Chapter 365: Chapter 240: The Awakened Behemoth in the Shipwreck (2)

The only issue was the lack of partitions, so some sea creatures that couldn’t be kept together had to be separated into crates.

For instance, take crabs and fish. A large fish might swallow a crab whole, while a crab could easily tear up a small fish, so they had to be kept separate.

However, Gu Nan usually used the live-well under the deck for large fish or other more formidable sea creatures, while smaller fish went into the large tank at the stern.

After stowing the lobsters, Gu Nan continued his descent.

He’d just run into a huge swarm of lobsters near a single leather bucket. Since he’d gotten lucky, he naturally kept searching. What if there was another one?

This time, however, Gu Nan was a bit disappointed. There was only one bucket, and he didn’t find any more clusters of lobsters.

He did, however, spot quite a few large, swimming fish, each one looking to be at least ten pounds or more.

Meanwhile, the huge creature that had been drawn by the sound of the bucket had gone back to dozing inside the ship’s hold now that everything was quiet again.

Broad daylight wasn’t its active period; it only came out to hunt at night.

Unless, like just a moment ago, some commotion attracted its attention.

Seeing so many large fish, Gu Nan quickly loaded his speargun and switched into hunting mode.

Just as you’d expect from a shipwreck, the resources were unbelievably good.

Whether spearfishing or angling, you were guaranteed a good haul.

Actually, coming here to fish from the boat would be more convenient and efficient.

But since Gu Nan had already put on his wetsuit, not spearing a stringer of fish would feel a bit disrespectful to the speargun in his hands.

The water was dim, and the nearest fish were over twenty feet away. He could only guess at their species by their silhouettes.

So, he immediately aimed his speargun at a fish whose silhouette resembled a snapper.

This one was quite large, possibly weighing over twenty pounds.

THWANG! The spear shot through the water and pierced the large fish’s body.

Gu Nan immediately grabbed the line and let go of the speargun.

An immense force tugged on the line. The fish was definitely big, and it had plenty of Power.

Instead of bolting for a rocky crevice, it swam off into the distance.

Gu Nan kicked his fins continuously, following in the direction the fish was fleeing.

He hadn’t even been holding his breath for two and a half minutes, so he had enough time for now.

He could certainly haul the fish back if he pulled hard enough.

But that would tear the wound wider. The difference between a veteran spearfisher and a novice is that no matter how big the fish, the veteran keeps the wound as small as possible.

A veteran will try to play the fish, letting it tire out to avoid widening the wound and lowering its value.

The more torn the flesh, the less the fish is worth.

Gu Nan had a long breath-hold time, so he could afford to follow the fish and wear it down in the water.

If he had already been underwater for a long time, his only option would be to let out the line, return to the surface for air, and then come back down to find the fish.

Wasting a little time was nothing; it wasn’t worth suffocating in the sea for a fish.

If he were angling, Gu Nan could have reeled in a twenty-plus-pound fish with ease.

But with spearfishing, that wasn’t an option. He could only follow behind the fish and wait for it to run out of energy. An injured fish can’t keep swimming forever.

However, after swimming for about thirty meters, the fish suddenly changed direction and darted into a rocky crevice.

Luckily, Gu Nan had been following it closely. Otherwise, it would have been a real hassle. He would have had to spend a lot of extra time getting the fish out and might have even needed to surface for another breath.

Seeing the fish’s move, he immediately yanked hard on the line. At this point, he no longer had to worry about whether the wound would widen.

The fish seemed to have been using its last ounce of strength. After that one tug, it went limp, stopped moving its tail, and let its body drift with the current.

Seeing this, Gu Nan quickly reeled in the line and started swimming toward the surface.

As long as he could pull the fish up ten-odd meters, he wouldn’t have to worry about it reviving and trying to dart back into the crevice.

Gu Nan surfaced first to catch his breath, then slowly pulled the fish over.

It took three or four minutes, but he successfully retrieved the fish.

He was pleasantly surprised when he saw the fish. It was a bluespotted snapper, a very nice catch. It was also expensive, with a unit price that could reach over two hundred.

He removed the spear and inspected the wound. Not bad. It wasn’t too large.

After bleeding the fish and putting it on his stringer, Gu Nan descended again, returning to the shipwreck.

This time, he spotted the silhouette of a grouper. He got closer and took a shot, and the grouper immediately darted into a cave.

It took him a good while to get the fish out, but luckily the line hadn’t been frayed by the rocks.

The fish was over half a meter long. When he got it to the surface, he thought at first glance that it was a large green grouper.

But a closer look revealed some differences.

This wasn’t a cheap green grouper, but a sesame grouper, with a price that could reach over a hundred.

The spots on a green grouper are larger and irregularly shaped.

The orange dots on a sesame grouper are smaller and more perfectly round. Also, unlike the green grouper, a sesame grouper has no spots on its belly.

Sesame groupers are typically only two or three pounds and rarely exceed five. To find one like Gu Nan’s, weighing more than ten pounds, was extraordinary.

It was a truly rare sight. He figured it would easily fetch one hundred and fifty.

If it were alive, selling it for two hundred wouldn’t be out of the question.

There were pros and cons. Spearfishing usually yielded a better and more targeted harvest than angling.

But the catch from spearfishing was always chilled, not live, so the price naturally couldn’t compare.

For a while, the THWANG of the speargun echoed around the shipwreck intermittently. Each sound marked the demise of another large fish.

Time slowly passed, and Gu Nan’s breathing grew a little ragged.

He glanced at his fish stringer. It was full.

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