Chapter 198 Good Deeds Are Rewarded
The movement on Zhang Ze's side finally attracted the attention of Jin Sanbao on the opposite side.
"Oh my god, Aze, did you catch another big fish?"
Faced with the other party's shouting, Zhang Ze had no intention of answering at all. All his attention was on the fish, so he didn't have the extra energy to reply.
Jin Fan patted Jin Sanbao on the shoulder and said, "Aze doesn't have time to answer you. He probably caught a really big fish. Let's not disturb him."
Jin Sanbao nodded, his face full of envy: "Sometimes you have to accept your fate. In terms of luck, among all the people we know, Aze has the best luck. He gets a Big Mac from time to time."
"In all these years in our fishing village, who has been able to catch big fish regularly?"
Chen Xudong sneered at the words: "It's quite common. It's incredible if there are two or three over 1.5 meters in a year!"
Jin Fan shook his head: "That depends on the location. Fishermen in our village and nearby villages all cast their nets near the estuary or the coast. How can they find so many big fish?"
"Only in these far seas can you find so many big fish. There's no comparison."
This made the two people next to him nodded in agreement.
Half an hour passed quickly, and Zhang Ze still didn't see any trace of the fish, which meant it was still very far away.
During this time, he took down the fishing rod and tried to force the fish closer. It worked, but the fish's endurance was unprecedentedly good. The two sides were deadlocked for more than ten minutes. Finally, Zhang Ze could not stand it anymore and had to put the fishing rod back on the base and continue to reel the fish in slowly.
Apparently his plan to catch the fish in a short time failed.
After drinking the spiritual spring, coupled with the physical aura that continued to improve his physical fitness, he didn't even realize how strong he was now.
Then a big fish made him realize the reality. Even though his physical fitness may have reached the top level among humans, he still had to have awe.
He couldn't do anything to the fish in a short period of time, but if he spent some time, the fish would not be able to be Zhang Ze's opponent.
It was not until half past twelve in the morning that he finally saw the movement of the fish.
"convex (艹皿艹)"
After seeing the true face of the big fish, Zhang Ze cursed directly.
So he worked very hard and finally caught a dolphin that was nearly three meters long, and it was pink and white.
"Alas~"
Even though dolphins are not protected at present, Zhang Ze can't do it!
Moreover, he had never seen anyone in the fishing village eating dolphins. The internal organs of these creatures are poisonous, and they may also save people who fall into the water. Therefore, the people he came into contact with were relatively friendly to dolphins.
Now the fishhook is stuck in the dolphin's mouth, and Zhang Ze can use scissors to cut the fishing line and release it.
However, the dolphin had been overturned by him at this time, so he picked up the fishing rod from the base and dragged it to the stern of the boat.
There is no light here, so the people on the other side can't see clearly what's going on with him here.
Zhang Ze pulled the dolphin to the stern of the boat, then squatted down and touched the dolphin.
In an instant, the dolphins on the water disappeared and appeared in the space.
[Successfully caught a Chinese white dolphin, weighing 565.83 catties, experience +150. ]
Wow, it weighs more than 550 kilograms, no wonder it is so difficult to fish.
If it were an ordinary person, it would probably take four or five hours to catch this dolphin.
But the experience points given are a lot. An ordinary white dolphin gives 150 experience points. If it is a king of fish, wouldn’t it be 15,000?
Zhang Ze, who was originally a little disappointed with his dolphin fishing, suddenly became excited.
At least he has fished for dolphins now. If he has a chance in the future, he should try fishing for whales. Who knows how many experience points a whale can give! "Aze, what did you catch?" Jin Sanbao on the other side had been paying attention to the situation on his side. When he saw him walking towards the stern of the boat, he knew that the fish had been pulled to the side of the boat.
"The dolphin has been released." Zhang Ze stood up and replied, and then his mind moved, and the dolphin that had just been stored in the space appeared at the stern of the ship.
The dolphin, which had been exhausted, has now recovered its vitality. Except for a small wound on its mouth caused by a fishhook, there is no other problem.
After the dolphin appeared at the stern of the boat, it did not leave immediately. Instead, it stood up and opened its mouth towards him, as if saying something.
It was the first time that Zhang Ze put a creature with a relatively high IQ into the space, and he didn't know what mental changes it would undergo after entering the space.
He was a little surprised to see the dolphin's mouth opening and closing.
He originally thought that the dolphin would run away immediately after it was released. After all, the experience it just had would probably be unforgettable for it.
Now not only is he not running away, but he's begging for food from him?
Looking at the mouth opening and closing constantly, Zhang Ze could only think so.
