Such a deep area is strange. There shouldn't be any places this deep in the East China Sea, right? Of course, apart from a few individual trench areas, the vast majority of the sea is only around 100 meters deep. This area can't be a trench, because a trench can't be that large. The fishing boats were sailing back at full speed, covering several nautical miles in just a few minutes, but the results of the detection were all the same: they couldn't detect the seabed.
The seawater was too deep, and it was difficult to detect the fish. Zhou Xuan tried his best to use his special ability to detect them, so he could at least catch a few fish. He didn't care about anything else and didn't want to let that old guy Yu Changhe get away with it too easily.
It was already dawn, around 7:30.
Zhou Xuan did detect a small school of fish. The area was not very large, only about ten meters long, but it was long, like a long ribbon. The school of fish swam from east to south at a depth of about forty meters in the seawater.
Zhou Xuan immediately took out his walkie-talkie, tuned it, and quickly said to Uncle Yu, "Uncle, slow down immediately and steer twenty meters to the right."
Upon hearing this, Yu Jinshan knew that Zhou Xuan had made a discovery. He quickly slowed down the boat and steered it twenty meters to the right. Zhou Xuan was using his special ability to detect the location, and once he reached the spot, he cast the net out.
When casting the net, Yu Jinshan had already brought the boat to a complete stop. The fishing net sank to a depth of 300 meters, and Zhou Xuan then pushed up the power switch to haul in the net, and the winch started turning with a creaking sound.
A dozen minutes later, the net was brought in and placed on the deck. The net contained fewer fish than the previous two trips, only about 15,000 catties, but the fish were larger. In the past, the fish caught were all three or four catties, but this time they were all about six or seven catties.
Uncle Yu no longer allowed Guan Lin to steer the ship alone, and ordered him to work on the deck.
Guan Lin reluctantly went to the deck. Fu Bao and the other six people, including Zhou Xuan, were busy loading fish. It took about an hour to finish loading the fish, a total of 174 baskets. It seemed that 20,000 catties of fish was still a little short, but it was still a pretty good harvest.
After loading the fish and hauling in the net, Uncle Yu Er started speeding up the boat and heading back.
After setting off at full speed again, about five or six minutes later, Zhou Xuan and the others on the deck saw a cargo ship sailing towards them from the left front of the ship.
Several people were guessing what was going on, as the distance was about several nautical miles, so they couldn't see very clearly. But after taking a few glances, Old Jiang's expression changed, and he quickly shouted, "Everyone be careful! Try to crouch down and find a place that can block the gunfire. I... I'm going to the cockpit!"
After saying that, Lao Jiang hurriedly ran to the cockpit. Zhou Xuan's ability couldn't detect that far, so he didn't know what the situation was, but the situation inside the ship was fine.
Old Jiang rushed to the bridge and said urgently to Uncle Yu, "Brother Jinshan, there's a cargo ship ahead. We don't know where it is; there are no obvious markings on board."
Yu Jinshan's face darkened as he pondered, "I know, we've already discovered them. They... are coming directly towards us."
On sea routes, cargo ships will sound their horns to warn each other from a distance, and the ships will keep a distance from each other, unless they are familiar with each other, in which case they will sail closer to each other to say hello.
The cargo ship had no obvious markings. Most cargo ships have their own national markings. On Uncle Yu's ship, for example, a red flag was flying on the mast. The fact that the cargo ship was sailing straight towards them was obviously very strange.
Uncle Yu kept an eye on the cargo ship, then steered his boat away at full speed, but the cargo ship then turned a corner and continued to chase the fishing boat.
Uncle Yu and Lao Jiang's expressions changed drastically. Something was wrong. They had changed direction, but the other party was still chasing them closely. There was something wrong.
What worries Yu Jinshan now is that the other party's cargo ship has a much stronger engine than the fishing boat, and the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer. When they are about two or three hundred meters apart, the sound of a loudspeaker comes from the other ship.
However, none of the people on the Yujinshan ship could understand what was being said through the loudspeaker. It didn't sound like English; it sounded more like a language from some European countries.
Ignoring everything else, Yu Jinshan continued to rev the ship to its maximum speed. However, when the cargo ship was only about 150 meters away, someone on board fired about ten shots.
Guan Lin, Yu Qiang, Fu Gui, and the others panicked and frantically hid on the boat. The other side had guns, while they were unarmed fishing boats and fishermen. Resistance was useless; their only option was to flee.
With no guns and a boat that wasn't as powerful as the enemy's, escape was clearly out of the question.
