Its head is relatively flat, its body is cylindrical, its overall color is gray, and there are spots on its outer skin. The white spots are indeed quite distinctive.
Father Ye's heart trembled when he looked at the huge fish that suddenly appeared on the sea. This one was really more than ten meters tall. He had never seen such a big fish in his life. It was almost catching up with their boat.
Although the oarfish is more than ten meters long, its flat body is incomparable to this whale shark.
"Ah...ah...how...how did you come up? It's...too scary...hurry up...run..."
Ye's father was so frightened that he couldn't even speak clearly. He rolled and crawled and was about to sail away in the boat.
Ye Yaodong helped his father up and comforted him, "Don't be afraid. I heard that this whale shark is very docile and will not attack people without any reason."
In this era, the development of the ocean is not perfect, and most people don't know much about such large marine creatures. Ye Yaodong relied on his experience in his previous life to recognize that it was a whale shark. Otherwise, he would be as frightened as Ye's father.
It is said that whale sharks will be gentle and polite when encountering humans approaching, and they often play with people in the water. They are a big and friendly guy, but he has never tried it.
"Don't be afraid? It's so big. Just take a breath and the boat will rock for half an hour. If its tail slaps the boat, we will go directly to the sea to feed the fish. Run quickly..." Father Ye panicked.
He shouted and hurriedly started to sail the boat.
Ye Yaodong didn't stop him. It was better to stay away from such a behemoth. No matter how docile he was, he was still the overlord of the ocean. The main reason was that he had never had close contact with him in his previous life, so safety should come first.
Father Ye quickly started the boat, increased the power, and wanted to escape from here immediately, far away from the whale shark.
What they didn't expect was that the whale shark was following behind. Suddenly, it caught up with it, its head kept pace with the fishing boat...
The little eyes were right next to the fishing boat, and the exposed row of tiny teeth, at least thousands of them, frightened Father Ye almost to the point of his knees.
If it opened its mouth, I guess it wouldn't be enough to fill his teeth, right?
In a panic, Father Ye instinctively put his right hand on the diesel engine, but he didn't expect that the diesel engine was very hot when it was running.
His hand was directly burned by the diesel engine as soon as it came into contact. Even though he quickly retracted it, three big blisters appeared on his index finger, middle finger and ring finger the moment they came into contact.
"Hiss~"
When Ye Yaodong saw that his father's hand was injured, he immediately came to his senses. He immediately went to fetch a bucket of water and asked his father to put his hand in. Then he went to the cabin to get tea oil and wiped it on his father. It was omnipotent.
Tea oil is a must on their ships.
When he just saw a whale shark wandering next to their fishing boat, his eyes widened in shock. His heart beat uncontrollably and he became nervous. He had never seen a whale shark so close.
He could clearly see the lines on its body, and there were many small fish attached to it.
The small fish on it is only relative to the size of the whale shark, but it is actually quite big. It should be about thirty to fifty centimeters in size. It is called a seal fish. It is a kind of diving fish that is good at "hitchhiking" and is the best in the fish world.
Lazy guy.
Really, the lady is so big...it really rivals their other boats.
If his father hadn't injured his hand and he hadn't recovered yet, he would have been dumbfounded by his size.
But the whale shark seemed to be very excited. It kept waving its fins at them, which made both father and son a little confused.
"This...is this greeting us?"
Ye Yaodong also said uncertainly: "It should...it should be, right?"
The whale shark seemed to be really happy. It swam a little further away and kept a distance from their boat.
Then, under the gaze of the father and son, he jumped high out of the water. When he jumped up and down, he was like a long bridge. The huge body fell into the water and made shocking waves, like a fountain, directly hitting the whale shark in the middle.
submerged.
He and Father Ye stood on the side of the boat and looked at it with their mouths agape. Large sprays of water covered them from head to tail, and there were still water droplets dripping from their hair.
Ye Yaodong took off his sun protection hat when he entered the water in front, and did not put it on behind. At this moment, his face was really sprayed. The churning waves, under the refraction of the sun, even appeared a small rainbow, but
It's gone in a few seconds.
Father Ye swallowed, wiped the water on his face, and shook his head, "If this tail plays with our boat..."
"Let's quickly sail to the reef and say hello to Azheng. Anyway, there are not many abalones left, so we won't go into the water. I originally planned to go there for another day and not go, and I also made a lot of money.
It’s not bad this time, let’s go back early, and we’ll consider our trip today a waste.”
"Anyway, the fishing net is torn, so we can't continue trawling. Go back and check the gaps and mend the ones that need to be repaired. With your hands, use a needle to heat it red later and pick out the blisters."
"Um."
He asked his father to rest aside while he went to sail the boat.
The fishing boat kept moving forward without stopping, but as soon as the whale shark finished its performance, it followed him again. The father and son looked at each other, confused.
