1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 348: In times of crisis, the giant shadow of the "sea panda" appears
As expected, we continued fishing in the afternoon and found a lot of red snapper mixed in with the catch. Unfortunately, there were only three of them.

On the fourth day of sailing, Liang Ziqiang and his companions were still rinsing their mouths and preparing breakfast early in the morning, but Hulu got up unusually early. He could not stay on the boat and jumped into the water to swim and fish.

Breakfast was sardine porridge with pickles, steamed buns, and boiled lettuce slices.

The sardines were local, caught yesterday. Chen Xiangbei made the steamed buns at home in advance, and Liang Ziqiang packed them in a cloth bag and stored them in a separate place in the cold storage cabin after taking them on board. When they were ready to eat, they just had to be steamed.

Liang Ziqiang stuffed two bites of steamed buns into his mouth, stood by the railing and looked at the sea as usual, watching the morning sun rise from the sea little by little.

Suddenly, he felt as if his eyes were dazzled, and the boundless sea surface shining with golden light suddenly raised a whip.

The whip is very long and melodious, with a graceful curve. After rising from the sea, it draws a powerful curve in the air.

At the same time, the underwater waves were rolling faintly, as if there were beasts running underwater.

At this moment, it seemed as if someone was riding a horse and whipping it on the vast sea. The whip was waving, and the horse was galloping in the shelter of the waves.

If it was just a passing glance, Liang Ziqiang would definitely mistake it for a momentary illusion when he just woke up in the morning.

However, right before his eyes, the long whip fell and rose again and again, lashing the sky continuously, like a shadow puppet rising and falling in the morning glow.

"What the hell? What kind of strange fish is this? It looks like it's quite big!" Deng Zhaocai was also holding a steamed bun and forgot to chew it.

Liang Ziqiang and Zhu Tianpeng, at the same time, put down their steamed buns, picked up the fishing binoculars, and looked towards the sea.

With the help of a telescope, it can be seen much more clearly. In addition to the "whip" raised high above the water, there is another black triangular fin in the waves, which is not much exposed above the sea surface and disappears under the waves from time to time.

"Thresher shark! Deep-sea thresher shark!" Liang Ziqiang confirmed immediately, "That's not a whip, it's a tail fin. The tail fin of a thresher shark can be several meters long!"

The tail fin of the deep-sea thresher shark is particularly developed, accounting for nearly half of its entire body length. The tail fin of the thresher shark in front of us, with its tail fin raised high in the air, is estimated to be at least three or four meters long.

"Damn, the tail fin is the shark fin. With such a big tail, doesn't it mean that it has a body full of shark fins? Money, Brother Qiang, this is all big money!" Deng Zhaocai immediately discovered the extremely tempting money potential from such a large tail fin.

"What are you thinking about? It's a shark, alive! What should we do? It's good enough that it doesn't come over to attack our boat!" Lin Liming rolled his eyes at Deng Zhaocai.

In fact, what Deng Zhaocai said is not wrong. The tail fin of the deep-sea thresher shark is ridiculously developed. Indeed, the tail fin of a thresher shark is better than the fins of several ordinary sharks combined!
If you could really get it, this "whip-like" tail fin alone would be worth a lot of money.

But what Lin Liming said was also true. If the thresher shark rammed the boat repeatedly in anger, they would be in trouble if it damaged any parts...

Look at it, no matter how tempting this floating cash is, it is destined to be out of your hands.

"It looks like it's hunting? Look, it's whipping something with its tail. I'm afraid it's chasing a seal?" Liang Chun also noticed the latest movements on the sea.

Deep-sea thresher sharks have a characteristic: they like to use the "whip" on their tails as weapons. When they encounter prey, they will lash out at it without thinking twice, then use their tail fin to knock the prey unconscious before pouncing on it for a delicious meal.

"Need I say more? The dots running away on the water are obviously seals! They say sharks love to eat seals, I didn't expect it to be true!"

"I never thought I'd see sharks hunting seals. It was quite interesting!"

"It's rare for a seal to escape a shark's mouth. Needless to say, this seal's day has come to an end!"

Several crew members acted as spectators, munching on steamed buns and commenting leisurely.

Liang Ziqiang had been watching the chase on the sea through the telescope, but his expression gradually became ugly.

Zhu Tianpeng was also watching with a telescope. He scanned the surrounding sea and suddenly seemed to remember something. He muttered:

"Where's the gourd? Shouldn't it pop up once in a while? It seems like it hasn't popped up for a while?"

“Oh my god, could it have been killed by this thresher shark? Fur seals and seals will probably taste the same!” Deng Zhaocai realized something was wrong after hearing this.

"It hasn't been eaten yet, but it will probably be eaten in a few seconds!" Liang Ziqiang suddenly sighed.

