1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 469: The tragic scene of the dragon sucking water

About half a month later, Lu Feng called the village and said that the batch of fishing rods for deep-sea heavy rock fishing had arrived.

After buying these fishing rods, Liang Ziqiang led the fleet to the area where the giant groupers gathered to fish for giant groupers.

Previously, due to limited fishing rods, only one boat could fish. Now four boats are parked there, fishing at the same time, happily accepting the gift from the killer whales.

"Oh my god, it's a ratfish! I've been wanting to catch a ratfish every day, but I didn't expect to catch one here!"

When Lin Baixian saw the big fish that Liang Ziqiang and Li Liang had pulled up together, he lost his composure.

Liang Ziqiang himself was also shocked.

The head of the grouper that was pulled onto the boat had a unique appearance, and it was quite special even among all the groupers.

This fish has a sharp mouth and a humpback at the back. Its body is milky white with black spots all over it.

Because its head looks like a mouse, it is called mouse spot. Of course, it also has another name, "humpback bass".

When Liang Ziqiang went fishing on Wuming Island, he was most looking forward to catching the rat grouper. After all, it is the well-deserved "king of groupers" and is more valuable than the eastern star grouper and the sea red grouper.

I went fishing so many times before and after the nameless island but never got what I wanted. Unexpectedly, I caught a grouper in this deep sea area brought by the killer whale.

Moreover, he had expected that a normal rat spot would weigh no more than one or two kilograms, but the rat spot in front of him was so large that it was shocking, probably weighing more than twenty kilograms!
Of course, the mouse grouper is different from other groupers in one respect. For other groupers and most seafood, the bigger they are, the more valuable they are. However, the smaller the mouse grouper is, the cuter it is, and it is both ornamental and delicious. When it grows to a certain size, it is still delicious, but its ornamental value is reduced. Therefore, in terms of unit price, the small mouse grouper is slightly higher than the large one.

But no matter what, the King of Grouper is still the King of Grouper, no matter how big it is, it is not cheap. In later times, it was more than one thousand or even close to two thousand per catty, but now if you go to Yuehai Restaurant, it will cost more than thirty yuan per catty.

The preliminary estimate of the value of this one rat spot alone is more than 600 yuan.

But mouse spot is rare after all. After catching this one, I didn’t encounter it again. Instead, I caught quite a few ordinary blue spot, brown-banded spot, etc. weighing two or three kilograms.

In the afternoon, I finally caught a giant grouper weighing more than 100 kilograms.

Zhu Tianpeng's boat even caught a 300-jin blue-brown giant grouper. Later, Zhu Tianpeng said that when the three of them worked together to lift the fish up, their palms were sweating!

In the next few months, Liang Ziqiang alternated between several places. Sometimes he came here to fish for giant grouper, and sometimes he went to Pearl Island and Abalone Island to catch pearl oysters and abalone with the help of a bottom tugboat.

When September came, Juzipo became much quieter, because the naughty boy Liang Xiaohai started to attend preschool. In those days, preschool only lasted for one year, and after one year, he would enter the first grade of elementary school.

Although Liang Jingcheng's destructive potential is extremely alarming, he is only two years old after all, and his abilities are limited to scratching tapes, scribbling, and chasing chickens and ducks with a stick.

One time when Chen Xiangbei was almost angry to tears was when she lifted the blanket and found several eggs inside.

Fortunately she lifted the lid, otherwise she would have slept on it directly, making a bed full of egg white and yolk, which would have taken who knows how long to wash.

Liang Jingcheng actually had his own logic. He said he wanted to put the eggs on the bed and let his mother hatch them. He wanted her to hatch a nest of chicks. He said he saw hens hatching in this way...

Chen Xiangbei managed to resist the urge to beat the kid. She is really patient.

After a period of autumn heat, a few autumn rains came, and the weather became cooler day by day. In November, it is safe to go to the "wintering fishing grounds" again.

