"It's just a pity that although my theory is very sound, I haven't caught a big fish yet..."
Dr. Agasa touched his somewhat bald forehead and said to the three little ones and Kawauchi Harumi with a smile.
The three little ones looked at each other, and they seemed to be holding back a lot of energy under their eye contact.
"Sister Harumi, if there are a lot of fish here, will there be sea bream?"
Genta turned his head and asked Miyano Akemi.
Miyano Akemi was a little confused. She really didn't understand this problem.
Fortunately, Yuanhuaiyu's voice came not far away, helping her out:
"It's basically impossible. You have to go at least 30 to 70 meters deeper to find snapper... But this is not absolute. The seawater is all connected. If you are lucky, you may encounter it.
There are silly stray snappers biting your hook.”
Hearing this, Genta, who was a little unable to sit still, took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and stared at his motionless fishing rod attentively.
"Huh?" Not long after, Haiyuan Ai suddenly saw his buoy on the water moving up and down.
"Booked!" She whispered with some joy, and patted the arm of Yuan Huaiyu who looked like he was about to fall asleep. Then she held the fishing rod with both hands and struggled with the fish under the water, trying to catch it.
Pull out of the water.
The movement on her side quickly attracted three little ones. The three of them put their fishing rods on the shelf and ran over in a flash, standing behind Haibara Ai to give her advice and cheer her up.
Dr. A Li and Miyano Akemi also cast their gazes over. Yuan Huaiyu finally opened his eyes, sat up from the recliner, and looked at Haibara Ai who remained stiff with interest.
"Don't worry!"
"Pull! Pull!"
"Come on! Come again!"
The fish that was hooked didn't seem to have much strength. Amidst the hurried cries of the three little fish, Haiyuan Ai took a deep breath, used both hands to exert force, and swung the fishing rod upwards. A fish hanging on the hook appeared in mid-air above the water.
Start fluttering.
"Wow! Great!"
But when she put away the fishing line and pulled it in front of her, she realized that the fish seemed a little too young, only half the size of her hand.
"Is this a juvenile fish of melon seed crucian carp?" Mitsuhiko, who was familiar with the museum's illustrated books, quickly told the species of this small fish.
Yuan Huaiyu nodded: "Yes, he hasn't grown up yet. He lacks experience in fish production and is not very strong, otherwise he wouldn't be caught so easily."
"When you catch young fish, you should put them back into the sea, right?"
After looking at the little fish for a while, Haiyuan Ai felt that it had become a little immobile due to lack of oxygen, so he prepared to release it back into the sea.
"Wait." At this time, Yuan Huaiyu stopped her.
He smiled and said: "After all, it's the first fish you caught yourself, Xiao Ai. Meeting it is fate. Why don't you put it in a bucket to keep it temporarily, let it accompany us to the end of fishing, and then put it back into the sea?
It’s not too late either.”
"Hmm...it seems pretty good." Haiyuan Ai thought for a while and felt that it was a bit of a pity to just put it back like this.
She gently put the small fish into the bucket aside, and thoughtfully put in a small amount of bait.
Seemingly stimulated by Haiyuan Ai's good start, Yuantai, who was most eager to catch fish among the three, trotted back to his fishing rod, picked up the fishing rod and carried the bucket and ran to the other end of the breakwater, determined to catch one.
The big fish are up.
"Be careful not to be dragged into the water by the fish!" Yuan Huaiyu just warned, but didn't take it to heart.
Time flies, and the whole morning is quickly spent in writing, fishing, reading and chatting.
After a whole morning, I don’t know if it was because the weather was so good and the water was so clear that the fish in the sea could easily tell that the baited hooks were insidious traps.
Nothing was found except that little fish.
As the whistle sounded, the fishing boat that came to pick up everyone on their way back slowly approached the breakwater from the direction they came from.
"The ship is coming!" Dr. Agasa said to Ayumi and Mitsuhiko beside him.
"The time has come..."
"Then we are going back?"
It was already time for lunch, and Ayumi and Mitsuhiko were eating the bento they had brought here. When they heard Dr. Agasa say that the ship was coming, they both felt a little unfinished.
Although they can't catch fish, the fishermen enjoy the waiting process more, not to mention that their original intention of coming here this time is actually camping in disguise.
