Clearly, people still visited this reef area; they just harvested the oysters above the water's surface, never touching the ones below.
Upon seeing this, Chu Mingcheng decided to dive back into the water and pry loose the large oysters submerged below.
There were indeed quite a few large oysters around, and he specifically targeted those over fifteen centimeters for prying.
The number of oysters in his net bag gradually increased as Chu Mingcheng slowly moved along the oyster beds.
After a short while, when he pried a large oyster off a huge rock and swam to the back of the rock, he unexpectedly encountered a Titan Bombardier Fish that was munching on oysters with its hard teeth.
When human and fish met, they both paused and stared at each other, stopping what they were doing.
This was a yellow Titan Bombardier Fish which, upon discovering Chu Mingcheng, didn't flee but instead straightened its body to face him head-on.