The second round: deep-sea eel hunting

Ten years later, Mia Bay, a small seaside town in the summer, is as calm as usual. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Today, the atmosphere in Mia Bay Harbour City is particularly lively, because the annual Poseidon Festival in June has arrived, and people at the seaside worship the god of the sea and worship the god of the sea on the day of the sea god's day. Many people in Mia Bay City have come out of their homes and poured into the streets to converge at the Mia Bay Harbor Pier, where the grand ceremony of welcoming the gods, festivals, divine tours, and sea festivals sponsored by the government is vigorously held from the morning.

Children are undoubtedly the most excited group in the festival, the crowds that are rare to see in the small town, the various games that are rarely gathered, the many snacks and delicacies that are rare to appear, and the small groups of children who are rarely seen running around, all stimulate the excitement of the children in the small town, and they are restless in their hearts.

On the right side of the Mia Bay Harbour Pier Square, there is a steep seaside cliff, the cliff teeth protrude into the sea surface, the highest place in the middle of the cliff is about 50 or 60 meters from the sea surface, and the lowest place is more than 20 meters. At the bottom of the cliff is a deep blue sea, and under the sea surface is a large submarine fault, which is unfathomable and undetectable according to people with strong diving ability.

While the adults were busy worshipping the god of the sea, a large group of children and teenagers from a few years old to about 20 years old gathered around the cliff area on the edge of the pier square, and some adults also stopped to watch. Here, on the day of the Poseidon Festival, there is the most bloody and exciting competition program for the children of Mia Bay Harbour City - "Deep Sea Eel Hunting", that is, children jump from the cliff into the deep sea and hunt the submarine overlord lightning eel in the depths of the great fault under the sea.

In the deep sea of Mia Bay, there is a kind of overlord creature, the lightning eel, which is a well-deserved hegemon in the underwater world of Mia Bay, which is dominated by coral thickets. Hiding in a coral reef cave at least 80 meters below the seabed, its soft body more than one meter long, its incomparably sensitive peripheral detection ability, its huge mouth full of sharp teeth, its lightning-fast attack speed, and its cunning and forbearant ambush instinct make it the top king of creatures in the deep sea corals. For human beings, this kind of deep overlord eel is a great tonic delicacy, the meat quality of the deep sea strong water pressure is very elastic and tender and delicious, people can strengthen the muscles and strengthen the body after eating, increase internal strength, and have great benefits to the body.

Holding a three-foot-long iron eel hunting spur, the contestants jump into the sea at cliff locations of different heights according to the age of the contestants, dive into the deep sea with one breath, search for the overlord eel, and successfully assassinate the overlord sea beast and bring it out of the sea. Children who successfully hunt the Deep Sea Overlord Eel will receive the honorary title of "Overlord Eel Fighter" and take the hunted Overlord Eel home with them.

This kind of competition is actually a seaside child to challenge the limit of the water, to prove their strong strength in the sea activities, although there is no substantial reward, but to successfully hunt the deep sea king eel is a great honor in the minds of all children, every year on the day of the Poseidon Festival, the "deep sea eel hunting" competition has always become the most concerned event for the children of Mia Bay City, a group of brave Haicheng teenagers will definitely participate in the event and show their strength.

The "Deep Sea Eel Hunting" is held at midday when the sun is at its strongest, when the sunlight rays can penetrate deeper into the seabed.

From 11 o'clock in the afternoon, today's game has been played for two hours, the game is played in groups, each group of four players, two older players and two years younger players, the older players are fifteen-eighteen years old, and the younger players are fourteen years old and below. Older competitors dive from the top of the cliff, while younger competitors dive from the lower part of the cliff.

At this point, there were already six groups of contestants with a total of 24 brave teenagers, and the time of each group was about 20 minutes, including preparation before jumping, diving into the sea and hunting eels into the sea, and time spent swimming back to the shore, of which the time on the bottom of the sea was mostly three or four minutes to seven or eight minutes.

Similar to previous years, the results of the first six groups of contestants, except for a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy in the first and fourth groups who successfully hunted the deep-sea lightning overlord eel more than one meter long, the other players who entered the sea ended up empty-handed.

The seventh group of competitions was about to start, and suddenly the crowd of onlookers was a little restless, it turned out that the two contestants who appeared at the highest cliff of this group of competitions, one was a teenager of sixteen or seventeen years old, and the other was a boy about one meter five tall and estimated to be only about ten years old. It is rare to participate in competitions around the age of ten, and now this contestant also chooses to jump into the sea from the top of the cliff, which naturally caused a lot of discussion and commotion in the crowd.

The little boy standing at the top of the cliff ready to dive had soft curly, golden and black hair in the middle of the ears, his naked body was evenly covered with a healthy wheat complexion, his long eyelashes were curved on his shiny big eyes, and his small face was delicate and delicate, but his figure was very lean, the muscle lines of his arms had been revealed, and the eight-pack abs on his lower abdomen had already entered his eyes.

The little boy was indeed only ten years old, and he stood on the top of the cliff without the slightest nervousness. He gazed at the sea below the cliff, moved his wrists and ankles, picked up the black and shiny iron thorn, and took a deep breath and walked to the edge of the cliff.

