Chapter 114 Successfully Completed
Chapter 114 Successfully Completed
"Whoosh~"
The arrow pierced the eel's neck and stuck in the sand, creating a small patch of sand mist.
The moray eel, mortally wounded, thrashed about, stirring up a murky mess in the water.
Compared to other fish, moray eels are much more resilient; it took them a good four or five minutes to become still.
Zhou Miao raised the harpoon and shook it, and the moray eel swayed along with it like a tattered piece of cloth.
Only after he was sure the eel was cold did he put the fish into the net.
This sea eel is quite large; even in the water, you can feel its weight. I estimate it weighs about five or six pounds and is worth around three hundred yuan.
Thinking back to when he didn't even earn 300 yuan a day, Zhou Miao sighed that playing jungler was indeed a faster way to make money.
As expected of the hunter profession, the rewards are much better than those of cattle and horses.
Zhou Miao then quickly arrived at the 30-meter-deep reef.
The fish here are indeed much bigger; in no time, he caught a five-pound parrotfish.
You can't see the fish's exact color in the water, but it'll definitely sell for 70 or 80 yuan per pound.
He then caught two more bream weighing about a kilogram, which he found hidden in some seaweed, where they were doing some bad things.
Zhou Miao immediately seized them and decided to take them back for a thorough critique.
After bleeding the fish and putting it in the net, he turned around and witnessed a horrifying scene.
Zhou Miao got goosebumps all over his body, and his heart rate instantly soared to two hundred.
A gigantic grouper suddenly burst through the darkness and rushed straight toward his... net.
He wasn't stunned into silence; instead, the surge of adrenaline made his body extremely agile.
With a sideways movement, he dodged the grouper's bite.
But the grouper persisted, biting at his net again.
Unexpectedly, the huge grouper, which looked bulky, was so agile in the water that Zhou Miao didn't even have time to raise his spear and could only continue to dodge to the side.
In fact, as long as he's willing to give up the fish, he can easily aim the spear at the grouper's head.
The two smallest spotted rock snapper are high-priced fish that anglers dream of, selling for two to three hundred yuan per kilogram.
Zhou Miao would never want them to be eaten by the giant grouper unless absolutely necessary.
After dodging again, he moved with much more ease.
He raised his harpoon and aimed it at the fish that charged at him again. When the distance was less than a meter, he decisively pressed the button.
The arrow shot out and pierced directly into the head of the giant grouper.
In an instant, an immense force struck, snatching the spear away from Zhou Miao's grasp.
Then his wrist tightened; the safety rope had come into play.
This is to prevent the spear from being carried away by larger fish.
But Zhou Miao didn't expect to encounter such a large grouper tonight, which was only slightly smaller than the grouper he had caught before.
However, this is not a saddleback grouper, because its fins do not have spotted patterns.
But that's not important. Currently, only the Nanguang region in China has a protection law for giant groupers, and that law is not very effective for the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.
So Zhou Miao wasn't afraid of killing the fish or what problems might arise if he sold it.
Zhou Miao was being pulled by a tremendous force in the water, and had no power to resist. He was being dragged along the water.
In just a short while, he was passively moved fifty or sixty meters.
Fortunately, the fish didn't swim into the deeper water; they just swam around the reef haphazardly.
Clearly, Zhou Miao had not aimed the spear at the fish's head precisely.
That's why this giant grouper has survived for so long without dying.
Even that last attack didn't really hit its vital point.
That is, with the compressed air tank, Zhou Miao immediately untied the safety rope when he switched to freediving.
Who would be interested in being carried around by a fish, experiencing something like being towed across the sea by a jet ski? .
The injured grouper ran for about ten minutes before slowing down.
It hid next to a huge reef that was as big as a room, and Zhou Miao suspected that this was its habitat.
But the fact that the fish stopped moving was not good news for him, because the fish was still able to maintain its balance and did not lie on its side or turn belly up.
If Zhou Miao wants to take it down, he has to pull out his spear and hit it again.
But the excruciating pain of pulling out the spear will surely cause the fish to scatter again, and it might be impossible to find it.
However, Zhou Miao didn't consider this at all; regardless of whether the fish escaped or not, he was going to use the spear.
He quickly grabbed the spear with both hands and pulled it out forcefully.
He could clearly feel the fishbone stuck in his throat, but he was quite strong and managed to pull the spear out before the fish could react.
At the same time, he quickly swung his flippers and moved away from the grouper.
When he looked down again, the bottom of the water had turned into a sandy mist.
The next moment, the giant grouper burst out from inside and charged wildly in one direction. Zhou Miao saw this and immediately followed.
Fortunately, the giant grouper wasn't moving very fast, which allowed him to keep up.
Even when he vigorously swung his flippers, he could still catch up with the grouper.
Initially, Zhou Miao planned to let the grouper get tired before taking action.
But after three or four minutes, when I noticed it swimming towards the deeper water, I immediately rushed over and came right above the fish.
Fish can swim to deeper waters, but he can't.
Therefore, Zhou Miao could only aim his spear at the fish's head again while swimming quickly.
Fortunately, this time the spear struck the fish's brain precisely.
The giant grouper, which was swimming rapidly, suddenly stiffened and could no longer move. It only moved forward a few meters due to inertia.
Its mouth was wide open, and its body was shaking violently, as if it was trying to swing its tail in a final struggle.
Zhou Miao guessed it must be very regretful for its gluttony.
It originally thought it was the overlord of this area, and that everyone had to give way to it.
He encountered a two-legged creature, which he subdued with his tools.
Zhou Miao gripped the spear tightly, his feet slowly swaying.
When he got closer, he looked particularly thin next to the fish, which was about the same length as him, probably around 1.8 meters tall.
Before the fish was completely dead, Zhou Miao went down and grabbed its throat, intending to move it to the surface.
There was negative buoyancy underwater, and it took him a lot of effort to barely pull the fish off the sand bed.
Once the fish floats to the surface, its weight will be significantly lighter.
Zhou Miao moved to the bottom of the fish, held it up and swam to the surface. When he reached a depth of 15 meters, the pressure suddenly eased.
He knew it was the buoyancy of the seawater that made it possible for him to easily support the giant grouper weighing over 200 kilograms.
When it came to the surface of the water, the fish also floated beside it.
Zhou Miao held the fish and looked around to determine his location, only to find that Luo Hao's fishing boat was not far away.
"Ah Hao, come quick, I've caught a big fish!"
A beam of light shone down, and the next moment, he vaguely heard the excited voices of two people coming from the fishing boat.
Zhou Miao waited for a short while before Luo Hao slowly drove the boat to his side.
When he saw the fish floating next to him, his expression changed from excitement and envy to shock.
"How could it be a seven-banded grouper?"
Author Zang Li's latest work, "My Fishing Raft Can Ask for Help," is exclusively released for the first time!
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