Chapter 27: Fish

The protagonist's body falls back into the water with the fallen ship, and the entire fleet is shaken to pieces, and the masts of the ships collide together.

Finally the boat under him stabilized, and the protagonist hurriedly looked up, and sure enough, he was caught off guard, and many ants on the surrounding boats fell into the water and were struggling helplessly on the water.

And the white fish of the culprit seemed to be fine, and Shi Shiran swam away into the distance, leaving only a dark underwater back.

The protagonist was also afraid that it was a ferocious carnivorous fish, shaking off ants by ramming the boat, and then taking the opportunity to devour the ants that fell into the water.

Maybe it's just a vegetarian fish, or at least it's not showing any more aggressiveness at the moment. As for why it hit the fleet twice, the protagonist can't guess, maybe some creatures are curious, after all, the walnut boat is a floating object that these fish have never seen.

Come to think of it, it is impossible for a fish to guess that there is food on the floating dead thing of the walnut boat, and to forage for food in such a way.

The protagonist sees that the dark shadow of the little white fish is a few swinging tails and is invisible, so he hurriedly climbs down and uses ropes and long sticks to rescue the ants that have fallen into the water around him.

After some hard work, the protagonist rescued more than half of the ants who fell into the water by himself, but there were still more than a dozen ants washed away by the current, and a few of the ants rescued were too choked with water, and it is estimated that their lives could not be saved.

The Divine Envoy King's army encountered an unwarranted disaster in this way, and the initiator slipped away, not even understanding the original intention of the attack.

Although the loss is not small, the protagonist has no angry thoughts, this world is like this, the elephant stepped on the ant when he walked, would he stop to mourn the ant?

If the strength is insufficient, we can only endure the unjustified disasters brought about by this greater power.

In addition to rescuing the ants in the water, the protagonist also sends messengers to various boats to appease the ants who are panicked by the sudden movement, and finally calms down the commotion caused by the big fish.

At this time, it was already about two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

Subsequently, the protagonist led the team to inspect the ship himself, but fortunately, the ship was not damaged, but some of the ropes were damaged again and were urgently repaired.

After this uproar, the protagonist feels that in addition to the wind and rain of nature, the creatures in the water may also pose a threat to the fleet.

Since there are small fish in the water, there will definitely be large fish as well. The fish before was only the size of a human palm, and it was a small fish in the world of fish.

The protagonist knows that some fish can grow very large, such as the Asian carp, which can grow to 1.2 meters long and weigh 45 kilograms, and can easily jump over obstacles 2.4 meters high. The world's largest freshwater fish, the catfish, can reach up to 5 meters long and weigh up to 330 kilograms.

With such a big fish in the face, the walnut fleet is like a canoe facing a giant whale. Not to mention what to do if this fish is hostile to the fleet, even if they jump and fall, the waves can easily overturn the innocent fleet.

Not to mention some ferocious fish, such as catfish, which like to devour shrimp and aquatic insects, as well as fish smaller than themselves.

One type of catfish even traps mice on the shore. This catfish rests during the day and feeds around at night. When it swims close to the shore, it sticks its tail out of the water and leans motionless against the shore, emitting a fishy smell to lure rats that go out to forage at night. After the rat is hooked, the catfish drags the rat into the water, and even if the rat can swim, it will drown under the entanglement of the catfish and become the catfish's belly. This also shows how fierce and picky catfish are.

And these catfish, like sharks, have an unusually sensitive sense of smell and touch. It has several long, sensitive tentacles around its mouth, and many sensory cells on its whiskers, which can detect the movement and taste of prey in the water from a long distance, even in dark and turbid waters. doll

If there were really these fierce and huge carnivorous fish in the Qing River, the movement of so many ants falling into the water just now might have alarmed them, and the walnut fleet would be in danger.

Thinking of this, the protagonist hurriedly arranged for some male ant commanders on the ship to act as lookouts, closely watching the surroundings of the fleet.

Although the warning range of these male ants is much farther than that of ordinary worker ants, they can only see the larger figures within two or three meters, compared to the wide Qinghe River, this warning vision is better than nothing.

The protagonist himself stands tall on the tallest mast and looks around.

Fortunately, the ferocious fish in the worst conjecture did not attack, and as time passed, the protagonist's hanging heart finally slowly relaxed.

When looking out, the blue sky and blue waves in the near distance and the beautiful scenery of the mountains and forests in the distance cannot attract the protagonist's attention, and his attention is all focused on the fish nearby.

A palm-sized fish with silver-white scales, I don't know if it was the one that hit the fleet twice before, was disappearing on the water not far from the fleet.

It's a cheerful little fish, not like the gluttonous fish that the protagonist has in mind that can die for food, and it doesn't like to gather in groups like many small fish.

It just played alone on the surface of the water, sometimes swimming faster until it disappeared from view, sometimes making a sharp turn and turning back, sometimes jumping out of the water and sticking its pale blue head out of the water, sometimes jumping up and slamming it back into the water.

Alone and unrestrained, this is the protagonist's deepest impression of this fish.

The protagonist suddenly feels very envious of this fish, alone, without thinking about what group or ethnicity, and not shouldering huge pressure like himself.

For some reason, the little white fish has been moving close to the left side of the fleet, not too far away, and not approaching as close as before to cause a shipwreck.

After learning that there are fish in the water, the protagonist looks around and finally notices that the water is not as barren as it was when he ignored it before.

In addition to the little white fish, after half a day, the protagonist found the fish several times one after another.

Sometimes it's a glimpse of the fish's body out of the water, sometimes it's a spectacular scene of a huge black shadow swimming underwater, and more often it's a series of bubbles floating up and bursting, revealing the movement of the fish in the deep water.

The Qing River is full of life under the surface of the water, and it is not as lifeless as the big rivers in the homeland.

The protagonist also figured out that the big river is a stream that flows down from the mountains, and although the mountain stream is clear, there are no fish when the water is clear. And the Qing River is a real river, no wonder it is so vibrant.

If there really are fish in this world, will other animals also exist? Mouse! Lizard! Frog! The protagonist is looking forward to the answer!

As night fell, another day was about to pass. The fleet spent the day safely, and the movement of nearby fish gradually blurred, and the little white fish disappeared from the water at some point.

It's night, it's time to go to sleep!