Chapter 0574 Under Deep Water
The fishing man wasn’t stupid, to prevent accidents from happening, he tied the hemp rope to the bow of the boat, in case of problems, the people on the shore could drag the boat back by pulling the hemp rope.
”You two watch from the shore, as soon as I raise the headlight on my side, you guys pull back.” He turned on the fishing light he carried with him, took a deep breath, and jumped into the boat.
The water was pitch black, no one knew what was hidden below, and it was a little scary to watch.
His body swayed along with the boat as the fishing man slowly sat down, placing his harpoon in a smooth position, and holding the fishing light between his legs, doing all of this before he picked up the oars.
”Do you want to reconsider?” The twine that Zhang Dapo was guarding, he was really worried that the fishing man wouldn’t return once he was gone, and after catching so many fish, he ended up being buried in the belly of the fish, which would be a bit of a tragic ending.
”Some fish become more active the more it gets to night, the fact that the king of fish only bites at night means that it’s this type of fish, dragging it further back makes it even more dangerous.” The fishing man forced himself to be calm, he held the oars with both hands and slowly rowed the boat away from the shore.
”This guy is a real death wish.” Chen Ge seldom went about critiquing others like this, he was not good at water, if it were him, he definitely wouldn’t have gone over to fetch the fish float at this time.
He wasn’t afraid of evil spirits and severe ghosts, but at this moment, looking at the undulating dark water, he also had an indescribable fear.
It was almost an instinctive reaction, and there was a voice in his head reminding him that there was something underneath the surface of the water, and that this reservoir was dangerous, so it was best to stay away.
The fishing man was getting farther and farther away from Chen Ge and the others, but the bad thing was that the fish float was drifting farther and farther away with the current.
At first, it was only six or seven meters away from the shore, but now it had drifted to ten meters away.
The fishing man, who was sitting with his back to Chen Ge and the others, put down his worries and paddled vigorously, and the boat approached towards where the luminous drift was.
The large reservoir was frighteningly quiet, and on the shore Chen Ge and Zhang Dapo both held their breath as they watched the fishing man.
Both of them had seen the king of fish bite and knew that there was indeed a monster living in this reservoir.
The night was deep, no stars or moon were visible, the sky was covered by cloudy clouds, the water in the reservoir was equally dark, the sky and the water were like an open maw, and the fishing man was trying to paddle towards the depths of the maw.
”Almost there.” Sitting in the boat, the fishing man’s eyes were fixed on the luminous drift not far away, he clenched his teeth and forced himself not to look at the surrounding water.
”Nothing will happen, the king of fish is frightened, it should avoid the boat at this time, when the police came to fish for corpses at night before, this damn thing avoided it.” The fishing man gave himself comfort in his heart, the movements of his hands became faster and faster, not daring to have the slightest delay.
The surroundings were really too quiet, only the clattering sound from the oars hitting the water could be heard, a sound that made the fishing man inexplicably feel annoyed.
”The fish drift still seems to be drifting forward, this current direction is very unfavorable to me, but fortunately, the twine is very long, I just need to retrieve it before it gets taut.”
One end of the twine was tied to the stump and the other end was tied to the bow of the boat, connecting the boat to the shore like a safety rope.
It was probably the current that kept a distance between the men and the fish float.
The boat rowed farther and farther away, slowly Zhang Dapo realized that something was wrong: “He has already exceeded us by ten meters, but the longest rope in my storehouse is only ten meters, could it be that he is tying several ropes together?”
Zhang Dapo with doubt, reached out and grabbed the hemp rope that was sunk under the water, he tried to yank it back a bit, and it didn’t receive much resistance.
”Not good!”
He exclaimed, his hands quickly pulling back the rope, realizing that the hemp rope connecting the shore and the boat had been broken at some point!
”Quickly come back! The rope has been bitten off!” Zhang Dapo instantly panicked as he hurriedly shouted at the fishing man.
Chen Ge also didn’t expect such a turn of events to occur, he looked at the twine break, it was uneven, not like it had been cut by a knife, instead it looked like it had been bitten off by something.
”To be able to bite off the hemp rope in such a short period of time, this ‘Fish King’ is not simple.” Chen Ge reached out and touched the edge of the hemp rope, the rope was emitting a faint fishy odor probably because it had been immersed in water for a long time, he focused on checking the break and found that there were also densely packed teeth marks remaining on the rope near the break.
”It doesn’t look like a fish biting it, it kind of looks like a lot of fish swooped in together and tore it out.” Chen Ge always felt that the teeth marks looked strange, but he couldn’t tell where it was strange.
Zhang Dapo was still desperately calling out to the fishing man, but the fishing man was as if he was completely deaf.
”Evil?”
While Zhang Dapo was in a hurry with no way out, the fishing man finally approached the luminous drift.
”Only two meters left!” The fishing man was sitting with his back to Chen Ge and Zhang Dapo, he didn’t look back, he only knew that the hemp rope was connected to the stump of the boat on the bank, and when the rope reached its limit, the boat would be pulled by the rope, and now that he could continue to row forward, it meant that the distance from the bank of the river wasn’t more than ten meters away.
”Come back!”
There was something vaguely heard behind him, but the fishing man seemed to be mesmerized, his dead fish eyes staring intently at the luminous drift.
There was only a meter left.
He moved his body forward, sat on the bow of the boat, and raised the fishing light.
The light shone on the water, and he found that even at this time the luminous drift was still drifting forward, and the direction of the drift didn’t seem to be exactly the same as the direction of the water current, as if there was something under the fish drift dragging it slowly forward.
The fishing man looked at the glow-in-the-dark drift, and a very absurd feeling arose in his heart.
It was as if that luminous drift was like the King of Fish had deliberately put it down to catch himself.
With the special fish drift close at hand, the man no longer hesitated as he raised the fishing light up.
The light pierced through the water, and nothing existed near the luminous drift.
”False alarm.”
The man held the fishing light up with one hand and reached for the water with the other.
When his hand was about to touch the fishing float, the water near the boat suddenly had a great undulation.
Immediately afterward, under the illumination of the fishing light, the man realized that a large shadow was darting upwards below the fish float!
King Fish!
The fishing man’s luminous drift couldn’t care less about picking it up, and grabbed the boat’s harpoon.
But when he took the harpoon and went to look again, the shadow under the water surface disappeared again.
”Where did it go?”
Before he could take a breath, the boat shook violently, as if something was trying to overturn it.
”Under the boat!”
The fishing man crouched down and lowered his center of gravity, but the fishing lamp placed on the bed slipped off the boat at once and fell into the water.
”Crap!”
As the man watched the fishing light begin to sink, he was very decisive, and then with the last of the bright light, he reached out and grabbed the luminous drift, and then turned back to the shore and shouted, “Quick! Pull me back!”
Only when he turned around did he realize that he had, at some point, run a long way from the shore.
And the bottom of the luminous drift in his hand was still attached to a fishing line that was tangled with black hair that smelled fishy.