The lumber harvester was easy to use. Jiang Ye just had to drive it along the trees, and the trees on the ground were quickly processed, automatically stripped of their bark, and fed into the transaction bay behind.
It took him half an hour to finally sell all the trees he had planted.
Jiang Ye stopped the harvester by the dock, did not plant any more trees, and directly boarded his ship to set sail.
The sea was very calm today, not even a breeze.
The sun was quite dazzling. After standing on the deck for a moment, Jiang Ye's face felt hot from the sun. It seemed like it was going to get hotter again, and the scorching heat was probably coming soon.
He returned to the captain's cabin, casually crossed his legs, and sat in his chair to watch the screen.
The sonar was set to wide-range scanning. Small fish and shrimp were invisible, only larger marine animals and schools of fish could be seen.
Occasionally, he would encounter some foolish schools of fish, and Jiang Ye would click to cast his net and catch a wave. After fishing, he would sit back down and continue to casually cross his legs.
As he approached the other side of the strait, he suddenly stood up, his eyes filled with terror.
The red spots, the size of fists, reappeared on the screen!
Not just one, but many, directly in front of his fishing boat!
He decisively clicked on the screen and stopped the ship.
He rushed out of the captain's cabin, onto the deck, and gazed out at the distant sea.
"Holy crap?" Jiang Ye muttered involuntarily.
He was already very close to the shore, and he could see the undulating gray-black terrain and the golden sandy beach in the distance.
And at the edge of the beach, more than a dozen giant hemispherical bodies were beached. They were covered in a transparent membrane, and inside was wrinkled, iron-red flesh. Each hemisphere had a radius of nearly a hundred meters, occupying most of the beach like mountains of flesh.
Jellyfish!
Unlike the jellyfish he had seen yesterday, the jellyfish on the beach were all shriveled and cracked, and they were motionless. They were likely dead.
Perhaps they were killed by the air force's annihilation rays last night, and then fell from high altitude, coincidentally dying on this beach.
Jiang Ye's heart pounded, and the hairs on his body stood on end, like steel needles pressing against his clothes.
On one hand, he had a natural fear of these giant creatures. Jellyfish with a radius of a hundred meters were truly terrifying.
On the other hand, a greedy thought popped into his mind:
Would the corpses of these jellyfish be very valuable?
Jiang Ye returned to the captain's cabin and pushed the six-barreled rapid-fire gun onto the deck.
He aimed at the jellyfish and opened fire!
With a rumbling sound, the bullets skimmed across the sea and hit the outermost jellyfish on the beach.
Jiang Ye fired more than three hundred rounds in one go before releasing the trigger.
He stood at the bow of the ship, cupping his hand over his forehead to block the sun, and gazed ahead.
The hit jellyfish showed no reaction, still lying limply on the beach.
"They must be completely dead," Jiang Ye returned to the captain's cabin, clicked on the screen, and the fishing boat roared forward, quickly docking.
Jiang Ye disembarked and found that the sunlight was gone.
He looked up. The towering jellyfish were like small mountains, blocking the sun perfectly. They cast a vast expanse of shade.
Jiang Ye's heart was about to jump out of his throat. He walked forward step by step, his hands trembling, stepping on the transparent tentacles that were seven to eight meters wide. Each tentacle was very thin and slippery, like jelly, and his footprints left clear impressions on them.
Finally, he reached the jellyfish.
The transparent outer membrane of the jellyfish was thicker than he had imagined, about seven meters deep. From a distance, it looked like just a layer of skin, but up close, it was a barrier.
Through the outer membrane, he could clearly see the huge brain tissue inside. A super-brain the size of an orange, with a diameter of over a hundred meters! Blood vessels like tree roots crisscrossed it, with both purple and green blood vessels. The brain tissue was a magnificent red, faintly tinged with yolk-like orange.
A faint smell of the sea emanated from it, dissipating with the wind. The corpse of this jellyfish probably hadn't rotted much, so there was almost no smell.
Facing such a massive brain, Jiang Ye couldn't help but reach up and touch his own head.
It was a rare experience; he felt like an idiot.
With such a big head, this jellyfish should be very fast at solving math problems, right?
Jiang Ye hesitated for a moment, then reached out and touched the transparent outer membrane.
The texture was very slippery, even more so than jelly.
Jiang Ye grabbed hard and actually managed to pull off a piece of transparent flesh.
He looked down at it, shook his hand, and the jellyfish flesh was like cold jelly.
Turning back to his fishing boat, he went straight to the cargo hold and threw the jellyfish flesh into the transaction bay.
To his surprise, the transaction bay scanned it several times but couldn't identify what it was.
Jiang Ye suspected it might be due to the small quantity, so he grabbed a shovel, disembarked, carried a sack, and quickly shoveled a sack of transparent jellyfish flesh.
Back on the ship, he poured it into the transaction bay for scanning, but still no results.
Jiang Ye was frustrated. The water ghosts couldn't be scanned before because the Galactic Empire hadn't discovered the species. But the jellyfish, the Galactic Empire knew about them, so why couldn't they be scanned?
After a brief period of thought, Jiang Ye decided to dig out some of the jellyfish's brain.
The transparent outer membrane might really be 99% water, which is why it couldn't be scanned, but the brain was different. It was solid organ and flesh, so it should yield results.
The excavator was still parked on the beach. Jiang Ye went straight to the excavator, started it up, and used the bucket to push forward violently, advancing through the outer membrane of the jellyfish corpse.
One meter, two meters, three meters!
The excavator was already inside the transparent outer membrane of the jellyfish, like entering a crystal palace.
The bucket continued to excavate, digging out jellyfish flesh, and pushing forward little by little.
Four meters, five meters, six meters!
Finally, he broke through.
Jiang Ye cautiously stopped the excavator, jumped out, and walked forward with his shovel.
The red brain tissue was already within reach.
A strange smell wafted from it, like some kind of pickled meat that had gone moldy.
Jiang Ye held up his shovel and carefully inserted it into the brain tissue.
The texture of the brain tissue was very much like frozen tofu. There was slight resistance, but overall, it was quite easy to dig open.
Jiang Ye dug out a shovel full of brain, examining it closely.
It was soft, bright red flesh, filled with blood vessels. Upon closer inspection, there were some white tissues resembling the stem of an orange, possibly dense nerve cells.
Jiang Ye, carrying a shovel full of jellyfish brain, returned to his fishing boat.
He entered the cargo hold and threw the brain flesh into the transaction bay.
Back in the captain's cabin, the scan results were already out:
[Item: Jellyfish Brain Flesh]
[Item Description: Jellyfish, with a diameter of up to hundreds of meters, a rare giant creature. Can move slowly in air and water. Its brain is enormous, with a complex neural network. Scientists have analyzed that jellyfish have been constantly contemplating methods to become higher-dimensional beings, that is, creatures that can freely traverse time, but have never succeeded. Its intelligence is extremely developed, with a computing power of 17.8 quintillion operations per second. It occasionally exhibits incomprehensible behaviors, has a large appetite, and there have been instances of jellyfish consuming thousands of humans at once.]
[Estimated Value: 500 Yuan]
Jiang Ye was shocked. This big brain wasn't for nothing. Calculating so many times per second, wouldn't it dominate the college entrance examination math if it were to take it?
Of course, what made him gasp the most was the price.
A shovel full of brain flesh could sell for five hundred yuan!
Jiang Ye stood up, walked onto the deck of the fishing boat, and stood at the bow, gazing at the jellyfish on the entire beach.
One, two, three, four... twelve. A total of 12 jellyfish corpses.
"Damn it, I'm rich!" he said fiercely.