Fu Wan mustered her courage and walked over to examine the swordfish.
This swordfish, also known as the arrowfish, is named for its sharp, spiky snout, which accounts for one-third of its total length.
Swordfish are generally robust and long, with adults reaching up to five meters in length and weighing over a thousand kilograms. The swordfish that Fu Wan and her group encountered was probably less than two meters long and weighed several hundred kilograms.
Swordfish have no scales; their skin, like that of dolphins, is completely exposed. However, their skin doesn't feel as smooth as that of an orca. Fu Wan gently touched it—tsk, it's very rough.
Looking at the swordfish's colors, its head and back are a beautiful bluish-purple, with a faint black tinge on its belly, and its fins are also bluish-purple. (Swordfish image from the internet, please delete if infringing copyright) These creatures can be found in waters within China's borders. They can not only float on the surface to hunt, but also dive to depths of five or six hundred meters to chase schools of fish.
It's unclear how the orca calf discovered the swordfish or how it angered it. However, swordfish are known for their extremely volatile tempers. To put it simply, despite looking about the size of a domestic pig, they are actually more irritable than wild boars.
"Ah Wan, watch out!"
Seeing someone approach, the swordfish struggled several times, but its long snout was firmly trapped by the deck, so it could only glare at Fu Wan and the others with its eyes.
Ye Xiaocui quickly pulled Fu Wan aside, as the swordfish's ability to injure people was no joke.
Two brothers from the next village caught a swordfish that was less than a meter long. They wanted to cut off its spines to bleed it and remove the fishy smell, but the swordfish was very fierce and struggled several times. One brother injured his arm and the other injured his thigh. In the end, the swordfish struggled to jump over the railing and escaped!
Ye Xiaocui couldn't help but feel a chill when she thought about what the old women in the village had said about the two brothers' tragic condition and the bloody hole.
Just then, Boss Fu slowed down the boat and walked over to the deck.
"It's almost time to get the internet up, holy crap!"
He had indeed heard the commotion behind him, but he hadn't expected the swordfish to get onto his ship in this way.
His precious ship!
Fu Laoda was heartbroken and couldn't breathe. Besides his wife and children, his most treasured possession was his ship.
Don't underestimate this secondhand boat he acquired; it cost him most of his life savings. He had taken great care of it, afraid of any bumps or knocks, but he never expected that a swordfish would puncture the deck!
As Boss Fu frowned and was about to approach the swordfish, it unexpectedly flicked its tail twice and remained quite ferocious.
Startled, Boss Fu took two steps back, scratched his head, pondered for a moment, and said, "This thing has pierced through the deck. Let's just leave it like this for now and deal with it later."
The nets are about to be hauled in. If we get that swordfish out now, and we can't plug the hole in the deck, what if water gets in and something goes wrong with the boat? How are we going to get back to the dock?
"Awan, go to the internet cafe. Once we're done here, we'll head back."
It was getting late, and he had originally planned to work another night, but since there was a problem with the deck, he had to go back early.
Fortunately, both of their ships had a good haul, and they were able to go back and have a good holiday.
I wonder what the haul will be like. This haul has been going on for two or three hours, and the boat has sailed over a large area of sea. I'm kind of looking forward to it.
The others were equally eager, and Fu Wan and Ye Xiaocui wound the trawl net ropes onto the gears of the net-lifting machine.
With a mechanical sound of gears turning, the trawl net was slowly pulled out of the water, and a large, round net bag rose from the sea onto the deck.
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