Chapter 23. Sea turtles lay eggs

     After finishing chatting with the girls, Li Yaolin went back to take a shower and sleep.

     The girls couldn’t sleep, so after taking a shower, the four of them squeezed into one bed.

     The girl with short hair rested on a pillow, crossed her legs and watched short videos; the petite girl sat cross-legged on the bed to select the photos she took today, the dormitory head lay at the end of the bed and chatted with the pursuer who lived downstairs, occasionally showing a mysterious smile.

     Liang Ying sat on the edge of the bed thinking about the future.

     To be honest, she was fascinated by Xingzhou Island. The beaches, waves, sunshine, breeze, trees and seabirds here all brought her a different experience, which was a feeling of freedom and joy.

     She couldn’t help but think back to her four years of college life. She lived a fulfilling life every day. She participated in various competitions, studied and interned in major companies. These were the paths she chose.

     She had made so much effort for this path, but why did her parents think that taking the civil service exam was the way out after graduation, and she compromised?

     Li Yaolin’s words last night were actually from an outsider’s perspective, but it must be said that she touched Liang Ying’s heart and successfully made Liang Ying full of imagination about the development of Xingzhou Island.

     Compared to interior design, she personally prefers landscape design. If she can participate in the landscape design of Xingzhou Island, it would be such a proud thing.

     Suddenly, the short-haired girl sat up and moved closer to the short girl: “Have you finished editing the vlog for me?”

     Liang Ying’s thoughts were interrupted.

     The short girl rolled her eyes: “Sister, editing a video is not retouching, I’ll give it to you tomorrow.”

     The dormitory head raised her head and said with a smile: “In fact, today’s photos don’t need to be retouched at all, I’ve sent them all out.”

     The girls immediately glared at her.

     Damn, she sent out a picture without retouching it. Is this the rhythm of the end of friendship? !

     They opened their Moments one after another and accurately found the photo of themselves. Looking left and right, they found that this photography technique, combined with the scenery here, really didn’t need to be retouched.

     “I’ll forgive you this time!”

     The dormitory head pretended to be angry: “You don’t trust my selfie skills that I’ve been taking for 20 years? I’m not a sister anymore!”

     Liang Ying said with a smile: “It’s not that we don’t trust your selfie skills, we are just not confident in our looks.”

     “Get lost!”

     The girls laughed together.

     Unlike the lively girls, except for the suitor who was still chatting with the dormitory head, the boys had already fallen into a deep sleep, snoring one after another. The only awake boy, after finishing chatting with the dormitory head, felt like being thrown from a honey jar into a frying pan. It was a torment.

     Around six in the morning, the dormitory head woke up first. She turned all the roommates out of bed: “Sisters, let’s go see the sunrise!”

     Liang Ying was so sleepy that she couldn’t open her eyes: “We are in the west, and there is that mountain blocking us, so we can’t see the sunrise.”

     The dormitory head was dumbfounded: “Ah, that’s right!”

     Although she couldn’t see the sunrise, she still got up and washed up.

     She quietly went out to take a walk on the beach with the boy who got along well with her last night. The tide had not completely receded on the white sandy beach in the early morning. Many fish could be seen swimming underwater. The dormitory head suddenly discovered something and exclaimed in surprise: “Ah, is that a Nemo fish?!”

     “Nemo fish?” The boy followed her gaze and suddenly realized, “Ah… yellow and white, it must be a clownfish.”

     “It seemed that there was none yesterday!”

     “There are too many people during the day, so they must not dare to show up.”

     The dormitory head suddenly had an idea: “So, there are actually coral reefs here?”

     “It’s possible that there are, but there are relatively few open areas on the island, so it’s hard for us to see them. But I believe that more areas will definitely be opened in the future. If there are diving projects, I will accompany you to dive here in the future, and then maybe you can see coral reefs and clownfish closer.”

     The boy took the opportunity to express his feelings, and the dormitory head was moved.

     The two walked north along the beach and unknowingly walked to the unopened area. These places are separated by fences, but in fact, it is still possible to climb over.

     They didn’t cross the river, but saw a group of seabirds flying from the forest to the reef, and then from the reef to the sea. They immediately thought that the scene was amazing!

     The dormitory head held the camera and took pictures. Suddenly, she seemed to have discovered a new world and shouted in a low voice: “Sea turtles, there are sea turtles! And there are more than one, ah, are they fighting?”

     The boy: “…, they may be mating.”

     The dormitory head: “…”

     Ah, so embarrassing!

