Seeing that the two-legged creature they had brought was no longer moving, the larger of the two-legged damselfish became a little anxious.
It swam over and bumped into Fu Wan with its body, staring at her with its two eyes. Before Fu Wan could understand what it meant, she saw the two damselfish swim one after the other to the entrance of the moray eel's hole.
The moray eel is very wary; it can detect a damselfish as soon as it swims by.
It stretched out its head and lunged at the large damselfish, but the damselfish, despite its size, was very agile and dodged to the side, retreating a meter away.
This further enraged the moray eel.
Fu Wan hadn't figured out what was going on at first, but seeing the two damselfish relentlessly provoking the moray eel and luring it out of its hole, she would be a fool not to understand!
These two damselfish are practically geniuses! They even know how to use a diversionary tactic. They're luring the moray eel away so that Fu Wan can go in and pick up the gold bars on the ground!
Fu Wan suddenly realized what was happening, and quickly put down the net in her hand. Watching the eel leave, she quickly swam into the rocky cave and reached out to touch the golden eel on the ground.
Sure enough, the gold bar was exactly the same as the one the damselfish had given her earlier. It seemed that the damselfish had secretly snatched the gold bar from the ground while the eel was away.
There was no time to think about it. Fu Wan picked up the few gold bars scattered on the ground with all her might and stuffed them into her pocket. Just as she finished picking them up and was about to leave, she noticed that there was a wooden box deep inside the rock cave.
The wooden box was only about the size of two palms. Because it had been soaking in the sea for a long time, the wood had aged a bit. Fu Wan touched it lightly, and the contents inside were revealed.
This almost made Fu Wan curse in the ocean.
The box contained neatly stacked gold bars, though not perfectly. There appeared to be two layers of gold bars; the bottom layer had all the bars, but the top layer only had two or three left, lying there haphazardly.
It seems that the gold bars in my pocket came from this box, and they were scattered on the ground because they were accidentally knocked open by a moray eel or other fish.
One of them was even taken by the damselfish.
This is a boon for me, Fu Wan thought, suppressing her excitement, and picked up the wooden box to swim out.
As it turned out, the wood was too fragile. As soon as Fu Wan picked it up, the wooden box fell apart, and all the gold bars fell to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust. Because of the seawater flow and Fu Wan's quick reaction, the dust got into her eyes.
Just then, a sound came from the cave entrance, which startled Fu Wan. When she looked over, she discovered that the moray eel was fighting with four or five damselfish.
Although the moray eel is much larger than the damselfish, these damselfish kept biting its tail and ramming its head, which angered the moray eel so much that it slapped its tail on the ground, knocking the nearby coral reef askew.
She needed to finish quickly, so Fu Wan sped up the gold bars. Since she couldn't fit them all in her pockets, she simply took off the clothes outside her mermaid outfit, piled all the gold bars on the clothes, wrapped them up, tied a knot, and then swam out of the reef cave carrying the clothes.
When the leading damselfish saw that the two-legged creatures had finally emerged, it immediately scattered along with the damselfish beside it.
The exhausted moray eel watched as Fu Wan emerged from her burrow, only then realizing its home had been stolen. Undeterred, it opened its mouth and lunged at Fu Wan.
Fu Wan was not about to let it have its way. She had already taken out a sharp bamboo arrow and stabbed it hard at the head of the sea eel that was reaching out. Fortunately, her aim was still very good in the chaos. Because she used all her strength, she pierced through the sea eel's head and pinned it directly to the sand on the seabed.
The eel curled up in pain, its tail twisted like a pretzel around the bamboo arrow. The sand on the seabed was soft, and it broke free of the bamboo arrow in just a few minutes.
Fu Wan had been bracing herself for another round, but the next second the eel seemed to flee for its life and darted back into the rocky cave.
Good heavens, how could we not run away? These two-legged creatures are really going to kill us!
Seeing that the blood from the eel had stained the seawater red, Fu Wan was afraid that the smell of blood would attract sharks, so she quickly put away the bamboo arrowheads, then picked up the gold bars wrapped in clothes and the net bag containing the little green dragon.
As for the net full of sea urchins, Fu Wan couldn't carry it all, so she dumped the sea urchins aside, threw her clothes into the net, and then quickly swam towards the surface of the sea.
On the beach, Ye Lin was so anxious that he lost all interest in digging for clams and paced back and forth in a panic.
"Why hasn't Awan come back yet? Could it be..."
He felt it was unlucky, so he slapped his own mouth.
"How about we go down to the sea and take a look?"
Fu Ming looked relaxed. "Don't worry, my sister is a great swimmer!"
He had secretly calculated the time it would take Fu Wan to go to sea last time, and it took much longer than this time. In the end, Fu Wan returned unharmed, which shocked him.
"However, a long time has indeed passed."
Fu Ming took out his watch and saw that it was almost 1 a.m.
Just as Fu Ming was getting increasingly anxious, a sound came from the water. When the two looked closely, they saw Fu Wan walking towards the beach, dragging two nets in her hands.
"Ah Wan, you're finally back."
Fu Ming and Ye Lin quickly went up to take the things from Fu Wan's hands. Fu Ming saw that she had taken off the clothes outside the mermaid outfit and even wanted to take off his own clothes to put them on her.
"No need, I'll change my clothes when I get back."
This mermaid robe isn't cold.
Fu Ming then gave up, but then found it strange to see the pile of clothes in her pocket.
"Did something happen at the bottom of the sea?"
Fu Wan didn't want to talk about the gold bars, so she vaguely said, "I encountered a giant eel down there and fought with it."
"What about the conger eel?"
There doesn't look like any eel in these clothes.
Fu Wan was speechless and rolled her eyes at him.
"Do I look like a moray eel?"
"That eel must have weighed fifty or sixty pounds. I'm lucky I wasn't bitten."
Fu Ming then realized how big the sea eel was, and followed behind Fu Wan with a fawning smile.
"Hey, it's my fault. Next time you take me to the sea, I promise I'll get revenge for you."
"That damned conger eel, I'll catch it and dry it into eel jerky!"
Ye Lin was also eager to try, "I want to go into the sea to catch fish too!"
Look at the crayfish my cousin caught; each one is as thick as his arm. They're nothing like the crayfish in the village.
"You should practice diving for another ten years!"
Fu Ming looked smug. Although he was younger than Ye Lin, he had much more diving experience.
Fu Wan looked speechlessly at her two older brothers, both nearing thirty, and the three of them returned home.
As soon as they entered the house, Wangcai rushed out warily, and when it saw that it was Fu Wan and the other two, it wagged its tail and circled around them.
Ye Xiaocui hadn't slept either, and came out of the kitchen. "Awan, I've boiled some water, go wash up first."
Fu Wan responded, but in her heart she was thinking that taking a bath was not the priority; she needed to hide the gold bars first.
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