Jiang Luoluo was clearly interested in spearfishing as well. She took the fish spear, eager to try. "What should I do?"

"Look for fish hiding in the rock crevices, then spear them." The fish spear was the simplest part of spearfishing. After Chu Mingcheng showed her a few basic techniques, he let her go find a target on her own.

He followed behind her, ensuring her safety.

Jiang Luoluo dove into the water. With her long, slender legs held together, she used her core to propel herself downward like a mermaid.

Chu Mingcheng, holding the underwater camera, captured the moment.

He realized that a woman's form while swimming was truly beautiful. No wonder so many women learned to be mermaids, making a living off the beauty of their underwater movements.

What if Jiang Luoluo performed a classical-style dance in the water?

Chu Mingcheng suddenly thought this had a lot of potential. It would definitely be stunning.

But performing a classical dance underwater... wouldn't that be a bit too difficult?

While his mind was wandering, Jiang Luoluo had already spotted her target.

She had seen how Chu Mingcheng hunted in the water many times, so she knew what to do.

She first swam to the surface to take a breath, then dove back down.

Kicking her long legs, she easily reached the bottom with the help of her flippers.

The water here was only about ten meters deep. Jiang Luoluo's own physical fitness was excellent, and she felt no discomfort holding her breath to reach the bottom.

Some women couldn't handle being even two meters underwater, not because they weren't adapted to the water, but simply because they were too tense and couldn't equalize the pressure in their ears.

Jiang Luoluo knew Chu Mingcheng was right beside her, so she was completely relaxed, feeling a sense of security.

She took out the fish spear and aimed at a green wrasse in a rock crevice that thought it hadn't been discovered.

She pressed the button on the spear, and the tip shot forward instantly.

However, Jiang Luoluo's aim wasn't quite precise enough in the final moment. The wrasse hiding in the crevice darted out at the last second, narrowly avoiding the spear.

Having made a hair's breadth escape, the wrasse shot out of the crevice, intending to flee.

But just as it swam up, a spear suddenly pierced through its body.

Chu Mingcheng had his speargun ready the moment Jiang Luoluo made her move, just as a precaution.

If the fish had darted along the coral, it would have surely escaped.

But who would have known that the fish, in its panic, would first swim up and to Jiang Luoluo's left? Chu Mingcheng naturally wouldn't let the opportunity pass. He took a shot, and unexpectedly, it was a direct hit.

"I thought it got away! I guess it couldn't escape you, the hunter waiting in the wings!" Jiang Luoluo surfaced for a breath of air and said.

She wasn't disappointed about coming back empty-handed. It was perfectly normal to miss on your first try.

"I was just lucky. It was moving fast, and I wasn't confident I'd hit it," Chu Mingcheng said with a smile as he bled the wrasse and clipped it to his stringer.

He then continued to accompany Jiang Luoluo on her hunt until she successfully speared a tiger grouper hiding in a cave.

The tiger grouper wasn't very big, only about three or four jin, but for Jiang Luoluo, it was the first fish she had ever hunted, and it held great sentimental value.

"Ah Cheng, let's eat this tiger grouper tonight!"

"This is the first fish you've ever hunted. You're not going to sell it?"

"I think eating it is what will give it real meaning."

The tiger grouper: Oh, thank you so much!

After spearfishing for a while, Jiang Luoluo was feeling a bit tired, so she returned to the boat to rest and do some fishing with a rod.

They had naturally brought the fishing rod with them. Chu Mingcheng had considered that he would be spearfishing for long periods and had specifically brought it for Jiang Luoluo to pass the time.

And sure enough, it came in handy.

The bait was Antarctic shrimp that they had bought on the ship. First, she chummed the water a bit. It was quite effective for catching some groupers.

Seeing this, Chu Mingcheng leaned against the boat and brought up the idea he'd had earlier. "Luoluo, I was just thinking you'd look amazing if you danced in the water. Have you ever thought about practicing holding your breath and filming an underwater dance video?"

"Huh, that actually sounds like a great idea!" Jiang Luoluo's eyes lit up, her interest immediately piqued.

She had never even considered the concept of underwater dancing. Now that Chu Mingcheng had mentioned it, she felt that it could be a viable path for her future content.

She had been a dance creator for several years now, and making videos was getting harder and harder. Inspiration didn't last forever, and she would get frustrated during creative blocks.

However, dancing underwater was no easy feat. Jiang Luoluo immediately thought of the many difficulties she would need to overcome.

"But dancing underwater... the environmental requirements seem pretty high. And then there's lighting, filming, and whether I can even stay active in the water for that long. It feels like there are a lot of challenges."

Chu Mingcheng, however, didn't think these were major problems. He said, "No rush, we can overcome the difficulties one step at a time! You can start by practicing holding your breath to make sure you can stay active underwater for a long time."

