Chapter 96: I see you still have this hobby
Before Jiang Luo could even think about it, Lu Youyi pointed to the following photo and said, "It's this one."
Jiang Luo looked down and saw that it was a photo of Cheng Li with another man.
Another man with a hunched spine and a scowling expression looked at the camera in embarrassment. Jiang Luo looked at him for a long time, "This one is ......"
Lu Youyi leaped, "Doesn't it look familiar?"
Jiang Luo nodded contemplatively.
Lu Youyi was still trying to keep it a secret, but Ge Zhu ruthlessly revealed the answer, "This is the civilian who was thrown overboard by Cheng Li on the day we boarded the ship."
Jiang Luo said, "Oh ...... they turned out to know each other."
That would be interesting.
"Not only do they know each other, they have a very good relationship," Ye Xun observes carefully, "Look at the clothes he's wearing, these clothes have been worn by Cheng Li in the previous photos, if you can lend out your own clothes, you're either a close friend, or a relative by blood. "
"In that case, they do seem to bear some resemblance."
Ye Xun nodded, "We've just discussed it, from the photos it doesn't look like Cheng Li abandoned his wife and son. He threw someone he knew off the boat with the excuse that he didn't have a ticket, not that he wanted to save his life."
Lu Youyi concludes, "In short, he must know something."
Jiang Luo said, "That makes sense."
Zhuo Zhongqiu kicked his shoes and teased, "How are you today? It's not true that Lu Youyi was right and you fell into the fish pit, right?"
Jiang Luo pulled up his lips and said without smiling, "Pretty much."
The few people who were laughing happily stopped smiling at once and looked at him incredulously.
Jiang Luo rubbed his vaguely aching forehead and casually lay down on the bed, Kuang Zheng hurriedly moved his position for him.
"I learned a big secret today," Jiang Luo dropped a bombshell in a calm tone, "I almost know what a blood eel is."
......
From the conversation between Daniel and Sonia in the dormitory, to what Lisa told Jiang Luo, Jiang Luo, with his excellent memory, said it word for word.
He said as he organized the information in his head. After going over what he had experienced today, he even made a joke.
"Those two males in the duty quarters look stupid."
To say it's stupid is more like the fish mind hasn't fully shifted to the human mind.
They still get their brains affected by their appetites, just like beasts. Neither mere fish nor mere humans.
But a few of the others had been so completely shocked by what he had said that they hadn't even noticed his joke.
Lu Youyi closed his open mouth with difficulty, "You mean that most of the crew on our ship are males and the blood eels caught are females. As if that wasn't enough, there will be males mating with females in the evenings of the next two days, and then the pregnant females will be released back into the sea to wait for their eggs to hatch in the coming year?"
Jiang Luo was pleased, "You've summarized it very well."
"WTF?" Lu Youyi collapsed and crouched on the ground holding his head, "My mom!"
Sai Liaoer looked at the contemplative Wenren Lian and the stony-faced Ye Xun, and cautiously asked towards Jiang Luo, "Wouldn't it be better if we just killed the female fish?"
"We are trying to kill the female, before she mates," Jiang Luo said patiently, "but once we touch the female, the males on the boat will riot, and unprepared, we'll be up against dozens or hundreds of males at every turn, and this will become their killing The place will become a killing ground for them. We, and the civilians, will all die in the mouths of the males."
Sai Liaoer thought for a moment, "So we need to send out a flare to get the police to arrive before we kill the female?"
Jiang Luo nodded.
"But the females and males will mate by tomorrow night at the latest, and we don't have much time left," Ge Zhu took a map of the sea from the side, and skillfully took Jiang Luo's copper coins and pen and paper and began to gauge the direction of the police vessel, "South is away from 9, East is vibrating 3 ...... Stream embraces Qu Qu, West is the main stream, West Zhen 7 ......"
Wenren Lian stood by the window and looked at the stars in the sky, and after a long time, he took a piece of paper and folded it into long strips as a scale, "I'll join you."
They didn't have compasses, so they could only use the stars in the sky and the currents in the sea a little bit to measure the directions, so that they could find the directions and time for specific people or specific things.
Which involves a large number of yin and yang five elements of information, within the innate eight trigrams, the latter eight trigrams, the star of the sky twenty-eight and sixty penetration of the Earth's dragons and so on, Jiang Luo is not a small study of the metaphysical people, although he is progressing at a staggering rate, but this will listen to Wen Renlian and Ge Zhu's words, or the deaf and blind - closed his eyes to listen to the words. Jiang Luo is not a person who has been studying metaphysics since childhood.
He waited patiently for a while and was about to fall asleep amidst the sophisticated recitation of numbers when Ge Zhu woke him with a shout of joy.
"Right here!"