"We're going to have a curry party at the doctor's house today!" Ayumi said happily, remembering that she would go to the doctor's house to play when she got back later.
"Yes... Sister Harumei will come too, right?" Mitsuhiko nodded, looking very expectant.
"Of course. Teacher Minamoto has already told me that I am actually very good at cooking curry!" Miyano Akemi replied with a smile.
"Okay!" Ayumi and Mitsuhiko cheered again.
While they were happily discussing what they wanted to do at the doctor's house, the fishing boat had already reached the shore. The owner of the fishing boat, the fisherman Ida, jumped off the boat and fixed the fishing boat to the breakwater with a rope, squinting his eyes with a smile.
Then he looked at Dr. A Li.
"How's it going? Did you catch a fish?"
he asked, tilting his head.
"Of course not!" Although Dr. Agasa didn't catch any fish, he couldn't see any signs of depression. He touched his bald head and responded to Ida with a smile, using the words of Ejiri Taishi just now, "It's as bald as my head."
Light."
"What a pity..." Ida turned his attention to Kiriko Shirane and Mineto Kanaya not far away, "Where are you here?"
"I'm naked too..." Shirone Kiriko spread her hands.
Jin Gufeng turned his head and looked over: "I only have one small horse mackerel."
He seemed a little impatient because he hadn't caught a fish in this place for so long, and suggested: "In the afternoon, would it be better for us to go fishing somewhere else?"
"Okay..." Shirone Tongzi nodded.
Ayumi and Mitsuhiko ran to the other side of the breakwater and called to Genta who was fishing alone:
"Genta! Forget it!"
"Go home!"
Yuantai responded: "Okay!"
He stood up, patted his legs that were already numb from sitting, and was about to put away the fishing gear when he suddenly noticed a "click-click" sound and a rhythmic vibration coming from the fishing rod set aside.
…
"Haha, it turns out that Xiao Ai is the only one in our group who caught a fish, and it's a young fish that needs to be released."
Yuan Huaiyu stretched, stood up, and said with a smile.
He lifted the bucket, looked at the little fish inside that had already eaten and drank enough, and murmured to himself in a voice that Hui Yuan Ai couldn't hear:
"Little guy, you're lucky... I hope you can recognize us next time we meet."
As he spoke, the nail of his right thumb gently scratched the pad of his index finger, and a tiny drop of blood oozed out from the scratch on his index finger with precise control.
The blood dripped into the bucket, but it did not dissolve in the water. Instead, it sank to the bottom like a small ruby.
The little fish in the bucket seemed to feel something, and with a sudden impulse, it instinctively swallowed the slowly sinking drop of blood into its mouth like lightning.
Seeing this scene, Yuan Huaiyu fished out the small fish with a smile, picked up its tail, and threw it directly into the sea.
Meanwhile, Haihara Ai was chatting and laughing with her sister Miyano Akemi, and did not notice Yuan Huaiyu's little move.
After Dr. Agasa packed up his fishing gear, out of courtesy, he shouted to Taishi Ejiri who was sitting on a corner brick:
"Let's leave first! Keep up the good work..."
But Taishi Ejiri seemed to be dead, silent and without any response.
"There's no need to call him...Ejiri can barely speak as soon as he starts fishing." Kanaya Mineto explained with a smile.
Shirone Tongzi also echoed: "Yes, she said she would not leave until she caught a big fish today..."
"Haha, he will scream the loudest when he is fishing..." Jin Gufeng shrugged, knowing this companion's habits well.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, something unexpected happened, and everyone present who looked at Taishi Ejiri noticed something was wrong and let out a light sigh.
Just now, the fishing rod on Ejiri's right hand shook for a while, as if something had taken the bait, but he had no reaction at all. He just sat there in a daze, and even the fishing rod fell off the shelf and fell into the sea without even realizing it.
.
"Hey, Mr. Ejiri!" Ida rushed to the corner brick, "Are you asleep?"
He pushed Ejiri Taishi from behind, but what he never expected was that with just a slight push, Ejiri Taishi collapsed weakly to the ground.
"Mr. Ejiri! What's wrong with you? Mr. Ejiri!" Ida called out to Taishi Ejiri loudly, but still didn't get any response.
"Get out of the way."
At this moment, another voice came from behind him. Ida looked back and found that it was a young man among the group of fishermen with children.
