Chapter 295 Marine Resources
Because her belly is a bit bigger, Aimoye chose loose-fitting local clothes, and her hairstyle was casually tied into a gentle side ponytail, similar to that of many local female sea dwellers.
Then, she came to the street, followed by Jushan and Annie.
Most of the seafood on the street is rich and diverse, such as hairtail, cuttlefish, seaweed, kelp, etc.
Some decorations are also very beautiful, such as bracelets and necklaces made of various shells, snails, pearls, etc.
Ai Moye was dazzled and couldn't put it down with all kinds of trinkets.
But when I asked about the price, I was disappointed.
It’s not that it’s expensive, but it’s that Azure Star does not belong to the Interstellar Federation and only uses local currency.
Even if Ai Moye took out a wad of cash, it would still be a pile of waste paper to the other party.
"It's just a hundred seashells, are you too poor to afford it?" The squid-headed shop owner held a hookah in his mouth and looked down on Aimo Ye.
"Who can't afford it? I just want to take a look." Ai Moye said stiffly, then pointed at the coral ornaments on the stall and asked stubbornly, "Where's this?"
The shopkeeper glanced at her again and answered the question, "Alien?"
Ai Moye was shocked.
Different from the common interstellar language, the language of Azure Star is Chinese that she is most familiar with, even if the accent is a little different.
So she is very confident and can communicate with the locals in Chinese. Coupled with the local costumes, she is an authentic Hainan.
But the shop owner had seen through her early and continued, "Local people don't buy these. Children go to the sea to play and they can easily catch two baskets."
Ai Moye roared, "Then you still sell it so expensively?"
The shop owner seemed to be smiling, a few cuttlefish tentacles shook a few times, smoke rings were spit out from the "mouth", and the clouds were lingering.
"Occasionally aliens come and they think they're well hidden, but actually we can see through them."
Aimoye said with a guilty conscience, "I didn't mean to invade."
The shopkeeper was silent for a moment, pointed to the various ornaments on the stall and said, "If you don't have seashells, you can exchange them for something else. Let's make it clear first that your star coins are not in circulation here."
Aimoye thought for a moment and took out a handful of diamonds from the space.
These diamonds are not polished and are not as smooth and beautiful as decorations, but they are equally sparkling and beautiful in the sunlight.
"This thing is called a diamond, and it's also a kind of decoration. You don't have many of them, right?"
As soon as he saw the diamond, the shop owner's eyes widened instantly, and the cuttlefish bared his teeth and claws.
"Diamond? What a beautiful thing. Is it glowing?"
Ai Moye put a large handful of diamonds on the stall with a smile, "Your pearls and corals are not valuable, but if you sell the diamonds to the locals, the business should be very good?"
Even if there are diamond mines in the sea, I am afraid that the sea dwellers have not mined them very much, so diamonds will not be very cheap.
The shopkeeper was very interested in diamonds and immediately gave Ai Moye two boxes of pearls, a box of corals, and some random gems, such as aquamarine, beryl, etc.
But it is also an unpolished rough stone, which is not as beautiful as the jewelry in a jewelry store.
Ai Moye took her away with satisfaction and opened a new door.
In the seafood store, Ai Moye bargained fiercely with the boss.
"I don't want a dead fish, I want a live one, jumping around!"
"Five thousand seashells? I don't have any seashells!"
"I'll trade it with you for pork. Do you know about pork? You don't raise pigs, do you?"
"I still have beef jerky here. Can I trade it with you for raw fish? Try it? Of course you can. If it tastes good, switch to it. I don't have to force it."
Later, Aimoye pushed out two tanks of fish on a trolley and waved to Annie excitedly.
"Sister Annie, these are new varieties of deep-sea fish, we will be in great luck in the future!"
A few minutes later, in the seafood dry goods area.
"Look, is this rabbit very fat? Have you never eaten rabbit? Let me tell you, rabbit meat is delicious!"
"I won't sell it, I'll trade it with you. Hmm, I just want some seaweed, seaweed or something like that, okay?"
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Two hours later, Ai Moye left the market with satisfaction, still holding the local dried squid with a strong fishy smell in his mouth.
Lieutenant Colonel Jushan said anxiously, "If Miss Ai changes in such a big way, won't her identity be discovered?"
Annie looked towards the street, "Even if we don't make a big fuss, we won't be able to integrate into the local area."
The sea dwellers passing by or outside the shop glared at the two with great hostility.
The reason why Ai Moye is not treated like this is because, firstly, he has a pleasant appearance and has no lethality. Secondly, it can be seen that he purely likes marine culture and looks for delicious and fun things everywhere. He is polite and gentle, and knows how to exchange his own specialties.
Lieutenant Colonel Jushan smiled bitterly and continued to follow Ai Moye at a short distance.
After dark, Aimoye cast a magic circle on herself to heal her painful ankle.
As soon as she arrived downstairs at the hotel, she saw Suchi standing blankly at the corner, making no movement for a long time.
"Senior brother, what are you thinking about?" Ai Moye stepped forward and followed Su Qi's gaze.
Su Qi looked at the streets full of people with human heads and fish bodies, or fish heads and bodies, with a complicated expression.
"I heard that this evolutionary branch appeared because of the hybridization between humans and fish. I was wondering, what kind of mating method does this hybridization have?"
Ai Moye imagined it for a while, and her eyes became weird.
Did the ancestors really... not even spare seafood?
She stopped herself from imagining some indescribable scenes and asked instead, "Why are you, senior brother, Professor Pan and the others back?"
Suchi shook his head, "We split up as soon as we left the hotel, but there are soldiers from the scientific expedition team following us, so it should be fine. Let's go back first."
After returning to the hotel, Ai Moye immediately boiled water to make tea.
"This is the sea tea I got in exchange. I don't know the specific plant. It must have been picked by sea dwellers from deep under the sea."
She put a few small tea balls into the cup and brewed it with boiling water.
As the black and green tea leaves stretch, a sea flavor with the fragrance of grass leaves wafts out.
Ai Moye picked up a cup, blew the tea leaves and took a sip.
“It tastes so weird.”
Like green tea with sea salt, it has a light taste and is not very adaptable.
Su Qi couldn't drink it either, so he turned around and vomited it out and said, "I'm really not suitable for drinking tea."
Ai Moye smiled and put away the remaining tea leaves, "There are too few varieties of tea in the interstellar world, and sea tea is also a rare drink. I plan to look for sea tea tea trees and plant and pick them myself in the future."
Interstellar currently only has black tea, and green tea is not yet on the market.
Different from the Earth Age, black tea is just black tea. Even the roots of the tree are light red plants and are prepared from the tea tips. It is not a fermented product that evolved from green tea, so the taste is actually far less mellow than the fermented black tea from the Earth Age.
Ai Moye has always wanted to develop a few more tea products, and maybe there will be some harvest on the blue star.
It's getting late now and it's not suitable to go out. Ai Moye could only wait for the storm to pass and try to search on land to see if there were any green tea trees that could be transplanted.
Until ten o'clock that night, Professor Pan Sen and others arrived at the hotel one after another, but two scientific expedition members did not return for a long time. (End of chapter)