The three of them kept staring at the sea. No one cared about the fish on the deck. They just wanted to know when the aperture would disappear and give them some peace of mind.
As the fishing boat moves forward, the aperture continues to expand, as if it is constantly coming out from under the fishing boat.
It was originally evenly covering the edge of the ship, but now it has sprouted in a large circle toward the bow, and the aperture at the stern is also shrinking, as if it is moving away from the ship.
Is it just like the soul slowly leaving the body?
Ye Yaodong suddenly had a scene in the TV series where the soul left the body. He immediately shook his head and quickly got rid of the messy thoughts.
In his mind, he was actually more inclined to think that this might be some strange school of fish passing by.
"Go and get two of the hand-thrown nets on the ship."
"Do you think there's a school of fish down there?"
"It's very possible. Otherwise, how can we explain the moving aperture below?"
"Brother Dongdongdong..." Chen Shi pulled his sleeve excitedly, and then stretched out his fingers.
Ye Yaodong also quickly turned his head to look around. Just when he turned to talk to the boatman, a lot of small tube sardines appeared around the aperture, which were all attracted by the light.
This brightness is much brighter than the brightness of their flashlights.
In just a few seconds, the sea surface became densely populated with phototactic fish such as sardines and tubules.
At this time, when the old boatman handed him the net, he saw several big red fish emerging from the water. The big fish were preying on sardines, small pipes and other small fish one by one.
Everyone has also seen that the eyes of these fish are like two big light bulbs, lighting up the sea surface.
And more and more appeared, and for a while the water on the sea seemed to be boiling, and the sound of predators was heard.
"Ah! Yes, it is a fish!"
"It turned out to be really a fish. I was shocked. I thought the bottom of the boat was glowing, and the whole circle of light was still moving there. I was scared to death. I thought it was some weird thing on the sea like what the villagers said.
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"There are a lot of strange things on the sea. Many of them are caused by various marine creatures or other things. There is no need to be so afraid."
Although his heart skipped a beat at first, he calmed down later and realized that everything had happened and he could only watch first.
"I was so stunned that I forgot that these big-eyed fish can emit light, but I never expected that such a large group would appear under the boat and emit such a big light."
"It's golden snapper, not some bigeye fish."
"Haha, everyone used to call it big-eye fish. Later, when the village got electricity, it was called light-bulb fish because its eyes glow like two light bulbs."
"Come on, come on... don't just talk about it, eat fish while they are moving around, still around the fishing boat, and haven't gone far, cast a few nets and see how many you can catch."
Ye Yaodong collected the net and gave him a hand-thrown net. He also arranged the fishing net in his hand and threw it at the jumping fish.
He also caught two during the typhoon last year. These fish were quite valuable. They were also red fish. This fish was a little more expensive than the horsehead fish he caught during the day.
In the dim underwater world of 200 meters to 1,000 meters, there is almost no light, but fish like golden-eye seabream have huge eyes that can detect limited light.
At the bottom of the sea, the light emitted by a luminous golden-eyed sea bream allows people to see the numbers on the watch clearly from a distance of two meters. Divers often grab it and put it in a plastic bag to use it as a flashlight.
The light emitted by this animal was so powerful, let alone a group of them. No wonder the entire bottom of the ship was shining there just now. It turned out to be a whole group of golden-eyed seabream, which scared him when he saw it on the helm.
Big jump, immediately ran to the deck.
And when I saw the aperture moving, I didn't dare to move for a while, I just dared to observe it first.
This fish is also nocturnal. It is generally invisible during the day and hides under coral reefs or in caves. Only at night will it often swim in large groups to look for food and rise to the surface of the water.
After Ye Yaodong accurately cast the net, he pulled it up. Chen Shi also stretched out his hand to help, and another boatman also cast it.
A net full of goods kept struggling, but they were pulled closer and closer to the side of the ship.
The red fish is particularly festive. This fish is also suitable for making soup because its head is rich in gelatin.
The two of them struggled to pull the fish up slowly and threw it onto the pile of fish on the deck. Ye Yaodong asked Chen Shi to help pull it up quickly. The young man was strong, so he could just let him untie the fishing net.
