The bluefin tuna was bled and the internal organs were removed, and the remaining weight was about the same as Chu Mingcheng expected, and it was indeed only five hundred and eighty-three catties.

Put the fish in the refrigerated compartment, and there are already six large tuna in it.

Judging from the space inside, ten more six-hundred-pound fish can be put down, but this is obviously impossible.

It is normal to find large tuna, most of which are around 15 to 200 catties, and especially large ones are relatively rare.

Chu Mingcheng felt that if he came back next year, there might be more large tuna than this year.

After washing their hands, the two went back to the kitchen to prepare today's lunch.

After eating and resting for a while, Jiang Luoluo went to the dance studio, and Chu Mingcheng came to the cab.

He didn't let the sea lions continue to look for tuna, and he caught a bluefin from them today, even if the rest of the time was in the air force, he wouldn't care.

A fish makes their trip worthwhile, and what is not satisfied.

So he drove the Poseidon and walked the streets on the sea at a very slow speed.

Then, Chu Mingcheng, who was holding a telescope, saw a black spot appear far away on the sea.

He hadn't driven in the direction of the black dot, but the occasional seabird flying from the dot had caught his attention, so she had redirected her to take a look.

When the boat got closer and closer, Chu Mingcheng was stunned to find that the black spot in his eyes turned out to be the corpse of a whale, and it was the sperm whale he had seen.

He found that he had a good relationship with sperm whales, although all he encountered were dead whales.

The carcass of the sperm whale he encountered at the bottom of the sea before had already been unrecognizable, the skeleton was exposed, and it was under the water in Australia, so it was not easy for him to shoot at that time.

But today is different, he can take pictures of the corpse floating on the surface of the sea and share it with friends and netizens.

So he picked up the pager and called: "Lolo, come and see the whales!" ”

In the dance room downstairs, his voice sounded almost at the same time, Jiang Luoluo was stunned for a moment, looking at the whale?

Immediately, she came to the cab with curiosity: "What whale?" ”

"Oh, that's it!" Chu Mingcheng pointed to the corpse that was being eaten by several great white sharks on the water.

It's not uncommon for sharks to attract such a large chunk of meat, and their sharp teeth can pull off a large chunk of meat by biting down.

"(⊙o⊙)..."Jiang Luoluo thought it was a killer whale or something, but he didn't expect it to be a dead sperm whale.

Although it was dead, and there were sharks gnawing at its flesh, it was almost as long as the Poseidon's huge body, and it was really shocking to look at it closely.

Especially when the boat comes to the side, the picture is more intuitive.

"What a documentary in reality!" Jiang Luoluo was not frightened by the appearance of the corpse, but took out the camera with more interest, and then ran to the third floor to shoot.

Chu Mingcheng also followed her, and she didn't find any fish in the afternoon, so it was better to watch the documentary.

"Hey, Ah Cheng, do you think there will be ambergris in the stomach of this sperm whale? That's worth a lot of money! Jiang Luoluo put down the camera after filming for a while and asked curiously.

Chu Mingcheng paused, and then said leisurely: "I don't know if there is ambergris or not, but there is definitely a bunch of stool, what, do you want to see it?" ”

"Damn it, I don't want to see those disgusting things." Jiang Luoluo hammered him twice angrily, but through his answer, she also knew that she was naïve.

However, there are some things that you don't want to watch and don't watch.

The sperm whale's stomach has already been bitten off, and there will be a great white shark biting the rotten meat in its belly.

At that moment, it seemed to bite something, and suddenly a pile of black things erupted.

It went straight from a great white shark to a great black shark, and at the same time the stench was all over the sky.

"Gnea~" Jiang Luoluo naturally saw this scene and almost didn't vomit.

Chu Mingcheng also reacted, and while being speechless, he hurriedly pulled her to the wheelhouse, and then drove the Poseidon to leave quickly.

