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Chapter 1250
chapter 0526 part 2
"Hmm, these lads. Indeed, only sufficient harvest can satisfy them. Should I consider Aida's suggestion? But now those foreigners are protesting very strongly about whale hunting. If I get caught, the guys at the Fishery Association might not protect me!"
Kuroki smoked his Captain brand cigarette, looking at the few fishermen under him, and recalled the matter his old friend at the Fishery Association had told him about.
Quietly hunting whales using his fishing boat. Kuroki weighed the gains and losses. International public opinion now made even the government bureaucrats fearful. If he were caught red-handed by those foreign ships during whale hunting, his fishing boat would be lost.
After all, he didn't have whale hunting aptitude and couldn't hunt whales freely under the guise of scientific research like that guy Takeshita.
Fewer and fewer young people were willing to go out to sea on boats to fish.
The guys on the boat now were only willing to risk their lives on board because of the high salaries from fishing. Judging by the catches from these recent trips, if he didn't get more income, his Kuroki Family fishing boat might not even have the opportunity to go out to sea in the future!
Kuroki's gaze looked towards the bow of the boat, seemingly seeing through the deck the rusty whale hunting gun hidden beneath. Thinking of the current price of whale meat his old friend mentioned, Kuroki felt a surge of excitement in his heart. He took a deep drag of the cigarette in his hand.
"Let's do it! It's just whale hunting, isn't it? One trip out to sea can earn as much as seven or eight trips used to. I'll work for a few more years, save some money, and retire!"
"Is Aida's Haruko really as *cough* as Sakai said? Aida isn't very good at drinking. It should be normal for me, as the captain, to send him home after he gets drunk, right?"
"What is that thing? A meteorite?"
"Captain Kuroki! Look at the falling star!"
Kuroki held a basin of water and a rag, came to the deck, lifted a hidden compartment, and while wiping the whale hunting gun stained with dolphin blood, his mind wandered, thinking about sending Aida home that night.
Suddenly, there was a commotion behind him. Hearing Aida and the others' exclamations, Kuroki frowned and turned around. Just as he was about to scold the noisy people, he saw several people looking up at the sky together, pointing with their fingers.
Following everyone's gaze, Kuroki saw a fireball descending from the sky.
"Meteorite!?" Although Kuroki was over fifty, he wasn't an old relic. Seeing the fireball falling from the sky, he, like everyone else, subconsciously thought it was a meteorite falling from the sky.
"I remember Oki said there are valuable things in meteorites. It's a shame, judging by the shape, this meteorite isn't big. Otherwise, we could try to look for it!" Looking at the meteorite crashing into the sea surface from afar, Kuroki secretly felt regret.
"I heard some meteorites can sell for tens of millions of Yen. Should we go take a look!"
"Aida, do you think this is on land? This is the ocean. How big is that meteorite? Trying to find it is less realistic than praying we run into a school of tuna next time!"
"Aida, did you take photos of that meteorite? I remember Haruko really likes falling stars!"
"Ah, I forgot!"
"But Murakami, how did you know my wife likes falling stars!" The fisherman named Murakami's complexion stiffened at Aida's question. He quickly laughed it off: "Did you forget? Last time we drank together at the izakaya, you told me!"
"Is that so! Then I must have been drunk and don't remember!" Aida scratched his head.
Seeing that he had managed to fool him, Murakami couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead. He lowered his hand and met Sakai's half-smiling gaze. The two exchanged a knowing look, instantly understanding that the other was a fellow traveler on the same path!
"Oki! Quick! Throw off all heavy objects, drain the fish hold, everyone get inside the hold, accelerate into the harbour!"
Suddenly, a sharp wail echoed from the bow deck. Several fishermen recognized the hoarse, broken voice as belonging to their captain, Kuroki Toshio! "Captain! What happened!?" Bald Oki looked at Kuroki Toshio in confusion.
"Tsunami, it's a killer wave, a super tsunami! Hurry into the harbour, no, no, it's too late to enter the harbour! Turn the boat around, at a forty-five-degree angle! I hope the area of this wave isn't large! Hurry!"
Kuroki Toshio looked at the sea surface, which had suddenly become as calm as a lake, with the seawater receding towards the center of the sea. Having experienced several tsunamis before, he immediately realized that danger was imminent. His decades of experience surviving at sea told him that this abnormality on the sea surface was a precursor to a super tsunami.
Upon hearing Kuroki Toshio's frantic roar about the killer wave, several fishermen panicked. As people who made their living at sea, they naturally knew that only waves exceeding thirty meters were called killer waves.