With a command of "jump", he jumped into the air, and then his whole body was retracted and made a tumbling motion, and then he opened his body, and his arms were put together and downward, like a sharp sword, he rushed to the sea at great speed, without splashing waves, and pierced into the sea with a "whoosh". With the speed and power of jumping from the cliff, he plunged into the sea to a depth of 150 meters into the seabed fault, and then with the help of a body roll, he turned around and swam to the coral reef fifty or sixty meters away. At this time, the three players who jumped at the same time as him were gone.

The boy swam quickly as he turned his head to search for the overlord eel hidden in the coral reef. In the flickering depths of the sea, a faint golden light appeared in his eyes, shining into the surrounding corals, and where the golden light passed, the object suddenly appeared clearly in his eyes.

After searching for nearly 100 meters, he saw a king eel poking its head out of the hole under the gray coral bush in front of him, swaying with the fluttering coral branches. In the dimly lit deep sea, the concealment of this overlord eel's camouflage is really difficult to detect if it is not a master.

However, no matter how disguised this overlord eel was, it still couldn't escape the little boy's eyes, and slowly swam to five meters above the overlord eel, and the black and shiny iron thorns flew out of his hand, and instantly pierced from the gills of the overlord eel, and directly nailed the overlord eel into the coral reef.

The two-meter-long body of the stabbed overlord eel rushed out of the hole where it was hiding, and slammed it on the iron thorn, curling the iron thorn hard, and then trembling violently. The overlord eel shook and rolled, and suddenly danced a wild stream of mud and sand, scaring many fish and shrimp to flee in all directions. The little boy swam by quickly, without pause, pulled up the iron spike, and continued to swim forward with the overlord eel wrapped in the iron spike. His goal wasn't just a bully eel.

After swimming more than seventy or eighty meters, he found another overlord eel more than ten meters ago. When he saw it, the little boy stopped, grabbed the neck of the overlord eel curled on the iron thorn with his fingers and stroked it down, directly straightening the body of the entire overlord eel, and then pulled out the iron thorn, and used the index finger of his left hand to pass through the thorn hole to clasp the overlord eel in his hand, and slowly swam forward. Swimming above the second Eel, he stabbed again, then pulled up the nail on the neck of the Eel, wrapped the iron thorns on the Eel's body, and stepped on the sea water to float up. At this time, he had been under the sea for more than ten minutes.

On the sea under the cliffs of the dock square, the other three players in this group have already surfaced, and they have not hunted the overlord eel, and they swim back to the shore empty-handed.

Seven or eight minutes have passed since the three contestants surfaced, and the little boy has not yet surfaced. The onlookers around the cliff couldn't help but talk about each other. Several seventeen or eighteen-year-old teenagers on the cliff looked at each other, wondering if something was wrong? Do you want to go down to search and rescue?

Just as the onlookers were terrified, the sea burst open, and the little boy emerged from it. After going out to sea, he held an iron spike nailed to a huge overlord eel in his right hand, and the onlookers suddenly screamed excitedly. Immediately afterwards, the little boy's left hand also raised another huge overlord eel.

"Two overlord eels! Two overlord eels!" Suddenly, everyone on the lookers was shocked, even those seventeen or eighteen-year-old teenagers opened their mouths wide and looked at the little boy on the sea in disbelief.

Everyone who participated in the competition knows that it is not easy to hunt a king eel, and it is necessary to hold its breath with the help of a breath before entering the sea; endure the huge pressure of the sea water to dive to a depth of less than 80 meters; if you want to increase the chance of finding the king eel, you must dive deeper; you must not alarm the overlord eel in the process of searching, otherwise the overlord eel will immediately retract back into the coral hole; and when hunting, you must hit it with one hit, otherwise the overlord eel will have no chance to retreat into the hole like lightning. And this ten-year-old boy hunted two huge overlord eels that were more than two meters long in one go, which was really shocking!

"Who is this?" "Whose child is this?" The onlookers couldn't help but ask each other about the little boy.

"Ha, you don't know him, do you? He is the son of the shipwright Zongzhenghu - Zongzheng Xiaobei. An adult who knew the little boy said.

"Yes, it is Zong Zhenghu's son Xiaobei, Zong Zhenghu, who has first-class ship repair skills in Mia Bay, and his wife's name is Wu Qiaoyun, who opened a small medical hall. ”

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Zongzheng is a major surname in the Star Continent, it is not only the imperial surname of the Guduo Empire, but also the most popular surname in the empire, and the surname members are not only throughout the Guduo Empire, but also exist in large numbers in the Zehai Empire, and even the West Night Empire has many people with the surname Zongzheng.

Zongzheng Xiaobei, the son of an ordinary boatsmith in Mia Bay, participated in the "Deep Sea Eel Hunting" competition in Mia Bay for the first time at the age of ten, and refreshed the record of "Deep Sea Eel Hunting" with the results of hunting two huge overlord eels at one time, becoming the "strongest overlord eel fighter", and also becoming the beautiful talk of Mia Bay Harbor City in the days of Poseidon Festival.