The sounds dolphins normally made were a little like a baby's cries, with the same frequency, but a dolphin's voice was pleasant to hear and could soothe people's moods. They were mammals that had evolved to an advanced stage.
But when they grew excited and their voices rose loud and clear, they sounded very much like a woman's screams, a sound most people could not stand. Right now, they were calling back and forth out there.
Their high-pitched calls drew the men's attention too, but they were far enough away that, although the calls sounded loud and shrill, they did not find them particularly piercing.
"Ah, look, look, look, Dongzi... more dolphins over there! So many, several of them! Oh... there's more... over there too..."
His eldest maternal cousin hurriedly called out to him in surprise, shouting nonstop.
"Hey, hey, hey... there's a whole dark mass of them... a whole lot more suddenly appeared farther out. They're rolling this way like waves..."
"I see them!"
His eyes had been fixed on the distant sea too. Every so often, a few surfaced, some farther away, some closer. There were even more farther out, and they kept rolling through the water toward them.
The dolphins nearby kept leaping clear of the water, with loud calls answering one another from every direction now and then.
"Oh my, how did so many come all at once? Over there, over there, farther out! Another whole lot have swum over..."
His eldest maternal cousin kept craning his neck to look, forgetting even to lower the fishing net in his hands.
Ye Yaodong took a few more looks too. It really was quite a sight. They had actually called so many companions over at once. Dolphins were indeed plentiful these days and liked to stay in coastal