The Pacific Ocean spans from the coast of the Antarctic continent to the Bering Strait, with Asia and Oceania in the west and the Americas in the east, with a maximum width of 15,500 kilometers from north to south and spanning 151 degrees of latitude.

It covers an area of 181,344,230 square kilometers, covering about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about 32.5% of the total area.

In other words, on this fascinating blue planet, the Pacific Ocean itself occupies nearly one-third of the area.

Under this vast and boundless width, even light cannot penetrate, forever in the dark and mysterious deep sea, which hides countless treasures and treasures that are still beyond the reach of humans... Dangerous!

Katsuhei Yamaguchi is the captain of the Ripple fishing boat, and although he has grown up on the coast of Aomori Prefecture since he was a child, he is not yet 40 years old, but he has been at sea for nearly 20 years.

Whether it is the rough skin that is blown by the sea breeze or the dark complexion of the scorching sun, it shows his rich experience in sailing and fishing.

Unlike the small fishermen who catch small fish or go into the water to dig for abalone, his boat is a large vessel that specializes in tuna, a high-value fish.

How valuable are the catches?

To take the simplest example, on January 5, 2013, a 222-kilogram bluefin tuna from Omama in Aomori Prefecture was auctioned for 155.4 million yen (about 11 million yuan) at a seafood auction in Tokyo.

A fish that sold for 11 million yuan is definitely a rarity even in the high-end collectibles industry, right?

Of course, bluefin tuna is an endangered product among tuna, and whether or not it can be caught depends on personal luck, and Katsuhei Yamaguchi did not go to all this in vain, and he was already satisfied with catching a school of yellowfin tuna.

Based on years of fishing experience, Katsuhei Yamaguchi quickly identified a spot with a small warm current that would attract fish, beckoned the crew to lay bait and nets here, and then waited leisurely.

As he expected, according to the fish-finding radar, there was a group of yellowfin tuna that looked a little panicked and crashed headlong into their nets.

It usually takes at least 12 hours to close the net before it can be harvested, and he has never seen this kind of fish floating up and crashing into the net.

Although Katsuhei Yamaguchi was a little surprised, he still enjoyed the admiring gaze of the crew and ordered the net to be closed, and at the same time, with his many years of experience, he visually measured the value of the fish.

To his delight, the freezer on his ship would probably be nearly three-quarters full, so that even if the remaining quarter were caught with relatively low-value fish such as bigeye tuna, the value of the fish would be more than $300,000!

In addition to the bonus of about 5,000 US dollars (about 560,000 yen and more than 32,000 yuan) to each of the first mate and the five crew members on the ship according to the work agreement, the rest is his net income as the captain and owner of the ship, which is 270,000 US dollars!

And this was the first day of their voyage, and they thought that they would have to go to sea last time before the end of the season, but if they looked at it this way, they would be able to turn back in three days at most, so that they could go to sea again after the original voyage of about fifteen days.

Just as Katsuhei Yamaguchi was happily calculating whether the income, which was converted into nearly 2 million yuan, would be used to exchange the family's house for a villa that he and his wife had long been optimistic about, the fish detection radar alarmed him again, prompting him that there were large sea creatures approaching.

Katsuhei Yamaguchi's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he threw the pipe in his mouth onto the workbench, and the person hurriedly lowered his head to look at the display of the fish-finding radar.

However, what stunned him was a black round object that occupied a large area on the radar, and Yamaguchi Katsuhei preferred to believe that the fish detection radar was broken.

Because according to the scale, the object on the screen that occupies a large area is nearly 100 meters high and more than 500 meters long!

Even the largest creature in the ocean, the blue whale, has a record length of 33 meters, making it the dominant creature in the ocean.

Even in the legends of various Kraken monster sightings, the longest and largest monster is only about 50 meters, which is equivalent to the height of a 20-story building!

So... The radar must have been broken... It must be so...

Katsuhei Yamaguchi couldn't stop praying in his heart that God forbid, who he didn't believe in on weekdays, it was just that the radar was broken, although he had complained countless times that the guy who sold him the radar was a profiteer, and this radar that had many problems cost him a lot of repair money, but at the moment he wished that he had bought a fake radar.

Sadly, God did not hear his prayers, and the whole fishing boat was completely lifted out of the water as if it had been lifted up by a small island.

It was a huge strange carapace with countless purple patterns, and the purple lines on it were bright and dark as if they were breathing, but the twisted and strange patterns made people have a headache and a serious mental pollution as long as they looked at it.

The carapace rippled with lilac, and then the hard carapace became like a swamp, and the whole fishing boat slowly sank into the purple swamp with the painful howls of the crew, becoming a part of this behemoth.