Chapter 312: The Dragon King of the Deep Sea
The hunting that had not been seen for a long time made Chu Mingcheng's blood boil a little.
He changed into a wetsuit, put on a headlamp, and held a wooden 1-meter-2 ballistic speargun in his hand, and jumped directly into the water when he came to the rear deck.
The reason for wearing a headlamp is that the tuna is at the bottom of more than 200 meters, and the light does not shine at this position, so it will appear very dark.
Chu Mingcheng's pair of naked eyes could not see the dim underwater world clearly.
When his watch turns on the dive mode, he swims straight in the direction of the tuna.
At the bottom of more than 200 meters, the water pressure was not so strong, so he didn't take off his watch.
After a short while, Chu Mingcheng came to the underwater world.
There is no surprise at the bottom of the water, just a patch of sand.
Occasionally, you can see a few underwater plants, which makes the waters not look so inhospitable.
There are not many fish on the bottom of this water, only a few can be seen occasionally, but there are quite a few small spider crabs.
Chu Mingcheng had been zooming in on the map of the bluefin tuna and observing the swimming trajectory of the tuna, so he easily found the two tuna swimming together.
They are preying on small spider crabs, and they are directly biting children.
The shell of the spider crab is proud of can't resist the bite force of the tuna at all, and it can be swallowed in two or three bites, leaving only a few crab legs that fall.
Chu Mingcheng was not interested in this small spider crab, and he had already caught it to increase the experience points of the aquatic illustrated book, so he quickly set his sights on the tuna.
Both bluefin tuna are in their early two metres.
But only one of the body is fatter, and the fat content of the other is estimated to be very average, and the quality is not good at a glance.
Pigs can be killed if they are fat, and they must continue to be raised if they are thin and have a few taels of meat, and the same is true for fish.
Chu Mingcheng loaded the speargun, and then quickly approached the tuna that was hunting.
His size doesn't put the tuna under pressure, as they don't panic at all when they get closer.
It's also true that tuna are the overlords of the oceans themselves, and there are not many marine creatures that can pose a danger to them.
Therefore, human beings, strange creatures, do not give them the emotion of fear.
This also caused the tuna to move unfast, but it was convenient for Chu Mingcheng's hunting.
He got closer and raised his speargun to aim, and decisively pressed the trigger when he reached a distance of about five meters.
The arrow "swished" out, hitting the fat bluefin tuna.
The position of the shot was very good, a little above the pectoral fin, which was considered a serious injury.
The sudden attack immediately scared away another much thinner bluefin tuna, and the speed of that instant burst made Chu Mingcheng breathtaking.
Because he just blinked his eyes, he lost the trace of this tuna, and he couldn't even see the tail.
It's no wonder that when fishing, tuna bursts can pull the line out a few hundred meters in a short time.
However, the bluefin tuna, which was hit by the arrow, was also desperately escaping and struggling, and that strength could directly drag Chu Mingcheng away.
Of course, this is also the result of his lack of too much force, in order to avoid the expansion of the wound and the necrosis of the surrounding fish, which will affect the value of the tuna.
The bluefin tuna was so badly injured that it couldn't get far.
The other bluefin tuna was not Chu Mingcheng's target either, so he just pulled the fishing line and slowly consumed its physical strength.
After only five or six minutes, the tuna slowed down because of the serious injury.
Perhaps it was a lack of breath, and it instinctively began to go upstream.
Seeing that the time had come, Chu Mingcheng swam over to the back of the tuna, took out a diving knife and stabbed it in the head.
The tuna's body shook reflexively, and it struggled to swing its tail and swim as it should.
Chu Mingcheng grabbed the pectoral fin of the fish with one hand and the dagger with the other, and slowly rode the tuna to the middle of the water.
Arriving at this position, the tuna completely lost its strength and was dying and no longer moving.
Therefore, it became Chu Mingcheng dragging the fish to continue swimming to the surface, and then returned to the Poseidon.
From the change of clothes dive to the time the fish was hauled back, it took only seventeen minutes.
Then Chu Mingcheng took the ruler over and measured it, the length was two meters and thirty-two.
