1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 449: Real Underwater Crop Circles
It really is a maze. The area is not small. Looking around, it is a very standard circular ring with a diameter of at least two meters.

The whole pattern can be described as "circles within circles".

There are several circles distributed inside and outside, and connecting the large and small circles are sun-like radiating lines.

The outermost ring is made up of dozens of small mounds at regular intervals, and inside is another circle of small mounds. The circle surrounded in the middle is relatively flat, but also covered with lines like sun rays.

The entire relief-like structure is both regular and intricate; it has the roughness of sand, but is magnificent and extremely delicate when you look closely.

If we have to make an analogy, Liang Ziqiang would think of the "crop circles" that are often mentioned in short videos in later generations.

However, crop circles all occur in wheat fields. Although some people have said that they are the work of aliens, the final explanation is that a performance artist deliberately went to the wheat fields and secretly created geometric patterns with a strong sense of regularity at night, which is completely reasonable.

But now this "crop circle" is actually spread out under the sea, and it is in the deep sea in the 1980s. It is impossible to say that it was carved overnight by a performance artist.

It is no wonder that Lu Zheng and the others were not only surprised, but even a little terrified. They looked around, fearing that there was something powerful and mysterious on this deep-sea island that was silently watching them.

Fangfang was very happy before, but now she couldn't help but clench her hands. The sea hare in her hand was twitching, and its life seemed to be counting on seconds. God had mercy on it.

"What's going on? How could there be a maze-like relief in a place where there shouldn't be any people?!" Lu Feng also turned his head and asked Liang Ziqiang in surprise.

"Go a little further and try to find it. Maybe we can find this maze-like thing!"

Liang Ziqiang suggested without rushing to say anything more.

"Still looking for it?"

Lu Zheng and the others grumbled something, but did not object. They followed Liang Ziqiang and the other two and continued to move forward.

I searched along the beach for a while, but didn't see any strange circles. However, I occasionally saw one or two spotted pufferfish passing by in the water, and then they disappeared in a moment.

Until they walked a few dozen meters further.

"Look, another one. They look exactly the same!" Xiaoyue raised her hand and pointed.

"Yes, it seems to be bigger than the previous one!" Fangfang was shocked again.

In front of Liang Ziqiang, in the same shallow sea water, another "crop circle" with exactly the same shape and structure appeared.

"It's so beautiful, but I don't know where it came from. It's beautiful but also a little scary..." Fangfang was completely conflicted.

"It's quite beautiful. To be honest, it has something to do with love." Liang Ziqiang spoke and sighed.

"What, you mean... love?"

Lu Zheng stared at Liang Ziqiang as if he had heard it wrong. It was strange to hear the word love in this place and at this time.

"Whose love?"

Lin Baixian also asked, because he and Li Liang had never seen such strange sand sculptures on the seabed.

"It has nothing to do with people."

"No, love has nothing to do with people?" This time, Xiaoyue and the others didn't understand what Liang Ziqiang meant even more.

"Did you notice any pufferfish swimming around just now?" Liang Ziqiang pointed into the sea.

"It seems that we saw a small pufferfish ahead." Lu Feng said.

"That's what they did." Liang Ziqiang said.

"Ah? You might as well say that it was done by some mysterious person! Can a pufferfish make this thing? It's neater than what people draw!" You Lijun just couldn't believe it.

"You can't get ordinary pufferfish. This is a very special pufferfish that only exists in the deep sea."

In fact, Liang Ziqiang really wanted to say that this kind of pufferfish is called "white-spotted narrow-fronted pufferfish", but it would be useless to say it, as they wouldn't know it even if he told them.

Not to mention them, he dared to guarantee that all the fishermen, including Li Liang and Lin Baixian, had never heard of the pufferfish called "white-spotted narrow-headed pufferfish". If Liang Ziqiang had not watched a program on the Ocean Channel in the future that specifically talked about white-spotted narrow-headed pufferfish, he would definitely feel mysterious today, and might even turn around and run away, faster than them.

The white-spotted pufferfish is a very strange but also remarkable deep-sea pufferfish.

This guy is actually not big, just a small one, about 10 cm long, brown all over, dotted with white spots, and has a translucent abdomen.

This kind of pufferfish is very particular about marriage, and if there is no wedding room, it will definitely not be able to find a partner. This is quite similar to people in later generations.

So, in order to be able to marry a wife, the male pufferfish tried his best and was forced to become an architectural artist.

During the breeding season, the white-spotted narrow-browed pufferfish, which is crazy about finding a wife, will begin to implement its grand fantasy.

It uses its body as a construction knife, constantly moving and swinging, outlining the sand under the sea into gullies and hills. It carves out the first outer ring, and then follows the same method to outline a slightly smaller inner ring.

As for the area surrounded in the middle, they will deliberately use their mouths to pick up the softest and most comfortable sand, smooth the sand repeatedly with their bellies, and then carve some beautiful patterns into it, which will become an extremely gentle wedding bed.

In order to make the wedding room more exquisite, Puffer will decorate it, clean up the seaweed and debris nearby, and bring in some beautiful small shells to use as embellishments.

The narrow-browed pufferfish woman has a very clear view on choosing a mate, which is to only look at the wedding house.

If the wedding room is big enough, the building exterior is beautiful enough, and the layer of fine sand in the center is of good quality, in their opinion, it means the man is sincere and that he is physically strong and healthy.

However, Liang Ziqiang actually felt that no matter how strong and robust the pufferfish was, it would become skinny if it stayed up all night for seven consecutive days to build a house.

That's right, in order to build such a wedding house, the male narrow-browed pufferfish needs to be busy for seven consecutive days.

You know, there were no helpers, no big or small workers, the whole beautiful "maze" was built by a pufferfish alone, fighting alone for seven days and nights. This is definitely much harder than building a house in Juzipo...

"This is the pufferfish's bridal chamber. This place is on the edge of the island. I guess there are more similar mazes under the deep water!"

Liang Ziqiang briefly explained the whole story.

"It sounds quite romantic!" Xiaoyue was a little bit surprised after hearing it.

"I never thought such a thing could happen to a tiny pufferfish! Is this the legendary power of love?"

Not to mention Fangfang, she started to be moved when the story was halfway through.

He blinked and scanned the sea water, as if looking for the narrow-headed pufferfish.

Liang Ziqiang was a little worried at this moment. Would she think the pufferfish were cute and fish two pufferfish out of the water to play with?

The narrow-fronted pufferfish is not the brown-bellied pufferfish, so it is poisonous anyway.

Fortunately, she didn't show any signs of really trying to catch the puffer fish. Instead, she leaned closer to Lu Feng and snuggled up to him even tighter.

Lu Feng still loves his wife very much, and his face is full of envy at this moment.

I wish I could be as skilled as a human being and spend days and nights to build a beautiful maze on the beach. Unfortunately, I am not as skilled as a pig.

"Didn't you bring a camera with you? I want to take a photo with that maze..." Fangfang suggested.

There was actually a camera hanging around Lu Feng’s neck, and you could see the word “Seagull” printed on it.

There aren't many people who can play with cameras these days...

Lu Feng quickly took off his Seagull 4 twin-lens reflex camera and handed it to Lu Zheng, asking Lu Zheng to take a picture of him and Fangfang.

The two of them squatted side by side on the edge of the beach, and were able to capture portraits and underwater crop circles in the camera.

With the sound of clicking, Fangfang smiled happily and put her left hand into Lu Feng's hand.

In her right hand, she had been holding the cute little sea hare. Judging from the appearance, it was already dead...

(End of this chapter)