environmental fisherman

Chapter 163 The Golden Pillow

Because the leatherback turtle was so big and heavy, it took Liu Hao and his two men about ten minutes to get it onto the boat.

"Quick! Use a knife to cut off the fishing net. This guy seems to be dying."

After finishing speaking, Liu Hao picked up a knife from the side and cut the fishing net wrapped around the leatherback turtle one by one.

"I hate it! It doesn't seem to be moving much, isn't it going to hang up? Could it be that when we pulled it up just now, the fishing net suffocated it. If I had known, I would just go into the water and help him cut the fishing net."

Liu Jun found a knife and looked at the dying leatherback. While nagging with regret, he used his left hand to dig out a gap in the fishing net on his body, then reached in with the knife in his right hand, and quickly cut the fishing net back and forth.

A few minutes later, Liu Hao and the two cut off all the fishing nets wrapped around it, and liberated it from the fishing net.

"It's neck and two front feet are bleeding. It should have been strangled just now and couldn't breathe. We were a little bit flustered. We should go directly into the water to cut off the fishing net as you said, instead of Pulled it aboard."

"Now that it's like this, I don't know if it can survive."

Liu Hao let out a long sigh, and said depressedly: "This is troublesome."

"I'm suffocating, why don't I...do artificial respiration?" Liu Jun said uncertainly, remembering the first aid method after being flooded.

"Artificial respiration? It's not like you haven't seen its mouth. Such a terrifying mouth, can you blow into it? Besides, its mouth is bigger than your head, are you sure you can?" Looking at the leatherback turtle's feeble mouth, he stared straight at Liu Jun, as if asking him, are you stupid?

Liu Jun looked at the leatherback turtle's head that was as big as a basketball and the horny horny mouth, and immediately shook his head, denying what he just said.

"Then what should I do? Is it like first aid, electric shock?"

Hearing his words, Liu Hao was speechless for a while.

And electric shocks, if leatherback turtles could talk, they would chew you off like jellyfish.

"Look at it, I'll pour some water on it and have a look."

After speaking, Liu Hao got up quickly, went to the side and took a small bucket, bent down and put the bucket into the sea water, and filled most of the bucket with sea water.After loading the sea water, he took some spring water from the fountain of life and put it in the bucket while Liu Jun was not paying attention.

"Just shower it with seawater? Why do I feel that it's not reliable at all?" Liu Jun suddenly questioned in a low voice when he saw that he was carrying the seawater to the top of the leatherback turtle and was about to pour it down.

"Let's try it first. Anyway, it won't get wet and it won't aggravate its injuries."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Liu Jun to continue speaking, he grabbed the bottom of the bucket with his other hand and gently lifted it up, pouring half of the seawater in the bucket onto the leatherback's head and the strangle marks of its two front feet. The other half of the seawater was poured into its half-open mouth.

It may be that the leatherback turtle felt the special breath of the fountain of life, or it may be its instinct. When the sea water mixed with the fountain of life poured into its mouth, the leatherback turtle, which was already dying, swallowed it slowly. A few mouthfuls of sea water.

"I'll go! He's suffocating, and you're still pouring seawater into his mouth. You think he's not going fast enough, right?"

"Hey, wasn't my eyes dazzled just now? It seems to have swallowed a few mouthfuls of seawater."

Liu Hao shook his head and said in a low voice: "You read that right, it was swallowing sea water just now. It seems that he should be fine."

"Forget it, leave it alone, we have done everything we can, and let's see its fate."

"Let it rest here, we continue to pull up all the remaining fishing nets and ground cages, and then bring it back together."

"This..." Liu Jun opened his mouth slightly, but did not continue.He turned his head and glanced at the big turtle lying on the board, sighed, then moved to the net lifting machine, ready to continue pulling the net, and muttered in a low voice: "I hope it can come back to life, otherwise It would be too irritating for a first-class protected animal to die at our hands."

As the net hoisting machine started, the fishing nets and ground cages were slowly pulled in.Because there were very few fish caught, it only took half an hour after all the fishing gear was pulled up.

"Oh, I really lost money this time. There is no 50-jin fish, and there seems to be no top-quality fish in it." Liu Jun glanced at the fish in the cabin, and while helping to tidy up the fishing gear, he was disappointed. The ground sighed.

