I, disguised as a white dragon, was supported by the state.

But he was also aware of the value of those large yellow croakers, so he forced himself to stay alert.

The night is getting darker.

The horizon was pitch black and silent, save for the sputtering of fishing boat engines.

Jiang Kaifeng yawned deeply, raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, but his eyelids were trembling violently.

He glanced at the screen and found that the fish were still under control.

"Just a quick nap, only three seconds," Jiang Kaifeng thought to himself.

He tried to close his eyes.

This closure lasted until the world was in complete darkness.

He didn't know how much time had passed when he was awakened by a cry of "Where's the fish?"

When he opened his eyes, he found his father staring at the screen of the fish detector.

He quickly turned his head to look and saw that the orange-red color had disappeared, leaving the area empty.

A chill ran straight to Jiang Kaifeng's head, instantly waking him from sleepiness and making him feel a bit cold all over.

Did you lose millions because of your own actions?

Snapped!

A crisp sound suddenly rang out.

He turned his head and found his father slapping him on the forehead.

"It's all my fault, how could I have let him fall asleep!" Father Jiang said, looking dejected.

"Dad, it's all my fault. I want to take a nap..." Jiang Kaifeng quickly said, "I guess I won't be asleep for long. I'll check the navigation track. Maybe there'll still be a chance."

Upon hearing his son's words, Mr. Jiang came to his senses and realized that now was not the time to wallow in self-pity.

He turned to look.

"No signal!" said Mr. Jiang.

He suddenly had a very bad feeling.

Looking at the dark, boundless sea outside, he felt panicked and quickly picked up the satellite phone on the ship.

To make matters worse, the satellite phone had no signal and was completely unable to contact the outside world.

He looked at the compass on the dashboard and saw that the needle was spinning rapidly.

Cold sweat broke out on Jiang's father's forehead.

He swallowed hard and said to his son, "Get out of the way."

Jiang Kaifeng hadn't yet realized the seriousness of the situation and was regretting losing track of the fish.

Those are wild large yellow croakers worth at least a million dollars; they haven't seen them in their waters for many years.

Seeing the sweat beading on his father's dark face, he tried to comfort him: "Dad, if we lose them, we're just not meant to be... Wait, what's going on? There's no signal at all?"

Father Jiang remained silent, staring intently ahead.

A thin layer of mist seemed to be floating on the sea.

After the fishing boat had moved forward for several minutes, he saw a shadowy dark shape at the end of the light.

The outline of that dark shape resembled an island.

Jiang's father's face grew increasingly grim.

Fog, islands, satellite communicators that have lost signal, and compasses spinning wildly.

One or two individually might not seem like much, but when these things are put together, they remind Jiang's father of a terrifying legend.

He tried to steer the boat in the opposite direction from the island, but half an hour later, the dark shape reappeared in his sight.

This time it seems we're even closer.

Jiang's father felt his mouth and throat were dry.

Hearing his son still grumbling incessantly, he snapped, "Shut up!"

His stern tone startled Jiang Kaifeng, who realized something was wrong and asked suspiciously, "Dad, what's wrong?"

The sea surface is clearly calm; it doesn't look like a storm is approaching.

Jiang's father's eyes were already bloodshot, and he shook his head: "Don't speak."

He silently recalled the stories his great-grandfather had told him when he was a child.

For hundreds of years, my great-grandfather was the only survivor.

As Mr. Jiang was reflecting, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

He tensed up, and goosebumps rose all over his body.

When he discovered that it was a boatman knocking on the door, Mr. Jiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Uncle Yang," Jiang Kaifeng called out.

The old boatman, whom he called Uncle Yang, stared at Jiang's father with a worried expression and asked, "Has something happened?"

Jiang Kaifeng also looked at his father.

Jiang's father sighed and decided to slow the boat down.

"You noticed it too?" he asked.

Old Yang's expression was grave: "Where in this area is there such a large island? And I've seen you circling around the island the whole time, but there aren't any fish in front of you..."

"Is it really Sea Ghost Reef?" another voice came from outside.

This time, it was one of Jiang Kaifeng's uncles who spoke; he was also an old fisherman.

"What is the Sea Ghost Reef?" Jiang Kaifeng asked.

Father Jiang gestured for the two to come in and asked, "Does everyone else know too?"

"They're still not awake," Old Yang patted his pocket, took out a cigarette, lit it, and asked, "Are only the two of us awake? Is this really the legendary Ghost Reef?"

As he spoke, his fingers holding the cigarette trembled slightly, clearly indicating that he was not at peace.

Mr. Jiang sighed, "The satellite phone has no signal, and the compass is out of control, just like the legend says."

"What legend?" Jiang Kaifeng asked.

He was also somewhat flustered.

Seeing that neither his father nor Uncle Yang said anything, he looked at his other uncle from the same clan on the other side: "Uncle, do you know?"

Old Jiang's face was grim: "When I was a child, I heard my great-grandfather tell this story, and I thought it was fake..."

He looked at Jiang's father: "Are you sure?"

"I tried to steer in the opposite direction, but the boat just kept going around in circles," Mr. Jiang said bitterly.

