The Legend of the Fishermen of Sicily

Chapter 118 The Ultimate Excitement...Slow Motion Effect!

Leo was frantic on the tall mast.

He also knew that the water depth where the female fish was located was too shallow to launch an interception attack.

When the dorsal fin is fully exposed, it indicates a depth of 0-5 meters below the water surface.

The fact that only a small section of the dorsal fin was visible, and that it was barely visible, indicates that the swordfish was active at a depth of about 5 meters below the surface.

The dorsal fin disappears completely at sea, but a light-colored outline can be seen underwater from the lookout, proving that the swordfish is currently at a depth of about 10 meters, far beyond the attack range of harpoons and spears, due to water resistance.

Leo's hands moved rapidly in the air.

Peglerini wasn't a physics teacher, but Leo did well on his SAT physics exam.

Throwing height: H=30m

Target depth: h=10m

Harpoon mass: m = 3 kg

Gravitational acceleration: g=9.8...

"Calm down, calm down. You entered the seedling class at age 3 and started learning advanced math at age 8. You will definitely be able to solve this kind of high school physics problem."

Leo cheered himself up!

Seeing that the frequency of the sounds coming from above was getting lower and lower, Peglerini worried that he had used up his voice again, so he looked up.

"I saw Leo making strange gestures on the lookout tower, as if he were casting some kind of strange spell."

"What is he doing?" Rinaldi also noticed this.

Peglerini said seriously, "I don't know, but I've seen him make similar gestures, and then he said something very profound. I guess it might be related to his faith?"

Yesterday, during our chat, Leo mentioned that his beliefs were different from everyone else's.

As they were discussing Leo's strange behavior, a loud shout suddenly came from above: "The waves are getting bigger! Watch out! They might accelerate and come crashing over at any moment!"

The hearts of everyone on board tightened at the sound of that voice, and they all turned to look at Captain Rinaldi.

The swordfish was slow to rise to the surface and even gave the signal to ram the boat.

In this situation, we can no longer gamble on a successful interception... but rather adopt new countermeasures.

The captain glanced at his father and saw that his father had given him an approving look.

Rinaldi immediately ran to get rescue equipment, while calmly saying, "Everyone, prepare to be hit."

The "Cumanso family rule" is to train boys to handle things calmly in extreme situations in order to promote their rapid growth.

Although Rinaldi was terrified at that moment.

But he was the captain, and if the captain panicked, the whole ship would be doomed.

He had to act like a captain.

It was through repeated training in similar situations that the young captain evolved from "Gatty" to captain of the Silverfin.

Rinaldi's voice reached the ears of every crew member clearly.

Unable to intercept or prevent the attack, they could only prepare for the worst – maneuvering their fishing boats to evade the attack as much as possible while being ready to be rammed at any time!

Peglerini, who remained on deck directing everyone, shouted to Leo on his slingshot: "Get down! You can't stay up there!"

At the moment of impact, the swing of the gun may exceed 15 degrees.

The only fate for a lookout stationed on an unfenced lookout tower is to fall into the sea.

Leo must retreat!

Evacuate immediately!

Evacuate immediately!!

Evacuate immediately!!!

"Shut up!" Leo roared inwardly.

The answer is almost ready, can you please not distract me?

But the answer he calculated left Leo disheartened...

"Considering seawater resistance, the throwing speed would need to reach over 200 km/h to hit a swordfish 10 meters underwater, which is impossible!"

Although he had cheat codes, none of his skills could give Leo that much strength.

From the deck, Peglerini shouted even louder: "Leo, get down here right now! Hurry!"

Many people below followed his lead and urged him on.

At this point, there was no need for the lookout's instructions; everyone on the boat could clearly see the distinct V-shaped wave approaching them.

Leo no longer needed to look at the water.

The system kept sending warning messages like crazy, and I couldn't shut them off completely no matter what I did.

He knew... the female fish's attack was imminent!

It's probably going to be even faster than expected!

Rinaldi stopped what he was doing and yelled at the tall mast, "Leo, you fucking get down here right now!"

"Have you forgotten the ironclad rules of navigation I told you yesterday? Get down! That's the captain's order!"

"Are you trying to disobey the captain's orders?!"

