Thresher sharks, regardless of whether they are protected animals or not, human lives are more valuable than protected animals, that's a fact.
When a person's life is threatened, let alone the fact that thresher sharks are only protected animals in some countries, even if they are national treasures, it is not a problem for them to be killed by humans as long as their lives are threatened.
Leaf is in this situation. If the thresher shark leaves after attacking the small boat twice, Leaf doesn't want to kill it in a place where she is not good at fighting.
There was nothing Yezi could do. After being attacked twice, and with the thresher shark's third attack imminent, Yezi had no choice but to take action.
One more thing, the thresher shark, no matter what, is also a type of shark, a large carnivorous shark, and an apex predator in the ocean.
The leaves have the ability to kill it. If there is only a thrush on the boat, or if the people on the boat do not have the ability to kill it, then once the boat capsizes, the people on the boat will definitely become food for the thresher shark.
Therefore, the so-called animal protection was just empty talk under the circumstances at the time.
Protecting animals means that humans cannot attack them unless they attack humans first. Even when fishing at sea, once a fish is caught, it must be released back into the wild.
Note that this is on the premise that the protected animals do not actively attack humans.
The thresher shark that Ye Zi encountered not only attacked her small boat on its own initiative, but also twice. Therefore, the laws and regulations protecting animals are just empty words.
Another point is that Ye Zi was in international waters, and no country could prosecute him for killing a thresher shark.
The high seas are unclaimed, and so are the islands on the high seas. Even the small boat that Ye Zi was on was an unclaimed shipwreck.
If a small boat has an owner when someone commits a crime on the high seas, then the country of the boat's owner has the right to try Ye Zi. Unfortunately, the small boat has no owner.
Sitting on the boat, Ye Zi couldn't help but grin as she looked at the thresher shark that occupied half of the boat.
To be honest, when I talked to Dilraba about the sharkskin swimsuit, my main purpose was to reassure her that I was capable of protecting her.
I never imagined I'd actually have the opportunity to make sharkskin swimsuits.
Actually, the main credit for being able to go up against the shark goes to the small boat, because without the small boat, Ye Zi wouldn't have been able to swim so far.
Before the boats were built, the furthest Yezi was from the island was only about 300 meters, at most 500 meters.
Now, it's at least a kilometer away from the island.
Before the boat was available, Ye Zi could get the food he and Reba needed every day within a 500-meter radius, so there was no need to come to such a far place.
The farther you are from land, the greater the chance of encountering large carnivorous fish; this is a law.
There are more than one type of shark that likes to live in shallow waters. Great white sharks also like to live in shallow waters, otherwise there wouldn't be so many incidents of great white sharks injuring people overseas.
Great white sharks not only prefer to live in warm, shallow waters, but they also like to bite any object they find that looks like food, just to see if it's edible.
Whether it's a thresher shark or a great white shark, once they reach adulthood, they are at least the size of an adult human. To say that they pose no threat is simply unbelievable.
After having a good time, Reba's mood improved considerably. Yezi put away the fishing gear that had been tied to the side of the boat and then rowed the small boat back to the island.
After reaching the shore, Reba disembarked first, and then Yezi followed with the shark carcass.
Right there on the beach, the leaves began to decompose the corpse.
First are the fins, which are divided into dorsal fin, pectoral fin, pelvic fin, and caudal fin.
The shark in front of Ye Zi had two dorsal fins, one large and one small, a pair of pectoral fins, and a pair of pelvic fins.
The most unusual thing was the tail fin; apart from the section that was cut off by the leaves, about half a meter of it was still preserved on the body.
To put it bluntly, its tail fin alone accounts for half of its body length.
"This should be a thresher shark. I've seen it online. It likes to live in shallow waters and often appears near islands in international waters."
They usually prey on small fish, so why would they attack our small boat?
The small boat, though not large, was still significantly larger than the thresher shark.
Ye Zi was stunned for a moment after hearing this. She didn't expect Reba to know this kind of shark. If what Reba said was true, the small boat should not be within the hunting range of the thresher shark. So what was its reason for attacking the small boat?
Although for a thresher shark that is three meters long, the small fish it preys on must also be quite large, fish that are only about the length of an arm would meet the standard.
Putting aside the small boat, his and Reba's sizes are not something that these small fish could have.
Ye Zi examined the thresher shark's carcass for a while before saying:
"Is it possible that when it swam under the boat, its long tail bumped into the hull, and it thought the small boat was attacking it, so it fought back?"
Dilraba raised an eyebrow and said:
"This is a misunderstanding?"
Ye Zi smiled indifferently:
"Whether it's a misunderstanding or not doesn't matter anymore. We've already killed it, and we don't have any way to bring it back to life. In order to make its death worthwhile, we can only use its body to make the most of its remaining strength."
As she spoke, she picked up a machete and slashed at the dorsal fin, then cut off the other fins. After washing them in seawater, Ye Zi began to skin the thresher shark.
Ye Zi is very skilled at skinning, but this is her first time skinning sharks, but that doesn't hinder her movements.
An hour later, a complete shark skin appeared in Ye Zi's hand. After washing it on the beach, she packed up the cut-off fins, carried the package in one hand and the shark carcass in the other, and returned to the shelter.
Reba had already laid a layer of palm leaves on the ground, and Ye Zi casually put down what she was holding.
The morning was frightening, but thankfully nothing serious happened.
Now back in the shelter, Reba is more relaxed than ever before; for her, today was a day of life and death.
If her partner hadn't been Ye Zi, she might have been shark food.
However, if it weren't for Ye Zi, she probably wouldn't have gone to such a remote location from the island, and the chances of encountering a thresher shark would have been very small.
"Were you scared?" Ye Zi asked with a smile.
Dilraba nodded and said:
"I was really scared on the boat, but I'm much better now."
"Don't go out to sea these next few days. Get some rest so you don't develop any psychological trauma."
Reba nodded again. She had just experienced a life-or-death crisis. Although Ye Zi had managed to save her, it was still very frightening. Even if you asked Reba to go out to sea, she wouldn't go.
Ye Zi knew about Reba's current situation, so she changed the subject:
"There's so much meat, we can't finish it all. I bet some of it will spoil and we'll have to throw it away. What a waste."
The mention of food immediately energized Reba, who thought for a moment and said:
"Eat first. If you really can't finish it, you can take it to use as bait to catch fish. Wasting food is shameful."
Ye Zi grinned. Sure enough, for a foodie, the mere mention of food would instantly erase all bad moods.
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