Chen Fusheng laughed dryly and said, "Captain, I didn't say anything." He thought to himself that the conger eel was about to die anyway, and it would be better to let the facts speak for themselves.
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes. This guy clearly thought so in his heart, but he refused to admit it.
"I know what you want to say. In fact, what you think is right. A single moray eel is indeed no match for a stingray. A stingray can be killed by a moray eel once, twice, or even ten times. But a moray eel only needs to be attacked once by a stingray to die immediately. But you have all overlooked a problem."
"oh?"
Everyone looked at Xiang Yang, wondering what his specific intention was in saying this.
But no matter how they looked, they only saw the stingray swimming leisurely on the sea, with a moray eel desperately chasing it hundreds of meters behind.
Fang Youqun even came closer to Chen Qingsheng and asked in a low voice, "Boatswain, are you sure that stingray can beat that conger eel?"
Fang Youqun didn't know much about stingrays. In fact, today was the first time he had seen a real stingray in his life.
But Fang Youqun knew about conger eels. He was not unfamiliar with conger eels at all.
Fang Youqun even knew a secret that most fishermen didn't know, which is that the way conger eels eat is very unique. After approaching their prey, they usually quickly bite the prey with their lower jaws, tear the food from the prey's body, and then extend a hidden inner jaw from the inside of their throat to chew the food. Fang Youqun discovered this after he caught a conger eel as a child and raised it for a while.
Fang Youqun was very surprised at the time. He even went online to look up the eating method of moray eels. It turned out that the Internet said that apart from moray eels, no other creatures have been found to eat in this way. This eating method is unique to moray eels, and it also shows the ferocious temperament of moray eels.
Chen Qingsheng glanced at Fang Youqun unhappily, rolled his eyes and said, "Nonsense, if the conger eel can beat the stingray, I'll screw my head off."
"Don't worry, how about you give me a hundred dollars if you lose the fight with the stingray?" Fang Youqun said with a smile.
"Get lost." Chen Qingsheng pushed Fang Youqun away. "You'll only have a scar the size of a bowl on your head, but if you lose your money, it's really gone."
Fang Youqun curled his lips, guessing that Chen Qingsheng was not completely sure, otherwise he would definitely pat his chest and say, "One hundred is a beg, if the stingray wins, I will give you ten thousand."
Fang Youqun originally wanted to take this opportunity to be the banker and make a small bet with everyone, mainly to beat Xiang Yang, but after seeing Chen Qingsheng's reaction, Fang Youqun hesitated. He didn't know much about creatures like stingrays, and now Chen Qingsheng was not completely sure, so he was certainly even less sure.
Xiang Yang found the two men a little amusing, and suddenly said, "Fang Youqun, if you bet with your boatswain like this, he won't get a dime if he wins, but will pay a hundred dollars if he loses, why would he bet?"
Fang Youqun chuckled.
"That's right, this kid is not honest at all. He just wants to cheat an honest man like me." Chen Qingsheng pretended to be angry.
"Old Chen, how about I make a bet with you? If I win you give me a hundred yuan, and if you win I give you a hundred yuan?" Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Chen Qingsheng rubbed his hands, "Isn't this a bit bad?" He didn't think that betting was a bad thing. In fact, many crew members were addicted to gambling. As long as they didn't bet big, no one would say anything if they made a small bet for fun.
Chen Qingsheng felt that it would not be a good idea to win Xiang Yang's money through gambling.
Xiang Yang did not persuade him any more. He looked at Fang Youqun and smiled strangely, "Fang Youqun, do you want to bet or not?"
"No bet." Fang Youqun immediately shook his head like a drum. After seeing Chen Qingsheng's reaction, he didn't understand Chen Qingsheng's other thoughts? He just thought that Chen Qingsheng was not sure of winning Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang smiled. The reason why he dared to gamble was because he was sure that the stingray would be in trouble soon.
Through the mysterious jade shell, Xiang Yang saw that there were dozens of moray eels surrounding the stingray. However, most of those moray eels were swimming on the seabed, so Chen Qingsheng and the others could not see them.
While Xiang Yang was speaking, a conger eel swam under the belly of the stingray like lightning, opened its big mouth full of fangs and bit towards the belly of the stingray.
“Bang!”
The stingray was bitten hard by the moray eel, and blood immediately flowed into its abdomen.
The stingray felt the pain and immediately flapped its wing-like fins against the sea surface, creating a snow-white wave.
At the same time, the stingray's tail suddenly became as hard as a steel needle and instantly stabbed towards the conger eel under it.
Another wave rolled, and the tip of the stingray's tail directly pierced the moray eel's body. More blood flowed out of the moray eel's wound. The moray eel immediately let go of the stingray's upper jaw in pain, and at the same time its inner jaw immediately stopped swallowing, and it twisted and turned to escape into the distance.
"This, this is?" Chen Qingsheng rubbed his eyes, "There is another conger eel under the water?"
"Haha, who can defeat a group of people alone? You all overlooked that moray eels are social creatures."
As if responding to Xiang Yang's words.
As soon as Xiang Yang finished speaking, two more moray eels came from the left and right and bit the stingray fiercely.
Moray eels are so agile in the sea that stingrays are far inferior to them in terms of swimming speed and sensitivity.
After being ambushed once, although the stingray was prepared this time, it was still inevitably bitten by the conger eel on the left.
The moray eel's mouth full of sharp fangs was no joke. It immediately tore a wound deep enough to reveal the bone on the stingray's left wing.
The stingray felt the pain and immediately slapped the moray eel angrily.
"Bang!"
It was as if someone had dropped a depth charge into the water. A white wave as high as a person rose on the sea surface. One of the stingray's wings slapped the moray eel hard. The moray eel's mung bean-like eyes immediately bulged forward with bloodshot. Then its body twisted desperately at both ends, but somewhere in the middle it bent into a strange shape and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.
"Hiss!" Everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them. The moray eel, one of the high-level marine predators, was not even a match for the stingray. It was so terrifying!
Then everyone turned their heads in unison and looked at Xiang Yang with eyes filled with shock and admiration.
The crew was shocked by Xiang Yang's prediction. Previously, everyone thought that the conger eel was overestimating its own capabilities, but Xiang Yang was the only one who was certain that the stingray would be in trouble. Although no one said anything, many people actually felt disdainful in their hearts. They felt that Xiang Yang did not understand the horror of the stingray at all.
But now it seems that it's not Xiang Yang who doesn't understand stingrays, it's clearly them who don't understand conger eels.