The next second, everyone on the ship heard Leo's reply.

"Captain, I did not disobey orders!"

At the critical moment, Rinaldi turned back and gave his father, Peglerini, a triumphant look, as if to say, "See?"

My word carries more weight than yours!

You can shout until you're hoarse, but Leo won't come down.

I called out to him twice and he came down.

But the captain noticed that his father's expression had turned to utter terror!

No, not just the father.

The expressions on the faces of every crew member standing at the bow of the ship turned one of utter terror—

Their eyes widened and their mouths gaped open, looking up as if they had witnessed Mars colliding with Earth.

In an instant, Rinaldi realized what was happening behind him, but with his ears, not his eyes.

He realized that Leo's reply was in "soundstage" mode—the sound drifted from his left ear to his right, drew an arc, and fell into the sea.

Holy crap!!

Everyone on the boat held onto the railing and looked out at the sea.

A huge wave erupted on the sea surface, smashing the beautiful V-shaped wave created by the female fish as she moved at high speed, causing her to perish!

Before his time travel, Leo had read many novels.

It says that when a hero faces a grand scene, the scene before him will turn into slow motion.

He had dreamed of being a hero since he was a child, and wanted to know if superheroes really existed in the world.

Later, by chance, this was verified from a scientific perspective, and it turned out that this phenomenon really exists.

Scientists call it "time distortion," commonly known as the "near-death slow-motion effect."

As the name suggests, when a person is in a near-death state, the amygdala in the brain opens up in an emergency, and a massive amount of sensory information is stored at an accelerated rate. The brain will perceive the external scene as slowing down significantly, with details being maximized, and sounds becoming duller and longer.

Leo felt that this phenomenon could be renamed in his case—the excitation slow-motion effect.

From the moment he arrived in Messina and saw the tall wooden boat, his brain was turned on with excitement and began to rapidly accumulate experience.

I reached the summit on my first climb of the high gun.

When encountering Pisces (male and female), entering battle mode reaches a critical state beyond limits.

On the second ascent of the high mast, it reached...the peak threshold.

His brain, unable to withstand repeated overload excitation, also entered a slow-motion effect.

So when he saw the wave that signaled the male swordfish was about to attack, he threw his harpoon in just 0.5 seconds to force it back, a reaction even faster than Peglerini, who had been dealing with swordfish for over a decade.

So when he discovered that the lookout was broken, he reacted in just 0.4 seconds and realized that, in the current situation, he, being illiterate, was the best substitute.

So after making that decision, it only took him 0.3 seconds to think of taking the trident and going up to try for a one in ten thousand chance.

So after climbing to the observation deck, he was able to design a nauseating physics problem and get the answer in just 0.2 seconds under extremely high pressure.

For example, right now... Leo made the decision in just 0.1 seconds.

The idea of ​​a leap of faith had long been ingrained in my mind.

When a gun appears at the beginning, it's bound to fire sooner or later... Leo believes that now is the time for it to fire.

After leaping down, the scene before my eyes turned into extreme slow motion, just like in the legends.

He saw Rinaldi's stunned expression;

I saw Pegrelini's eyes widen;

See Gatti's little tongue sticking out of his mouth;

He saw the wonderful expressions of the fishermen who lived in the same dormitory as him.

In stark contrast to the slow-motion scene before us is the high-speed operation of the brain.

Not completely detached from physics problems, it designed a new challenge for itself—whether it is possible to spear a swordfish rushing at high speed from a height of 10 meters.

"Given that Leo weighs 75 kg, jumps from a height of 30 meters, ignores air resistance during free fall, and assumes that the average water resistance is constant after he enters the water, with buoyancy canceling out his weight, he is only subject to water resistance upon entry."

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Leo shoved aside these unstoppable brain cells and let them keep calculating.

He summoned the brain cells that were still habitually reviewing the knowledge they had learned in the past two days.

Leo didn't know why, even in such a critical moment, his mind was still replaying those instructional videos.

Perhaps subconsciously he understands that these are the things he lacks most right now?

But since things have come to this... let's keep studying!

After all, I entered the seedling class at the age of 3 and started learning math olympiad at the age of 8... My passion for learning is ingrained in my bones!

