Chapter 357: A Storm at Sea

The current season in the Mozambique Channel is just autumn, and Chu Mingcheng and Jiang Luoluo are hot enough to come all the way from Southeast Asia, which will finally have a cool feeling.

Of course, it's still hot in the morning and evening, and it's still very hot at noon.

No, the Black Yao floated freely on the sea with the waves, and Jiang Luoluo was fiddling with the charcoal grill that Chu Mingcheng had nothing to do and made himself in the middle of the deck.

His charcoal grill has a simple structure, with a metal charcoal brazier underneath and four metal feet underneath to prevent it from burning to the bottom.

The brazier is flanked by crossed metal sticks, which are obviously used to roast suckling pigs and guinea fowl.

Of course, it's no problem to grill a leg of lamb or something.

At this time, Jiang Luoluo had already lit the charcoal, put the roast suckling pig that had been marinated at noon on the rack, and began to roast it slowly.

As for Chu Mingcheng, he would come to the boat with a fishing rod and a small bench in his hand and prepare to fish.

The Mozambique Strait is very rich in sea resources, and the depth here is either very deep, reaching two or three thousand meters.

Either most of the reefs are full of rocks that are not very suitable for trawling, so the resources have been well preserved without being cut off.

Unconsciously, Chu Ming City's Seagod Mode had already moved towards the fourth level.

There is a beautiful daughter-in-law next to her who is busy with dinner, and she is leisurely waiting for the fish to be hooked, which is the ultimate dream of the old fisherman.

At this moment, the rod moved, and the rod was still pumping slightly.

His eyes lit up, it was either a lobster or a squid.

He raised his hand and raised the rod, and the swing was very turning, and in a short time, a lobster of very good color was caught.

This lobster is very small, and one is only a pound.

But it was pink all over, and Chu Mingcheng recognized its origin at a glance.

The South African rose dragon, the actual scientific name is the Mozambican Great Red Dragon.

This lobster is mainly produced on the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, but since its scientific name is the Mozambican Red Dragon, it means that he also has it on this side of the channel.

"Wife, eat lobster at night!"

"Eh, did you catch a lobster?"

Jiang Luoluo put down the roast suckling pig in his hand and came to his side.

Seeing that it was a pink crayfish, he couldn't help but joke: "The fishing old man missed today, who is such a small one for?" ”

"Of course, it's for my own wife!" At this time, Chu Mingcheng would not go to popularize science South Africa The rose dragon itself is so big, and it is a man who has no emotional intelligence and interest to be so real.

"Cut, I'm not rare!" Jiang Luoluo was disgusted, but the smile in her eyes already showed that she was very satisfied with her man's words.

"Catch more, I made a big bottle of garlic sauce, and I made a garlic lobster to eat at night."

"Are they all so meaty, why don't you have some vegetables and fruits?"

"That's definitely there, the roast suckling pig is done, I'll go get a vegetable and fruit salad."

"Okay!" Chu Mingcheng nodded and had no opinion.

The next day will be in South Africa, and they don't need to save vegetables and fruits for the time being.

When it's a long journey from South Africa to Antarctica, you'll have to save a little.

In the end, the garlic lobster that Jiang Luoluo wanted was not realized, and was replaced by a big blue crab that took the initiative to come to the door.

A blue crab and a rose dragon are also okay.

For dinner, Chu Mingcheng ate quite refreshingly.

Jiang Luoluo has now learned his ninth-floor cooking skills and has completely become a kitchen expert.

Ate dinner and cleaned up together.

Jiang Luoluo went back to take a bath, Chu Mingcheng brought two fishing rods, and he had to catch a plate of lobsters today.

It's just that he hasn't put down the anchor to fix the position of the ship, and after eating dinner and cleaning up, the boat doesn't know where it has drifted.

Speechless for a moment, he patted his head, and then ran to the cabin to look at the fish finder.

As luck turned out, the Black Yao didn't deviate very far from the course.

However, the waters where he is currently located are not suitable for lobster fishing, because the depth here has reached more than 230 meters.

Fortunately, there was a lot of fish activity under the water, so he simply returned to the deck and fished for deep-sea fish.

At the bottom of the water at this time, a large fish with a body length of 1.5 meters is swimming slowly.

It has a bit more fins on it, but it swims very slowly.

Everywhere it passes, nearby fish will quickly flee, so that it will not be able to eat fresh meat at all.

But it's not a big problem, because it's not the only one that swims slowly.

