141: Chapter 141 A single fishing attempt yields three hundred million!

Shen Zhou's first catch was a massive Dagang fish, nearly two meters in length.

"Wow, you're amazing! This kind of fish is a top predator in Lake Baikal."

Juliana couldn't help but clap her small hands, her eyes beginning to sparkle.

"This is just the beginning. Besides, there are just too many fish here."

He knew his own limits; at most, he had good physical strength, but he had absolutely no fishing skills.

Shen Zhou casually scattered a handful of bait onto the lake's surface.

Soon, a large number of fish came to scramble for it.

And this was the real reason why he could get a catch just by casually casting his hook.

Shortly after Shen Zhou's yacht arrived, several other yachts that had been quietly following from a distance had already anchored nearby.

These were the escorts Andrei had specifically arranged after finding out; after all, the area around Lake Baikal was simply too vast.

If someone were to secretly harm Shen Zhou here...

...Andrei wouldn't even know whom to seek revenge against.

Of course, no staff members came to disturb them.

Their sole mission was to protect Shen Zhou from any outside intrusion.

Shen Zhou and Juliana kept casting their hooks, and both of them had a catch almost every time.

However, Juliana's strength was limited; when she hooked a larger fish, it was impossible for her to pull it up.

Shen Zhou, on the other hand, relied on his powerful arm strength and a few techniques he had picked up on the fly to forcefully pull up every single catch.

"Ah, you're so strong! No wonder you keep catching fish!"

Juliana couldn't help but praise him. Eventually, she gave up on fishing herself and rested her chin on her fair hands, quietly watching Shen Zhou pull in catch after catch.

"You should do it like this: wait until you see the buoy shake before pulling the hook. But don't rely on brute force; drag them along for a while first."

Shen Zhou explained simply; he couldn't say anything more profound than that.

After all, he didn't have a deep understanding of it himself.

"Another one's hooked!"

Juliana's eyes suddenly lit up, her small finger pointing at the constant ripples on the lake's surface.

"Watch me!"

Shen Zhou immediately began to pull the fishing rod in the direction the prey was swimming.

However, his expression suddenly changed.

A powerful force surged from the hook, even bending his fishing rod into an arc.

"Looks like it's a big one this time!"

Instead of being alarmed, Shen Zhou was delighted. Holding the rod, he began to move around the deck.

Shen Zhou's unusual movements even attracted the attention of the staff nearby.

"Young Master Shen, do you need our help?"

The voice of a staff member came through the radio on the deck.

"It's fine, let me handle it myself."

With Juliana's help, Shen Zhou immediately replied.

What he enjoyed was the thrill of fishing personally.

If someone came to help, even if they eventually pulled the big guy up, he wouldn't feel any sense of accomplishment.

Moreover, his strength was already immense; if he couldn't do it, adding two more staff members probably wouldn't help much either.

"It looks like I'm in for a long battle today!"

Shen Zhou excitedly gripped the rod and kept moving around.

Through the rod, he could already feel the terrifying power of the behemoth below.

He moved across the deck with great patience, then suddenly jerked the rod in the opposite direction.

In this way, he wore down the unknown fish's stamina bit by bit.

Beneath the surface, the fish would also suddenly burst with even greater strength.

It was so strong that Shen Zhou almost lost his grip.

"It's a good thing the quality of this rod is high, or it would have snapped long ago."

Shen Zhou felt incredibly fortunate.

As the two struggled, huge waves kept churning on the lake's surface.

"It's so big!"

Juliana looked at the lake and even caught a glimpse of a massive, fleeting dark shadow.

After nearly two hours, Shen Zhou finally called for the staff.

The staff lowered a boat, and with several people working together, they finally hauled the massive prey onto the yacht's deck using the hook.

"My god, it's actually a Siberian Sturgeon!"

"And this thing is over five meters long! It weighs nearly a ton!"

The creature had a long, slender body with numerous sharp protrusions on its surface, resembling the scales on an alligator.

Its snout was exceptionally pointed, clearly possessing great destructive power.

"Is this thing special?"

Noticing everyone's surprise, Shen Zhou also began to carefully examine the Siberian Sturgeon before him.

"The price of the fish itself isn't that high, but a Siberian Sturgeon of this size must have caviar inside."

"Originally, the price of caviar had reached 700,000 RMB per catty."

"But with the sharp decline in the Siberian Sturgeon population over the years, the price of this variety of caviar has skyrocketed, even exceeding two million RMB."

"And look at this fish; it weighs a ton. Who knows how much caviar it will yield?"

A nearby staff member couldn't help but explain.

Even if an ordinary person caught a Siberian Sturgeon in Lake Baikal, they probably wouldn't dare gut it for its caviar.

After all, this creature has become a protected species in Russia.

"Since mine is wild, does that mean the caviar is even more expensive?"

Shen Zhou blurted out.

The surrounding staff nodded like chickens pecking at grain.

"Young Master Shen, we'd better gut it and extract the caviar now, or the flavor will change."

Someone suggested, and Shen Zhou gave his consent.

At Shen Zhou's request, the massive Siberian Sturgeon was gutted right there on the deck.

"Heavens, there's so much caviar!"

"As expected of Young Master Shen, his luck is simply heaven-defying!"

"The total amount of this caviar is at least over 100 catties!"

A chorus of exclamations erupted from the surroundings.

At a price of 3 million RMB per catty for wild Siberian Sturgeon caviar, the total value of all the caviar before them reached nearly 300 million RMB.

"Oh, that really is quite good."

Shen Zhou nodded with satisfaction.

Of course, being able to reel in such a behemoth this time was pure luck.

If an ordinary person encountered a fish weighing 1.5 tons, there was no way they could pull it out of the lake.

This might be why this Siberian Sturgeon had survived until today.

Unfortunately, it finally ran into Shen Zhou, a human with strength bordering on monstrous.

"Hahaha, this trip was definitely worth it!"

Watching the large quantity of caviar being sorted and stored, Shen Zhou felt increasingly elated.

"When those anglers catch twenty or thirty catties of fish, they already start bragging."

"And a fish like that is only worth a few hundred bucks at most."

"But now, he had just made nearly three hundred million."