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Chapter 228 - 181: Or else, swim directly to Southeast Asia?_2

Chapter 228: Chapter 181: Or else, swim directly to Southeast Asia?_2

Chen Yun still paid for it.

This was a Green Ringed Sea Snake, one of the edible nearshore sea snakes.

It was widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Western Pacific, including the southern and southeastern coastal areas of Hua Country.

After bringing the sea snake home and simply killing it, a palpable craving arose.

Clearly, the sea snake was edible.

Satisfied with this, Chen Yun began to demonstrate his impressive cooking skills and prepared to process the Green Ringed Sea Snake.

While dealing with its venom glands, fangs, and salivary glands, Chen Yun couldn’t help but suddenly have a very bold idea.

In the past, when handling various snakes, had he ever tested the potency of their venom?

But given the nature of snake venom, most needed to enter the bloodstream to be effective.

And the result of the experiments was that Chen Yun was completely impenetrable to syringes, fangs, and the like; the snake venom simply couldn’t be injected into his body.

Considering that the conjunctival tissue of the eyes is thin and rich in blood vessels, and that certain substances in snake venom can directly penetrate the conjunctival barrier into the bloodstream,

Chen Yun had tried dropping King Cobra venom directly into his eyes as if it were eye drops, but in fact, there was no reaction whatsoever.

Whether the venom didn’t make it into the bloodstream or was simply useless was unknown.

The toxin of the Green Ringed Sea Snake he had just killed was twenty times that of the King Cobra.

The venom of the Green Ringed Sea Snake is complex, mainly consisting of neurotoxins and myotoxins, which make up about 60% of its venom. Neurotoxins affect the nervous system, causing paralysis and other severe symptoms; myotoxins affect muscle function, leading to muscle weakness and pain. After being bitten by a Green Ringed Sea Snake, the victim’s symptoms may start mild and gradually worsen, severely leading to swallowing difficulties, total paralysis, and even death in a short time.

Faced with such a potent toxin, Chen Yun couldn’t help but have the desire to experiment.

Under the Perception of Transparent World, he confirmed that Zheng Yuliang’s home was stocked with the Green Ringed Sea Snake venom antidote serum, ready to be used and dropped into the eyes at any time.

So Chen Yun pondered for a moment.

He decisively picked up the venom gland as if it were an eyedropper and dropped it directly into his own eyes.

And the result was obvious.

Just as his emotions were extremely stable and calm, his body instinctively told him one thing: snake venom was completely negligible.

That calmness was akin to saying, "Could eating a spicy Weilong snack actually kill you from spiciness?"

And indeed, that was the case.

After dropping the snake venom into his eyes, Chen Yun was completely unaffected, as if nothing had happened.

Chen Yun, having anticipated this, was not surprised.

Then, he seriously went back to processing the cooked sea snake, steaming it briefly and making a dish of blanched snake flesh slices.

As for the few bits of snake bones that hadn’t been thoroughly stripped of meat, he left them to make soup later, then stored it in the refrigerator for drinking the next morning.

Time passed swiftly.

Before 8 pm, Chen Yun skillfully left a note explaining that he had to leave.

Since Chen Yun thought he might be away for quite some time this time, in addition to telling Zheng Yuliang not to worry, he asked him to keep an eye on his silly dog, Bai Jin.

The reason he felt his departure might be lengthy

was that this sea trip wasn’t just a simple matter of swimming to the Shawai Fishing Ground and then swimming back.

He hadn’t looked at the nautical chart today for nothing.

He had already planned a rough route that would allow him to exercise his swimming while casually looking for appropriate shipwrecks to explore and salvage.

Based on his route,

he would first swim all the way to the Shawai Fishing Ground at the edge of Hua Country’s territorial sea, then head south passing the Jiangwai Fishing Ground, Zhouwai Fishing Ground, Yu Wai Fishing Ground, Wenwai Fishing Ground, Fujian Outer Fishing Ground, Taipei Fishing Ground, Tai Dong Fishing Ground...

and finally arrive at Southeast Asia.

Overall, it meant following the easternmost edge of Hua Country’s territorial sea line all the way down, forcefully swimming directly to the South Sea area near Southeast Asia.