"Underwater lights can solve the lighting problem. As for filming, I can learn how to do it and film for you instead of Zhang Ruomei."

"So the most important thing for you right now is to improve your lung capacity."

Jiang Luoluo thought he had a point. And she was genuinely interested in underwater dance, so she asked him how to improve her lung capacity and started practicing on her own.

But this was a long-term practice; it was impossible to shoot an underwater dance video in a short amount of time.

Chu Mingcheng rested for a bit, then checked on Zhang Wei and Chen Yang in the distance.

Seeing that they were still hunting and there were no problems, he chose a direction and started swimming that way.

Now that he was alone, he would naturally choose the deeper areas.

If there was so much good stuff in the shallows, the deeper spots would be even better.

After swimming for about a hundred meters, Chu Mingcheng arrived at an area where the water was about thirty meters deep.

The bottom here was still covered in coral, with occasional small patches of sand.

No matter how clear the water in the Nansha Islands was, you couldn't see the bottom clearly from the surface at this depth.

So Chu Mingcheng dove straight into the water, descending to the mid-layer, about fifteen meters from the bottom.

After swimming for a short while, a swirling school of fish suddenly appeared to his right. A school of small fish appeared out of nowhere. They looked a bit like clownfish.

But they were a pale yellow color with black stripes like a barred knifejaw, likely some kind of coral fish.

These fish were all about ten centimeters long. Chu Mingcheng glanced at them and lost interest.

Just then, the bottom of the school suddenly erupted into chaos, and the fish scattered. A moment later, the gap in the school closed.

This commotion obviously caught Chu Mingcheng's attention. He swam over to take a look and found a banded bamboo shark at the bottom—the same catshark he had caught before.

This shark was called different things in different places; some called it a catshark, others a dogshark.

That wasn't important. What was important was that this thing was not cheap.

Normally, when beachcombing, the ones you could catch were only one or two jin.

If you found one that was seven, eight, or even ten jin, it would be a giant among catsharks.

And the one he had just discovered was definitely over a meter long.

The front half of its body was thick and fat; you could tell just by looking at it that it had some serious weight.

Unfortunately, its tail was relatively thin. Although it was long enough, there wasn't much meat on it, so this catshark probably wouldn't exceed thirty jin.

But even so, this catshark was probably worth four or five thousand yuan, making it worth Chu Mingcheng's while.

The catshark's swimming speed was very slow. Plus, because it was attracted by the school of fish, it was out on a patch of sand, with nowhere to hide.

Chu Mingcheng let go of his speargun, letting it float in the water, and took the fish spear from his back.

They had just arrived in the Nansha Islands, so he didn't need to consider keeping the fish alive.

He swam above the catshark, aimed the fish spear at its head, and with a "swoosh," the spear tip instantly pierced the catshark's head, pinning it to the sandy bottom.

The catshark thrashed wildly, and the stirred-up sand immediately obscured Chu Mingcheng's vision.

But he didn't leave; instead, he continued to hold the catshark down firmly.

He checked his dive watch and saw that a full three minutes had passed before the catshark finally stopped moving.

Then, Chu Mingcheng retrieved his fish spear, grabbed the catshark by the tail, picked up his floating speargun, and started swimming back.

He didn't want to go through the trouble of swimming back and forth, but the prey he was encountering was all so large, he had no choice.

But before he even reached the surface, he realized the boat was right above him.

When he broke the surface and saw Jiang Luoluo waving at him, Chu Mingcheng's heart warmed. It was clear she had been keeping an eye on him.

Seeing him stay underwater for a long time, she had come over to check on the situation.

He handed the dead catshark to her and said, "Luoluo, go check on Ah Wei and the others. They've been hunting for a while; they should have a decent catch by now."

"Okay, I'll go check now." Jiang Luoluo nodded, and after stowing the catshark, she piloted the small boat towards Zhang Wei.

He had brought the right girlfriend. With her around, Chu Mingcheng and the others could hunt more easily, without having to constantly haul their catch back and forth.

He then dove back into the water to search for new prey.

More than an hour had passed this morning, but his catch so far wasn't even worth ten thousand yet.

The boat fee for him and Jiang Luoluo alone was over eighty thousand. Plus, they would definitely be renting boats again, and with other services, the total cost would probably come to a hundred thousand.

It wasn't like they could have a good catch every single day for over twenty days, so he needed to make back his investment quickly.

Chu Mingcheng's main targets were still groupers, since groupers were generally quite valuable.

A short while later, he found a new target.

A massive green grouper, lazily leaning against the coral, nibbling on a shell.

Chu Mingcheng had caught many green groupers before, both by fishing and spearfishing.

This type of grouper was cheap, so he had never paid it much mind.

But he never expected to encounter such an exceptionally large one today. Its size was no smaller than the giant grouper he had met before.