"Youyouyou, I'm going to leave..."
He turned around and saw that the aperture was moving further and further outward. He felt anxious and immediately shook the fishing net a few times and quickly continued to cast a net to prevent the whole group of them from running away.
They were all frightened by the rare appearance under their boat, so of course they had to catch a few more to calm down their shock.
Only one person cast two nets, and the golden-eye seabream drifted to the side. The entire aperture was really like the big sun, moving brightly on the sea surface, making it particularly conspicuous.
Others feel the same way.
"This fish is like the moving sun. A large circle of light moves across the sea. Those who didn't know it thought the moon had fallen into the sea."
"Then I told you, does it look like the sun or the moon?"
"Ah? Hahaha, they're all pretty much the same. They're all from heaven anyway..."
"Like...like...the sun!"
He didn't care about the net that had just been dragged up. He threw the net and the cargo on the deck and immediately said: "I'm going to sail the boat and follow this circle of light. You guys hurriedly lowered the net. They just dragged the fishing net up and haven't put it down yet."
go."
"Okay, okay..."
After Ye Yaodong finished explaining, he quickly returned to the helm. When the fishing boat is moving, it does not necessarily require people to stay in front of the steering wheel. There is a set forward trajectory, and it will move forward on its own. If it wants to deviate, no human intervention is required.
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After they cooperated and lowered the fishing net into the sea, they continued to sort the fish.
Ye Yaodong, on the other hand, kept worrying in the helm cabin watching the ship move forward, chasing the aperture.
I don’t know how many can be caught in the net. In the dark, all these fish emerge to the surface of the sea. I don’t know how many are left under the sea. Anyway, there is no specific destination for working on the sea surface.
When the fishing boat completely caught up with the circle of light and rushed into it, breaking up the circle under the water, the lights continued to shine around the bottom of the boat.
Mainly in modern times, people you meet on the sea may think that the bottom of the boat has its own light strip.
If other people see it now, they might think that their ship is a ghost ship.
How else to explain the problem of light coming out first from the bottom of the boat?
Just when Ye Yaodong was about to continue running to the deck and let them cast two more nets while the aperture moved, the maritime radio on the ship rang. Someone applied for connection. He immediately came back and connected first.
"A Dong, what's going on over there? I saw a light spot just beside your fishing boat. It was very close to your boat at first, and then disappeared later. I don't know if it overlapped or something.
, it feels like your boat is brighter.”
"It suddenly appeared again not long ago, and then your ship returned to its original brightness. Now your ship has become brighter again..."
"Did you find anything yourself? Did something happen? I tried to connect to you several times in the past ten minutes, but without success. What happened?"
Father Pei's words were nervous and incoherent.
Ye Yaodong looked at the sea behind him and found that the Harvest had gotten much closer to him, and it must have accelerated.
"Is the halo of light under the boat obvious?"
"Is it the bottom of the boat that is glowing? Yes... Now that we are closer, we can see that it is the bottom of the boat that is glowing. Just now, I saw that your boat suddenly became a lot brighter, and then returned to its original brightness after a while."
"It's obvious that my fishing boat is heading towards you now. The closer it gets, the scarier it becomes. It's true that a whole circle under your boat is glowing. What happened? It's scary at night..."
"Ouch... the light behind the butt is gone again? Only the light on the bow is left, eh? It's gone again, it's the same as before... What on earth has happened to you? Why is there a circle of light that keeps following you?
It’ll be gone for a while…”
Ye Yaodong could hear his panic through the clattering sounds. Father Pei probably thought he had encountered some supernatural event...
"No, uncle, don't be nervous, I have encountered a golden-eyed sea bream..."
Fortunately, the connection was not successful just now, so he was already on the deck looking at the aperture. Otherwise, just hearing Uncle Pei's description would have made his hair stand on end and his scalp would feel numb.
A layer of aperture appeared under the boat, and the aperture moved again and again, and then disappeared again. It was quite annoying to listen to it at night.
"Golden-eye sea bream, what golden-eye sea bream? Is it a fish?" A surprised voice came from the other end of the channel, no longer panicking.
