As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up
Chapter 298 - Chapter 298 Chapter 253 The Crab Catchers Warmth Giving

Chapter 298: Chapter 253: The Crab Catcher’s Warmth Giving Chapter 298: Chapter 253: The Crab Catcher’s Warmth Giving Laws vary from country to country, and in Australia, they even vary among the states.

If this were in China, Chu Mingcheng definitely wouldn’t raise a hand against anyone just because of an argument.

If someone else started a fight, he would certainly take a look at the situation. If it were a wealthy backer, he’d let him throw punches and fill his heart with pride.

If it were just an ordinary person without much money, he’d block a few punches and let them enjoy a few days of free lodging.

It’s the 21st century, after all. Prestige is nowhere near as important as money.

But in Melbourne, there was no need to hold back. As long as he was certain he was acting in self-defense, a bit of counterattack wouldn’t pose any problem.

That’s why he dealt a slap directly to the troublemaker’s face and didn’t worry about it at all.

Without waiting for the remaining crab fishermen to send the floored brute to the hospital, Chu Mingcheng and Noah left the dock first.

With evidence on their side, all the opposition could do was watch them leave.

“Mingcheng, remember to be cautious on your next voyage out to sea. Those crab fishermen won’t give up easily,” Noah advised, having let the truck driver go on his own and sitting in the car he’d lent to Chu Mingcheng.

“What will they do?”

“I’m not quite sure, but the company they work for might pressure the fisheries authorities to intervene, or even reclaim your share. Also, those crabbers could set traps for you while you’re out fishing; they seem to have done this kind of thing before.”

“So far, there haven’t been any incidents like a ship sinking and loss of life, but you have to be vigilant against excessively aggressive behavior. We local citizens are legally allowed to carry weapons.”

Noah didn’t go into too much detail, as a lot of what he knew was hearsay, and he wasn’t quite clear on how exactly they would act.

Chu Mingcheng didn’t have any good solutions either. “We’ll just have to play it by ear then. If it really comes to it, we could always switch to bounty hunting, which also pays well.”

As for the issue of carrying weapons, he couldn’t ensure his safety if they really escalated things that far. If that were to happen, he’d simply have to give up fishing for Emperor Crab.

“Huh, didn’t expect you’d be interested in bounty hunting,” Noah said, somewhat surprised. After selling off the Emperor Crab, he had planned to join his friends in that line of work.

Chu Mingcheng had brought Jiang Luoluo along, and Noah hadn’t intended to invite him, considering the risks. But now Mingcheng was on his own and strong and not the reckless type. Noah didn’t mind bringing him along.

“Of course, I’m interested,” Chu Mingcheng said with a nod and a smile.

Given the current situation, crab fishing wouldn’t take much time. The closed season had just begun, and he couldn’t afford to waste time.

It was possible to make enough money to buy a villa in Australia, so it made sense to continue “shearing the sheep” there.

Soon, he drove back home.

Noah didn’t enter the house but went to take care of his own business.

So Chu Mingcheng sorted out dinner by himself and rested at home.

The group of crab fishermen didn’t call the police but sent the injured man to the hospital and then gathered to discuss other tactics since the company didn’t intervene.

Therefore, in the early hours of the next day, two crab-fishing boats from Tasmania appeared in the Melbourne port.

When Chu Mingcheng was ready and set out to sea on his fishing boat, it didn’t take long for him to notice the two crab-fishing boats following him.

Crab boats are easy to identify, with their decks piled high with crab cages indicating their purpose.

Chu Mingcheng knew trouble was coming, especially because the aggressive brute he had slapped unconscious before might plan to kill him at sea and then sink the boat.

He pulled out a map for crab fishing, observing the depths of the waters marked on it.

This made him frown–Bass Channel’s waters were quite shallow, with the deepest part being only a little more than 300 meters.

Seeing this, he accessed the navigation system, searching for the deepest waters near Tasmania.

If they really intended to go to extremes, Chu Mingcheng wouldn’t let them off easy.

Choosing a spot in deep waters, unreachable by humans, seemed crucial.

He wasn’t sure if sinking his boat in shallow waters would lead Australian authorities to find evidence and arrest him.

Of course, this was a worst-case scenario.

If possible, Chu Mingcheng didn’t intend to let things escalate to that level.

After identifying a deep spot, he steered his boat towards the congregation of Emperor Crabs without heading towards the Moxiang Whale’s territorial waters.

Thus, the voyage lasted for seven hours before he stopped. Observing the two crab-fishing boats halt about 500 meters behind him, Chu Mingcheng realized they were most certainly going to cause trouble.

With Noah having received a large haul of Emperor Crabs, there was no activity from him today. At night, Mingcheng slept in the living room with a harpoon gun and fishing spear by his side.

If they dared to sneak aboard at night, he could legally take them down.

To his surprise, nothing happened that night; Chu Mingcheng stayed up for nothing.

This passiveness irritated him. After using a life energy conversion to refresh himself, he simply started setting crab cages, knowing that continuing this standoff would negatively affect his and Noah’s business.

