Fu Wan untied the fish and put it in the net. Just as she was debating whether to take the two fish to the kayak for storage, a dark shadow caught her attention.
This fish is really black!
It was pitch black, and when Fu Wan swam over, she thought it was a black lump of coal.
However, upon seeing the fish's mouth, Fu Wan perked up again.
Haha, long-lost parrotfish!
This fish isn't very big, maybe seven or eight ounces at most.
That's normal, though, because the water here isn't deep, and the fish in the shallow water are much smaller compared to those in the deep sea.
Due to the water pressure in the deep sea, many fish grow in strange shapes. After spotting this black, coal-like creature, Fu Wan picked up her speargun and waited for the right opportunity.
Fishing and hunting, like fishing, require a great deal of patience.
Because not every shot will hit the fish, and the fish won't just obediently come to you.
Therefore, fishing requires constantly searching for target fish and then patiently waiting for the right opportunity.
Humans are enormous creatures to fish and shrimp, and they will instinctively hide when they see humans.
But there's a saying that describes it perfectly: fish only have a seven-second memory. So if you patiently wait in places where fish are bound to pass by, they'll soon swim out of the coral reef again.
That will be the best time for Fu Wan to make her move.
That's exactly what happened. Sensing Fu Wan's approach, the parrotfish quickly hid in the crevices of the coral reef. Fu Wan hadn't even been standing still for two minutes when the fish swam out again.
Fu Wan quickly accepted it. This black parrotfish was quite interesting. Although it looked completely black now, its color would change as it grew.
It's even possible for a female fish to transform into a male, a fascinating change that occurs in many parrotfish.
After placing the parrotfish in the net, the net became quite heavy. Considering that she had just seen two small sharks swim by, Fu Wan decided to float to the surface with the net.
After all, these fish were wounded with harpoons, and the smell of blood oozing from their wounds would attract small sharks. Although she could fight those sharks herself, Fu Wan felt it was unnecessary.
However, before surfacing, since there was still some space in the net, Fu Wan picked up several more water snails and spider snails.
The water snails she picked up from the seabed last time tasted very good, but because she didn't pick them out carefully, some of the snails had tender meat, while others were tough and chewy, like plastic.
Based on her previous experience of eating water snails, Fu Wan also figured out the secret to selecting water snails.
The lighter the conch shell, the better the taste of the water-type conch. Conversely, the heavier conch shell with a rough and blunt foot is too old and not tasty.
Spider snails don't have so many tricks. After completely filling the net with sea snails, Fu Wan swam to the surface. Just then, Ye Lin excitedly floated up with a fish in his hand.
"Ah Wan, look, I caught a fish too!"
Ye Lin excitedly showed the fish in his hand to Fu Wan, who immediately burst into laughter upon seeing it.
"Great, Brother Lin, that's a grouper!"
Ye Lin couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Yes, it's grouper. After Amin told me how to hunt fish, I took a harpoon and went around looking for fish."
Unexpectedly, I stumbled upon a grouper on the coral reef next to me, and I'm not bragging, I speared it without much effort!
Fu Wan gave him a thumbs up, "Awesome, absolutely awesome! Brother Lin, you're simply the chosen fisherman!"
Ye Lin was flattered by the praise. After stuffing the grouper into the fish box on the kayak, he hurriedly dived back into the water.
"I need to go down and catch two more; one isn't enough to eat!"
As soon as he went down, Fu Ming surfaced for air. When he saw Fu Wan, the frustration on Fu Ming's face became even more obvious.
"Ah Wan, teaching your apprentice can starve you! I've only picked up a few sea snails, and Da Linzi has already caught a grouper. This luck is just too much!"
By the way, what kind of fish did you catch?
Fu Wan handed him her net bag to look at, and upon seeing it, Fu Ming became even more withdrawn.
"Liangzi caught two parrotfish, Dalinzi caught a grouper, and you caught so many."
"Hmph, no way! I have to keep going down there to find fish. I refuse to believe it!"
Fu Ming was furious. He immediately threw the conch shell in his hand onto the kayak and dived back down.
Fu Wan shook her head speechlessly. It seemed her previous worries were unnecessary. Judging from Ye Lin's expression just now, he had adapted very well to the sea diving.
However, she wasn't surprised that Ye Lin was able to catch fish, since Ye Lin had been a frequent visitor to the river since he was a child in Qingshan Village.
He has ruined quite a few fish in the river.
When they were kids, he dared to take Fu Wan and the others into the water to catch fish. In the end, they didn't catch any fish, and the kids were soaking wet. When they got back, Ye Lin was even given a beating by Li Chunhua.
After putting all the fish from the net into the fish box, Fu Wan dived down again.
Since everyone else was catching fish and collecting snails, she decided to catch lobsters. It had been a while since she had caught any.
Moreover, he had just made a promise to Chen Balang, so he couldn't slap himself in the face empty-handed later.
Fu Wan changed direction after going into the water this time. She had actually looked around when she was fishing earlier, and there was no sign of lobsters in the coral reefs over there.
Not only lobsters, but I didn't see any mantis shrimp either.
Shrimp are also social animals, so Fu Wan changed direction and decided to search in a different area of the sea.
This time, they swam much further, for about ten minutes, passing through several coral reefs, before Fu Wan finally spotted a lobster that had sensed the movement and quickly hid in a crevice in the rocks.
There was no reason to let it go once she saw it. Fu Wan quickly swam over, then reached into the crevice of the reef while holding onto the nearby rocks.
The lobster wasn't stupid; it desperately tried to shrink back in. Fu Wan fumbled around for a while but couldn't catch it. She looked into the crevice in the reef and couldn't help but laugh.
The rocky cave was actually interconnected, and the lobster kept trying to dodge the outstretched hand, until its tail almost reached the other side of the cave entrance.
Hey, why are you only thinking about the beginning and not the end!
Fu Wan swam to the other side of the rocky cave, and before the lobster could react, she grabbed it.
A series of creaking sounds rang out instantly, and the lobster didn't struggle much before Fu Wan stuffed it into the net bag.
After catching one, she caught a second. Fu Wan dragged her net and began searching among the crevices of the surrounding rocks. Before long, she caught five more small green dragons.
The six little green dragons weighed about ten pounds in total. Seeing that the net was full again, Fu Wan was satisfied and prepared to float to the surface with the net.
Just as she was about to surface, she suddenly felt something wrapped around her legs.
She initially thought it was seaweed or kelp floating in the sea, but when Fu Wan bent down to kick it away, she was so frightened she almost jumped out of her skin.
Good heavens! It was a golden leopard-spotted moray eel wrapping its tail around its leg!
Leopard-print moray eel image (image removed due to copyright infringement)
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