They were giant waves capable of instantly capsizing ten-thousand-ton vessels! Under Kuroki Toshio's shouting, several fishermen clumsily turned the fishing boat around. The fishing boat hadn't sailed far at an angle when they saw an extremely terrifying scene.
"Amaterasu Ōmikami!" Inside the captain's cabin, Bald Oki looked at the boundless giant wave and fell to his knees with a thud.
If a thirty-meter wave was called a killer wave, what was this in front of them? Kuroki Toshio looked at the giant wave, which was a hundred meters high. The height of the wave crest was so high it seemed to touch the sky. Even though he had been at sea for over thirty years, he had never even heard of such a giant wave, let alone seen one.
"It's over! Japan is finished!"
"Rumble!"
Although Kuroki Toshio's hands trembled as he tried his best to control the fishing boat and avoid the super giant wave before him, the super giant wave seemed to stretch for thousands of meters. Before the fishing boat could sail out of the super giant wave's coverage area at an angle—
The hundred-meter-high giant wave roared past. The entire fishing boat, weighing less than a thousand tons, let out a creaking sound of steel breaking, and then was swept and rolled into the seabed by the giant wave like building blocks.
The hundred-meter wave swept past the fishing boats frantically accelerating towards the fishing harbour dock, like a wheel casually crushing a few ants. Without any pause, it rolled towards Japan's harbour with a momentum that could overturn mountains and seas.
Whether it was a wooden structure house or a reinforced concrete tall building, they were all treated equally under the hundred-meter-high giant wave, collapsing with a crash and being swept into a pile of ruins by the giant wave! In just a few minutes, this prosperous coastal county area was completely reduced to a flooded land! And the culprit who stirred up this tsunami turned out to be nothing more than a black cauldron three feet square!
Less than a hundred kilometers from the coastline, in the center of an undersea giant pit about several hundred meters deep and a thousand meters in diameter, a black cauldron lay quietly.
A few minutes after the hundred-meter-high super tsunami swept across Japan, a tall woman dressed as a city office worker arrived at the seabed. The moment she entered the water, the surrounding seawater automatically parted to both sides.
The moment the woman arrived at the seabed, her gaze was immediately attracted by the black cauldron there. Not being a mortal, she clearly saw a wisp of clear light slowly rippling out from within the cauldron.
"Hmm, these lads. Indeed, only sufficient harvest can satisfy them. Should I consider Aida's suggestion? But now those foreigners are protesting very strongly about whale hunting. If I get caught, the guys at the Fishery Association might not protect me!"
Kuroki smoked his Captain brand cigarette, looking at the few fishermen under him, and recalled the matter his old friend at the Fishery Association had told him about.
Quietly hunting whales using his fishing boat. Kuroki weighed the gains and losses. International public opinion now made even the government bureaucrats fearful. If he were caught red-handed by those foreign ships during whale hunting, his fishing boat would be lost.
After all, he didn't have whale hunting aptitude and couldn't hunt whales freely under the guise of scientific research like that guy Takeshita.
Fewer and fewer young people were willing to go out to sea on boats to fish.
The guys on the boat now were only willing to risk their lives on board because of the high salaries from fishing. Judging by the catches from these recent trips, if he didn't get more income, his Kuroki Family fishing boat might not even have the opportunity to go out to sea in the future!
Kuroki's gaze looked towards the bow of the boat, seemingly seeing through the deck the rusty whale hunting gun hidden beneath. Thinking of the current price of whale meat his old friend mentioned, Kuroki felt a surge of excitement in his heart. He took a deep drag of the cigarette in his hand.
"Let's do it! It's just whale hunting, isn't it? One trip out to sea can earn as much as seven or eight trips used to. I'll work for a few more years, save some money, and retire!"
"Is Aida's Haruko really as *cough* as Sakai said? Aida isn't very good at drinking. It should be normal for me, as the captain, to send him home after he gets drunk, right?"
"What is that thing? A meteorite?"
"Captain Kuroki! Look at the falling star!"
Kuroki held a basin of water and a rag, came to the deck, lifted a hidden compartment, and while wiping the whale hunting gun stained with dolphin blood, his mind wandered, thinking about sending Aida home that night.
Suddenly, there was a commotion behind him. Hearing Aida and the others' exclamations, Kuroki frowned and turned around. Just as he was about to scold the noisy people, he saw several people looking up at the sky together, pointing with their fingers.
Following everyone's gaze, Kuroki saw a fireball descending from the sky.