The crab-fishing boats had already observed his crab cage placements.

Then, to Chu Mingcheng’s bafflement, one of the boats took action. They started dropping their cages next to his, encircling his with theirs–a bold move to contest the fishing spot.

“So that’s what they’re up to…”

The density of the Emperor Crab is far less than that of the Emperor Crab, and if other crab pots were to surround his, he could forget about catching any Emperor Crabs.

Of course, even if the density were like that of the Emperor Crab, once his crab pot was surrounded by others, he shouldn’t expect a large catch.

This shameless method is indeed effective!

Without a direct conflict with you, there’s nothing you can do about the other party.

At most you might curse a few times, but cursing doesn’t kill anyone.

Chu Mingcheng’s crab fishing was affected, but the opponents’ operations weren’t, and they had enough crab boats from several companies combined that they weren’t afraid of outsiders using the same methods against them.

After figuring out what was happening, Chu Mingcheng actually felt relieved. As long as they didn’t bring out weapons, he wasn’t worried at all.

For others this might be an insolvable annoyance, but for him, it was a gift of warmth!

Therefore, Chu Mingcheng casually sailed to a nearby area with a water depth of about 200 meters and prepared to fish for some deep-sea fish using an electric fishing rod.

At this time, the crabbers following him took out binoculars and saw him leisurely fishing, exchanging puzzled looks.

“Why isn’t he angry at all? Why is he in the mood to fish?”

“Maybe he doesn’t know the purpose of our crab pot deployment?”

“…Forget it, when he hauls up all the crab pots later, he’ll understand the consequences of taking a share of the crab catch from us.”

After a brief talk, they continued observing with their binoculars.

After a while, they saw him catching a large brown fish.

Chu Mingcheng was surprised by the Black Cod with bulging eyes and a somewhat soft body.

It was a type of cod found around Japan, southeastern Australia, and the northern part of New Zealand.

The reason for Chu Mingcheng’s surprise was that this type of cod usually stayed in waters around 500 meters deep, belonging to the deep-sea cod.

He did not expect to encounter one in the Bass Sea Area, especially since the water depth here seemed to be just over 200 meters.

However, the specific habits of this cod were not yet fully understood, so its appearance here wasn’t too strange.

Normally, Black Cod are not very large, just around fifty to sixty centimeters.

But the one he held measured at least a meter, probably weighing around forty or fifty pounds, a considerable size indeed.

It just didn’t look very appetizing, seemingly not worth much.

Unsure about the fish’s market price in Melbourne, it didn’t seem very expensive.

After storing the fish in the cold storage, Chu Mingcheng re-baited and continued fishing.

Using an electric reel, fishing was a lot faster than by hand.

It seemed there was a school of Black Cod below, which allowed him to catch fish continuously.

The crabbers watching him were stunned by the speed of his catches; it seemed like he could make money without even relying on Emperor Crabs, no wonder he wasn’t panicking.

Even so, they still had to block the Emperor Crabs.

The fishing quota for Emperor Crabs lasted only twenty days. Although it wasn’t like with Emperor Crabs, where you’d be fined if you didn’t fill your quota, if there were any quota remaining when the time was up, it would be canceled and reassigned.

Once their company spoke with the fisheries authorities, they were sure the authorities wouldn’t foolishly give the quota to the other side again.

Chu Mingcheng fished all afternoon, and by a little after four o’clock, his cold storage was filled with fish.

Most of them were Black Cod, with a small portion of red sea bream, a special product of Australia, which added a bit of experience to his marine product guide.

With the cold storage full, Chu Mingcheng put away his fishing rod and went back into the cabin to play games.

As night fell, he put on a diving suit, then turned off the boat’s lights, leaving only the warning lights flashing.

The crabbers thought he was going to rest and stopped their surveillance.

As for Chu Mingcheng possibly collecting the crab pots secretly at night, or even taking their pots, they weren’t worried.

There was a night watch on the boat, and if there was any movement from the other side, they would react immediately.

However, what they didn’t realize was that they weren’t dealing with an ordinary person, but someone with a “cheat.”

By now, Chu Mingcheng had stealthily dived into the water, heading towards the location where the crab pots had been laid that day.

Why did he say those crabbers were sending him warmth? It was because the crab pots they had dropped were practically gift-wrapped for him.

Since the pots had been in the water for about seven hours today, if there was a good number of Emperor Crabs in this area, the catch should be decent.

However, when he reached the deployment location, he found that there didn’t seem to be many Emperor Crabs.

It was to be expected that his ten surrounded crab pots caught nothing, and of the fifty crab pots laid by the crab boats, only a few on the outskirts had caught any Emperor Crabs.

But no matter how few, he could not let them go, so he began moving them underwater that night.

Chu Mingcheng first grabbed the Emperor Crabs gathered outside the crab pots and stuffed them into his own, then started grabbing straight from the crabbers’ pots.

After clearing all the Emperor Crabs from one pot, he conscientiously closed the opened side and locked it again.

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