CHAPTER XV

"Gentlemen, I think it's an African tiger fish. "While Donadoni was discussing with Smith, another assistant named Randolph turned the tablet in his hand and pointed to the picture above.www.biquge.info This is a professional fish database, and based on the images taken by the camera, the server has searched for the most similar fish information. "How is that possible?" Donadoni and Smith said in unison, "It's not at the mouth of the Gulf of Guinea." This is the waters of Okinawa. โ€

Indeed, the giant dog fat carp, known as the African tiger fish, has always been a freshwater carnivorous fish, and it is only found in the Congo River basin in Africa, and it may be found in the mouth of the Congo River in the Gulf of Guinea, which has been diluted by the huge amount of water in the Congo River, otherwise it should not be found in the sea at all. Moreover, although the giant dog fat carp is quite large, it is not considered large among the saltwater fish, and the length of one meter and three is recorded in detail, and there is no such thing as the current one - if it is, it is already the largest bony fish in existence, half the size of the largest carnivorous shark, the great white shark. Ten meters long, this is definitely the largest type even among killer whales - although not as round and chubby.

Now everyone is looking at the picture on the tablet and has nothing to say, the green tiger stripes and pale gold background, as well as the terrifying big mouth, the whole body shape is exactly the same as the picture, but it is really big. "Unless we catch it, we can't prove it's a new species or something else. What the hell! How can there be a saltwater fish in the genus Dog Fat Carp! And it's still so big! This can already be called the king of bony fish! Donadoni scolded excitedly. Hong Long's little brother was still swimming beside the boat, and the clear water made his figure unobstructed - this guy was so close to the surface of the water that he even pulled a thin white wave out of the waves.

Hong Long twisted his body and glanced upward, "They found that fool." The alienated sea monster thought, and then he flicked his tail and floated up a little in the shallow water. The little brother of the tiger fish should have noticed it, and it also flicked its tail and began to accelerate, but the action was the opposite of Hong Long, it dived deeper.

Screams of disappointment came from the boat, and the sudden dive of the giant "tiger fish" that they had been following for more than ten minutes made these people a little disappointed, but this time was enough for them to shoot a large number of high-definition videos, using the video processing software Donadoni They will remove the reflections and water waves from the picture in the subsequent work, and highlight the detailed image of the target sea monster as much as possible. But the human eye is already the best optical equipment, and with the naked eye alone, basically these people are already excited to help themselves, they have discovered probably one of the largest bony fish ever built, and almost certainly the largest carnivorous bony fish species, Donadoni has already begun to think about how to name the scientific name of this big fish - first of all, the word magna must have a prefix, "huge", how could such a huge carnivorous fish not have this prefix?

But while they were talking to each other with great pleasure - of course, Taro and the TV reporters were mostly replaying the video, happily talking about topics that no one was listening to at all, and everyone was talking about their own things. It was still Smith, and he patted Donadoni on the back very hard, interrupting the sea monster hunter's thoughts on the scientific name. "Hey, Smith. Do you see it floating up again? Donadoni was about to look at the sea in Smith's direction as he spoke, but he almost immediately noticed that Smith's face was very exaggerated, and it was a concrete expression of the word fear on his face... What do you see? It's coming at us? โ€

Then he saw something that made Smith change color, it didn't come out of the water, it was probably still below the giant tiger fish just now, and it was estimated to be four or five meters deep from the surface, but the water was clear enough and they were high enough to see that it was part of a huge sea serpent-like creature, Donadoni could have sworn he saw the huge scales, but how clear it was, it was impossible to say - because the thing quickly disappeared into the deep water again. Neither the beginning nor the end, but the impression was so impressive that Donadoni could clearly recall what he had seen when he closed his eyesโ€”it was indeed a huge body full of thorns, twisting and twisting as if it had come from an invisible part of the deep sea, but no matter how he recalled, he could not remember the rest of the creature.

Hong Long's movements were very fast, and basically the only people on the ship who saw part of his back were Smith and Donadoni, and the others didn't see him at all on the main deck on the next level. Donadoni and Smith didn't have time to take any photos, and they could only take this scene to heart, deciding that this sea area was a promising place. They didn't know that Hong Long and his little brother were rapidly heading north, preparing to go to the world's largest Hokkaido fishing ground.

The huge body of the sea dragon returned to the sea at a depth of more than forty meters, and this time the tiger fish also came to this depth, they felt the black tide around them, and were pushed north by the sea.

Donadoni, who returned to port, had already caused a huge sensation. To be honest, he regretted it a little, and felt that he shouldn't have let the TV crew go with him for the sake of money, and he originally thought about delaying it for a few days before releasing the news - that was because he didn't expect to find the target on the first time he went to sea, should he say that his luck was good or bad? Taro and they were quite happy - because they were regarded as the first people to discover this monster, and they were already popular in the foreseeable future, and even Donadoni could not just get rid of Taro, and most of them would have some of Taro's name in the scientific name of this creature.

Sure enough, that evening, the little brother of the tiger fish has become a big star in the world. Such a huge bony carnivorous fish is the only time in this era - the last time such a huge bony fish was said to have been 150 million years ago... In the TV show, which is quite clear, completely different from other so-called water monster videos in the world, the huge and ferocious tiger fish is quite clearly visible, and even the tiger stripes on its body can be counted one by one. A few hours later, photos and high-resolution videos of Donadoni's treatment were released, and ichthyologists around the world were unanimous that it was definitely a bony fish, and a large carnivorous fish in the family Lipid Cyprinidae, but there were different opinions about the genus and species. In the process of growing up, the little brother of the tiger fish is indeed a little different from other tiger fish - this is very normal, there are no two identical fish in the world, right? But the biggest difference in size, combined with the area where it lives, has led many ichthyologists to insist that this is a completely new genus in the family - although there are a few who believe that this is a new family altogether.