Before Ye Yaosheng could bring the hook over, Ye Yaodong had already identified what was growing on the little boat with his sharp eyes.
"Oh, good grief! Those are Sea Chicken Feet tentacles... Fuck, I must've been blind not to recognize them!" Ye Yaodong suddenly said with delight.
"Those damn tentacles are sticking out everywhere, covering the boat so densely. They looked so creepy they made my skin crawl. Who could've known? Scared me half to death. Good thing we didn't turn around and run."
Hearing his excitement, Father Ye froze for a moment. Then he remembered the Sea Chicken Feet his son had mentioned the year before last, and his eyes widened too.
"Are these those valuable things you dug up the year before last?"
"Yes, these are Sea Chicken Feet. Those things moving around are their tentacles. They've all come out, and a lot of them are covering the shells. From a distance, all you can see are these wriggling tentacles, which is why they look like such a frightening mass of earthworms. There, there, there... Some shells are still exposed, so you can see them clearly. That should be what they are..."
It was like clams kept in salt water, which stretched their tentacles way out, or Cat's Eye Snails freshly dug out of little holes beneath the beach, with a large patch of soft flesh exposed on top that would retract completely as soon as someone touched it.
When Ye Yaosheng came over with the hook, he heard them excitedly talking about something called Sea Chicken Feet and felt a little lost.
Closer up, he could see the things clinging to the boat more clearly. They were pinkish brown and kept wriggling like big worms, making the sight even more unsettling.
How could they be excited