Chapter 95: The big fish that was dragged ashore

Did it work? I was very nervous because this kind of underwater roar is mostly used on the soul, and I didn’t know if a fish had a soul.

My master once told me that all things in the world have spirits, but this spirit does not necessarily refer to a complete soul. Or, to put it another way, their numbers will accumulate into a powerful spirit, just as thousands of fish of the same species will accumulate into a powerful fish spirit… and so on. After all, the topic of animal spirits and plant spirits is still a subject of study for Taoists and even Western spiritualists.

One fact that can slightly prove this view is that if a person kills too many creatures (except for the profession of a butcher, not because of the killing instinct itself), he will suffer a certain retribution! In other words, it is against the will of heaven and earth. From a professional point of view, the dead creatures have formed a powerful spirit, and they will naturally come to settle the score!

Therefore, my nervousness comes from this. A single fish, in my understanding, does not have a complete soul. How can my soul-shaking technique work?

My thoughts were all mixed up in my head, and at the same time, the water ripples from the image of the roar were silently spreading. The fish was still struggling violently before, but after the ripples passed, it suddenly became motionless!

It worked? I still couldn’t believe it, but Johnny had already climbed out of the fish’s belly and turned onto its back. He picked up his dagger, which was gleaming with cold light, and plunged it into the giant catfish’s eye!

The catfish was suddenly alerted by the violent attack and began to struggle violently again, but it was already too late. The key was not the fish eye, but the blade that had pierced its brain through the fish eye. Johnny had a fierce spirit and even stirred the dagger a few times before pulling it out!

“Go!” Johnny made a gesture to me, and then quickly swam up with me.

The life force of that crazy catfish was terrifyingly tenacious. As I and Volmar rose to the surface, it was still struggling violently, churning up the water and completely mixing up the bottom of the pond, giving me the illusion that I was in the middle of a muddy swamp!

I was afraid that the catfish would go crazy, and I think Johnny was thinking the same thing. We were racing to the surface, and what should have been a short time seemed like an eternity to us.

With a loud splash, Johnny and I finally broke through the water. Before we could say anything to the worried faces on the shore, Johnny and I paddled as hard as we could toward the shore until we climbed onto the rocky beach and were completely out of the water.

Chengxin pulled me up, and Chengqing pulled up Wal-Mart. We finally made it to the rocky beach, and after releasing the oxygen tubes, we both fell on a huge rock with a loud thud, panting like big dogs after a summer run!

I don’t want to describe myself like this, but the reality is that fighting with big fish underwater is not a pleasant experience. Their strength is beyond your imagination. Just like people who fish for the first time always have the illusion that they have caught a big fish, but when they pull it up, it’s just so! The resistance of the water, coupled with the strength of the fish!

“What the hell happened? Could it be that you really got into trouble with that group of overdeveloped catfish?” Xiao Chengqian had already taken off his wetsuit and put on his casual clothes. He didn’t even bother to wipe his wet hair and started teasing us.

“I don’t think so. How could they have survived? These fish look more fierce than Bengal tigers.” Walma looked scared, and judging by the way he looked at the people around him, he had probably already described in vivid detail what he had seen at the bottom of the lake.

I gasped, rolled over, squinted, and looked up at the sky and said, “Obviously we can’t mess with a group of overdeveloped catfish, but somehow we got involved with one, and Johnny and I killed it.”

Johnny had already sat up and was yelling for Walmar to bring some wine to warm up his body. After hearing what I said, he laughed happily and said, “Yes, we killed it, a real polluted guy!”

“You’re lying!” Volmar handed Johnny a bottle of tequila and cut two slices of lemon for him, but he also briefly expressed his thoughts.

But as soon as he finished speaking, a ripple appeared on the water’s surface, and a huge grayish-white belly surfaced. The first person to notice it couldn’t help but exclaim! She hadn’t been in the water and hadn’t seen these big guys, so seeing such a big fish belly completely stunned her!

“Holy shit! It’s real!” At this point, Xiao Da Shao didn’t care about asking anything else, picked up a big spear gun that Johnny had prepared, rushed to the water’s edge, and then fired the spear gun, hitting the fish and trying to pull it to the shore.

