Xiang Yang was not worried at all.
Anyone who has eaten cuttlefish knows that the hardness of cuttlefish bones is extremely low, especially the bones of dried cuttlefish. Even a child can easily scratch the cuttlefish bones with his fingernails.
Although the giant squid is huge in size, its bones are also extremely fragile.
The giant squid must have been seriously injured after being hit on the head by the humpback whale's big head.
Sure enough, not long after, Xiang Yang saw a huge black mass appearing on the sea. That black mass was obviously the giant squid's last resort.
Two humpback whales swam out slowly from the deep sea. The female whale was biting a huge squid tentacle in her mouth, and the male whale seemed a little depressed. Apparently, the giant squid managed to escape in the end. The two humpback whales only got a tentacle of the giant squid as a trophy at the cost of being covered in wounds.
The crew members breathed a sigh of relief when they saw two humpback whales appear.
"It's okay, it's okay, it seems that Big Head and Second Head are fine."
"Just let that damned giant squid escape."
Xiang Yang looked at everyone without saying anything. He just walked into the cabin, took out a few boxes of fresh fish and poured them into the sea.
Although the two humpback whales defeated the giant squid, they were not unscathed. During the period of recovery, they needed to consume more nutrients than usual.
The two humpback whales shared the food, including the tentacles of the giant squid, and slowly sank into the deep sea, shaking their bodies.
Xiang Yang patted Xu Fang on the shoulder, signaling Xu Fang to continue driving the fishing boat eastward, but not too fast.
More than an hour later, Xiang Yang saw that the color of the sea water was gradually becoming lighter. He immediately realized that the sea water here was not deep and there was plenty of light under the sea.
"Let's stop the boat here, go down to the sea to take a look, and by the way, check the wounds on the two humpback whales." Xiang Yang said to the crew.
Xiang Yang actually didn't know how to deal with the wounds on the humpback whales. The most he could do was to cut off the rotten parts around the wounds when they rotted.
However, humpback whales have strong recovery abilities, and seawater itself has disinfecting capabilities, so Xiang Yang is not very worried about these two humpback whales.
Especially after Xiang Yang swam into the water to the two humpback whales and carefully examined the wounds on their bodies, his worries completely disappeared.
There were no obvious wounds on the female whale's body, but the wounds on the male whale looked horrible, but in fact they were all skin injuries, and even the skin on the body was not broken.
"The big head is quite resistant to blows." Chen Qingsheng joked after making sure the male humpback whale was fine: "I think our boat would have fallen apart after being hit so many times by the giant squid's tentacles."
"It's a bit exaggerated." Xiang Yang shook his head. No matter how strong the giant squid is, it is made of flesh. No matter how weak the fishing boat is, it is made of iron. It's not as exaggerated as Chen Qingsheng said.
“Woo—”
The male humpback whale swayed his body, as if showing his strength to Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang looked up at the male humpback whale with displeasure. This guy had scars all over his body but he still didn't forget to show off.
"It's a pity that I don't have such a large mirror, otherwise I should let you take a good look at your current appearance." Xiang Yang said, touching the big head of the humpback whale.
Chen Qingsheng felt that this humpback whale was a real man. When the two humpback whales were fighting with the giant squid, Chen Qingsheng saw clearly that this male humpback whale was really strong. He always rushed to the front and resisted most of the firepower of the giant squid. It was his bravery that gave his wife the opportunity to grab the giant squid.
"Eh." Chen Qingsheng stared at a certain direction and his expression suddenly changed. "It's really unlucky, Captain, let's go quickly."
"What's wrong?" Xiang Yang looked at Chen Qingsheng in confusion, then also looked in that direction.
After seeing this, Xiang Yang was speechless. It turned out that the reason Chen Qingsheng said it was unlucky was because he saw a capsize fish.
The sunfish, also known as the boat-climbing sunfish, is a strange fish with a very odd shape. Its tail has degenerated, and when viewed from a distance it only has a fish head, with no body or tail. It's like a fish that has been cut in half with a knife, with only the fish head left swimming in the water.
"Why are you in such a hurry to leave?" Xiang Yang grabbed Chen Qingsheng and said with a smile, "The boatfish is docile and won't attack us. Besides, we have the big head here, so we are not afraid even if it attacks us."
As Xiang Yang said this, he smiled and patted the male humpback whale's head.
The male humpback whale immediately sprayed a column of water from its hole, as if to show its strength.
Chen Qingsheng groaned, "Captain, you're not trying to catch that capsized fish on board, are you?"
Xiang Yang didn't mean that. He grew up in a fishing village and knew that most fishermen have some taboos. For example, the sunfish is one of the taboos of fishermen. Most fishermen do not have the habit of catching sunfish. Sometimes they will release it immediately if they catch it accidentally. Because the name of sunfish contains the word "capsize", most fishermen regard this fish as a monster.
Of course, not all fishermen have this taboo.
In many coastal places, sunfish is a very precious fish. Among the 108 imperial dishes in the Manchu-Han Banquet, there is a dish cooked with sunfish intestines as the main ingredient.
It is also worth mentioning that the sunfish is a very common marine fish along the southern coast. Even though fishermen are extremely wary of it, they will often see it when going out to sea.
Because the sunfish has a strong reproductive ability, the number of eggs they lay in one mating can reach tens of millions, and the survival rate is extremely high. If they did not have many natural enemies and were not stupid enough to swim away when they saw their natural enemies coming, the entire ocean would probably have been eaten up by them long ago.
Speaking of the stupidity of the capelin, how stupid is it
There were once two videos about capsized boat fish on a certain marine forum.
One video shows a two-meter-long sunfish struggling desperately on the sea. A group of seagulls stand on its back and peck at its flesh ferociously. The sunfish does not dive under the water, but slaps the water surface to try to scare away the seagulls on its back.
There is another video showing fishermen on the same boat using three nets in a row to catch the same sunfish three times in a row. After catching it and releasing it, it did not run away but instead was determined to get into the fishing net.
"This big fool is almost the public enemy of all marine predators in the ocean, no matter how big or small. Any creature that eats meat will attack them, so they often like to float on the sea surface, but the seabirds on the sea surface are still their natural enemies." Xiang Yang shook his head, "Look, the Steller's sea eagle is flying towards it."