gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 199 Could it be Sea Dragon Palace?

Fang Hong finally swam to the red coral: "Brother Gun, the experts remind you to be careful, the corners of the red coral can scratch the diving suit."

Fang Hong gestured OK.

Red corals are connected together from a distance, but they can only be seen as branches when they are up close.

"Coral is a creature that is very particular about the living environment, especially red coral, which is very rarely distributed in the world."

"The average coral polyp is only half a millimeter to two centimeters in diameter, and has eight feathery tentacles. When it is opened, it looks like an eight-petal snowflake. They open and contract in sea water to catch plankton. Red Coral basically only grows under the deep sea in tropical areas where the seawater temperature is higher than 1000 degrees, about [-] to [-] meters on the bottom of the sea. Red coral is an organic gemstone, often used as a carving material, and also has medicinal value. Due to extensive mining, It has been listed as a national first-class protected animal."

"Expert comrades say that the number of red corals here may have exceeded the total number in the Taiwan Strait of our country."

In my country, there are only sporadic distributions in the Taiwan Strait and a very small number of areas. There are so many coral reefs and living coral polyps here, which are directly related to being far away from the waterway and deep under the sea eye.

Under the sea, coral clumps are generally the areas with the most organisms. A large coral reef is basically an independent ecological circle, and can raise other carnivorous creatures in a large sea area.

Tang Yixin said anxiously, "Brother Gun, I tell you to be careful. A diver from the other direction has damaged a coral. It seems that the coral here is very fragile."

The body that corals accumulate is actually calcium, so it shouldn't be fragile.

But in fact, the natural world is so amazing.

In my country's CQ, there is the world's largest tiankeng Xiaozhai Tiankeng.There are still tall ferns that disappeared together with the dinosaurs as early as the dinosaur era, and arbor plants that fell from the cave entrance. They are characterized by being straight and tall, but very fragile.

The reason is that from an evolutionary point of view, they have always longed for sunshine, and there are no large animals in the closed environment, so they don’t need to be so tough, there is no wind, no rainstorm, no thunder, so the extremely hard plants in the outside world have arrived. In the tiankeng, everything is fragile.

The same is probably the case here.

Although plankton also like to live in the deep sea, green algae must grow in sunny areas after all.

As a result, the coral polyps here also began to grow upwards in order to contact more plankton. The dead coral polyps did not accumulate layer by layer like in other sea areas, but kept stacking upwards. Coral polyps are already very fragile, and coral reefs that have just been born are also extremely fragile.

Fang Hong moved forward cautiously, trying not to touch the coral reef.

Small fish swim among the coral reefs.

Hermit crabs and shrimp also climb the exposed reef.

The giant searchlight didn't affect them too much.

While Fang Hong was going up, his eyes were dazzled by something, he stopped immediately, turned over in the water and swam back, the destination was actually the base of the giant red coral in Baoshan.

"Brother Gun seems to have discovered it again, sister Jiu."

"That's right, Brother Gun turned around."

Tang Yixin: "I don't know either, I'll know when Brother Qiang finds it."

Fang Hong was obviously dazzled by something, it was in this direction.

At the bottom, Fang Hong put his legs on top and his upper body pressed against the bottom of the sea, searching carefully.

In a piece of fine sand, a transparent thing appeared. Fang Hong planed the fine sand and observed it carefully.

Beside Tang Yixin, an expert comrade took over the microphone: "You dig the sand a little to see if it is a living thing or a mineral."

Those that can emit light or reflect light are either living things or high-quality minerals, or gems.

Fang Hong threw away the fine sand, and saw a cylinder with a smooth surface but divided into six sides. Each side of this thing was very flat, but the edges and corners between the sides were sharp.

"It looks like a standard crystal!" Comrade expert: "You aim the light at it and look at the color.

Under the sea, it is normal to see the wrong color when looking at things, but it is different when there is strong light.

Transparent things, what light can pass through, is what color.

The strong light passed through, leaving a purple halo on the sand behind him.

"Amethyst?" The expert was surprised: "Impossible?"

"Amethyst is mainly silicon dioxide, which is hard and has a high refractive index. Moreover, amethyst generally has water mist or ice cracks."

Fang Hong continued to throw sand, digging out the whole bead.

Because crystals basically grow slowly in underground rivers or underground, or condense little by little, so the body shape will be relatively smooth and neat, and the number will be relatively large.

However, amethyst is produced from volcanic rocks erupted by volcanoes. Generally, it is not so regular and needs to be cut. The largest amethyst in the world weighs only one catty. This piece weighs several kilograms, and it is on the seabed. Traces of a volcanic eruption.

"No, this should be a magma chamber in a crater. It's normal to produce amethyst, but this one is too regular and too big!"

Fang Hong made a gesture to the camera, and then dug up the fine sand next to it, and another one, and five of them grew into one plant!
Afterwards, Fang Hong kept pulling out crystals in this area.

Comrade experts lamented: "Fortunately, amethyst is the least valuable gem. If there is such a large pile of diamonds, the country must send a fleet to guard here."

But something happened that he didn't expect.

Fang Hong dug out the crystal again, but it was not amethyst, but titanium crystal!

Two other divers also made discoveries, including tourmaline, red rabbit hair crystal, amethyst, etc., which were discovered successively.

In addition to these several expensive varieties, there are also some hairy crystals, transparent colorless crystals, and red grained crystals.

There are many kinds of crystals here, and the number is very large.

"Damn it, Brother Gun dug out the South China Sea Crystal Palace!"

According to legend, the place where the Dragon King lives is built with crystal, so it is called the Crystal Palace.

Red corals are everywhere here, which is already super rare, and there are so many kinds of crystals, covering almost all kinds of crystals on earth.

However, the production conditions of various crystals are also different. How can these crystals be concentrated here?

This is a huge crystal vein, plus red coral gemstones, it is simply inestimable, much more expensive than a gold mountain of the same size!

"Sister Jiu, please don't talk nonsense. It's too scary to say that Baoshan is Baoshan!"

"Facts have proved that the South China Sea is a cornucopia. Not long ago, a large amount of combustible ice was discovered, and now crystal mines have been discovered. Most of the crystals found in the past were in underground rivers and underground. I am afraid that it is also due to the unknown of the seabed. Now these are found on the seabed. , it’s not surprising, after all, the sea area explored by human beings is less than [-]% of the earth’s sea area.”

Fang Hong suffocated at the bottom of the water and couldn't speak, that jumping foot.

If these are found in foreign waters, then the f*ck is just one word, dig.

But this is domestic waters. First, the country has strengthened the protection of various gemstone mines in recent years. Second, domestic mines are owned by the people, that is, state-owned assets.

Fang Hong even wanted to sneak away one of them.

"Look at Brother Gun's expression, he's a standard money fan."

Tang Yixin: "Yeah, with such big glasses and biting the breathing tube, can you still see the expression?"

Comrade expert: "This is a big discovery, and it is necessary to report it. I didn't expect such a big discovery to be made on the first day I went into the water."

On this day, this sea eye was officially named, South China Sea Dragon Cave.

(End of this chapter)