Ye Yaodong glanced at the boatmen on the Harvest fishing boat nearby. They were all whispering there, as if they were discussing the scene just now.

He was also regretting that he did not take a camera to take a photo of a group of manta rays flying into the sky. Who would have thought that there would be a group of manta rays?

Originally, the fish couldn't fly in the sky for long. In fact, it was just a leap. It jumped into the water all at once. He was also worried that when he ran into the cabin and searched for the camera, it would be gone when he came out, so he would just look there.

But it's a good thing that I didn't take out the camera, otherwise the waves behind it would be knocked down one by one, and it might be scrapped.

When he looked towards the Harvest, his father also waved a red flag at the other party. Then when they looked over, he shouted to Pei's father: "We're going to launch the net first."

Father Pei also put his hands to his mouth like a trumpet and shouted, "Okay!"

It was inconvenient to communicate across the distance in the middle of the sea, so we could only speak briefly.

Immediately afterwards, the crew on the Harvest began to get busy. When Ye Yaodong saw this, he ran to the cockpit and drove the ship to the side, widening the distance between the two ships.

The fishing nets of their trawl are three to four hundred meters long. They are really close together. If they work together, the fishing nets will become entangled, which will be troublesome.

Several boatmen on the Dongsheng went to the back deck together, worked together to lift the fishing net, and slowly threw it into the sea.

The two cables for dragging the net were both more than 300 meters long. They were originally piled on the sides of the ship. As soon as the net entered the sea, the cables were quickly twitched, like a winding snake, and they all entered the sea in just a few minutes.

After the fishing net was completely lowered into the sea, the mouth of the net opened wider and wider under the influence of the feng shui board. It was a hungry dragon, opening its bloody mouth.

This was the first net officially cast by the Dongsheng out to sea. Father Ye kept watching from the side. Afterwards, he asked the boatmen to change clothes together, took off the wet clothes on his body, ran them through the water and hung them up to dry.

After changing it, Father Ye went to the cockpit.

"Let me do it, you go change clothes..."

"Okay, put as much distance between you and the Harvest as possible. Let's run forward, as long as we can see each other. If we are in front, the Harvest will follow."

"I know, we just need to keep going forward. Lao Pei and the others are also setting up the net there, so they will keep going forward."

Ye Yaodong handed the cockpit to his father and went to the back of the cabin first. The boatmen changed their clothes and ran to the deck. They were all energetic and excited, staring at the sea to see if they could still see manta rays.

Fight with sharks.

Everyone's beds are at the back of the cabin. A wooden board separates the space into beds and storage rooms. Because there is only a one-meter-square hole, Ye Yaodong can only duck in and out with his head lowered.

The bed has two floors, about 1.78 meters long and half a meter wide. When lying on it, you can only sleep with your legs curled up. The bedding is new and there is no dampness or sea smell yet.

Stoves, rice noodles, and large buckets of water were piled up in the storage room. A few nails were driven into the wall, and cooking utensils and miscellaneous items were hung. The space was used as much as possible, and everything seemed messy but orderly.

He opened his suitcase from the stern and just changed into a cotton-padded jacket and trousers. After he finished changing, he took the wet clothes and trousers to the storage bin on the side.

One of the buckets inside was already half full of water, and the ground beside it was wet. It was probably left by the boatmen when they washed it. He also put the clothes in and let the water soak for a while, then took them out and wrung them out, then took them out.

Go out and hang.

The water in the bucket has been reduced by more than half, and Ye Yaodong just left it like this. The water can still be used and cannot be wasted. You have to wash your hands at any time, and you can come in and wash yourself.

Several ropes were pulled outside the cabin, and a pile of clothes that the boatmen had just changed were already hung on them. After Ye Yaodong hung his own clothes up to dry, he called them over to cook.

It was already twelve o'clock at noon, and I needed at least a little after cooking and eating. It happened to be that the fishing nets were lowered into the water now, and they would not be able to get out for more than two hours. I took advantage of this free time and quickly cooked and eaten the rice.

Calling the people over and asking them to take turns cooking, he stood on the deck and squinted his eyes to look into the distance.

"I should buy a telescope..."

The sea was vast and the scenery could not be seen clearly. They were far away from the Harvest, and both parties deliberately kept their distance after lowering their nets into the water.

With this in mind, he returned to the boat and took out his sunglasses to put on first. At least the sun would not be so dazzling. He would go back in two days to see if there was a telescope and buy one. All the necessary equipment would be ready.

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The fishing boats were operating at a slower speed, the bows were tilted up, and there were no waves coming up. The sea looked calm and waveless, but I didn't know if there was a turbulent undertow underneath.

The net must be closed after two and a half hours or three hours. There is nothing to do during the period after the first time the net is put down. If they had not eaten yet, they only came out this morning and everyone was not tired. Otherwise, this period of time would have been

Go back to bed and take a nap to rest.

After all, after the fish arrives, sorting is also a big project, and there will be no time to spare.

