Chapter VII
It's just that the footsteps of the sea dragon stopped in the Okinawa Islands, and although Hong Long set himself the goal of fishing in Hokkaido, this guy got lost in the warm waters of the Okinawa Trench. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoHe melted into the blue sky and beautiful subtropical islands - the Ryukyu Islands are numerous, many of which are uninhabited, which is excellent for hiding. It's also a place of abundant fish, and there are plenty of whales to be found – and of course the pigs in these oceans must be protected. Whale meat is fatty, which is extremely fatty food for Hong Long's taste at the moment, and the whale is big enough to kill a whale enough to keep Hong Long full for a while.
Then the whaling ship is the enemy of Honglong, and it is more abominable than the fishing boat. Commercial whaling has long been stopped on the mainland, and even scientific whaling has also stopped -- isn't the so-called scientific research whaling just commercial whaling, and only the little devils are covering their ears and stealing bells to do this kind of thing, no, not only the little devils, but also Norway. Although Hong Long is not yet able to go to the North Atlantic to attack the Norwegian whaling ship, the Japanese whaling ship that attacked the waters off Okinawa is still competent.
There are many uninhabited islands in the Ryukyu Islands, and the topography of these islands is also quite complex, basically rocky islands, with quite a lot of sea caves, which is a very good place to live for Honglong, a sea dragon that is more than 10 meters long. As for raiding whaling ships, whaling in Japan also has seasons, and it is not always possible for ships to hunt whales at sea.
However, Hong Long's chosen place of residence for himself is Iriomote Island, Japan's national nature conservation park, and eighty percent of the island is uninhabited primeval forest, and this guy has set up his main residence cave in the sea cave under the rocky coast near the primeval forest. Of course, the little tiger fish also swims around here, and this guy has grown to four meters in length so quickly that it is enough to be called a sea monster when he goes out and is seen by fishermen.
Iriomote Island is home to a local population and is an important site for oceanographic research, so it is home to about 2,000 people. There are only two schools for children here, one elementary and one junior high, and if they want to go to high school, they have to go to Iwo Jima in Okinawa or Ishigaki Island more recently. Most of the children here are the sons and daughters of fishermen, and they have learned to follow their elders to make a living on the ocean from an early age, at least they can fish and play by themselves, and occasionally they can dive into the water to touch beautiful shells.
One such child is Taro Kageyama, whose family lives in a small village with a concrete road near the coast, and his house is at the end. Ten-year-old Taro Kageyama likes to follow the path behind his home down the hill to the seashore during his vacation, where there is a small stone pier under which the traditional catamaran wooden boats of Ryukyu fishermen are parked - these fishing boats have long since been replaced with the progress of the times, and here are the boats that Taro's father left for his sons to play with. Taro used to paddle alone or with his friends in a small boat, crossing the bay to a headland jutting out into the ocean on the island, where they had a secret base. Taro once caught a large sea bass there.
On this day, Taro walked alone on the path, and the sun shone on the sea, and from his height, the sea surface was divided into bright and dark parts by the clouds and sunlight in the sky, and it was uncertain. Even if this child has seen this beautiful scenery many times since he was a child, he still can't see enough. Taro, who stopped on the road, admired the sea view for a few minutes, and then he remembered the elementary school teacher who had just arrived, this beautiful female teacher who looked really beautiful in the country, heard that he was from Tokyo, and taught them English, this kid longed for the female teacher for a few minutes, and then began to walk down the path again.
Just as he turned his head to look at the road, suddenly he felt as if he saw something out of the corner of his eye. The boy turned his head abruptly to look at the sea, about three kilometers away in a straight line, and there seemed to be a long stick-like thing on the outside of the bay moving across the water, and Tamitaro couldn't see it clearly, and he couldn't make out what it was. But the thing moves, and the color seems to be deeper than the water, and soon the stick-like thing suddenly turns an angle and disappears into the depths of the water.
Taro frowned and looked at it for a long time, he wasn't sure what he saw. The knowledge of children at this age is actually very interesting, boys like all kinds of monsters, of course, they also like dinosaurs, sea monsters and the like, and there are many boys who believe that there are still living ancient creatures in this world. But Taro was a more mature child, and he didn't just shout at his friends, and he went down the path as fast as he could, but as he stood at the small pier, Taro found that he couldn't see the sea where the strange stick swam.
Kageyama Taro waited for a long time, but he didn't notice the creature resembling a stick, and finally the boy decided to row out to sea. But for safety, he was prepared to paddle along the coast, instead of going straight through the entrance to the bay to reach the headland, as in the past. Later in the day, Taro was always in a state of uncertainty when he was fishing, and always felt as if something was swimming in the water - but unfortunately it was a shallow sea, and the sun was quite good, and if there was anything big in the water, he could probably see it - at least in the fishing area.
However, until Taro caught a bucket of various fish, he didn't find anything strange. Then the little fellow rowed straight through the entrance of the bay as usual, and returned to the dock at the foot of the hill, where he had his house, and after tying up the boat, he went up the path to his home. Before turning around and losing sight of the bay, Taro turned his head one last time to take a look. The red sunset casts golden red sunlight on the sea from a very low direction, and the sunlight reflected by the waves makes it impossible to see anything clearly, and Taro thinks that something does indeed swim between the waves, but if you look closely, you can't see anything except the reflected light in your eyes.
Time passed, and after a few months, the weather became hotter and hotter, and Iriomote Island entered the summer typhoon period, but it was also the hottest tourist season of the year. The children also work as helpers in their homestays, so they can only gather together to hang out in their spare time. On this day, Taro made an appointment with his friends to go diving at a secret base together. Taro hadn't seen a stick-like creature swimming in the water in days, so the little creature had begun to forget that he had probably misseen something, maybe it was just the sunlight refracted in the sky.