Fortunately, his boat was a little away from the sperm whale carcass, otherwise he might have been sprayed on his boat just now.

"It's disgusting~" Jiang Luoluo patted his chest with palpitations, causing Yuanyuan to tremble twice in dissatisfaction.

"Don't look disgusting, we may be able to pick up some ambergris this time!"

Chu Mingcheng drove the boat some distance and stopped, but just now he noticed that some accumulated hard lumps appeared in the sperm whale's stomach.

These are the predecessors of ambergris, of course, he still has a very small probability of directly obtaining ambergris, but the quality is definitely not very good.

The real best ambergris has to be exposed to the wind and sun on the sea for dozens or hundreds of years before it can turn into incense.

Jiang Luoluo understood what he meant, and then looked at the filthy sea, and couldn't help but shudder: "Don't forget it, we don't lack money anyway?" ”

"It's okay, I'll take a look when all the dirt is gone. The sperm whale has wax in its belly, which will float on the surface of the sea and will not sink. ”

Although ambergris fresh out of the belly of a whale is of low quality, it is also ambergris.

Chu Mingcheng was actually quite curious, if he scooped it up by himself and put the ambergris in a box with seawater to bask in the sun every day, would he be able to get a medium-quality one after a while.

Provided, of course, that it doesn't stink so much.

After a while, the sea surface returned to its original state.

As for the great white shark, it has long since disappeared, and I don't know if it has been smoked away.

"Luo Luo, you come to drive the boat and help me observe the situation on the surface of the sea by the way, and if there are floating objects, notify me, I will go to the deck first."

"Why don't you get a towel and cover your nose? I would have bought some masks and put them on board for later use. ”

"Masks?" Chu Mingcheng originally planned to hold his breath if there was still a smell after getting closer.

Hearing Jiang Luoluo say this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately looked at her with bad intentions.

"What's your bad idea?" Jiang Luoluo noticed his gaze, and immediately protected his chest with both hands and took a step back.

This man can occasionally become very bad, and after getting along for so long, she already knows it.

If she hadn't found out after handing herself over to him, she would have had to hesitate to fall in love at the beginning.

"If you have any bad ideas, I'll borrow a mask from you." Chu Mingcheng approached with a smile, looking like an old rascal.

"Where do I have a mask?"

"No, you have!"

After a while, a woman's screaming and scolding came from the cab, and her voice was not only angry, but also ashamed.

After a while, Chu Mingcheng covered his nose with a pink mask, and then came to the deck with a smug smile.

He took a deep breath as the boat approached the sperm whale carcass.

Sure enough, this mask is easy to use, not only has a good anti-odor effect, but also has its own milk fragrance.

Jiang Luoluo in the cab was both sad and shy, and he was bullied again today.

But in order to get her mask back quickly, she took the binoculars and hurried to find ambergris.

Then she really found a few pieces of black and yellow material on the sea, so she immediately guided Chu Mingcheng to fish it through the radio.

After a while, the ambergris floating on the sea was all fished up by Chu Mingcheng and placed by him alone in an unused foam box.

The Poseidon left the sperm whale carcass, drove a distance and stopped, and the next moment Jiang Luoluo ran out angrily and snatched the mask that Chu Mingcheng had been pressing on his mouth and nose.

"Perverted!" The coquettish scolding was not threatening at all.

Chu Mingcheng smiled and said, "No way, you have the best use of this." ”

"Shameless!" Jiang Luoluo has no way to take him, who let this be the man he chooses.

She could only drop two more words and return to her dance studio, and she decided to ignore this pit today.

Chu Mingcheng smacked his lips unsatisfied, Yuan Yuan jumped over just now, and he almost reached out to help.

It's just that I finally endured it, sometimes it's too astringent and it will delay things, and there is time at night.

Shaking his head, Chu Mingcheng no longer thought about this, but dragged the box with ambergris to the foredeck, put it at the bow of the boat, and then fixed the foam box with a rope and poured sea water into it.

