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"Haha, that's good. I'll ask Fatty to try two of them later. Boss, you won't be reluctant to part with them, right?"

As soon as Ma Hua heard that the fish was delicious, he immediately became excited.

Yu Hongbo on the side also intervened and said:

"It's so beautiful. Isn't it a pity to eat it? Can it be kept as an ornamental fish?"

Just when Yu Hongbo wanted to be happy, suddenly a crew member pointed at the fish still tumbling on the deck and shouted:

"Look, why does this fish change color?"

As the crew member shouted, all the crew members noticed that the fish on the deck had indeed begun to change color.

Although it is not obvious, there is indeed a significant change in color from when it was just caught.

Everyone was overwhelmed by this magical phenomenon, and all eyes turned to Ye Yuan.

Ye Yuan touched his nose awkwardly, and then explained:

"This is normal. After the beautiful dolphin comes out of the water, these beautiful colors will gradually fade as it struggles.

From dazzling gold to pale mercury, all colors eventually fade away, settling on the gray-brown color representing death.

Don't think that it can only change color before it dies. Mahi-mahi can also change the color of its body at ordinary times, just like a chameleon on land."

The crew members all looked in disbelief.

Ye Yuan ignored the expressions of the crew members and continued:

"Like most fish, the pigment cells on the body surface of dolphin can shrink or expand under the regulation of nerves and body fluids.

When they swell, they cause color to spread to the surface, changing body color.

However, this alone still cannot create such a strong visual impact.

In addition to regular chromatophores.

There is also a very thick layer of iridescent cells in the dermis of the dolphin. The cells themselves are colorless, but their vesicles contain many guanine crystals.

They can cleverly reflect and diffract sunlight by changing the orientation of purine crystals.

This creates a rainbow of unpredictable structural colors.

This is where the mahi mahi gets its bright blue and vibrant green colors.

The overlapping effect of these two cells makes the dolphin look like a metallic sci-fi sports car that can change color in an instant."

After Ye Yuan finished speaking, looking at the confused expressions on the crew's faces, he helplessly touched his forehead with one hand.

I knew that what I said was in vain, and it seemed that no one understood it.

Ma Hua was the first to react, and then asked Ye Yuan:

"Boss, I don't understand what you are saying, but I want to ask you if this Mahi Mahi is the one in the movie "Life of Pi".

The child was hammering the big fish’s head repeatedly in order to survive, and the big fish’s body turned from brilliant to dim as life went by.”

Ye Yuan really didn't expect that Ma Hua, who was usually carefree, would be so careful while watching a movie.

"Yes, that's it"

After receiving Ye Yuan's accurate reply, Ma Hua sighed and whispered:

"The day of farewell

like a dying mahi mahi

Every pain gives it a new color

The last one is also the cutest

until it finally fades away

Everything is darkened"

Ye Yuan was a little confused by Ma Hua's words.

He didn't expect that Ma Hua, who was usually very cheerful, would actually have so many emotions.

Ye Yuan happened to know the origin of the poem Ma Hua said.

That was Byron's use of the word "dolphin" in his long poem "The Travels of Childe Harold" to describe the alternation of day and night.

The "dolphin" here is not the dolphin in many translations, but the dolphin known as "dolphin fish".

Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves. The life and death of Mahi Mahi allows people to touch the beauty and fragility of life.

Ye Yuan also didn't expect that just an ordinary fishing operation would make several crew members feel a little depressed.

"I said brothers, it's not that big of a deal, isn't it just a few dolphins? It's not a protected animal, so don't just chirp like a girl, okay?"

Ye Yuan was really speechless. The crew member, who looked like a very manly man, was actually made like this by a poem by Ma Hua.

After a few words of persuasion, Ye Yuan stopped trying. After all, there were some things that were not touched upon and it was really hard to talk about.

Ye Yuan has always believed in a saying, that is, don't persuade others to do good unless they have suffered.

So Ma Hua and the others had such a big reaction, it must have something to do with life and death.

But what it is specifically, Ye Yuan doesn't want to explore. After all, everyone has their own secret.

I believe that these crew members will have a depressed reaction at the same time because of Ma Hua's poem.

It should be related to their experience together. Those Ye Yuan knew that even if he asked, he might not be able to get the answer.

Now that this was the case, he left the crew alone, believing that this was not the first time they were in such a low mood, and that they could adjust themselves.

He patted Yu Hongbo on the shoulder and asked him to arrange the crew for sorting.

He walked back to the bow of the boat alone and continued to look for new schools of fish.

...

The crew members' emotions came and went quickly. Within ten minutes, Ye Yuan heard Ma Hua's unique laughter coming from behind him.

At this moment, Ye Yuan had no time to pay attention to what the crew members were reasoning about.

At this moment, he was using his perception to look at an unknown jellyfish.

At first, Ye Yuan's perception was not very detailed. At first glance, he thought it was a big plastic bag floating in the sea.

But Ye Yuan senselessly scanned it a little more and discovered that the big plastic bag turned out to be a jellyfish that Ye Yuancheng had never heard of.

The umbrella body of this unknown jellyfish can reach about 2 meters, and the length of its tentacles reaches 15 meters.

This is unscientific. Generally, a jellyfish with such a large umbrella body should not have such short tentacles.

Let’s compare it to the lion’s mane jellyfish, the largest jellyfish known to mankind.

The umbrella-shaped body is only 2 meters long. There are eight groups of tentacles, with up to 150 tentacles, which can be more than 35 meters long.

But although the jellyfish Ye Yuan saw now had not been seen in any information, it was obviously not a lion's mane jellyfish.

Although it has the same body size as the lion's mane jellyfish, its tentacles are significantly shorter than the lion's mane jellyfish.

Not only that, but its number of tentacles is also much less than that of the lion's mane jellyfish.

Ye Yuan was quite curious about an unknown creature.

Just when Ye Yuan was about to go into the sea to collect this unknown jellyfish, a group of sea turtles swam towards the jellyfish.

"It's finished."

This is what Ye Yuan thinks in his heart.

Turtles are the natural enemies of jellyfish, although the number of this group of turtles is not very large, only about a dozen.

But I believe that before I got there, this jellyfish had already become the turtle's meal.

What happened was just as Ye Yuan thought, the group of turtles came to the jellyfish.