Chapter 362: Chapter 239: A Thousand-Year Demon, a Thousand-Year Fish

’Heh heh, you’re not getting away this time!’

Gu Nan activated the electric reel. No point in wearing himself out.

But unexpectedly, this little devil was surprisingly fierce. For a moment, the electric reel couldn’t overpower it, and they were at a standstill.

This alone told him that the fish underwater was definitely not small, which made Gu Nan even more excited.

After all, when you go out to sea, catching a big one is the ultimate goal for any angler.

[Holy crap, I was wondering why it’s been so quiet for so long. I thought the host’s luck had run out, but it turns out he was just saving up for the main event!]

[Seriously! Everyone else is catching small fish, little Black Perch, and he’s over there wrestling with a monster. How is that fair? Where’s the justice?]

[I’m actually really curious what kind of fish this is. The rod tip was twitching on and off for a while, playing with the bait for ages without taking the hook. Now it seems like it’s a big one. What kind of sea fish plays around with its food for half the day before biting?]

[Could it be a red sea bream? I’ve had this happen with red sea bream before. They’re so damn playful. It ate several of my sandworms and still got away in the end.]

It wasn’t just Gu Nan who was curious; the viewers in the live stream were dying to know, too!

The rod was bent severely, occasionally letting out a "CREAK CREAK" sound as the fish struggled with all its might.

The fishing line cut through the water’s surface, pulled taut.

Everyone else on the boat had noticed the commotion on his end. Speechless, they were also curious about what kind of monster he had hooked.

An Jun tossed a fish he was holding into the fish box and hurried over. "A big one?"

"It’s alright. It can hold its own against the electric reel, so it’s probably around seventy or eighty, maybe even a hundred jin. I’m already tired of catching them this big!"

Gu Nan chuckled, dealing a sharp blow to his ego.

’This guy catches one Black Perch that’s half a meter long and dares to show off in front of me? I was catching fish that weighed hundreds of jin before he even became an angler!’

"..."

An Jun’s face twitched. ’What a petty friend,’ he thought. ’All I did was show off a slightly bigger catch. Does he really have to hold such a grudge?’

But he didn’t leave. He was getting a little tired of reeling in fish anyway, so this was a good chance to take a break and lend a hand if needed.

Gu Nan paid him no mind. After letting the electric reel tire the fish out a bit, he saw the line slowly start to retract and knew the fish was getting exhausted.

He then grabbed the handle and began to assist the electric reel in pulling in the line.

The fish would still put up a fight sometimes, but he just forcefully reeled it in, giving it no chance to resist.

Even though the line was only out about twenty meters initially, the fish’s escape after taking the bait had pulled it out to seventy or eighty meters. Although he was reeling it in now, the fish was constantly fighting back, so the retrieval speed wasn’t fast.

After about ten minutes, a massive creature the size of a door panel appeared on the water’s surface.

"A red sea bream?" Those on the boat who saw the fish were skeptical. Do red sea bream even get this big?

But as the fish was pulled alongside the boat, they saw the patterns on its body and understood. It wasn’t a red sea bream, but a Thousand-year Snapper.

Coincidentally, they had caught this type of fish before, so they recognized it.

"Hiss... A Thousand-year Snapper this big... Don’t tell me it broke a record?" Ye Jing said, clicking his tongue in amazement.

Yi Chen, looking at the information she had just pulled up on her phone, shook her head. "I checked. This fish can grow up to 1.25 meters. This one is probably just over a meter, so at most it’s broken the Yangjiang Port record."

As she spoke, she took the opportunity to point the camera right at the fish.

Gu Nan called An Jun over to help, and they used the crane to hoist the fish aboard.

The viewers in the stream, who hadn’t thought the fish was that big just moments ago, now had someone standing next to it for scale. Their eyes nearly popped out of their heads.

Seeing someone else catch such a monstrous fish with their own eyes... it was an indescribably bitter feeling.

They were all anglers. Who wouldn’t wish they were the one to land the big one?

At the same time, a group of big shots in the group chat began to frantically bid on the fish.

A fish this large was exceedingly rare; you might not see one all year. Plus, the Thousand-year Snapper was a very desirable fish, so it was no surprise they were going crazy for it.

While the fish was suspended in mid-air, Yi Chen deliberately aimed the camera at the screen on the side of the crane.

It displayed 73.6 jin, which would help the big shots make better offers.

The market price for a Thousand-year Snapper is around a hundred yuan per jin. Selling this one for a premium of ten thousand yuan wouldn’t be a problem.

Trying to buy it without paying a premium? Dream on!

Today, Wang Junhe and Guo Xiao were both pretty quiet and didn’t join the bidding war. In the end, the fish was sold to a boss for a price of twelve thousand yuan.

The two of them were still waiting for bluefin tuna and weren’t particularly interested in anything else for the time being.

The buyer was a boss from a neighboring province. They would arrange for shipping after the boat returned to port, with the buyer covering the freight costs.

When Gu Nan learned the fish was sold and that the boss wanted it shipped chilled, he immediately bled the fish on the spot. All of this was filmed to avoid any disputes about the weight being lower after bleeding.

Even if he dared to keep the fish alive, the boss might not have wanted it that way.

The payment had already been made in full. If it died, who would bear the loss?

The freshness of a live fish that is bled and chilled is a completely different concept from a fish that is bled and chilled after it has died. The difference in freshness and meat quality is huge, so it was better to just chill it immediately for preservation.

Aside from this Thousand-year Snapper, no other big catches appeared that night.

Everyone caught a lot of Black Perch. Gu Nan and Yi Chen alone caught five boxes, totaling around two hundred seventy or eighty jin.

He hadn’t calculated the exact total, just simply weighed one full box, which was a little over fifty-six jin, and made a rough estimate.

...

「The next day」

The Nanchen was unusually quiet in the early morning. Having fished until past three in the morning, everyone was sleeping in.

Gu Nan was the first to wake up, having recovered quickly.

He glanced at his little wife, who was wrapped around him like an octopus. Seeing how exhausted she looked, he decided not to "beat" her awake and let her off the hook for today.

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