After he bled and gutted, the tuna still weighed two hundred and forty-three pounds, which was a very good weight.
Sure enough, for him, fishing and hunting are far more efficient than fishing.
Putting the fish in the refrigerated cabin, Chu Mingcheng took a towel to dry the moisture on his body, and came directly to the wheelhouse without changing his clothes, and began to look for a second hunting spot.
The second hunt was five bigeye tuna, which was exactly the same amount as the customer requested.
But since Chu Mingcheng has chosen fishing and hunting, he will definitely choose the next product.
Of the five bigeye tuna, only two looked fat, weighing more than 270 catties.
Even with the help of the plug-in, it still takes a lot of time for Chu Mingcheng to select nine tuna of good quality.
At eight o'clock in the evening, he finally managed to get his eighth tuna, and there was only one bluefin tuna left.
All the tuna hunted today is only more than 200 catties, not more than 350 catties.
Although the quality is very good, it is obviously a bit reluctant to pay for Wei Jiaguo.
According to the other party's character, only a real Big Mac can satisfy him.
Chu Mingcheng set a small goal to hunt more than five hundred catties.
However, bluefin tuna of this weight are scarce, and even if there is a map plug-in, it depends on luck to come across it.
He has visited almost all the tuna in the current range, and it not only takes a long time to go further afield, but also deviates from the course.
Chu Mingcheng saw that there were also some bluefin tuna on the route in the eastern part of the treasure island, so he simply ended today's hunt, went back to take a bath, and then continued to start the Poseidon and drive east.
called Jiang Luoluo, chatted with Chen Yang and Zhang Wei in the group, and finally studied the information about the shipwreck, and the time came to more than two o'clock in the evening.
At this time, he had already reached the east of the treasure island, and the rest of the journey only had to go all the way north.
Chu Mingcheng found a place with a depth of more than 150 meters, and put down the crab pot and shrimp pot.
The east side of Treasure Island can catch a lot of seafood that he has never seen before, so he will definitely try his luck.
After being busy, stop the boat and turn off the ignition, and go back to sleep.
At eight o'clock in the morning the next day, Chu Mingcheng naturally woke up.
After washing up and eating breakfast, he first activated the Poseidon and collected the crab and shrimp pots.
The crab pots are normal Air Force, and there is no harvest.
The shrimp pot accidentally caught a kind of shrimp that looked delicious, which was the Oriental Crocoon shrimp.
This shrimp is only found on the treasure island in China, but it is not a rare species, and it belongs to the shrimp that deep-sea trawlers often catch.
The number he caught was not much, and the five shrimp pots were only more than 30 catties in total.
picked out a particularly small one, and the remaining Chu Mingcheng deliberately separated a small space from the living water tank and poured these shrimps into it.
Then he used a small fishing net to fish out the fish and shrimp that were lying flat due to lack of oxygen.
The two groupers were not energetic enough and were fished out and put in the refrigerator.
The giant shrimp and the rich shrimp add up to about three catties, and Chu Mingcheng happened to be a little greedy, so he simply took it to the kitchen and began to make raw pickled poison.
The seasoning on his ship is absolutely sufficient, and he often catches a lot of shrimp and crabs when he goes to sea, etc., and he and Jiang Luoluo like it very much, so he prepares the main seasoning for raw pickle, and he is not afraid of expiration anyway.
Put the processed shrimp into the sauce, sprinkle a handful of coriander, and sprinkle a handful of millet spicy, perfect.
Cover the lid, seal the plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator, and wait until noon to eat.
Subsequently, Chu Mingcheng opened the bluefin tuna map as usual, checked the location distribution of the tuna, and prepared to find a fish that met the requirements of Wei Jiaguo.
Soon, he found a suitable target and sailed over.
"Huh~"
Suddenly, there was a soft sigh, indicating his strangeness.
Chu Mingcheng discovered the strangeness of this bluefin tuna from the fish finder.
Generally, the waters where bluefin tuna are active are basically within 300 meters from the surface to the bottom.
