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Song Zhou smiled. "Come over and see for yourself."

Lu Ao had already started walking toward him, and upon hearing that, he quickened his pace.

Only when he reached Song Zhou did he see the fish in the red bucket. It was so large that from its belly to its tail, most of its body protruded from the bucket. Its golden-yellow body was exceptionally eye-catching.

Looking closer, the fish had a huge belly and a large mouth, proportions vastly different from those of ordinary fish. Its identity was obvious at a glance.

"Is it really a Chinese Bahaba?!" Lu Ao could hardly believe it. He looked at the fish in the bucket, then at Song Zhou's face. "Where did you find it? Your luck is incredible!"

Chinese Bahaba was also a type of croaker. It was famously expensive and also a protected species.

It was no longer permitted to be traded on the market, but people occasionally found Chinese Bahaba carcasses. Even selling only the swim bladder taken from its belly could fetch hundreds of thousands.

Lu Ao had seen Chinese Bahaba only as a child. After growing up, he had never again heard of anyone in the industry making a fortune from one.

Song Zhou pointed and told him, "Over there. Isn't there a puddle by those reefs? This Chinese Bahaba was washed into it."

"How did it end up here?" Chinese Bahaba was simply too rare. Lu Ao circled the fish, looking it over again and again in wonder. "If I hadn't seen it today, I wouldn't have known we had Chinese Bahaba around here."

"It was probably here to spawn."

Only then did Lu Ao notice that this Chinese Bahaba's belly was indeed unusually large.

He was startled. "Then we need to release it back into the