Chapter 207: Can’t Run Far

In the evening, Feng Yi met Professor Ding and Professor Li, who were temporarily transferred from the same sea snake task force.

It was just too late, and the two professors were too tired after going out all day, so Feng Yi just went over to say hello to them, chatted briefly, and then returned.

They all lived in the same dormitory building, so it was convenient to visit them if there was anything.

The next morning, Feng Yi went to the cafeteria to finish his meal, and waited for the two professors at the agreed time and place, and headed to the coast together.

Both professors were in their early forties, but Professor Ding was more talkative. On the way, he told Feng Yi a lot about their work in Mo City in the past two days, while Professor Li had a stern face. This attitude was not directed at Feng Yi, but at the outbreak of sea stars and some deep reasons behind it.

When they arrived at the place, a large area on the seaside was very lively, and it woke up much earlier than the city.

"The demand for starfish among vendors has increased dramatically. I saw your story online yesterday." Professor Ding joked, "I heard that the owner of the restaurant you visited was so happy that his face almost broke with laughter!"

The restaurant's account on the social platform also held a lottery, drawing a dozen free meal spots. Looking at the number of reposts, you can tell that this wave of popularity has been caught and made a fortune. The owner also thanked Feng Yi on the platform.

However, looking at the whole country, there are still a few people who can come to Mo City. Most people see related topics online and are curious about starfish.

For people far away from the coast, they eat less seafood, let alone niche seafood such as starfish.

Many people were surprised when they saw the related topics brought up by Feng Yi while browsing the news:

Starfish?

Can this thing be eaten?

Is it delicious?

They may not like to eat it, but people are curious and follow the crowd. Besides, starfish is not expensive compared to other rare seafood. Buying two to try it out is affordable.

As a result, the online business of some stores in Mo City has increased dramatically.

To buy starfish, you have to queue up, but now there are even more people.

Starfish are divided up as soon as they are caught.

Feng Yi also saw some vendors live-streaming on their phones, standing on their boats and talking loudly to online customers: "Buy now, ship now, guarantee freshness! They are all starfish that have just been caught, not those that have been in the cold storage for a long time and I don't know if they have spoiled!"

"Starfish are so popular?" Feng Yi asked.

"It's very popular. No one is raising starfish on a large scale now, and the source is limited. They saw an opportunity with this outbreak. It's just that there are a lot of people queuing up today, twice as many as yesterday... no, twice as many!" Professor Ding said, looking at the people who hurried over from a distance.

The queue for buying starfish is getting longer and longer, and some vendors are arguing over the goods. During the few minutes that Feng Yi and the others were talking, someone started a fight, but was quickly stopped by the management here.

Unlike these people who were excited to buy starfish, there were some people with sad faces standing on the other side.

Feng Yi could sense their anxiety from a distance, especially when they saw that the number of starfish caught was still large, their emotions fluctuated strongly.

"Who are those people over there?" Feng Yi pointed over there.

"Farmers." Professor Ding sighed.

"Are they all raising clams?"

"Not only that, but also other marine delicacies. There are also farmers from other places who come to see the situation."

Feng Yi understood.

Starfish are so ferocious that they can eat oysters, scallops, and abalone. If no measures are taken, their outbreak will eventually wipe out all the marine delicacies raised by people.

"Undersea locusts" are not nonsense.

The outbreak of starfish has stimulated a new, temporarily active market.

But compared with the loss of aquatic resources such as clams, this new market is far from making up for it. Otherwise, those farmers would not be so anxious. Even if they use their own boats and employees to catch starfish every day, the harvest is far less than their losses.

For example, when planting crops, the seedlings planted are destroyed by locusts before they grow up. How can you tolerate this?

Farmers will cry when they encounter such a situation.

The farmers are feeling the same way now. It is just the beginning. No one knows how big this wave of starfish disaster will be and how long it will last.

The three were chatting when two more people came over from a distance.

Professor Li, who had been in deep thought and had a tense face, smiled a little and greeted the two people over there. He introduced Feng Yi, "The one with the big bag is Mr. Mu who is doing marine food research. The one next to him is from the Ocean Development Bureau."

Apparently, Professor Li has a good relationship with Mr. Mu.

The two people who came over paused when they saw Feng Yi's face.

"Feng Yi? Did he take this mission?" Mr. Mu knew that there was another expert coming from the Joint Security Bureau, but he didn't expect that the person who came was Feng Yi.

