As time ticked by, the big fish that Bai Yu was currently fishing for—a fish whose species was unclear but which was certainly large—tugged at the hearts of many people.
It's not just the few dozen people on the yacht deck; many people in China are also paying attention to them.
Even though it's daytime in China and many netizens are at work, the number of viewers in the live stream room has increased rather than decreased.
From the initial tens of thousands to the current millions, everyone is eager to see when this big fish will be caught.
Even the fishermen changed their minds; they no longer hoped the line would break, but instead looked forward to Bai Yu and the others catching the fish.
After all, they had seen it all over the past few hours; more than a dozen grown men on deck had taken turns trying to catch this big fish, but they just couldn't manage it.
This shows that catching big fish requires not only luck and skill, but also 'strength', and it requires the strength of many people, not just the strength of one person.
Three hours passed, and there was still no movement.
Four hours have passed, and there is still no movement.
Five hours later, viewers in the live stream started complaining: "Could Bai Yu and his crew have fished up the Earth?!"
Six hours have passed, and the number of viewers in the live stream is still increasing, but everyone's attention is no longer on this super-sized fish.
Don't forget that although the fishing rods on deck have been put away, there are still four fishing rods in operation, and the waters they are currently in are rich in resources.
In order to catch more big fish, they released nearly a thousand kilograms of mackerel around the yacht, attracting a large number of giant fish to bite the hook.
That's why, even though Bai Yu and the others didn't make any moves, the number of viewers in their live streams increased instead of decreasing.
After all, other fishing rods are also used for fishing, and every now and then they can catch a few big fish, the largest of which is a 700-pound Atlantic bluefin tuna.
Upon seeing the bluefin tuna, the viewers in the live stream suddenly felt that whether Bai Yu could catch the big fish or not was no longer so important. Having this bluefin tuna was enough, and it was worth watching the live stream for so long.
Especially for those viewers who arrive at the live stream early in the morning and then slack off at work, this 700-pound bluefin tuna is really something.
Moreover, this was a car that weighed over 700 jin after being bled and gutted. If it had been alive, it probably would have weighed over 800 jin.
For a bluefin tuna of this size, especially one that they caught right before their eyes, the viewers in the live stream were truly satisfied.
At the same time, there was also some curiosity: the 700-pound bluefin tuna had already been caught, and it had taken five people—four security guards and Lu Sheng—less than five hours to do so.
There are more than ten people surrounding this big fish in Baiyu, with as many as ten taking turns fishing. They have been fishing for more than six hours now, but they still haven't been able to catch it.
Many people think that Bai Yu is acting from time to time, but upon reflection, Bai Yu has no motive to do so.
After all, he is the number one person in the entire short video field, and his company donates billions of yuan every year. He has no need to do this.
However, if it weren't a performance, it would have taken more than six hours to catch it, and the size of this fish exceeded many people's expectations.
At this moment, Bai Yu was also having a headache, feeling somewhat helpless as he faced the creature that had taken the bait.
After fishing for six hours, if you really ask Bai Yu and the others if they were tired, they were actually not too bad. Apart from their arms being a little sore, they didn't feel anything else.
However, dragging it back was not an easy task. The fish was too big, and the pressure it exerted even with the slightest movement was enough to make Bai Yu and the others feel uncomfortable.
However, it's not easy for you to get rid of this fish. Although the fish is big, it's not beyond the fishing line's capacity, and the line can still hold its own.
Now the situation is awkward: Bai Yu and the others can't catch it, and the fish that have taken the bait can't escape.
Finally, Bai Yu was at his wit's end. He removed his reel from the fishing rod and then called on Wang Haojun and others to work together to drag the reel to the winch on the yacht.
The distance from Bai Yu's fishing spot to the winch was only a dozen meters, but it took Bai Yu and his companions half an hour to walk that distance.
Bai Yu and his group were like they were in a tug-of-war with this giant fish. Bai Yu, Wang Haojun, Wang Hai, Brother Liu, Brother Huang, Li Shuang, and the other two were all in one direction.
The big fish that took the bait was in another direction. Despite having a 7:1 advantage in numbers, Bai Yu and his team still spent half an hour getting the reel caught on the winch.
At this point, Bai Yu was going all out. He wasn't going to waste any more time with the big fish. He planned to use the winch to pull it back.
He refused to believe that no matter how strong this thing was, it could not compare to a machine.
Of course, this kind of operation also has risks, namely whether the white fisherman's fishing line can withstand such a direct confrontation.
After all, the fishing line in the reel has been fully released, and when both sides exert force, it's a fierce struggle, and the game can only end when one side gains the upper hand.
If the fishing line gives way first, then it's all over.
However, this was the only option for Bai Yu. If he didn't use this method, he would have to start the yacht and head towards the location of the big fish.
Using the advantage of their own yacht's movement, they could further exhaust the large fish's stamina.
However, Bai Yu did not intend to use this method, since the yacht he was currently operating was not a small or medium-sized yacht of a few meters or a dozen meters, but a large yacht of more than forty meters.
A yacht of this size consumes a lot of fuel just to start, and even if you do start the yacht, it will take a long time to exhaust the energy of this big fish.
The longer the fishing time, the more fuel is consumed. If, in the end, the fish that bites the hook turns out to be worthless, then all the effort will be wasted, and a lot of fuel will have been wasted as well.
That's why Bai Yu chose to use a winch to reel in the line and directly confront this big fish.
After Bai Hao secured the reel to the winch, he started the winch and began to reel in the line!
