An ethereal voice came from the sea, and a dark figure flashed by on the seabed.

The whale in the deep sea was about to go to the surface to breathe. While thinking about it, its huge body swam towards the surface.

The whale swimming from the bottom of the sea to the surface, at that moment, happened to meet the knife-tip fragments sinking to the bottom of the sea.

The huge whale felt a slight sting and twisted its body, suddenly feeling a little uncomfortable, but breathing was more important, so the whale ignored the pain and continued to swim towards the sea surface.

Swinging its tail fin and looking at the increasingly brighter sea surface, the whale's heart suddenly began to beat slightly. It was a feeling it had never experienced before.

I have taken breaths many times, but never had this feeling, this indescribable feeling, this feeling that seems difficult to describe.

My body also speeds up because of my mood. The world seems to have changed, but nothing seems to have changed.

"puff!"

A tall column of water gushed out from the whale's back and sprinkled onto the sky. A vague rainbow suddenly appeared next to the water column.

Although it was a little blurry, the whale saw it clearly, which it had never noticed before. Unlike its previous neglect, it felt the colorful colors.

"Woo~"

The ethereal voice came from the sea again, but this time it didn't have the loneliness or faint sadness of the past.

The sound is heart-wrenching, like a child's laughter.

But no one heard this sound, only the whale itself knew what it was calling.

"Woo~"

After taking a breath, the whale, which should have sunk to the bottom of the sea again, was reluctant to leave the sun.

For some reason, the dark seabed that once attracted it has lost its appeal, and the bright sunlight that it should have ignored seems so desirable to the whale.

Swimming slowly on the sea surface, occasionally spraying a stream of water to make the colorful colors appear again, spraying water without taking a breath, this is the first time for a whale to experience this.

The gas from the blowhole drives the water on the surface, creating a scene that even the whales themselves are attracted to.

After a long time, the whale, having had enough fun, reluctantly left the bright sea surface. The seabed was its final destination.

Only there does it know how to survive and how to eat.

It's hungry.

When swimming with such a huge body, being hungry means it needs to eat, and to eat it needs a large amount of small fish, shrimps and zooplankton as food.

In the past, whales would open their mouths wide while swimming, swallow large amounts of seawater directly into their mouths, then filter out the food and then discharge the seawater out.

This is the way it usually eats, but just as it was about to do so, the whale had a strange feeling that it seemed that it did not need to use this troublesome way of eating.

This is not only inefficient, but also means less food. For some reason, this idea suddenly popped up in its mind.

It seemed that it could stop the flow of sea water and automatically send the food into its mouth. It didn't know why this idea came to its mind, but while thinking about it, it did it.

Suddenly, the flowing sea water seemed to be frozen, and the fish swimming in it could not move.

The sea water suddenly rolled back and poured into the whale's mouth, and even the fish swimming in it were not spared and entered the whale's mouth as well.

The sea water resumed flowing, but the food remained in the whale's mouth. It swallowed the food beautifully. It did not filter the sea water, so it skipped a step to eat the food.

This method is indeed convenient. The whale uses its huge body to swim in search of other schools of fish. The small fish it had just caught are not even enough to fill its teeth.

While swimming, the whale looked curiously at the controlled sea water around it, as if it were a child who had met a new toy and was having a lot of fun playing with it.

Sometimes he controlled a small whirlpool in the sea, watching the small fish trapped in it unable to escape; sometimes he controlled the sea water to become solid, making the fish in it unable to move.

After a moment, the whale seemed to get tired and stopped using his new ability.

But his stomach was not full yet, so the old method was more familiar to him. The whale thought about it while swimming and opening his mouth.

Large amounts of seawater are swallowed into the whale's mouth, which filters the seawater and leaves behind food.

After a long time and after eating tons of food, the whale finally felt full.

After eating, the idle whale just swims in the sea. This is how it usually spends its life.

But today seemed extra long. It felt lonely and bored. Swimming aimlessly did not make it happy. It missed the brightness of the sea.

Just when the whale felt that time was too long, suddenly an inexplicable attraction made it aware of it.

Not far away.

Swimming towards the direction that attracted him, a small figure appeared in front of him. It was a common fish.

