The strongest sea king of pirates

Chapter 5 Metamorphosis
The itching became more and more intense, and Xia Qiu couldn't bear it any longer. He slowly floated up, leaned against the cabin, and rubbed gently.

Zira.

Xia Qiu felt that the itching had eased a lot, but along with the friction, something fell off her body.

what?
Xia Qiu quickly stopped and looked there, but it was too dark to see clearly.

So Xia Qiu swam out of the cabin, found a rock, and continued to rub against it.

With friction, one by one scales fell off.

The scales are off.

Xia Qiu stopped and looked at the scales on the ground, gray, yellowish, and yellowish-brown scales.

Even if Xia Qiu stopped, the scales were still falling off slowly.

How is this going?

Losing scales is not a good thing.

The scales are very useful as a protective barrier for the body, a shell to prevent water loss, camouflage, and isolation from microorganisms and infections.

The scales also reduce friction, reduce drag, and prevent predators from grabbing the body.

Fish scales come in various shapes, including shield scales, hard scales, round scales, and ctenoid scales.

His own scales are Yuanlin, which is also a type of bone scale.

Unexpectedly, it fell off.

Most fish will never change their scales throughout their lives. The scales will grow slowly with the growth of the fish, and wide and narrow rings will be formed on the scales. According to the number of groups of wide and narrow rings, the age of the fish can be distinguished.

Fish lose scales, some because the scales are easier to fall off, but most of them are due to parasites and bacteria.

Do you have parasites and bacteria in your body?
The numbness kept appearing, Xia Qiu was a little nervous, but he had no choice but to go back to the cabin and wait cautiously.

The scales continued to fall off. After about two hours, there was a large scale on the ground, and almost a small half of the scales fell off.

Xia Qiu accidentally touched the cabin and the sand on the ground, and could feel a clearer perception and a slight pain.

This will not work.

Without the protection of scales, one's body will become fragile.

But at this moment, Xia Qiu felt a tingling sensation from the surface of his body. The pain range was small, but it was like a needle prick.

Ok?
Xia Qiu's nerves tensed immediately, what is this pain?
The pain became more and more intensified, and the scope was increasing. At first, it was near the tail, and then spread, and finally the whole body felt tingling.

It's like being pricked by many needles, which makes people feel very painful.

Is it the effect of scale shedding?

But the next moment, the pain intensified again, as if something had penetrated the skin and slowly formed.

This is?

Xia Qiu felt that the body surface was slowly being covered, starting from the tail, and gradually felt a sense of fullness.

Xia Qiu hurriedly swam out of the cabin, came outside the cabin, landed on the sand, endured the pain from the sand touching his body, and then swung and bent his body.

The body bent to a certain extent, Xia Qiu saw the scene near the tail.

New scales.

It grows new scales by itself.

Although changing scales is relatively rare, there are also many fish that change scales in the earth.

And in the world of One Piece, it is even more unsurprising.

Xia Qiu took a look at the new scales, which were similar in shape to the shed Linlin, but with jagged bumps on the edges.

This is the ctenoid scale.

Originally he was Yuanlin, but now he has become a ctenscale.

Ctenoid scales and round lin are both bony scales, which are unique to bony fishes, but ctenoid scales are more common in higher fishes, such as Perciformes.

Fish with ctenoid scales are relatively large, and can even grow to more than two meters.

The round lin falls off and forms ctenoid scales. The more famous one is the herring carp. The juveniles are round lin, and the adult fish will replace them with ctenoid scales.

The color of his own ctenoid scales also changed.

It was originally light gray, but the part near the belly of the fish turned yellow, and the part near the back of the fish turned yellowish brown.

Now it is silvery white, the scales are silvery, and the edges are whitish, shining silvery, very beautiful.

Realizing that her scales were growing, Xia Qiu felt relieved.

It's just changing scales.

Not diseases and parasites, or anything else.

Xia Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the cabin and waited quietly, the pain seemed to have eased a lot.

But at this time, hunger came.

So fast?
I ate a lot this time, and I can last at least three hours, but now I am hungry in less than two hours.

Xia Qiu had to swim out of the cabin to look for food.

Click.

Xia Qiu swallowed two or three sea prawns. Now that it swallows sea prawns, it no longer needs to spit out its head, tail, and shrimp gun.

School of sandfish.

Xia Qiu found a group of sand drill fish and rushed up immediately, and the group of sand drill fish immediately scattered and fled.

But Xia Qiu's speed was extremely fast, he directly found a sand drill fish, bit it, the three layers of sharp teeth bit it off, and swallowed most of the body, leaving only the head.

wow wow wow.

Xia Qiu kept chasing the school of fish, often able to catch up and swallow the fish that fled in the opposite direction again.

It didn't take long before this group of sand drill fish ate most of them, and there were seven or eight of them.

not enough.

Then he continued to search, his body was close to the bottom of the sea, looking for sea shrimps and crabs.

After eating two crabs and a few sea prawns.

Xia Qiu ate two more fish that were left alone to fill his stomach, and then slowly returned to the cabin.

The scales continue to fall off, and new scales are slowly born.

And in the process of growing the scales, Xia Qiu's digestion speed was also greatly enhanced, so he had to continue hunting.

In this way, two days passed.

All the round lins in Xiaqiu fell off and replaced with ctenoid scales, which were finer and firmer, and shone silver.

In the process of changing scales, Xia Qiu's figure also changed, becoming more rounded.

Snapped.

Xia Qiu approached an upturned plank, suddenly swayed his body, and pulled out suddenly.

Click.

The board of the ship broke directly and was thrown out, but there was no pain in the body.

The scales became harder, and the body became tougher and stronger.

I have become stronger.

Xia Qiu felt the changes in her body and was very happy in her heart.

The stronger you become, the easier it is to survive.

Xia Qiu doesn't expect to be as strong as the sea kings, but at least he must have the ability to protect himself.

The current self has no enemies in the area close to the island.

Most of the fish here are between [-] centimeters and [-] centimeters, and the longest is no more than [-] centimeters, which is already relatively large.

Xia Qiu is now more than one meter long, with hard scales, and a tough body. With the huge pectoral fins, it has a strong speed. It has three layers of sharp teeth, which can even bite open crab shells.

In this sea area, Xia Qiu is an invincible existence.

But a little deeper into the ocean, still within the scope of the offshore area, you can find even larger fish.

Huge monsters more than two meters long and three meters long.

The sudden appearance of a shadow by chance scares Xia Qiu back and extinguishes the desire to explore outside.

Limited by the depth of the water, they are used to staying in areas with relatively high pressure and will not come here.

But Xia Qiu is afraid that one day, they will come here by chance and find themselves.

So it is not enough, we need to continue to grow bigger and stronger.

(End of this chapter)