The total distance was no less than the 1700 kilometers from Shucheng to Qixi City in Jiangnan Province, and it might even exceed that by some reaching roughly two thousand kilometers.

This kind of super long-distance swimming was truly an exercise fit for a real man, just thinking about it felt overwhelmingly powerful.

And the reason he chose this,

firstly, was to try and stay in deeper waters as much as possible to meet his training needs.

If he stuck to the coastal areas near the Hua Continent, those divine but shallow waters wouldn’t be very effective for training; it was more efficient to head to the edges of the territorial sea where it was much deeper.

Secondly, was to take a look at ancient maritime routes such as the Silk Road and incidentally search for shipwrecks along the way to satisfy his desire for exploration.

In such places, there would certainly be more shipwrecks than in ordinary sea areas.

According to his research,

a considerable number of shipwrecks around Hua Country were located in seas near Southeast Asia, especially in the South Sea area. The South Sea, as an important section of the ancient maritime Silk Road, witnessed a large volume of trade between ancient Hua Country and foreign lands. The waters surrounding the Xisha Islands were considered one of the areas with a dense distribution of ancient shipwrecks, closely related to the history of the South Sea’s maritime Silk Road. Many of these shipwrecks were merchant ships from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties engaged in international trade, laden with ceramics, silk, spices, and other goods, which sank for various reasons during their voyages.

From the middle of the Southern Song period, the historical fact that Hua Country’s merchant ships used advanced technologies like watertight bulkheads to navigate to Southeast Asia for trade. Starting in the Late Tang period, a large-scale trade network between Hua Country and Southeast Asia gradually formed, and with the mass export of ceramics and other goods, the number of shipwrecks in this region increased.

As for areas like the Eastern Sea and the Yellow Sea, although there were also shipwrecks, their numbers couldn’t compare with the South Sea.

Analyzing historical records, the South Sea should be the area with the most ancient shipwrecks in Hua Country’s seas. The South Sea Area, due to its vast expanse (over 3 million square kilometers), complex seabed topography, variable weather conditions, and its history as an important sea route on the maritime Silk Road, saw a multitude of ships sink there.

According to statistics, there might be over two thousand ancient shipwrecks in the South Sea area, across different dynasties, especially near the Xisha Islands, which were believed to have the highest concentration of Ming Dynasty shipwrecks. These shipwrecks contained many precious cultural relics, such as porcelain and metal artifacts, which are of immense value in studying ancient maritime trade and cultural exchanges.

In comparison, although the Yellow Sea and Eastern Sea regions also had ancient shipwrecks, in terms of quantity and known historical wreck sites, they usually weren’t as concentrated as in the South Sea.

Therefore, Chen Yun planned to pass through the Yellow Sea and Eastern Sea, heading south from their eastern sides, eventually reaching his destination in the South Sea area near Southeast Asia.

Along the way, he could traverse some of the former sea routes between Hua Country, Japan, and the peninsula, with the final target being the complex shipping routes that existed between Hua Country and Southeast Asia.

It was going to be a long journey,

spanning roughly two thousand kilometers.

Even with his swimming speed of 60 kilometers per hour, it would take over thirty continuous hours.

Though his endlessly recoverable stamina indeed allowed him to swim for more than thirty hours non-stop, he wasn’t planning to swim without breaks.

Considering the time he planned to spend enjoying the underwater world, fighting with marine beasts, and searching for shipwrecks along the way,

it was bound to take far more than thirty hours.

Even if he continuously enhanced his physical strength en route thereby indirectly increasing his swimming speed, it was highly likely that it would take several days to reach Southeast Asia.

Even if it didn’t take several days to reach Southeast Asia, including the time to return, he would definitely spend several days at sea.

Considering that today was April 14th, Sunday.

The eighth slumber evolution on Tuesday, April 16th, might also take place during his maritime swimming training.

So, this trip was destined to be a fantastic journey.

Super long-distance swimming training, underwater beauty, marine beasts, shipwreck treasures, slumber evolution...

Chen Yun greatly anticipated it.

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