As the clock struck six in the morning, the communication devices on the cameras of all the participating teams' boats started ringing.
Then the cameraman informed all the teams that the competition was over and that all the players who had not caught any fish needed to put away their fishing rods.
Even those who have caught fish need to bring them up as quickly as possible.
After receiving the signal that the competition was over, Bai Yu and his team immediately packed up their lines and prepared to return home, as they hadn't caught any fish yet.
The moment the match ended, the live stream switched to Bai Yu's team, simply because their team was considered a strong contender for the championship.
That alone is enough to make the organizers focus their cameras on their team.
However, Bai Yu and the others were not prepared to cooperate with the cameraman's filming. It wasn't that they were uncooperative, but rather that the four of them, who had just finished fishing all night, were hungry, tired, and sleepy, and simply didn't have the energy to cooperate.
On the way back, Bai Yu took out a bunch of instant food and prepared to eat.
They brought a lot of things like self-heating hot pot, self-heating rice and claypot rice, ready-to-eat braised meat, and noodles.
And then they just blatantly showed off in front of the camera.
What? You're asking where Bai Yu and the others bought all the food they ate?
They weren't bought; Li Shuang and Lu Sheng brought them from their company when they left for Hawaii. These were samples sent by brands that wanted to promote their products through their company.
Then Li Shuang and Lu Sheng took him away to the international stage, where he ate in front of millions of viewers worldwide. This could be considered a form of advertising.
As for what to do when the four of them, Bai Yu, spoke Chinese during the live stream and the foreign viewers couldn't understand them?
These are all minor matters. There are six people on Bai Yu's boat. Besides the two of them, there is Snake and the cameraman. These two are genuine foreigners, and Snake is also a popular online influencer.
The food that Bai Yu and the others ate naturally included a portion for these two as well. They could communicate in English and promote it in the live stream.
In addition to Snake and the cameraman, there were tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of Chinese viewers in the live stream. If some viewers couldn't understand, these viewers would demonstrate what real real-time translation, and multilingual real-time translation at that, is.
In the hour before their return journey, the organizers showed footage of Bai Yu and his three companions eating. They not only ate large portions, but also a wide variety of foods.
Then, an hour later, the live stream camera cut away because Bai Yu and the other three went to sleep.
After not sleeping all night, I need to catch up on some sleep and get my energy back, as I have an awards ceremony to attend when I get back to the dock.
While Bai Yu and his companions were half asleep, they felt the fishing boat beneath them slowly come to a stop.
Although they sensed it, Bai Yu and the other three showed no intention of opening their eyes and continued sleeping instead.
Anyway, while they were sleeping, Bai Yu had already spoken to Snake, asking him to keep an eye on their catch and make sure no one switched it.
Snake understood Bai Yu's distrust of the organizers, since the organizers were from the Greater China region, while Bai Yu and his group were Chinese, and the relationship between the two sides was self-evident.
Take Bai Yu himself as an example. Ever since he achieved a Grand Slam in track and field long-distance running, he has had to undergo multiple doping tests whenever he goes to participate in other competitions. He has gotten used to it.
Snake had studied in China, so he was naturally very knowledgeable about these things, and he looked down on Da Liang's approach.
But there was nothing he could do; he was just an ordinary citizen, and there were some things he could only watch from the sidelines.
However, Snake is absolutely fair and impartial in guarding Bai Yu and the others' spoils, and will not give the organizers any opportunity to engage in underhanded tactics.
The reason is very simple: he has placed a heavy bet on Bai Yu and the others. If Bai Yu and the others win the championship, one championship is worth tens of thousands of US dollars. With two championships plus the bonus for the double championship, he can get a bonus of more than 400,000 US dollars.
With so much money at stake, Snake wouldn't allow anyone to tamper with Bai Yu's catch.
After Snake steered the fishing boat into the harbor, he watched from the deck, making sure no one did anything under his nose.
Although Bai Yu and the others were very sleepy and wanted to sleep a little longer, things didn't go as planned. Around 11 a.m., they were woken up by noise.
The organizers' staff have started counting the number of boats that have returned to the dock, and they will soon begin counting the spoils.
However, it's unclear whether the organizers deliberately kept the audience in suspense or simply wanted to maintain the competition's outcome, but Bai Yu's team was left until the very end to tally the results.
Upon hearing this news, Bai Yu rolled her eyes in annoyance.
If you had known it would be like this, you should have woken them up later. That way, they could have slept for another hour or two.
