Epinephelus latifasciatus

  Tang Zhendong thought of this and carefully looked at the reefs around the big clam. He quickly floated to the surface of the sea.

  "I'm over here!" Tang Zhendong stood on the reef, loudly shouting towards the distant small boat holding a megaphone.

  The fishing boat was approaching rapidly, but the sea area on this side is densely packed with underwater reefs, making it completely unsuitable for fishing boats to approach. The fishing boat struggled with all its might and finally couldn't move forward at a distance of tens of meters from Tang Zhendong.

  "Tang Zhendong, are you okay?" Tang Zhendong was far away, but he could see Qingying standing at the bow of the boat with a tear-stained face.

  "It's okay, I'm fine."

  After Tang Zhendong answered Yu Qingying's words, he jumped into the water and swam towards the fishing boat. On the fishing boat, Yu Qingying tightly hugged Tang Zhendong and cried loudly, "You rascal, you scared me to death! Do you know that it's been more than four hours? We've searched this entire sea area and you almost gave me a heart attack!"

  Tang Zhendong patted Yu Qingying's back, "It's okay, it's okay, look at me, I'm fine. Besides, you promised to meet my conditions, and I haven't even mentioned them yet, how can you just leave like this?"

  "Don't let you say such things!" Yu Qingying covered Tang Zhendong's crow mouth with one hand.

  "Good, don't say it, don't say it." However, as Tang Zhendong spoke, his lips were pressed against Yu Qingying's slender and delicate white hand. As Tang Zhendong spoke, his lips inevitably came into close contact with Yu Qingying's small hand, and Yu Qingying could also feel the scorching breath transmitted from Tang Zhendong's mouth to her hand.

  The fishing boat was about to turn around and head back to the fishing village after receiving Tang Zhendong, but Tang Zhendong waved his hand, "Wait a minute, wait for a while."

  Tang Zhendong suddenly shouted and scared Yu Qingying in his arms, "Zhendong, what's wrong?"

  Tang Zhendong ran into the control room, "Wait a minute, I caught a fish and forgot to bring it, just wait a minute."

  The fisherman heard Tang Zhendong's words and couldn't help but get angry. It was all because you casually went out to sea, and so many people spent half a day looking for you together. Not to mention that everyone's work was delayed, but also implicated yourself didn't sleep well. Now hearing him say he even caught a fish, and didn't bring it back, made the fisherman so angry that his nose almost smoked.

  "What fish? You want to eat fish, I have plenty at home."

  Tang Zhendong found his attitude somewhat impatient and didn't bother to explain. Of course, he couldn't say that this was the big fish my girlfriend saw, I killed it, and now it's stuck in the crevice of the reef.

  "Wait for a moment, I'll be right there."

  Tang Zhendong plunged into the sea again and swam towards the reef where he had released the fish earlier.

  Just now, Tang Zhendong's dantian was empty and he had no strength at all, and it was really impossible to drag that big fish. However, Tang Zhendong has now recovered more than half of his physical strength, although the empty dantian has not been restored immediately, but he is much stronger than an ordinary person. Tang Zhendong himself lifted the big fish, with the help of the buoyancy of the water, and dragged it towards the fishing boat.

  The boatman thought Tang Zhendong was joking when he said he caught a fish, and even if he wasn't joking, he didn't think Tang Zhendong would catch such a huge fish, his jaw dropped in shock, almost hitting the deck.

  Others may not know what kind of fish this is, but he knows it's a grouper. And the ferocity of this grouper he is aware of, this nearly two-meter-long grouper weighs at least 300-400 pounds and has boundless strength, is an ocean-dominating class of fish.

  The fishermen were shocked to death, and the people on the boat were even more shocked. Especially Xu Zhijun was the most shocked, he originally thought that Tang Zhendong would encounter such a big fish, it must be unlucky, and his life would be lost in the mouth of the fish. But he did not expect that Tang Zhendong could actually kill this big fish, although he didn't know how the fish died specifically, but looking at Tang Zhendong dragging the big fish, the fish was definitely dead beyond dead.

  Qingying and Wang Xiaolin did not expect that Tang Zhendong would actually catch the big fish they found on the shore, and even beat it to death.

  The fish was much bigger than everyone's imagination. Perhaps it didn't look big in the sea, but when Tang Zhendong pulled up the fishermen's rope and pulled the big fish onto the boat, everyone was completely stunned.

  To say nothing of the others, just talking about when everyone pulled this fish up, it took four fishermen and Xu Zhijun's help to finally pull the fish up.

  Everyone in their hearts had the same sentence, "What a big fish!"

  However, there was no scale on the fishing boat, and it was impossible to weigh the fish. According to the experience of several fishermen, the fish weighed no less than 400 catties.

  Qingying pulled Tang Zhendong's arm and asked timidly from behind, "Such a big fish, how did you catch it?"

  "I was dragged here by this fish, how did you find me?"

  "We searched all around the beach where you were last seen and couldn't find you, I was worried to death, then slowly expanded the search area until we found you here."

  "How is it? Is this place quite far from the beach where we played?" Tang Zhendong noticed Yu Qingying's tone of speech and felt that what they were looking for was not close.

  Xu Zhijun and Wang Xiaolin and others heard Tang Zhendong's words, but they didn't say anything either, because they also didn't know how far away the place where Tang Zhendong fell into the water was from here.

  However, they didn't know that the fishermen knew. "Actually, it's not too far away, our boat will probably take about half a day to get there, and it's just diagonally opposite from where you first jumped off."

  Tang Zhendong didn't know that he had chased the big fish for so long, no wonder Yu Qingying and the others couldn't find him around.

  "What kind of fish is this? It's so big!" Everyone turned their attention back to the large fish after hearing Tang Zhendong's thrilling story.

  "This is a stone moray eel, it's an extremely ferocious fish species. Look at its sharp teeth, they can bite through most fishing nets. Even if it can't bite through, the force of its body is enough to drag the entire fishing boat. If you're not careful, a boat as big as ours could be dragged underwater."

  "What? So fierce?"

  "This is normal, like such a big fish, I really don't know whether your friend encountered a dead one or actually caught it. I just know that last year in Qingdao's Jimo, someone also caught a 2-meter-long stone bass, but what you don't know is that the fish dragged the fishing boat for over 20 nautical miles. In the sea, encountering such a big fish is a disaster for us fishermen."

  The words of the fisherman led everyone into deep thought, they saw dead fish, and naturally would not think of the terrifying power of this fish. But Tang Zhendong was a personal experiencer, he knew how frightening this fish was.

  Tang Zhen suddenly thought of the relationship between this huge stone bass and that big clam. Perhaps this stone bass is the guardian of the big clam, or perhaps this big stone bass discovered the spiritual black pearl inside the big clam and wanted to snatch it, but unexpectedly got ahead of itself.