Most of the time, they don't go to the bottom to forage for food, and only when they can't find food, they will try their luck at the bottom to see if there are any crab shells to eat.
But at this moment, there is a bluefin tuna moving at the bottom of the water at a depth of 735 meters.
Bluefin tuna can theoretically dive to almost a kilometre of water, but that is only a rare occurrence.
There isn't enough food in the deep sea, and they basically don't go there.
However, this bluefin tuna successfully aroused his interest, the fish can dive so deep, which also shows that its size may be relatively large, and the average small fish do not like to run into the deep sea, and the pressure is unbearable.
After Chu Mingcheng stopped the boat, he immediately went to change into a diving suit and put on a charged headlamp.
Fearing that the water pressure would damage his headlamp, he also brought a flashlight with him for backup.
Of course, he took off his watch, and he couldn't have lost his way with a plug-in map.
After everything was ready, Chu Mingcheng jumped into the water with the speargun, first loaded the speargun on the surface of the water, and then he dived quickly.
At a depth of more than 700 meters, it took him ten minutes to reach the bottom of the water.
He'd been at this depth before, and he'd caught a lot of killer crabs, so he had no problem moving around at all.
Chu Mingcheng first observed the situation around him, the surroundings were pitch black, and only where the light reached could he see the terrain clearly.
The bottom of the water is no different, it just looks more desolate, and even the aquatic plants are much less.
Occasionally, the remains of some marine life can be found, as if they have been buried in the water for a very long time.
Chu Mingcheng zoomed in on the map and glanced at the location of the tuna, and then quickly approached with a speargun.
The tuna didn't seem to be feeding, it was a fast swim, and it took him more than ten minutes to catch up.
When he saw the tuna in front of him, Chu Mingcheng looked stunned, and his heart beat a little faster.
A huge tuna that was definitely more than three meters above him appeared in front of him, and the big torpedo-like body directly illustrated the value of this fish.
This fish is much larger than the bluefin tuna he shot for 700,000 in the magic capital, and it probably weighs more than 700 catties.
This is auctioned in the magic capital, and you can definitely get the title of the fish king of the year!
Her own small coffers are currently less than half a million, and now she can add a new wave of thickness.
Chu Mingcheng held the speargun and swung his legs quickly, and suddenly came to the side of the tuna.
The fish are big, and if they can't hit the deadly places, it will definitely turn into a protracted battle.
He was the only one who went to sea this time, and it was not good for him to be away from the ship for a long time.
So he didn't press the trigger rashly this time, but aimed at the tuna's head for a while, and only pressed it after making sure that he was sure to shoot accurately.
The arrow immediately shot out, and according to his predicted trajectory, it hit the tuna's head and dealt it a fatal blow.
The bluefin tuna in front of you is the absolute overlord of the nearby seas, and even a shark of normal size does not dare to mess with it.
Originally, it didn't care about Chu Mingcheng at all, but it didn't know that it was this small neglect that made it pay the price of its life.
The tuna still broke out with the strength of the ocean overlord under the pain, and Chu Mingcheng was instantly dragged away by it after pulling the fishing line.
A big fish of at least 700 catties, it is difficult for him to stop it in such an environment as underwater, and in order to ensure the value of the fish, he can only wait for it to stop by itself.
The head was pierced, and the tuna clearly could not run far.
It was only after three or four minutes that the tuna stopped, and Chu Mingcheng stepped forward and decisively took out a bloodletting dagger and gave it two more blows, killing it completely.
However, just as he was about to drag the tuna back to the surface, a strange giant head suddenly appeared in the light, which was the size of a football.
His scalp immediately tingled, and the pores of his whole body stood up.
Because the light can't illuminate all the creatures in front of you, it shows that the creatures in front of you are at least ten meters long.
It's just that when this huge creature came closer, Chu Mingcheng suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
He thought he had encountered a huge, dangerous creature that was aggressive, but he only came across a huge Le Clan's hairtail.
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Don't look so big, but it's really not dangerous to him.
It's just that the height of the emperor ribbon fish in front of me is nearly one meter, which is really too exaggerated.