He hired someone to make a new batch of cages with wooden strips and transported them to the wintering grounds. When he arrived at the atoll area, which he had not been to for more than half a year, Liang Ziqiang was stunned by the scene in front of him and was speechless for a long time.

The area around the atoll is in complete chaos.

Originally, three of the cages were blown up more than half a year ago, but the remaining cages were intact at the time. Now, none of the cages have survived. There is no trace of the cages on the water surface, not even a fragment or a piece of wood. Only a large number of broken wooden poles are scattered on the atoll, broken and messy, as if recreating the chaos and tragedy that once happened here.

But to be honest, it seemed that this was all within Liang Ziqiang's expectations.

Because he had long imagined that a "water dragon" would definitely occur here in the summer, and not to mention the wooden cages, even the iron cages would be destroyed by the terrifying destructive power of the water dragon.

What was truly shocking was not the destruction of the cages, but the boats.

On some reefs of the atoll, there are scattered masts, iron sheets, steel blocks, broken glass, cables and other items.

"Fuck! What's going on? Except for us coming here in winter, there is no way any boats can come here normally. How could there be these things?"

Standing on the atoll with Liang Ziqiang, Lu Song was stunned for a long time and was puzzled.

"Needless to say, another ship is coming here!" Zhu Tianpeng continued.

"Looking at this, I'm afraid something has happened here. I don't know if anyone survived." Liang Chun sighed.

In fact, they didn't need to say it, the matter was obvious. After Niu Xun and Tong Yusheng drove a large iron boat to blow up the cages last time, someone else drove a large boat here again.

Judging from some steel blocks scattered on the atoll, the ship that came this time should be a large steel ship.

Obviously, the big steel ship came over but failed to leave here normally. As for the cause of the accident, Liang Ziqiang's first thought was that the explosives were wrong, but he immediately denied it.

No matter how wrong the explosives were, at most they would blow a hole in a large steel ship, causing it to slowly sink, but it would not cause the entire ship to be dismembered instantly and fall apart on the spot, leaving a mess behind.

The more he thought about it, the more he concluded that it was a large steel ship that had forced its way in despite multiple warnings nearby, and that it must have been during the hot summer.

I don’t know what the other party was doing in the wintering area, but it must have encountered the sudden occurrence of abnormal weather conditions such as “dragon sucking water” during its stay.

Under such violent catastrophic force, even a large steel ship is not much stronger than a paper toy. The entire ship should have been destroyed, flipped over, and sunk in an instant. Most of it has sunk into the deep sea, and a small part has been swept into the air and then fell, resulting in these scattered items on the atoll.

As for Liang Chun’s speculation of “I don’t know if anyone survived”, there is no suspense at all.

If it was really caused by a water dragon, it would be impossible for anyone to survive. This is the epicenter of a water dragon. People are thrown into the clouds by rotating water columns and hurricanes, torn apart, and then fall to the bottom of the sea. What kind of iron body can survive?

"A Qiang, what should we do about this? Should we report it to the case?" asked Liang's father.

Liang Ziqiang looked around at the scattered objects around him, shook his head and said:
"No. There's no point in reporting a natural disaster. Besides, it happened so long ago in the summer. There's no need to report it now."

Last time, Li Liang and Ah Xian directly arrested Niu Xun and Tong Yusheng, two people from Tieniu Town, but they didn't get anything out of them. This time, the boat was lost, and the people were gone. What could they find out based on a few broken pieces of steel and wood on the reef?
Although in fact he also wanted to know what the other party's real intention was in breaking in.

It is possible that they were just fishing on the sea and accidentally came to this sea, or they may have some other purpose.

But Liang Ziqiang had already left warning signs around this sea area. He had at least four or five warning signs on the distant reefs to warn that extreme phenomena were occurring here.

Considering that the warning signs might be blown away by the dragon's suction water in summer, he also specially carved warning words on some large reefs. These carved words cannot be damaged.

Whether they were ordinary fishermen or people with ulterior motives, there was nothing to say about their fate as they ignored his danger warnings and barged in.

(End of this chapter)