Wu Hai is a fish farmer and has 40 years of experience in this field.
He is 57 years old this year, soon to reach the age of retirement. However, he doesn't want to retire so soon.
Over the years, by relying on fish farming, he turned his poor family into a small asset. Basically, all the money in his family was exchanged for the fish in the reservoir. Because of this, he has developed feelings for the fish.
Last year, after discussing with his son who just started working, he decided to expand the reservoir and reinforce the embankment on both sides of the reservoir.
In addition, according to his son's idea, he built a dozen pavilions on the embankment, preparing to attract people to fish here.
In another half a month, he will announce the slogan and open the business to the public.
Every once in a while, Wu Hai will paddle across the reservoir in a small boat. Sometimes, he will feed the fish in the reservoir, and sometimes, he will simply watch the fish.
Looking at the fish swimming in his hand, he felt happy from the bottom of his heart.
Splash!
At this moment, a splash suddenly appeared in front of him. Wu Hai glanced over there, and a smile appeared on his wrinkled face.
He knows that this is the fish swimming in the water.
Just as he was about to shift his gaze away and look elsewhere, the expression on his face suddenly froze.
He noticed that something was wrong.
On the surface of the water, there seems to be a little red dot. He was startled and quickly paddled the boat towards that direction.
When he arrived at that place, Wu Hai's expression became solemn.
He saw that on the surface of the water, a trace of scarlet blood is particularly eye-catching.
"Blood?"
Wu Hai raised his head and looked around, but he didn't notice any abnormalities. The calm water surface doesn't have any ripples, as if nothing happened.
He frowned and tried to look down at the water, but the water is too deep, he can't see the bottom.
At the moment, the sky is dim, the wide and calm water surface looks gloomy, especially in places a little further away.
Moreover, due to the depth of the reservoir, it was impossible to clearly see the situation in the water. Therefore, it always made people think that there might be some unknown and terrifying creatures in the water that they couldn't see, giving people a sense of oppression.
Wu Hai was sitting alone in a small boat, anchored in the center of this wide body of water, looking down at the bottom of the water. His expression was relaxed, not at all nervous.
After raising fish for so many years, he was already used to this kind of working environment.
This was not the first time he had seen blood suddenly appear in the water. In his previous experiences, he had also encountered such a situation.
One of them was the appearance of a half-meter-long mackerel in the reservoir. This fish grew fast, was large, and had delicious meat. It was a large economic freshwater fish.
There were also many farmers who cultivated this fish.
However, in Wu Hai's reservoir, he has never raised this kind of fish. He has always raised herbivorous fish like grass carp and mackerel.
Suddenly, a catfish appeared in the reservoir, which gave Wu Hai a fright.
The caterpillar fish was a ferocious carnivorous species that fed on other fishes. It had a long lifespan and could sometimes reach a length of more than one meter.
Who knows how the caterpillar fish got into the reservoir.
Perhaps when it was still a fry, it floated here in windy and rainy weather, or perhaps there were other reasons.
At that time, Wu Hai saw this caterpillar fish hunting a grass carp more than ten centimeters long, and in the process of eating it, blood flowed out of the grass carp, which was discovered by him.
After a lot of effort, he finally fished out the caterpillar fish.
Did this time, another caterpillar fish appeared in the reservoir?
Thinking of this, Wu Hai frowned.
If this is the case, then it will be troublesome. The reservoir is so big, wanting to fish out a fish from it is not an easy task.
The last time he encountered a caterpillar fish, he started his plan to sell fish in advance and used a sunken fishing net to catch all the fish in the reservoir.
Only then did he manage to catch the caterpillar fish.
Is it going to happen again this time?
However, his fishing pavilion has just been built and is about to open for business. If there are no fish in the reservoir, then what's the point of opening it?
Wu Hai straightened his body on the boat, letting out a long sigh of relief. His face couldn't help but show a touch of sadness.
However, immediately after, he paddled the boat, heading towards the shore with a contemplative look on his face.
What he didn't see was that under the surface of the water where he had just stopped, there was a terrifying giant python with a length of five meters, staring at his back as he left.
In fact, when Wu Hai was looking at the bottom of the water, this five-meter-long serpent was staring at him.
And this giant serpent is naturally Fang Yun.
He was the one who had caused the commotion earlier.
At that time, a caterpillar fish came to his side, then he launched an attack, but because this caterpillar fish is a bit big, it struggled fiercely after being bitten, splashing water on the surface of the water, attracting Wu Hai's attention.
This is not the result he wanted.
According to his plan, he should be hunting quietly, but this kind of accident happened, there's nothing to say. Moreover, this kind of small thing shouldn't cause a big movement.
After Wu Hai returned home, he thought about it, and finally decided to pay more attention to the situation in the reservoir in the next few days, trying his luck to see if he can catch the caterpillar fish.
In the next few days, Wu Hai basically stayed at the reservoir, which caused Fang Yun to suffer a lot.
Originally, he planned to start a crazy hunting mode during this time, but with Wu Hai watching him, it's not easy to act.
Moreover, several times when he was hunting, he was almost discovered by Wu Hai.
This old man in his fifties, his eyes are really sharp.
While Fang Yun was depressed, Wu Hai was also very depressed.
By now, he can be sure that his reservoir is in trouble.
In the past few days, he has seen water surging on the surface of the water five times, he knows that there are fish struggling underwater.
There was even one time when he saw water surging up from under the water, and then he saw a line of water swimming away into the distance.
Under the water line, it should be the culprit that swallowed his caterpillar fish.
At that time, Wu Hai immediately used the boat to chase after it, but the water line quickly disappeared, the culprit should have sunk to the bottom of the water.
However, there is one thing that is different from what he thought.
At first, Wu Hai thought that there was a caterpillar fish in his reservoir, but now it seems that this is not the case. Will the caterpillar fish hunt so frequently?
Just from what he saw, the culprit has already hunted five times, then how many times did it hunt when he didn't see it?
Now he suspects that there are several carnivorous fish in the reservoir.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain why his caterpillar fish are being hunted so frequently.
Wu Hai stayed in the boat almost all day long, preparing a fishing net on the boat. He is going to try his luck to see if he can catch the several carnivorous fish in the reservoir.
Because of Wu Hai's abnormal behavior, the trouble his reservoir encountered also spread in the village.
Later, several villagers said that when they passed by the reservoir, they saw fish swimming in the reservoir, and one villager said that he saw blood coming out of the water.
This kind of mysterious rumor made Wu Hai's reservoir the center of discussion in the village.
Everyone is guessing what kind of fish appeared in Wu Hai's reservoir. Some people said that it's a caterpillar fish or a black fish.
Some people said that it's like a big turtle in the animal world.
Some people also suspect that the reservoir is a piranha.
After the last statement was put forward, it suddenly became popular in the village.
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