Chapter 7 Strange Fish
The black hemisphere Shao Xuan treated it as a fish float. Without a fish hook, he could not find a stone hook to replace the fish hook for the time being. There was no way, so Shao Xuan simply tied a stone insect directly. If there were carnivorous fish in the water and he was interested in the stone insects.
I used earthworms to fish in my previous life, but I never saw earthworms in this life. I tried to use stone worms instead. People in the tribe said that the creatures in the water are very fierce and should not care about such simple bait. Shao Xuan didn't plan to catch a fish now without a hook. If the fish in the water eat stone worms, it would not be too late for Shao Xuan to polish another fish hook tomorrow.
The stone worm was just asked Caesar to dig, tied tightly at the front of the straw rope, but this is only temporary. If the stone worm is resistant to water, it will still slip away from the straw rope over time. If there are not enough tools, I can only try this way first. If this stone worm slips away, it will be impossible to dig one.
The black hemisphere acting as a fish float was tied to about half a meter away from the rope end. Shao Xuan did not intend to test the deep water. Standing by the shallows, Shao Xuan threw the bait and the black hemisphere out. Under the weight of the straw rope and stone insects, although the black hemisphere sinks a little, it can still float steadily on the water surface. Shao Xuan watched it as he could judge what might happen under the water surface based on it.
The straw ropes on his body were not long, less than five meters together, and Shao Xuan was still very close to the place where he threw stone insects. Standing on the shore, Shao Xuan's feet did not touch the water. Pay attention to the water surface and beware of any accidents to escape in time. There were guardians not far away, and when they encountered danger, he ran there first.
When Shao Xuan was doing all this, the two soldiers who were in charge of guarding the river bank were also very curious about Shao Xuan's purpose. They originally thought that the child was going to go into the water, and planned to take the child away and throw it back into the hole later. They didn't expect to see this series of strange behaviors. So, after the two looked at each other, they did not go to pick up people for the time being, but stared at Shao Xuan.
"Caesar, take me a while and you pull the rope as soon as I let you pull it." Shao Xuan put the other end of the rope in Caesar's mouth, and he held the middle section.
After waiting for a while, I didn't see any movement in the water. Shao Xuan thought to himself: Is there no fish in the water near the shallows? Or are the things in the water not interested in stone insects?
Before he could finish his words, the black hemisphere attached to the water surface suddenly sank.
There is!!
The rope in Shao Xuan's hand slid rapidly, and the palm of his hand hurts sharply due to the friction of the straw rope. Shao Xuan held the rope tightly and pulled it back, and at the same time he called Caesar, who was standing behind him for help: "Caisar, pull!"
Although it was a little sudden, Shao Xuan could feel that the force of pulling into the water was not beyond the range that he could bear, so he asked Caesar to help pull it, wanting to see what was in the water biting the bait.
Caesar bit the rope tightly and pulled it back hard. After dragging the rope so many times, he pulled it.
The two soldiers standing not far away watching were nervous. They had never been in the water. Even when they came to the river bank, they just dripped some water on the edge to wash the animal skins and would not take a step into the water. In summer, they had seen huge river beasts appearing on the water surface in the distance. In addition, the bloody events about this river passed down from generation to generation by the tribe, so they have always maintained a cautious and fearful attitude towards this river. Now they suddenly saw Shao Xuan pulling something from the river. The string in his heart suddenly became tense, afraid that something big would appear from the water.
"Did you go?" A soldier hit his companion with his elbow.
"Go...go...look..." Another hesitated for a while, not knowing what he thought of, and said.
The wind blew from the river to the shore, with a slight fishy smell. I don’t know if it was the smell of creatures in the water or something else, but this smell made the two soldiers even more nervous.
Shao Xuan could feel the things in the water pulling through the rope in his hand. He wanted to drag them into the water and to pull the shore here, but Shao Xuan was a little better and stepped back step by step to pull out the things in the water.
The thing that bit the bait was almost revealed. The water surface in the diving area was struggling violently because of the underwater creatures, and the slap was splashing everywhere.
When Shao Xuan held the rope tightly and stared at the water surface and focused his attention, a picture suddenly flashed from far to near, like a big mouth with countless fine teeth biting towards him, and the whole mouth almost covered Shao Xuan's head!
When she was about to touch Shao Xuan, the picture quickly disappeared.
The picture flashed too quickly, and Shao Xuan disappeared before he could dodge.
Shao Xuan shook his head, thinking that he was probably too nervous and had hallucinations.
When the two soldiers arrived next to Shao Xuan, the things in the water had already revealed its full picture.