"In the future, you will get used to it gradually. A large part of our fishing in the sea depends on luck, and the new equipment. But if you are not lucky, the sea is so big, and the most advanced equipment is useless."

Liu Jun thought about it, and felt that what Liu Hao said was also very reasonable.

It was smooth sailing before, but I came back with a full load every time, which caused me to become mentally unbalanced.

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On the way back to the voyage, both Liu Hao and Liu Hao found that the leatherback turtle seemed not so weak, and seemed to see it breathing slowly.

"This guy shouldn't die. It's okay, otherwise we might get headlines. This guy has just been upgraded from a second-level animal to a first-level protected animal, and he is in our hands. He can't be famous if he doesn't want to."

Hearing Liu Hao's words, Liu Jun also nodded speechlessly. "It's really a big loss this time. The fishing net was broken, and there were not many fish in stock. It hurt this first-class protected animal. It's really unlucky."

He's in a bad mood right now.Disappointed, lost, but helpless.

Liu Hao ignored his sighs, but silently threw taming skills at the leatherback turtle.He also didn't want the big turtle to die. Although he had fed it with the fountain of life, he didn't know if this could save it, so he thought about taming it as a pet directly. Maybe becoming his pet would be the best choice. won't die yet.

I don't know if it's because the leatherback turtle didn't have much energy, but the taming skill was successful without using many times.

Pet: leatherback turtle, intelligence: low-level, feature: shared defense.Loyalty: 89.The perception range is 10 kilometers.

Seeing the attributes of the leatherback turtle, Liu Hao was a little surprised. It turned out to be an intelligent pet. Could it be as intelligent as a dolphin?
The characteristic is also very useful, as long as your pet stick stays within 10 kilometers of it, it will get a defense bonus.He doesn't know the specific effect, but at least something is better than nothing.

Now Liu Hao has finally let go of the boulder hanging in his heart and has become his pet. He can feel the current physical condition of the leatherback turtle and it is slowly recovering.

It will definitely not hang up.

When Liu Hao and the others returned to the pier, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.

Because Liu Hao had called in advance to inform Lu Tianming that he hadn't caught any fish this time, so he wasn't on the pier.

Waiting for him on the pier were Director Cao and several members of the expert team.Originally, Liu Hao wanted to notify the relevant departments to rescue him, but he thought that the big turtle was already his pet, so it was a bit awkward to hand it over to them.

So after thinking for a while, he thought of another person, Director Cao.He specializes in the study of marine animals, and the expert group he leads must have studied these rare animals, so they should be interested in it.

Thinking of this, Liu Hao called Director Cao and told him about the leatherback turtle.Not to mention, he heard that the leatherback turtle was really interested, and told Liu Hao that there happened to be one in the expert group who specialized in leatherback turtle research.

Taking advantage of the gap between his assistant and some staff members carrying leatherback turtles, Director Cao came to Liu Hao's side to learn about the situation at that time.

"So, the water where you cast the net is less than 20 meters deep?" Director Cao felt a little surprised when he heard Liu Hao say that the leatherback turtle was caught near a reef island in the offshore.

Because as far as he knows, leatherback turtles usually live at a water depth of about 150 meters, and rarely come to such a diving place, unless they want to go ashore to lay eggs.

However, it is less likely to come to the beach to spawn.First of all, this time is not the date for their spawning. Although their spawning period occurs throughout the year, it is mainly concentrated in May and June, and the temperature at this time is suitable for hatching.

Another thing is that after Liu Hao called him, he had checked the information and found that no leatherback turtles had come ashore to lay eggs on the beach near this sea area for many years.

"The water depth there should be about 20 meters, because I have been diving and fishing near there, so there is no mistake." Liu Hao thought for a while, and he was sure that he had not made a mistake.

"That's strange. Could it be that it's really going to go ashore to lay eggs?" Director Cao frowned slightly as he looked at the sea far away.

Listening to him talking to himself, Liu Hao slightly shrugged his shoulders, thinking, this is what you experts are going to study.

Ten minutes later, the staff moved the leatherback turtle to the car on the pier.Director Cao waited for several experts and Liu Hao to say a few polite words, and then left by car after saying goodbye.

