As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up-Chapter 161 - 150: The Giant Python in the Sea

Chapter 161: Chapter 150: The Giant Python in the Sea

Chu Mingcheng dove down to the entrance of the cave and firmly held onto the fishing line, preventing it from touching the rocks at the entrance.

Now with a support point, it was not easy for the sea eel to continue escaping deeper into the cave.

When the strengths were equal, it all came down to endurance in a tug of war.

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Originally, the sea eel had the advantage, as terrain was on its side, and humans cannot stay underwater for long.

Moreover, the rate of physical exertion when holding one’s breath underwater is unprecedentedly fast.

But this sea eel was unlucky, for it encountered a person who was exceptional.

Normally, Chu Mingcheng could move freely underwater for two hours; even if his oxygen consumption increased now, he would still last at least an hour.

Moreover, even if he couldn’t outlast it in physical strength, Chu Mingcheng also had life conversion to recover.

Encountering such a person, one could only say it was fate for the sea eel.

Ten minutes later… both man and eel were still at a standoff.

Half an hour later, the sea eel was pulled out a little; Chu Mingcheng could now see its head.

He hadn’t expected capturing a sea eel to be this challenging; half an hour of relentless tugging nearly wore him out.

A few more minutes passed, and the sea eel exerted force again. Chu Mingcheng, his strength vastly depleted, could no longer hold the standoff.

He immediately used life conversion, not exactly resurrected in full health, but his condition largely recovered.

In that instant, the balance was suddenly broken.

Reinvigorated Chu Mingcheng exerted force once more, and this time the sea eel couldn’t hold on, being pulled out of the cave bit by bit.

Once the sea eel’s entire head and neck were exposed, he immediately grabbed its neck with his left hand, and swiftly wrapped the fishing line around its opened mouth several times, much like tying up a crocodile’s mouth.

The sea eel, which posed some danger to Chu Mingcheng initially, immediately had its most powerful weapon sealed; he grasped the fishing line with his right hand while also grabbing the sea eel’s neck, forcefully pulling it out.

Pulling the fishing line, the force was centered on the hook, which in fact didn’t fully convey the power on his side.

But grabbing the sea eel’s neck with both hands, the force acted directly on the eel, making it much easier to pull up.

This sea eel was really not smaller than a large python; its body was extremely thick, and his hands, which were not small, couldn’t grasp it completely.

Slowly, Chu Mingcheng pulled it out about a meter, only to realize there was still a long part of it inside the cave.

Having pulled out so much, yet only revealing its belly, one could imagine just how long this sea eel was.

The sea eel continually twisted its body, and its mucous coating made it very difficult for Chu Mingcheng to hold on.

If it weren’t for the fishing line, he might not have managed to handle it, likely resorting to using a harpoon to kill it before bringing it back to the boat.

After about ten more minutes of struggle, the entire sea eel was finally pulled out of the cave.

Seeing the sea eel, which could possibly be over three, maybe even four meters long, it was impossible for Chu Mingcheng not to be shocked.

At first glance, it really resembled a giant python; it was too exaggerated.

Chu Mingcheng turned around, directly tucking the sea eel under his armpit, controlling its head with both hands, and began swimming toward the surface.

The sea eel, having no leverage in the water, wasn’t very strong; he quickly reached the surface and swam towards the boat.

Upon checking, it turned out to be a red sea eel.

Thinking for a moment, he had no impression of this type of sea eel; it seemed he would need to check his encyclopedia on the boat.

Despite its length, the sea eel was unexpectedly not very heavy.

From the weight felt when lifting it, it’s estimated to be only around fifty to sixty pounds; Chu Mingcheng pulled it onto the boat quite effortlessly.

Holding the fishing line in one hand, he took a tie wrap from the tackle box, secured its mouth completely, and then used scissors to cut off the fishing line.

As for removing the hook from its mouth… it’s advised to let others try it.

He first thought of grabbing the scale and ruler from the cabin; however, the sea eel on the deck raised its head like a snake, appearing very restless.

Chu Mingcheng immediately slapped it on the head, “Even with your mouth tied, you still act tough!”

He then forced it into the fish box, shut the lid to prevent it from running around and spreading its mucus all over the deck.

Next, Chu Mingcheng wiped the water off his body and went inside the cabin to flip through his encyclopedia, locating the origin of this sea eel.

It turned out that this sea eel was scientifically known as the long-tailed bent-tooth sea eel, distributed in the Western Pacific region of India, including the southern part of Treasure Island Strait.

It is currently known as the longest sea eel, with a maximum body length of up to four meters.

No wonder Chu Mingcheng was startled when he pulled the entire sea eel out; he had felt it was around four meters long at the time.

Initially, he thought he had caught a sea eel that had exceeded the limits of its species, only to find out it could naturally grow that big.

He then took a ruler and scale back on the deck and measured the sea eel.

It wasn’t four meters, just 3.78 meters, and weighed fifty-one and two taels, lighter than he had imagined.

Rainwater and sea breeze slapped chaotically on Chu Mingcheng, making him shiver uncontrollably from the cold.

After putting the sea eel back into the box and locking the lid, he quickly took out another hook, reattached it, and then dove back into the water with a leap.

“Just right!”

The warmth of the water immediately restored the body temperature taken away by the sea breeze and rain, and Chu Mingcheng continued hunting leisurely.

With such a big sea eel, his afternoon’s task was essentially complete.

But it was only just one o’clock; he decided to see how things went before heading back at two.

He searched for a while, using a spear to probe some hidden areas to avoid almost being bitten like earlier.

After checking everywhere he could barely see clearly, he didn’t find a suitable target.

The deep water area was a bit dark; he only could head back to put on a headlight and then proceed to the deep water area.