"It's a fish. It's a light bulb fish with two eyes that can emit light as bright as a light bulb. It's called golden-eyed seabream. A large group of them are under my boat. That's why you see a layer of light under my boat, and then it moves there. There will be one after another.
Will there be any?"
Father Pei breathed a long sigh of relief, "It's a lightbulb fish, so I'm relieved. I was scared to death. I thought it was something. Something had caught on your boat. The light it emitted was so sudden in the middle of the night."
It was really scary to see the boat light up so much and then darken again."
"Yes, I was shocked when I saw a circle of light appearing under the boat. I ran to the deck and watched for a long time, so I didn't hear your connection."
"Then have you caught it? Are there many fish? I can see it so bright even from a distance. I guess the ones closer may be brighter. There are a lot of them, right? They can cover the bottom of your entire boat in a big circle.
, this school of fish should not be small.”
"It's okay. I just cast two nets but they moved far away, so I ran to the helm again to adjust the direction and was about to continue calling them to cast two nets."
"Okay, okay, then you are busy, as long as there is no problem. I was just shocked, so I contacted you quickly."
"Hey... I saw a lot of lights ahead. There are circles and strips. You can speed up and drive up. It's right on the coastline. If you speed up, you should be able to see it slowly.
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"Really?" Father Pei responded in surprise, "Okay, okay, I'll close this net right away, and then speed up and take a look."
Ye Yaodong kept staring at the aperture in front of him, and quickly hung it up after he had finished speaking.
The two people on the deck, when he was talking on the phone, had already noticed that they were casting a net. The aperture under the fishing boat had also shifted a bit, but it was not known how many nets they had cast, and the aperture did not shrink anyway.
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As the fishing boat moved forward during the call, he also discovered that several light spots appeared in front of the coastline, some were long, some were round, and some were diamond-shaped, forming small groups.
These are probably golden-eyed sea bream.
He let the boat catch up and kept moving forward at a constant speed, and then immediately went down from the helm to the deck.
"How many nets have you cast?"
As he asked, he looked at the large piles of golden-eyed sea bream scattered on the deck. He estimated that they weighed three to four hundred kilograms, some were very big, and the small ones were only about twenty or thirty centimeters.
There are also a lot of sardines, small tubes, and mackerel mixed in. Some golden sea breams still have half of the small tubes in their mouths. They just ate half of them and died on the net.
"Network two by two..."
"Quick, quick, quick, we are getting closer again, let's continue to cast two more nets, there are more in front of us, and on the coastline..."
The sea was always boiling there.
"Has the aperture gotten wider? It doesn't seem to have gotten smaller, it's gotten bigger." Ye Yaodong said in confusion.
"I don't know. We didn't have time to look at it. When we lowered our heads to sort, we found that it was in the aperture again, so we quickly picked up the net and continued casting."
"I, I, I... also... feel like it's too much!"
"Let's see how many Internet connections there are..."
While he was speaking, there was a roar in his ears, getting louder and clearer from far to near. He looked to the side.
The Harvest had already come up from behind and was not far away from him, and Father Pei was also standing on the deck, looking towards him.
There was a large glowing circle separated between the two boats. It really looked like a fiery red sun falling into the water. It was extremely bright, allowing them to clearly see the faces of the people on the other side's boat in the dark.
Father Pei smiled, raised his hand, and returned to the helm. After a while, the fishing boat accelerated towards them again.
"Are they going to run forward and chase the circle ahead?"
"It should be."
After all, he was chasing in this circle, and it was hard for Pei's father to follow him. Anyway, there was still a bright circle of light in front of him.
As the fishing boat moved forward, the aperture in front seemed to get bigger and bigger.
"This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, fish, is expensive..."
"It's okay. It's more expensive than the horsehead fish. The Chinese New Year has just passed, so the price of these fish products should be good. After all, the red fish is festive. The horsehead fish should be worth one or two cents, and this fish should be worth more than two cents.
, look at the market price, and also see if there are a lot of fish in the market, I will contact the fresh harvest ship tomorrow to find out."
The old boatman also said: "The prices of these fish products are the same for a period of time. They are not always the same price. The more they are, the cheaper they are. Anyway, most fish are only a few cents. The price of red fish like this is very high."
Better."
Chapter completed!