In the past, when whales saw this kind of small fish, they would not even look at it, because they were already full, and a small fish was not worth the effort to eat.

But at this moment, it had the urge to eat, and this urge was only directed at this little fish.

eat it!

The little fish also noticed the whale. After being stunned for a moment, he actually flapped his tail fin and swam away into the distance.

The little fish also showed its wisdom. It did not run away aimlessly. Instead, it swam towards the corals on the seabed, trying to use the corals to hide its body.

But how could the whale let the little fish get its wish? The whale used its new ability to control the sea water.

Little whirlpool!

A small whirlpool appeared in the sea, and the small fish was sucked into the whirlpool. No matter how it swung its tail fin, it could not escape.

"Click~"

But between life and death, the little fish seemed to awaken an extraordinary ability, and the small whirlpool was suddenly frozen. Although only a small part of it was frozen, it was enough to stop the whirlpool.

Swimming its tail fin, the little fish swam towards the coral reef without stopping.

The whale seemed to be stunned by the fish's tricks and was stunned for a moment, but then it reacted and realized that there was no way a small fish could escape from its mouth.

Open your mouth, swim forward, and use your new abilities!

The sea water in front suddenly solidified, and the small fish was trapped in the sea water. Although the whale looked very bulky, its speed was not slow!

In an instant, the small fish that wanted to escape was swallowed by the whale. After eating what it wanted, the whale twisted its tail fin twice in satisfaction.

Yeah, very comfortable.

The sea water was filtered out and the small fish was swallowed into the whale's stomach. Suddenly, a small piece of iron appeared on the small fish's body in the whale's stomach.

After the piece of iron left the body of the fish, the fish, which was not dead yet, lost its life in an instant, and the piece of iron flew in one direction due to the attraction.

"Click~"

Next to the whale's heart, the small iron piece and the knife tip fragment met, but they did not fuse together. They were not in the same position before they broke.

The whale that swallowed the small fish suddenly felt a pain in its stomach, but it didn't think much about it. It was still immersed in the satisfaction of swallowing the small fish. This kind of satisfaction was a feeling it had never experienced in its life as a whale.

Chapter 157 Whaling Ship

"Woo~"

Under the blue sky, the deep sound of the whistle resounded through the sea, and a huge whaling ship was sailing on the sea, breaking through the waves.

"Captain, the cargo collection on this trip is not good."

Kunihiko Miyama, who was leaning against the railing, said as he looked at the whale kept in the cabin.

"If we go back like this, we won't get much money from this trip."

"We are not here to suffer this month, but to make money."

Generally, whaling can be divided into near-shore whaling and deep-sea whaling according to the operating waters. The former is based on the land and is smaller in scale, while the latter is larger in scale and requires a huge fleet consisting of whalers, transport ships, refrigerated ships, oil tankers, whaling ships and tugboats. It mainly operates in the Antarctic waters and the voyage dates last for about half a year.

They are a single-vessel offshore whaling team that has been engaged in fishing activities for several months.

Because whaling is legal in their country, they need to kill hundreds or thousands of whales every year, and they are one of the whaling teams going out to sea.

However, this time, their team mainly operated in the territorial waters and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) from the coast of Aichi Prefecture to the coast of Kushiro, Hokkaido, and only captured more than 20 Bryde's whales and more than 50 minke whales.

The number of whales caught did not even reach three digits, so the profit their team could make was not much.

However, in recent years, the scale of whale meat consumption in their country has been shrinking. If it were not for certain profit reasons, whaling would have been deserted long ago.

"Yeah, this trip was really not satisfactory."

The captain, looking out at the sea, sighed. He was a whaling veteran in his fifties. He had been engaged in whaling since he was twenty years old, and countless whales had died at his hands.

He has witnessed changes in the whaling industry in recent years, from the ban on commercial whaling to policies allowing scientific whaling.

But none of this changed the old man, because he had long known that he could do nothing else except whaling. Whaling was his only ability.

"When I get back from this trip, I will prepare to retire and enjoy my life."

Smelling the sea breeze blowing from the sea, the old captain sighed: "I thought I would die at sea. After all, dying at sea is the romance of a man."