"You know him too? I didn't know you often visit social media platforms."

"I first knew him because of the giant python in Florida, and later found out that he was quite popular on the Internet. But this time we are investigating the starfish outbreak, isn't he a snake catcher? Why is he here?"

"The people from the Joint Security Bureau asked him to come and help, saying that he has good diving skills. In fact, they just wanted him to meet more people. The people from the Joint Security Bureau think highly of him."

"People with abilities are worth looking at."

They don't look at people by appearance, they only look at whether they have real abilities.

Therefore, the two of them were very kind to Feng Yi, especially Teacher Mu. After approaching, the smile on his face deepened, and he looked sincere and enthusiastic.

Professor Ding glanced at Teacher Mu's backpack, "What are you carrying? New product? I heard you made a lot of money selling the formula this time!"

Teacher Mu smiled modestly, opened his backpack, and took out the small bags inside: "I have newly researched it, and added some starfish snacks. Come on, let's try it."

As he spoke, Teacher Mu looked at Feng Yi, "You are from Yangcheng, right. I don't know if it suits the taste of people over there. Do you like spicy food?"

Feng Yi replied: "I'm not picky. I've lived in Rongcheng for a few years, so I can eat some spicy food."

Teacher Mu grabbed a few bags into his backpack, without even looking at how many bags he grabbed, and stuffed them directly into Feng Yi: "One original flavor, one sauce flavor, the sauce flavor is spicier, come on, take it, try them all! I think it's delicious. I’ll help you carry the goods in the future!”

Feng Yi also said cheerfully: "Okay!"

Professor Ding next to him smiled and pointed at Teacher Mu, "No wonder you see Feng Yi smiling so brightly. It's because you see Feng Yi's popularity on the Internet!"

Teacher Mu had other things to do with the people from the Ocean Development Bureau, so he didn't stop here to talk more. He added Feng Yi's contact information and left.

After the two of them walked away, Feng Yi said: "This Teacher Mu..."

"Huh?" Professor Ding cast a doubtful look.

"There seems to be something on his mind." Feng Yi could already see that Teacher Mu's inner mood was not as high as it appeared.

"Tsk, did you see it?" Professor Ding didn't expect Feng Yi to be able to see through Teacher Mu's true emotions, "He and several of his friends own breeding farms, and the losses this time are not small. Fortunately, this time he sold the formula I've made some money, which is better than others. But there are losses, so it's weird to be happy. Moreover, although this starfish outbreak is not as big as the one during the climate abnormality, it is expected to be bigger than the one ten years ago. Big, not too optimistic.”

Professor Li suddenly said: "It's not an expectation, it's a certainty! This time it will definitely be more serious than the one ten years ago!"

Feng Yi looked at the farmers not far away. If it was true as the two professors said, there would be more farmers standing on the shore crying in a few days.

Looking at the bags of snacks in his hand, Feng Yi took out his mobile phone, took a few photos, and posted them to the social platform——

[On the first day of work, let’s help with the food tasting! [Picture][Picture][Picture]]

In fact, Feng Yi preferred the steamed starfish he had eaten in that restaurant yesterday, with some sauce. The poisonous nature of the starfish just added to the flavor.

Teacher Mu’s snacks have detoxified starfish, so they have less poisonous smell, but are more friendly to ordinary people.

On the Internet, people who follow Feng Yi discovered that Feng Yi posted a new status today!

Look again, snacks? dessert?

[I just placed an order for Mocheng’s Starfish online, but I didn’t see this thing. What is it? Is it tasty? Which brand? 】

[The packaging is so simple, is it a local specialty? The kind that can be bought and installed in a physical store? Please give me the name of the store! Please purchase on behalf of me! 】

[Please tell me where I can buy this! Is it sold online? 】

[Here’s the link! Where is the link to this thing? ? Brother Snake, have you forgotten something? ! 】

After posting the new status, Feng Yi had already exited the platform and put his phone in his pocket.

Others from the investigation team also arrived.

There are nearly ten team members responsible for investigating the starfish outbreak, but these are not the only ones who go out with the ship. Some are temporary employees, and some are students brought in by experts to help.

Today, the team has two ships out to sea. One is mainly for monitoring data and analyzing the current situation, and the other is responsible for fishing.

Feng Yi first followed Professor Ding and others, handing them tools to record data. In this regard, he was not as good as the students taught by the professors, let alone the professional staff.

