Chapter 1181: Deep Sea Giant Eel
Everyone was busy for a while, sorting out all the fish goods scattered on the deck, and carrying them into the cabin.
Fortunately, the day before, they had already sold the fish goods accumulated in the previous few days, and added a lot of ice and oil. Now there were only the harvests from last night and the whole day today in the cabin, which could still be kept.
After everyone finished, they took turns going into the cabin to wipe and change clothes. After all, the space inside was limited, and at most it could only accommodate one person walking back and forth. Some people also went to the utility room.
"Looks like we can have a good sleep tonight."
"Your heart is really big. The wind, waves, and rain outside are so big, and the boat can only find a sea island to stop. You can still have a good sleep?"
"I can't stop the wind and waves even if I don't sleep. What's more, it looks quite safe here, leeward, and the fishing boat doesn't sway as much as it does outside. It looks very safe."
"It was really too exciting tonight. The rain came as soon as it was said. Before it rained, there weren't such big wind and waves."
"The weather at sea is uncertain. Sometimes you can encounter it very unfortunately."
"Sleep early. It's pitch black outside, and it's windy and rainy. Only the cabin can block the wind and rain. Let's see the situation after dawn. Anyway, at least there is a shelter at night, and being able to sleep is already considered not bad."
"Adong is right. In such bad weather, it's still at sea. It's already very good now. At least the wind can't blow and the rain can't wet. Even if you can't sleep, you have to sleep. You can't just sit until dawn."
"Fortunately, we are not afraid of having nothing to eat on the boat, and we are not afraid of having no water when it rains outside. It's not scary to drift here for a few days, we can wait for the typhoon to pass."
Everyone agreed with this sentence very much. The most frightening thing is having nothing to eat or drink.
"I'm going out to pee."
"Me too. I was so nervous before that I kept holding it. If you didn't say it, I would have forgotten that I still had pee to pee."
"Hahaha, didn't someone pee out of fear? How come you still have pee?"
"That soft egg, no bird..."
"Damn... I'm not just playing around?"
"I'm going too..."
Ye Yaodong didn't care about the bickering behind him, put on his raincoat and went out. He stood directly at the cabin door to pee. Anyway, the rain hit it, and it would directly rush into the sea. After peeing, he could immediately go back.
The waves behind were hitting, and the fishing boat was swaying. To save effort, he even leaned his back against the cabin behind him.
The people behind also learned from him and stood by his side to pee.
Just when he finished peeing and put it away, a super large black shadow was hit by the waves from the stern and rushed onto the deck. Without anyone on guard, those sharp teeth directly bit the leg of the fisherman next to him, and a scream broke the sky.
Another person who was still peeing was also startled.
Ye Yaodong originally wanted to turn around and go in, but hearing the scream, he nearly couldn't stand still.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
It was pitch black all around. Because they just planned to come out to pee, they stood by the cabin door. After peeing, they turned around and went in, so no one specifically turned on a flashlight, so they didn't see the black shadow hit by the waves and rushed up.
"What's wrong?"
Another person was also panicked and hurriedly stabilized his body and squeezed two steps toward the cabin door.
Ye Yaodong originally stood at the cabin door, and the cabin door was only enough to accommodate one person to enter and exit. He was squeezed and took two steps back.
"Don't panic, take the flashlight first."
"Ah! Something bit me! So painful, my leg is going to break..."
The people in the cabin also heard the scream outside and hurriedly got down from their beds. The flashlight beams also illuminated the small cabin and shone through it.
Everyone was squeezed in the narrow cabin aisle, and some people were blocking the door and couldn't get out. The people inside didn't know the situation either. Only Ye Yaodong and another fisherman stood at the door and saw the fangs on Aqiang's foot and the sharp fish head.
"Is it an eel?"
"Is it a sea wolf or an eel?"
"It's a deep-sea giant eel, not a sea wolf," Ye Yaodong said affirmatively, "Give me the flashlight."
"You two don't block the door either, let us go out."
Ye Yaodong took a flashlight handed out from inside and hurriedly walked toward the bow of the boat in the rain to find a stick.
The people behind also all ran out and saw Aqiang's bloody leg.
"Damn, such a big eel!"
"Hold him, hold him, he can't stand still."
"First take a stick to beat this fish to death, this is so big."
"Be careful, don't get too close. This fish is too big, and its teeth are too powerful."
A pile of flashlights shone on the deep-sea giant eel. I saw the fangs on the eel's mouth tightly biting the person's leg, and the fish tail behind was still twisting, as if it was exerting force.
