Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 123: Air Vibration Perception

"What, you want to catch fish with your bare hands?" Xu Chun laughed.

"By the time you catch a fish, I’ll be starving. Watch me work." Wang Ye grinned.

He borrowed a nylon fishing line from Xu Chun, cut it into numerous pieces, tied each one to the back of a steel nail, and secured the other end to his wrist to prevent the nails from falling and becoming unrecoverable.

With that, a powerful human-powered fish-speargun was completed.

A similar structure for fish-speargun actually has existed since ancient times. Most ancients used ship wood for the body of the fish-speargun, shaped like a bow, with the difference being that the fish-speargun has a line tied to the tail of the "arrow", and once it strikes a fish, you can reel it in directly.

A homemade human-powered fish-speargun like Wang Ye’s has the drawback that it’s hard to retrieve a big fish once struck. Because the nails he used didn’t have a "hook" structure. So, they can only hold the target for a brief time, maybe five seconds, maybe ten.

Even if it hits a small fish that’s around fifteen to twenty centimeters, you have to quickly grab it or it’ll escape in a few breaths.

Stripping to his bare chest, Wang Ye dived into the fish pond with a handful of steel nails.

Xu Chun jumped up from his small stool, "Hey, take it easy!"

The pond is about ten meters at its deepest.

Wang Ye eased his movements and swam underwater for a while, soon noticing a few small fish not far away.

Though it was already dusk, the water was murky and visibility was low at the bottom. But relying on his super-enhanced touch perception ability, five times stronger than a normal person’s, he could precisely lock onto targets by sensing the minute vibrations of water over his skin.

Most fish have a similar ability.

Some land animals can also sense vibration to detect creatures around them, like spiders. They have over 3,000 strain sensors embedded within different areas of their bodies, mostly located in the legs and compound organs, for instance, near the joint’s vibration receptors.

A hungry spider’s sensitivity to vibrations intensifies, able to detect the slightest movements and air flow changes, as well as nearly undetectable vibrations.

Cockroaches surpass spiders in vibration perception ability. The fine hairs on their antennae can detect exceedingly weak signals, air vibrations and disturbances, and momentary temperature changes.

Additionally, many insects have extremely sensitive air vibration detection abilities.

So, when humans attempt to attack insects, the insects exhibit a seemingly prophetic ability, instantly flying away upon detecting human activity.

Wang Ye’s touch perception, amplified five times, also possessed a similar ability.

Whenever someone or something attempts to get close to him, his skin would have a slight prickly feeling to alert him of approaching objects.

Wang Ye shut his eyes, filtering out his other four senses, focusing hard to amplify his touch perception ability.

He suddenly swung his arm, throwing the steel nail at the target.

Splash!

The water rippled vigorously.

The nail instantly pierced through a crucian carp.

Wang Ye sensed a strong vibration from the nylon fishing line tied to his wrist, immediately realizing his nail had hit the target. Quickly swimming over, he grabbed the crucian carp in his hand.

Swimming back to shore, he tossed the crucian carp into Xu Chun’s bucket.

Xu Chun was stunned.

"Really, you can catch fish with your bare hands?"

"Wait, I’ll catch nineteen more, you get the barbecue grill and charcoal ready." Wang Ye left a message and dove back into the depths of the pond.

Following his previous method, he continued to catch nineteen more fish.

He averaged two and a half minutes per fish.

This performance practically crushed ninety-nine percent of anglers.

After catching twenty fish, Wang Ye returned to shore.

Pulled out a towel from his hiking bag to dry off the water on his body.

Xu Chun looked at the big bucket full of fish with amazement, "Wow, less than half an hour to catch twenty fish, Brother Wang, you sure have quite the skills."

"Hurry up and prepare the barbecue, or else we’re going hungry here."

Wang Ye put on his T-shirt and started processing the fish in the bucket.

Using the knife and cutting board from Xu Chun’s trunk, he skillfully knocked the fish head, scaled, and gutted them, removing the innards and scrubbing the insides. Blood constantly dripped under his feet, forming a small river flowing into the pond.

With his now-mature technique, he could process a fish in an average of thirty seconds.

His proficient fish-processing skills made Xu Chun click his tongue in awe.

But Xu Chun didn’t idle around either.

He set up the barbecue grill next to the pond, heated up the smokeless charcoal, and fetched the barbecue spices from the trunk, placing them neatly beside the grill.

After Wang Ye finished with the fish, he skillfully skewered them and started grilling on the barbecue.

His lv3 Cooking Skill outshone that of many restaurant chefs, including precise control over BBQ heat and flawless seasoning technique.

Before long, the grilled fish on his skewers gave off a rich barbecue aroma, with skins golden and crispy, evenly sprinkled with cumin, salt, and chili powder, looking extremely appetizing.

In comparison, Xu Chun’s grilled fish skin turned blackened, and the meat inside hadn’t fully cooked, obviously overdone.

He looked at Wang Ye’s golden crispy grilled fish and then at his own charred one, his lips twitching a few times.

Xu Chun hesitated for a moment before reluctantly biting into his own grilled fish. Barely chewing, he spat it out, "Ugh, it’s burnt, tastes bitter!"

"Want to try mine?" Wang Ye extended his grilled fish.

"Uh... thank you." Xu Chun cautiously took Wang Ye’s fish and tried a bite.

Instantly, the rich fish savor combined with spicy barbecue flavors exploded in his mouth.

The slightly crispy fish skin crumbled easily, and the milky fish meat nearly melted in his mouth. The characteristic earthy smell of crucian carp was completely masked by barbecue seasoning. This grilled fish could rival those cooked by street barbecue masters with over a decade of experience.

His earlier grilled coal-fish was a whole different thing.

"Brother Wang, where did you learn these cooking skills? Amazing!"

Xu Chun looked at Wang Ye with surprise.

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