"Did you buy all this chum? I don't remember seeing it before."
"We hadn't gone fishing together before." Lu Ao mixed the chum with water, kneading it into bait balls. "Come on, let's give it a try."
As they spoke, a soft whoosh suddenly came from beside the boat.
Lu Ao whipped his head around toward the sound.
A tiny fish flew up beside the boat. It had a small body, large eyes, and pectoral fins like a bird's wings, gliding more than a meter above the sea.
Its back was a faint blackish color, while its pectoral fins and belly were silver-white.
Its streamlined body possessed an inexplicable elegance.
Lu Ao stared at the Flying Fish, his mouth falling slightly open as he nearly became mesmerized.
Before that Flying Fish had even fallen back into the sea, a second appeared, then a third... then countless more.
In an instant, Flying Fish filled the waters beside their boat.
Such a massive school of Flying Fish was like birds that had already returned to their nests at dusk, only to be startled into flight. The sky was suddenly packed with them, so dense that it was impossible to look away.
The school was enormous. For five or six minutes, Flying Fish took turns gliding out of the water and dropping back in, filling their ears with faint whistles and splashes.
Lu Ao and Song Zhou sat in their lounge chairs, wholly absorbed in this rare wonder of nature.
After roughly five or six minutes, all the Flying Fish finally fell back into the sea, and none rose into the air again.
At that moment, Lu Ao noticed small fragments of Flying Fish carcasses floating on the surface.
"There must have been predatory fish feeding underneath just now," Song Zhou judged. "That's