After hanging out for a long time, Feng Yi went to another boat in the afternoon. If you don’t know anything else, catching starfish is much easier!

After this starfish outbreak, some strictly prohibited fishing tools were temporarily put into use. However, the nets used by the investigation team were modified for starfish and were different from those used by fishermen and traders, but they also required the cooperation of many people.

In the morning, he had seen how the staff used nets and cages, and now he was ready to go into the water to help.

The person in charge here asked Feng Yi: "Do you have a certificate?"

Feng Yi: "Yes."

The person in charge originally wanted to give a few reminders, but when the words came to his lips, he held them back. With another person, he could talk about the precautions for half an hour, but Feng Yi is also a member of the expert group, so he shouldn't need to emphasize too much.

In the end, I only told Feng Yi which areas needed new nets and which areas could be closed. There was not much fishing work in the afternoon.

Feng Yi put on his diving equipment and went into the water with the other two divers.

A variety of chemical information is distributed in the water environment, controlling almost all aspects of aquatic animal behavior.

Fengyi is not an aquatic animal, but he can still feel the information conveyed by the chemical substances in this water environment. It was just the diving gear that was preventing him from receiving the signal.

To put it exaggeratedly, if he sticks out his tongue and licks the water here, he can tell how many marine life there are nearby.

Of course, he would never do this!

In order to record data and communicate with the expert team in real time, their diving equipment is equipped with a communication system.

One of the divers said to Feng Yi: "Let's collect a few sets of data first. It won't take long. You haven't been in the water for a while. Get familiar with it first and swim nearby to find out the status."

Feng Yi returned the gesture with an "ok" gesture, "When you're done here, call me and I'll be back soon."

Watching Feng Yi slowly swim forward, the two divers smiled and started recording data.

They are already proficient in these tasks, and the instrument testing is also fast.

Feng Yi swam forward, and the farther he was from the two divers, the faster he increased his speed.

Finding the state?

Why do you need to find the state specifically!

As long as you get into the water, the state will come!

It's just that the diving suit restricts his performance too much.

Thinking of this, Feng Yi rushed out a long way.

There are indeed many starfish under the water.

They are not everywhere in other places, and many tourist attractions along the coast may not see many of them.

The outbreak in the waters of Mocheng does not mean that all of them live here.

They are attracted by the food in the farms here. The starfish in other parts of the sea receive the signal of "there is food" and rush here to gather into a starfish army.

It is these little things that look harmless and a little cute that have caused great economic losses and psychological harm to local farmers. They should not be underestimated.

Feng Yi changed the muscles, bones and organs of some parts of his body, so he can walk freely under the water. Although he looks no different from ordinary divers, he is very different inside. There is no need for a buoyancy adjustment device at all.

Grab a starfish and look at it.

Where are its eyes?

Not every creature has what people commonly define as "eyes" or "nose".

They should be receptors.

They can sense light, sound, chemicals, etc. transmitted from the seawater.

No matter what kind of external stimulus, there are generally two effects -

Can it be eaten? Or can it not be eaten?

The substances emitted by the marine ranch in Mocheng convey the message to them:

Come on! Have fun! Have a big meal!

So the starfish came in groups.

Feng Yi looked at the starfish around him, mainly the multi-spined sea urchins.

He threw the starfish in his hand as a dart, and then overturned a large one under his feet. He wanted to see how it turned over, but it turned too slowly, and Feng Yi had no time to wait.

He grabbed a bigger starfish, stood it on its side, let its body be perpendicular to the ground, and threw it forward. Before it fell to the bottom of the water, Feng Yi had already swam there, flicked his hand, and continued to move forward.

Feng Yi swam while throwing the starfish all the way.

If those starfish could talk, they would definitely have cursed loudly.

Feng Yi threw starfish and felt the vast sea.

I used to want to save money to buy a big swimming pool, but now I find that swimming in the sea is more enjoyable!

Or, earn money to buy an island?

On the other side, after the two divers on the boat entered multiple sets of data, they looked around and didn't see Feng Yi.

They didn't use the communication system to contact immediately, because they wanted to see where Feng Yi went to play.

A diver took out the positioning instrument he carried with him. Those who performed underwater tasks were all equipped with positioning devices.

The instrument in his hand would display the location of the designated teammates in a circular area with a radius of one thousand meters.

In this time, Feng Yi shouldn't be able to run far at that speed.

However...

[No target found]

The two divers were dumbfounded.

Where is the person? ! !