"What is it doing? Why does it keep following us? Although it didn't attack us, it looks scary." Father Ye was no longer as scared as he was at the beginning, but he still only wanted to escape.
"Let's go our way..."
Before Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he saw the whale shark swimming to the side of the boat again and opening its bloody mouth...
This really scared him!
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but tighten the handle that controlled the direction, his eyes widened, and he quickly turned the boat's bow to get farther away.
Father Ye was also frightened and took a few steps back.
Could this whale shark have changed its mind?
The father and son just wanted to run away and didn't think about what it was doing with its mouth wide open, until the whale shark tapped the side of the boat with its fin and opened its mouth wide again.
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but think, "Isn't it not full?"
"ah?"
"Is this mouth meant for eating?"
"Really or not?"
Ye Yaodong stopped the boat and said, "Try."
He went to the cabin and took out the small bucket of bait left over from the longline fishing at night. However, he felt that this bucket was not enough to fill the gap between people's teeth.
"Dongzi, be careful... or should we forget it? Let's run away!"
"Try it, otherwise it would be scary if it keeps following us."
"But you have to get closer...and this small bucket of bait is not enough to fill the gap between its teeth..."
"It should be fine, otherwise it would have attacked our ship long ago."
He carefully approached the side of the boat with the bucket, and then quickly poured it into the open mouth of the blood basin. The deep diameter was like a bottomless pit. The bait in the small bucket was poured in, and it was gone in an instant, and
Its mouth is still open.
After Ye Yaodong poured out the bait, he quickly took a few steps back. Although he knew that the whale shark had a docile temperament, he was worried about being right next to its mouth after all.
Seeing that it was still waiting with its mouth open, he couldn't help but say, "Brother, no more. I haven't even opened yet, and you came over to eat at the buffet. You ate all the fishnets, and there's nothing left."
You ate them all."
He shook the empty bucket and only dropped a few drops of fishy-smelling water. "Look, it's really gone!"
The whale shark slapped the side of the boat a few more times, and the boat shook violently. The father and son almost lost their balance, but they managed to hold on to the cabin next to them.
Ye Yaodong cried sadly, "It's really gone. Brother, you can go to the sea and take a few sips to get enough water first..."
I don't know if they understood, but after waiting for a while and there was no movement, the whale shark closed its mouth, looked at them for a few times, and then dived into the water.
The father and son stretched their necks and looked at the sea, but there was no movement for a while.
"Really gone?"
"Maybe?"
The two of them let out a long sigh of relief.
"It's good to leave, it's good to leave... but don't follow me anymore..."
But just as Father Ye finished speaking, the whale shark floated up again, and his heart became excited again.
This heart dropped after a short period of time, and Father Ye felt that if he did it two more times, he would have a heart attack.
But this time it was a little different. Not long after the whale shark surfaced, all the seal fish attached to its body suddenly fell off, and when they fell, it also dived into the sea with it.
Ye Yaodong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly went into the cabin to get the hand-thrown net. Before Ye's father could react, he quickly cast the net down.
"Dongzi?"
"I'll catch that seal fish."
"The fish that fell from that big guy just now?"
"Um."
"Aren't you afraid of catching it again?"
"Try it, it should leave, right? These seal fish should be the buffet fee it gave me. It has eaten so much fish from me, so why don't you compensate me a little?"
Anyway, that's how he understood it. I heard that this fish has an IQ equivalent to that of a seven or eight-year-old child, and is very friendly to humans, but its size is a bit scary.
Seeing it appear around the fishing boats several times without any intention of harming them, Ye Yaodong became much more courageous.
"Thinking too much."
After Ye's father muttered something, he wanted to reach out and help pull it, but the burned area on his hand still hurt, so he could only watch him close the net.
Ye Yaodong tried to close the net, and he felt very relaxed. He definitely didn't let the whale shark in the net again.
As he collected the fishing net bit by bit, he also saw three striped fish struggling inside, as well as a few small fish and shrimps.
"There are only three of them, why did you catch them? It's a waste of time. Let's sail away quickly, lest the big one catches up again."
"Use fish to catch fish, have you heard of it?"
"What the hell?"
"You'll know later, help me get a bucket of sea water."
He quickly untied the fishing net with familiarity and caught the three seal fish inside and put them in the bucket.
It was good luck to catch three of them. There was a delay in the middle and most of them swam away, but three of them were enough.
Father Ye knew this fish, but he was not familiar with its habits.
"These fish are not valuable, so why did you catch these fish? Why are you messing around? Go back early, the big trawl net is broken again, and you can't catch them..."
Ye Yaodong looked at his father's hand, which was still covered in blisters, and hesitated again, "I've applied tea oil on it, should it be fine? Does it still hurt? Forget it, I won't try it anymore, let's go back first..."
"What are you going to do again?"
Chapter 2 later
Chapter completed!