Chapter Seventy-Two: The Hunt

It didn't matter to Hong Tao and Carl what kind of fish they were underwater, and the two of them were shuttling above the fish one after the other, looking for a moment for the whale to emerge from the sea. This job is also very difficult, Hong Tao, who is driving in the wrong direction, does not dare to attack, if he faces the whale head with a harpoon inserted, it is very likely that the whale tail will follow. It's not easy to get close to the front, so you can't let the windsurfing board fly through the whale and then throw the harpoon, this action is too difficult, and the Olympic windsurfing champion may not play well. Only when the whale and the windsurf board are in the same direction as the board, it is convenient to catch up and throw, and then immediately change direction and disconnect. It's a pity that Hong Tao was unlucky, and he didn't attack twice when he encountered this situation, because the target was a little small, five or six meters long, and he planned to do a big one.

Playing windsurfing on the sea surface looks very light and elegant, but it is actually quite tiring, especially when you need to change direction frequently, even if there is a chest hook hooked to the sail support, changing the body angle and stepping position back and forth, the thighs and waist and abdomen need strong muscle groups. Generally speaking, half an hour to an hour is the limit, and it is impossible to control the windsurf board at high speed for a long time. Hong Tao is not a superman, and he is no exception, he has to vomit if he drinks too much, and he gets tired if he does too much. Seeing that there was really no chance, he beckoned Carl back to the side of the sailboat, avoided the fish area, and rested on the windsurf board first.

The size of this school of fish is not small, depending on the degree of bubbles tumbling in the water, there are not too many whales below, at most there are 3 or 4 of them, only one of them is relatively large, it is it that jumped out of the sea to summon his companions just now, but unfortunately Hong Tao did not catch up with the right position to attack it once. But don't worry, these whales can't round up such a large school of fish, or they will have to separate the fish and round up a small part of them, or they will have to wait for the arrival of their companions, and then there will be a chance to start.

"Tao Lingzi, there are whales in the distance again! You better come up, there are several! Bo Zhu stood on the deck of the sailboat, looking far away, those high mist were not waves, she knew very well what they were.

"Shut up, no wonder your grandpa doesn't let you take a woman to sea, it's too long-winded! Let's go, let's get to work! This time, let's go directly to their reinforcements, and start before they arrive, so that they don't have a chance to change course. Azhu, keep up with us! "Hong Tao is not a person who listens to persuasion, he thinks about good things, it is useless for anyone to say, and he annoys you if he talks too much. When he heard another group of whales coming, he became happy, slapped Karl on the back, got up first, and drove in the direction pointed by Azhu on the windsurfing board.

There are a total of 4 whales that came to reinforce this time, and all of them are adult whales. They formed a diamond formation, sometimes exposing their backs to the surface of the sea, sometimes burrowing underwater, and from time to time slapping the surface of the water with their tail fins, presumably to signal to their companions who were rounding up the fish in the distance: Don't worry, brothers, don't scatter the fish, our brothers are coming! Let's make the second big one today, and we can eat these small fish in a pot of stew...... Hahahaha!

"Let's get the last one, you to the left and me to the right, remember what I said, don't push too hard, turn to the left when you're done, and go back to the sailboat as fast as you can to get the harpoon." After seeing the distribution of the whale school clearly, Hong Tao issued a battle command to Carl, and the windsurf boards of the two people instantly separated, and with the help of a strong crosswind, they thrust into the two sharp arrows that were off the string and slashed towards the whale group.

The four whales were still hurrying in the direction of the fish, and they didn't take the two small sailboards on the water seriously. Swordfish sprint faster than windsurfing and can chase sharks in the water. But in the sea, no creature wants to attack an adult whale, and over time, whales become less concerned about the external environment and live too comfortably.

"Kill...... Yes! "Unfortunately, this time they came across two extremely vicious creatures, and they were not only going to attack the whales, but also kill them. At this point, the history of human premeditated, organized, large-scale commercial killing of whales has been opened in advance, and this is hundreds of years in advance, and the person who opened this page is this young man with a big mouse head tattooed on his back, who is standing on a high-speed windsurfing board, throwing his harpoon at the back of the huge whale a few meters away.

"Poof! …… Crash! Hong Tao couldn't hear the sound of the harpoon inserting into the whale's body, he only felt a burst of water vapor spray on the back of his neck, and then there was a loud sound of slapping the water behind him. When he looked back again, the whale was gone, Carl's windsurf was moving in the opposite direction from his own, and the twine on his windsurf was decreasing at high speed.

"Holy!" Hong Tao suddenly realized that if he ran in this direction again, then this pile of bamboo tubes was likely to hit his feet, and quickly turned to the right, with a violent shaking of the windsurf, the bamboo tubes disappeared in an instant, and it had been pulled by whales and sunk into the sea.

Hong Tao didn't bother to look for where the bamboo tubes were, they had already been pulled underwater by whales. What he urgently needed now was a new harpoon, and Bozhu's sailboat was a hundred and ten meters behind, and it was the right thing to go back and get the harpoon. Tracking an injured whale at the surface is very simple, as long as it is not a deep-sea whale like a sperm whale, ordinary whales will not dive too deep. They like to swim in layers of water tens of meters underwater, especially baleen whales, where the water is too deep and there is no krill to eat. Even if they are injured, they still swim as they normally would, and will not change course easily.

"Hey, be careful not to let the bamboo tube hit your leg......" When Hong Tao returned to the side of the boat with the sailboat, Carl had already tied up the second set of bamboo tubes and was about to set off. Hong Tao took the harpoon and bamboo tube handed down by Bo Zhu, and did not forget to explain his experience to Carl, he was injured at sea, and there was no antibiotics and first aid equipment, and there was little hope of survival.

"I was just about to tell you, that bamboo tube just rubbed past the side of my calf, you see!" Carl gritted his teeth and lifted his right leg, which had a shallow abrasion.

"Your luck is so good, you came to the Song Dynasty from the Middle East after a bumpy journey, and you haven't died of exhaustion, and you don't even touch the bamboo tube on your legs, is your God so loving you?" Hong Tao looked at Karl's distant back, couldn't help muttering, and then looked up at the sky. It's past noon, the sun is a little westward, and it is estimated that it will set in two or three hours, and there is no certainty whether the whale can be subdued before dark.

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