Chapter 1016: Abdominal Rupture
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Leaving others to maintain the order, Zhang Zian and Ke Shaohui stepped onto the speedboat together.
“The harpoon is made by fishermen. I don’t know how far it can shoot. I only know they are used to shoot tuna.” Ke Shaohui carefully picked up the harpoon, so as to not let the sharp end point at people. He did not want to shoot anyone by mistake. After all, it was made by fishermen, so the quality was not guaranteed.
“Tuna?” Zhang Zian found that interesting. “Is there tuna in Binhai City?”
He had grown up there and had never heard of any fisherman fis.h.i.+ng for tuna before.
Ke Shaohui shook his head. “Well, as far as I know, there is no such thing, but according to the fishermen, tuna has been spotted off the coast of Binhai City. You know, tuna weighs tens of kilograms and is full of muscle. It swims very fast. It can easily reach a speed of over 50 knots per hour in open sea. It has a strong impact. It needs ocean purse-seine fis.h.i.+ng boats to catch it. The cost is very high. Our country’s fis.h.i.+ng boats are mainly offsh.o.r.e trawlers, which can’t catch tuna. But it’s not realistic to buy new boats for tuna fis.h.i.+ng alone. The unit price of the fis.h.i.+ng boat is more than 100 million yuan, so the fishermen try to make their own harpoon guns. They want to use the harpoon to catch the tuna to sell to local j.a.panese restaurants.”
He then added, “We confiscated their harpoon guns, but not because they caught tuna. After all, tuna is not a protected animal. They fished during the fis.h.i.+ng ban so we took them.”
Zhang Zian understood. The tunas was obviously attracted there by Sihwa. The fishermen knew that tuna had high economical value, but tuna swam too fast. Trawler boats sighed at it and were unable to do anything. They used the wisdom of working people to make harpoons to shoot the fish.
Fishermen’s self-made harpoon guns did not take into account any quality a.s.surance and safety. The only requirement was to shoot long distances vigorously. Otherwise, there was no way to get them. It was like farmers’ self-made fireworks and firecrackers. The opening of each gun was thicker than that of the other, and they desperately stuffed gunpowder inside for fear that the explosion would not be loud enough.
The shape of the harpoon gun was relatively simple. It was like putting a barbed javelin on a gun and attaching a cylinder gas tank for high-pressure gas emission.
Zhang Zian pondered, This harpoon gun might solve the urgent problem.
He told Ke Shaohui what he thought and asked the firefighters to discuss it. Everyone thought the plan was feasible.
They did it as soon as they said it. They found thick cables; one end was tied to the end of the harpoon and the other end was tied to the back of the speedboat.
Just in case, firefighters and fishery officials cleared the scene again, that time to evacuate the onlookers behind the connection between the speedboat and the whale carca.s.s. If the harpoon missed the whale and hit a person instead, it would have been troublesome.
When everything was ready, an armed and trained firefighter stood at a distance of five meters and aimed carefully at the belly of the whale with a harpoon.
The audience at the scene saw the situation and thought they had guessed the intentions of firefighters and fishermen. They would eventually drag the dead whale into the sea. They held their breath and many people held up their mobile phones to take videos.
After aiming properly, the firefighter pressed the trigger. There was a slight clatter.
Driven by high-pressure gas, sharp harpoons burst out straight, leaving only a silvery shadow in people’s eyes. It popped into the belly of the whale accurately, revealing only half of it outside the whale’s skin.
After waiting for a while, everyone found that the wound had hardly sprayed blood; only a little blood oozed out. As Zhang Zian said, the thick fat layer quickly sealed the wound. Plus, the whale was dead, so the blood flow had stopped. Its blood pressure had dropped to zero, which was no match for the living whale.
Living whales were usually stabbed through the back by harpoons. There were many muscles on their backs and not as much fat as there was on their abdomens. Whales would struggle violently under the pain, which then caused the wound to expand.
The firefighter let out a breath of relief, giving a thumbs up towards the speedboat, and then quickly moved away.
Under Ke Shaohui’s orders, the speedboat’s motor was switched to the maximum. The engine roared to drive the propeller, and the cable straightened out instantaneously.
The speedboat shook violently. Its bow was raised high, and its stern and propeller plunged deep into the water like a furious Cobra snake raising its head high. The motion made the fishermen break out in sweat because the water on the sh.o.r.e was very shallow and the propeller could break at any time.
People were crying out in low voices because it seemed to everyone that the speedboat was about to capsize and the people on board would be thrown into the water.
Despite that, the whale’s body did not move at all; it buried deeper into the sand.
However, Zhang Zian and Ke Shaohui’s goal from the start was not to use the speedboat to pull the whale corpse down to the water.
Just when people thought that the operation was about to fail, a large, dark red, b.l.o.o.d.y rain burst from the belly of the whale carca.s.s. It contained hundreds of kilograms of internal organs and spewed out nearly ten meters away. A disgusting smell filled the air!
The whale’s stomach had been pierced from the inside by the harpoon, which had formed a large hole. Practically all of its organs spewed out, and the scene was very b.l.o.o.d.y!
Seeing the scene, a lot of girls were so disgusted that they turned their head away, not daring to look anymore. A lot of guys were bending and gagging continuously.
With the loss of strength on the cable, the bow of the speedboat crashed into the water, splashed the water two or three meters high, and then rushed forward like a runaway, wild horse. The fishermen on the boat were stunned until they were dizzy. Fortunately, they were prepared in advance. Otherwise, they might have been thrown off the boat. They quickly shut down the motor, and the speedboat rushed out of a distance through inertia before slowly stopping.
Zhang Zian and Ke Shaohui, who were observing the battle from the side, finally let out a breath of relief.
At least the danger of the whale exploding had been lifted, and all that remained was to clean up the scene. Firefighters had a complete set of tools to dismantle the whale. As for how they planned to dispose of the carca.s.s, it was not Zhang Zian’s business. Whether they wanted to unload eight pieces on the spot or find a truck to lift the whole whale corpse away, he was not sure.
He said goodbye to Ke Shaohui, and Ke Shaohui was very thankful. At that moment, he did not have the time to talk about any additional things. He needed to immediately report what had happened his superiors and wait for the instructions of the superior.
Following that, he went over to Huang and Xiao Zhi to talk. Xiao Zhi was stunned by the scene. His mouth was unable to close for a long time. At the same time, he felt that it was a pity that the whale died in such a way. Xiao Zhi’s mother was so disgusted by the scene; she had continuously rushed the father and son to leave so they could hurry home and eat.
Following the spread of the rotting smell, the bystanders could no longer take it. They did not need to be asked to leave; they all left by themselves, or walked a further distance away to observe the drama.
Zhang Zian called Vladimir and walked over to where the Wuling Hong Guang MPV was parked. After that, he drove the car to his a.s.sault boat and then returned to the pet shop.