As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up-Chapter 92 - : Upholding Justice

Chapter 92: Chapter 92: Upholding Justice

Fishing and hunting are most feared when encountering turbid sea waters and rough waves.

Fishermen pay attention to the weather and ocean currents, and through Lu Zheqiang’s recommendation, Chu Mingcheng downloaded an app specially designed to discern sea and water conditions.

The underwater ecology of our country’s coastal waters is very poor, with various kinds of pollution and freshwater runoff accompanying flash floods, resulting in a serious siltation of the seabed.

Simply put, other countries have crystal-clear seabeds like what you see now in Xisha.

Whereas the seabed in most of our areas is composed of sand and mud, with marine debris and various impurities visible everywhere when swimming in the water.

In such situations, the speed and volume of ocean currents and the strength of the wind have the most significant impact on the water’s visibility.

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Thanks to Chu Mingcheng’s ease in swimming, his underwater visibility was a bit clearer and further than others.

Even so, when he was diving at Yanmen Island, the furthest he could see was only five or six meters.

When the water was murky, it was only two or three meters, and anything farther was just a blurry shadow.

Of course, that area is mostly yellow muddy water, and speaking of visibility, it is probably much worse than any other place in the country.

When he went fishing in Xia City, the situation was much better.

Today, underwater visibility was like sight on land; he had never seen anything like it. Nearly all the aquatic life hiding within the coral reef couldn’t escape his eyes.

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Schools of coral reef ornamental fish swam in his view, in yellow, blue, speckled, and various other colors.

Too bad they’re pleasing to the eye but not useful; the fish taste bad and the ornamental species are difficult to keep alive and transport ashore.

Chu Mingcheng’s target location was about ten meters deep. The boatman followed behind him, but because he was wearing a life jacket, he was swimming slowly.

Before they reached the target spot, an ornamental fish, yellow in color and probably a Changyu, was gruesomely killed.

From the size of its companions, it was just a child.

Killed out of curiosity, it paused at the entrance of a cave, where the culprit seized and brutally dragged it into the cave to dispose of the evidence.

As a warm-hearted young man of the twenty-first century, Chu Mingcheng could not stand it when criminals targeted children.

Unable to help its parents, he decided to become a superhero for once and avenge the parents who lost their child.

He took a deep breath, stretched the rubber band of the harpoon, aimed it, and plunged into the water, ready to make the murderer surrender.

If it did not surrender, then he would have to make a forceful arrest.

As he approached, the culprit immediately opened its mouth threateningly and tried to shrink back into the cave to flee from its crime.

This could not be allowed to happen. To prevent the culprit from escaping, Chu Mingcheng had no choice but to make a third decision, lifting the harpoon and piercing its neck with an arrow.

Yet, the culprit was tenacious; even after a minute, it stubbornly kept retreating into the cave.

Unable to apprehend it quickly, Chu Mingcheng had to both fight and retreat, unspooling the line to swim back to the surface, letting his teammates know he was safe.

The reel used the special Number 5 eight-braid Dali Ma Line for the harpoon. He gripped the fishing line, hoping to pull the perpetrator out of the water, but it was difficult.

So he had to dive back down to the cave entrance, pulling it out partially while seizing the opportunity to clutch the culprit’s lifeline (neck) with his right hand and drag it out forcibly.

However, Chu Mingcheng underestimated the culprit’s strength; he felt as if he were uprooting a small tree.

Fortunately, after grabbing its neck, he didn’t need to pull as hard as before, fearing the line might break, so with his vigorous pulling and hauling, the culprit was finally dragged out of the cave.

Once out of the cave, it was like a lamb to the slaughter, no longer resisting, and Chu Mingcheng easily led it to the surface.

After reaching the surface, he pulled out a knife to bleed it.

The culprit was a fierce-looking sea eel, covered in fine spots that suggested it was likely a Shu’s pigtooth fish.

The length was about one meter, and the weight was estimated to be around five jin.

Before the sea eel had cooled down, Chu Mingcheng dare not carry it around with him, as it could take a bite at your thigh at any moment.

Using a diving knife to execute the sea eel, he only used a live fish clip to secure it after it was completely dead.

He had wanted to search for the parents who lost their child, but unfortunately, the parents escaped too quickly, and he had to continue swimming towards his destination.

After three or four minutes, Chu Mingcheng arrived at the destination, a coral reef area about ten meters deep.

There were abundant fish resources here, including Stone Bream, parrotfish, and green dress.

The standard for fishing and hunting generally prioritizes high-value, large-sized fish.

Chu Mingcheng first set his sights on a green dress, scientifically known as Shu’s pigtooth fish, named for its distinctive teeth.

The green dress he targeted weighed at least ten jin, a casual encounter one could only have in Xisha.

Chu Mingcheng dived into the water and gently moved his legs, propelling forward swiftly with the help of his fins.

Stopping five meters away from the green dress, he pulled back the rubber band on his fish gun.

This distance did not alert the green dress, and being the optimal range for the fish gun, he lifted the gun, aimed, and waited for the opportunity.

The green dress was unaware of the danger because it had never encountered someone pointing a fish gun at it.

When it turned sideways to face the gun, it did not realize that its life was about to end.

“Bang”

An arrow shot through its chest and abdomen in an instant, and the shock and intense pain made the green dress instinctively seek a hiding place.

There was a coral hole just beneath it, and it desperately swam inside.

Unfortunately, the hole was a bit large and did not offer any place to conceal its shape.

Chu Mingcheng released the fish gun, allowing it to float on its own, and followed the fishing line with both hands to find the green dress.

He soon found the green dress hiding at the bottom of the hole, grabbed the fishing line close, and pulled it out a bit, then, together with the green dress, swam directly upward.

Although the green dress struggled, the barbed pieces on the arrowhead made it impossible to escape.

Upon reaching the surface, he used the diving knife to pierce the green dress’s brain, killing it and bleeding it to ensure the fish meat’s quality as much as possible.

Normally, the fish caught while fishing are killed right away.

Because fish, like humans, accumulate lactic acid in their muscles during intense physical activity or energy expenditure, which occurs when the body’s muscles cannot get enough oxygen to function normally.

As lactic acid builds up, the fish meat will be “burned” or damaged; the more damaged the fish meat, the lower the value of the fish itself.

This is why eating Golden Spearfish immediately after catching them gives a slightly sour taste to the meat, requiring it to be placed in a bucket of ice water for a couple of days to drain the acid.

That was another thousand plus in earnings; coming to Xisha really paid off.

With the green dress and the sea eel hung on him, Chu Mingcheng began searching for his third target.

He would not go after Stone Bream today as there was a good chance of encountering them in other sea areas; he wanted to go after fish that would be harder to find later in Xia City.

During the day, some valuable fish like to hide in concealed parts of the coral reef, which he needed to search for carefully.

Especially some beneath the corals were a sure find, but most of them were not the prey Chu Mingcheng wanted.

Just then, he passed a coral that looked like a Boss Flower, a great hiding spot underneath.

Chu Mingcheng went down and peeked into the crevice below, his eyes widening in shock.