Doomsday Drifting Begins with Shipbuilding

Chapter 19 Studying Mutant Fish

After confirming that there were indeed no schools of fish in this sea area, Chen Xuan set sail again.

After adjusting the sail to a suitable position, he stretched his body a little to relieve the fatigue left by long-time rowing.

Then, he squatted down and began to deal with the mutant fish he had caught before.

A total of four mutated fish were put into the fishing net by him. In order to keep these fish alive, he would pour some sea water on them from time to time.

It was the first time to successfully capture a living mutated fish sample. Chen Xuan planned to study this strange fish and see what happened to these mutated fish in the disaster.

And some experiments can only be done while the mutated fish is still alive, so hurry up.

"It's a pity that there is no space on the raft to raise fish. Otherwise, there would be no need to be so nervous. After raising one or two, we can do more experiments."

Chen Xuan felt a little sorry.

It's not like he hasn't tried wrapping the fish in a fishing net and putting the whole fish in the sea, which seems to be much more convenient.

However, this has a disadvantage. After the fish enter the water, even if they are wrapped in the fishing net, they will try to break free in other directions.

However, these mutated fish were surprisingly powerful, and Chen Xuan was very worried that doing so would affect the course of the raft.

Moreover, if these fish are not kept in order, they will become the targets of some large creatures. He doesn't want the tuna thing to happen again.

After all, there is no guarantee that he will be so lucky every time. Maybe if he is not careful, he will be dragged into the deep sea and buried in the belly of the fish.

After thinking about it, he used the current method to keep these mutated fish alive.

Chen Xuan took a mutated fish out of the fishing net and put it on the raft.

In order to prevent the mutated fish from struggling randomly and ensure the smoothness of the research, he planned to expose it to the sun for a while.

Of course, he carefully controlled this speed to prevent the fish from being sunburned to death, just to make the fish just reach a weak state.

I saw that the fish, which was still alive and kicking before, soon became much calmer.

In addition, he needs to do another job before the test, which is to confirm whether these fish are poisonous.

In case of being poisoned during the experiment, it will be a big trouble.

In nature, bright red, blue and other colors are "warning colors" in animals, which means to tell predators "I am poisonous".

For humans in the wild, these colors represent danger and should stay away quickly.

And the four mutated fish caught by him in front of him have strange wavy blue patterns on the sides of their bodies, it's hard to say whether they have mutated to be poisonous.

Although on the earth before the disaster, some non-toxic animals have also evolved bright protective colors, pretending to be poisonous, and there are many highly poisonous creatures with ordinary appearance.

Moreover, according to the popular science information that Chen Xuan has read before, most poisonous fish have spiked dorsal fins and hard spines.

The body of these mutated fish is very smooth, covered with a layer of fine scales, more like the herring that is commonly eaten, but the color is very different.

But Chen Xuan didn't dare to gamble.

To be on the safe side, he first made a small cut on the fish with a wooden knife, and applied some fish blood on the wrist and the corner of the mouth.

It's a method he's learned from survival shows.

If there is discomfort such as burning or tingling at the application site, accompanied by swelling, it can be basically determined that it is a poison.

After applying it, he leaned closer and smelled the smell of the fish.

Only the salty and astringent smell of seawater and a faint aquatic fishy smell, without the rancid smell and bitter almond smell that represent poison.

Chen Xuan waited for a while until the fish blood smeared on his body dried up without any adverse reactions.

Now he is relieved.

The first trial begins.

First of all, he was going to take a few drops of the oil squeezed out of the fluorescent seaweed fruit from the system space, drip them into the fish's mouth with his hands, and then see how the mutated fish reacted.

This is what he has always been concerned about, and he really wants to know whether the oil squeezed out of the seaweed fruit can be eaten.

But looking at the round, constantly opening and closing fish mouth, Chen Xuan thought about it and decided to use a wooden stick instead.

Although the current fish looks weak enough to be manipulated by him, but in case the fish suddenly turns bright again, Kacha will give him a bite.

After carefully dripping oil into the fish's mouth with a wooden stick dipped in it, Chen Xuan began to carefully observe the fish's reaction.

Time passed by minute by minute.

However, until Chen Xuan stared dryly, the mutated fish on the raft didn't respond at all, still looking listless.

I won't die now.

Chen Xuan blinked his eyes twice, and after thinking for a while, he filled some instant noodle bucket with sea water and poured it on the mutated fish.

At this moment, the mutated fish that was half dead just now became alive again, splashing water on Chen Xuan's face.

The test was successful, and the seaweed oil appeared to be edible.

Calmly wiping away the water stains on his face, Chen Xuan came to a conclusion.

Immediately afterwards, he dipped his fingers in some oil and put it in his mouth, which he had wanted to do for a long time.

A scent of fragrance instantly filled the whole mouth.

Chen Xuan's eyes lit up.

"It's too delicious!"

This high-end flavor was something he had never tasted before.

He always thought that the most delicious oil was rapeseed oil, but the seaweed oil in front of him had a special marine flavor, which was far beyond the reach of rapeseed oil.

And as the seaweed oil entered his body, he immediately felt a trace of extremely weak energy emanating from his stomach, stimulating his limbs and bones.

Intuition told him that this energy could make him stronger, and perhaps this was what contributed to the biological mutation.

"When making noodles in the future, you must add a few drops of seaweed oil to it."

Chen Xuan sucked his finger, thinking in his heart.

The experiments on algae oil are over, and the fish themselves are next.

Chen Xuan directly picked up the wooden knife and gave the mutant fish a good time, and then began to dissect it.

For Chen Xuan, who has been cooking with his own hands all year round, killing fish is a common thing, and dealing with a mutated fish right now is simply a piece of cake.

The sharp wooden knife cut into the fish smoothly without much hindrance.

He first scraped off the scales of the fish, then quickly took out the internal organs of the fish, then chopped off the head of the fish, removed the bones, and put the rest of the fish aside.

The whole process is smooth and smooth, in one go.

As the dissection progressed, Chen Xuan quickly discovered something special about the fish in front of him.

Compared with ordinary fish, the flesh of mutated fish is more elastic, and the oil content is also much higher.

"Looks like it should be delicious."

You must reward yourself later, Chen Xuan wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, and continued to study other parts of the mutated fish.

The light blue fish scales are very tough, but not slippery. They feel like they can be dried and collected.

For some reason, the fish scales gave him the same feeling as the tuna fins before.

He has not been able to study the use of these things for the time being, and he does not dare to burn them with fire.

If it burns out, it will be a big loss.

Put away the fish scales, followed by the fish eyes.

The fish eye looks crystal clear. He said in the documentary before that the fish eye contains a lot of fresh water, which can be eaten slowly for people in trouble, but he is not worried about fresh water resources now, so he decisively throws it aside.

The viscera looks somewhat similar to that of herring, but it is more solid. This can be used together with the fish eye as bait for fishing in the future.

The fish bones look a little strange. Not only are they light blue in color, but they don't look like the solid fish bones of deep-sea fish. Instead, they look more like something between herring and sea fish.

The only purpose of the fish bones is to make feed, he can't use them for the time being, so he can only collect them first.

The whole fish is dissected.

Chen Xuan was thoughtful.

He has handled many herrings and is very familiar with their structure, but the current fish is very similar to herrings both in structure and appearance.

He speculated that this should be a species mutated from herring.

"Have some freshwater fishes evolved quickly and started to adapt to the new environment?"

Looking at the mutated fish in front of him, Chen Xuan felt emotional.

This concludes the experiments on mutant fish.

The following can consider how to eat.

Steamed, braised or grilled?
(End of this chapter)