The whale shark was a little hot-tempered, probably because it was injured. When it saw Zhang Xiao approaching, it did not stay still on the surface of the water like the humpback whale. Instead, it sank its entire body into the sea.
Zhang Xiao played with the whale shark for a while before the whale shark gradually relaxed its vigilance against Zhang Xiao and floated to the surface of the water again. Its fins and tail swayed gently, and its entire body floated on the surface of the water.
However, Zhang Xiao felt a headache coming on. She could only wave her hand to signal for Zhou Shuyi to go into the sea to help her.
After all, whale sharks were larger than humpback whales and had more barnacles.
"Does everyone know? In fact, both whales and humans hated barnacles.
Although barnacles were very expensive, many fishermen still hated barnacles.”
" Barnacles are also a type of 'foul creature' to humans.
Many fishermen had a large number of barnacles attached to the bottom of their ships, which greatly increased the resistance of sailing, reduced the speed of the fishing boats, and caused the fishing boats to consume more fuel.”
" Actually, barnacles are just a small matter for fishing boats. Other than consuming a little more fuel, nothing else is harmful.”
" For factories that extract seawater for cooling or undersea oil drilling factories, barnacles are the real trouble and burden.”
"In the East China Sea alone, the annual cost of removing barnacles is as high as one billion yuan. However, in the South China Sea, barnacles are actually not bad as ingredients to make soup."
" Oh, I see, hahaha. It seems that Brother Xiao has revealed his true nature as a foodie again, hahaha."
"I have to say, Brother Xiao is really knowledgeable!!”
"Then why aren't you collecting more to make soup? Hahaha!"
"I've learned a lot! So barnacles really made people 'love and hate' at the same time, hahaha!!”
After climbing onto the whale shark's body, Zhou Shuyi also helped him collect as much as she could.
The whale shark probably knew what Zhang Xiao and the others were doing. It had probably been tormented by the barnacles enough, so it was exceptionally quiet when Zhang Xiao and the others were collecting barnacles.
To Zhang Xiao's surprise, there were many barnacles on the whale shark's abdomen. Large patches of barnacles were connected together, looking ferocious and terrifying.
However, the number of barnacles on its back was very small, only a small piece.
This was related to the habits of whale sharks.
The skin on the back of the whale shark was smooth, and the barnacles had no place to hide.
Whale sharks liked to float on the surface of the sea to bask in the sun. Many barnacles could not stand the heat of the sun, so they died directly.
The barnacles on the bodies of these sea monsters were the most fertile barnacles. Zhang Xiao had collected almost half of the barnacles in a short while. He thought to himself that it was really an unexpected harvest. Not bad, not bad!!!
Soon, the two of them spent half a day's effort to send several bags of barnacles back to the ship. Zhang Xiao then checked the meat of the barnacles and his eyes lit up.
This whale shark was probably older than the two humpback whales, and the barnacles on its body were fatter than the barnacles collected from the two humpback whales.
After that, Zhang Xiao swam to the bottom of the sea to take a few more glances. The barnacles on the whale shark were indeed fatter than the barnacles on the humpback whale, but there were much fewer of them. Basically, there was only one plate on the abdomen, which added up to more than 100 kilograms. Among the marine giant beasts, it was definitely considered relatively clean.
Of course, even if it was more than a hundred catties, a few more catties would be enough for Zhang Xiao and Zhou Shuyi to enjoy.
"By the way, Brother Xiao, these barnacles shouldn't be cheap, right?”
Zhou Shuyi asked curiously.
Zhang Xiao nodded." This is a very rare top-grade ingredient. Although it's not as exaggerated as the goose neck barnacles, it's much more expensive than the barnacles under ordinary boats.”
Goose-neck barnacles were known as delicacies from hell. A slightly better quality one could be sold for thousands of yuan per catty.
"Shall we make a pot of barnacles soup later?”Zhou Shuyi smiled.
"Sure!"
Zhang Xiao said with a smile.
"Yay!"
"Oh right, we should go ashore too. We've harvested a lot of seafood this time.”
The main reason was that the reserves of vegetables and fruits were small, and they were prone to spoilage. After they went ashore this time, they would definitely have to specially vacate a frozen cabin to replenish a large number of vegetables and fruits.
"Alright, let's have a good time when we reach Pioneer Beach!!”
Zhang Xiao said with a smile.
"Wow, good, good. I have to say that after drifting for two to three days, I really miss land a little, hahaha!!”
Zhou Shuyi's heart was filled with anticipation!!
Very quickly.
The barnacles on the whale shark's body had been cleaned up.
With just the strength of Zhang Xiao and Zhou Shuyi, they were exhausted.
The whale shark seemed to be a little afraid of the killer whale. After Zhang Xiao and Zhou Shuyi boarded the boat, it stayed where it was and did not move. It did not swim with Zhang Xiao like the other two humpback whales and killer whales.
This was actually very normal.
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