Chapter 135: Chapter 129 Cause of Death: Boldness
“Co, let’s first learn how to kick with fins,” Chu Mingcheng instructed Jiang Luoluo to float horizontally on the surface of the water and started by getting her to practice kicking with fins.
Whether she could swim or not, the basic skill of kicking with fins had to be practiced for diving.
Once she beca proficient in its use, she would be able to dive horizontally, and her swimming technique would naturally improve as she got used to it.
Getting a free diving certificate from a club requires one to know how to swim first because the training ti is very short.
If one can’t swim, it’s hard to master basic skills in a short ti, and it can also hold back the progress of other students.
Jiang Luoluo felt that as long as Chu Mingcheng was there to teach her anyti and to protect her by her side, it didn’t really matter whether she learned swimming first or not.
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“Ei, ei, ei…” When Chu Mingcheng let go, Jiang Luoluo imdiately panicked.
Thinking she was about to perform an unintentional handstand due to her heavy head and light feet, luckily the buoyancy of the sea was enough for her to resurface with a few strokes of her hands.
“Don’t rush, you need to learn to breathe with your mouth; the snorkel’s mouthpiece is right above your head. As long as your head is above water, you definitely won’t choke,” he reassured her.
“But rember to exhale forcefully before breathing in, to blow out any seawater that’s gotten into the snorkel,” he added.
Seeing her cheeks puffed up in the water, hesitant to breathe like a little hamster, made Chu Mingcheng want to laugh even as he was instructing her.
Jiang Luoluo’s dance background gave her strong control over her body.
With just a little practice, she was already able to dive with ease across the surface of the water.
Seeing this, Chu Mingcheng, under her slightly surprised gaze, took her hand, “Co, let show you the wonders of the sea.”
Jiang Luoluo smiled broadly, “Okay!”
“Take a deep breath first, but don’t strain yourself.”
“Mm-hmm,” she nodded.
Once she was ready, Chu Mingcheng began to swim with her into the water.
Jiang Luoluo wasn’t wearing a weight belt, so with her beginner diving skills, it would take a lot of energy to counteract the buoyancy.
It was much easier with Chu Mingcheng pulling her into the water.
But he was very careful not to dive too deep all at once; instead, he started from one or two ters, stopping at a depth of five or six ters and then glided through the water at that level.
It was a pity that the water here was quite deep. If it were near an isolated reef or a small island, he could have taken Jiang Luoluo diving for sea treasures, searching for large sea snails and the like.
After five or six tries, each lasting a minute,
seeing that she was getting tired, Chu Mingcheng suggested they return, “Let’s stop here for today. Next ti we’ll find a place with coral reefs, so you can experience the fun of diving and hunting in the sea.”
Jiang Luoluo nodded agreent, “Mm, what about you? Are you going to continue fishing?”
“Of course, I still have so ti. I’ll fish for another hour,” he said. Taking her diving hadn’t taken much effort, and with today’s good fish resources, he could not miss the opportunity.
“Alright, I haven’t caught anything fishing today either, I’ll try again later.”
After returning Jiang Luoluo to the boat and having her pass him the speargun, Chu Mingcheng set off again, this ti heading for the area beneath the signal tower.
He first dove horizontally towards the signal tower. It was just a small tower with a single pillar standing on the seabed, covered in corals.
But these weren’t the main attraction; he dived a little deeper to observe the fish situation and saw schools of sea bream swimming around the pillar, much more exaggerated than those he had seen beneath the pier at Yann Island.
The fish schools were located more than twenty ters deep, so he had to dive at least fifteen ters to hunt them on breath-hold.
He sensed that hunting here might be more challenging than his previous mackerel hunts—sea bream were smaller than mackerel and perhaps not as fast,
but they were more agile and their movents were harder to predict.
Chu Mingcheng returned to the surface to adjust his breathing and reloaded the speargun, using it to lead the way as he descended vertically.
This allowed him to maintain a streamlined posture, reducing drag as he dived straight down.
Descending to about twelve ters, he spotted the fish.
However, as he approached, the fish began to flee downwards.
At this mont, he noticed a particularly nice Striped Rockfish about eight ters away from him. It appeared small due to the distance,
but in reality, it was much larger than the other fish nearby. Based on his experience, it weighed over five pounds.
The fish seed panicked. As Chu Mingcheng aid his speargun, it flipped in the air and suddenly speeded to the opposite side, ending up on the sa level as him, only five ters away.
Without hesitation, Chu Mingcheng aid the gun and quickly pressed the trigger.
The fish spear instantly pierced the Striped Rockfish’s body, it was an excellent headshot.
Scientific na: striped stone bream
Cause of death: aerial flip
The water was stained with blood as the fish struggled to swim, but Chu Mingcheng easily pulled it to the surface.
He hoisted the fish, which was about the size he had estimated, five to six pounds.
He waved at Jiang Luoluo in the distance, signaling there were fish around and he would continue hunting in this area, to let her know his whereabouts.
Jiang Luoluo waved back to show she understood.
With that, Chu Mingcheng secured the fish with a fish stringer, readied the speargun, reloading it, and dove back down.
He maintained a speed of one ter per second as he descended; with so many fish around, he aid to catch as much as possible.
Although he moved effortlessly in the water, he was not aquatic by nature, and coupled with the energy spent hunting mackerel earlier, he couldn’t fully recover just by resting for a while.
This ti, he found a suitable target at a depth of seventeen ters—another Striped Rockfish.
But it was too far away; he had to dive deeper.
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