"Meteorite!?" Although Kuroki was over fifty, he wasn't an old relic. Seeing the fireball falling from the sky, he, like everyone else, subconsciously thought it was a meteorite falling from the sky.
"I remember Oki said there are valuable things in meteorites. It's a shame, judging by the shape, this meteorite isn't big. Otherwise, we could try to look for it!" Looking at the meteorite crashing into the sea surface from afar, Kuroki secretly felt regret.
"I heard some meteorites can sell for tens of millions of Yen. Should we go take a look!"
"Aida, do you think this is on land? This is the ocean. How big is that meteorite? Trying to find it is less realistic than praying we run into a school of tuna next time!"
"Aida, did you take photos of that meteorite? I remember Haruko really likes falling stars!"
"Ah, I forgot!"
"But Murakami, how did you know my wife likes falling stars!" The fisherman named Murakami's complexion stiffened at Aida's question. He quickly laughed it off: "Did you forget? Last time we drank together at the izakaya, you told me!"
"Is that so! Then I must have been drunk and don't remember!" Aida scratched his head.
Seeing that he had managed to fool him, Murakami couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead. He lowered his hand and met Sakai's half-smiling gaze. The two exchanged a knowing look, instantly understanding that the other was a fellow traveler on the same path!
"Oki! Quick! Throw off all heavy objects, drain the fish hold, everyone get inside the hold, accelerate into the harbour!"
Suddenly, a sharp wail echoed from the bow deck. Several fishermen recognized the hoarse, broken voice as belonging to their captain, Kuroki Toshio! "Captain! What happened!?" Bald Oki looked at Kuroki Toshio in confusion.
"Tsunami, it's a killer wave, a super tsunami! Hurry into the harbour, no, no, it's too late to enter the harbour! Turn the boat around, at a forty-five-degree angle! I hope the area of this wave isn't large! Hurry!"
Kuroki Toshio looked at the sea surface, which had suddenly become as calm as a lake, with the seawater receding towards the center of the sea. Having experienced several tsunamis before, he immediately realized that danger was imminent. His decades of experience surviving at sea told him that this abnormality on the sea surface was a precursor to a super tsunami.
Upon hearing Kuroki Toshio's frantic roar about the killer wave, several fishermen panicked. As people who made their living at sea, they naturally knew that only waves exceeding thirty meters were called killer waves.
They were giant waves capable of instantly capsizing ten-thousand-ton vessels! Under Kuroki Toshio's shouting, several fishermen clumsily turned the fishing boat around. The fishing boat hadn't sailed far at an angle when they saw an extremely terrifying scene.
"Amaterasu Ōmikami!" Inside the captain's cabin, Bald Oki looked at the boundless giant wave and fell to his knees with a thud.
If a thirty-meter wave was called a killer wave, what was this in front of them? Kuroki Toshio looked at the giant wave, which was a hundred meters high. The height of the wave crest was so high it seemed to touch the sky. Even though he had been at sea for over thirty years, he had never even heard of such a giant wave, let alone seen one.
"It's over! Japan is finished!"
"Rumble!"
Although Kuroki Toshio's hands trembled as he tried his best to control the fishing boat and avoid the super giant wave before him, the super giant wave seemed to stretch for thousands of meters. Before the fishing boat could sail out of the super giant wave's coverage area at an angle—
The hundred-meter-high giant wave roared past. The entire fishing boat, weighing less than a thousand tons, let out a creaking sound of steel breaking, and then was swept and rolled into the seabed by the giant wave like building blocks.
The hundred-meter wave swept past the fishing boats frantically accelerating towards the fishing harbour dock, like a wheel casually crushing a few ants. Without any pause, it rolled towards Japan's harbour with a momentum that could overturn mountains and seas.
Whether it was a wooden structure house or a reinforced concrete tall building, they were all treated equally under the hundred-meter-high giant wave, collapsing with a crash and being swept into a pile of ruins by the giant wave! In just a few minutes, this prosperous coastal county area was completely reduced to a flooded land! And the culprit who stirred up this tsunami turned out to be nothing more than a black cauldron three feet square!
Less than a hundred kilometers from the coastline, in the center of an undersea giant pit about several hundred meters deep and a thousand meters in diameter, a black cauldron lay quietly.
A few minutes after the hundred-meter-high super tsunami swept across Japan, a tall woman dressed as a city office worker arrived at the seabed. The moment she entered the water, the surrounding seawater automatically parted to both sides.
The moment the woman arrived at the seabed, her gaze was immediately attracted by the black cauldron there. Not being a mortal, she clearly saw a wisp of clear light slowly rippling out from within the cauldron.
