The protagonist's body fell back to the water with the falling ship. The entire fleet was shaken to pieces, and the ship's masts collided together.
After finally stabilizing the boat under him, the protagonist hurriedly raised his head and looked around. Sure enough, he was caught off guard and many ants on the surrounding boats fell into the water and were struggling helplessly on the water.
But the white fish that was the culprit, Shi Shiran swam away as if nothing was wrong, leaving only a dark silhouette under the water.
The protagonist was previously afraid that this was a ferocious carnivorous fish that would shake off ants by hitting the ship, and then take the opportunity to devour the ants that fell into the water.
Maybe this is just a vegetarian fish, at least it doesn't show more aggression at the moment. As for why it hit the fleet twice, the protagonist can't guess. Maybe some creatures are just curious. After all, the walnut boat is a floating object that these fish have never seen before.
Think about it, it is impossible for fish to guess that there is food on the walnut boat, a floating dead thing, and adopt this method to find food.
The protagonist saw the dark shadow of the little white fish swaying its tail and disappearing. Then he hurriedly climbed down and used ropes and long wooden sticks to rescue the ants who had fallen into the water around him.
After a lot of hard work, the protagonist single-handedly rescued more than half of the ants that had fallen into the water. However, a dozen ants were still washed away by the water. Some of the rescued ants were choked with water and their lives were probably not saved.
The Divine Envoy King's army encountered an unreasonable disaster inexplicably, and the instigator fled without even realizing the original intention of the attack.
Although the loss is not small, the protagonist is not angry at all. The world is like this. If an elephant tramples to death an ant while walking, will it stop to mourn for the ant?
If you don't have enough strength, you can only endure the unreasonable disasters brought by this more powerful force.
In addition to rescuing ants who fell into the water, the protagonist also sent messengers to various boats to comfort the ants who were panicked by the sudden movement, and finally calmed down the commotion caused by the big fish.
At this time, it was already about two or three o'clock in the afternoon.
Later, the protagonist led the team to personally inspect the ship. Fortunately, no damage was found on the ship, but some of the ropes were damaged and were repaired urgently.
After all this fuss, the protagonist feels that in addition to natural wind and rain, creatures in the water may also pose a threat to the fleet.
Since there are small fish in the water, there must also be large fish. The fish before was only about the size of a human palm. In the world of fish, it was an out-and-out small fish.
The protagonist knows that some fish can grow very large. For example, Asian carp can grow to 1.2 meters long, weigh 45 kilograms, and can easily jump over 2.4 meters high obstacles. The world's largest freshwater fish, the European catfish, can even be 5 meters long and weigh 330 kilograms.
Facing such a big fish, the Walnut Fleet is like a canoe facing a giant whale. Not to mention what to do if this kind of fish becomes hostile to the fleet, even if they jump and fall, the waves they stir up can easily overturn an innocent fleet.
Not to mention that there are some ferocious fish, such as catfish, that like to eat shrimps and aquatic insects, as well as fish smaller than themselves.
One type of catfish even traps rats on the shore. This catfish rests during the day and forages for food at night. When it swims close to the shore, it puts its tail out of the water and leans motionless against the shore, emitting bursts of fishy smell to lure rats out for food at night. After the mouse takes the bait, the catfish drags the mouse into the water. Even if the mouse can swim, it will drown under the entanglement of the catfish and become a prey in the catfish's belly. This also shows how fierce and not picky the catfish is.
And these catfish, like sharks, have extremely sensitive senses of smell and touch. There are several sensitive long tentacles around its mouth, and there are many sensory cells on the tentacles. It can detect the movement and smell of prey in the water far away, even in dim and turbid waters, it does not affect its search for food. baby
If there really are these ferocious and huge carnivorous fish in the Qinghe River, the sound of so many ants falling into the water just now might have alerted them, and then the Walnut Fleet would be in danger.
Thinking of this, the protagonist hurriedly arranged some male ant commanders on the ship to serve as lookouts and watch closely around the fleet.
Although the warning range of these male ants is much further than that of ordinary worker ants, they can only see larger figures within two to three meters. Compared with the wide Qinghe River, this warning field of view is better than nothing.
The protagonist himself is standing high on the highest mast and looking around.
Fortunately, the ferocious big fish in the worst guess did not attack. As time passed, the protagonist's heart finally relaxed.
When looking out, neither the blue sky and blue waves nearby nor the beautiful mountains and forests in the distance can attract the protagonist's attention. All his attention is focused on the nearby fish.
A palm-sized fish with silver-white scales, I don't know if it is the same fish that hit the fleet twice before, is disappearing and appearing on the water not far from the fleet.
This is a cheerful little fish, unlike the gluttonous fish in the protagonist's impression that can die for food, nor does it like many small fish that like to gather in groups.
It was playing alone on the water like that, sometimes speeding up and swimming until it disappeared from sight, sometimes making a sharp turn and turning back, sometimes jumping out of the water and sticking its light blue head out of the water, sometimes jumping up and slamming back into the water. inside.
Being alone and unrestrained, this is the protagonist's deepest impression of this fish.
The protagonist suddenly felt envious of this fish. He was alone, without having to think about any group or tribe, and unlike himself who was under huge pressure.
For some reason, the little white fish has been moving near the fleet, not too far away, and it has not come close to cause a shipwreck like before.
After learning that there were fish in the water, the protagonist looked around and finally noticed that the water was not as deserted as before when he had ignored it.
In addition to the small white fish, the protagonist discovered several more fish after a long time.
Sometimes it is a startling glimpse of the fish's body emerging from the water, sometimes it is a spectacular scene of a huge black shadow swimming underwater, and more often it is a series of bubbles emerging from the water that float up and burst, revealing the movements of the fish in the deep water.
The water surface of the Qinghe River is full of life, not as lacking in life as the big rivers in my hometown.
The protagonist also figured out that a big river is a stream flowing from the mountains. Although the mountain streams are clear, there are no fish in the clear water. And the Qinghe River is a real river, no wonder it is so full of vitality.
Since there are really fish in this world, do other animals also exist? mouse! lizard! frog! The protagonist is somewhat looking forward to the answer!
The night gradually falls, and another day is about to pass. The fleet spent the day peacefully, and the movements of nearby fish gradually became blurred, and the small white fish also disappeared from the water at some point.
It's night, it's time to sleep!
