Ye Yaodong crossed his legs and lit a cigarette to refresh himself. Soon the closed space was filled with smoke. He also opened the window from time to time to let in some fresh air.

Feeling a little hungry, and seeing that everything was fine, he went down to get some food.

There is food on board 24 hours a day, and at least there will be a pot of hot seafood and hot water in the pot.

He went down and walked around. Several workers were talking and working there, and all of them were in high spirits.

He joked, "You can still talk so enthusiastically in such a strong wind, and your stomach is almost full from the wind."

"Isn't it? My throat is freezing."

"There is food and hot water in the pot. Don't catch a cold."

"Okay, I'll eat later when I'm hungry."

The manpower is reduced by half, and the goods are doubled. I don’t know if we can finish the work when the next net is collected.

As Ye Yaodong went to get food, he thought to himself that the net would be set up every three or four hours depending on the situation. It couldn't be set up for such a long time anymore because there was simply no way for manpower to do it.

He put a bunch of seafood in his aluminum lunch box, and planned to bring a hot water bottle to it to save himself from having to pour hot water back and forth.

Just as he turned around with a lunch box in his left hand and a thermos bottle in his right hand, a yellow-green figure jumped out of the water in front of him and fell into the water again.

"What? Ghost-headed sword?"

Ye Yaodong stretched his neck and watched a green figure on the water sinking to the bottom of the water.

While he was watching, two workers were also carrying a basket of fish and loading it into the freezer, and asked curiously beside him.

"What is the Ghost Head Sword?"

"I just thought I saw something green jumping across?"

"Are you dazzled? Why didn't I see it?"

"I did see some green ones. What you said makes me feel a bit creepy..." A boatman rubbed his arms in fear, and then looked left and right.

The sea all around was pitch black, so it would be fine if I kept my head down while working without staring at it and keeping my mind from wandering thoughts.

I'm afraid that once I'm free, I'll look at the darkness and emptiness around the sea, my mind will be too active, and I like to scare myself.

Ye Yaodong glared at them and hurriedly spoke out to prevent others from panicking when nothing happened.

"It's the Ghost-headed Knifefish. Where did you think it was? You're a coward. Two grown men are still scared."

"Is it a fish? I jumped a lot, thinking it was something, and then I heard something ghostly in the words you said..."

"Ghost, your eggs are fish."

"Are there any green fish? There seemed to be quite a long one just now."

The two of them calmed down after saying each other.

"Of course, there are fish of all colors in the sea, it just depends on whether you recognize them or not."

"That, that, that...Brother Dong..."

"What?" Ye Yaodong looked at the worker's direction in confusion.

Suddenly, there was a touch of green on the sea surface, which was floating in the wind and water, flowing in the same direction as their fishing boat, but at a much slower speed than the fishing boat.

"Huh? Moved with the wind? Died?"

"Brother Dong, is that the Ghost-headed Knifefish you just mentioned?"

"It's a bit far away. I can only see a touch of green. I can't see clearly. I'm not sure. When I pull it up to take a look, I'll drive the boat and drive around for a while. Then slowly get closer. You can use a hand net or a hand

Throw a net and see if it can come online."

"OK."

After Ye Yaodong finished his instructions, he took another look, and then quickly carried the things in his hands to the helm.

At this time, there was a red dot showing on the display screen. He was pleasantly surprised and thought of moving towards the red dot temporarily. The fish school was more important.

Anyway, that touch of yellow-green was very conspicuous in the dark night, and it was still floating on the sea. It looked like it was just dead.

If it is a ghost-headed swordfish, the color will slowly fade after death. I don't know if it will be done in time. If not, then we can only forget it.

The conspicuous yellow-green color is still easy to recognize now, but when it fades later, it will merge with the dark night, and you will no longer be able to see where it is floating in the vast sea.

Ye Yaodong took the fish detected by sonar first, but the fishing boat was also slowly moving that way, so it was considered a smooth sailing.

Now that he was on his way, he watched the screen move toward the big yellow-green fish.

The two workers were ready. When they got close, a hand-thrown net spread out and directly covered the yellow-green fish. At this time, the color was much lighter, with only the faint yellow-green color.