"Okay, I'll give you two fish as my apology. Eat them and leave now!"
His natural liking for dolphins made him take out two large yellow croakers that he had just caught that night, each weighing a little over a pound.
Yellow croaker is one of the dolphin's diets and it is also its favorite food, so it is just the right amount to feed it.
Zhang Ze stretched out his hand and threw it, and the dolphin raised its head and easily caught the yellow croaker. Then it shook its head again, and the one-pound yellow croaker was directly swallowed into its stomach, just like Zhu Bajie eating the ginseng fruit.
He then threw another one over, and after seeing the dolphin eat it, he waved his hand and told it to leave: "Go away, go away. Just eat two to satisfy your craving. I can't afford to feed you."
Every dolphin is a foodie. A 550-pound dolphin can eat about 20 pounds of fish a day. If it were converted into a large yellow croaker, it would cost eight yuan, which is really unaffordable to feed.
The dolphin seemed to understand what he meant. It nodded, turned and left, and soon disappeared from his sight.
After wasting nearly three hours, Zhang Ze did not hesitate, started the fishing boat, and then went to reel in the longline.
When he passed by Jin Sanbao's boat, he stopped for a moment, then came out and said, "You guys should hurry up and collect the nets! If you work hard, you can continue fishing tomorrow morning and sleep in the afternoon."
"The fish bite is good in the morning, but not in the afternoon, so we have to arrange our time reasonably."
The few people who were planning to fish all night thought about it and felt that it was a good idea, so they put away their fishing rods and set out on the boat to collect the fishing nets.
Zhang Ze first came to the farthest longline, which is the deep-sea longline, to see what deep-sea fish catch there is today.
However, unlike in the past when the first line would catch a fish, today for some reason I didn’t find any fish after pulling in more than ten lines.
This situation made him feel uneasy. Would the catch tonight be bad? Logically speaking, it wouldn't be. He had found the location of the fish school based on the fish finder and then cast the longline.
Moreover, the baits hung on the longline are ordinary baits, which have a 30% chance of being hooked. In theory, this is much better than having to find a place to place the longline by yourself before.
He continued to collect a few more strands, and when he pulled up another line and felt the heavy weight in his hand, Zhang Ze finally smiled.
My goodness, you didn’t even come here, but now you come with a big one!
The weight in my hand is not light. I estimate that the fish at the bottom of the water weighs about 10 to 20 kilograms. I hope it is a grouper.
Just as I pulled, a silver-white ribbon appeared under the light of the water.
Huh? It looks like a large cutlassfish, more than 1.5 meters long. Could it be a king cutlassfish? If you are a little less lucky, it could be an oarfish.
But as the distance got closer, when he saw the red fins that looked like a killer, Zhang Ze showed a disappointed expression. It was not a king oarfish!
At the same time, this was not an oarfish, but an Ishikawa roughfin fish.
Zhang Ze knew this fish. He had even had the good fortune to see a fellow angler catch one when he went out to sea in his previous life.
Although it is rarely seen on the market and is rare, it is not considered a valuable fish.
In later generations, it’s okay for internet celebrities to shoot short videos, but nowadays, no one knows if they can sell them.
Maybe because of curiosity, some bosses may be willing to buy it.
Zhang Ze pulled the fish up and felt its weight, which should be about 40 to 50 kilograms.
Unfortunately, the fish was dead and he couldn't put it into the space, which made him feel even worse.
"It seems that today's luck is not very good!"
Throwing the fish aside, Zhang Ze continued to pull the longline.
After four lines were used up, a fish finally came.
A long-tailed sea bream weighing more than three kilograms gave him some comfort, and his harvests continued to increase.
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Soon, after the two longlines were collected, Zhang Ze obtained more than 220 deep-sea fish, most of which were deep-sea stonefish, so the total weight was only more than 500 kilograms, which was less than before.
Fortunately, deep-sea fish are of high value, but unfortunately the longline was left for too long this time, and one-fifth of the fish were already dead, causing him to lose a lot of experience points.
This also made Zhang Ze more and more clear that the best time to reel in the rope is about four hours.
Then he sailed to another location to cast a longline, which was used to catch deep-sea fish at a depth of one hundred meters.
Zhang Ze felt the weight of the first line as soon as he pulled it up, and finally got off to a good start.
Soon afterwards, a bright silver blade appeared on the water surface.
Zhang Ze was a little surprised. He didn't expect there would be a cutlassfish.
This is the yellow-eyed hairtail produced in the South China Sea. Different from the Zhoushan hairtail, although it is much larger in size, the taste is much worse.
Zhoushan hairtail can be sold for more than 40 cents in Wenshui City, but it is only 2.2 cents in Nanfang, a price difference of nearly half.
