The mother-of-pearl oyster was tethered to the shallow waters by a net, drawing small pearl oysters from the sea like a magnet.
Jiang Ye took out a sack from his pocket, opened it, and bent down to pick up the pearl oysters.
Once a sack was full, he took it to the ship and poured it into the trading hold for sale.
After picking up three sacks, he had cleared out the small pearl oysters in the dock.
His personal account balance increased to 4,892,000 yuan.
Jiang Ye boarded the ship and entered the captain's cabin. Given his physical condition, fishing was the only way he could earn money. After all, fishing only required clicking on the screen.
As soon as he entered the captain's cabin, an obnoxious voice chimed in:
"Still remember me?"
Jiang Ye retorted irritably, "I'll smack your speaker askew!"
He clicked on the screen and set sail!
The fishing boat started, and the engine room rumbled like a steel behemoth suddenly awakened, letting out a heavy sigh. Moments later, the sound subsided to a hum.
The fishing boat sailed rapidly across the sea, its bow cleaving through the waves.
The weather was excellent today, with only scattered clouds in the sky and very low wind speed.
Jiang Ye stared at the sonar screen, catching schools of fish whenever he encountered them.
The start was very smooth; within five minutes, he encountered two schools of fish and caught both.
He earned 120,000 and 115,000 respectively.
His personal assets rose to 5,127,000 yuan, enough to buy a road printing vehicle.
However, it was still early, so Jiang Ye decided to sail further to catch more fish.
For the next ten minutes, his luck was poor, and he didn't encounter any schools of fish.
Jiang Ye wondered if he had sailed into a fishless zone.
So, he turned the ship and headed in another direction.
As soon as he turned, an egg-sized red spot appeared on the sonar screen!
A large creature was approaching the fishing boat.
Jiang Ye's face turned pale. He immediately opened the door, pushed the six-barreled rapid-fire cannon to the doorway, and aimed it at the deck.
The red spot approached the fishing boat, about to collide!
Jiang Ye decisively clicked on the screen and cast the net!
The fishing net immediately dropped down, decisively covering the giant creature.
Jiang Ye clicked to reel in the net.
However, the net couldn't be reeled in because what it had caught began to move!
The crane and the net-casting machine on the deck let out sharp shrieks, a sign of overload. The power was pushed to its maximum, but the fishing net in the water remained motionless. The creature caught was incredibly strong, capable of resisting the machinery.
The fishing net didn't move, but the boat did.
The entire boat was being dragged eastward.
Jiang Ye panicked. He repeatedly clicked on the screen, pushing the fishing boat's power to its maximum, trying to move westward.
After a brief moment of balance, the boat lost control again and began to move eastward at an angle.
The thing in the water was too strong; it could drag the entire fishing boat.
It was large and fierce, definitely no ordinary creature!
Jiang Ye decisively pushed the six-barreled rapid-fire cannon forward, moved onto the deck, adjusted the gun's aim, and targeted the end of the fishing net.
Without hesitation, he pulled the trigger!
Deafening gunshots erupted, and a meter-long flame spewed from the muzzle. Shell casings rained down on the deck like a storm. The moment he pulled the trigger, twenty bullets entered the water, and the barrel spun three and a half times.
Even though he had used it a few times, Jiang Ye still felt that the firepower of this six-barreled rapid-fire cannon was incredibly fierce.
Hundreds, even thousands, of bullets were fired into the seawater, creating a large spray of water.
Immediately after, the water turned red, and countless amounts of blood spurted out. A strong smell of blood wafted onto the deck.
Jiang Ye fired two full belts of ammunition, unleashing 1200 rounds into the giant creature caught in the fishing net.
The taut fishing net finally loosened, and the creature at the bottom lost its strength.
Jiang Ye returned to the captain's cabin and clicked on the screen to reel in the net.
The crane began to shriek again, pulling the fishing net up inch by inch.
Jiang Ye was on high alert, pushing the six-barreled rapid-fire cannon back to the doorway of the captain's cabin.
Finally, the fishing net rose above the ship's edge, its colossal body momentarily blocking the sunlight. Then, it slid onto the deck with a thud, as if a cannonball had hit the bow.
It was a whale!
Not a small whale a few meters long, nor an ordinary one ten meters long. The whale they had hauled up was thirty-five meters long!
The whale was not completely dead yet. It was bleeding all over and slapping its tail on the deck.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The entire boat was shaking. The water jug on Jiang Ye's captain's cabin table rattled, the commotion so loud it sounded like a warship firing on an enemy vessel.
The deck, made of sturdy steel plates, was being smashed to pieces by the whale's tail.
Jiang Ye stood at the doorway of the captain's cabin, his heart pounding, observing the giant whale that had been hauled aboard.
This was the glowing whale he had seen before. Its entire body was black, its belly white, and its back was covered with blue spots the size of human heads. The spots faintly shimmered. It was on whales like this that the water ghosts rode, rising from the seabed to launch surprise attacks on Jiang Ye's fishing boat.
The whale's back was riddled with bullet holes like a honeycomb. Bright red blood gushed out like an opened dam, quickly flooding the entire deck. This whale had an astonishing amount of blood. After five minutes, the red liquid flowed into the captain's cabin, reaching Jiang Ye's shoes.
With one step, clear footprints appeared in the blood.
The whale finally stopped thrashing its tail and lay quietly on the deck, breathing. Its gasps sounded like a dragon's. It stared at the sky with its large eyes, perhaps contemplating something. With this rate of blood loss, it would be dead in a few more minutes.
Jiang Ye clicked on the screen, intending to move the whale into the cargo hold and sell it.
However, a prompt immediately popped up on the screen:
[Volume too large, cannot enter cargo hold!]
Jiang Ye shrugged. The whale's body was twice as thick as the cargo hold entrance, so it was indeed impossible to fit.
He would have to dissect the whale and sell the meat in pieces.
He turned the boat around and headed back to base.
The fishing boat had become a blood boat, with streaks of red running from the gunwales, down the hull, and into the sea.
The smell of whale blood quickly attracted a large school of sharks, which began following the fishing boat.
The whale was still entangled in the fishing net, making it impossible to fish. Jiang Ye had no choice but to push the engine to its maximum to outrun the shark school.
As the sunset began, the fishing boat docked, entering the harbor bloody.
The wild wolves on the shore were stunned. After a brief moment of bewilderment, they collectively entered the water, swam to the fishing boat, and began licking the bloodstains on the hull with their tongues.
Jiang Ye exited the captain's cabin, wading through the accumulated blood on the deck, and approached the whale.
The whale was completely dead, motionless, and no longer breathing.
Jiang Ye took a blood grenade from his pocket, shoved it into a bullet hole on the giant whale's back, pushing it in forcefully, and finally pulled the pin.
He turned and ran, returning to the captain's cabin.
Bang!
With a muffled explosion, a large opening appeared in the whale's belly, and bloody chunks of meat flew out, splattering against the captain's cabin window and then slowly sliding down, leaving behind red marks like those from a wiped cloth.
With an opening, things became easier.
Jiang Ye disembarked, walked past the blood-licking wolves, returned to the base vehicle, and retrieved his samurai sword.
He had been using this samurai sword for a long time; its blade was no longer as sharp as it was initially, but it remained his most convenient melee weapon.
Besides the samurai sword, Jiang Ye also picked up the ice axe, which he hadn't used in a long time.
He boarded the ship and began the task of dissecting the whale carcass.
Standing beside the whale, Jiang Ye suddenly realized how small humans were. The whale's body was as massive as a hill. Through the exploded opening, he could see the bloody interior, the most conspicuous feature being a heart the size of a small car!