     After the boy finished speaking, he was confused: “But isn’t the mating season of sea turtles in March and April?”

     The dormitory head replied: “Maybe they marry and have children late!”

     As she said that, she called the sisters through the dormitory group and asked them to come and watch the sea turtles mate together.

     How could you miss the real paid content of the live version of “Animal World”?

     A group of girls hurriedly got up and washed, and ran over without combing their hair.

     “Wow, is this something I can see for free?”

     “It saves me a zoo ticket!”

     When Li Yaolin came over, she saw a group of young people chattering here, so she came over to join in the fun. As a result, she found that the green turtle she had sent away before not only came back, but also brought a wild man, oh no, a wild male turtle back!

     Wait a minute, didn’t the previous green turtle come ashore to lay eggs? Then these two should be new, right?

     Just thinking about it, she found a familiar turtle slowly crawling out from behind a big rock. It was far away from the two mating turtles, but closer to this side.

     The girls were afraid of disturbing the turtles, so they lowered their voices: “Oh, there’s another turtle here!”

     The boys analyzed: “It looks like it has finished laying eggs.”

     The girls were worried: “If we lay eggs here, what if a tourist climbs over the fence and steals the eggs?”

     Li Yaolin was more worried than them: “Yes, it seems that we have to build a higher fence.”

     Everyone was startled by her: “Manager, when did you come? You scared us to death.”

     Li Yaolin joked: “You were so engrossed in watching the show, how could you notice me coming?”

     Everyone: “…”

     To ease the embarrassment, they asked: “Manager, are these turtles raised on your island?”

     Li Yaolin shook her head: “No, they They stowed away on the island. I have to call the Fisheries Bureau to have them come over to deal with it.”

     “Ah? They came to the island, which means they like this place very much, right? If we drive them away, what will happen to the newly laid eggs? The mother turtle will be sad when she comes back and finds her children are gone, right?”

     The boy said: “In fact, female turtles will mate with multiple male turtles, and then go their separate ways. After the egg-laying period, female turtles will find a place with few people to lay eggs, and then return to the sea after laying eggs. These eggs are naturally hatched. After the baby turtles are born, they are considered to be fatherless and motherless. They need to crawl to the sea to find food and survive by themselves.”

     Girls: “…”

     Wow, I suddenly don’t believe in love anymore!

…

     Li Yaolin wrote down the phone number of Team Pan of the Law Enforcement Detachment of the Fisheries Bureau last time, and this time she called him directly.

     Along with the law enforcement detachment came reporters from a TV station. They received news early in the morning that wild green turtles were mating and laying eggs on Xingzhou Island. This was a small piece of news, so they hurried over. They happened to meet the law enforcement detachment and took their boat.

     Li Yaolin found that the photographer seemed to be an acquaintance. She noticed that he often came to take pictures of seabirds. The last time the Haizi picture appeared in the news, it seemed that he also took it.

     Since they had not yet discussed how to deal with the mating turtles and the suspected turtle eggs, the group stood outside the fence.

     The photographer pointed the camera at the mating green turtles, and Team Leader Pan looked at the green turtle that had crawled to the beach, wondering: “I released one last time, why is it back again, and there are two more?”

     The reporter asked: “Are these turtles bought on the island?”

     The angle was sharp, but it also raised many people’s doubts.

     Li Yaolin was speechless: “Were they bought just to notify the law enforcement to release them?”

     The reporter choked and handed the microphone to Captain Pan: “What does the law enforcement think?”

     Captain Pan first analyzed it and said that the sea turtle that seemed to have just laid eggs came up once the night before yesterday. They thought it was washed over by the waves, so they sent it to a place 10 nautical miles away and released it. As a result, it swam back and laid eggs here.

     Then he said that in this case, these sea turtles are generally released, and the eggs should be sent to a special institution for hatching.

     But the problem is that the behavior of these sea turtles is their own choice. Most sea turtles are timid and can choose unmanned beaches to lay eggs. Naturally, they will not choose places with many people. Xingzhou Island is an island under development, but they chose this place instead, which shows that they think the marine environment here is suitable for them to live.

     You should know that the coastline of Youshi and even the surrounding coastal cities has not seen wild green turtles come ashore to lay eggs for a long time, so Captain Pan is a little embarrassed about how to deal with this situation in the future.

     Lingnan Province does have a turtle nature reserve, but it is in Hui City, more than 600 kilometers away from Youshi.

     And for some reason, Captain Pan has a hunch that he always feels that many turtles will come here to lay eggs in the future…