Then the other side fired another shot, which landed ten meters to the left of the fishing boat. The seawater splashed up from the shell, and the fishing boat rocked violently.
Yu Qiang, Guan Linfu, Bao Fushan and the others screamed in fright. They had never seen anything like this before.
The other cargo ship's horn blared again. Although they couldn't understand it, they could guess that the other ship wanted them to stop.
Zhou Xuan quickly bent down and rushed into the cockpit, saying to Yu Jinshan, "Second Uncle Yu, we need to stop the boat right away."
Yu Jinshan was also somewhat flustered, saying, "But stopping is too dangerous. The other party doesn't seem like a benevolent bird; they're probably pirates. Falling into their hands would be even more dangerous."
"But trying to escape now would be even more dangerous. They have cannons; if they damage our ship, we'll be doomed. If we stop and wait for them to close in, we might still have a chance to subdue them and escape."
Zhou Xuan spoke in a deep voice. He was naturally confident, but if they continued to flee without stopping, they would be no threat to the enemy because the distance was beyond the range that his superpower could control. The enemy's cannons, on the other hand, would be the biggest threat to them. If bullets and cannons came at them, no matter how powerful Zhou Xuan's superpower was, there would be nothing he could do.
Zhou Xuan had previously used his supernatural ability to convert and absorb sniper bullets, but the impact severely injured him. While his current ability is much stronger, it's still no match for bullets; their speed is too great. Even if he could convert and absorb them, he could only absorb a few at most before likely sustaining injury. As for artillery shells, that's probably out of the question.
Yu Jinshan was anxious, but the other cargo ship was chasing even closer. Another shell was fired ten meters in front of the ship, and seawater splashed all over the cockpit window.
Uncle Yu's expression changed drastically, and Zhou Xuan advised again, "Uncle, a wise man doesn't fight a losing battle. We can't fight them head-on now; we can't outrun them. Let's stop."
Yu Jinshan had no other choice but to reduce the speed of the boat until it came to a complete stop.
When the cargo ship was about ten meters away, more than a dozen people stood out from the ship, each carrying a gun, mostly semi-automatic rifles. Two of them even fired several bursts of gunfire into the air.
This is clearly an attempt to intimidate the people on the fishing boats. In fact, they don't need to intimidate them; the people on the fishing boats are already lying on the boats, too afraid to move.
Zhou Xuan waited until the ship got close enough that his supernatural ability could detect the cargo ship. He then detected that there were about fifty or sixty people on board, and ten of them had come aboard from their fishing boat. They all looked fierce and capable.
These people are probably similar to those seen in movies and television, and are similar to people from places like Italy, with rugged faces and tall stature.
It shouldn't be pirates, because Zhou Xuan also detected a small submarine following behind the cargo ship, something pirates don't have.
Zhou Xuan also detected that after the ten armed men arrived on their ship, they immediately split into several groups of two, and then two groups of two entered the cabin from the left and right, while the other six armed men forced Fu Gui and the other five men to kneel on the deck.
Inside the cockpit were Zhou Xuan, Uncle Yu, and Lao Jiang. The four thugs searched each room one by one, but found them all empty until they reached the cockpit.
To be on the safe side, Zhou Xuan used his special ability to disable the bullets in the guns of the ten thugs on the ship. This way, if he were to fight them, he wouldn't be caught off guard. He would find another opportunity to take out all the weapons on the other ship later, which would be the safest option.
Four thugs armed with guns stormed into the cockpit and then gave Yu Jinshan a shot with the butt of a rifle, because it was clear that Yu Jinshan was the leader of this ship.
He mumbled something for a while, but no one could understand him. Zhou Xuan pointed to his mouth and ears, indicating that he didn't understand.
The men immediately pointed their guns outside the cabin and said a few words. Although they couldn't understand what they were saying, they could guess that the men wanted them to go out onto the deck.
Zhou Xuan helped Uncle Yu Er walk out, with Lao Jiang following closely behind, looking quite panicked.
Zhou Xuan wasn't worried about the ten people on the ship at all. As he walked, he used his supernatural ability to probe the other ship. The other ship obviously had quite a few weapons. Zhou Xuan didn't know much about weapons, but he had seen them in movies. The ship had rocket launchers, which were much more lethal than guns, and there were as many as five of them.
Zhou Xuan was about to use his supernatural ability to render the rocket launcher shells useless when he suddenly detected a tall, thin, fair-skinned Eastern man walking from the deck onto the fishing boat.