Unfortunately, Bai Yu and the others had already been woken up and couldn't fall back asleep.
After being woken up, Bai Yu and the other three did not stay idle, but strolled around the dock, looking here and there.
Wherever there are teams participating in this competition, they go wherever there are crowds, because that's where the total results of a certain team are being tallied.
They weren't just wandering around aimlessly; they also reached purchase agreements with several teams, planning to buy some tuna from them to take back after the competition.
Bai Yu and his group were brought to the competition by their uncle, and on their way back, a fishing boat will naturally come to pick them up.
As for whether Bai Yu and his group will return with the fishing boat, it's hard to say for now, but the tuna they caught will definitely be transported back with the fishing boat.
Since it's all about transportation, why not buy some more tuna to take home?
The tuna that Bai Yu would choose must be bluefin tuna, and it must be a bluefin tuna weighing over 200 pounds. He wouldn't even look at other tuna.
As for whether anyone else had the same idea as him and wanted to buy tuna during this purchase process?
There definitely are, and they're even acquaintances of Bai Yu and the others—people from the Little Ben organization.
However, when it comes to bidding, despite Japan's reputation as a developed country and a major seafood-consuming nation, they are actually no match for Bai Yu and his group when it comes to bidding for tuna.
To these people with notebooks, Bai Yu simply said: "If you don't have money, you can fish yourself. Anyway, your population isn't that big, so what you catch yourself shouldn't be enough to eat."
After saying that, Bai Yu didn't care whether the people in the notebook understood or not, and went straight to the next team to wander around.
By the time 163 out of 164 teams had been counted, leaving only Bai Yu's team, they had already purchased over 200 bluefin tuna weighing over 200 pounds each for the competition. The largest of these tuna weighed a whopping 600 pounds and was the current king of fish.
As for how many tuna these 163 teams caught in total, according to statistics, all kinds of tuna were added together, totaling 10,343. On average, each team caught more than 60 tuna in a week.
This is the best result in tuna fishing competitions in recent years, breaking records that hadn't been broken for many years.
The team with the best results had 123 tuna, with a total weight of over 21,000 kilograms.
With the results of 173 teams released, only one team's results—Bai Yu's team's—remain to be tallied.
In an instant, any netizens who were following this event, no matter where they were or if they had internet access and could watch the live broadcast of the competition, immediately turned their attention to Bai Yu and the others.
The same was true at the competition venue; everyone present, whether contestants or organizers, focused their attention on Bai Yu and his group.
In no time, a large number of spectators gathered at the spot where Snake's fishing boat was moored.
Seeing that the tense atmosphere on site had subsided and the popularity of the live broadcast room had increased, the person in charge of the organizer immediately announced that the inventory work would begin.
At the same time, staff members were busy on a fishing boat and a fishing dinghy.
This was the first time I'd seen a team with two ships, and other teams immediately protested.
They believed that Bai Yu and the others had cheated. Wasn't it agreed that each team would only have one ship? Why did the Ocean University F4 end up with two ships?
There are quite a few people who have raised this protest, especially the top-ranked teams, whose protests are very loud, fearing that they will lose their current ranking.
In response to the protests from the competitors, the organizers immediately provided an explanation, stating that the Ocean University F4 competition also took place entirely on a fishing boat.
The reason there were two boats was that during the race, Bai Yu's boat was already full, so they had no choice but to transfer the tuna from the boat to another boat.
Hearing the answer from the organizers, many team members present were stunned. After all, they had been on the sea before, where there was no internet access, so they were completely unaware of Bai Yu and his team's results.
That's why they were a little confused when they saw that Bai Yu and his group had two boats.
The organizer's explanation only added to the confusion, as many of these teams were not first-time participants in the competition. In their view, it was an absurd thing for the catch to fill the hold of a fishing boat that was over ten meters long.
Just half an hour later, these dissenting voices disappeared completely, and not a single word of doubt could be heard.
As for the reason, it's very simple: just look at all those tuna scattered on the ground.
These tuna were not only numerous, but also very large. One of them, a bluefin tuna nearly three meters long, caused a stir among the audience as soon as it appeared.
Especially since this guy was the last to appear, lifted out by a large crane, the difference became even more obvious when he was placed next to the other tuna.
Upon seeing this tuna, the team that had previously caught over 600 pounds of tuna showed a bitter expression on their faces.
They knew that the Fish King's reward had slipped through their fingers!
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