Buzz, buzz, buzz~
After leaving the ‘Cloud Sail’ yacht’s stern swimming platform, Yang Xu drove the jet ski directly towards the garbage island.
In the distance.
The live drone continued to hover over the sea.
The sea eagle, Cang Qiong, had flown out with the drone earlier, and having flown tired, it landed on the garbage mountain.
It tilted its head, examining the plastic waste.
There were mineral water bottles, disposable lunch boxes, plastic lifebuoys, and so on and so forth…
The colorful combination was originally beautiful.
However, the faded colors of these wastes.
Had nothing to do with beauty.
The audience was expanding their knowledge through Yang Xu’s livestream.
How could Cang Qiong be any different?
After setting sail with its owner, it had seen too many ‘strange things’ it had never witnessed before.
In the livestream:
【Damn, is the streamer going to dive under the garbage island? Conscientious streamer, you have my attention~】
【It seems the country’s ‘plastic restriction order’ is still very necessary. I thought the Pacific Ocean was far from human habitation, a paradise on the sea, but reality slapped me in the face.】
【Brother Xu, be careful, there are abandoned fishing nets in these trash, don’t get entangled.】
Earlier, according to investigations by the International Environmental Protection Organization.
And statistics from the Scientific Reports magazine.
There were approximately 80,000 tons of floating garbage in the ‘Pacific Garbage Patch’!
The area spread out on the ocean surface.
Was larger than several small countries!
Only…
Yang Xu’s discovery differed significantly from the scientific investigation.
These trash had begun to pile up.
If this continued.
There was a trend of forming a new ‘land’!
Yi Ying stood on the yacht's deck.
Watching Yang Xu gradually approach the ‘garbage island’.
She said to the livestream, “It seems the IUCN World Conservation Organization needs to reassess the scale of the Pacific Garbage Patch.”
This time, Yang Xu carried high-capacity compressed air.
The duration of his diving would also be relatively long.
Minutes later.
Yang Xu parked the jet ski on the outskirts of the ‘garbage island’.
“I'll go see what’s under the surface, and see if there are any marine creatures trapped.”
After saying these words,
He then jumped into the water.
Cang Qiong obediently flew to the jet ski, as if to help Yang Xu guard the vehicle, waiting for him to return.
Although Yang Xu said it this way.
He was actually just looking for an excuse to search for the ‘D-grade rare creature’ underwater.
This high-sounding thing of ecological protection.
Yang Xu didn’t have time to bother with it.
His position and attitude were simple: whoever wants to take care of the Pacific Ocean can take care of it.
I'll just mind my own business, none of my concern~
As Yang Xu submerged underwater.
The bottom of the ‘garbage island’ was clearly captured by the camera on his head.
The tangled, broken fishing nets.
And the already rotten plastic bags.
Had formed a structure like tree roots, delicate and spreading.
These discarded objects huddled together, like the game of ‘Ball Game’, getting bigger and bigger as they gather!
There were no islands in the surrounding waters.
Therefore, except for the corpses of seabirds, there were no birds that had landed on it.
Underwater, apart from scattered porgies and halibut.
There were no trapped dolphins or other large animals.
It was a ‘dead island’ floating aimlessly in the Pacific Ocean.
The audience in the livestream was deeply affected by such a sight.
【These plastic wastes will take a very, very long time to decompose, and during this process, they will decompose, spread into the seawater, and be eaten by fish.】
【Fish eat the water polluted by plastic particles, and then they are caught and sold to humans.】
【In the end, the garbage humans discard eventually returns to their stomachs.】
【This is reincarnation~ It’s kinda like nesting dolls 2333】
The audience's analysis was indeed reasonable.
Humans recycle garbage, which eventually returns to their stomachs.
Yang Xu had a deep understanding of the history of Earth’s evolution.
He knew in his heart.
The ‘protection of Mother Earth’s ecology’ that people often talk about, is essentially protecting humans themselves.
Earth has seen all kinds of big scenes over billions of years.
It has always been species that go extinct.
Mother Earth doesn’t care one bit.
Yang Xu didn’t think much about those lofty ideals.
After diving underwater, he turned on the searchlight and held the diving knife, diving deeper.
On one hand.
He needed to find the ‘D-grade rare creature’ detected by the 【Radar Template】.
Secondly, the last time the 【Diving Makes You Stronger】 ability triggered a reward, it was only at a depth of twenty meters.
This time he needed to dive deeper!
As Yang Xu pursued the direction indicated by the system’s prompt and dived deeper.
The depth was also changing continuously.
Yi Ying, who was stationed on the ‘Cloud Sail’, had been observing Yang Xu’s diving depth and pressure readings.
When Yang Xu dove into the deep blue seawater.
The beam of light from the searchlight illuminated the world beneath the sea!
Still in the deep blue sea!
The audience saw a faint hint of red at the bottom of the sea through the livestream footage!
Yang Xu thought to himself, “This is a good thing, the system must have scanned this thing!”
Moreover, at this moment.
He could roughly guess.
What the system had identified as the rare creature was!
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(Seeking flowers and evaluation tickets, two more chapters coming.)