But it doesn’t matter to Zhang Ze at all, because this fish is more than one meter long, and its average weight is two or three times that of Zhoushan hairtail.
This means that the price he sells it for is not less than that of Zhoushan hairtail, or even more.
If the quality is not good, make up for it with weight!
Then the second sub-line was pulled up, and unexpectedly, it was another yellow-eyed cutlassfish that was more than one meter long. Moreover, these cutlassfish were still alive. Although their vitality was very poor and they were almost dying, they could be collected into the space.
Zhang Ze didn't even need to take the fishhook out of their mouths full of sharp teeth. The hairtail was taken in with just a thought.
Xiao Hei, who was lying next to him and not sleeping, was no longer surprised and didn't even lift his eyelids.
After collecting one longline, Zhang Ze looked around the space and found that he had caught a total of 377 cutlassfish, weighing 516 kilograms, and no other fish.
Obviously there is a school of cuttlefish here. In front of the ferocious cuttlefish, other small fish dare not approach at all.
Although yellow-eye cutlassfish are big, their weight is just average. Most of them weigh just over one kilogram, but one-third weigh two or three kilograms.
The largest one was almost two meters long and weighed seven kilograms. It was a king fish.
It’s a pity that the experience value is very low, only three hundred.
Folding up the second longline next to it, perhaps because of its location, there are fewer hairtails here, but other deep-sea fish have appeared to make up for the number, and the total value is actually a little higher.
So far, the harvest from the four deep-sea longlines is quite good. Finally, Zhang Ze drove the boat to the vicinity of the Gemini Islands. His longlines were dropped opposite the reef area on one side of the Gemini Islands, at a water depth of more than 50 meters.
There are more coral fish and grouper in this location.
The winch started and the longline slowly emerged from the water.
Zhang Ze pulled up the first sub-line, and it was not bad. He could hear the sound of a fish struggling on the fishing line.
When it was pulled to the surface, a large black sea bream weighing three or four pounds appeared.
"Black porgy, neither good nor bad, I feel this harvest will not be bad." All along, if Zhang Ze's first fish was very precious and rare, then the harvests afterwards would be just average.
If the first sub-line is not of good quality, the subsequent harvests will be mediocre.
If a common fish comes on the first sub-line, there is a certain chance of a big catch.
Although it sounds a bit metaphysical, after casting longlines so many times, he did find such a pattern.
Therefore, Zhang Ze was looking forward to the next harvest.
Ten catties of big blue grouper, five catties of large stone clam, and six catties of rat grouper. Zhang Ze collected these precious fish one after another, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly unconsciously.
There is indeed some trick to this metaphysics thing.
At this moment, when Zhang Ze pulled up the sub-line, he found it was unusually heavy.
As soon as the fish moved under the water, he decisively let go of it without wearing gloves. If he didn't let go, it would be serious if he cut it.
Zhang Ze quickly put on his gloves and grabbed the sub-line again.
It is still very heavy, and it is obvious that the fish is still struggling to swim. If it is not pulled up quickly, several nearby sub-lines may become tangled.
Zhang Ze looked at the slowly turning winch next to him and stopped it decisively.
This is just an ordinary fishing line, not made in space. If it is tied to a winch and pulled hard, the line may break and the fish hook may be straightened.
So he had to stop the winch and pull the fish out by himself.
It’s a pity that it wasn’t a deep-sea longline as thick as that one, otherwise Zhang Ze would have directly pulled it up with a winch.
The thick longline can be used to pull up large tuna steadily even if they are caught, without having to worry about it breaking.
Zhang Ze pulled the sub-line and tried to pull with the fish. Compared with a fishing rod, the hand line is a tug-of-war between a person and a fish face to face.
Under normal circumstances, human strength is not as strong as that of large fish, but this big fish had already exhausted itself when it was hooked.
It has been hanging for a long time and is currently very short of oxygen, so Zhang Ze feels heavy, purely because of its weight. In fact, the big fish at the bottom of the water basically didn't struggle, just flapping its wings occasionally.
Zhang Ze pulled the fishing line and quickly understood the current condition of the big fish, so he began to use both hands to pull the big fish towards the water surface little by little.
In waters dozens of meters deep, it is not easy to pull up a big fish that may weigh more than two hundred kilograms.
Moreover, when the water reaches a certain depth, there will be negative buoyancy, which means that Zhang Ze needs to pull up a weight of more than 200 kilograms by himself.
But after reaching more than fifteen meters, the buoyancy of the sea water began to emerge, and it became easier and easier for him to pull.
(End of this chapter)
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