"Don't be such a pessimist, Captain." Miyama Kunihiko shook his head helplessly, "I don't want to die at sea. I haven't lived enough of my life yet."

"Hahaha, then you should go and learn a skill and don't come whaling with me." After hearing his crew's words, the old captain said with a smile, and then replied as if with a sigh.

"Whaling is no longer what it used to be. It's time for you to learn a skill and plan for your future."

"I know. Stop nagging me." Kunihiko Miyama looked at the captain with a bitter face, who was lecturing him like an elder.

I don’t know why these older people like to preach. Aren’t their mouths dry?

"Woo~"

A sound that was very different from that of a ship came from the sea. Miyama Kunihiko, who was very familiar with this sound, was cheered up when he heard it!

"A whale! I saw one as expected!"

"This sound..." The old captain was not as excited as Kunihiko Miyama, but carefully identified the call.

"It's a fin whale. Fin whales usually move alone or in groups of two or three. If nothing unexpected happens, this should be a single fin whale."

"What..." After hearing the old captain's words, Kunihiko Miyayama's originally excited mood suddenly calmed down, "I thought we encountered a school of whales. A lone whale can't do much."

Miyama Kunihiko still trusted the old captain very much. After all, the old captain had been engaged in this profession for more than 30 years and knew much more about whales than he, a half-baked one.

"Don't be discouraged. Even a small mosquito is still meat. A single whale is better than nothing at all."

The old captain straightened his collar that was blown askew by the sea breeze, stretched his body that was chilled by the wind, and then said to Kunihiko Miyayama: "Let's go, it's time to get started."

The whaling ship, which was originally sailing normally, suddenly changed its course, and the sailors who were resting in the lookout command deck were also called up.

In the distance, a whale, who knows what kind of whale it will encounter, is happily spraying water in the sun. It has finally waited for the sun to appear, and it wants to have a good time.

Last night, the whale also floated to the surface of the sea, hoping to see the light it longed for.

But what he saw was the same darkness as the seabed. Although there were some starlight, to the whale, it was no different from the seabed.

For some reason, a feeling of sadness suddenly emerged. Although the whale's newly enlightened wisdom did not know that this feeling was sadness, it did not like this feeling.

It wants the sunlight it saw before, just like a sulky child. When it doesn't see the sunlight, it floats on the sea and waits for the sunlight to appear.

The night is long and boring for whales. They can still play with small fish on the seabed, but on the sea surface, there is only the deep night sky and cold sea breeze.

The sea surface is not as warm as the seabed, nor as familiar as the seabed. The whale wants to go back, but it doesn't want to leave before seeing the sunlight.

After a long time, an orange light suddenly appeared on the horizon, bringing the first ray of sunshine to the deep blue ocean.

When the whale saw the first ray of sunlight, he suddenly felt an indescribable feeling in his heart, mixed with joy and excitement, but more importantly, it was a strange feeling.

It comes from that insignificant but very meaningful moment. The whale doesn’t know it at the moment. That feeling is called touching.

After seeing the sunlight piercing through the darkness with its own eyes, the whale suddenly realized that the appearance of sunlight must be preceded by a long period of darkness.

It is the waiting in darkness that makes the sunshine that breaks the darkness appear so bright and precious!

"Woo~"

A long cry came from the sea. The whale saw the sunlight and suddenly wanted to stay there for a while longer.

After a long time, some hungry whales wanted to return to the bottom of the sea to eat, but did not want to leave the sun.

So the whale made its own call, said hello to the sunshine, and planned to return to the sunny sea surface after finishing its meal.

But at the same time, a strange "big fish" in the distance responded to the whale. The voice of the "big fish" was not pleasant, at least it was not pleasant to the whale.

"Woo~"

The whale responded curiously, flapped its tail fin and swam towards the "big fish" floating on the sea. The color of the fish was quite similar to its own, both gray-blue.

The young whale, who had just begun to gain wisdom, did not know that the "big fish" in front of it was a whaling ship. It just went to look at this strange fellow like a curious child.

"Sato, that whale was so stupid. It actually swam over here on its own. It actually made things convenient for us!"

Kunihiko Miyayama, who was fiddling with the whale turret on the bow, said to his colleague who was fiddling with the trawl net next to him.

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