Chu Mingcheng thought Emperor Fish would be nice; Brother Haiwang would probably like it too.

Thinking it over, he first went to check the sandbed about fifty meters deep.

Just as he arrived, a huge shadow flashed under the light and then disappeared.

Chu Mingcheng quickly turned his head and saw a particularly large Emperor Fish swimming in the water, which he immediately pursued.

The Emperor Fish was not slow, but being slightly bigger, it seemed to not move as quickly as the smaller ones, and Chu Mingcheng easily kept up with it.

However, he did not rashly move closer, fearing that he might startle it and make it difficult to catch.

After swimming for a while, the Emperor Fish slowly descended into a deeper area, and Chu Mingcheng dived down as well.

Below was still a seabed, but the depth was over twenty meters deeper than the previous one.

Chu Mingcheng checked his diving watch, and when he was above the sandbed, the depth had reached seventy-three meters.

This was the deepest he had dived so far, and he didn’t have a problem with ear pressure or discomfort in his body.

But unlike at shallower depths, here he began to feel a bit of heaviness, as if being squeezed from all directions.

Fortunately, it wasn’t severe, and he could still stay at this depth for a long time.

From today’s dive, Chu Mingcheng felt he could possibly dive down to one hundred meters and even fish and hunt in waters that deep.

But there wasn’t much need to, unless he encountered some particularly rare fish.

Generally speaking, from a certain perspective, it’s easier to fish for deep-sea fish using electric reels.

Having adapted to the water pressure here, Chu Mingcheng took out his fish spear, as the Emperor Fish are not fished alive much, and there’s not much difference in price between the live and dead ones.

Plus, it’s more likely that he and his team would eat it this afternoon, so catching a dead one would be easier.

Aim, and easily pierce through the fish’s head.

In an instant, sand and mud stirred on the seabed, blocking Chu Mingcheng’s sight.

He closed his eyes and pressed down hard with both hands to pin the fish to the seabed.

Since the hit was to the brain, the Emperor Fish didn’t struggle for long and soon went limp.

But Chu Mingcheng waited until the stirred-up mud had almost settled back down before lifting the fish to go back.

This was to avoid the fish’s muscle memory causing it to suddenly break free when he lifted it, potentially leading to its sharp fins hurting him.

The body of an Emperor Fish is long horizontally, and carelessly, one of its fins could give him a nasty cut.

Back on the boat, Chu Mingcheng wasn’t in the mood to weigh the fish, the Emperor Fish was big, but he estimated it to be around thirty pounds, and he directly placed it in a styrofoam box, then took out some crushed ice left from the night before and spread it over.

There wasn’t much crushed ice, so he had to make do.

Checking the time, only half an hour had passed, and Chu Mingcheng decided to go on one last hunt.

This time, he wouldn’t go to the sandy area but to the deep waters of the coral reef.

Although Chu Mingcheng had gone over this area before, given a bit of time, the vacancies would quickly fill up again.

It’s not because the fish here reproduce very fast, but because other fish find it a suitable place to live and stay.

Of course, Chu Mingcheng also couldn’t keep disturbing this area; doing this repeatedly would eventually wipe out all the fish here.

After coming here today, he wouldn’t return for a short while and would look for new hunting grounds.

Chu Mingcheng looked down at a crevice in a rock where he locked eyes with a Parrotfish.

Parrotfish: I’m panicking, what should I do?

However, Chu Mingcheng immediately left that spot, as the fish was only two or three pounds and wouldn’t sell for much.

Parrotfish: Aren’t you polite?

After a little while, he spotted another parrotfish, but it was smaller.

Moving around, he actually spotted some fish of decent size, but either they weren’t valuable, or Chu Mingcheng had already hunted them.

His goal now was to find a fish he had not yet encountered.

Chu Mingcheng swam over a small sandpit, when suddenly, he flipped his body, making a sharp stop.

Then, he turned around and looked down into the sandpit.

In the light of his head-mounted lamp, he spotted a fairly decent Grouper at the edge of the sandpit.

It looked to be around forty centimeters long, weighing about three pounds.

This fish wasn’t big, but Chu Mingcheng decided it was worth a try.

In the light, he recognized this Grouper as a Hawksbill Grouper, also known as Money spot.

This type of fish is generally small, and even a slightly bigger one is only about one or two pounds, so a forty-centimeter-long one like this is definitely quite large.

Thus, he even specifically took out a squid, cut off a small piece, and hooked it on, as a larger bait would be too much for it to handle.

The Money spot, camouflaged by its color right on the edge of the sandpit, never expected that night to go out to look for food and suddenly have a piece of food fall from the sky.

This was something it had never encountered before, and it didn’t expect to encounter such a stroke of luck today.

So why stand on ceremony, it swallowed the bait in a gesture of respect.

Little did it know that this bite would cause problems, the sharp pain in its mouth and a force it couldn’t resist bewildered it.

However, the instinctual desire for survival prompted it to try to spit out the foreign object in its mouth and frantically wag its tail to fight against this tremendous force.

It discovered, however, that all its efforts were in vain.

It was reluctantly brought before an enormous being and had its mouth controlled.

At this moment, the Money spot shed tears of regret that subsequently dissolved into the seawater.

Chu Mingcheng happily carried the Money spot back, with still about ten minutes to go until two o’clock, but his task for today was definitely complete.

Back on the boat, he weighed the Money spot, which was just over three pounds, at three pounds and two taels—a pretty decent catch.

He tossed it into the livewell, and Chu Mingcheng quickly grabbed a towel to wipe off the seawater and rain from his body and ran into the cockpit to shower and change.

After the shower, he started the fishing vessel to head home.

Once he had signal, he first made a call to Jiang Luoluo, “Luoluo, have Sea King and his crew arrived yet?”