In the future, this is the exclusive place for ambergris to bask in the sun.

There were four pieces in the box, the big one was the size of a football ball, and the small one was the size of a fist.

The color is not all black, but a combination of black and yellow, this thing has definitely been in the belly of the sperm whale for a while, and it has already begun to change molecules.

As for the smell, it naturally has a little fishy smell, but fortunately, as long as it is not too close, it will not smell the smell.

Chu Mingcheng took out his mobile phone and made a video call to Zhang Wei directly in a letter.

When he picked it up, he turned the camera and pointed at the ambergris in the box: "Ah Wei, guess what this is?" ”

Zhang Wei originally thought that Chu Mingcheng called Xuanyu again, but how did he know that it was a bunch of black, yellow, black and yellow stones?

He looked left and right, and suddenly was shocked: "This can't be a pile of, right?" ”

Chu Mingcheng was stunned, most people saw the stones floating on the sea, shouldn't their first reaction be ambergris?

But Zhang Wei seemed to be right, he had to nod and admit it: "In a way, this is indeed, or." ”

Hearing him admit, Zhang Wei was even more shocked: ", it's only been a few days since you went to sea, and your taste has become so heavy?" Does that one in your family know? Can she stand you eating this? ”

"Get out~ I'm ter." Chu Mingcheng immediately sent out the convexity.

Sure enough, showing off has to find the right person, so he shouldn't have a video call with Zhang Wei.

Fortunately, at this time, Chen Yang came over, looked at the contents of the box, and said in surprise: "This can't be ambergris, right?" ”

"Finally someone knows the goods!" Chu Mingcheng nodded with satisfaction.

Just as he wanted to continue to say something, an extremely beautiful girl paper suddenly broke into the camera, which was a little worse than Jiang Luoluo, but her eyes were watery and looked extremely pure.

Chu Mingcheng immediately changed his words and asked curiously, "Who is this?" ”

"Come, I'll introduce you." Zhang Wei also found the person behind him, and immediately gave up his position, with a slightly sneering introduction, "Zhang Youning, a new member of our store, is from Sichuan Province. ”

Chu Mingcheng raised his eyebrows, and immediately understood what was going on.

Zhang Wei had told him before that he wanted to fool a beautiful woman from Sichuan Province to come over, but he didn't expect it to be such a beautiful beauty, which made him a little surprised.

Normally, a particularly beautiful girl doesn't seem to be interested in looking at the store or something, and I don't know how he fooled it.

However, this had nothing to do with Chu Mingcheng, so he simply said hello and got acquainted.

Then several people chatted around ambergris for a while, and then ended the call.

Then, Chu Mingcheng came to the third floor and observed the situation on the sea with a telescope.

Standing high and looking far away, it was the time of low tide, which really made him discover the reef group that was rising.

It might be a good hunting spot over there, and Chu Mingcheng drove the Poseidon to that side.

Looking through the binoculars, it seems not far away, and by the time we reached the vicinity of the reef, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

Chu Mingcheng looked at the fish finder, and immediately stopped when he found that there were traces of big fish activities under the deep water near the reef.

The water is 283 meters deep, and there is a thick line on the fish finder, but it is not as fast as the tuna, and it barely moves.

Although he didn't understand what kind of fish it was, Chu Mingcheng still quickly came to the stern of the boat, ready to fish.

Attach the fishing rod, take out the bait cage, chop the squid and put it in, hang the pomfret and start fishing.

The depth is nearly 300 meters, and it is not tuna, so Chu Mingcheng did not use mackerel pieces to make a nest, but used the routine of fishing for deep-sea fish.

It's just that after most of the day, the rod didn't move.

Chu Mingcheng wondered if the fish had already run away, so he deliberately went to the cab to take a look at the fish finder.

The big fish was at the bottom of the boat, and if I guessed correctly, it was even near the rod.