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The wind resistance is very strong, and the fishing boat cannot stop and must work. If it stops, the fishing net will hang on the bottom and sink.

The two of them struggled to pull, and it took them a while to drag the fishing net closer to them bit by bit, ready to collect it.

Ye Yaodong couldn't go down yet, and he also detected a dense school of fish, so he sat in the cockpit and watched first.

He didn't go on until the red dot on the display faded, turned yellow and then green.

At this time, the ghost-headed swordfish had faded away and did not have the bright yellow color they saw at first. They were all a little unsure.

When I was disemboweling and bleeding, I kept chanting.

"Is it this one? It wasn't this one just now. Did you catch the wrong one?"

"But when I just threw it out, it was still a little light in color, but it changed color when it came out of the water?"

"Who knows, it took a lot of effort to drag it up. It rolled over and over in the sea. I don't know if I caught it wrong."

Ye Yaodong said: "That's right, that's it. This is the Ghost-headed Knifefish. When it's alive, it's brightly colored, yellow-green or bright green. When it dies, the color will slowly fade away and it won't be that pretty.

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"No wonder, I said it looks quite conspicuous from the front, but it's black and gray. It's no different from ordinary fish..."

"Oh my God, why are there so many little turtles..." The man who was killing the fish and bleeding them exclaimed, and used the knife in his hand to fiddle with the little turtles wrapped in mucus.

"What little turtle..."

"Oh, I fucked so much..."

"There are so many little turtles that haven't been digested yet, and there's also a big squid..."

Ye Yaodong also looked surprised. There were so many turtles in the belly of this ghost-headed swordfish?

"Did it take a turtle's nest?"

"Two, four, six, eight... thirty, thirty-two, grass, 32 little turtles, it's really too much, no wonder they choked to death."

"I'm not afraid of indigestion either..."

"Choked to death?"

Ye Yaodong still didn't know how the ghost-headed swordfish died, but it suddenly surfaced, and he was really a little confused.

He didn't know if it was the same figure he saw running past.

The fish was visually measured to be about 1.3 meters long and weighed about forty or fifty kilograms. It had a blunt head, a cone-shaped body, and a slender, forked tail.

This fish is not solitary and lives in groups. It lives on the surface of the ocean and the water depth generally does not exceed 40 meters.

It is a glutton in nature and often pursues surface fish such as flying fish and sardines. Sometimes it will jump out of the water to catch food. It is a companion fish of tuna and swordfish.

He had also caught fish a few years ago, and he was lucky. His father and he encountered a sardine storm. The overwhelming sardines covered the sky, and there were a bunch of large and small deep-sea fish all around.

Drink, and their fishing boats also took the opportunity to catch wildly there.

The worker on the side picked up the head of a red fish and showed it to Ye Yaodong.

"It's this fish. It's stuck in its throat. It's probably dead. Anyway, when it was just disemboweled, we took out the fish from its throat first."

Ye Yaodong's eyes widened, "Fuck, this is a lionfish, buddy, you must not be pricked by its spines, haven't you been pricked?"

"No, just cut open the belly and cut it out with the tip of a knife. What happened?"

"The thorns on this back are so poisonous that even killing fish has to be considered."

As soon as he said this, the worker who was still holding the fish head was so frightened that he immediately let go, and the fish fell directly to the deck.

"Oh my god, I was scared to death. I almost met the King of Hell."

“Next time, I really can’t catch any fish I don’t recognize.”

"Fortunately, I didn't touch it just now..."

"Then this big fish must have been poisoned to death."

The lionfish is a small saltwater fish with a gorgeous appearance and venomous spines on its back. Due to its strong adaptability, rapid reproduction, and toxicity, its population is growing explosively every year.

Continued growth is also the reason why many fish species will become extinct after the 21st century.

In the future, many submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles will be named after fish, which is a common practice among navies of many countries.

For example, piranha, queenfish, sturgeon, and scorpionfish have been used to name submarines, while sailfish, manta rays, and swordfish have been used to name unmanned underwater vehicles, etc.

Later, lionfish also joined the ranks and was used by the beautiful and ugly army to name the next generation of small unmanned underwater vehicles.
To be continued...