I Can Fish Up Everything!

Chapter 354: Chapter 234: At Least 100,000

When the long, yellow metal tube was hauled to the surface, Gu Nan was surprised, but he also found that it wasn’t a complete shock.

From the moment he started reeling it in, he had already sensed that what he’d hooked probably wasn’t a fish.

After all, any fish, no matter how powerful, would steadily grow weaker against the fishing rod Gu Nan had gotten from the game.

But the thing he’d hooked today wasn’t a living creature; it had no stamina to drain in the first place!

"Holy shit! Is that a foreign listening device?" An Jun asked in disbelief. "These things still exist?"

Ye Jing said, "Of course they do. Over the past few years, there have been news reports every now and then about fishermen netting listening devices. It’s not that strange for Ah Nan to hook one."

"So this is a listening device!" Yi Chen grabbed the rope from the crane, secured it around the device, and examined it with curiosity. "I heard you can get money for these things?"

Gu Nan nodded with a smile. "Yep. Around here, I think the reward for one is a hundred thousand yuan."

"Those foreigners sure are nice. They know we fishermen have it tough out at sea, so they go out of their way to send us a little spending money."

A hundred thousand yuan was no small sum.

An Jun clicked his tongue and shook his head. "A hundred thousand yuan... even a typical bluefin tuna doesn’t sell for that much. Now *that’s* a valuable fish!"

Just then, Xu Zhina asked a soul-searching question. "If it’s a listening device, does that mean everything we’re saying is being bugged right now?"

Gu Nan and the others stared at each other. They only knew it was some kind of foreign device called a listening device; how were they supposed to know the technical details of how it worked!

"Forget it. Who cares if it’s listening? We can’t let a hundred thousand yuan just slip away." Gu Nan waved a hand dismissively, then started the crane and hauled the metal tube aboard.

The metal tube was a full two meters long, with what appeared to be signal-receiving devices on its sides.

Gu Nan’s hook had caught perfectly on one of these side fins, lodging itself firmly. Otherwise, he never would have been able to pull it up.

"Should we head back now?" Ye Jing asked.

Having hooked a metal tube like this, his first instinct was that they should hurry back and turn it in.

Gu Nan shook his head. "Of course not. We’ll stick to our original plan and come back after we’ve fished the whole circuit. The tube’s on board; it’s not going anywhere!"

"We’ll have to take a few days off when we get back anyway, so that will be the perfect time to go claim our reward."

The others agreed that made sense, so they went back to their fishing.

It was another day of getting a free boat trip. Not only was it fun, but they could also sell the fish they caught to Gu Nan. With that in mind, they planned to fish all night.

However, once it hit midnight, Gu Nan shooed them all off to bed.

Their target location was still some distance away, so he planned to pilot the boat through the night. An Jun and Ye Jing could take over his shift in the morning, and they’d head straight for their destination.

Piloting a boat can be a tedious affair, but now that they had a mobile base station providing internet access, it wasn’t so boring.

Especially on TikTok late at night. ’What is this stuff it’s recommending? Does the algorithm have to be *this* good?’

Gu Nan was snapped out of his daze by a sudden commotion on the sea’s surface. Shaking himself from his stupor, he was surprised to realize he’d been scrolling for over two hours without noticing.

If he hadn’t heard the familiar, high-pitched calls, he probably would have kept right on scrolling.

But those calls had nothing to do with him. Gu Nan glanced up, and just as he was about to go back to his phone, his head snapped up in astonishment.

He quickly took manual control of the fishing boat and slowed down, because the pod of chattering creatures had moved right into his path.

’Killer whales, as I thought.’ They were certainly bold. If he hadn’t been paying attention, he might have collided with them.

Of course, the chance of that was minuscule. After all, killer whales weren’t stupid; they knew how to dodge.

Although he had cut the engine, the fishing boat was still gliding forward with momentum. Gu Nan estimated the distance and, seeing there was no risk of collision, didn’t bother changing course.

However, just as the fishing boat was coming to a halt, there was a sudden THUMP. Something had hit the boat. The impact wasn’t strong; it felt more like a light bump.

Gu Nan wasn’t worried about the hull being damaged by such a light tap. He was simply curious as to why something would collide with the boat after it had already stopped.

He went to the foredeck, resting his hands on the gunwale and staring at the turbulent surface of the water.

’Clearly, things were chaotic under the surface. Maybe this was more than just a simple encounter with a pod of killer whales?’

The next moment, a great white shark—its cavernous maw filled with razor-sharp teeth—suddenly breached the surface.

Gu Nan’s eyes widened in astonishment. ’Killer whales hunting a shark?’

’So that commotion was the shark panicking and trying to escape?’

The great white was huge. Although only the upper half of its body had breached the water, he estimated it had to be three and a half or even four meters long.

A great white of that size was likely a young adult. However, in these waters, it was rare for one to grow much larger than four meters.

This one was just unlucky to have run into a pod of killer whales.

The great white shark looked incredibly fierce, but against killer whales, it was as helpless as an infant.

The only reason the great white was still moving was that the killer whales were toying with it.

But perhaps his presence was the trigger, because the killer whales finally began their attack.

Three massive killer whales worked in concert. One created a powerful wake, making it impossible for the great white to control its movements.

A second killer whale then shot past from underneath, using its body to ram the great white and flip it upside down.

As soon as the great white was flipped onto its back, it went still.

Then, a third killer whale opened its jaws and bit into the shark’s abdomen, tearing open its soft underbelly.

Blood instantly billowed out, staining the surface of the water red.

Gu Nan had already raised his phone to film the once-in-a-lifetime scene. His eyes were wide as he watched one of the killer whales pull the great white shark’s enormous liver right out of its body.