He looked at his father again. "It probably wants us to untangle the fishing net on its body."
"Th-this is too dangerous, isn't it? Let's not. Let's get out of here. Maybe it'll break free on its own while swimming around."
Looking at the fish's enormous size and remembering its earlier rampage, Father Ye wanted nothing to do with it.
Ye Yaodong examined its body again. The propeller had struck the top of its head, cutting several gashes into it. The sight alone made him wince; its skin and flesh had been torn open.
A mass of fishing net was wrapped around its right Fish Fins and half its body.
He craned his neck and looked closely before realizing that the net had bitten deep into the whale shark's wounded flesh. Clearly, it could no longer free itself from the net on its own.
Besides, fishing nets spent so much time catching fish that their strands were filthy. With the net cutting into the wounds left by the propeller, those wounds had no way to heal.
Even without wounds, if a whale shark stayed tangled in a net long enough, its struggles would only pull the net tighter and tighter. If no one helped untangle it, the net would eventually kill it.
Ye Yaodong watched it struggling fiercely beside them without managing to break free. It seemed to be suffering quite a bit. It was thanks to this creature that he had escaped the boats from Luzhou Island earlier.
"It can't struggle free. Look at it. Twisting around like that will only pull the net tighter. If nobody cuts it loose, it's going to be done for sooner or later."
He had heard that quite a few whale sharks and whales died from becoming entangled in fishing nets, all because