Johnny laughed happily, then took off his gloves, grabbed a slice of lemon that Wal-Mart had prepared, took a big sip of the tequila in his hand, and then threw the lemon slice into his mouth. He didn’t spit it out until the lemon slice was dry, and then he sighed in great comfort.

“You try it?” Johnny handed me the tequila in his hand and said, “This is a spirit made from cactus. The correct way to drink it is to mix it with a little salt, pour it on the back of your hand, lick it before drinking it, and then eat a piece of fresh, sour lemon. It’s very enjoyable.”

“So complicated?” I took the drink and hesitated whether to try to suck dry a piece of extremely sour lemon, but Johnny squinted and said, “Where is it complicated? This way of drinking allows you to experience the five flavors of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty, just like life, isn’t it? You will love it! Although I don’t think it can replace the position of white wine in my heart.”

After a struggle with Johnny, I needed to relax, and naturally I thought of wine. I was talking about unimportant things about wine over there, but Wal-Mart overheard me and couldn’t help but give me and Johnny a look and said, “There are lemon slices. I’m so fucking considerate, and you still want salt? Lick the rocks yourself. I heard that there is also salt in the rocks.”

Johnny and I laughed heartily. The feeling of having escaped death made us not want to argue with Wal-Mart. Under the rocky beach, Xiao Chengqian was yelling for Chengxin to help him drag the silver carp. He was having a hard time doing it alone!

The huge silver carp we caught finally shocked the numb villagers. When we asked them to help us dispose of the carcass by burning it, many of them expressed shock and an indescribable, suppressed anger, because Wal-Mart had already been advertising that the silver carp was the killer.

Johnny and I stood aside and watched quietly as everything unfolded. Brother Chengxin stood next to us and asked Johnny, “Since the water is so dangerous, why didn’t you take the spear gun down earlier?”

“In fact, I didn’t know there was such a group of silver carp underwater. In my mind, I thought there were more giant silver carp in Vietnam and Africa, but I didn’t expect that the Ganges River also harbored such creatures. Moreover, I didn’t know what kind of creature would mutate, and how it would change. What if it was a crab? In short, in my mind, I wanted to investigate first, but I didn’t expect to hit the mark directly. Johnny said helplessly, “Yeah, if we had known about this situation earlier, we would have been safer with a spear gun.

I didn’t say anything, but instead I squatted down, took out a cigarette and lit it. The warm spring sunshine made me feel warm, and the contrast with the cold water made me feel very sleepy.

On the other side, the huge catfish had already been cut into pieces. The large pieces of fish meat looked no different from the ordinary giant silver carp, but I could not forget the slightly reddish eyes and the purple stripes I saw under the water.

After it was dragged ashore, we naturally took a good look at it. Although it was not obvious, all of us saw the purple stripes.

“This is the secret of catfish eating people,” Johnny commented.

But I still couldn’t understand the meaning behind this sentence. At this moment, Volma was already snoring and yelling because the villagers were emptying the fish’s stomach and found some creatures in it, such as water snakes, a dog, and even a rabbit. Who knows how it got this food? No wonder Volma was yelling!

“There’s no one in the fish’s stomach, so why are you yelling? Do you believe I’ll beat you up?!” Chengzhen had long been impatient with Walma’s fussing, and finally showed her “manly character”! But Walma pouted in a way that made her feel wronged, saying, “My mother is in New Delhi. You can’t be my mother. This is disrespectful.”

Chengzhen sighed in silence, and with great effort, suppressed the urge to beat Wal-Mart. He sighed, and I guess he also realized the loneliness of Hui Gen and Xiao Chengqian.

However, a casual remark from Chengzhen aroused Johnny’s interest. He called a villager and asked, “Has anyone died in the village since the sacrifice?”

“No, no one wants to be on the river where the river god has been angry, including the children. We don’t even fish here. Burials in the water are done elsewhere. It’s not auspicious here, the priest said. Only occasionally do the women come here to wash their clothes.” The villager said honestly.

Johnny nodded and let him go. Johnny translated the sentence to me and said, “See, the danger is still there. A contaminated fish did not follow the others away. This situation is really worrying.”

I always felt that Johnny knew something else, otherwise he wouldn’t have gone into the water to investigate. So I said, “Uncle Johnny, what else do you know? Can you be more specific? If we are going to face what you and my master sealed up sooner or later, at least we should know each other well.”