Chapter 775 No More Than a Seagull with No Fixed Abode on Earth Prowling the Skies (1/2)

Chapter 775: No More Than a Seagull with No Fixed Abode on Earth Prowling the Skies

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Li Du loved the island and wanted to name it.

Snake Island was the most natural name, but he didn't like it. First of all, the name was too common. Secondly, snakes were too evil to make a good name for the island.

He was thinking that Sophie had come to take him to the reef to look for scallops and oysters. There would possibly be a large number of sea snakes, as there were many shellfish on the rocks around the island.

Some people may not have understood the relationship, but it was quite simple. Some shrimp and crab species liked to eat shellfish, while sea snakes didn't like them because they couldn't digest the shells.

However, they could digest shrimp and crabs, and they could attack the sea animals they met. Unlike humans, sea animals had no intelligence, and they didn't know that they should retreat from the sea snakes. Instead, they rushed up to attack.

In this way, when a sea snake saw that it was under attack, what else could it do but call on its own species to come over in defense!

After this happened several times, fewer animals dared to come to the area, so there were fewer shellfish predators. With fewer predators, they naturally multiplied and grew in large numbers.

Standing on the rocks, they could see nothing but the vast, undulating sea, and there seemed to be nothing between heaven and earth except the sea and the blue sky.

Sophie let out a cry with her arms outstretched, then giggled.

”What are you laughing at?” asked Li Du.

Sophie did not answer. Instead, she asked, ”There is a poem learned a long time ago, but I can't quite remember now. It's the poem your poet master Du Fu wrote as if to say, 'No more than a desert with no fixed abode on earth prowling the skies.'”

”No more than a desert with no fixed abode on earth prowling the skies?” Li Du wondered if Du Fu had written such a poem.

He thought hard, and then asked tentatively, ”'I've been roaming without much of a purpose, what says that of me? No more than a gull with no fixed abode on earth prowling the skies.'”

Sophie shook her little fist hard and cried excitedly, ”Yes, that's it!”

Li Du did not know whether to cry or to laugh. ”It is, 'No more than a gull with no fixed abode on earth prowling the skies,' not, 'No more than a desert with no fixed abode on earth prowling the skies.'”

At this point, he had an idea and thought of the name of the island: Seagull Island.

The name was a bit ridiculous because there were no gulls around the island, but the island was so much like the poem!

There were no gulls around the island, but there were many other seabirds and some sea snakes, which stayed by the beach to lay their eggs.

In addition, the situation and temperament of the island was also in accord with this poem, ”I've been roaming without much of a purpose, what says that of me? No more than a gull with no fixed abode on earth prowling the skies.”

So wasn't it a good idea to call it Seagull Island?

He was satisfied with a lot of things on the island, but he was not satisfied with some, such as the snakes and the black gold abalone, which was too far away from the island and was not easy to harvest.

However, they had to sell the abalone, and it would die if they kept it too long, which made it much less valuable.

After consulting with several of his men, Li Du eventually found a solution. He would sell abalone on the relatively close island of Tasmania and bring Lu Guan with him.

They had made a name for themselves on King Island, and many people wanted to buy their black gold abalone, so they had exchanged contact information.

Subsequently, he asked Lu Guan to contact those interested parties and sell the abalone in a central district, the town of Herrick in Tasmania.