He did see a few movements of the fishing rod just now, but no fish took the bait, could it be that the bait was too big for the fish to eat?

Chu Mingcheng was puzzled, and first took the bait back.

The pomfret is already cold due to the water pressure, and its body is still intact, but there are traces of being bitten.

Perhaps it was really as he guessed, the fish's mouth was too small for a whole pomfret to swallow.

So Chu Mingcheng chopped the dead pomfret into pieces, got a piece of fish meat to hang on the hook, and threw it back into the water.

Sure enough, after changing the bait to a smaller one this time, it didn't take long for the fish to take the bait.

Chu Mingcheng hurriedly lifted the fishing rod to stab the fish, and at the same time roughly knew the weight of the fish.

This fish was nowhere near as good as the tuna he had caught before, and even the smallest one he had caught in the past two days was much heavier than the big one.

But there is also a portion, and lifting the rod will still feel a little heavy, perhaps it has something to do with the fish in the deep sea.

Shaking the crumble, the drum wheel rotated and slowly retracted the line, there was not much resistance, and it was much easier than he expected.

This made Chu Mingcheng a little disappointed, it seemed that the fish was not as big as he imagined, or maybe other fish were hooked first.

But the depth of nearly 300 meters was not so fast to pull the fish up, he kept turning the rocking handle, even if he didn't feel much resistance from the fish, it still took him more than ten minutes to pull the fish to the surface.

This fish is white, slender, ugly and has very large eyes, and looks extremely strange.

The body is very long, and it seems to be a hairtail fish, but because it was pulled up from the deep sea, it barely moved and looked dead.

Chu Mingcheng directly grabbed the fishing line and wanted to lift it up.

The hands were raised to the top of their heads, and the lower body of the fish was still on the outside of the side of the boat.

So he grabbed the fish and pulled it up.

This strange fish is soft to the hand, but the skin is rough and a little grainy.

When the whole fish is placed on the deck, it is about three meters long.

At this time, the sea lions approached and thought that it was food they could eat, and immediately wanted to bite.

Chu Mingcheng was startled and hurriedly drove them away.

But then the kittens came over and wanted to bite too.

Chu Mingcheng drove away for a while, but the kitten was not like the sea lion who could understand his words specifically, and came over again after being driven away.

One by one, he carried them into the cabin and closed the door.

Returning to the fish, Chu Mingcheng already knew what kind of fish it was.

Named Ishikawa roughfin fish, this fish looks like a hairtail, but it has nothing to do with hairtail, but it belongs to the order of moonfish just like the emperor hairtail.

It's just that compared to the emperor hairtail, the Ishikawa roughfin fish at least tastes good after steaming.

Chu Mingcheng picked up the fish and weighed it, measured the length, and found that the fish was two meters ninety-two, but the weight was only forty-one catties.

The fish didn't take up much space, so he simply took it into the freezer and froze it next to the bluefin tuna.

Then he went to look at the fish finder again, and found that there was no trace of the big fish at the bottom of the water, and it seemed that the previous thick line was this Ishikawa roughfin fish.

This side is not far from the reef, Chu Mingcheng simply put out the fire and stopped in place.

He went back to the cabin to change into a wetsuit, grabbed a speargun, and prepared to dive to the reef.

Tuna is valuable, but other fish can't be spared either.

Especially in the reef group, it is easy to find some valuable fish hiding here.

Diving into the water, Chu Mingcheng swam in the direction of the reef.

The water quality of the open sea is clear, although it does not reach the level of blue water, but it is not much worse, and you can clearly see the situation from a distance of more than ten meters.

Chu Mingcheng, who had just entered the water, was empty in front of him, and there were no living creatures.

However, when he approached the reef, a large school of mackerel suddenly appeared in front of him, swimming in the current.

There were no large fish hunting them around, so even if Chu Mingcheng approached, they still didn't panic.

However, he was not interested in the mackerel and continued to swim towards the reef.

