Chapter 176: Thousand Ring Islands

The Thousand Rings are the southernmost part of the island nation and are made up of dozens of islands, most of which are not large.

Among these islands, Qianhuandao is the most extensive and has the largest number of people living on it, about 10,000 people.

Most of the residents of Qianhuan Island make a living from fishing, and some do some business such as homestays or small restaurants, mainly for tourists who come here.

However, there is not much to see here, so not many people come every year.

The Hirota family also runs a homestay, but the family's income is still mainly fishing.

There are five members in the family, he, his wife, his parents, and a seven-year-old son.

In the past, the income from fishing every year, coupled with the money earned by the homestay, could make it easier for their family.

But that changed a year ago.

There are all kinds of ancient creatures in the oceans, all of them very large, and many of them fierce, and they sometimes attack fishing boats, if they are small.

But that's not the worst of it, the worst of them are the mutated paleontology.

These guys are bigger and more violent.

In order to avoid these monsters, they were forced to fish only along the coast, and abandoned the previous small fishing boats, and then several fishermen banded together to buy the large ones.

Such a fishing boat, when encountering ordinary mutated ancient creatures, can make the other party feel a sense of jealousy.

Of course, the premise is not to encounter those top-level mutant ancient creatures, otherwise, there will be only a dead end.

Hirota was fortunate that he had not encountered the octopus monster that often roamed the North Pacific Ocean in the past year, and he was lucky to survive to this day.

Luckily, there is a good chance that there are no top-level mutant paleontology in the North Pacific now, and the octopus monster has appeared on the other side of the Antarctic Sea anyway.

The only thing to worry about is the giant python.

But it's more likely that the python has died somewhere, after all, according to the habits of these big monsters, they like to show up in front of people - mainly to eat people.

Without the threat of the octopus monster, Hirota and the others are ready to do a big one, going to the farther sea to catch a fish.

They had been out for three days, completely away from the Thousand Rings.

The days at sea are boring, and they are still in a state of nervousness.

Several times, Hirota and the others thought about whether to go back or not.

But the lure of money kept them going.

"If you catch a small mutant ancient creature, you'll be rich."

In their minds, they all have such thoughts in a more or less way.

When this happens in the oceans, the price of fish has also increased, but it is unlikely to be more profitable than mutated paleontology.

At the end of their boat, a huge net had been thrown into the water and began to be dragged up, and at the bow of the boat, Hirota and several of his companions were fishing with fishing rods.

But the rod was special, in that it was actually a sharp hook scraped on several large iron cables, on which a large piece of meat hung and then thrown into the river.

A pulley is attached to this end of the cable, and if a fish is hooked, the pulley is pulled directly.

In this way, it is possible to catch small mutant ancient creatures.

Someone has succeeded in doing this.

The man used a large piece of beef to catch a mutated shrimp, the guy was seven meters long, and two huge chelas could break a person's waist.

It is said that when he saw this giant shrimp, the fisherman was shocked.

But then he got up, beckoned his companions, and smashed the strange shrimp to death with various tools.

This story has been widely circulated among fishermen like Hirota, and it has inspired one fisherman after another.

More often than not, though, something happens.

If you catch a mutant paleontle, if you don't do it properly, it is likely to cause you to be counter-killed, or provoke a large mutant paleontle.

Those guys are usually forty or fifty meters long, and even if the fishing boat is 100 meters long, there is a danger of being sunk.

However, the profits of mutant paleontology are too great to make people take risks.

Hirota and a few of his companions stood in front of the three fishing rods, observing the movements, chatting from time to time to avoid the tension in their hearts.

At this time, a fishhook beside Hirota moved slightly.

"Hmm......"

Hirota was shocked at this time, and then his face was excited, but in the midst of this excitement, there was a little nervousness.

He was excited that a fish had finally come over to bite the bait, but he didn't know if it was a mutated paleont, this mutant paleontle, could they solve it?

He and several of his companions next to him glanced at each other and nodded.

Hirota held a spear in his hand, and at the top was an incomparably sharpened spearhead, which seemed to be able to pierce a person's chest with a single stab.

Looking at the other people, weapons also appeared in their hands, most of them were spears like Hirota.

Another man had a shotgun in his hand.

Crash!

The creature in the water seemed to have bitten the iron hook, and the iron rope was now paddling back and forth in the water, making a burst of noise.

"It's hooked, it's a big dick."

Hirota made a judgment, and then began to give combat orders, "Quick, pull the pulley, put a little pressure on that guy." ”

Two of his companions immediately walked up to the pulley and began to pull the cable, and with a rattling sound, the rope that fell into the sea began to tighten more and more.

"Let go of a little more iron rope."

The iron rope above the deck was about a hundred meters away, and when some of it was released, Hirota began to let the two companions pull the pulleys again.

As soon as they pulled and put it down, the creature in the sea was visibly starting to become exhausted – in fact, they had put a little spice in the piece of beef, which caused the fish to get excited and their entrails to fail.

Hirota's companion began to pull the iron rope and drag the big guy down there.

Gradually, a huge black shadow appeared under the water next to the fishing boat, and floated little by little with the iron cable.

"It's a big guy."

A person next to Hirota shouted, "It looks like a sword fish, but it's much bigger than an ordinary sword fish, estimated to be fifteen or sixteen meters." ”

There is a good chance that this is a mutated swordfish.

"I'm going to record this historic moment."

Hirota said this in his heart, and then he took out his mobile phone, and then pointed at the dark shadow under the surface of the sea, and began to shoot a video.

But at this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something flashing under the surface of the sea in the distance.

He subconsciously looked over there, and there was nothing above the calm sea.

"Is it a reflection of the sun?"

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