Yuan Huaiyu gently pulled Ida away from Ejiri Taishi's somewhat stiff body, and squatted down to check on Ejiri's condition.
"Sigh... Sure enough... Why did you provoke these children? Didn't you get yourself killed..."
Yuanhuaiyu shook his head helplessly, but he could still tell that Taishi Ejiri was not dead at this time, but his lips were blue and he was about to die.
The heartbeat was obvious and the pulse was beating hard, but Taishi Ejiri couldn't breathe at this time. If no action was taken, he would soon suffocate to death.
Although Ejiri Taishi's previous behavior was a bit unacceptable, it was naturally impossible for Yuanhuaiyu to ignore the middle-aged man in front of him who was obviously poisoned just because of this matter.
He squatted on the ground and expertly performed artificial respiration for Taishi Ejiri, maintaining the respiratory circulation in his body so that he would not die immediately due to lack of oxygen.
"Quick! Contact the hospital! Take this uncle to the hospital by boat! Hurry!"
Miyano Akemi was the one who reacted the fastest among the others. She immediately shouted to Ida.
"Ah... ok!" Ida also knew that people's lives were at stake and could not tolerate any ambiguity. He immediately ran up the breakwater from the corner bricks and went to prepare to sail the boat.
"Ejiri!" Shirane Kiriko's expression changed drastically. She was about to rush up to check on her friend, but was stopped by Haihara Ai in time.
"Don't go!" Haiyuan Ai screamed, and then explained the reason, "That uncle seems to have been poisoned. The possibility of being poisoned is very high, and the poisoned prisoner... may be on this breakwater.
Anyone! The prisoner might pretend to be shocked and approach the uncle, and then take the opportunity to hide the possible evidence around him or throw it into the sea."
She said with a solemn expression: "Leave it to our teacher Yuan. He is the science teacher and will definitely be able to handle it properly. What you have to do now is to stay where you are and don't cause trouble."
After Yuanhuaiyu gave Ejiri Taishi several rounds of artificial respiration, he felt that his condition improved significantly, but in order to get rid of the neurotoxin in his body that was causing him to suffocate, he had to be sent to the hospital for rescue.
"I'll send him to the ship, doctor, please come and help!"
Yuanhuaiyu picked up Taishi Ejiri on his back and ran towards the fishing boat, making arrangements in an orderly manner along the way.
"Xiao Ai, Qing Mei, please keep an eye on everyone on the breakwater and don't run around!"
"You, who are you..." The people from Jin Gufeng were a little shocked as they watched the panic scene quickly enter a step-by-step state with everyone performing their duties under Yuan Huaiyu's arrangement.
"We are! The Boys Detective Team!"
Naturally, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi would not let go of this opportunity to show off. They immediately showed off their detective badges, struck a pose, and said loudly to Kanetani Mine and Shirane Kiriko.
"Huh..." They just did it normally, and they suddenly found that something was missing.
"Where's Genta?!"
Haiyuan Ai glanced at them and pointed to Yuantai, who was holding a fishing rod on the other side of the breakwater, as if he was fighting to the death with the fish that bit the hook until his face was sweating profusely: "Here, over there."
"Genta, what are you doing?"
"Sorry..." Yuantai seemed to have no time to speak at all now, and all his attention was focused on the fishing rod, "I can't let go now..."
Yuanhuaiyu and Dr. Ali came to the fishing boat together, placed Taishi Ejiri on the bed in the boat, and told Dr. Ali:
"Doctor, please escort him to the hospital for rescue and perform artificial respiration every ten seconds."
"Ah, okay..." Dr. Ali glanced at the fisherman Ida warily, "Do you need my help to keep an eye on that person? He should also be suspected of poisoning..."
"No need..." Yuan Huaiyu shook his head, "He is not the one who poisoned me, don't worry."
Standing on the fishing boat, Yuan Huaiyu glanced at Yuantai who was struggling with the big fish and grinned:
"Doctor, don't worry. I will reveal the truth here... This guy Yuantai is catching a big fish. I have to solve the case as soon as possible to help him."
"Ah? Oh... okay..."
Dr. Ali's eyes widened in shock, but he quickly calmed down.
Less than three minutes had passed since the incident happened, and Yuan Huaiyu seemed to already know the truth, which was really surprising.
But considering that the other party is Yuan Huaiyu, it doesn't seem so surprising.