After searching around for a while, a mollusk climbing on the reef immediately caught its attention, it was a deep-sea octopus.

Isn't fresh meat coming to the door?

With a flick of its tail, it turned around, and the fluctuating waters immediately caused the nearby fish to flee even further.

The big fish began to swim towards the octopus, and even though it was slow, it was still a little faster than the slowly crawling octopus.

The octopus also senses danger and is trying to find a cave where to hide.

Unfortunately, there are too few reefs in this area to form a place to hide.

At this time, the big fish had arrived, and it opened its mouth, and immediately showed a mouthful of fangs, and then bit the octopus fiercely.

In an instant, the octopus's entire head was bitten, and it spewed out a stream of ink in pain.

However, it was too late now, and the big fish only bit and swallowed a few times, and easily tore its body apart.

After a short while, only some tentacle stumps remained in the messy place, cheapening the small fish nearby.

A large deep-sea octopus can make big fish digest for a long time.

Then, it swam away leisurely.

Just after a short swim, it accidentally spotted a fish.

The speed of the fish is not fast, and it is usually the same food, but it is slightly more difficult to hunt than the octopus.

But this fish is very strange, it somehow stays where it is for most of the day, and then moves upwards at a very slow pace.

But the way it struggles is so delicious, a deep-sea octopus can't get enough, and another fish is not bad.

So it charged at its own food again, and after catching up, it opened its huge mouth and swallowed it directly.

Just after two bites, it felt wrong, why did it hurt so much in its mouth?

Don't talk about it, Chu Mingcheng felt that something was wrong, why did the original little prey suddenly have such a great force?

Fortunately, he expected that he might catch a big fish, and his fishing line and rod were relatively thick, so as long as the fish was not deadlifted, it could be handled.

After pulling the fish, Chu Mingcheng found an important piece of information.

The creature of the underwater bite hook is strong and heavy enough, but it is very slow.

Changed to a tuna of the same size, he would have run more than 200 meters earlier when he put the line like this, but this fish only ran about ten meters.

Now Chu Mingcheng is even more relieved to fish, the fish speed is not fast, indicating that the explosive power is not strong.

Such fish are basically very difficult to run away from, unless the line is broken due to bad luck.

It took more than 40 minutes for this big fish at a depth of more than 200 meters to finally appear on the surface of the sea.

"What a strange fish!" Seeing the appearance of the fish roughly through the light, Chu Mingcheng found that he was very familiar with the appearance of this fish in his mind.

It gives people a very old illusion and looks strange.

The hand continued to exert force, and soon the fish was pulled to the side of the boat.

"It turned out to be a coelacanth!" After getting closer, Chu Mingcheng glanced at it and suddenly became stunned.

He has not seen this ancient fish from the encyclopedia, but when he first checked the nautilus data, because of the living fossils, the data big data of coelacanth was also recommended.

That's why he can recognize it at a glance.

took a group photo, and specially called Jiang Luoluo over and asked her to take a group photo, and finally Chu Mingcheng took the hook out of the fish's mouth with a hook picker and released it.

I don't know how many of this fish there are in the world, and it grows very slowly, so it will not be a scourge.

......

Time passed slowly, and it was already October.

On October 1st, others went out to play, or stayed at home, but Chu Mingcheng and Jiang Luoluo had been floating on the sea for more than a month.

Half a month has passed since the days of replenishment in South Africa, and at that time, Chu Mingcheng in the sea area over there had harvested a lot of unknown seafood, and he had actually upgraded the Seagod mode to level five.

【Poseidon Mode (5/10)】

[Experience: (12/50)]

[Unlock Level: 50%]

[Time limit: 6 hours]

[Cooldown: 1 day]

[Ability: 10 tons of power, 3 seconds of 100 meters on land, 2 seconds of 100 meters in water, night vision. 】

[Diving depth: 3500 meters]

[Note: When the host captures 500 kinds of aquatic products in addition to those already caught, it can fully unlock the Poseidon mode and become a real god of the sea.] For every 50 captures, 10% will be unlocked. 】

At this moment, whether or not he can continue to upgrade this Seagod Mode, Chu Mingcheng no longer cares.

He still prefers to seek out unknown sea creatures.

Now that he can dive to a depth of 3,500 meters, he can be regarded as a real insight.

For example, a few days ago, when he was secretly diving, he found a special crab that lives in a deep-sea crater.

They are covered with white hairs, but these hairs do not grow on their own bodies, but a special fungus, which is the main food of this crab.

