Chapter 95: Sunfish
The orca swam quickly and went straight in front of the boat.
But it didn’t run too far away.
Orcas that are full have plenty of time to play.
But when the orca wants to find something to play with, most of the animals in the ocean are in trouble.
Like that manta ray before.
And then there’s some unlucky sea turtle.
When an orca stared at the familiar sea turtle until it came to Yun Jiao asking her to play, Yun Jiao could clearly feel the sea turtle’s despairing emotions tinged with a hint of breakdown.
Sea Turtle: (╥﹏╥)
Who will speak for me!
The moment the sea turtle saw Yun Jiao, it struggled.
‘Save me, save me…’
Yun Jiao: …
Sea turtle, you are truly an unlucky turtle.
She still reached out and rescued the giant sea turtle.
Wang Yi: “This sea turtle looks so familiar, isn’t it the one your family keeps?”
Yun Jiao: “Yes.”
Wang Yi: “Then it’s quite fated, are they playing?”
Yun Jiao: “No, it’s one-sided abuse.”
Wang Yi: …
The sea turtle was rescued, but the orcas were unhappy.
No fun, bored, unhappy.
Yun Jiao patted the orca she was riding: “Go back, I brought you toys.”
Returning to the side of the boat, Yun Jiao asked her father to take out a wooden ball.
This wooden ball was the size of a basketball, exactly the gift Yun Jiao had prepared for the orcas.
After all, it’s a matter of reciprocity; since the orcas were willing to take her and her brother and friends to play in the sea, she had to give a return gift for better affection.
Yun Linhai directly threw the wooden ball into the sea.
The wooden ball floated on the sea surface, and Yun Jiao patted the orca’s body, communicating with them on how to play with the wooden ball.
It’s simple, use any part of your body to hit the ball out of the sea surface, play however you like, the main idea is no rules.
Orcas already liked to use their tails to hit prey in the sea out of the water. Once they knew how to play, the first orca impatiently rushed over, dived into the sea, and when the wooden ball was at its tail, it suddenly lifted its tail. With a ‘slap’, the wooden ball flew directly six or seven meters high above the sea surface, and then fell back down.
The other orcas’ eyes lit up, and they chirped ‘ying ying ying’ as they darted to the wooden ball that had fallen into the sea, continuing to slap it with their tails.
Then they learned to nudge it with their heads, their mouths, and even leaped up, their enormous bodies crashing onto the wooden ball. The wooden ball sank into the sea for a distance before bouncing back up due to buoyancy, and was carried far away by the waves.
But it was quickly chased back by other orcas.
Orcas are very playful, and this was their first time playing with a wooden ball, so they were full of novelty and completely forgot about the unlucky sea turtle.
A group of orcas soon started playing together, snatching the wooden ball.
The orca Wang Yi was riding looked on enviously. It even forgot that it had someone on its back and shot past with a ‘whoosh’.
Wang Yi didn’t hold on and rolled off the orca’s back, falling into the sea and gulping down several mouthfuls of seawater before managing to float in the sea.
Yun Jiao went over, picked him up, and took him to the boat.
Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe pulled the two of them up.
“Are you okay?”
Wang Yi coughed several times and shook his head: “I’m fine, just swallowed some seawater.”
He wasn’t angry at all; instead, his eyes were fixed on the orcas scrambling for the wooden ball.
“Uncle, quickly give me the camera.”
He had seen people play basketball and soccer, but this was his first time seeing orcas play ball, and this scene had to be captured!
Yun Linhe and the others were speechless, it was clear he was really fine.
Wang Yi wiped the water off his hands, put on a large towel, and eagerly started taking pictures.
Yun Jiao went back into the sea herself.
She floated in the sea by herself, and after a while, the sea turtle also came over, swimming to her side and floating on the surface with its body spread out.
Yun Jiao touched its turtle shell: “Now they have a toy, they won’t spin you around.”
The sea turtle rubbed its head against her palm.
“Huh? What’s that over there?”
Yun Jiao saw a white spot in the distance.
She was curious about everything and immediately decided to go and investigate.
“Giant sea turtle, let’s go take a look.”
One person and one turtle immediately headed in the direction of the white spot.
“Jiaojiao, where are you going?”
Yun Linhai was keeping track of Yun Jiao’s situation. Seeing her swim in another direction, he immediately followed with the boat.
The orcas were having a great time playing and didn’t follow.
“Hey? Where are we going?”
Wang Yi still wanted to watch the orcas; he could watch these orcas all day and never get tired of them.
As they got closer to the white spot, Yun Linhai and the others realized it seemed to be a fish.
Its size seemed to be not small, but they didn’t know what kind of fish it was.
Yun Jiao and the sea turtle arrived first, and were astonished when they saw the scene before them.
What a big fish, and such a strange-looking fish.
This fish looked big, but its overall body structure seemed rather short, and it was flat and sideways, like a large round pancake.
Its tail was unusually short for a fish. Near the tail, there were two large fins, silver-gray in color.
It was large and strange, but most importantly, there were two sea lions circling the big fish, occasionally taking a bite. Their heads were almost half-bitten off.
Yet the fish seemed to feel nothing. Despite having several bite marks on its body, it lazily floated on the sea surface, basking in the sun.
Yun Jiao thought it was dead, but when she swam in front of it, she saw that it was alive.
No, it’s not running away?
Is this fish stupid?
Meeting the big fish’s ‘wise’ gaze, Yun Jiao was certain it was stupid.
“Holy crap!”
Yun Linhai and the others came over, but stopped approaching when they were still a bit away from the sunfish.
Wang Yi shouted: “Uncle, quickly catch the fish! Such a big fish is a fortune!”
The fish was as big as a small car, and looked very stocky.
Yun Linhe quickly said: “What fortune? We can’t catch this fish.”
“Ah? Why not, such a big fish.”
“This fish is a sunfish!”
Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe exclaimed their misfortune: “How did we have the bad luck to encounter this stupid fish?”
Wang Yi was confused.
Yun Linhe explained to him: “Sunfish, sunfish. Just hearing the name sounds unlucky. Also, its meat is very unpalatable, and no one eats it. Even if we spend time and effort to catch it, the purchase point won’t accept it, so we usually just avoid it when we encounter one.”
Wang Yi: “…There’s such a saying?”
It was the first time he had seen a fish being so disliked.
“It seems to have wounds on its body, is it dead?”
The two seals had run away when they approached, but the gruesome gaps on the sunfish’s body were still quite frightening.
Yun Jiao circled the sunfish twice and then came back.
“Dad, that fish is so stupid. When I came over, two seals were nibbling at it, and half its head was almost bitten off, but it didn’t run and was still sunbathing.”
Wang Yi was surprised: “That fish is still alive?”
Just as Yun Jiao was about to nod, the sunbathing sunfish suddenly moved and slowly dived into the sea.
Wang Yi exclaimed: “That fish is really alive, doesn’t it hurt?”
Yun Linhai: “It probably doesn’t hurt, otherwise why wouldn’t it run away?”
Yun Linhe: “I’ve heard people say that sunfish have very small brains and can’t react even when bitten.”
“Ah? But its head looks quite big?”
“I’m talking about the part of the brain that can think. It’s just that it has a lot of flesh.”
Yun Jiao retorted loudly: “It’s stupider than an idiot, it has no brain at all!”
