The ripples on the water surface slowly rippled and spread outward layer by layer.

Li Qing leaned against the side of the ship, her eyes slightly frozen, stared at the dark underwater, and said nothing.

After a while, he put one hand into the sea and stirred it gently. Then he slowly raised his head and said, "stop the ship."

Lao Liu took back the oars and turned his head to see Li Qing: "that's it? We haven't rowed far."

"If you go further, you can't come back. We'll just wait here." Li Qing said in a deep voice, then waved to Lao Liu and motioned him to sit down. "How dare you come out with me? Are you really not afraid of death?"

Lao Liu's face changed slightly: "200000, who doesn't want to spell it."

Li Qing couldn't help laughing: "is this 200000 money so important?"

After a moment of silence, old Liu Yang raised his cigarette bag: "well... Can I have a cigarette?"

"Yes." Li Qing nodded. When he said these words, he stretched out his hand and gently clicked on the sea, and the ripples spread out again.

The boat went up and down with the waves. Lao Liu leaned against the boat, lit a dry cigarette and took a hard breath: "you are born with expensive life. It's normal not to look at these small money. But I'm different. I've been suffering all my life and have a child to support, let alone 200000. If you give me 10000, I'm willing to come and fight with you."

"Xiaoman's mother died a few years ago because she didn't have money for surgery. Now the child is still young. If I don't fight, what can I take for her to go to school? Is it difficult for a girl's family to come in the wind and suffer in the rain like me when she grows up?"

Li Qing's face was a little unnatural and even embarrassed. He has always regarded money as dirt, but he has never lacked these things. In this world, some people have done their best just to survive. Is he really qualified to judge the choices of others?

"Would you like to come to the Li family? I can give your daughter a good living environment." Li Qing hesitated and said slowly.

Lao Liu trembled, and a touch of ecstasy surged up from the bottom of his eyes: "really? Why?"

Li Qing shook her head with a smile, looked across the sea and looked at the small figure on the shore: "in the past six months, many things have happened to the Li family, and my relatives have left one after another. If I could have a lovely sister, of course I wouldn't refuse."

"If you are willing to take your daughter to Li's house, I will be very happy. I treat Xiaoman like my own sister. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't agree. I won't force it. That is to say, no matter what choice you make, I can understand."

"Of course I would!" Lao Liu said hurriedly. However, his next sentence had not been exported. Li Qing frowned abruptly and waved his hand immediately: "don't talk!"

His body froze in an instant. Immediately after him, Lao Liu heard a sound of "click, click" eating the bottom of the boat, which scared the dry cigarette between his fingers and slipped away.

Li Qing stretched out half of his body out of the boat, gently touched his fingers on the sea, and then gently clicked again after a few seconds.

Suddenly, he quickly dipped his hand into the water and took out a small black thing from below. The little thing was so strong that it twisted wildly between Li Qing's fingers, and his body was covered with a layer of mucus. It was so slippery that Li Qing almost took off his hand.

As soon as her eyes were cold, Li Qing extended her other hand to her waist and drew out the dagger. Before the little thing escaped, he nailed it directly to the side of the ship with a bang.

Lao Liu was so frightened that he opened his mouth, but when he remembered Li Qing's previous warning, he had to cover it tightly with his hands and dared not make a sound. Staring at the thing nailed by the dagger, he was stunned to find that it was a strange fish. Lao Liu has been fishing in the sea for half his life and has seen many strange little things without names, but compared with the surprise brought to him by this thing in front of him, it is hardly worth mentioning.

Even though the strange fish was staring at the boat with a dagger, it couldn't stop struggling, and even made a very strange sound, just like a crying child, whose tone could not help cooling people's back.

Li Qing glanced coldly, drew out a dagger and stabbed it in the head. A trace of red blood slowly flowed down and the cry stopped suddenly. The little thing must be dead and finally stopped struggling.

After finishing these, Li Qing slowly closed her eyes, leaned against the side of the boat without saying a word, and let the boat fluctuate with the waves, as if she was waiting for something.

Lao Liu didn't dare move. He looked at Li Qing and the strange things nailed to the side of the ship. After more than half an hour, he finally heard Li Qing's words: "row back."

