Chapter 178 - Red Coral and Gold Mine

Chapter 178: Red Coral and Gold Mine

Translator: Aristophaneso Editor: Caron_
The fishing ship sailed slowly as Chu Xian kept his eye on the six-kilometer area around him. This wasn’t a small area.
A seagull in the sky dove into the sea and plucked a little white fish from the water.
On the seabed, small fish and shrimp crept and swam along slowly, and fierce fish lunged forward with gaping mouths to swallow palm-sized fish.
Underwater, the camouflaged hunters burst forth furiously and quickly snapped up their victims.
And at that moment, a couple of particularly large fish appeared in Chu Xian’s perimeter.
“Dolphins. We’ve found some dolphins.” Chu Xian’s face revealed a slight smile.
In his mind, he watched as the two-meter-long dolphins leaped over waves, their black and white bodies in his power-mind lively dancing as they swam into the distance.
Dolphins were called good friends of men, and they were a level one protected animal under country law.
The fishing ship sailed forward. There were many meter-long fish in the sea, but fish between two or three meters were few and far between.
“Eh? I finally found another one!” Chu Xian stood up with a big smile.
In his mind’s eye, he could see a sailfish. This wasn’t a normal marlin but rather a blue marlin, also known as a Makaira Mazara.
This kind of sailfish was huge, about two and a half meters long, and at least two hundred kilograms.
The blue marlin’s body was like a black fan—its front was a glistening black, like a black flag waving in the sea.
According to Chu Xian’s commands, the fishing ship stopped in the path of the blue marlin. Chu Xian waited for the right time and jumped into the sea.
“If I remold this sailfish into a large merman, it will definitely have great fighting power!” Chu Xian laughed and watched the nearing sailfish. As it got closer, he transformed into a fish and rushed over.
“Rule!” The blue marlin was less than thirty meters away from him when Chu Xian used his ability.
But just as Chu Xian thought he succeeded, the blue marlin turned downward and swam towards the seafloor.
“What? The sailfish is only about 1900 in energy, but it’s so strong in its struggle!” Chu Xian was surprised but immediately reacted and darted after the fish.
“It’s fine, it’s fine. The panicked sailfish swam downwards, but didn’t run away from me!” Chu Xian approached the motionless blue marlin and relaxed.
“Come here!” Chu Xian thought in his heart and the blue marlin swam towards him. Full of content satisfaction, Chu Xian led the fish back to the ship.
But just as he swam a meager five or six meters with the fish, a sparkle caught the corner of his mind’s eye.
Now that he was some seventy meters underwater, his power could see the sea bed, and right below him was a beam of crystalline light.
The glistening light of red coral peaked out of the seafloor, shining in the water.
“No way. Is my luck so good?” Chu Xian’s heart jumped a beat and commanding the blue marlin to follow, he swam down towards the light.
“This.. it really is red coral!” As he quickly approached, the small red area revealed itself in more detail, and the beautiful and dreamy red light glowed from where it sat nestled in the seabed.
“My lucky was really so good that I found red coral!” Chu Xian’s eyes flashed with fiery passion.
Red coral only grew in the depths of the deep sea. Natural red coral was slowly grown by anthozoans and was a slowly maturing, non-renewable resource.
The conditions for its growth were very demanding, and in the modern-day, were only met in the Taiwanese, Japanese, and Baltic Straits. Its rarity gave it the name “the ocean diamond.”
The different colors of red corals were carmine, peach, pink, and flesh red, and according to the area they grew in, they were split into Aka, Shading, and Momo. This particular patch of coral was carmine.
“Three. There are actually three.” Chu Xian’s eyes were filled with excitement.
The three red corals were each a different shape. One looked like a small tree, another looked like it was tightly hugging itself, and the last one was unusually stout and without many branches.
Each of these corals was thirty or forty centimeters, including the feather-shaped tendrils, but if the tendrils weren’t included, then each one was still twenty centimeters long, and each weighed less than a kilogram.
“With each less than a kilogram and around three kilograms in total, and the fact that these three corals are carmine corals… the price is between ten thousand to twenty thousand RMB per gram. These corals are worth thirty to sixty million RMB! This…. is a fortune falling from the sky!”
Chu Xian was incredibly excited. Fifty to sixty million RMB was enough for a family to live lavishly for the rest of their lives.
“Hu, finally. After I got the gold fingers, I’ve finally encountered money from heaven.” Chu Xian reached out his fish form hands to grasp the corals.
“They say the red corals are first-grade protected creatures and the government controls their import and export, but I don’t understand at all.” Chu Xian didn’t understand the classification. He might not hunt down sharks and turtles, but that didn’t mean he would extend the same courtesy to some corals. He didn’t care about their status. This was money!
After carefully taking the three red corals into his hands, Chu Xian’s face was filled with excitement as he searched the area.
If he found another red coral, wouldn’t that be another ten million RMB?
The area wasn’t a flat plane, and there were rises and dips and green seaweed strewn about. The peaks were four to five meters higher than the troughs, but Chu Xian searched very carefully over all of this, using his god’s perspective to sweep over everything.
“Ay, there doesn’t seem to be anything.” Chu Xian checked the thousand-meter area around him and didn’t find anything. He could only shake his head in disappointment.
“Eh? This doesn’t look like a plant.” Right in front of where Chu Xian paused to lament, there was a rock protrusion that had a slight golden tinge to it.
Swimming over curiously, Chu Xian carefully reached out his arm and wiped the stone.
“Eh? What kind of rock is this? Why’s it golden?” Chu Xian used a little more strength and extended the claws on his head.
“F*** me in the *ss, this is gold!” Chu Xian was so shocked that his jaw fell open and he darted forward and quickly pried away the surrounding plant debris.
“Heavens! It’s gold!” Chu Xian was stunned. Beneath the layer of plant and debris was a shiny area of gold.
“F***, this couldn’t be a gold mountain, could it?” Chu Xian was shocked to his core, and when he looked around, he became too shocked to speak.
“This is really a gold mountain, no, it should be a gold mine! I can’t even imagine how many tons of gold is buried here!” Chu Xian’s lips twitched uncontrollably.
“But it’s useless even if it was a gold mine! Ahhh, ahh! How painful. There’s a gold mine right in front of me!” Chu Xian mourned silently.
The seabed was over a hundred meters below the surface, and even if he knew there was a gold mine here, he couldn’t take it with him or dig out the gold.
“But if I had an offshore drilling platform, it wouldn’t be impossible for me to dig up this gold.” An idea slowly emerged in Chu Xian’s mind.