Chapter 76

By adding fish soy sauce, salt, sugar, and wheat flour to the seafood broth, thickening it, and then refrigerating it, you can make a simple oyster sauce.

Xie Juanhan and his group usually ate a lot of animal meat, so an occasional meal of seafood in a buttery sauce and soy sauce was quite delicious.

The fresh seafood is tender and springy.

Especially the shrimp; peel them and eat them one bite at a time, while they're still hot—they're incredibly fresh and delicious.

After finishing his Xie Juanhan washed his hands and sat lazily to the side, saying, "Even if we can't find much of the kind of fish that can be ground into fishmeal today, it won't be a wasted trip."

Telingewei looked at the lone little fish swimming around at the bottom of the bucket and insisted, "We'll definitely find one. I've seen it around here before."

Xie Juanhan: "Don't they migrate with the seasons?"

Telingewei: "Probably not. If there's one, there will definitely be two, three."

Xie Juanhan snapped his fingers, "That makes sense, let's keep looking."

After a short rest, they continued their search despite the cold wind.

Unfortunately, luck wasn't on their side.

They searched for a long time in the afternoon but couldn't find the target fish again.

Xie Juanhan was used to it and comforted Telingewei, "It's okay, it's normal for anglers to go home empty-handed, just like beachcombers."

Telingewei: "We should be able to find it."

The Companion Beast tilted their heads, looking at Telingewei with distrustful eyes. "Chirp?"

Xie Juanhan, quick-witted and agile, covered Haxi's mouth, who was making the loudest "squeak," and said, "Don't ruin it."

The other Companion Beast: "Chirp!"

After searching for a couple more times, Telingewei wasn't very confident anymore.

Telingewei: "How about we go back today?"

Seeing his somewhat disappointed expression, Xie Juanhan thought for a moment and asked, "Are the Tata Fish nearby?"

Telingewei: "I don't know if they're there. This is their territory, and they occasionally come here to wander around."

"Should we call them out to search?" Xie Juanhan said. "Aren't Tata Fish exceptionally sensitive to smell? Maybe they can detect what's happening underwater."

As the little Demon Wolf grew up, Xie Juanhan often let it sniff out its prey or gathered items, and let it search for certain objects in the forest.

Little Demon Wolf never lets you down in this regard.

If the Tata Fish could also smell the corresponding scents underwater, they should be able to find the fish they want, provided they had half the keenness of the little Demon Wolf.

Telingewei rarely asks other creatures for help, "Just ask the Tata Fish?"

Xie Juanhan rubbed the little Demon Wolf's back. "Yeah, even if we can't find them, we can call them out to play. It's been so long."

As he spoke, Xie Juanhan looked down at the little Demon Wolf: "Moli, call out to the Tata Fish."

The little Demon Wolf tilted its head. "Awooo?"

Harper immediately imitated a wolf's howl: "Awoo--"

The little Demon Wolf understood, opened its mouth, and howled: "Awoo--"

The little Demon Wolf howled twice, and the other little creatures couldn't help but imitate it, standing on the rocks and howling like wolves.

The little Griffin studied especially hard, letting out loud "roars" in its tender voice.

Unfortunately, after only a couple of calls, it unconsciously switched back to meowing.

It might have been barking too loudly, and it couldn't control itself.

Hearing the little Griffin's hoarse voice return, Xie Juanhan Griffin quickly pulled it close, saying, "Have some water, don't shout yourself hoarse."

The little one is still going through puberty, I hope he doesn't end up with a hoarse voice.

The baby Griffin took two sips of water, licked its lips, and was about to continue calling out.

Just then, fish fins emerged from the distant sea.

A Tata Fish leaped into the air, jumping in a perfect arc.

The Tata Fish responded loudly, "Click-click--"

Hearing the fish's response, the little Demon Wolf stood on the rocks, their bottoms tucked between their legs, and howled even louder: "Awoo--"

==========Author's Note:=========

See you tomorrow!

Chapter 76 [VIP]

The Tata Fish swung their tails up and down rapidly, leaping out of the water every now and then, seemingly about to join Xie Juanhan and the others.

Unexpected changes occurred --

Behind them, fins suddenly appeared, and they were fins with a completely different shape from the original ones.

There are clearly fish chasing them!

The Companion Beast cried out in alarm, "Chirp!"

Hearing this, the Tata Fish turned around and exclaimed, "Crunch!"

The Tata Fish struggled to shake off the fish behind them, flapping their fins frantically.

But it was too late!

The fish behind them quickly caught up with them and stretched out their fins to slap them.

"Buzz!" the giant fish uttered in a low voice.

The sound was ethereal and resonant.

As it cried out, it raised its fins and swung them forward, slapping the Tata Fish with a "smack, smack".

The Tata Fish scattered in panic, leaping and splashing in the water. "Clatter, clatter!"

Shouting couldn't stop the giant fish's movements.

In the blink of an eye, the Tata Fish were covered in welts and were darting around in the sea.

