As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up
Chapter 299 - Chapter 299 Chapter 254 Chu Mingchengs Bamboo Shoots

Chapter 299: Chapter 254: Chu Mingcheng’s Bamboo Shoots Chapter 299: Chapter 254: Chu Mingcheng’s Bamboo Shoots Originally, it was thought that the quantity of Emperor Crabs was not much, but after handling, his ten slightly smaller crab traps unexpectedly filled eight, and the ninth even contained three crabs weighing seven or eight jin each. The overall yield was surprisingly good.

After handling everything, Chu Mingcheng wandered around the surrounding waters for a while and found no more trace of Emperor Crabs, then he gave up and swam back to the boat.

After taking a bath and changing into waterproof overalls, he turned on the lights and started the fishing boat to head towards the crab traps, ready to collect them.

The commotion immediately caught the attention of the crab fishing boats, and the crabbers on board were cursing.

Chu Mingcheng had spent quite some time handling the traps, and it was already past midnight. They had already gone to bed.

Being abruptly woken up, they were naturally very annoyed because of their sleepiness.

But as the fishing boat had already left, they were quick to act and immediately started their boat to chase after it.

After a while, they saw Chu Mingcheng beginning to collect the crab traps; the group of crabbers then gathered on the deck, using binoculars to watch the spectacle.

However, the next moment…

“Shit, it’s impossible, absolutely impossible! Why does his crab trap have so many Emperor Crabs?”

“Could it be that this area is a gathering place for Emperor Crabs?”

“Claude, you guys start salvaging the crab traps first; we’ll follow him if this Asian leaves.”

Clearly, their preparation of two crabbing boats was based on reason.

One boat used crab traps to intercept the Emperor Crabs under the water, while the other could always follow Chu Mingcheng, to prevent him from quickly retrieving the traps and then escaping.

However, faced with Chu Mingcheng’s bountiful harvest, Claude, the captain named, arranged for his crew to work, but was shocked when collecting the crab traps.

The first crab trap was empty, which he didn’t mind much.

But the second one, the third one, and nearly all the following crab traps were almost empty, or they contained only a few undersized Emperor Crabs, which he found utterly unbelievable.

“Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!”

The captain on the other boat was also observing both sides. When they saw that each of Chu Mingcheng’s crab traps was almost full, with only one empty,

and their own were completely empty, not having caught a single regulation-sized Emperor Crab, he was also very puzzled.

“Fuck, what the hell is going on?”

But Chu Mingcheng did not give them the chance to investigate further. After retrieving and securing the crab traps, he immediately started the boat and left the area.

According to the map of crab fishing locations, he headed towards the nearest waters from there.

Currently, he had caught over four hundred jin of Emperor Crabs, and his live water tank could still hold five hundred more jin.

As for lobsters, he could only give up for the time being unless there was a gathering place for lobsters near the Emperor Crab fishing spot.

After traveling for three hours, he stopped around four o’clock in the morning.

After deploying the crab traps, Chu Mingcheng did not go to sleep but drove the boat to a shallower area nearby and used a “life transformation” to refresh himself, staying up all night playing games.

He always kept a spear gun and fish spear with him, and was always ready to navigate the boat from the pilothouse, clearly on guard against his opponents.

The crab fishing boat that followed had begun deploying crab traps, surrounding his traps again.

The previous boat had only placed fifty traps, but the following crabbing boat seemed more serious this time, deploying all one hundred crab traps it had on board.

Although the opponent currently only intended to use this method to annoy him, Chu Mingcheng was not sure if they would develop other malicious intentions, especially after finding out that the method of surrounding the crab traps was ineffective.

So, he remained vigilant and would not let the opponent take any advantage.

Basking in the sun, playing games, the day went by quickly.

Since the cold storage was full, Chu Mingcheng had no intention of continuing to fish.

Waiting until night, he put on a diving suit and dived into the water once again to start moving crabs.

‘My goodness!’

However, this time after descending to the bottom, he was startled by the density of the Emperor Crabs.

The crab fishing spot he found this time turned out to be of such high quality; the density of the Emperor Crabs was almost comparable to the area with the Moxiang Whale carcass, and the quantity was far greater.

The crab traps deployed by the crab fishing boat were packed densely, and there were even more crabs around the traps.

Seeing this scale, it was estimated that the Emperor Crabs gathering here might exceed ten thousand jin.

He did not start moving them immediately but swam around to see if there were any particularly large ones.

After observing, he felt a bit regretful; perhaps because the area was frequently visited, the largest Emperor Crab was estimated to weigh only about twenty jin and they were scarce.

The most common Emperor Crabs in this area seemed to be under ten jin, with even fifteen jin ones being rare, truly a victory by numbers.

After confirming this, Chu Mingcheng immediately began moving crabs.

He first moved the larger Emperor Crabs from outside his crab traps to his own traps. When all ten traps were filled, Chu Mingcheng took out a diving knife and revealed a sly smile.

Since there were so many Emperor Crabs here, then let these crab traps stay behind to keep the Emperor Crabs from dispersing without lure.

However, he miscalculated one thing; the ropes tied to the traps were thick, and his diving knife wasn’t cutting it well.