In the instructional video, teacher Rinaldi says with a stern face, "When controlling the rope, you can't just use your two hands, you have to use your whole body. You have to learn to fight the fish with your body."

As Leo dived, he tightened his core, straightened his back, and poured all his body weight into the tip of the harpoon in his hand.

Later, I took a moment to say to those brain cells still calculating physics problems, "As the cross-sectional area facing the water decreases, the drag coefficient decreases; take that into account."

In the instructional video, Professor Peglerini appears with his eyes half-closed: "Water creates a refraction reaction. You can't trust what your eyes see; you have to trust what won't lie to you. For example, the shape of the waves can show you the true path a swordfish takes underwater."

In slow motion, Leo could clearly see the V-shaped waves on the water's surface. He adjusted his posture and rushed in without hesitation!

The moment you enter the water during a high dive, your outstretched arms are equivalent to impacting a hard surface. The water pressure instantly compresses your chest, causing a rapid increase in intracranial pressure.

This extreme situation stimulated Leo's already excited and frenzied brain.

The answer to that physics problem was actually calculated...

"A 75-kilogram adult male jumps headfirst from a height of 30 meters, using the sharp tip of a fork as a guide to break through the surface water curtain and instantly pierce to the bottom of the water 8 meters deep."

8 meters...

What a pity.

So, the answer calculated under the extreme condition was that the distance was not enough.

But with the addition of the trident's 2 meters, it's just right!

The moment the water broke, a sensory replay occurred, and a new instructional video appeared before Leo.

Teacher Rinaldi swung the rope in his hand and said, "The rope is our second pair of eyes. You need to practice more when you get back, so that your hands and skin can communicate with the rope."

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Leo doesn't have the ability to communicate with the rope, but he's much closer to the trident in his hand than to communicate with it.

Through the changes in the amplitude of its tremors, Leo saw that the trident was getting infinitely closer to the female fish, and the contact would happen in an instant.

The teaching environment has changed again.

While demonstrating, Rinaldi instructed Leo: "Swordfish often appear only for a moment, so the ability to react at the last second is very important. Come on, let's do a reaction throwing exercise."

The best opportunity to make a shot only comes in that one moment...

It's now!

Sensing the harpoon making contact with its target at its maximum range, Leo exerted all his strength and thrust forward, using [Weakness Strike]. The harpoon delivered a fatal blow to the female fish and pierced its body.

It began to swing wildly, trying to break free from the thing that had inexplicably appeared on its back.

Neither of the teachers taught Leo how to fight swordfish underwater, because they said that no one had the ability to fight swordfish underwater.

If you unfortunately fall into the water, you can only pray to God for a miracle.

But Leo didn't believe in any God the Father.

He only trusts himself.

The swordfish's struggle in its desperate situation further stimulated his central nervous system, and the instructional video in his mind kept appearing and disappearing like a skipped movie.

"The force with which a large fish charges and struggles is often extremely explosive and unpredictable. Now that you've secured your position, let's simulate rope control training!"

"In terms of swordfish alone, the rope in our hands is the core of the entire hunt. Unexpected situations can change in an instant, and it is the only link between the fishermen and their prey."

I have no rope, but I have a trident!

As long as I don't let go, I have the confidence to fight it!

"Leo, you need to familiarize yourself with your opponent's habits."

"Leo, you need to learn to read your opponent's emotions."

"Leo, there are countless creatures in nature stronger than swordfish. Remember, even the strongest opponent has weaknesses. Throughout history, humanity has never lacked the courage and determination to challenge them."

"Leo...."

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"Leo..."

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Leo used the [Beginning of Control] ability to firmly grip the trident embedded in the fish's body.

I will launch another [weakness strike] whenever I have the chance.

Swordfish, as high-speed, pursuit-type predators, possess an extremely powerful cardiovascular system. "Then I'll bleed you dry!"

Even with damage to its heart, head, and cheeks, it still retains considerable mobility. "Then I'll destroy your heart, head, and cheeks!"

"Destroying these isn't enough, I'll pierce your body!"

"Piercing your body isn't enough, I'll just chop off your head!"

Want to ram the ship?

no way!

Everyone must stay safe and sound.

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