"I wanted to let them swim for ten minutes first." Xiang Yang fastened the net bag around his waist and waved casually at Xu Fang, "Forget it, let's go."
Master Xu was stunned. The whole game only lasted 30 minutes, and you let them swim for 10 minutes? You are just bragging. Why didn't you say you let them swim for half an hour
Xu Fang was immediately amused, thinking to himself, "It seems that the captain knew he couldn't win, and he didn't care about the two hundred dollars at all. He just treated it as a way to entertain the crew. He actually gave up before the game even started."
If Xiang Yang knew what Xu Fang was thinking, he would definitely cry out for injustice. Xiang Yang really wanted to have a fair and challenging match, but given the strength of his opponents, if Xiang Yang didn't let them swim for the first ten minutes, it would be boring even if they won.
Jumping to the bottom of the sea, Xiang Yang immediately saw the crew members carefully searching for seafood along the bottom of the reef.
Xiang Yang swung his body suddenly towards the direction where there were fewer people and swam several meters away. After making sure that there was no one around, he turned into a small electric motor and swam towards the deep sea.
While Xiang Yang was traveling through the bizarre underwater world, he was searching every corner of the seabed. He wanted to find some seafood such as swimming crabs to bring home to eat tonight.
The situation on the seabed along the coast just after the tide receded is somewhat different from usual. The sea water is much more turbid than usual, and the speed of the sea water flow is also faster than usual. Although most people cannot feel the flow of the sea water, they can discover it through the swaying water plants.
However, the fish schools were much more active than usual. Many of them swam in groups among the water plants, attracting predators such as crabs to chase them.
Unfortunately, these crabs are not very big, most of them are about one or two taels, and Xiang Yang doesn't even look at them.
After picking out a few swimming crabs weighing more than 300 grams and putting them into the net bag, Xiang Yang continued to swim towards deeper waters.
A group of sea fish with cream-colored bodies covered with black spots, which looked very festive, swam towards Xiang Yang from another direction. Xiang Yang stopped immediately after seeing them.
"It's a rat-spotted fish." Xiang Yang stopped not because he was afraid of the fish, but because he wanted to catch them. The rat-spotted fish got its name because of its long head and pointed mouth, which resembles a rat. Although it is a ferocious carnivorous fish, it cannot bite because it has no big teeth and can only swallow fish smaller than itself, so Xiang Yang is not on their menu.
To be honest, the name "Mouse Spot" is not only not nice to hear, but it also sounds like an insult to the fish.
In fact, mouse spots is not their real name. Their real name is humpback bass, which... doesn't seem as nice as mouse spots.
Of course, it is not up to it to decide what it is called.
Although the name of the mouse spot is not nice, the mouse spot is actually a typical tropical offshore coral reef fish. It is an extremely beautiful marine fish that can be used for ornamental purposes, and it has extremely strong vitality. The mouse spot's range of activities extends from the southern coast of my country to the coast of Australia, from the shallow sea of two meters to the deep sea of sixty meters.
The grouper is a medium-sized fish. The adult grouper can generally reach 50 cm in size, and a few can grow to more than 70 cm.
The group of grouper fish Xiang Yang saw was a relatively large group of grouper fish, with nearly 20 fish in total. Most of them had gray or beige body colors, with only a few having a white body with black and brown spots on the sides. The number and location of the brown spots on each grouper fish also varied.
"Shouldn't it be?" Xiang Yang thought about some questions as he approached the group of groupers. Although groupers are also a type of grouper, they are different from other groupers. Groupers are a kind of lone ranger with a habit of snatching food and a very arrogant personality. They only gather together when mating.
Xiang Yang soon understood the reason. When the two sides got closer again, Xiang Yang saw that there were many small groupers with more beautiful appearance among the large grouper fish.
Young groupers are more beautiful than adult groupers. Their snow-white bodies are covered with black spots, and their large pectoral fins swing back and forth when they swim, like a dancing butterfly.
"So it's feeding its young fish." Xiang Yang smiled. The mouse grouper is probably the only kind of marine fish whose small size is more valuable than the big one.
The more than ten-centimeter-long grouper is an extremely valuable saltwater ornamental fish, especially sought after by people in countries such as Malaysia.
When the mouse spot grows to more than 20 cm, the color of its body gradually darkens and the black spots become smaller and smaller. At this time, the mouse spot is no longer suitable as an ornamental fish.
However, the meat of adult grouper is delicious and nutritious, and fishermen and diners have reached a consensus that it has been listed as a precious delicacy. The current market price is about 800 to 1,200 yuan per kilogram.
"Catch a few small ones and take them back." Xiang Yang pounced directly towards the group of rats. Xiang Yang couldn't deal with the big ones, but he had plenty of ways to deal with the small ones.
The mouse grouper is a very ferocious grouper. When they saw such a huge monster like Xiang Yang rushing towards them, the mouse groups were panicked and their ferocity was aroused. More than a dozen large mouse groupers over 50 centimeters long, led by a large mouse grouper that was nearly 70 centimeters long, actually retreated instead of advancing and rushed towards Xiang Yang.
"bump!"
The speed of both sides was too fast. Xiang Yang only had time to block his head with his fist before he collided head-on with a half-meter-long rat fish. The huge impact force made Xiang Yang's fast-swimming body pause. As for the rat fish that collided with Xiang Yang, its belly turned over and it was knocked unconscious.
Xiang Yang, who was in a state of shock, blinked his eyes innocently at first, then he was overjoyed. He no longer cared about the little rats, and swam to the front of the unconscious big rat, hugged it and swam quickly towards the Qinglongwan direction.
On the other side, on the Qinglongwan beach, the fishermen who had dived into the sea were climbing up to the shore one after another, each with some catch on their bodies.
The agreed time had not yet arrived, and most of the crew members ran to the beach without stopping for a moment after landing, wondering if they could dig up a few more crabs before the agreed time.
Almost all the crew members tried their best to gamble on the sea goods this time, with only one exception.
The crew member's name was Chen Qingsheng. He was an old crew member recruited by Uncle Xiang from an external fleet. With his rich experience and a certain amount of luck, he found a giant squid as big as a jar in an abandoned kimchi jar on the beach.
"Stop wasting time. The crabs you dig up by next month will not be as heavy as this squid of mine. I'm sure to win this seafood bet," Chen Qingsheng shouted towards the beach while fiddling with his squid.
"Humph." Xiang Hui shouted unwillingly while digging desperately at the beach: "Maybe I will catch a big stranded fish later, and my second brother is still in the sea. It's too early to say that we have won now, right?"