Chapter VIII
In the summer, Okinawa is hot, and a large number of tourists flock to play in the beautiful beaches and turquoise waters. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info and Taro also found a diving hole with his friends. The boys rowing the boat came to their secret base, the headland was of stone, and below the stone wall was a white sand beach, and in the stone wall there was a large hole in the stone wall that had been washed out by the ocean - if Taro looked at the picture book, this place would look like Elephant Trunk Mountain on the mainland. Due to the topography, it is not possible to reach the beach below the headland from the land, so you can only paddle there by wooden boats, so there are no tourists to disturb the children's games.
Taro grabbed the diving goggles, bit the breath tube in his mouth, and jumped into the sea with a plop, and the little friends on the boat slapped the water with their oars, accusing Taro of being too boring, leaving them to row, and jumping into the water first. "If you can't fish out a baby today, I will never let you go!"
The water in Okinawa is crystal clear, and the summer sun is so hot that the coral reefs at the bottom of the sea are beautiful. Colorful fish swim among the colourful corals, and many other creatures grow in the water. Taro is a fierce man who plunges into the water several meters deep, he is looking for treasures, these shells have a pattern that will never be repeated, and these children are competing to see who finds the more beautiful and bigger treasure. The companions had rowed the boat to the shore, they dragged the small wooden boat to the beach, and then began to collect twigs, taking salt from their bags and preparing the fish to be grilled. While rowing, the little angler has already caught a bunch of small fish.
The children shouted, and saw Taro in the distance show his head from time to time, and then plunged down in one breath, everyone knew that Taro had been competing with the baby recently, so they didn't care about him - Taro or they, they were all children who grew up on the beach, and they learned to swim before they walked......
Taro is very happy, he has a good harvest, although this seabed has been swept many times by him and his friends, but the sea is so interesting - every time you will discover a new secret place, bring you new surprises. He was like that today, under the reef he found a hollow with a lot of shellfish in the sand, and he found what he was looking for. There were already three or four treasures stuffed into the small mesh bag around Taro's waist, but Taro was not satisfied, he used his snorkel to quickly change his breath and then dived into the gap between the coral reefs again to start looking for the treasures.
While Taro was concentrating on raking the sand with a small rake, he found himself shrouded in shadows, and the sea water was so transparent in the sunlight, but Taro found that his shadow was invisible. The boy choked on the water, and he quickly lifted his body to look at the water above, but all he could see was something like a spear-like tail that moved rapidly, and it was quickly blocked by the coral above his head. When Taro swam up and poked his head out of the gap between the coral reefs, the owner of the tail-like thing had already disappeared without a trace. Taro, who couldn't catch it in one breath, almost drowned, and he quickly surfaced, coughing violently as he swam to the shore, and Taro, who was walking on the beach, found that his rake was missing.....
The friends didn't notice Taro's abnormality, they were busy lighting a fire, smearing the small fish with salt and putting on wooden sticks and sticking them next to the fire. Taro glanced at them and turned to look out at the sea, but he couldn't see anything under the sparkling waves—the angle from which he was standing, it was hell to see something underwater. Taro walked a few more steps, and the ghost sent him to the gods, and it should be said that he felt something in his heart, and turned again to look at the cave of Elephant Trunk Mountain. The water below this cave is very deep, the stone bottom of the sea is more than twenty meters deep, and the children will not dive there, but they will often walk in it, because there is a hollow cave on this side of the headland, which is the real location of everyone's secret base - of course, the children think that this is the treasure of Toyotomi Hideyoshi...... Taro saw it, and saw a different ripple on the surface of the water, and it seemed that something was swimming underneath, and it was swimming from the inside of the bay through the deep water to the open sea.
Taro watched all this blankly until the waves disappeared completely. All he saw was the way he saw the spearhead tail flicking in the water when he glanced at it, and the feeling of his own shadow being obscured by a larger shadow. He shuddered.
Hong Long didn't notice the boy looking for the treasure at the bottom of the sea, he didn't come to this bay very often, because the water here is too shallow, and the transparency is too good, it is easy to be discovered by humans at high places, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that this is a place rarely visited by tourists, it is likely that Hong Long, the sea dragon, has already been discovered. There wasn't anything Hong Long needed in the bay, so he only occasionally took a stroll around the bay when he was in the mood. His route was fixed, entering from the entrance to the bay, wandering around the bay for a while, and then returning to the open sea from the deep caverns of the Elephant Trunk Strait. Honglong's usual range of activities is mainly in the deep-sea part of the Okinawa Islands, especially in the deep waters near the Okinawa Trench. Of course, his henchman, the African Tiger Fish, followed him, and like Hong Long, who had grown to twelve or thirteen meters, the Tiger Fish had become a six-meter-long sea monster - which was already bigger than most great white sharks.
What Taro saw was supposed to be the little brother of the tiger fish, and Hong Long usually did not swim near the surface of the water. Hailong's idea now is to go north, to the region, where there should be enough pigs-dolphins in the sea for food, and at the same time he wants to kill most of the dolphin hunters who dare to go to the sea, who told them to dare to hunt their own food? In fact, many fishermen in Okinawa have disappeared, especially those fishing for tuna and catching large marine fish such as marlin and sailfish, which usually disappear along with their boats, and this has caused panic among fishermen in the local towns.
The whaling ship Shima Kaimaru, a large whaling mother ship of more than 10,000 tons, is capable of catching, towing, and dividing at the same time, and can handle more than three to five whales at the same time. But on this day, they seemed to be in trouble. The trouble comes from Greenpeace, which for many years has used small speedboats to interfere with Japanese whaling ships, using their own bodies to stop between the whaling forks and the whales, preventing the Japanese from shooting the whales, which is a very dangerous operation. And on this day, too, three Greenpeace boats sailed around the Shima Kaimaru, and a Greenpeace boat did its best to drive the whales away from the whaling ship. The tonnage of these ships is only five or six hundred tons, which is not comparable to Shima Kaimaru, and in fact, their actions cannot prevent Shimakai Maru from catching whales, they can only reduce the frequency of their whale catching. But now, it seems that Shima Kaimaru is really in trouble..... They are now sailing in the waters of Okinawa.
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