Chapter 465: A red-haired dragon emerges from the deep sea

After reaching the deep sea and casting the nets, the three boats had just started working when they saw a bunch of tattered umbrellas being held up on the sea surface.

"Damn, there are quite a few of these bluefin bream!" a crew member shouted.

The broken umbrella fish is actually a kind of sailfish. It swims very fast, has a spear in its mouth, and the dorsal fin on its back is more messy and tattered than that of ordinary sailfish, making it look like a broken umbrella on the sea, so it is called the broken umbrella fish.

Liang Ziqiang did not approach, and asked the fleet to bypass it and continue forward. The name of the umbrella fish is not unlucky, but it is very destructive. Like the swordfish, it can easily destroy the trawl net. In the case that there is no shortage of fish in the deep sea, it is better to forget it.

The catch in the morning was fairly normal, but in the afternoon, a large number of shrimps with a very strange shape fell out of the net, and everyone on the three boats was excited.

"Sea cicadas! I didn't expect to see so many sea cicadas today!"

It is said that deep-sea crayfish are valuable, but they are nothing compared to sea cicadas, which are worth several times more than the former.

Sea cicadas are also known as cicada shrimps, which is easy to understand. They look very much like a cicada. Unlike the slender and curved bodies of ordinary shrimps, sea cicadas have flat dorsal and ventral bodies, eye sockets, and a short, nearly cylindrical body covered with a hard shell.

This plump shrimp has firm and tender meat, and tastes particularly delicious. It tastes a bit like lobster, but it is much better than lobster. There is a reason why it can be sold at such a high price.

In addition to fish and crabs, there are also a lot of sea cicadas in the net. To be honest, Liang Ziqiang had only heard of sea cicadas before, but he had never seen them. This was his first time to encounter them, and he caught so many of them. His income from this trip to the sea was guaranteed.

Since there were particularly valuable sea cicadas, the fleet anchored in this area for the night. On the second and third days, they towed the boats back and forth several times until no more sea cicadas were found. Then they headed to other seas.

We arrived at a new sea area, and this time we could see a large number of small fish with our naked eyes. Upon closer inspection, we found that they were all herrings.

The price of herring was not very high, but it was still cheaper than the likes of tofu fish and croaker. Considering the large quantity, several boats immediately headed over.

While fishing, Liang Ziqiang suddenly felt dizzy. Ripples in the water formed ribbons, and it seemed that a huge dragon covered with red hair was faintly visible underwater.

However, when he looked again carefully, there was no trace of the big red-haired dragon. Only a few ripples remained, which gradually spread out.

"I just seemed to be carrying something red-haired, did you see it?"

Liang Ziqiang was not sure whether he was dazzled or not. After all, the glimpse was too short and it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"You saw it too? I thought I was the only one seeing things. I just saw a very long dragon!" Li Liang nodded immediately.

"I saw that too, Red-haired Dragon!"

"I think it's about five or six meters long? So, there really are dragons in the deep sea?!"

Several crew members spoke up to confirm, and after confirming with each other, they all looked surprised.

After discussing for a while, the "Red-haired Dragon" was not seen again, so the crew continued to busy themselves with sorting out the catch.

When the trawling operation was finished, another net of fish was dumped on the deck. Liang Ziqiang found that herrings accounted for almost half of the net.

The crew were shoveling through piles of herrings when suddenly someone shouted:

"What is this? Red hair! There is a red hair among the herrings. We were not seeing things just now. A red-haired dragon really appeared!"

All the crew members immediately gathered around to watch. Liang Ziqiang also squatted down and pulled out two long red whiskers from the pile of herrings.

The red beard was actually as long as an adult's arm, which made the crew members wonder.

"Aqiang, why don't we leave now? There are fish and shrimp everywhere, but we can't stay here for too long with a dragon!"

Some crew members have already begun to feel a little frightened.

Liang Ziqiang rubbed the long red beard in his hand, looked at the piles of herrings in front of him, and thought of a possibility.