"What exactly is the Sea Ghost Reef?" Jiang Kaifeng felt like the others were speaking in a foreign language, and he couldn't help but ask.

“The Sea Ghost Reef is a very old legend,” Jiang’s father said to his son. “Legend has it that sea ghosts live here and only surface when they are hungry to attract ships… For hundreds of years, no ship that has come close has been able to leave. Only after a storm can people occasionally see the wreckage of those ships.”

Father Jiang then recounted the legendary horrors of the Sea Ghost Reef, concluding, "My great-grandfather was the only survivor over all these years. I heard him talk about it when I was a child, but it has never appeared in all these years, leading many people to believe that the Sea Ghost Reef does not exist at all."

Jiang Kaifeng felt uneasy.

He looked through the glass in front of him into the distance and indeed saw a dark shadow in the distance.

Just as he was about to look away, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a shadow flashing in front of the boat.

He was so frightened that he quickly backed away, nearly falling over.

"What's wrong?" The group all looked at him.

"There's something underwater!" Jiang Kaifeng swallowed hard.

"In the water?" Jiang's father was initially a little worried, but now he has gradually calmed down and said, "It's probably a fish."

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he explained, "I remember my great-grandfather saying that although this place is strange and ships are prone to getting stuck in a maze of ghosts, he never actually saw a ghost."

"It could be a big fish from the bottom of the water," Old Yang said.

"My great-grandfather said there aren't any big fish here, right?" Old Jiang suddenly asked.

Looking at his younger brother from the same clan, Father Jiang nodded and said, "It seems so."

"How about we move the ship closer to that island and take a look?" Jiang Kaifeng suggested.

He had calmed down and analyzed, "How could there really be ghosts in this world? I guess it's related to the magnetic field here. Maybe there's a strong magnetic field underground that's affecting the direction of the water flow, causing us to go around in circles. Let's go to the island to rest first, and then see what happens when it gets light."

"No way!" Father Jiang refused decisively.

The other two also shook their heads vigorously.

"The Sea Ghost Reef can eat people; once you get there, there's really no turning back!" Old Jiang said.

“My great-grandfather survived because he didn’t go up there like the others,” said Mr. Jiang.

"Xiao Jiang, you must respect the spirits and gods. You can't talk nonsense here!" Old Yang also warned him with a serious expression.

These old fishermen have seen too many strange things at sea, and almost none of them are skeptical of ghosts and gods.

Jiang Kaifeng felt that the group was a bit stubborn.

He looked up at the distant island shrouded in shadow, appearing and disappearing intermittently. He opened his mouth, but swallowed the words that were about to come out.

For some reason, he also felt that the place was filled with an ominous atmosphere.

"Dad, how did your great-grandfather pass away?" Jiang Kaifeng asked.

Upon hearing his words, both Lao Yang and Lao Jiang looked over.

Although they were from the same village, the two didn't know each other very well, and since the Sea Ghost Reef hadn't appeared for so many years, they, like many others, thought it was all fake.

Father Jiang began to think seriously.

He was just beginning to remember things when his great-grandfather was already very old. He always liked to hold him in his arms and bask in the sun while telling him stories.

The legend of the Sea Ghost Reef was so bizarre that it left a deep impression on him.

He only remembered his grandfather saying that the Sea Ghost Reef ate people, and that no one who went up there ever came back down.

“It seems a storm hit there,” Jiang’s father said after a few seconds of contemplation. “When he woke up, he was lying on the back of a dolphin and was rescued by the dolphin.”

“We were lured here by the dolphins,” Old Yang said with a mournful face. “Could it be that your great-grandfather didn’t offer the dolphins enough food, and they’ve come looking for revenge?”

"Weren't you the ones who caught up with us?" a voice suddenly interrupted.

The group instinctively looked in the direction of the sound and saw a large bluefish on the deck outside the cockpit.

The bluefish has a pair of golden whiskers, and surprisingly, it has a pair of white horns on its head.

"Monster!" Jiang Kaifeng exclaimed in surprise.

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Chapter 182 There really are gods in the world!

Jiang Kaifeng's scream almost made the others, who were already on edge, cry out as well.

When they finally saw the large blue carp in front of the cockpit, their faces turned deathly pale.

No wonder this place is called Ghost Reef; there really are monsters here!

Jiang Kaifeng instinctively grabbed his father's arm, trembling with fear.

He has always been a staunch atheist. Even though the recent rumors of divine intervention at various temples and Taoist monasteries have been making headlines, he still argues with people everywhere, calling believers "stupid idiots."

But now, a monster has appeared right in front of us.

Seeing that no one spoke, the big blue carp tilted its head, its lips moving up and down: "Why aren't you continuing?"

Jiang's father and the others trembled all over, almost wetting themselves in fear.

Jiang Kaifeng reacted quickly, grabbing his father and kneeling down, his voice trembling as he pleaded, "Grandpa Yu, spare my life!"

The others snapped out of their daze, knelt down, and begged for mercy in a cacophony of voices.

The place was so eerie, and they had encountered such a monster. They were terrified, and their only thought was that the monster would have mercy and let them go.