The constantly seeping blood was washed away by the rain, and there were constant screams, which made people feel cold and couldn't help but retreat.
"Where did such a big eel come from?"
"This body is too thick, thicker than my thigh, and the tail is too long, right?"
"Where is the stick? Didn't Dongzi go to find a stick?"
Ye Fu asked while shining a flashlight toward the bow of the boat. I saw Ye Yaodong seemed to be dodging, dancing with a stick in his hand.
"Dongzi? You two go and take a look."
Ye Yaodong couldn't care about speaking. The wind and rain were loud, and the waves were also loud, which affected his vision. He didn't think about how these deep-sea giant eels got on the boat, and could only dodge the other deep-sea giant eels on the deck first.
Because they just came out to pee temporarily, they only wore slippers and didn't wear rain boots at all.
It was really because everyone's shoes were very smelly. They didn't plan to put them on again after wiping their bodies. If the slippers were wet, they just had to wipe their feet casually.
And his raincoat was plastic. To make it convenient to pee, he didn't button many buttons. As long as he was entangled by these giant eels, his legs would also be bitten into a big hole.
The Aqiang just now also came out wearing slippers, and his straw rain cape was just draped over his body, which was why it was so easy for the eel to bite his leg.
He was dodging, but saw several flashlight beams on the side, and hurriedly shouted to the people rushing over, "Don't come over, there are several giant eels here. You all go and put on rain boots first."
At least rubber rain boots can be worn up to the calf, which can at least block a small part of the leg, and it's not so easy to be bitten by the giant eel.
After saying this, he also dodged toward their direction. These eels will be solved later. Saving people is a matter of urgency. We must first solve the one that bit people.
The fishing boat was washed by the waves and swayed, which also affected people's walking.
Although this sea island mountain col is considered a natural shelter, although the wind can't blow, the heavy rain and sea waves still affect it, making the fishing boat sway constantly, making people walk inconveniently.
He swayed and retreated to the aisle in front of the cabin, and distributed one of the two sticks he was holding.
"You all retreat to the side, let it go, don't get too close to this fish. Those who don't wear rain boots go back to the cabin to put on rain boots first, and wear the straw rain cape well. There are seven or eight on the deck. I was nearly bitten just after walking out."
He was afraid that if he hit hard, he would drive this fish crazy. After letting go, it would rise up and bite others. Put on the equipment in advance to fight these fish.
These fish are fierce, but if you dodge in time, you can also beat them to death with a stick.
After everyone avoided to the side, or went into the cabin to put on rain boots, he took the stick and hit the eel desperately.
"Endure it, it will let go immediately..."
He just hit it hard, and the giant eel went crazy, twisting its body more violently, and the teeth on its mouth also loosened. He made persistent efforts, and after a few times, the giant eel let go and turned its head to attack him.
The vitality of the eel is exceptionally tenacious, not to mention that this one is a deep-sea giant eel, which is not so easy to die.
In the small aisle, the giant eel kept running around and attacking. The two sticks also cooperated in the narrow aisle, and finally took the opportunity to resist it on the cabin, with two sticks clamping its head.
Even so, it was still twisting and struggling, wanting to escape. The opened big mouth was full of fangs, completely able to swallow an adult's head.
Ye Yaodong and Chen Shi pressed the stick hard to prevent it from escaping.
"Take something to smash its head, smash it dizzy!"
Everyone was squeezed at the cabin door looking for hard things everywhere. Ye Fu took a kitchen knife and used the back of the knife to smash the giant eel's head fiercely.
After smashing dozens of times, I saw its body soften and no longer move.
Just in case, they didn't let go, and Ye Fu kept smashing. Smashing a few more times is safer. The vitality of the eel is too tenacious.
"Dad, gut it, take out the fish glue first, lest it wake up later and still be able to move. I'll go to the front deck with them to solve the other giant eels. There are several more there. You go in and take a look at Aqiang's leg by the way," Ye Yaodong shouted in the torrential rain.
"Good, I'll handle it here. You go to solve the other giant eels. Be careful, don't get bitten."
"I'll go change into rain boots first. You go to handle it first. I just looked at the deck and there are about seven or eight."
Aqiang had already been helped into the cabin when the giant eel let go just now.
When he went in to change into rain boots, he also took a look at his injured leg by the way. He shone a flashlight on it, and it was actually so deep that he could see the bone. At this time, there was no rain to wash it, and the blood had stained half of his leg. He had to stop the bleeding first.