Xie Juanhan stared in disbelief from the shore, clearly seeing a layer of rocks attached to the giant fish's fins.

It's like wearing armor.

It's not a reef.

Xie Juanhan quickly saw it clearly.

That was clearly a layer of barnacles.

The giant fish had a layer of barnacles growing on its long fins, making it look like it had an extra layer of finger cots.

No, fin sleeve.

This giant fish wearing fins chased after the Tata Fish.

The Tata Fish were completely unable to mount an effective counterattack and could only flee in all directions.

They quickly ran to the rocks for shelter. "Crunch!!!"

This is a cry for help.

The giant fish below was completely unafraid of Xie Juanhan and his companions, and relentlessly pursued them until they reached the bottom of the reef.

After chasing it to the foot of the reef, it looked up and its little eyes finally saw Xie Juanhan and the others standing on the reef.

It stared at their figures for several seconds.

Suddenly, it made a "buzzing" sound and sprayed water directly.

"Whoosh!"

A huge column of water shot up from the sea.

Xie Juanhan had no idea that the giant fish would attack them, and it looked like it was about to drench them completely.

Telingewei quickly pulled him aside to avoid the danger.

Meanwhile, Telingewei has transformed back into his dragon form and is attempting to block the water column.

The fluffy creature, which had been watching the commotion, jumped up with a "whoosh" and hid behind it.

It was still angrily cursing the Tata Fish with "woo-woo" sounds.

--This is clearly an old nemesis of the Tata Fish!

Anger made the giant fish's water column extremely explosive.

Even if the dragon stood in front of them, it would probably still splash onto them.

On such a cold day, being splashed by icy, sticky seawater is no pleasant experience.

Xie Juanhan immediately manipulated the wind to form a shield in front of the giant dragon.

It's thanks to him manipulating the wind a lot lately.

The shield completely blocked the dragon, and the water spray reflected off it.

After the water receded, Xie Juanhan stood on the shore with an unfriendly expression.

Upon seeing this, the giant fish flicked its tail, creating another large splash, and then dived into the water and fled.

He seems extremely pragmatic.

The furry creatures reacted a beat too late, standing angrily on the edge of the reef, yelling at the sea where the giant fish had disappeared, "Awooo! Awooo! Awooo!!!"

It barked very loudly, almost like a "woof woof".

Xie Juanhan withdrew the wind, signaling Telingewei to return to human form, and asked the Tata Fish, "What happened?"

The Tata Fish swam back from all directions, gathering hesitantly under the rocks. "Click, click."

Telingewei transformed back into human form and said, "It's a Humming Whale, a level four Demonic Beast."

"I see." Xie Juanhan frowned. "Level four Demonic Beast already possess a certain level of intelligence, how come it even managed to beat us up?"

Telingewei pursed his lips and said, "Perhaps it's revenge."

Xie Juanhan looked at the Tata Fish: "Revenge also involves collective punishment?"

Telingewei didn't understand the term "collective punishment," but he roughly understood Xie Juanhan's meaning.

He shook his head. "I caught quite a few fish from the Humming Whale's territory before, and it remembered."

Xie Juanhan frowned even more. "The ocean is so vast, what's wrong with catching a few fish? It's not like we caught them from their feeding bowls."

With that, Xie Juanhan rolled up his sleeves. "I'll go find it."

"Wait." Telingewei grabbed Xie Juanhan's arm, as if he had something to say.

Xie Juanhan stopped and waited for him.

The furry creatures tilted their heads and looked at him.

Telingewei said expressionlessly, "Recently, many plump fish have migrated back to the nearby waters. I haven't gone anywhere else to catch fish; I've been catching them all in this area."

Xie Juanhan paused in his act of rolling up his sleeves. "Wait, are you all here?"

Telingewei: "Hmm."

Xie Juanhan: "Recently—since late autumn?"

Telingewei looked at the sky and nodded almost imperceptibly.

Xie Juanhan looked at him. "Snatching food from a whale's mouth."

It's understandable that Humming Whale would get angry after being caught by a giant dragon in its territory for so long.

That guy only sprayed them with water, instead of hitting them with his fins, which was already quite sensible.

Xie Juanhan wasn't an unreasonable dragon; he sighed and said, "Is it our problem?"

Telingewei's ears turned slightly red. "Mmm."

The Tata Fish were just cheering for Xie Juanhan, but when they saw that Xie Juanhan didn't intend to beat the whale, they were stunned and cried out, staring blankly at them.

Xie Juanhan squatted on the reef watching the Tata Fish: "It's understandable that it retaliated against us, but why did it suddenly attack you too?"

Tata Fish: "Click?"

Xie Juanhan suddenly smelled a faint scent of blood. "You didn't go fishing in its territory either, did you?"

The Tata Fish, feeling guilty, clucked.

Xie Juanhan pondered, "No, if it had only caught such a small number of fish, it wouldn't have chased you so far, and you didn't even dare to fight back."