In the next few days, the encounter of the exploration team fully confirmed Elon''s warning that the road to the "gate of hell" is very dangerous.
At noon this day, the exploration ship docked beside an island with an area of several hundred square meters. The chef began to prepare lunch, while the crew drove three magic boats to salvage conches and seashells in the surrounding area to add food for themselves.
During the storm season, conch and seashell are one of the few fresh seafood that are easily available.
After all, they don''t have long feet and poor swimming ability. They can''t go back to the deep sea like sea fish and sea animals.
At the end of the windward month, the vast majority of conches and seashells are still living on the sea floor, trying to catch plankton or algae in the sea, seizing the last period of time and desperately storing energy.
Once entering the cold winter months, the temperature is close to freezing point, they will drill into the sand, bury themselves, and survive the two months with the lowest temperature.
However, the depth of conch and seashell is not deep. It may be difficult for human to dig them, but it''s very easy to get them out with magic machines.
When Renault arrived at the tidal islands, he solved the problem of food shortage by digging the white sand clam.
In the following storm season, the "sand drill" team of Odin island never stopped working, which made the whole island people spend a period full of "white sand clam" breath.
Up to now, the fishery company under the administrative department has a highly specialized team, and is equipped with more than 20 Magic Shell excavators with crawler chassis.
Their footprints are all over the surrounding islands of Odin Island, where there are sand beaches, there will be Magic Shell diggers.
With these highly efficient digging machines, fishery companies can supply more than 12000 tons of conch and shellfish every week.
"Eh, there is a long strip-shaped reef over there. It seems that there is a seashell attached to the surface of the reef..."
A sailor looking around suddenly pointed to a certain direction and cried out.
A sailor, who controls the magic boat, gently steers the wheel. The boat goes through an arc in the water. The slender hull breaks the water waves and slowly sails to the rocks.
When the distance was about 10 meters, the sailor who found the seashell could not help hissing:
"this is really a big guy..."
This seashell is quite large, with a length of more than 5 meters. Even in the "big" exotic seashell, it can be regarded as a giant.
The sailor nodded with approval:
"it''s really big enough. I''ll bet that at least 200 kilograms of shellfish can be dug out I hope its meat tastes better... "
The shape of this seashell is very irregular. Its shell is dark and rough, with a texture of rock. There are traces of algae growth on the surface, which makes it look like a reef.
People who have bad eyes or are not familiar with seashells can hardly distinguish them when they are near.
Another marine said with a smile:
"Diez, your eyes are so sharp, you can see it from so far away."
"Of course The sailor, who was called "diese", said with pride, "Hey, I''ve been living on the sea since I was a child. I often dive into the sea to catch conches and seashells Over the years, I don''t know how many seashells I''ve seen... "
As he spoke, dees quickly jumped from the bow to the reef, carrying a magic hand drill to the seashell.
Like oysters on the earth, this kind of seashells like to attach rocks secrete a kind of colloid and stick the shell firmly on the surface of rocks to avoid being washed away by the tide.
The colloid secreted by alien seashells is more viscous. Heavy weapons such as maces are hard to break down. Magic drills that can even drill through stones must be used to get them down.
"Bang Bang... "
The military boots embedded in steel plates vibrated slightly on the surface of the reef.
"Poof!"
The shell of the seashell opens slightly, revealing a crevice and spewing out a stream of sea water.
This scene startled diess and made him pause.
When he saw that the shell was just spraying water, and there was no other action, he laughed and scolded, and continued to stride forward.
When he walked 4 or 5 meters away, the seashell trembled, and the shell suddenly opened at an angle of more than 90 degrees.
Three wet tentacles shot out of the shell and flashed in front of him like lightning. They tightly entangled his body and pulled him to the shell.
This is a strange eating Seashell!
There''s no doubt it''s going to eat DAEs.
The sudden change makes diess panic and struggle, and other people on the magic boat are in a mess.
"Shell shooting!" A marine yelled.
A group of people just like the beginning of a dream to wake up, have pulled out pistols, aimed at the scallop.
However, before the sailors could shoot, the meat of the scallops swelled again.
"Poof!"
Large brown mucus spewed out rapidly, pouring diess all over his face.Then something terrible happened.
Dees''s face melted like a liquid.
The skin and muscles melt into a yellow liquid, flowing down like a waterfall. The whole face is instantly out of shape. It looks terrible and disgusting.
"Ah ~"
diess howled wildly in pain and struggled desperately.
At this time, a group of sailors finally opened fire.
"Hiss Hissing... "
A barrage of bullets enveloped the scallops.
Most of the bullets hit the shell, or the nearby rocks, making a "bang bang" explosion sound. However, the shell is thick and hard, and the bullets are shot straight away. They can''t penetrate the shell at all, leaving only shallow pits.
Only a small number of bullets accurately hit the shellfish and tore out wounds, but this could not stop the shellfish''s tentacles from dragging dees.
When the predatory shellfish was about to bite the hapless sailors, a sharp air roar suddenly sounded in the air.
"Wu..."
A figure with a gust of wind appears in front of the scallop in an almost instantaneous way.
It''s Renault.
He glanced at the tentacle that twisted diess, and a sharp look flashed in his eyes, holding his right hand falsely.
Just listen to "pa pa" a few times, tentacles by an invisible hand, violent tear, fracture juice gushing.
Carnivorous shellfish seems to feel bad, a few broken tentacles quickly shrink into the shell.
Renault snorted and nodded the scallop with his right hand.
"Boom!"
The shellfish was like being hit by a thousand ton hammer. The hard shell, which was hard to be damaged by bullets, was smashed instantly. The shellfish meat was also crushed, and the juice and broken meat were all over the floor.
So powerful was the blow that even a few cracks appeared on the reef.
Then the flames burst out of thin air, and in a flash, the scallops were cooked.
"Wu..."
Another gust of wind blew by, and Renault and diess, who were seriously injured and dying, disappeared at the same time.
At the same time, a dignified voice sounded in the ears of all the crew:
"I order that all those who leave the exploration ship must wear protective clothing and helmets..."
……
Unfortunately, despite Renault''s full rescue, the corrosive venom from the scallop has flowed into diese''s brain, seriously damaging the brain tissue.
Just 30 seconds later, the marine, who had been in the Navy for only one year, stopped breathing.
This is the first death in this exploration operation.
This sea area shrouded in fog is obviously more dangerous than you think, not only because of the dangerous terrain, but also because of all kinds of strange and ferocious sea monsters.