Fortunately, it bit the leg. If it bit the penis, it would have been two sections long ago.
Thinking of this, he felt a chill in his crotch.
Fortunately, when he peed, this giant eel didn't run over and rise up to attack.
He shuddered and looked at Aqiang, comforting him, "You endure it first. They went to solve the other giant eels. I'll go boil some hot water first. Later, I'll use hot water to wipe the wound first. There are hemostatic herbs on the boat."
"Now it's windy, rainy, and wavy outside. The fishing boat can't go back. We have to wait until tomorrow. If we can go, we will return immediately. I will definitely be responsible for your medical expenses, and your wages will be paid as usual during your recovery. You endure it first now."
Aqiang's face was painful, and he kept wailing in his mouth, only able to nod in pain, unable to speak at all.
There was no medicine on the fishing boat, only hemostatic herbs and bandages commonly used by their rural people. Now at sea, Ye Yaodong had no way, and could only tell him to endure it first.
After going out, he first went to the compartment to boil water, and turned out the herbs he had put on the boat for emergencies.
Anything can happen at sea. Anyway, his fishing boat is big enough, and food will be prepared for a few days. Simple hemostatic herbs are of course also available.
After doing these, the water couldn't boil for a while, so he told Ye Fu who was taking the fish glue.
"Dad, I boiled water in the pot, and the herbs are also on the side. Later, after you take the fish glue, if the water boils, wipe Aqiang's leg wound. Scald the herbs, chop them up and apply them to him to stop the bleeding first. I see the blood hole on his leg is very big, and the meat is about to be bitten off. A big piece is about to fall off, which is very scary. I can see the white bone, bloody."
"So serious? Good, good, I'll handle it here quickly. After I handle it here, the water should be boiled. You go to the front to help first."
"Good."
Ye Yaodong walked to the deck with a stick, shaking the flashlight everywhere. Everyone was fighting with those giant eels on the ground.
Those eels were visually two meters long, and their bodies were as thick as an adult's thigh. The opened big mouth could really swallow a person's head directly.
It was not so fast and not so simple for 4 people to kill seven or eight eels on the deck. Now the heavy rain was still pouring down, which also affected everyone's vision and actions.
He looked at the situation and joined the battle.
What they didn't expect was that they had just smashed two, and between the tumbling waves, several giant eels were washed up from the stern by the seawater.
Originally, everyone was fighting with the remaining few giant eels on the deck, and they were nearly unable to stand still by the swaying of the boat. They only had time to grab things nearby to stabilize themselves.
A piece of white waves impacted higher than a person, attracting everyone's attention.
I saw several black long figures mixed in the white waves. In everyone's surprise, those black figures were sent to the rear deck along with a large piece of white foam. Because of the swaying of the boat, a part slid to the middle deck.
More of them slid to the rear deck along with the retreat of the waves and fell into the sea, leaving only a pile of white foam.
Everyone cursed for a while.
Ye Fu, standing at the aisle, also exclaimed and hurriedly dodged.
"Damn, the ones on the boat haven't been solved yet, and several more came."
"Damn, such big giant eels are not easy to die. They are slippery and can move."
"Where did so many big eels come from..."
Complaining is complaining, but they still have to be solved.
Ye Yaodong also cursed in his heart. Although this giant eel is valuable, it is more convenient to trawl it up. All of them are running around on his deck. What is this?
If it is trawled up, because of the load of thousands of jin of goods inside, even if its vitality is tenacious, it can be pressed half to death.
Now how can one by one be beaten to death? In total, there are only 5 people now, but there are giant eels moving on the deck. Being bitten by one is terrible.
He had a heart to go to the cockpit to get a gun, but this fish is too flexible and slippery. It can move quickly on the deck without water. Now it is heavy rain and big waves, and people can't stand still, so it is estimated that it is not easy to aim and not easy to beat to death.
After thinking about it, he gave up and could only shout to everyone, "Let's cooperate to solve them one by one. Two people in a group, you take a stick and watch the fish head of a fish, use the stick to press it, and the other person helps to be vigilant and watch the surroundings. Don't be attacked by other eels when you are suppressing one fish. I'll go get the gun. As long as you can control the fish, I will collapse it with one shot."
"Good, good."
There are too many eels on the deck now, more than a dozen two-meter-long ones, looking dense. If you are not careful, you will easily be bitten. If there is no one to help, how can one person deal with the surroundings?
Just after controlling one, you have to be attacked and bitten by other eels.