"No way," Deng Zhaocai quickly snatched the telescope from Zhu Tianpeng's hand and looked, "That thing that's running away for its life might be a seal or a gourd!"

"You just realized it..." Liang Ziqiang said helplessly.

Well, actually, he himself had just realized not long ago that the seal-like creature was actually a gourd...

Even as he was speaking, the deep-sea thresher shark once again raised its long whip high up and lashed the sea surface fiercely.

The whip tail was aimed at the place where the gourd was escaping.

If this whip hit Hulu's head, he would not only be dizzy, but would probably die on the spot.

Fortunately, the gourd's movements in the water were completely different from its usual clumsy behavior. It struggled to swim forward again, using almost all its strength. The whip hit its original position, and a wave of water threw the gourd from the sea into the air. When it fell again, the gourd seemed a little dizzy, and it paddled desperately to escape again, but it was spinning in circles, and it seemed to have lost its direction.

The thresher shark probably saw that its prey was about to faint, and although it failed to hit it directly, it was successful in disturbing the prey to the point that it couldn't tell east from west.

It stopped whipping and instead floated its head out of the water, turned around, and opened its big mouth towards the gourd.

At this moment, Liang Ziqiang silently put down the telescope and didn't want to look any further.

I felt a little sad in my heart.

From the discovery of the thresher shark eating the gourd to the current scene, everything happened too fast and too suddenly.

They were still eating breakfast, and the boat hadn't started sailing yet. Even if they were anxious to save Hulu, there was no time for them to act.

Because even if they started the boat, adjusted the direction, and caught up with the shark despite the risk of being hit by it, during this long process, the gourd would definitely have been eaten by the shark, and there would not be any suspense at all.

Survival of the fittest. The ocean is a jungle-like hunting ground. Countless fur seals are torn and eaten by sharks throughout the year.

However, when this happened to Hulu, it still made people feel uncomfortable.

After all, he was the one who watched Hulu being born on the boat, and he was also the one who watched it grow up like a balloon and become an increasingly strong sea lion.

The little thing is particularly close to him, and has an indescribable feeling for Duobao. It is very clingy and will come close to him as soon as it sees him, acting silly and cute.

In the past few days, he has been secretly imitating Duobao, bringing back to the boat what he doesn't eat from the sea, sometimes black dog ginseng, sometimes sea red grouper. I'm afraid he is the most well-behaved sea dog in the world, right?
"Damn thresher shark!" Zhu Tianpeng also put down his binoculars. He usually didn't curse at others, but now he started cursing.

"Fuck it! Get away from me, you shark!" Deng Zhaocai was so angry that eleven out of ten words he said were swear words.

Duobao, who was originally lying on the deck eating from the dog food bowl, ran to the railing at some point.

Dogs’ eyes are actually quite sharp. After staring for a while, Duobao suddenly seemed to lose control and started barking wildly.

Obviously, Gou Zi also recognized that the person being chased was Hulu.

At this moment, he cried out heartbreakingly, as if he had lost his beloved son.

Amid the cursing and barking, no one expected it.

Suddenly, huge waves rose up on the sea, and it seemed that some creature in the sea was trying to break away from the sea and fly into the sky.

A huge figure rose into the sky, pushing away the waves.

The morning glow was a sincere red, lighting up the sky and earth, but it could not dye this figure red.

This is a black and white figure. There is only black and white on its body, just like the national treasure giant panda, without any other colors.

As for its size, the thresher shark that seemed so majestic just now looked like a delicate and pretty girl in front of it.

At first glance, the size of this black and white giant cannot be measured in hundreds or thousands of pounds. It is probably several tons or even tens of thousands of pounds.

Its back is pitch black, its belly is snow-white, and its lines are rounded. Although it is so huge that it can move mountains and lift tripods, it looks strangely soft and cute as a whole.

"Killer whale! It's a killer whale!" Zhu Tianpeng shouted.

The killer whale, known as the "giant panda of the sea", is very distinctive and recognizable, and several people recognized it at the first sight.

Time did not stop for a moment because of their surprise and discussion.

After the killer whale came out of the water, it moved in one smooth motion, lowering its head towards the thresher shark's body and opening its big mouth right onto the thresher shark's belly.

To be more precise, it is the belly area below the pectoral fin of the thresher shark.

It was like a long-planned deadly surprise attack.

The thresher shark's big mouth was originally stretched forward, trying to approach the gourd, but the sudden attack caused its entire body to tilt to one side, and its mouth completely missed the target.

In fact, at the moment the killer whale broke out of the water, the thresher shark had already tilted, knocked crooked by the killer whale's body.

The rising waves inadvertently threw the gourd, which was as tiny as a drop in the ocean, far away!

Killer whales preying on thresher sharks, this giant screen-like scene was something Liang Ziqiang had only seen through a screen in his previous life. But now, everything was thrilling, unfolding right before his eyes...

(End of this chapter)