It was a very strange fish, about half a meter long, and the fish head occupied two-thirds of the entire fish body. It was pulled out of water and the fish's mouth was still biting the rope tied with the stone insects, and there was no intention of letting go.
"Continue to pull, don't stop!" Seeing the warrior coming over stood beside him and didn't look like he was trying to take action, Shao Xuan called Caesar to continue.
When he was towing fish for the first time, Caesar was not only surprised and alert at the beginning of seeing unknown creatures, but soon clenched the rope and pulled it back hard.
After pulling the fish out of the water and pulling it back a distance to make sure the fish will not jump back into the water, Shao Xuan let go.
"Finally come out! Good Kay...Caesar! Let go, where do you want to drag the fish?!"
Caesar was still sticking out his butt and biting the rope and pulling it backwards, while pulling it in his throat. It was obvious that the fish was pulled out of the water and made it alert. He was so devoted that it continued after Shao Xuan let go.
When he heard Shao Xuan's words, Caesar reluctantly let go, carefully approaching the fish that was still slapping its tail, baring his teeth as if he was about to go over and take a bite.
From the place where Shao Xuan first stood to the site where the stone worms were thrown, it was only a few steps away. It was estimated that the water depth of the bait was only human. However, I didn't expect that such a fierce fish was moving in the shallow water area. Looking at the big mouth, full of fine teeth, and he wouldn't let go of the bait. After being dragged ashore and left the water, he patted his tail hard and struggled violently, looking like he would not give up if he didn't pull off the bait.
A soldier who came over pierced the spear with a spear of unknown stone or a spearhead on his hand. He used a lot of force and quickly made the spear. The spear penetrated the fish body directly and nailed the fish to the ground on the shore.
The fish that was pierced through then loosen the rope, opened its mouth and swung its head, as if it wanted to bite the surrounding things.
The straw rope that was loosened by the fish was only left with a piece of residue left by the stone insects, and the straw rope was almost bitten off.
The straw rope used by Shao Xuan is very tough and wear-resistant. He woven it himself and is often used to tie things. It has not been broken after using it for so long. It is very durable, but he didn't expect that the straw rope would be bitten off in just a while.
Shao Xuan was stunned when his eyes fell on the strange fish's wide open mouth.
The most obvious thing about the fish head is the big mouth. In the monster fish's big mouth, you can see countless fine teeth. Such a proportion of teeth seems to be born to bite and kill. The pulling force is slightly larger. If it weren't for Caesar's help, Shao Xuan alone might not be able to drag it out of the water so quickly.
If the nearby diving areas are full of these types of fish, people will probably be gnawed to leave only bones after getting into the water. This is just one of these fish, and there may be other more terrifying things. No wonder even the totem warriors in the tribe are unwilling to go into the water.
When Shao Xuan shuddered when he thought about what would happen if the children of the tribe went into the water.
Moreover, when I was pulling the rope just now, the picture that flashed before my eyes seemed to be this fish mouth full of fine fangs...
Shao Xuan stared at the fish's mouth, and he thought of the illusions he saw in front of the stone and soil walls of the remote mountain village at the end of his previous life.
The two soldiers next to him were stunned when they saw Shao Xuan staring at the fish's mouth, and thought Shao Xuan was scared and dared not approach this hideous creature.
It was the first time Shao Xuan saw such a fish, but one of the two soldiers had seen it.
"When I had not awakened the power of totem, I followed my father to the river and saw this kind of prey once. The witch said it was called a fish. There were dangers everywhere in the water. At that time, a woman in the tribe who was washing animal skins by the river was bitten off her arm, and my father stabbed one of them with a spear."
As he said that, the soldier glanced at Shao Xuan. He didn't expect that Shao Xuan would drag the fish in the water if he didn't get into the water. His father risked the boss to go into the water to rescue the woman who was dragged into the water. Unfortunately, when he was rescued, half of the woman's arm was gone. For a while, the women in the tribe stopped washing the animal skins by the river. Unless the streams on the mountain narrowed during the drought, they had to come here to get water.
Shao Xuan came to his senses and the fish that had been pierced through was dead.
The warrior who had slaughtered the spear out, took the fish off the spearhead, and handed it to Shao Xuan with the fish tail.
"For you, this is your prey. Good! You will definitely become an excellent soldier in the future!" After thinking about it, the soldier said again: "You should not get close to the water. In addition to fish, there are many dangerous things in the river. Not every time I can be so lucky."
However, half an hour later, Shao Xuan, who was considered "not so lucky every time", used the same method to drag a fish bigger than before out of the water.
Chapter completed!