Chapter 251 We've been tricked!
"Eric, what's the catch?"
"No, Charles, maybe we should drive further."
Eric felt a headache when he saw the trawl net with only a few small fish. Today was their third day at sea, but the harvest was pitifully small. The fish they caught were only enough for the two of them to consume every day, not to mention selling them.
I'm afraid we'll have to return with an empty ship.
Charles walked out of the captain's room and saw Eric looking dejected. He patted his shoulder and comforted him, "Don't worry, Eric. We will definitely gain something today. We are far away from the port, right?"
This old friend of his is good in every way except that he is too impatient. Fishing is something that requires patience, and it is not uncommon to go out to sea for a week without any catch.
"Yes, we are far from the port."
Eric nodded. Because the catch of the first three days was pitifully small, the two of them chose to come to the sea area where few fishing boats passed by and far away from the port today. Perhaps this way they could harvest more. This was the first net in this sea area, which did not prove anything. Perhaps the next net would yield a big harvest.
The two men grabbed the trawl net and prepared to lower the net again, but when Charles pulled open the fishing net, he was shocked to find a big hole in it!
"Hey! Eric, look, there's a hole in the fishing net?"
"Uh, is this something to be happy about?"
Eric was speechless. Why would his friend be so happy that the fishing net was broken?
Charles encouraged the pessimistic Eric: "But it proves that it's not that there are no fish here, but that our fishing problem is not it?"
Eric was stunned. It seemed to be the case!
Thinking of this, he became excited and ran to the noose to change the net and start fishing again.
Charles also came to help. He was all smiles when he got the good news: "This is really the first good news today. It seems that we are lucky. Maybe we can see whales or dolphins!"
"Then I'll take pictures to show my daughter! She hasn't seen dolphins yet!"
The waters around Ireland are an important feeding, resting and breeding habitat for resident and migratory cetaceans, and are one of the holy places for whale watching.
These sea elves are often seen on local fishing boats going out to sea. Fishermen regard the sight of them as a symbol of a good harvest and will never return empty-handed.
But just as the two men changed the trawl and were about to throw it into the sea again, Charles suddenly stopped. He stood on the deck, squinted his eyes, staring at the sea in the distance, the sunlight was slightly dazzling.
"What's wrong?"
Eric also stopped what he was doing and looked in the direction his friend was looking. After a while, he narrowed his eyes in the same way.
On the distant sea, a touch of orange became increasingly clear and conspicuous. Its shape was a bit like a tent, and it seemed to be dragging something underneath.
That is, a life raft! ?
Charles was shocked after watching it for a while. He quickly ran back to the cabin: "Quick! That's the life raft. Let's go and have a look!"
Eric looked serious and immediately put away the fishing net.
They may have encountered shipwrecked people!
On the other side, Gao Fei's drone also captured the silhouette of a small fishing boat in the distance. The audience was all excited. After surviving on the sea for 19 days, Shen Fang actually met someone!
[Damn, that's a fishing boat, right? After twenty days, I finally met someone. Master Fang is awesome!]
[Awesome! You really found the mainland by your own ability! ]
[The suffocated stinky stinky is presented to the anchor's spaceship*1. ——That's amazing! 】
Bifang also saw the fishing boat, but he did not call for help immediately. Instead, he stared at the fishing boat for a long time. Although the possibility of encountering pirates in Irish waters is not high, it is still better to be cautious.
Only after seeing the trawl net and a few small fish in it and confirming that it was indeed a fishing boat did Bi Fang choose to approach the fishing boat.
When Charles drove the fishing boat closer to the raft, Eric immediately lowered the ladder rope on the deck, and when Bifang climbed to the railing, he reached out and pulled him up.
"Hello, can you speak English?"
Seeing the target rescued, Charles came out of the cab and looked curiously at the young man with a slightly dark face in front of him.
"meeting!"
Seeing that Bifang could understand English, Charles quickly asked: "How long have you been drifting? Is there anyone else who needs rescue? Where are they? Take us there quickly."
The other party doesn't look in a particularly bad spirit, and it seems that he had just encountered an accident not long ago. The accident site may be nearby. Is there anyone else who needs rescue?
Bifang shook his head. He was not really a victim. He answered the fishermen's questions truthfully.
"I've been drifting for almost twenty days."
"What*2?"
Eric and Charles exclaimed in unison, and Eric was the first one who did not believe it.
"Are you sure it's twenty days? Not two days?"
Bifang knew that the other party didn't believe it because the pronunciation difference between twenty and two in English made it impossible to confuse the two.
"You mean you lived on a life raft at sea for twenty days!?"
After getting the confirmation, Eric still didn't believe it. He quickly walked to the deck and pointed at the raft below, but when he looked down, he almost popped his eyes out.
FUCK, why are there so many fish?
Atlantic salmon, European eels, mackerel, herring, capelin, and even a giant shark that's longer than a full-grown man!
Eric could explain himself as to the many fish that appeared before him. Perhaps he happened to have a fishing rod when he was in distress and was able to catch a lot of fish. But what the hell was going on with the shark?
Can this fucking thing be fished out?
Are you from Santiago?
What we gained in two or three days is not even as much as you, a shipwreck survivor?
At this moment, Eric suspected that he might have encountered a scam, or that the show was a prank just to make fun of him and Charles.
Charles, who was standing by, saw his good brother take a look at the raft and then suddenly became silent, like a puppet without a spring, so he looked down curiously.
A puppet without a spring +1 A cold wind blew, and the two brothers felt very cold in their hearts.
Eric reached his hand inside his clothes tremblingly. Bifang's eyes fixed and he became alert all of a sudden. He only relaxed when he saw that Eric took out a cigarette.
Eric took out the cigarette box, pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then tremblingly tried to take out his lighter, but found that he seemed to have forgotten it. When he was about to put the cigarette back, a trembling flame came over. He looked up and saw that it was Charles, whose hands were also shaking violently.
Bifang looked at the scene one by one, feeling a little emotional.
As expected, fishermen work very hard. Look at these two men, who are only in their thirties and less than forty years old, but they both caught a cold and their hands were shaking so much that they couldn't even hold a cigarette steadily.
Eric took a deep puff of smoke and exhaled slowly. He looked at Bifang and determined that this was a prank show, designed to play tricks on fishermen like them who had been out to sea for many days but had no catch at all. A person was disguised as a victim and a boat full of fish was loaded to taunt them.
Life is not easy, the fishermen sighed.
It's already so hard, but I still have to be fooled by life. I have to say that the other party has achieved his goal.
"Tell me, where is the camera?"
Bifang was shocked. He didn't expect that the two of them could figure out that this was a wilderness-themed show so quickly. For the sake of effect, the production team had deliberately let the drone fly low to avoid the two's sight. Now that it was discovered, Bifang didn't plan to continue pretending. He pointed with his hand.
"Right there."
The drone slowly rose up, and the two brothers looked at each other and nodded at the same time.
They were really tricked!
