Chapter 524: 332

The next afternoon, just after two o’clock, he spotted a school of fish on the fish finder again.

Compared to the beautiful coral reefs in the south, the northeast side mostly consisted of rock formations, and his current location was no exception.

However, the school of fish was located at a depth of about forty meters, so there was no need to get any closer.

Since there was a cluster of rocks, based on previous experience, there might also be groups of deep-sea fish nearby.

Chu Mingcheng manually steered the boat, starting to navigate around the rock cluster.

The fish finder occasionally showed traces of deep-sea fish, though not in large numbers.

It wasn’t until he reached directly east that there was a sudden drop-off in the seafloor, from over a hundred meters deep to more than three hundred meters, and there were also signs of fish activity.

Chu Mingcheng immediately became interested, as he had gone from summer to late autumn in the span of a day.

The day before yesterday in the south, the daytime temperature was still around thirty degrees.

After coming to this side, it immediately dropped to sixteen degrees, and the deep-sea was obviously even colder, fitting for the survival of fish that prefer colder water.

Clearly, the fish living on the seabed were cold-water fish, so he began to travel eastward.

The depth on the fish finder slowly increased, three hundred thirty, three hundred forty…

When it reached over three hundred and seventy meters, the fish finder suddenly showed a large patch of red: they had found a deep-sea school of fish.

But Chu Mingcheng did not stop there, choosing to continue forward. After driving for a while without further discoveries, he returned to the vicinity of the rock cluster.

The water was shallow here, with a patch of sandy ground that was quite suitable for anchoring the boat.

He planned to stay in this area for the day. Chu Mingcheng stopped the boat and turned off the engine, then put on his diving suit.

Seeing this, the killer whales immediately understood that there was no need to travel further today, and the leader promptly notified its companions to set off for a hunt.

Chu Mingcheng did not always take them to find Golden Spearfish; they only got the chance to enjoy the delicious fish and eat to their fill when they had helped a lot.

He didn’t bother with the killer whales, if they were still hungry later, they would come to find him.

After putting on his diving suit and grabbing the speargun as well as the necessary lighting equipment, he went to the stern and jumped into the water.

Ignoring the fish at the forty-meter depth for the time being, Chu Mingcheng began to dive down the eastern water channel.

He planned to first see what those deep-sea fish were and whether they were valuable.

As soon as he got to the seabed, a fish about thirty to forty centimeters long with brown patterns got startled and darted away in a “swoosh”.

Chu Mingcheng didn’t get a clear look but felt that its blurry shape looked somewhat familiar.

Then, he swam along the seabed toward the deep-water fish group.

Along this waterway, he occasionally spotted some flounders.

However, they weren’t very big, which lessened his interest in hunting.

The congregation of the fish group was not far. Chu Mingcheng, holding a flashlight for illumination, figured he was about to reach the area when he suddenly shone the light on a white wall ahead.

Not only that, but around the wall, many fish were swimming–seemingly, this was their home!

Chu Mingcheng was astonished, as the wall looked somewhat familiar.

His heart rate began to pick up, and he swept the flashlight across the so-called “wall”.

When he saw the neatly arranged row of windows, he finally confirmed that there was a sunken ship here.

Moreover, from the ship’s technologically advanced design, it was clear that this was a large yacht.

Of course, this sense of technology was somewhat outdated by modern standards.

Chu Mingcheng quickly swam to the top of the ship, shining the flashlight over the entire yacht to take a closer look.

This yacht was quite large, largely intact, and had an estimated length of only about fifty meters.

Of course, it was no match for a cruise liner.

After circling the yacht, Chu Mingcheng finally found the yacht’s name–a string of unintelligible Japanese characters. It turned out to be a yacht from Japan.

Good it sank; it had better sink even more, otherwise how would he hunt for treasures?

A fifty-meter-long yacht with three decks probably had many places to explore, possibly with dozens if not hundreds of rooms.

Checking his equipment, it was all designed for fishing and hunting.

Setting aside the items inside the sunken ship for now, the ship was home to quite a few fish.

If Chu Mingcheng wanted to explore the sunken ship, he would definitely need to bring more nets and ropes. He decided to pick up the speargun and prepare to hunt a batch of fish to take back.

Having come all this way, how could he return empty-handed!

So he approached the sunken ship, focusing on the swimming fish.

‘Huh, are these Big Head Cod?’

Upon getting closer, Chu Mingcheng immediately recognized the species of fish. It was a fairly common type of cod, also known as Pacific Cod.

This type of cod could be found in China’s Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, and in the north, it was sometimes referred to as “Datuoxing”, but was not commonly seen.

Mainly, these fish either lived on rocky plateaus or inside sunken ships.

Today, with the presence of a sunken ship and the fact that it was deep-sea, encountering the Big Head Cod wasn’t strange at all.

And now it was nearly November, just the time for the Big Head Cod season to arrive.

Chu Mingcheng quickly found a target, a Big Head Cod about eighty centimeters long with a round belly.

The fish moved very slowly as if it didn’t notice the danger at all.

However, Chu Mingcheng still took aim with the spear gun for about ten seconds before pulling the trigger.

“Swoosh~”

The speargun fired, and in an instant, the arrow penetrated the Big Head Cod’s head.

Taking such a careful aim was meant to ensure the fish’s body would remain as intact as possible.