The bottom of the water, which was originally invisible, appeared in front of him as he gradually got closer.

He had come to an area where the water was only about thirty meters deep, and the sand bed below was full of reefs.

Chu Mingcheng took a breath and dived straight to the bottom with his head down.

When he came to the bottom of the water, he was pleasantly surprised to find that there were some small bulges on the sand bed, and according to his previous experience, there should be crabs hidden in them.

So when he got closer, he immediately reached out and pressed the bulge, and sure enough, not only did he hold down one, but the bulge next to him was also scared out.

Sure enough, it was a pike crab, and he caught one that swam to the surface, and through the sunlight, the crab's legs, heels, and pincers were blue, apparently an orchid crab.

Orchid crab is not much worse than safflower crab, more delicious than ordinary pike crab, and the price is much higher.

Chu Mingcheng bought it in the vegetable market in Xiamen City before, and it cost about 100 catties at that time, depending on the male and female.

However, it is summer, and the male crab has more meat.

The orchid crab in his hand was a little small, Chu Mingcheng released him, and then continued to swim towards the inside of the reef.

Since there are orchid crabs here, the crab pots must be placed here at night.

But what other good things are in there, we have to see.

It's just that when he walked around the reef, he was a little disappointed.

The reef group is not very large, and there are indeed a lot of bulges of orchid crabs, but there are not many other fish, at least he did not find valuable snappers or groupers.

There are only a few small fish and some oyster shellfish on the reef.

Chu Mingcheng had already come to the other side of the reef, and the sand bed at the bottom of the water was sloping down, obviously getting deeper and deeper the further he went.

He looked at the time, it was still early, and simply dived all the way to the bottom to see, hoping to find something.

Ishikawa roughfin fish was found in the waters where the boat was parked, so there might be something good on this side as well.

As the depth became deeper and deeper, and the surrounding environment became darker and darker, Chu Mingcheng took out a flashlight and turned it on, and continued to go down.

Fortunately, he thought that he might be able to dive into deep water, so he deliberately brought a flashlight, otherwise he would have to go back.

Before he knew it, he was at a great depth, and looked at his diving watch, which showed two hundred and twenty-one meters.

However, he was able to dive deeper.

It's just that he saw a few black fish in this water, and he didn't know if it was because of the depth of the water that he couldn't see the color of the fish, or if it was just like that.

Chu Mingcheng stopped, mainly because the fish in front of him had basically reached a length of more than fifty centimeters.

And its eyes are a bit big, and it looks a bit like long-tailed sea bream, but the tail is not that long, and it is not that beautiful.

Out of curiosity, Chu Mingcheng loaded the speargun, then aimed at the fish that could not be distinguished at the bottom of the water for the time being, and chose the largest one and carried it away directly.

The fish that was hit turned around several times under the water, but unfortunately it was the key point that was hit, it struggled for a while and then lost its movement, and was recovered by Chu Mingcheng and hung on the live fish buckle.

The rest of the fish were scared away, but they didn't go far.

Chu Mingcheng continued to swim forward for more than ten meters before he found them again, but this time he didn't hunt again.

He would need to wait until he would come back to the surface and figure out what the fish were before deciding whether to hunt them.

The water pressure at this depth was far from the limit of his body, and it seemed that he could continue to go deeper, so he did not go back.

It wasn't until he continued to dive more than 100 meters and reached a depth of more than 350 meters that he finally reached the bottom.

At the bottom, instead of an imaginary bed of sand, there is this very long trench, estimated to be five or six meters wide.

There are quite a lot of fish living in it, and they are all safe and easy to swim around for the time being.

But it didn't matter, Chu Mingcheng found a group of rice-level big fish, purely from the appearance of the fish he hunted.

Some of these fish are slender and look thinner, while others have round bellies.

If it weren't for Chu Mingcheng's careful observation of their appearance, he would almost have thought that they were two kinds of fish.

(End of chapter)