After they left, the crowd of onlookers also slowly dispersed, but they kept spreading the gossip that Liu Hao got very little fish this time, and even hurt a first-class protected animal. .

After the crowd dispersed, Liu Hao and the two also began to pack the dozens of catties of fish in the cabin, and prepared to take them back home to raise, and eat them when they usually want to eat.

When the two of them carried the packed fish to the pier, some passers-by joked about their harvest this time.

Although most of them had no malicious intentions and were just joking, Liu Hao had a good attitude and responded to them secretly, but Liu Jun was not as good-tempered as he was.

On the way back, Liu Hao knew that he was sulking, so the two of them were silent all the way, driving in silence until they separated, they didn't say a word.

In the evening, Liu Hao went back to his room after taking a shower early.

He was looking up some gold sales online.Because he found 36 gold bars on a shipwreck on the bottom of the sea before, and he bought and sold them.

"I go!"

"It's such a hassle to sell the gold."

"The sale of gold requires an invoice. I found those gold bars at the bottom of the sea. Where can I find an invoice for you?"

Liu Hao looked at the query results displayed on the web page and felt very depressed.

With gold in hand, there is no way to exchange it for money. Even if it is said on the Internet that you can find some private recycling shops on the street, it is still very troublesome.Not to mention the low price, it is very likely to be cheated, and more importantly, if the quantity is large, this is not easy to use.

In a word, without a note to prove the legitimacy of these gold bars, it is difficult to exchange them for money.

After thinking for a long time, Liu Hao couldn't think of any good way to deal with these gold bars.

He half-lyed on the computer chair and was in a daze for more than ten minutes before giving up helplessly.

Forget it, let's get them out of the fishing boat first.If it doesn't work, just put them aside and save them until I save enough money to buy a big boat and go out to sea.Then take them out and pretend they were salvaged in the high seas so they can be sold in large quantities openly.

Thinking of this, he quickly stood up, locked the door, and then dodged into the different space.

Standing next to the sunken ship, Liu Hao was surprised to find that after several days on the beach, the silt inside the sunken ship had dried up and cracked.

Made!

I should have known that when it was fished out of the sea just now, I would just take out the gold bars and talk about it.Now the gold bars are sealed in hard silt.

Now if I want to take out the gold bars, I can only dig through the mud.

Thinking of this, Liu Hao found a hammer and hammered it vigorously by the side of the ship a few times, and then the wooden boards outside the sunken ship were smashed to pieces.

The wooden boat was not made of precious non-rotten wood. It had been soaked in sea water for so long and now it was dried again, so Liu Hao didn't put in much effort, just beat around the sunken boat a few times vigorously.With a 'snap', the whole ship fell apart, and the planks fell to the ground. Some of the planks even turned into powder mud, leaving only a few planks at the bottom of the cabin still connected together.

The next thing is a little easier. With a detection skill, Liu Hao found the position of the gold bar. Liu Hao picked up the hoe and dug hard. After digging out the mud covered with the gold bar in one piece, he tapped it a few times with a big hammer. After the silt is broken, the gold bars will naturally be in hand.

Today, when it came out of the mud, is different from Liu Hao's phenomenon.The color is not that bright, kind of dull with a slight reddish tint.But hold it in your hand and quickly feel heavy, and it feels very good.

It took Liu Hao about an hour to dig and hammer all the 36 gold bars.After washing the gold bars with sea water, he put them all in a clean fish box not far from the fountain of life.

Looking at these dozens of gold bars, Liu Hao suddenly felt emotional in his heart.It would be awesome if this fish box could be filled with gold bars.

This fish box is 1.2 meters long, 1 meter wide, and 1 meter high. If it is filled with gold, it can be exchanged for at least a few hundred million RMB. Isn’t it cool?
No one will say that he is not handsome when he sees it.

It was the first time for Liu Hao to see so many gold bars and touch them with his own eyes.More importantly, these gold bars belonged to him, so after looking at them for a while, he couldn't help but lie down halfway into the fish box.

He rested his head on the gold bar, closed his eyes, and stayed there for about an hour before returning to sleep on the bed in his own room. Even when he fell asleep, he still had a smile on his face.

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(End of this chapter)