"Ah, good." Lao Liu nodded quickly. He was almost crazy by the silence for so long. He immediately grabbed the oar and rowed back to the shore.

Until the boat landed, Li Qing was slightly relieved, and a sense of relief appeared on his face.

Qi Kuan, Ma Baoshan and even a group of Li family all gathered around.

"How's it going?" Ma Baoshan asked first.

Li Qing pulled out the dagger on the side of the ship, then raised his hand and threw the little thing on the dagger on the beach: "that's it."

Ma Baoshan looked closer and couldn't help exclaiming, "what's this?"

The rest of the people came together and couldn't help turning white. Li Qing took out a handkerchief from his pocket, gently wiped the blood on the dagger and said faintly, "it should be a kind of fish."

"Fish? This is also a fish?" Ma Baoshan teased the guy on the beach with his feet, and his face was a little blue.

It's a little far fetched to say that this thing is a fish. It is dark brown, covered with solid scales, with a row of ferocious teeth protruding, and two strange bulges like fins rather than fins and feet rather than feet. The most incredible thing is that the little thing has a slightly concave strange face. In addition to its terrible big mouth, its facial features are like an owl. It is really impossible to associate it with the species of fish.

"This is a monster." Ma Baoshan gasped.

Qi Kuan said in a muffled voice, "I heard them say that there is a big guy under the sea. How can it be so small."

"That's a school of fish," Li Qing whispered. "A large group gathered together. They seem to be able to judge the position of their prey according to the water flow. If they don't move or make a sound in the water, they can't attack."

"Interesting, is it a piranha?" Qi Kuan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Li Qing left Lao Liu's affairs to Li Zhi, then turned around and waited with Qi Kuan and Ma Baoshan for the experts from the scientific research institute to come.

"Li Qing, do you know where this thing comes from?" Qi Kuan asked in a low voice.

Ma Baoshan glanced at them, then pretended not to hear anything and walked around. A dead fat man with an average level and an ordinary background can climb so fast in recent years. Ma Baoshan's ingenuity is naturally indispensable.

Unfortunately, even when facing Qi Kuan alone, Li Qing didn't intend to tell the truth: "I don't know."

Qi Kuan snorted coldly, began to smoke again, and stopped talking.

"Director, the experts from the Institute are coming!"

Snuffed out the cigarette in his hand, and Qi Kuan waved his big hand, "come here quickly."

After a while, several little old men with suitcases hurried over. Ma Baoshan hurriedly greeted them: "please, that's it. Several experts help to see what it is?"

"OK, OK, let's have a look." the head of the old man smiled and nodded, and then his eyes touched the strange fish on the beach. He couldn't help but freeze a little, "this... What is this?"

Ma Baoshan's face turned green: "you see, you are experts. I have to ask you. Why do you ask me?"

Several old experts gathered together, opened their suitcases, took out a set of professional equipment, measured east and West, and made trouble around this little thing for more than an hour. Finally, they all looked tangled.

"What's the result?" Ma Baoshan ran before and after, and finally simply asked.

"It may be... A kind of fish."

Qi Kuan's face sank: "what is but? After such a long delay, he came to such a specious conclusion?"

"Director Qi, don't worry. There are so many species in the world that no one has seen so far." the old expert stood up and said slowly, "this thing should belong to a species that has never been found, and we haven't seen it before. From the morphological characteristics, it should belong to a kind of fish of La perch."

"Do you know where it came from?" Qi Kuan asked again.

The old expert pondered for a moment and shook his head: "There are a lot of fishes of the Lara perch family, most of which live in tropical freshwater rivers and very few in the sea. However, the adaptability of fishes in this subject is very strong. We have just learned that this kind of fish has formed a scale in Gangbei Bay, so we don't rule out that they have a certain degree of variation in the process of reproduction."

"In our professional terms, this is called biological invasion. Gangbei Bay has been closed for so many years and has rich aquatic products, so the fish didn't go outside, but they lack natural enemies. It's sooner or later to make trouble. We have to find a way to get rid of it as soon as possible."

"I'm only responsible for handling cases, which is your biologist's business." Qi Kuan said faintly. "Can you give me a report? I want to get it to the meeting for discussion."

"This is no problem." the old expert nodded.

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