Chapter 139: Bluefin Tuna
The grouper Yun Jiao has discovered should weigh around ten jin.
She darted over to catch it, but the grouper was also clever and immediately ran out from under the reef.
It fled quickly.
Yun Jiao quickly chased after it.
Neither the sea turtle nor the whale shark was as fast as her.
By the time Yun Jiao caught up and knocked the grouper unconscious, she turned back to find her friends were gone.
Yun Jiao: ………
Just as she was about to call the sea turtle and whale shark by singing, a large school of fish suddenly swept overhead.
Yun Jiao’s eyes lit up.
It’s no wonder she was so excited; those fish were edible, and most importantly, they were enormous!
They were at least two meters long in their adult form.
And they were swimming in a school, creating a huge spectacle. What’s the difference between that and a pile of money swimming past you?
Yun Jiao held the grouper in her hand and unhesitatingly rushed towards those fish.
The bluefin tuna swam very fast. Just as Yun Jiao was about to catch up, the school of fish suddenly panicked and swam rapidly in another direction.
Yun Jiao: ???
“Wuwuwu~~~”
An overly joyful sound was heard, and Yun Jiao finally understood why the school of fish had fled so quickly.
As expected, the orca pod soon appeared in her vision.
Yun Jiao angrily slapped the head of the baby orca that was charging at her like a cannonball, though she controlled her strength and didn’t hit too hard.
Although it didn’t hurt, the baby orca looked aggrieved, wondering why it was being hit.
Yun Jiao patted its head: “You came too late, scaring away my prey.”
‘Prey, delicious food~’
The baby orca became completely energized.
Yun Jiao: “First, accompany me to catch fish.”
The baby orca cheerfully called out a few times to the orca pod behind it.
As apex predators in the ocean, prey targeted by orcas generally couldn’t escape.
The bluefin tuna school hadn’t gone too far. At the call of Yun Jiao and the baby orca, they immediately chased after the fish school.
They were experienced hunters and divided into different directions to pursue.
Yun Jiao grabbed the dorsal fin of an adult orca and was whisked through the water at high speed without having to swim herself.
Other marine creatures saw the orca pod and scattered in all directions.
It didn’t take long for them to catch up to the bluefin tuna school.
The school of fish became even more panicked.
“That one.”
Yun Jiao targeted a bluefin tuna weighing around two hundred jin.
With a wave of her little hand, the orca immediately gave chase.
“Holy crap, what was that that just zoomed past?”
Yun Jiao and the others had now arrived in a different sea area, and this area happened to have fishing boats.
“Just now… did a school of fish just pass by?”
The people on the boat widened their eyes, leaning over the boat to look out at the sea.
“It looks like tuna, it’s a school of tuna!”
They became excited. Tuna! Catching just one would be enough for their family to live without worry for a long time.
Just as they were preparing to cast their nets, another voice on the boat suddenly shouted in terror.
“Dad, quickly, we need to leave here, behind us… quickly look behind you.”
The triangular dorsal fins of the orcas visible above the sea surface were quite intimidating, let alone the size of the orcas themselves.
Their small wooden boat wouldn’t even withstand a single collision.
The people on the boat no longer cared about catching fish and quickly rowed away, trying to escape.
But their speed was no match for the orcas, and they could only watch as they collided.
The father and son on the boat closed their eyes in despair, waiting to die, but after a moment, they suddenly realized the boat had only shaken and hadn’t been hit.
When they nervously looked out at the sea, they only saw the orcas that had already swum far away, and a flash of white.
Before they could get a clear look, the orcas had disappeared.
Having survived, the father and son on the boat felt their legs go weak.
“That… that was an orca, right?”
“Good, good thing it wasn’t a shark.”
They had actually bypassed their boat.
Without a doubt, they now knew that the school of tuna was the orcas’ prey.
What a pity; they encountered a school of tuna but didn’t even have time to cast their nets.
It was like a dream, with a beautiful dream at the beginning and a nightmare afterward.
And at this moment, Yun Jiao and the orca pod had surrounded the fish Yun Jiao wanted.
The other bluefin tuna directly abandoned this fish and fled.
The bluefin tuna tried to escape again, but an orca slapped it into the air with its tail. It spun a few times and then fell back into the sea.
It was stunned.
Yun Jiao went over to check. Fortunately, it wasn’t dead.
“Let’s go, we’re going home.”
Having caught such a large prey, Yun Jiao didn’t think about continuing to search the seabed. She directly grabbed the bluefin tuna by the tail with one hand and the baby orca’s dorsal fin with the other, swimming back.
When swimming back, she didn’t need the speed of a pursuit, so she swam more slowly.
Upon reaching the sea area where her father and the others were, Yun Jiao saw the sea turtle and whale shark searching everywhere for her.
Upon seeing the orca pod, their first reaction was to flee.
Even a creature as large as a whale shark was afraid of orcas.
Although whale sharks were larger, their combat power was not on the same level.
Orcas were top ocean predators with strong aggression, and not only whale sharks but even large fish like sperm whales were their prey.
Whale sharks grew to such a large size, but they fed on plankton and small fish. They had gentle personalities and were not very aggressive.
“Wait, don’t run, it’s me, I’m back…”
The whale shark continued to flee; it didn’t matter who it was, its life was important.
The turtle’s flippers were a blur as it swam; it had only one thought: escape, escape, escape…
Only the little sea turtle paused when it heard Yun Jiao’s voice and looked back.
Seeing Yun Jiao, it happily flapped its way over.
It could only be said that a newborn calf fears no tiger.
This little sea turtle had probably never experienced the wrath of an orca.
Fortunately, although the orcas were curious about the little sea turtle, they didn’t play with it.
Facing the orcas’ large size and aggressive nature, the little sea turtle was still afraid and swam to Yun Jiao’s side, sticking close to her and not daring to wander off.
Yun Jiao glanced at the whale shark and the large sea turtle that had already disappeared, and could only sigh helplessly.
She would look for them later.
After successfully finding her family’s boat, even with her great strength, it was still challenging for Yun Jiao alone to get such a large two-hundred-jin tuna onto the boat.
She could only first get the grouper onto the boat and put it in a large bucket separately, then have the orcas guard the fish while she went to find her father and brothers.
The little sea turtle also clung to her, as the little guy would be scared if left behind.
“Dad, Uncle, Eldest Brother…”
After calling out several times, Yun Jiao heard her father’s response.
She quickly ran over.
Yun Linhai and the others also heard the voices and came this way.
“Jiaojiao is back. Are you hungry? We’ll grill you some mantou once we get these onto the boat.”
Yun Jiao held the hand of the Eldest Brother who was walking at the front.
“Don’t worry about these for now. I caught a big fish and can’t get it onto the boat.”
Yun Linhe walked over and said with a smile, “Oh? How big of a fish is it that our Jiaojiao, the strongwoman, can’t get it onto the boat?”
Yun Jiao thought for a moment and described, “About the same size as the wild boar we encountered at Grandma’s house.”
“What?!!!”
Instantly, the shocked shouts of the three men were almost hoarse.
