Natural Disaster: I Started By Hoarding Tens Of Billions Of Supplies - Chapter 127

Chapter 127: Fishing (1)
When they arrived at Anyuan Reservoir, it was almost ten o’clock in the evening.

After Shi Xuan tied the motorboat to a tree, they carried the inflatable boats up the mountain. The reservoir was on higher ground, and they needed to walk for twenty minutes.

Since they were out at night, they couldn’t see clearly, and the road was rough and slippery. After walking for just a few minutes, Yao Ran slipped and fell backward.

Long Yu walked behind her and quickly reached out to her. He reflexly put his arm around her waist and stopped her fall. He then breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Be careful.”

Yao Ran nodded and stiffly said, ‘Thank you.”

After steadying her body and retracting his hands, Long Yu looked at Quan Yuanwei and Sima Yun, who were walking behind him, and said, “Be careful. The ground is slippery.”

Sima Yun is a martial arts master with a strong and flexible body. Walking on slippery roads is no problem for him.

However, Quan Yuanwei is just a weakling. He is a physics expert and has little time to exercise. Even walking on a flat road would be tiring for him, let alone climbing a muddy slope.

Seeing that he kept slipping and breathing heavily, Sima Yun pulled him up and said, “Brother Yuanwei, please walk in front of me. I will support you from behind.”

Although Quan Yuanwei was a little embarrassed to depend on this younger brother, he accepted Sima Yun’s kindness and walked in front of him.

Sima Yun supported Quan Yuanwei from behind, while Long Yu supported Yao Ran, and they could finally walk faster.

After twenty minutes of walking, they finally saw the vast reservoir in the mountains.

Long Yu put down the inflatable boat and said, “Yao Ran and Quan Yuanwei will join me. Shi Xuan, Huang Qian, and Sima Yun will take another boat.”

Because Quan Yuanwei is the weakest member of the team, Long Yu decided to add him to his team so that he could protect Quan Yuanwei if there is danger later.

After dividing the teams, they rested under a tree and ate something to replenish their strength. Yao Ran saw Quan Yuanwei and Sima Yun taking out half of the potatoes from their backpacks and eating them slowly.

She lowered her eyes and thought, ‘It seems that everyone is really running out of food.’

After resting for ten minutes, they boarded the inflatable boats.

When they arrived at the center of the reservoir, Quan Yuanwei reminded them, “The sound will be a bit harsh. If you really can’t stand it, please cover your ears.”

Because of her abilities, Yao Ran’s five senses were more sensitive than ordinary people, so she put on earplugs and covered her ears. When Quan Yuanwei turned on the fishing machine, the buzzing sound made her frown from dizziness.

Long Yu noticed this and approached her. He sat behind her and covered her ears with his hands.

When Yao Ran felt his big hands covering her small hands, she looked back and saw Long Yu staring at the water’s surface.

A few seconds later, Huang Qian’s excited voice came from another boat.

“Look! There are really fish here!”

Following his voice, more and more fish jumped out of the water, then fainted and floated, exposing their snow-white bellies.

Yao Ran took out the night vision binoculars from her backpack and looked at the water. To her surprise, there were more fish than she thought.

Seeing that many fish had fainted, Quan Yuanwei turned off the fishing machine and said, “Let’s catch them quickly before they wake up.”

After listening to his words, Long Yu and others quickly took a fishing net and fished the unconscious fish into the garbage bags they had brought tonight.

The fainted fish drifted away with the current and disappeared into the darkness. Seeing this, the six people increased their speed and collected as many fish as possible.

Seeing that most of the fish had been put into garbage bags, Quan Yuanwei said, “Let’s change places.”

Long Yu nodded and started the engine. He drove the inflatable boat twenty meters away from the last position, and then Quan Yuanwei turned on the fishing machine.

The next second, Yao Ran felt Long Yu’s hands covering her ears again.

Every time Quan Yuanwei turned on the fishing machine, Long Yu would cover Yao Ran’s ears with his hands. At first, she felt embarrassed and awkward. However, after he repeated it for the fourth time, she calmly let him help her cover her ears.

When the fish turned upside down, Quan Yuanwei turned off the fishing machine, and the six people continued to catch them and put them in the garbage bags. Then, they repeated the process and caught more fish.

The fish are not small. Most weigh two or three kilograms, and some even weigh five or six kilograms.

The reservoir contains many kinds of fish, including grass carp, silver carp, carp, crucian carp, herring, tilapia, and many more.

The two teams fished separately and worked very quickly, catching a lot of fish in a short time.

In less than an hour, Yao Ran, Long Yu, and Quan Yuanwei had already filled six garbage bags— each weighing about 200 kilograms. Huang Qian, Shi Xuan, and Sima Yun were not far behind and had already begun to fill their seventh bag.

After they collected twenty bags of fish, Long Yu and Shi Xuan drove to the land and placed them under a tree. There were already more than 40 bags under the tree, weighing more than 8,000 kilograms.

Seeing the pile of bags full of fish, Yao Ran asked, “How to transport them?”

Shi Xuan also asked, “Are we coming back tomorrow?”

Quan Yuanwei looked at the fishing machine’s power meter and said, “The battery can only last for two more hours. If we want to come back tomorrow, we need to find a way to recharge the batteries.”

Hearing this, Yao Ran said, “I have a way to recharge it.”