Jiang Luo woke up, jumped out of bed and went over to take a look, the sea map was drawn by a black pen with two circles, one representing the Angonese and the other representing the police vessel.
The distance between the two ships is not close, Ge Zhu wiped off his sweaty head and took a pen to measure the distance between them, "At this distance, it will take at least four or five hours, right?"
Wenren Lian was sweating just as much as he was looking at the map, and after a few moments of contemplation, he slowly nodded, "Pretty much."
"Four or five hours?"
Ye Xun frowned, "Not good."
"Indeed it's not easy to do," Zhuo Zhongqiu said with his chin in his hand, "Think about it, we have to kill the female before she goes down to the sea with a bellyful of eggs, and before we kill her we have to send out a flare five hours in advance. But the flare is so conspicuous that once it's sent out, the entire ship can know about it."
"This means that our fight starts not from the moment we kill the female, but from the moment the flare goes off."
Jiang Luo frowned.
"What are you thinking?" Wen Renlian asked Jiang Luo.
Jiang Luo muttered to himself, "I'm wondering if these males would really willingly take the females and trade them with the rich when it's so difficult for blood eels to reproduce."
"Coincidentally, I'm not far off from what you're thinking," smirked Winkelian, "but I'm thinking from the rich man's point of view."
Jiang Luo turned his head to Wenren Lian and washed his ears.
Wen Renlian said softly, "Those rich people are more black-hearted and greedy than one another, with such a good means of enrichment and a clear way to get rich in front of their eyes, would they really be willing to be a customer instead of mastering the survival conditions of the blood eel fish and artificially raising blood eel fish fry?"
"The police have been poking around for a long time, but also probed into the ship three times but always failed ......" Looking at the others to look at themselves, Wen Renlian shrugged, "You know, I have some secret sources. "
"Not only do the rich people honestly provide the blood eels with everything they want, sustenance, money, they dutifully keep their mouths shut when they get back to shore and keep the secrets for the blood eels. Keeping the news that the blood eel can live long and young stealthily in the ears of the people who deserve to hear it, and then making those people the blood eel's new customers ...... Tsk, tsk, tsk, dutifully."
Jiang Luo pondered, "So there's something else going on here that we don't know about ......"
But as soon as he spoke, the ship suddenly shook.
The people in the house rushed to hold each other. The shaking seemed like an ordinary current fluctuation, which was not uncommon at sea. But Jiang Luo suddenly thought of the female blood eel on the bow deck, and his eyelids fluttered as he immediately opened the window and peeked out.
The sea breeze violently ran into the window, the wind direction changed, Jiang Luo looked up to the sky, just now was a clear night sky, now already covered with a thick layer of dark clouds.
A fishy odor rolled in from outside amidst the fierce sea breeze blowing through.
Not good.
Jiang Luo instantly turned around, grabbed whoever's jacket was on the coat rack and rushed out of the room, "Don't follow me, I'll be right back."
He was so fast that he put on his jacket and ran towards the bow of the boat. Upon reaching the bow, Jiang Luo saw a male trying to approach a female blood eel, who crawled back in disgust, seemingly not wanting to mate with the male.
The male fish is rough and rusty, obviously courting the female for the first time, and he carefully explores the smell around him, with a hint of caution in his movements, supposedly guarding against other males, not even caring about Jiang Luo's human smell.
This male, apparently, broke the rules of blood eel courtship.
The other male fish didn't make any moves, but it came. The females don't want to mate, but he wants to force himself on them.
If Jiang Luo hadn't just taken a bath and was extremely sensitive to the fishy odor, I'm afraid he wouldn't have expected such a robber male to come across the scene and try to complete the mating tonight.
Laughing alive with anger, he raised a hand to wipe the water off his face and mocked, "You are such a gentleman fish."
The male had pounced on the female, who was twice the size of the male, dodging sluggishly but not as nimbly as the male.
There was no way Jiang Luo was going to let the female Blood Eel spawn back into the sea just for the night, and he strode forward with his arm raised and gave the yin-yang ring a little shake, determined to try and stop this one-sided deck bedlam.
But the next instant, his wrist was gripped by a pale, slender hand.
An incredibly familiar voice came from behind, with a deliberately false-to-the-point-of-surprise, whispering teasingly, "So you have such a hobby."
Jiang Luo narrowed his eyes momentarily.
Oops.
There's dogs coming.
"A peek is a peek, and you want to interrupt them."
The evil spirit laughed. Jiang Luo's chin was pinched, and he was forced to look at the two entangled and constantly rolling blood eels, "I'm all a bit curious about your hobby, why don't, I'll accompany you?"
His tone grew grim, "And by the way, let's see when you get tired of looking at this hobby again."
Published at: 06/20/2024 05:00