If the searchlight was turned on, the swordfish might be able to recognize Xiang Yang and the others as humans and not anglerfish after they swam closer.
"Swordfish rarely attack humans. Maybe they will retreat on their own after recognizing that I am a human." Xiang Yang thought.
Xiang Yang's idea was not just a wild fantasy, but was based on reality.
Swordfish love to eat a kind of shrimp whose scales can reflect light. In the Atlantic region, swordfish often use their sharp swords to attack that kind of shrimp. They will tear the lobsters into pieces or swallow them whole.
In some coastal areas, swordfish will occasionally mistake the light reflected by a girl's gold or silver jewelry or sunglasses for shrimp. The swordfish will often swim over quickly, but when they get closer and find that the prey is not that kind of shrimp, they will swim away again.
It is also worth mentioning that although swordfish are marine fish that live in warm waters, they are different from other tropical fish. Ordinary tropical marine fish cannot keep their body temperature higher than the temperature of the surrounding water, so they will be frozen once they arrive in cold waters.
Swordfish are different. They have unique muscles and brown fat tissue to provide warm blood to the brain and eyes, allowing them to move freely even in the extremely cold depths of the ocean.
Xiang Yang ran towards the shore while looking back at the swordfish.
Soon Xiang Yang's expression changed and became extremely ugly.
Now the swordfish was only a hundred meters away from Xiang Yang. With its vision, it was impossible for the swordfish to tell whether Xiang Yang was a human or an anglerfish at such a short distance. However, the swordfish did not even show any intention of slowing down.
"Damn it, this swordfish is dead. I must take it back and make a pot of fish soup." Xiang Yang said viciously.
Although the swordfish was only more than a hundred meters away from Xiang Yang, Xiang Yang was not worried now because he was only a few meters away from the shore. Most of Xiang Yang's body was out of the sea, with only a small part of his legs still in the sea. His movement speed had greatly increased, and he would definitely be able to run back to the shore before the swordfish caught up with them.
He Mingde and Zhang Qicheng were speechless after hearing what Xiang Yang said. It turned out that this guy was still thinking about eating.
However, they did not deny Xiang Yang's proposal because they also hated the swordfish behind them.
Not only did their diving plan come to a halt because of the appearance of the swordfish.
The most important thing is that in order to avoid the swordfish, the three of them threw away the helmets on their diving equipment. Such a helmet costs at least several thousand dollars.
Finally, with the sound of splashing water, Xiang Yang and the other two ran back to the beach.
All three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Just when Xiang Yang turned around and wanted to take a closer look at the swordfish, his face suddenly changed again, because the swordfish did not slow down its swimming speed at all because he and others had already come out of the water.
"It's still sprinting." Zhang Qicheng said in amazement.
"Could it be that it saw us coming ashore and wanted to chase us to the shore?" He Mingde frowned.
"Bang!"
There was a loud bang.
During the moment when Zhang Qicheng was talking to He Mingde, the swordfish crashed directly onto the beach, its iron beak pierced into the fine sand, and its huge body glided nearly ten meters on the beach, leaving a huge scratch on the beach.
This scene left Zhang Qicheng and He Mingde stunned.
Xiang Yang was also slightly stunned, but he reacted immediately and shouted: "Let's go and catch this swordfish."
He Mingde and Zhang Qicheng hurriedly grabbed Xiang Yang from the left and right.
"What are you doing?" Xiang Yang asked.
"Be careful, be careful, Brother Xiang." Zhang Qicheng looked at the swordfish that was rolling on the beach with lingering fear. "This swordfish is definitely dead after being stranded on the beach. If you go there now and get stung by its iron beak, you will suffer a great loss."
Xiang Yang laughed when he heard this. "It's understandable that I couldn't do anything to it in the sea, but if I still can't do anything to it now that I'm on the shore, then I don't need to fish anymore."
Swordfish is an important economic fish species.
Xiang Yang didn't want to wait for the swordfish to die naturally before picking up its corpse. He wanted to catch it alive.
A living swordfish and a dead swordfish have completely different prices.
After a dead swordfish is cut up, the fish meat is sold for about 40 to 50 yuan per pound, which is cheaper than beef, and the worthless things such as the internal organs have to be excluded.
The current market price of live swordfish is between 150 and 200 yuan per pound.
Especially since the swordfish in front of him was nearly six meters long and weighed at least five hundred kilograms. Such a large swordfish was not just edible? If he could bring it back alive, he believed that someone would buy it even if the price was several hundred thousand yuan.
When Zhang Qicheng and He Mingde heard what Xiang Yang said, they knew they couldn't stop Xiang Yang. They had no choice but to let go of Xiang Yang's arm and said, "Then we will help you."
Xiang Yang did not refuse. Such a big swordfish was indeed beyond his ability to handle by himself, especially if he wanted to capture it alive.
"Be careful." Xiang Yang warned them. Then he said, "I will catch this swordfish. You two can help me from the side. I will give each of you a red envelope of 20,000 yuan later."
Xiang Yang said this mainly to confirm the ownership of the swordfish.
Strictly speaking, the swordfish should have belonged to the three of them, but it was Xiang Yang who first proposed to catch the swordfish alive? And He Mingde and Zhang Qicheng both wanted to wait for the swordfish to die naturally before cutting the meat? So after deciding to capture the swordfish alive, Xiang Yang had the priority right of distribution.
And according to the price of dead swordfish meat? After selling the swordfish, it would be quite good for each of the three of them to get 10,000 yuan, so it was not unfair for Xiang Yang to give them 20,000 yuan each.
He Mingde naturally had no objection to this.
Zhang Qicheng didn't care much about the 20,000 yuan. He said, "You might as well kill the fish and treat me to a meal of swordfish meat."
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes and said, "The bigger the swordfish is, the less delicious it tastes. The young swordfish have delicious meat, but swordfish that weigh more than a few dozen kilograms can only be salted and dried to be eaten as jerky. Swordfish weighing over a hundred kilograms will not be accepted even if they are sent to the cannery, because the meat is too tough and cannot be cut with a knife. If you really want to eat it, I'll buy you some canned young fish, fish sausages, fish ham, etc. These are rich in fat and contain a lot of vitamins and potassium. They are delicious and not greasy. Don't even think about this one now. You can't even bite it if I give it to you."
"I don't want those." Zhang Qicheng waved his hand. He also knew that Xiang Yang was telling the truth. Moreover, studies have shown that organisms at the top of the food chain, such as swordfish, contain large amounts of a pollutant called methylmercury.
Consuming large amounts of this pollutant can occasionally cause central nervous system poisoning, and the body will experience various maladaptive reactions.