After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he broke through the thorns and took the stick in his hand, picking away the giant eels that were blocking the attack one by one, and throwing them to the side.
He was afraid that if he took care of the front, he couldn't take care of the back, so he moved along the side of the ship, and then stuck to the cabin and walked to the stairs on the side, only then successfully climbed to the wheelhouse and entered the cockpit to get the gun.
With the gun, everyone had confidence, and they had a method when cooperating.
Now you don't have to beat the giant eel to death. As long as you can control the fish head with a stick, even if it's only for a few seconds, as long as you shout Ye Yaodong to shoot, it will stop breathing after a while.
Everyone cooperated in pairs. After two people joined forces to subdue a fish head, one person let go, alertly looked at the surroundings, helped to pick away the attacking eels, and shouted Ye Yaodong to shoot at the same time.
And after everyone successfully killed the giant eels one by one, the waves kept sending fresh, live giant eels up, endlessly.
Often, they had just finished killing two or three, and the next wave of the sea would send up a few more; although some slipped away by taking advantage of the fishing boat's swaying, the number on the deck never decreased at all.
It is easy to slide from the aisle to the middle deck, but it is not so easy to slide from the deck to the stern, because there is a cabin at the stern to block, so that those giant eels can't easily slide to the stern and fall into the sea.
Because of fatigue, everyone couldn't help but complain.
"What's going on? Why are there so many, can't finish beating..."
"Save some strength..."
"Can't hold on, hands are sore, can't finish beating at all..."
"More and more, there is no place to stand, don't know which are alive and which are dead."
Ye Fu suddenly said in the corner, "I am handling it. I am dragging the dead ones to the cargo hold one by one first."
"Still so many... Why are there so many fish today? I haven't seen them in the past few days, and I haven't trawled them."
Ye Yaodong knew a little bit, but he didn't have time to speak. He was squinting through the rain curtain, dodging the attacks of those giant eels on the ground, going to everyone's side, and shooting the fish that were controlled.
The windy and rainy night is the time when deep-sea giant eels forage. They like to come out to forage on such nights.
It didn't appear for no reason.
After he ran around and saw his father dragging the eel right beside him, he couldn't help but say, "Be careful, Dad. Some are still alive. Don't drag them casually."
"I am careful. I am holding a hand-copy net in my hand. Use this to flirt over. I can only drag it to the cargo hold if I can flirt it to my feet."
"Then be careful. These are all hit up from the back waves, and then slid to the front."
"About to have no strength..."
"Me too. It's been two or three hours, right?"
"Do you want to go to the cabin to rest for a while?"
Ye Yaodong also felt that it was quite physically exhausting to continuously subdue these eels in the rain with high intensity. Hearing that everyone was exhausted, he also said, "Everyone is tired. Either go back to the cabin to rest for a while. These fish look like they can't be killed."
"Let's go back to the cabin to rest for a while, and then come out to continue to kill these fish after resting enough."
"Okay, just fought for at least two hours, should have killed a lot."
"Then go back to the cabin to rest for a while and then come out. Be careful, don't be attacked. Walk and retreat."
He shouted again to remind, "The aisle behind also has to look at it. They are all hit up from the rear deck by the waves."
"The rear deck is not as high as the bow. If the waves hit it casually, they can rush up a pile of seawater and fish."
Everyone walked and retreated until they were all squeezed into the cabin. The small space was suddenly full, and they couldn't even turn around.
The space was originally very small, and could only accommodate one person to pass sideways. In the past, when everyone returned to the cabin, they all returned to their beds, so that the aisle space could be vacated.
Now one by one, they were all wet. Those wearing raincoats wore raincoats, and those wearing straw rain capes wore straw rain capes. It was impossible to climb onto the bed, so they could only be squeezed here.
Ye Yaodong saw that it was too crowded. He was originally tall, and in the past, he had to shrink his head to come in. Now everyone was wet and squeezed together, which was even more uncomfortable, so he had to go out.
"Too crowded, I'll go to the compartment. You can take advantage of the fact that the waves haven't hit now, and come out two first, let the people inside take off their clothes and pants first, wipe them casually and climb onto the boat first."
"This is also okay."
He came out and avoided to the side to cook, but he couldn't get in.
The space in the compartment was also very small, piled with debris. Now there were giant eels under his feet. Ye Fu was squatting on the ground taking fish glue from a super large giant eel.
He could only stand at the door, trying not to step on the fish. Only his head stretched in without being rained on, and his shoulders and body were still rained on outside. His hands still had to be buckled on the door crack, lest he be thrown by the waves and couldn't stand still.
