I will practice more in the United States

Before this, Li Ang had never driven a boat, but he had made preparations in advance by watching a video on driving various small boats on the plane.

To be honest, this thing is easier to drive than a car. At least there won't be so many pedestrians running around randomly on the sea.

The weather today is quite good. It is a rare sunny day in winter. This is also the result of Li Ang's careful choice. The sea is different from other places. The influence of weather is very large.

After Li Ang started the fishing boat, he began to move at full speed towards the direction indicated on the map.

At this time, a luxury yacht was passing by near the Isle of Wight. In terms of size, this yacht was dozens of times larger than the small fishing boat driven by Leon.

There are no poor people who can afford to travel on luxury yachts, but in fact, rich people are also rare. After all, the truly rich people ride on their own private yachts, and the passengers on the boats are mainly middle class and petty bourgeoisie.

"Excuse me, is the Isle of Wight included in our itinerary?"

A young woman wearing a gray coat, holding a glass of champagne and with delicate makeup asked.

This yacht trip was a free team-building activity provided by their company. They said that traveling in this season is cheaper and you can also see some scenery that you can't see in summer.

If Emilia had to pay for it herself, she would definitely not come, but after all, it was a free trip and she really couldn't find any reason to refuse.

Including the question she asked the housekeeper now, in fact, she was asking it despite knowing the answer. She had already read the plan in detail before the trip. She couldn't run away now, just to get rid of her annoying supervisor who loved to harass her.

The steward on the yacht nodded and replied:
“Of course, beautiful lady, this is one of the highlights of our trip. You know, for a long time, this island was the private property of the Jones family and was only for their family members to visit.

But perhaps because of the economic crisis or for some other reason, the Jones family sold the island not long ago. After it was purchased by a travel company, the Isle of Wight became a public tourist attraction.

The scenery on the island is quite nice. While retaining some of its original flavor, it also has mature infrastructure and beaches. ”

Emilia nodded, but for some reason, her body told her that this island was not that attractive. In fact, the further she went in this direction, the more uncomfortable she felt.

After the conversation, she leaned against the fence of the yacht with a glass of champagne in her hand, looking at the sunny sea scenery, but her mind still felt a little unclear.

"Could it be that a glass of champagne made me drunk?"

Emilia frowned and asked herself this question. When she looked up, she saw the bald, greasy and intimidating manager again, walking towards her with a small cake.

Noticing that Emilia was looking at him, the bald supervisor immediately forced a wrinkled smile on his face, but before he could say anything, a huge crash suddenly came from under the boat, causing the yacht to shake.

Emilia's champagne and the supervisor's small cake fell to the ground.

There were bursts of exclamations and screams from the crowd.

"What's going on? I need an explanation."

"Have we hit a reef? But we are still some distance away from the island."

"Damn it, my Burberry shirt, it was ruined by this glass of wine, you have to pay for it!"

For a moment, the entire yacht became more lively than ever before.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please don't panic. It was probably just an unlucky big fish that hit our yacht. The captain has urgently confirmed that there are no reefs nearby."

The person in charge of this yacht tour activity also quickly stepped forward to calm everyone's emotions.

In fact, reefs, which are rocks or reefs located below the water surface, are usually marked on nautical charts because they are very dangerous to ships.

However, those who have some knowledge of the ocean also subconsciously doubted the big fish he mentioned. How big a fish must it be to be able to shake a luxury yacht? At least it must be a whale, right?
But the question is, will there be whales in this sea area in this season?

Just when his comforting words had begun to have some effect, there was another violent collision from under the yacht, even heavier than the last one.

This time it is basically 100% certain that it was not because of the reef, because the yacht was already anchored on the sea due to the collision just now.

Following this collision, chaos broke out on the yacht again, and it was even more intense than before.

There were also quite a few brave young men who leaned over the railings, trying to see what was hitting them in the water.

"Here, look here, Si Guoyi, what a big fish!"

Following the shout of a young man who lived a good life, many people rushed in this direction. For a moment, the railing on this side was almost crowded with people.

In the crowd, a middle-aged man in a suit and black-framed glasses said:
"This should be a sunfish, also known as a sunfish. It is the heaviest bony fish in the world. It has a gentle temperament and mainly feeds on seaweed, small fish and shrimp.

But its maximum length is over 5 meters, and its weight can reach up to 3.5 tons. This fish seems to be larger than the records in terms of both length and weight. Guys, maybe we have witnessed a world record with our own eyes!"

"I estimate that it must be more than five meters long, maybe seven or eight meters."

"No wonder this thing was able to knock our yacht over and make it shake. It's too big!"

"But if it was a gentle creature, why would it want to ram our boat?"

As soon as the little boy asked the question, the sunfish suddenly swung its tail and hit the yacht again.

"Go back! Go back! Don't squeeze me!"

Seeing this scene, some people want to step back, but others want to squeeze forward because they haven't seen it yet.

During this physical confrontation, the yacht shook violently again.

"thump!"

Finally, someone lost his balance and fell directly over the railing into the sea.

It is somewhat ironic that the person who fell into the sea happened to be the Japanese youth who first discovered the sunfish.

The women screamed louder, while the men were relatively calm.

The middle-aged man with black-framed glasses quickly gave instructions:

"Don't panic, everyone. First, get the lifebuoy and throw it to him, then lower the ladder down. Sunfish don't eat humans, so they won't do anything to him."