Chu Mingcheng is a pity to shoot directly on the thigh, if there is a deep-sea diving camera that can shoot this royal ribbon fish, then the video he released will definitely be on the hot search, and he will earn a lot of traffic in vain!
This deep-sea dragon king seemed to be just passing by, and he didn't care about Chu Mingcheng and the dead bluefin tuna next to him.
It moves like a giant python, and the fins on its back are constantly fluttering in the water, which is very beautiful, even if he can't see the specific color in such deep waters.
It took more than thirty seconds before it disappeared from Chu Mingcheng's line of sight and headed north.
The fish meat of the emperor ribbon fish is not delicious and has little economic value, and it is too big to preserve, so he has no idea of hunting.
Retracting his gaze, Chu Mingcheng grabbed the fins of the tuna and began to swim in the direction of the Poseidon.
This time it took a long time, a full half an hour to return to the Poseidon, mainly because it was far away when he first started looking for fish.
The bluefin tuna, which was like a large torpedo, weighed an astonishing 753 catties after bloodletting and gutting.
If it hadn't been bled and gutted, this fish might have really exceeded 800 catties, which is no smaller than Atlantic bluefin tuna.
But what Chu Mingcheng didn't know was that this bluefin tuna was only more than seven hundred and twenty catties when his tuna panel was not opened.
The remaining dozens of catties are completely because of the addition of the plug-in and sufficient food, so that it has successfully broken through to the current weight.
The seven hundred and fifty-three catties of bluefin tuna was two hundred and fifty-three catties heavier than he originally planned, and the price was at least hundreds of thousands worse, Chu Mingcheng would be a little worried about whether Wei Jiaguo would want to.
So he immediately took a picture of the tuna and its weight and sent it to him.
"Ah Gong, I was lucky to get a fish king today. This fish is a bit big, do you want it, if you don't want it, I'll catch a smaller one for you. ”
On the other side, Wei Jiaguo, who went fishing with his friends, picked up a bottle of mineral water and took a sip.
Before he could swallow the water in his mouth, the mobile phone he had placed on the fish box rang.
He picked it up and looked at it, and when he saw the photo sent by Chu Mingcheng, the water in his mouth suddenly squirted out.
"Poof~~"
Wei Jiaguo's friend looked at him suspiciously: "Old Wei, what are you doing?" ”
"It's nothing, it's nothing, the mineral water is a little hot."
“???”
Wei Jiaguo didn't explain too much, bluefin tuna is related to face, of course, you can't let friends see it, otherwise there will definitely be one more competitor.
At this moment, he even thought about what car to use to pull the fish when the time came.
"I want this bluefin tuna, no matter what the fat content is, I will collect it at the price of two thousand pounds, what do you think?"
Chu Mingcheng raised his eyebrows after seeing the price, the price of two thousand and one catties, Ah Gong deserves to be a wealthy fishing veteran.
The last auction in the magic capital weighed more than 580 catties, and the average price was only more than 1,200 points.
In terms of quality, it is estimated that there is not much difference between the two fish, if it is also auctioned in the magic capital, the final price of this fish may be in the early 1 millions, even if the king of fish is big enough, it will be 1.2 million at most.
Wei Jiaguo's premium is really a bit excessive, and Chu Mingcheng is embarrassed to agree.
And the white jade still needs his friends to carve it, if he doesn't have his face, if he wants to find a carving master, he will definitely need a high carving fee.
So Chu Mingcheng replied directly: "Ah Gong, one million is enough, but I found a big white jade clams this time, and I want to find your friend to carve it, and I need Ah Gong's help in this regard." ”
In terms of needing help, it is definitely better than twisting and pinching, and it is also more of an appetite for an old man like Wei Jiaguo.
After he saw Chu Mingcheng's reply, his face suddenly became a little interested: "Okay, then Ah Gong will take advantage of you." You take a picture of the white jade clam and give it to me, and I'll send it over to help you ask. ”
Seeing that he agreed, Chu Mingcheng hurriedly went to the cabin, took a picture of the white jade clams wrapped in a quilt to prevent bumps, and sent them to Wei Jiaguo.
