Chapter 367: Chapter 240: The Big Guy Awakened in the Shipwreck

Gu Nan swam toward the surface, paying out the line. More than half of the eighty-meter line whizzed out in an instant.

Luckily, the deepest part here was only about fifty meters. After taking a breath, Gu Nan followed the line down, searching for the grouper’s location.

A short while later, Gu Nan reached the seabed.

But, to his exasperation, the giant grouper was just lying at the entrance of the shipwreck’s stairwell.

It could still move, but it was on its last breath.

Apparently, even a creature like this couldn’t handle having its brain pierced. The fact that it managed to swim back to the shipwreck was a testament to its tenacious life force.

Gu Nan felt a wave of lingering fear. ’Good thing it was the brain. If I’d hit its body, I probably would have had to go inside the shipwreck to get the fish out. Who knows what kind of venomous creatures are in that ship? The last thing I want is to go in there.’

The fish was barely moving now. Gu Nan moved closer, sized up the grouper’s massive body, and finally grabbed it by the gill cover to lift it.

’Can’t touch the tail. Who knows if it might suddenly struggle and take a swing at me? A slap like that would probably knock me senseless.’

It was heavy. Unbelievably heavy.

He was holding a six-and-a-half-foot beast and had another 220 pounds of fish hanging from him. The total weight was at least 550 pounds.

This was only possible in the sea. On land, the weight would have pinned him to the ground, unable to move.

And this was only after his body had been enhanced. Before, he would have needed to make two trips to get all these fish onto the boat.

Gu Nan struggled to swim with the giant grouper, but things got much easier as he neared the surface.

The negative buoyancy at the bottom meant it took more effort to bring the fish up.

At the surface, the seawater supported the weight, cutting the required effort by more than half.

He finally broke the surface, but the boat was still dozens of meters away.

Everyone on the boat was asleep. He was on his own for this.

Gu Nan gasped for breath. Even though the fish could now float, dragging over 550 pounds was still no joke.

He had been spearfishing for over an hour and wasn’t in peak condition.

He slowly swam toward the boat, moving at a snail’s pace.

Covering those last few dozen meters took him more than ten minutes.

Fortunately, he finally made it back to the side of the boat. Without pausing to rest, Gu Nan first attached the fish stringer to the stern, then climbed aboard himself.

Then, he pulled the fishing line to the side of the boat, quickly grabbed the sling from the crane, and prepared to hoist the fish up first.

If he lost the fish on the stringer, he’d be upset for a bit. But if he lost this monster, he’d regret it even if he were burned to ashes.

’Too bad everyone on the boat is still asleep. I can’t show this off right away. I wonder if the shock value will have worn off by the time they wake up.’

He looped the sling around the fish’s tail, pulled hard to tighten the rope, and then rushed over to start the crane.

As the crane started, the giant grouper was slowly lifted from the sea, dangling in mid-air.

He had finally succeeded in getting the fish onto the boat. Gu Nan let out a sigh of relief.

’That’s at least sixty thousand yuan in the bag. Even if I don’t run into any bluefin tuna this trip, I’ve already made a killing.’

Making a hundred thousand or so on a single trip was definitely a lot. After all, this was a sport-fishing boat, not one of those massive trawlers that scraped the ocean floor.

Besides, those trawlers might not even make this much in three or four days. If it were really that easy, the number of fishermen in the country would double or triple.

After hauling the giant grouper aboard, Gu Nan turned off the crane and glanced at the weight reading.

385.7 pounds!

’Awesome!’

Gu Nan immediately gave the fish a mental thumbs-up. ’Couldn’t even spare a few more ounces. If I’d known, I would’ve fed it a mouthful of water earlier.’

Of course, that was just a joke. This wasn’t the fish’s actual weight.

Having just been lifted from the sea, it was still covered in water. It would probably be a pound or two lighter after a while.

After checking the weight, Gu Nan hurried back to the stern to haul up the fish he had speared earlier. It was over 220 pounds of fish, all of them large and valuable. If some other big fish had come by and snatched them, he wouldn’t be able to sleep that night.

Luckily, there were no problems. The presence of the giant grouper must have scared away the smaller, more numerous sharks.

If he had run into a large shark, that would have actually been good luck for Gu Nan.

Once he had the fish on board, Gu Nan pulled out his phone. He took a selfie with his smaller catch, then another with the giant grouper dangling in mid-air. He sent the selfie with the grouper to Wang Junhe and Guo Xiao.

’They weren’t interested in the millennium snapper. What about this one?’

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