Ye Yaodong had been walking leisurely on the deck, looking at the sea around him. Just when he wanted to turn around to see if the meal was ready, he saw two huge objects floating on the sea in front of him.

A big shark bit a manta ray and struggled and twisted to the surface, with splashes of water churning and undulating on the sea surface.

"Oh, I'm going to fight here!"

He looked at the Harvest in the distance again, feeling that he was quite far away from where he was just now, but he didn't expect that both groups had already arrived here.

Ye Yaodong quickly shouted to other boatmen to come over, and instructs one person to ask Ye's father to slow down the boat a little more, and make a few circles around it without going too far.

The remaining people stood on the deck, pointing in the distance.

"Oh, it's so big... It's bigger than the big round table at home, it's two or three meters wide, right?"

"The shark was not small, it should have been three or four meters tall. When his teeth were exposed, he bit the devil fish hard and looked like the devil was about to die."

"After traveling so far, no wonder the fish in the sea are so big..."

The fishing boats kept a distance and just drove around nearby, instead of moving forward directly like before, so everyone could still see them around. Moreover, the sharks and manta rays were constantly fighting, struggling and moving.

"I...can we...can...catch the net...go...go catch...catch?"

"While trawling, the boat keeps moving and cannot stop to cast the net. Let's watch first."

The tools on the boat are all complete. All the tools and things they were accustomed to using on the trawler were brought here, and everything was prepared before going out to sea.

Ye Yaodong asked them to bring over the hand-thrown nets and long sharpened bamboo poles first, as well as the bamboo poles with iron hooks tied to them for later use, just in case they might find something missing later.

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The shark bared its sharp fangs and kept biting the manta ray. The manta ray also swung its tail and slapped the shark from time to time. The two big fish dived to the bottom and surfaced from time to time.

Sharks are one of the top predators in the ocean. Their sharp teeth are their best weapons and can tear almost any prey into pieces.

The tail of the devil fish is poisonous. Their toxins are concentrated in the stinger on the tail. This stinger is triangular. When in danger, the stinger will pierce the stinger into the enemy's body.

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However, this big shark is huge, has rough skin and thick flesh, and its venomous sting can't do anything to it, so the two fish keep getting entangled.

The two fish were fighting hard to separate each other, and the fishing boats were surrounding them and operating at a distance, intending to check the situation first.

In the fierce battle, the manta ray became more and more at a disadvantage, and its struggle became weaker and weaker. Suddenly, a huge manta ray leapt up in the sky in the distance, and like a parabola, it instantly fell to the sea.

Since their fishing boat was far away, there was no disturbance this time.

It's just that the big manta fish that just slipped off suddenly appeared around the two fish that were fighting each other. As soon as it emerged from the water, it slapped them with its huge pectoral fins.

shark.

The two wings of a manta ray are its pectoral fins, which are larger than a kite when spread out. Especially this one, it looks much bigger than the one that was bitten by the shark.

"Holy crap! This one is bigger!"

"Here comes another bigger one!"

"The shark seems to be stunned?"

"There are two against one in the sea..."

Ye Yaodong's eyes widened as he didn't know when he had taken off the sunglasses on his face.

I saw that the big manta ray kept fanning the shark with its pectoral fins, and the shark's mouth was biting another manta ray, unable to free its sharp teeth, and could only be slapped continuously.

Probably stunned by the photo, the shark dragged the manta ray in its mouth and sank directly into the water, disappearing instantly.

"This is gone?"

"No more?"

"Isn't this a waste of time?"

"Must be fighting underwater..."

"There are a lot of fights under the water. Instead of seeing two groups with hundreds of them earlier, they are probably all fighting in groups below."

Just as the Dongsheng was looking for its target and about to move on, a shark emerged from the water again, biting the fin of a manta ray, and it was right next to their fishing boat.

Just when they were alarmed and quickly retreated, the huge manta ray appeared on the surface of the sea again. The shark was probably stunned, and it immediately tore off a large piece of meat, and then dived into the water.

The huge manta ray that emerged also dived into the water.

There was only one manta ray left on the sea surface, which was missing a large piece of its pectoral fin. The blood spread on the sea surface for a while before it faded away without a trace.

The manta ray, which was missing half of its pectoral fin, seemed to have lost its balance. It was swaying precariously on the sea surface with its other pectoral fin, as if it was about to sink into the water at any time, but it was struggling to float.

"Did the big one go after the shark?"

"This will only lead to death!"

"Shall we catch it before it falls?"

Because of its large size, its vitality is relatively strong. It has lost a small part of its pectoral fins, but it can still flutter and does not sink into the water immediately.

But it looks like it won't be long before it sinks to the bottom of the water and becomes food for other fish.

"Fill it, I must fish it. Fortunately, it has floated up to the side of the boat. Although the boat is moving, it is also moving beside it, and it is not far away from us."

The current wind direction means that the fishing boat is moving smoothly with the wind and the current. The manta ray follows the waves and immediately keeps in the same direction as them.

Ye Yaodong held a long bamboo pole with a hook tied to it. "You guys also take one each and try to fish it out. This one is probably about to die."
To be continued...