799. Everything is clear (3)
He wanted to swim directly, but this was a bit shocking. After all, he was diving underwater for too long and wandering too far.
So he swam a distance and floated up to the surface, waved to Sandeng to turn the boat over, and said, "There is nothing, keep moving forward and look."
Sandeng said, "Maybe he was wandering around. Really, the village chief, that thing is scary. Gaden rushed up suddenly, swallowed a fish in one bite, and then disappeared. It was quite fast!"
The tourists followed the clamor and said that they were all clichés, such as silver dragons, sea pythons, auspicious signs from the sky, and finding them is just a death.
Ao Muyang was so angry that he really hoped no one would come with him so that he could show his underwater skills freely.
After several consecutive searches, he finally approached the sea area where he first discovered an abnormality. When he arrived here, he carefully dived down and saw that the seaweed clusters here were destroyed. Many seaweed leaves and branches floated in the water. At the bottom of the sea, a long snake-like fish mixed in the seaweed...
The fish is very long. Its body is twisted and curled, with a silver-gray body, a big blue head and some red dorsal fins. It looks strange and flat, and it looks like a huge sea python.
Ao Muyang slowly landed on the bottom of the sea with his breath. He estimated that the tourists had seen this fish before. They didn't see it clearly on the sea surface, and they had never been exposed to this fish, so they misunderstood their identity.
This is not a sea python, this is a hairtail!
However, it is also true that it is a sea python. The hairtail was once considered a deep-sea monster. There are many traces of them found in the tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
The Red Ocean Sea is located at the junction of temperate and tropical regions. Hairfish is very common, but the royal hairpin has never been recorded. No wonder Sandeng, who has been living on the sea for more than 30 years, misunderstood its identity.
The hairtail fish has died. Its huge and graceful body is covered with scars. The largest wound is on its abdomen. It has a piece missing from its abdomen. What bit it bit off...
But what dared to attack this hairtail? Ao Muyang approached carefully and pulled the big fish's head out of the seaweed entanglement. It was six or seven meters long, and the widest part of the body was half a meter, which was quite exaggerated.
The fish that dares to attack such a giant are nothing more than tigers and sperm whales, but they are the top hunters in the ocean. If they attacked the hairtail fish, then the fish should have been eaten now. How could it be that it was just a hole in the belly?
Ao Muyang looked around and saw that he had not found any big fish in the surrounding waters, so the source of the wounds of the hairtail fish was quite strange.
From the time he got the news to the discovery of the fish's body, it was only a dozen minutes in total. According to Sandeng and tourists, the fish in front was swimming vigorously in the water and preyed on the fish they threw into the water to attract killer whales or sperm whales.
In doubt, he dragged the fish to float onto the water.
The hairtail fish is similar to the ordinary hairtail fish. Its body shrinks from its abdomen to its tail and becomes narrower. Ao Muyang lifts it up with the cheek cover of the hairtail fish, and its slender tail naturally hangs to the bottom of the sea.
At this moment, a big head suddenly rushed out of the messy reefs and seaweed, like an open spring. The big head opened a small mouth and bit the tail of the hairtail!
Ao Muyang looked down and was shocked: Another hairtail fish?!
The hairtail fish does not have sharp teeth like the hairtail fish in close relatives. They only have two sharp teeth, but they also have a super hard upper and lower jaws.
In essence, hunting for hairtails is a bit similar to crocodiles. They rely on bite force. They have a great bite force, and even if crustacean creatures are bitten by them, they will break and die.
It bit the tail of the Death Hairfish. The Surviving Hairfish bit off a large piece of fish. It dragged the fish and then crawled back into the sea. It curled up like a snake, and it was difficult to find after hiding in the seaweed.
Seeing this, Ao Muyang understood everything.
This dead hairtail fish is not the one that Sandeng and tourists have seen before. It is the one that survived, and this dead hairtail fish was also bitten to death by the surviving hairtail fish.
The reason why they come from the deep sea to the shallow sea is probably because they are chasing and fighting all the way, and the hairtail fish prey on all the food they think they can eat, fish, shrimp, crab, etc., including the same kind!
The dead hairtail fish was covered with scars, and the surviving hairtail fish was not much better. There were also many wounds on the body, and even a red ventral fin was bitten off half of it. Obviously, although it won in this battle, it won a miserable victory!
The surviving hairtail fish is bigger than the dead one, probably more than seven meters. No wonder Sandeng said it is ten meters long. The light and shadow conditions affect people's vision, and things in the water will always appear larger.
The dead hairtail fish was originally the food for the survivors, but after Ao Muyang took it away, it did not dare to come up to fight for it. After all, the hairtail fish just looked hideous, but not a cruel temperament.
The reason they prey on everything they can encounter is because they live in a lack of deep-sea supplies, and it is difficult for huge boneless fish like the hairtail to fill their stomachs.
Ao Muyang originally wanted to leave directly, and this hairtail would return to the deep sea.
But he thought about it and gave a little gold drop to the hairtail fish. He remembered that the number of fish was very rare, and the fish suffered another severe damage in the life-and-death battle with his similar species. Eating a little gold drop may increase its chance of survival.
When he found the gold drop, the hairtail fish quickly floated up and snatched it.
It has powerful explosive power, but its swimming speed is not fast. It can even be said that its swimming posture is a bit clumsy. It twists its body in the water and slowly approaches the golden drop. Then its shrinking body opens like a spring, opening its mouth and swallowing the golden drop.
Before eating the golden drop, it tried hard to swallow the hairtail meat in its mouth, which made Lao Ao feel a little sad: the children of poor families.
The hairtail must have been afraid of being hungry before. Even if there is temptation from the golden drop, it will not waste the food in its mouth.
Ao Muyang felt it was pitiful, so he gave it a little more gold.
After eating the golden drops, the hairtail fish returned to the seaweed and hid it. Obviously, this unfamiliar sea made it feel insecure.
It is right to feel insecure. There are dolphins, porpoises, killer whales and sperm whales in the sea. These four killers are all above the hairtail fish in the food chain.
Ao Muyang floated out of the water with the hairpin, and the sea water was clear. The three lights on the boat saw him and the silver 'sea python' he carried in his hand.
When he emerged from the water, he heard Sandeng screaming at the top of his lungs: "Village Chief, Oh my mother, you are so awesome! Oh my village chief, you are simply the reincarnation of a dragon. Have you slaughtered this sea python?"
Chapter completed!