As the battle between the two creatures in the water, one large and one small, grew increasingly fierce, Ye Yaodong crouched down too. He secured his cuffs, propped his chin on one hand, and held a flashlight in the other to light them up.
He wondered whether it was because the Great White Shark Pup was bigger and had more stamina. He had waited ages, but it still showed no signs of croaking.
This Cigar Shark just wasn't up to the job. An ant couldn't take down an elephant.
They had come a little closer, though. As the waves washed in and receded, he felt that the Great White Shark Pup was almost stranded in the shallows.
And the tide seemed to be going out now. The water had dropped a little from where he had first crouched.
Ye Yaodong shuffled forward and tried extending the Hand Net. Once the water receded, he discovered that he could actually reach them!
But just as he was about to scoop them up, another wave rolled in. He could only take another small step back to keep it from washing over his feet.
Watching the two fish ahead still locked together in their deadly embrace, he kept an eye on the water at his feet. As soon as it surged forward and drew back again, he hurried forward and stretched out the Hand Scoop Net, covering both fish in one go.
However, the Great White Shark Pup was quite big and long, and the opening of the Hand Net wasn't large enough to cover it completely. It only covered two-thirds of it, including its head and part of its body.
That wasn't much of a problem. While it struggled, he hauled the Hand Net toward himself, trying to use the force of its