Huang Ningna said, "This was actually a self-rescue mechanism of corals. They produced chemical sunscreens within their bodies, trying to use this method to fight sunlight and high temperatures. Unfortunately, their efforts had no effect. They still died."
Lu Ao stood frozen beside him.
He found it hard to imagine how these tiny lives had struggled to protect themselves under such harsh conditions, even evolving in a short time to produce a new substance.
But it was useless. The environment had changed too quickly; they had no time to adapt. After a tragically valiant struggle, they still stepped into death.
The others were stunned as well.
No one had expected corals to have such a mechanism.
Lin Qiyan stood nearby with the camera on his shoulder and murmured, "This is way too hard, isn't it?"
"Yeah." Huang Ningna gave a bitter smile. "Other than us humans lending a hand, there's no other solution. Of course, our efforts might not work either. We're facing a situation where we can barely save ourselves now. It's hard to say who's helping whom."
Everyone fell silent together.
After quite a while, Lu Ao said, "Let's plant the corals first. Didn't we bring them all here?"
"Right, right, right. Let's hurry underwater and plant the corals."
As though waking from a dream, everyone picked up their tools and prepared to go underwater to plant the corals.
The first step in planting corals was installing metal frames on the seafloor.
Young corals were extremely fragile, especially these corals that had yet to settle into a home. If metal frames were not installed on the seafloor, a single typhoon could sweep up every young coral, and the waves would carry them far away.
Once corals were swept away, their odds of survival became very low.
Therefore, coral