Worried that the eels on the deck would slide to the aisle, he shone his flashlight forward, ready to dodge at any time.
"Killed a few?"
"Didn't kill, I'll take a fish bladder first. This fish has to be sold, kill what?"
"I mean, how many fish bladders did you take?"
"Seven or eight?" Ye Fu turned his head to look at the washbasin filled with clean water on the side, "Just take a fish bladder, it's much easier than killing a fish. This fish is too big, and the fish bladder taken out is nearly half an arm long."
"Don't break it."
"I know, it's bulging when taken out."
Although this eel glue is not comparable to the top ten fish glues, this is a deep-sea giant eel, not an ordinary eel. Just looking at this size, the fish glue taken out is not small.
Fame is not good, size makes up for it.
Fish glue with large size and good quality is also very valuable.
This whole fish is not as valuable as a piece of fish glue.
In fact, it doesn't matter if these deep-sea giant eels are not killed and left on the deck. As long as they don't swim into the cabin to attack them, it's fine.
With the swaying of the fishing boat and the constant washing of the sea waves, it is uncertain that they will slowly be brought back to the sea.
It's just that they attacked people at first, so everyone's first reaction was to solve them, and they could also have an extra income.
The most important thing is to have an extra income.
Who doesn't want a valuable big fish delivered to the door?
Now it looks like they can't be killed, so they can only give up temporarily, and they can't ignore the lives of the fishermen.
He thought about it and raised his hand to look at his watch. It was after 11 o'clock. He really fought for two hours. There are still more than 5 hours until dawn.
It is impossible to just ignore the fish on the deck and let everyone sleep until dawn.
Originally, working at sea requires preparation for day and night fishing and not being able to rest on time.
"I'll go tell them to let them sleep for two hours first, and then get up and take a look later. If there are still..."
Suddenly a huge wave tumbled. Ye Yaodong turned his head and took a look, and hurriedly squeezed in.
A large wave washed onto the rear deck, and the fishing boat swayed fiercely. Along with the swaying of the fishing boat, the seawater drove the giant eels to rush up many, and rushed to the front.
But it swayed, and brought up a wave of residual tide to retreat to the rear deck, and also brought several giant eels back to the sea.
Just don't know if the giant eels brought back to the sea are dead or alive. If they are dead, it's a pity. It was not easy to kill them before.
Ye Fu also looked outside, "It seems that the wind and rain tonight will not stop."
"It's all like this. On typhoon days, the wind and rain at night are often greater than during the day."
After speaking, taking advantage of the fact that this wave had just passed, he returned to the cabin and told the others, telling them to hurry up and rest first, and he would come to call them to get up in two hours.
By the way, he also went in to care about Aqiang who was injured. He was still lying in the cabin wailing constantly.
The pants had been taken off, and the leg was wrapped in gauze. The gauze was still seeping a lot of blood. The middle position was mixed with dark green herbs and blood, looking extremely miserable.
He could only try his best to soothe and guarantee. He couldn't help with anything else, and couldn't stop the pain.
Everything can only be talked about after dawn.
He went out and said to his father, "You go in and rest. I'll handle these few."
"No, I'll do it."
"You are old, go to sleep. It doesn't matter if I stay up all night. Sleeping for two hours is not as good as not sleeping. How can I leave one person awake to watch, lest there be any changes at night."
Ye Fu thought about it and felt it made sense. It was impossible for the whole boat of people to go to sleep. In this weather, you have to be awake. Who knows if any big fish will break in.
"Then okay."
Ye Yaodong avoided the position of the door, let his father out first, and then went in.
The washbasin on the side already had a lot of soaked fish bladders.
After the fish bladder is taken out, it must be soaked in water immediately. Only in this way can the blood on the fish bladder be cleaned later. There is also a layer of membrane and fish oil on the fish glue, which must also be cleaned. Otherwise, the fishy smell of the fish glue is very heavy and not durable.
He took the scissors to take over from his father and continued to take the fish bladder, starting 20 cm below the eel's head.
The fish bladder is connected to the bone in the fish body and is filled with gas. If you want to make a cylindrical fish bladder, you must ensure that you take a fish bladder that does not leak.
After breaking the fish belly, use your fingers to buckle it back, and it is easy to buckle one end of the fish bladder out.
He was extremely careful. The last time he took the hair fish glue, it was perfect, and the hair fish glue dried out was also top-tier.
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