After cutting twice, the rope only had some outer layer damage; Chu Mingcheng immediately gave up.

“Cutting even one rope is so difficult, wouldn’t a hundred ropes exhaust him to death?”

Therefore, he directly opened the crab pots that contained Emperor Crabs, dumped out all the Emperor Crabs, then locked it again.

He overturned every crab pot that contained Emperor Crabs to make sure he was not inadvertently helping the others. After that, he returned to the fishing boat and started collecting the crab pots.

Seeing that he had begun working, the crabbing boat immediately started pulling up their own crab pots as well.

They weren’t really afraid of Chu Mingcheng collecting their crab pots since it would provide them a perfect excuse to cause him trouble.

But since the other party had always followed the rules, it made it difficult for them to provoke further issues for the time being.

This time, what they retrieved from their crab pots puzzled and rendered them speechless again.

The crab pots of Chu Mingcheng, which were blockaded in the innermost area, were each brimming to the top.

Their recovered crab pots, however, were virtually empty, with just a few containing one or two Emperor Crabs, evidently ones that had crawled inside after Chu Mingcheng had left.

The captains of both ships were baffled. They couldn’t fathom someone being able to free-dive to the seabed over a hundred meters deep to sabotage them.

“Could it be the bait?” one captain wondered.

The captain named Claude shook his head speechlessly, “What bait could make his crab pots return full while ours, out of a hundred, contain hardly any crabs?”

“Then can you figure out the reason?”

“…I can’t imagine how he does it. Maybe next time, we can secretly collect his crab pots to see what’s happening?”

“I think that’s feasible.”

It didn’t take long for Chu Mingcheng to collect all ten of his crab pots.

Without minding that it was night, he immediately headed back to the dock, and another crabbing ship that hadn’t set any crab pots followed immediately, fearing he would continue to harvest Emperor Crabs elsewhere.

After Chu Mingcheng discovered a swarm of Emperor Crabs below, he immediately noted the coordinates.

He had no plans to go to another territory. After handing over the catch this time, he would come directly here next time.

And going back at night, naturally, meant planning to get some good sleep at Noah’s house as maintaining alertness through life transformation was not a sustainable solution.

“Chu, you are incredible!”

When Noah saw the catch on the ship, he immediately gave Chu Mingcheng a thumbs up.

Noah was aware that a group of crabbers had gone out to cause trouble, even considering that they might run out of stock in recent days, so he partially cooked and froze some of the Emperor Crabs to preserve them longer.

He had even prepared for the possibility of having his share taken back.

Little did he know Chu Mingcheng would prove so capable that despite spending more time at sea and facing the blockade of two crabbing ships, he still managed to catch thousands of pounds of Emperor Crabs.

This reassured Noah, who could then continue to sell the Emperor Crabs quickly, make the money, and get out fast.

“Those crabbers haven’t gone too far yet. Next time, I should be able to bring back even more Emperor Crabs, so you better prepare fast.”

“OK, I’ll hurry up with the shipments.”

After handing over the cargo, Chu Mingcheng had earned sixty-eight thousand Australian dollars this time.

Fifty-eight thousand from the Emperor Crabs, primarily because the individual sizes weren’t as large as the previous times, lowering the average price somewhat.

Additionally, the Red Sea Bream and Black Cod sold for less than he had expected; Red Sea Bream went for just twelve Australian dollars, and Black Cod for ten Australian dollars.

If not for the large quantity, the two types of fish might not have brought in ten thousand Australian dollars.

Before leaving, Chu Mingcheng suddenly remembered something and quickly stopped Noah, who was about to leave, pointing at the ropes tied to the crab pots and asked, “By the way, Noah, do you have any scissors that can easily cut these ropes?”

“This… I’ll ask around,” Noah hesitated, then replied.

He couldn’t think of any particularly good tools at that moment but felt that cable cutting tools might be useful, so he planned to inquire first.

Chu Mingcheng nodded, then drove home to sleep, leaving this minor matter to him.

While he was relaxed and happy, the captains of the returning crabbing ships were not quite as pleased.

The two had initially planned to secretly salvage Chu Mingcheng’s crab pots, but considering he had headed back to port directly, they had to postpone their plan to the next expedition, deciding to be even less scrupulous next time and set even denser arrays of crab pots.

Little did they know, the next time would cost them dearly.

After Chu Mingcheng got home and woke up well-rested, he discovered it was already after four in the afternoon.

Noah had already returned and had brought him a pizza.

“Noah, did you buy the tools?” Chu Mingcheng heated the pizza in the microwave, then asked.

“See if these two will work?” Noah was a clever man; when he heard the mention of tools for cutting crab pot ropes, he knew Chu Mingcheng’s plans.

He knew how impressive Chu Mingcheng’s diving skills were and was more than happy to collaborate.

Chu Mingcheng looked at a pair of manual wire cutters and a saw, raising an eyebrow in surprise.

The wire cutters were within his expectations, but he hadn’t anticipated that Noah would also buy a saw, prepared quite thoroughly indeed!

He was very satisfied with these two tools; it would now just depend on how many crab pots those two ships were willing to deploy next time.

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