Chen Yuan got up, cooked rice, cooked a piece of bacon and sausage, and went outside to exercise.
The sea breeze in the morning brings refreshing coolness.
Yan Xiaoxi came down wearing silk pajamas and hugged Chen Yuan from behind.
After dinner, Zhou Sheng came over, and the two of them rode to the pier, put on jellyfish suits, and decided not to sail out now, but to go straight into the sea and swim over.
The annular artificial reefs on the seabed are about to be completely removed. In the past few months, the coral reefs on the seabed have grown significantly.
Continue to move these anti-wave stones, and after two days, all the anti-wave stones on the seabed will be removed.
The next step is to re-lay the submarine annular belt.
Place the largest wave-proof stone below, spread it flat first, and then place the wave-proof stones piece by piece.
The width of the seabed reached 50 meters. Then it was slowly piled up in circles like a pyramid.
This process is very laborious and extremely energy-consuming.
It's May.
The coral polyps on the seabed laid eggs again. This time there were so many coral polyps laying eggs, and coral eggs floating on the seabed were everywhere.
It's May and the weather is getting hotter.
A hot cyclone may appear at any time in the future, which means a typhoon is coming.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng accelerated their actions. In early June, the seafloor annular zone reached a height of ten meters, ushering in the first typhoon of the year.
The wind howled and the sea surged.
Chen Yuan and Yan Xiaoxi were listening to the roaring prosperity at home...
Yan Xiaoxi was a little scared and hugged Chen Yuan tightly, but the hint of coquettishness was stronger.
Strong wind, howling wind.
The heavy rain was blown by the wind and hit the windows...
There is a lot of warmth in the bedroom.
The wind has subsided and the room has become quiet.
Yan Xiaoxi was lying on the bed, drawing circles on Chen Yuan's chest with her fingers: "When can I pay back the money I borrowed from Zhou Jianguo?"
"At the end of the year, Chen Hao and Zhou Jianguo were in Fiji and took a big order. After the order was completed, it would cost 11 million Fijian dollars," Chen Yuandao said.
"Coral reef list?"
Chen Yuan said ‘hmm’.
"Coral reef, I think it's better not to sell it," Yan Xiaoxi said.
"The hotel group's order has not been sold to outsiders. The hotel group has taken over Wulai Atoll and plans to build a large aquarium there. It needs a lot of particularly beautiful corals..." Chen Yuandao.
"That's okay."
Some of the corals in the aquarium are cultivated, but it takes too long to cultivate the corals in the aquarium. Most of them are purchased from outside...
Coral farming and sales are not non-existent, but very few.
It is better to buy cultured coral than to dig wild coral in natural sea areas.
Before Chen Yuan acquired it, there were not as many corals in Navutu Atoll as there are now. It is still possible to sell some and exchange for others.
Typhoons come and go quickly.
Chen Yuan hasn't rested for a long time, and today is a rare day of rest.
The next day, the sea surface became much calmer. Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng continued to dive underwater to carry anti-wave stones.
The seabed anti-wave rocks are ten meters high, but this typhoon still stirred up the seawater on the seabed.
This time they laid out wave-proof stones, and Chen Yuan and the others left a lot of waterways so that the corals in the artificial atoll could get enough nutrients.
Typhoons have an impact on underwater corals, but the impact is not fatal and the losses are within an acceptable range.
Chen Yuan and the others continued to lay out wave-proof stones. After a while, the two of them picked up some branch-shaped corals from the seabed.
These are small branch corals. The polyps on the corals are gone...these corals are affected by the typhoon. But there are not many of them.
The branch-shaped coral is estimated to be 13 centimeters in maximum and 89 centimeters in width.
Seeing this, Chen Yuan felt confident.
Corals cultivated by spiritual energy reproduce quickly and secrete limestone very quickly.
In order to make the corals grow faster, Chen Yuan stored all the spiritual energy collected in June. In July, Chen Yuan spent a whole day distributing the spiritual energy to the coral polyps in the atoll.
This is the last time to give the coral polyps spiritual energy.
With the spiritual energy collected by Chen Yuan in the first month of the year, the coral polyps seemed to have evolved collectively. The coral polyps that were originally growing very well on the sea floor are now more energetic and waving their tentacles on the sea floor.
There are densely packed coral polyps on the seabed. People with trypophobia would probably feel uncomfortable if they saw it.
It took three months to dismantle the artificial atoll. Now it is taking longer than expected to rebuild.
On August 1, the average height of the artificial atoll zone was 15 meters.
In September, the average height of the artificial atoll zone was 17 meters. Zhou Jianguo and Chen Hao returned, and the construction of the Xiaoshan Island Hotel was put on a daily basis...
The tension after that became even slower.
It's November, and the artificial atoll zone has been laid to 20 meters.
The breakers scattered outside the atoll are getting farther and farther away.
We experienced four typhoons today, one in June, one in mid-July, one in August... and one in September.
Before reaching a height of 17 meters, the atoll zone could already protect the coral reef very well.
After that, Chen Yuan continued to carry anti-wave rocks on the seabed every day. But it was no longer to completely raise the artificial atoll, but to widen it.
April of the following year.
Artificial atoll completed...
Now it can no longer be called an artificial atoll, but should be called a coral reef protection zone.
The average height of the coral reef protection zone from the water surface...at low tide and high tide, it is 10 meters from the water surface.
The topmost width of the protective tape is 30 meters.
Now the seabed inside the protective zone is densely packed with coral reefs, and the coral polyps are very active. These corals are divided into groups. In order to compete for living space, different groups will lay eggs once in a short period of time.
The inside of the protective zone is now covered with corals. Although the outside is not yet covered with corals, there are a lot of them.
There are also many coral polyps that have settled in the gaps in the wave-proof stones, and corals grow in the gaps.
Nowadays, ecological corals with a radius of ten kilometers around Xiaoshan Island are recovering. During this period, the institute also said that it wanted to build a research laboratory on Xiaoshan Island, but Chen Yuan rejected it. However, many living corals were sent for research.
So, leave it to them to breed...
Within the protection circle of Xiaoshan Island, the coral reefs grow very fast.
It is the fastest growing coral in more than a year. When transplanted, there was only a section of the coral. Now it has grown into a complete large coral, but the weight of the plant is estimated to have increased by more than ten kilograms.
Chen Yuan didn't know exactly how many corals there were in the protective circle, but they were densely packed anyway. These corals were still spreading out of the coral reefs. Outside the protective circle, there were a lot of corals, and they were growing very fast.
But if you want to use corals to build islands, you can only do it in some shallow sea areas. Otherwise, you won't see the effect in a short time.
Whether Xiaoshan Island can expand and become a coral island remains to be seen.