How to become a mermaid

Chapter 171 Octopus Trap

While the murlocs were chattering, the Moni had already sailed into the deep water.

However, it was Alicia, not Shamanlael, who drove the boat.

After these days of observation, she has also mastered the skill of sailing a boat, and she seems to be more talented than Shaman Lair, and she can sail in a decent way for the first time.

It happened that the weather was calm now, and there was no storm on the sea, so Shamanlell simply handed over the task of sailing to her.

And he himself followed Ao Lei to fish in the sea.

Their target this time is a giant octopus.

During these days when Shamanleil was treating Huck, he did not delay in practicing surgical suturing, basically consuming two or three octopus legs every day.

The three big octopuses Ole caught last time had their legs cut off by Shaman Lear. Now they are all octopuses with broken legs. They are all bare. It will take at least a few months for them to grow their legs again.

Without the practice materials, Shaman Lair had to go to the sea to arrest him.

"Octopuses like to live in narrow and dark places, and they especially like to drill holes. If you pay more attention to the crevices of rocks, or those bottles and cans that sink in the sea, it is easy to find these guys."

While teaching octopus catching skills, Ole opened a wooden board deposited on the seabed with his tentacles.

Not to mention, there really is an octopus under this board.

As the board was lifted, a small palm-sized octopus jumped out, waving its tentacles and flinging away.

Shamanleir didn't go after it, and let it escape.

He doesn't need such a small octopus yet, what he wants is a two to three meter long octopus, the bigger the better.

Swimming along with the boat, Shamanlell looked around with his eyes to see if there was any place under the water that Ole said the octopus liked to stay in.

Ole slowly followed Shamanlell, escorting him.

Suddenly, Samantel stopped.

Instead of an octopus, he spotted a lush, colorful carpet of anemones.

It may be due to the different sea areas. The sea anemones he sees now are big and bright, and they are much more beautiful than the sea anemones he found in the place where he and Alicia lived.

"I want to take some sea anemones back to raise!" After turning around and saying something to Ao Lei, Shamanlell rushed to those sea anemones.

"Whew!" Something popped out of the sea anemone, shaking in front of Shamanlell.

Leaning back nimbly, he dodged the blow.

A large reddish-brown octopus is hidden in this pile of sea anemones. The body length of this octopus is about one or two meters, and the color of its skin is almost integrated with the surrounding sea anemones.

Octopuses are seabed chameleons. There is a special pigment cell on their skin that allows them to change the color of their skin according to the environment. Because they are molluscs, they can also change their shape to simulate other animals.

If it hadn't moved just now, Samantel would not have noticed that there was an octopus hidden here for a while.

The big octopus opened its two huge eyes, staring at Shamanleer with a tiger's eyes, and a few thick tentacles were wriggling among the sea anemones, as if looking for the next opportunity to make a move.

Seeing the octopus, Shamanlear had a smile on his face.

Isn't this a coincidence, the experimental materials delivered to the door by myself!

He watched the octopus closely, ready to catch it anytime.

The best way to catch octopuses is to catch them with nets or traps in jars. It is really troublesome to 1v1 underwater.

These guys have great strength in their arms and legs, and can often drag large rocks that are 5 times, 10 times, or even 20 times heavier than their own weight. The two rows of suction cups on the tentacles are also very powerful. Eight tentacles are entangled together. will suffocate.

Watched by Shaman Lair, the big octopus seemed to sense danger, and slowly backed away.

Suddenly, its skin turned pink, and it spurted a stream of thick ink towards Shamanlael.

Not only cuttlefish can spray ink, but octopus can also spray ink, but it is not as good as cuttlefish.

Shamanlell was waiting for the time for it to spray juice. After seeing the octopus crawling out of the sea anemone pile, he flicked his tail and hit the big head of the octopus heavily.

There was only a "pop", and the octopus was thrown onto the sand and gravel on the bottom of the sea.

Caught off guard, the octopus was stunned. However, before it could react, Shamanlell slapped the octopus with his tail.

When the octopus was knocked out and fell to the ground motionless, Shamanlear swam over to pick it up.

Before bringing it back to the boat, Shamanleir also picked out several large anemones in good health from where it had been before.

He carried a bunch of things and swam towards Moni, and soon caught up with the big boat that was moving at a constant speed.

Opening the window on the side of the boat, Shamanlael slid into the boat with a stab.

After putting these trophies into the fish tank, he hopped and ran to the place where he kept the bottles and cans.

It is too troublesome to catch octopuses one by one, and Shamanlell is going to make several octopus traps.

The so-called octopus traps are empty jars.

No octopus will refuse the temptation of a big jar, just tie the empty jar to the boat or throw it underwater, and these molluscs will come to your door automatically.

Shamanleir spent a long time picking out a few large jars with a diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters and a height of about half a meter from a pile of bottles and jars. Weaved a fishing net with a big hole in the middle.

With this net, the octopus cannot get out easily once it comes in.

After checking carefully to make sure that the hemp rope on the jars would not fall off easily, Shamanlell took them into the water and tied the jars to the bottom of the cabin.

Well, the octopus trap is complete, and then we just need to wait for them to take the bait.

After setting traps for the octopuses, Shamanlell swam in the sea for a while, looking for something.

He decided he had so few of these pots on hand that he needed to make a batch of his own to catch octopus.

A type of seaweed is needed to make jars.

After swimming forward for tens of nautical miles, a clump of strange-looking gray-brown seaweed, which looked like large mushrooms, came into Shamanleir's eyes.

Seeing this thing, his eyes lit up, and he quickly swam over there.

【Name: Unknown】

[Species: Foam Seaweed]

[Alienation degree: 1.3%]

[Status: Vigorous growth]

[Special part: overall]

[Evaluation: Spit bubbles after eating]

[Note: A widely distributed seaweed, which can be found in both shallow and deep seas. It can also grow in dirty water areas, and even has the effect of purifying water quality. The male and female plants are dioecious, and the male plants are more colorful than the female plants. bright.

This kind of seaweed can produce viscous juice, which can be used to glue objects. Common sea sand products on the market are glued with this kind of seaweed. It is waterproof to a certain extent, but it is not fireproof, and it is easy to fall apart under high temperature. 】

(End of this chapter)