Upon seeing this scene, Bai Yu was immediately excited.
What does this sea fish that leaps onto the reef represent?
This is a fantastic start, foreshadowing that Bai Yu and Wang Hai will make a fortune this afternoon!
Bai Yu took three steps at a time, and while the guy was still a little dazed after falling on the rocks, he quickly moved over and slammed him onto the rocks.
The fish that jumped out of the pit was a grouper. Actually, it wasn't very big, only a little over one or two pounds. It was also a pearl grouper, which is one of the less valuable grouper varieties.
This type of grouper is very common; you can find it almost anywhere you go beachcombing or fishing. Because it's so common, its price has remained low.
The low price here refers to its low price among groupers, but if you compare it to other types of sea fish, most sea fish cannot compare to the pearl grouper.
According to what Bai Yu knows about the current market, after several rounds of price increases, the price of pearl grouper has now risen to fifty yuan per catty. This is still the purchase price of the merchants, and the market price will be even higher.
The one Bai Yu caught now, once delivered to his third uncle, can easily fetch several tens of yuan.
The first fish to appear was a grouper, which was undoubtedly a good omen. Bai Yu happily put the grouper into the plastic bucket.
Then he stood at the edge of the rocky pit and looked into it, searching for any seafood that might be inside.
"Brother Fisherman, Brother Fisherman, there are fish, crabs, and conches in the water! And... is that a snake? Brother Fisherman, there's a snake in here, and it's the kind of snake that's really delicious!"
While Bai Yu was searching for prey, Wang Hai was not idle either. He was also looking at the puddle, and as he looked at it, he started to tremble, as if he had seen something that excited him.
"What do you mean sea snake? Ah Hai, I've told you so many times, that's a conger eel, a conger eel! But this conger eel is really fat, it must weigh seven or eight pounds."
Bai Yu looked in the direction Wang Hai was pointing, and then he found a large sea eel covered in spots at the bottom of the pit. The sea eel was curled up, and its overall shape resembled poop.
However, this sea eel was truly enormous. He couldn't see its length yet, but Bai Yu could still discern its thickness; it was as thick as an adult's forearm.
To be honest, Bai Yu wasn't particularly excited when he saw the conger eel again, not because conger eels are worthless.
On the contrary, such large-sized conger eels are very valuable, at least more valuable than the grouper that Bai Yu just caught. Bai Yu wasn't excited because the conger eel was too fierce.
Especially these large wild moray eels, they are incredibly ferocious, and catching them is a real hassle.
Bai Yu and Wang Hai didn't bring a landing net this time when they went out to catch seafood. Even if they did, they wouldn't be able to use it in this rocky pit.
As for trying to catch it in the water, forget about it. The moray eel's teeth are very sharp. If they were to get bitten by it while in the water, a piece of flesh would be gone in one bite, and Bai Yu and his companion could not bear the consequences.
As for killing this guy first?
Let's forget about that then. All we need to know is that live seafood always has a higher value. Dead seafood, regardless of the species, will have its value greatly reduced.
There was more than just this one moray eel in the pool; there were many other seafood as well, including three pearl grouper, each one larger than the last.
However, compared to the moray eel, these three pearl-spotted eels were rather small. These three pearl-spotted eels probably knew how powerful the moray eel was, so they kept their distance from it, one on the west side of the pool and the other three on the east side.
"Holy shit, shut the hell up! Shut up! That giant blue crab is mine! You beast!"
Just as Bai Yu was considering what to do, a large blue crab waddled past the eel in the puddle, its short legs swaying.
It was truly just a simple passing by; the blue crab didn't pause for a moment the entire time, as if it hadn't even noticed the moray eel.
But moray eels don't care about any of that. In their eyes, any marine creature that passes by and is not as big as them is food, and this blue crab is no exception.
Under Bai Yu's watchful eye, the moray eel launched its attack, and with lightning speed, it bit the nearly one-pound blue crab to pieces in one bite.
Yes, you read that right, it was bitten to pieces.
Even if a blue crab has a hard shell, it is as fragile as paper in front of the sharp teeth of a moray eel, and it will break at the slightest touch.
When Bai Yu saw this scene again, he went crazy. Did this eel eat food?