When he saw the white jade clams that were almost as wide as a door, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Such a big white jade clam, your kid is really lucky. Anyway, do you sell this white jade clams, Grandpa, I collect it at a high price, and the shortcomings of the home are just good-looking and rare decorations. ”
Sure enough, he took a fancy to him, Chu Mingcheng was not surprised by this, but this time he refused.
"Grandpa, my hometown has been bulldozed and rebuilt, and there are more decorations missing than yours, so you can leave this to me!"
Wei Jiaguo pursed his lips regretfully when he saw this, there is a team of companies specializing in salvage in China.
However, most of the white jade clams are too small, basically only twenty or thirty centimeters wide.
It is indeed rare to have such a large size as Chu Mingcheng, and the integrity preservation is very good, and the value of the collection is very high.
He can't do this thing of stealing people's preferences, so he can only give up with regret.
After the tuna issue was negotiated, Chu Mingcheng could be regarded as having completed a task.
He then followed the route north, heading to the waters near the Yaeyama Islands, catching some deep-sea fish or grouper on the way.
It took two days for Chu Mingcheng to travel from the southeast to the northeast, during which he also encountered some trawlers from the treasure island and fishing boats from other parts of the country.
Obviously, after this year's exercise, there are also fishermen from other provinces who dare to come here to fish.
However, when we came to the location of the boundary between the high seas on the west side of the Yaeyama Islands, the fishing boats could not touch it, and I didn't know what the situation was.
The time when Chu Mingcheng came here happened to be just after eight o'clock in the evening, and night on the high seas was not a good time to dive to find a shipwreck.
He wasn't sure if there would be people from other countries sneaking on the ship at night to rob it, and then people would no longer expect the ship to be driven away.
And the light at night is also very poor, so he doesn't plan to dive big night.
But that didn't stop him from fishing, he hadn't caught any special fish for the first two days, so he could try his luck tonight.
Chu Mingcheng first found a good place to put down the crab pot and shrimp pot as usual, and then came to the water not far from him to fish.
The fish finder showed a school of fish 60 meters below the surface and a school 10 meters above the surface, and it was up to him how to catch it.
No particularly large fish were found from the fish finder, and Chu Mingcheng took out the lure rod he had purchased before.
Since there are schools of fish in the upper reaches of the water, he must catch the upper layer first.
Hanging up the fake bait, Chu Mingcheng shook his hand and gently threw the fake bait out about twenty meters away.
Sink for three seconds, then start reeling and tapping the tip of the rod to keep the lure jumping.
I had to give up the sea fish to catch it, it was really not that difficult, the first rod of the fake bait was only ten meters back, and the tip of the rod sank and the fake bait was swallowed directly.
The difficulty of taking the bait for sea fish is much lower than that of water fish, but Chu Mingcheng still prefers to fish for sea fish.
No, the rod bent into a big bow in an instant, and the pull of the fish is very strong, and the feel is very good, which is not possessed by the fish in the water.
The fishing rod looked overwhelmed, Chu Mingcheng didn't dare to use brute force, and used his skills for the first time in a long time.
Open the noose cup slightly to reduce the pressure on the rod, and then don't rush to reel in the line, but start pulling and walking the fish.
After fishing with a heavy boat rod for a long time, and suddenly changing to this kind of lure rod with moderate hardness, Chu Mingcheng only felt that the fishing rod could detect the movement of the fish very accurately.
When the fish exerts its strength, he pulls it from side to side, making it very uncomfortable.
When the fish rested, he lifted the rod and reeled the line.
It took more than ten minutes, and a fish weighing nearly sixty centimeters and weighing an estimated ten catties was pulled to the side of the boat.
Looking at the black fish, Chu Mingcheng was a little stunned, it was really ugly.
But after all, it was his own fish, and he still caught it with a net.
After putting it on the deck, I looked at it carefully, and after looking at it for a long time, I felt that this black leather knife, that is, the Si's long-fin black boat, was actually not so ugly, but the big black eyes looked a little cute.