As the winch slowly began to turn, the fishing line immediately taut, perfectly straight. No matter how Bai Yu and the others pulled the line down, it didn't budge in the slightest.
This shows that, in addition to the winch operating, the fish that have taken the bait are also swimming to a more distant place at the same time.
However, this guy can only stay in one place. No, staying in one place is not enough. It will be pulled back by the winch round and round.
The winches that Bai Yu equipped on his yacht were the very large kind, since their initial purpose for installing them was to set crab traps, especially in the Bering Sea.
The winch definitely needs to be large; otherwise, if it's too small, it might not be able to tighten the crab trap.
When Bai Yu tied the reel to the winch, he tied it to the outermost ring of the winch. With each rotation of the winch, about two or three meters of fishing line were reeled in.
Two or three meters of fishing line may not seem like much, but after the reel has been cleaned, more than two thousand meters of fishing line have been released. Two or three meters is just a small calamus compared to two thousand meters, not worth mentioning.
But what if it's ten laps, or a hundred laps?
That adds up to a considerable amount. One hundred laps is two or three hundred meters, and at most a thousand laps, and then you can bring it back.
More importantly, as the winch operates, whether it's the winch exerting force or the fish biting the hook exerting force, the fishing line still holds up under the collision of forces.
After tying the reel to the winch, Bai Yu moved closer to the live stream camera and spoke into the recording equipment:
"Brothers, I'm not cheating, it's just that we really can't catch this fish. It's just too big. If you don't play it over, even the slightest movement it makes is too much for us to handle."
As for engaging in a war of attrition with it, that's a bit too slow. If the yacht doesn't move, I estimate it would take at least another ten hours to exhaust its stamina, and that's just a possibility, guys.
So, having no other choice, I had to resort to machinery. I refused to believe that this big fish, no matter how big, could be as powerful as a machine.
As we all saw in the end, the power of machinery prevailed.
Besides, who are we? We are higher beings, we are humans.
The difference between humans and animals is simply the ability to use tools. Is there anything wrong with me using machinery to catch this big fish? Absolutely not! I'm a genius!
Under Bai Yu's twisted logic, he successfully presented his trickery as a legitimate operation, and even shamelessly praised himself at the end.
Whether the guys in the live stream believe it or not is none of Bai Yu's business. Anyway, he really doesn't want to waste any more time with this guy; he sees no hope at all.
As Bai Yu placed the reel onto the winch, even though the winch wasn't running fast and Bai Yu didn't dare to go too fast, he was using the lowest setting to reel in the line.
But as long as the line can be reeled in, it's a good thing for Bai Yu, because he will eventually be able to catch this big fish!
As the fishing line was reeled in again and again, Bai Yu and the others were filled with anticipation; they really wanted to catch this big fish.
Even with a winch, it took nearly an hour to haul back the two-kilometer fishing line.
When the creature was still dozens of meters away from the yacht, Bai Yu and the others had already seen what it looked like: a bluefin tuna, a super large Atlantic bluefin tuna!
Even though this guy is now restrained by the fishing hook and being steadily pulled back by the winch, this bluefin tuna has not given up and is still looking for a way to escape in the ocean.
The fish's unwavering spirit deeply moved the viewers in the live stream, with many even pleading for the bluefin tuna's life, hoping that Bai Yu would spare it.
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Good heavens! Where did this saintly figure come from, making Bai Yu release this bluefin tuna?
I wonder how much effort Bai Yu put in to catch this bluefin tuna? And how much time did it take him from start to finish?
These people are trying to get him to release this big fish just by typing a few words?
Then all his efforts of the previous seven hours, and his shameless use of the winch, were wasted?
Of course, although Bai Yu was dismissive of the netizens' opinions, such as it wasn't easy for this bluefin tuna to grow so big, and that creatures that have lived for so long must have a spirit,
If Bai Yu kills it, he will suffer retribution; if he lets it go, he will be accumulating merit for himself.
However, Bai Yu couldn't say it directly, as that would easily get him criticized. He needed to approach the issue from a different angle to change netizens' minds.
For example, the appetite of bluefin tuna. From birth, this creature's life consists of only two things, or you could say one thing: eating.
A bluefin tuna weighing over 100 pounds needs to eat constantly every day to maintain its vitality, because it needs to swim constantly, which consumes energy, and then it needs to eat.
This thing is like it's trapped in a closed loop, all it does is eat, eat, eat, and it can easily eat a sea fish the same weight as itself every day.
The bluefin tuna that Bai Yu has just caught is definitely over four meters long, judging by its size alone. He has only seen a bluefin tuna of this size once before, and that was a fish that weighed over a thousand kilograms.
Judging by the size of this tuna, it probably eats more than a thousand kilograms of food every day.
So, although Bai Yu killed a bluefin tuna that had grown for decades and finally reached a thousand pounds, he saved countless other marine creatures.
Thinking about it this way, he made an outstanding contribution to the prosperity of the sea!
Regardless of whether Bai Yu's explanation was somewhat flawed, he used it to shut up the netizens and let the winch drag the bluefin tuna over.
Even after the bluefin tuna came to the side of the boat, it still didn't give up.
However, after being dragged for so long, the bluefin tuna had almost no strength left, and it had no chance of escaping.
Because after it approached the yacht, Bai Yu and Li Shuang each grabbed a speargun and waited for it.
Once they found the right moment, the two brothers didn't hesitate at all and pulled the triggers at the same time, firing their spearguns.
With two spearguns striking the bluefin tuna's head, its life was about to end there!
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