That's all money! This giant blue crab that's been bitten to pieces—if I took it to my third uncle's place, I could easily sell it for a hundred or two hundred yuan. Now look what's happened—it's been eaten by this eel! Eaten!
Seeing that the blue crabs that should have belonged to them were being eaten by the conger eels, the white fishermen couldn't wait any longer. If they waited any longer, who knew how many more seafoods would be ruined by this guy.
All the seafood here, including this eel, belongs to him. Every one he loses means Bai Yu will earn less, and he himself will be the one who suffers the loss.
"Ah Hai, let's fight this guy! Let's scoop water and dry it off!"
The loss of a large blue crab in an instant spurred Bai Yu into a desperate act. He decided to use the simplest and most unpretentious method: to scoop out all the water from the pit and get rid of it.
As for draining it? Impossible, absolutely impossible.
Before, Bai Yu might have had some confidence, but after seeing the blue crab being torn to shreds by this guy, he completely gave up on the idea. He didn't think his meat could be harder than the blue crab's shell.
Since the task was to scoop water, Bai Yu and Wang Hai naturally worked together, and the pearl-spotted fish that had been put into the bucket earlier was also taken out.
Fortunately, there wasn't much water in the pit this time, and Bai Yu and his companion managed to scoop it out in about ten minutes. During this time, they also caught three groupers in the pit and picked up a few conches and scallops.
What surprised Bai Yu the most was that they found four abalones there. If the four abalones hadn't moved while they were scooping water, given how similar their shells were to the rocks, Bai Yu and Bai Yu might not have been able to find them.
Now, the seafood a little further away from the conger eels has been cleaned up by Bai Yu and his companion. Now, only the seafood near the conger eels remains, and there's quite a bit of stuff there too.
Moreover, as the water level in the pit dropped, many small fish could only come close to the moray eel and were swallowed whole.
There's nothing they can do; the moray eel is in the lowest position. When the water level drops in other areas, other fish have no choice but to follow the seawater to its location.
In those ten minutes or so, Bai Yu lost at least several dozen yuan. There was nothing he could do; the prey that should have been his was now in the belly of this eel.
I wonder if we can add some weight to the eel when we sell it, since it has eaten so much food. That way, Bai Yu might be able to recoup some of his losses.
As the seawater in the pit receded, Bai Yu prepared to take action against the eel.
Catching it with bare hands is absolutely out of the question. Bai Yu took out crab tongs from the plastic bucket, preparing to use them to grab the moray eel. As for the target, it was naturally the moray eel's most aggressive part: its head.
Bai Yu took the crab tongs and went down into the rocky pit. He walked straight to the eel and, taking advantage of the eel's momentary lapse in attention, quickly reached out with the crab tongs and then suddenly clamped down, trapping the eel's head.
The moment it was clamped by the crab's claws, the moray eel was both angry and terrified. In that instant, its snake-like body stretched out, exceeding one meter in length, a size that completely surpassed Bai Yu's prediction.
Over a meter long and as thick as an adult's forearm, this thing probably weighs more than ten kilograms.
As the moray eel struggled, Bai Yu immediately felt a tremendous force coming from the crab claws, which tried to make Bai Yu give up the claws by flipping over.
But who is Bai Yu? He is not only a second-level athlete, but also a money-loving person who values money above all else. In his eyes, this eel is not a sea fish, but money, at least several hundred RMB.
Letting go is impossible; it's impossible for me to let go in this lifetime.
In order to completely subdue the moray eel, Bai Yu gripped the crab claws with both hands and lifted it upwards with all his might, raising the giant moray eel into the air.
Once it lost its foothold, it didn't care that the moray eel was twisting into an S-shape in the air.
A few minutes later, the eel gradually lost its strength, and the whole fish hung straight down like a rope.
Upon seeing this, Bai Yu immediately put the seafood into a plastic bucket, then filled the bucket with some seawater. After quickly cleaning up the seafood in the pit, he picked up the bucket and headed back with Wang Hai.
This eel was too big, and it was inconvenient for the two brothers to carry it around while they went beachcombing. They figured they might as well take it to their third uncle to sell it first, and then come back to continue beachcombing.
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