The crew on the yacht reacted quickly. When they heard someone fall into the water, they immediately brought a swimming ring with a rope. He held the swimming ring, aimed at the person still struggling in the water, and then threw it out very accurately.

According to the falling trend of the lifebuoy, it should be able to be thrown around him.

But the next moment, almost all the people still at the fence showed expressions of horror on their faces. Only the Japanese young man was looking at the lifebuoy falling from the sky with hopeful eyes.

"Oh!"

On the sea, a huge mouth with a diameter of more than two meters suddenly appeared under the Japanese youth. It then swallowed the man and the lifebuoy into its mouth in one bite.

Judging from his densely packed white teeth alone, he is probably beyond help.

The scene fell into a rare silence, not because everyone was no longer afraid, but because they were scared silly.

After several seconds, an unprecedented loud scream broke out on the yacht, and then everyone rushed away from the railing, and no one dared to go to the front line to watch.

Amid the shoving and pushing of the crowd, some people lay on the deck and were stepped on several times, some people squatted in the corner of the stairs, and some people even rolled and crawled to get to the middle.

The scene that just happened was so shocking. The last time they saw a similar scene was in a movie. The key is that this is much more exciting than the movie. They can even see the blood rising from the water after the man was swallowed.

The greasy supervisor, who had initially pretended to protect Emilia, was now curled up under a beach chair, shivering all over.

Although Emilia was panicked, she was generally able to stay calm and felt that she would not be in any danger if she hid in the cabin.

The middle-aged man with the black-framed glasses just now began to doubt his life. As a professor of biology, although this kind of fish was not his research direction, he knew something about it. No matter where the information came from, it never mentioned that the sunfish would eat people.

Even the action just now should not be possible for it to perform.

Fish mainly rely on their tail fin and pectoral fins to swim. Generally speaking, larger fish swim faster.

The exception is the sunfish, which has no tail, a huge body, and very short pectoral fins that cannot propel it and can only be used to maintain balance, so it has no swimming ability.

Generally speaking, they can only rely on the swinging of their two extra-long dorsal fins and anal fins to control their direction, moving forward slowly or drifting with the waves.

It is simply impossible for it to swim at such a speed, let alone perform such a difficult move as jumping half of its body out of the water. This would be similar if it were a dolphin or a killer whale.

Moreover, according to research data, its mouth should be very small, which is inconsistent with the bloody mouth that just opened.

But in terms of appearance, it looks like a sunfish.

In this situation, he can only attribute it to the fact that this is a new species, or that a certain sunfish has undergone a genetic mutation.

If this is the case, then the previous experience is useless. Maybe if he hadn't shown off his knowledge just now, that person wouldn't have fallen into the sea.
When it comes to being overwhelmed, no one can compare to the captain in the cabin right now.

As soon as the collision occurred, he went to the cabin at the bottom of the yacht to check the damage to the ship.

The first impact only caused a slight deformation of the bottom, but when the second impact hit the same place, the deformation was already very obvious.

By the third impact, there was even a slight seepage at the bottom.

He doubted that the ship could withstand at most one or two more impacts. If it suffered more, it might really be doomed.

The captain immediately gave orders and headed towards the Isle of Wight at full speed.

The loss of property is certainly distressing, but in comparison, human life is more important. After all, if the ship is damaged, there is insurance compensation, but if people are gone, he is the one who is responsible.

When the yacht is sailing, even if it cannot get rid of this terrifying big fish, at least it can prevent it from hitting the same place again.

But unfortunately, he still underestimated the intelligence of this fish.

After the yacht sailed for several hundred meters, it was hit again. The crew on duty under the cabin reported a desperate news. This time the damaged part was in the same place.

Because of this collision, water has already started to seep into the cabin. If the same part were to be hit again, it would definitely not be able to withstand it.

After several other tourists in the cabin discovered the water leakage, they immediately spread the news to the entire ship.

At this time, people on the deck had fallen into deep despair and could only pray that the yacht could reach the Isle of Wight as soon as possible so that they would still have a chance of survival.

Or a large rescue ship could come and launch rescue immediately.

At this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed:

"Look, there's a boat coming over there!"

The people who were still on the deck at this time all looked in the direction of his finger. After discovering that the so-called ship was just a small fishing boat, the hope that had finally risen turned into despair again.

What can a small fishing boat do? The big fish just now was probably bigger than his boat.

There were also kind people who warned the small fishing boat and asked it not to come over.

"Don't come over here! It's dangerous here!"

Emilia waved her hands desperately and shouted towards the fishing boat.

She had already seen clearly that there was only one person on the small fishing boat. If it was hit, the boat would be destroyed and everyone on board would die.

"Quiet, Emilia! Are you going to harm everyone?"

At some point, the bald supervisor who had just curled up under the beach chair came out from underneath again.

At this moment, he was righteously accusing Emilia:
"If he attracts this terrifying piranha, our yacht might not be hit once, and we might be able to safely reach the island and dock. We only need to sacrifice him to save our entire boat. Isn't this a good thing?"

As he said this, quite a few people actually stood up to support his remarks, but there were also quite a few people who opposed him, saying that a person's life is also a life.
As both sides were arguing about this matter, suddenly new changes occurred on the sea.

The huge sunfish had just emerged from the water when it was suddenly hit in the head by several consecutive shots.

The person who fired the shot was the young man on the small fishing boat. (End of this chapter)