There is one thing that herring likes to follow the most, but it is definitely not a "red dragon".

Thinking of this, he was basically certain and told everyone:

"Don't be afraid, it won't be a dragon. There are plenty of herrings here, so we don't have to hide. We can continue to haul in herrings tomorrow!"

The fleet anchored in this sea area that night, and continued to catch a lot of herrings the next day.

Surrounded by countless herrings, there was a sudden muffled sound, and a huge mass of fish fell where the fish were being sorted.

The crew members instinctively jumped aside and exclaimed:

"Dragon? Did we really catch a dragon?!"

But at the same time, two or three older crew members took a closer look and recognized him:

"Isn't this a cutlassfish? Damn, who has ever seen such a big cutlassfish? I'm afraid it must be a spirit, it even has a crown of fish!"

Liang Ziqiang pushed aside the noisy crowd and walked closer to take a look.

Among the many herrings, there was a huge silver ribbon-shaped fish, which was not completely straight at the moment, but was irregularly bent, and it was precisely because of this that it could be put into the net. Otherwise, given its length, the net might not be that long.

The dorsal fin of the huge silver ribbon fish was all red, like horse mane; the fins on its head became filamentous strands, like a crown, which is why the crew exclaimed "a crown has grown"; the pelvic fins also became strange filaments, like drooping hatbands.

After seeing the full picture of the fish, Liang Ziqiang is now completely sure of his guess from yesterday.

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"This isn't a real cutlassfish, right? It looks like an oarfish!" Zhou Hui and Li Liang said after looking carefully.

"That's right, it's an oarfish. If it hadn't been dead, it would probably not have been caught in the trawl net!" Liang Ziqiang concluded.

"I heard from the old fishermen in the village that when the oarfish appears, it seems that there will be a big earthquake! If you don't believe me, let's ask Uncle Defu!" When a crew member heard that it was an oarfish, he couldn't help but worry and ran to the cabin to ask Liang's father.

It was almost noon and the boat had temporarily dropped anchor. Liang's father walked out of the cab and was shocked to see such a big oarfish. His eyebrows were twisted together and he looked a little worried.

"A Qiang, the oarfish doesn't show up easily. Once it shows up, there will be an undersea earthquake. That's what the older generations said! This is not a joke, why don't you just go back to the shore as soon as possible?!" Liang's father persuaded A Qiang.

The claim that oarfish predicts earthquakes is not groundless.

There have indeed been a few times when oarfish were spotted on the coast, and a few days later, an earthquake occurred, even triggering a tsunami of a certain size.

But the real reason behind this had already been explained in detail by Liang Ziqiang in a column in later generations.

It is said that before an earthquake occurs, a large amount of carbon monoxide gas is released on the seabed, forcing large deep-sea fish including oarfish to swim towards shallow seas and shores in panic.

This is obviously different from the current situation.

"Dad, this is the deep sea! Oarfish usually stay in the deep sea, so it's normal for us to encounter them. If the oarfish suddenly stopped staying in the deep sea and ran to the shore, then there might be an earthquake!"

Liang Ziqiang felt that his explanation was clear enough, but it failed to dispel the concerns of everyone on the boat.

"It was in the deep sea, but why did it die for no reason? Could it be because of an earthquake?" the two new crew members worriedly asked.

"This is not simple. Look, isn't there a wound on his body? Oarfish are very ferocious and love to kill each other. He must have bitten himself to death!"

Liang Ziqiang speculated again.

After hearing what he said, the crew members seemed to understand and didn't say anything else, but he could see that the worry on several crew members' faces had not disappeared.

People are all afraid of death, let alone in such a deep sea where there is no sky above and no ground below.

Liang Ziqiang was not 100% sure about the oarfish's appearance. After thinking about it, he decided to return tomorrow according to the original plan. So, he decided to return to shore one day in advance.

Anyway, with so many sea cicadas in the past two days, the overall income from this overseas trip is not bad.

(End of this chapter)