moment, she saw a coral group that seemed to have no end.

Wow! Qi Zhen took a deep breath. It was indeed a treasure formed by absorbing the essence of the seabed. It was dazzling and sparkling, and it was fascinating everywhere.

She couldn't help but speed up and swim over. Gah, everything dazzling, charming, mysterious... was gone. All that was left were thumb-sized coral polyps densely attached to the coral reefs. She guessed that they were spitting out limestone.

The coral polyps, which were originally the size of rice grains, have mutated to the size of thumbs, which makes people feel uncomfortable when looking at them. The key is that they are so tightly packed that even she, who does not have trypophobia, cannot help but frown.

Don’t look at it, just look at the above, how can we say that the skeletons of dead insects are more acceptable than those of living ones.

This was indeed the case. Qi Zhen's discomfort was relieved a lot, but for some reason the turtle she was holding on to swam lower and lower, directly approaching the bottom of the coral reef.

What's going on? She wants to eat coral polyps? Don't turtles eat seaweed? Let her think about it. It seems that they also eat corals, but they have to crush them with their jaws first. Yes, they eat them.

Qi Zhen got off the turtle and swam slowly along the coral reef to see if there were any treasures.

Hiss, I didn't find the baby and almost bumped into a ball of thorns. I was so scared that I stepped back quickly. My vision suddenly widened. Oh my god, there was not just one, but a whole wave.

However, these stinging balls were obviously not very interested in her, and they swarmed over the corals and started to suck.

Eating corals? Covered with thorns? She immediately thought of an animal, the long-spined sea star, also known as the coral killer, or the 'devil killer'.

These guys specialize in eating corals. They eat like crazy and reproduce quickly and in large numbers. If they are not stopped, they can really eat up all the corals.

In the time it took her to be stunned, a corner of a small clump of corals half a meter high was absorbed. At this speed, such a large clump of corals would not last for a few days.

Should she protect these corals? Will there be any extra rewards if she protects them? I think so. After all, there are rewards for not only completing the mission, but also for discovering other things.

Then try? But how to save these corals? She hunts them herself? With her small body, any thorn of the long-spined sea star can paralyze her.

No, she didn't want to die before she could accomplish her goal. She had to think of a way, hmm, to stop this thing from reproducing? To set fire to the eggs? It was a bit far-fetched, even if the seabed could catch fire, she had to find the eggs first.

There are tens of millions of eggs and she may die without finding them all, but it should be easier to find its natural enemies.

Qi Zhen calmed down and thought, although the long-spined sea star rarely has rivals, it does not mean that there are none, and she just happens to know one, the giant conch.

This giant conch not only has tender meat and high nutritional value, but also has a very beautiful shell. It is often made into jewelry and sold as souvenirs.

However, due to overfishing, its number has been greatly reduced and it has become a protected animal. If you fish for it privately, you will be punished by stepping on a sewing machine.

All the ones on the market were artificially bred. She had been in the interstellar space for so long, but she had not seen this kind of giant conch in the seafood market. She guessed there were two reasons for this: first, the number of giant conchs was still pitifully small, second, the danger of the ocean was much higher than that of the land, and second, the overall value of the marine products was lower than that of the land animals.

It is not that the nutritional value of seafood is not high, on the contrary it is very high, but it is difficult to catch, the shipment volume is small and it does not guarantee fullness, so the cost-effectiveness is far worse than that of land animals.

In this era of extreme food shortage, everyone's first choice is naturally land beasts.

So where should she go to catch some giant conches? Giant conches are carnivorous shellfish, and they should eat other meat besides starfish. How about trying their meat?

No, it's too hard to suck. It's safer to find some shellfish, sea cucumbers, hydras and the like. Wait, instead of going through the trouble of finding these, I might as well just catch a starfish.

When natural enemies meet, they will use their tentacles to kill each other even if they are full. Otherwise, how can they be called natural enemies?

After a round, he still had to face the starfish. Qi Zhen suppressed his delicate mood, hid his body in the coral reef, carefully observed the movements of the starfish, and tried to find a lone one.

I didn't expect the mutated starfish to be so united. They all gathered on one clump of corals and would not move to another one until they had finished eating all of them.

She had to find a way to defeat them one by one. Hey, what did she see? There was a lone one!

Haha, there’s a price to pay for being greedy, and it’s you!

Although it was just a starfish, it was not so easy to defeat it. It had 18 tentacles, each covered with thorns, which were very sharp and had their own toxins, so it would be very painful if you were not careful.

The thorns on the other side were relatively blunt, but she still didn't dare to do it. She didn't dare to do it as a human, and she was even more afraid to do it as a fish.

After much thought, she decided to use a safer method. She took out a fishing net and tried to bite it with her teeth. Well, she overestimated it. The teeth of a fish cannot compare to those of a mutant rat.

Fish nets are not suitable, and large fishing nets are definitely not suitable. How about metal needles? Although they cannot penetrate the defense, the pain is real.

The young man before had already confirmed this.

The spines of the long-spined sea star stretch out to 35 centimeters. The ones below are not visible for the time being, but her golden needles must be longer than this.

As the golden needle became longer, Qi Zhen felt the pressure. The resistance in water was already great, and even a small needle was not easy to control with her body.

Qi Zhen fiddled with it for a long time, and only took action after making sure that the aim was good enough.

Swish, the golden needle cleverly avoided the thorns and pierced into the skin of the starfish. The skin of the starfish was dented, but the defense was not broken. So he tried to pierce it again.

At this moment, an exceptionally long thorn suddenly emerged from the side and was about to pierce her belly. A white light shield suddenly appeared on her body. Snap, the thorn hit the light shield and was blocked, so it instinctively shrank back, and the halo dissipated.

Qi Zhen's pair of dead fish eyes burst into intense joy. She really didn't expect that this kind of protection mechanism could also be used against attacks by original marine creatures.

Yes, she had seen this protection mechanism before. When no scales were lit up, their bodies would light up a white light shield when attacked by the bomb fruit, thus offsetting the damage of the bomb fruit.

Before, she just thought it was a warning signal of invalid attack, and she didn't expect it could be used in this way.

If things continue like this, won't she be able to kill a ton of people in the sea?

Although it is not big in size, as long as I am not dead, I will definitely defeat the opponent one day. Otherwise, why not start with this starfish?