Due to the special water quality of the crater, no other organisms can survive.

Crabs evolved into this form because they lacked a food source.

They don't have to look for food, they can pluck a hair at any time when they are hungry.

At night, after Jiang Luoluo fell asleep, when Chu Mingcheng was preparing to dive again, he found that something was wrong with the sea conditions.

There was hardly much wind and waves on the sea, and the calm was terrible.

However, they are in the depths of the sea, and under normal circumstances, the waves and the wind are not small, with an average of six or seven winds per day.

It is said that the calm before the storm is likely to be the case now.

Chu Mingcheng immediately came to the wheelhouse and began to inquire about the weather conditions on the waterway.

Soon, he discovered that a huge storm had formed on the surface of the sea and was extremely widespread.

What's more, the center is right on his course.

"Damn!"

The weather on the sea is changing, and even if he looks at the weather forecast every day, he can't avoid the storm 100%, especially as he gets closer to Antarctica.

But Chu Mingcheng was somewhat mentally prepared, he was able to come here from Southeast Asia all the way calmly, his luck was quite good, and it was normal to travel around the world and encounter big storms.

Now he definitely can't go diving, he needs to deal with it.

The map shows a rough idea of where the storm is moving, and if he is fast enough, he will have a good chance of avoiding the center of the storm if he is heading west, but he will definitely be affected.

Chu Mingcheng immediately raised the sails on the ship, and drove the horsepower of the ship to the maximum, heading west.

No matter how light the wind is, there is still a little bit on the sea, and the speed can be increased a little.

When the storm came, he couldn't hoist the sails.

Three hours later, the Black Yao traveled more than sixty nautical miles, but it still couldn't escape the impact of the storm.

At this time, the waves were not small, and Chu Mingcheng stood on the deck and controlled the direction of the ship, ensuring that he would sail against the waves at every moment.

The waves were already five or six meters high, and every time they hit, the sea would flood the deck, and his body was already soaked.

At first, he was not wet by the waves, but by the rain.

The wind and waves were not so strong, and the sails were still rising, and he had to control them at all times.

But because he was soaked, he didn't lower his sail to go to the wheelhouse, and continued to rely on the growing sea breeze to speed up the Black Yao's movement, and he could also observe the surrounding situation more clearly.

The boat shook so badly that Jiang Luoluo naturally couldn't sleep.

She was in the cab at the moment, keeping an eye on the map for the storm.

At this moment, the Black Yao is like a lonely boat, constantly rising and falling on the sea.

Seeing that the waves and the wind were getting stronger and stronger, she was more and more worried about Chu Mingcheng in her heart, afraid that he would be swept away by the fierce waves.

She picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Ah Cheng, come in quickly, the wind and waves are getting stronger and stronger, and you are too dangerous on the deck." ”

Chu Mingcheng was not afraid of being washed into the sea, but he was afraid that if he was really washed into the sea, the boat would capsize if no one was to control it, causing Jiang Luoluo to be in danger.

And at the moment, the wind and waves are getting bigger and bigger, and obviously this time there is no escape.

So he lowered most of the sails he had gathered and hurried back to the cabin.

It's a pity that he is the only one on the ship who can sail, but if there are a few who can sail, he dares to raise the sails of the storm and use the storm to speed up and escape.

But when there is only one person, the storm sail is difficult to control, so he doesn't try.

I took off all my clothes and pants at the door, picked up the towel at the door, wiped the water on my body, and quickly came to the cab.

Seeing that he was back, Jiang Luoluo breathed a sigh of relief, and after giving up his position, he hurriedly went to wipe his body with the hot water that was prepared.

Chu Mingcheng was engrossed in dealing with this harsh sea condition, but his body was cleaned up by his daughter-in-law, and he also changed into clean clothes, which made him feel much more comfortable.

"Boom~"

"Dada..."

The bow of the ship collided with the waves, which were smashed into pieces, and the scattered droplets of water hit the glass of the wheelhouse like pebbles, making a series of crashing sounds.

However, this was not the case half an hour later, and the Black Yao began to sail against a huge wave of seven or eight meters, or even ten meters.

Every time the waves crashed heavily against the hull of the boat, making one roar after another, the real test came.

The only thing Chu Mingcheng was glad about was that his sailboat was expensive enough and the material was good enough.

If you change to a cheap one, you can shoot it with such a bang, even if it doesn't disintegrate, the hull will definitely have some damage.