As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up
Chapter 319 - Chapter 319 Chapter 274 Set a Small Goal

Chapter 319: Chapter 274: Set a Small Goal Chapter 319: Chapter 274: Set a Small Goal Time reached ten o’clock, and Chu Mingcheng had reeled in his second yellowfin tuna onto the boat.

This one was slightly smaller, weighing only one hundred seventy-three kilograms after bleeding and gutting, twenty kilograms lighter than the previous one.

Meanwhile, Jiang Luoluo had finally managed to pull the fish to the stern of the boat.

The size seemed to be about the same as Chu Mingcheng’s first one, and just as he happened to be free, he helped and pulled it onboard.

Looking at the current situation, he could quite easily manage to pull the fish onto the boat by himself, without needing help from others.

This was clearly good news for his future solo fishing trips because fishing was one thing, but getting the fish onto the boat was quite another.

“Phew~ finally caught one,” Jiang Luoluo said as she looked at the tuna on the deck and exhaled lightly with relief.

With the help of the high-powered electric winch, catching this fish wasn’t too strenuous for her, but she was covered in sweat, feeling sticky and rather uncomfortable.

“Tired, aren’t you? Go take a shower. It’s after ten now. Let’s start preparing lunch,” Chu Mingcheng said, smoothing down her wind-tousled hair.

Jiang Luoluo glanced at the still thrashing tuna, which had been hooked in the back, and was thus still alive.

“You’ve got a lot on your plate. I’ll handle lunch. After eating, I still need to practice dancing in the afternoon, so I won’t join you fishing,” she said.

“That works too…” Encountering big tuna wasn’t an everyday opportunity, so after thinking it over, Chu Mingcheng agreed.

Jiang Luoluo headed to the kitchen while he stowed away the electric fishing rod and moved his own fishing rod back to the stern.

Sitting down was indeed more comfortable than standing while fishing.

With still half a bucket of fish chunks in the bucket, he threw the bait into the water and then tossed two to three pieces at a time slowly.

After throwing them, he didn’t bother with the fishing rod anymore and instead picked up a spike and a hammer, straddling the oxygen-deprived yet still very much alive tuna.

He positioned the spike at the tuna’s forehead, and the hammer drove the spike in with one blow after another.

This sight was somewhat cruel, but hunting was inherently so.

If the tuna wasn’t killed first, later procedures like bleeding and gutting would be troublesome, and its struggles might injure someone with its sharp fins, not to mention it would be more painful for the fish.

Chu Mingcheng actually gave it a quick end; the tuna only struggled a few times before ceasing to move.

After pulling out the spike, he then started to bleed the fish and process its innards.

After it was done, he hoisted it up to check the weight– one hundred eighty-nine kilograms, not bad.

After storing the fish in the refrigeration hold and just as he was about to rinse off the blood with a hose, he caught sight of Xiao Bai leading her kittens in licking the blood.

The odd-eyed little white kitten, just like its mother, was trying to steal some fish liver off the ice blocks.

“Shoo, shoo,” Chu Mingcheng immediately chased them aside, and then used the water hose to thoroughly clean off the blood.

No action on the fishing rod yet, he simply picked up the fish knife, cut the fish belly into small chunks, and took them to the kitchen for Jiang Luoluo to cook and feed the kittens.

Cats can eat a bit of cooked innards, but the portions should not be too large.

The rest was meant for the sea lions; living in the wild, they swallow fish whole.

The bacteria and so on carried by the fish innards are not a big problem for them–they aren’t as delicate as cats.

After dealing with the cats, Chu Mingcheng sat in his chair waiting for a bite, but, unfortunately, even by the time Jiang Luoluo had finished cooking lunch, there had been no movement on his fishing rod.

Knowing that the tuna below had likely swum away, he reeled in the line and moved the remaining mackerel bait back to the refrigeration hold.

That morning, he had caught three yellowfin tuna and used about fifty kilograms of bait, much less than he had expected.

He had purchased one thousand kilograms of mackerel, originally planning to trade fifty kilograms of bait for a big fish; now, having exchanged it for three, it was indeed beyond his expectations.

On the way to the kitchen, he checked the tuna’s panel.

[Tuna (Level 2)]

[Current Experience: (6/20)]

[Experience Acquisition Conditions: Hunt a tuna weighing over fifty kilograms to gain one experience point; hunting a tuna weighing less than fifty kilograms will deduct one experience point.]

[Scan: Can check the weight of the tuna]

[Usable Tools: Fishing gear (can handline), speargun]

[Breeding and Growth (Level 2): Increase the breeding speed, growth speed, and survivability of all slowly growing giant fish species within the host’s bound area by 20%. And there is a 2% chance that migratory fish will stay in the bound sea area and won’t travel to other sea areas.]

[Binding Range: Hua Xia Sea (the sea area of the host’s affiliated country, it will automatically change according to changes in the host’s nationality)]

[Affected Fish Species: large fish of economic value that can weigh up to 200 kilograms or more]

[Fish Gathering (Level 2): There is a 2% chance to attract nearby tuna to actively gather in the host’s waters.]

[Deliciousness: +2% (Fishes with more fat content and better meat quality will be attracted first)]

[Size: +2% (Larger individuals among the same species will be attracted first)]

It was still level 2, and fourteen more tunas weighing more than fifty kilograms were needed to level up.

Chu Mingcheng set a small goal for himself, that no matter how long he stayed at sea, he must at least level up before returning.

Each level up brings significant improvements to the reproduction of the Golden Spearfish and such.

For sustainable development, Chu Mingcheng needed to raise this attribute panel to a higher level.

After lunch, both of them, drenched in sweat from the morning’s fishing, took quick showers.

Jiang Luoluo had planned to dance in the afternoon, but she ended up more exhausted than if she had caught a Golden Spearfish, all thanks to Chu Mingcheng not holding back. She had to recover her energy through sleep.

As for Chu Mingcheng, he stepped out of the bedroom feeling refreshed and found that the sea lions had already returned when he got to the deck.

He took out the needlefish he had cut into pieces at noon and fed it to the sea lions. The taste was average. Jiang Luoluo had fried a piece at noon, and neither of them liked it much.

However, it seemed the three sea lions hadn’t had much luck hunting and hadn’t eaten their fill.

Now that food had arrived on their doorstep, they definitely wouldn’t refuse. The needlefish were quickly devoured without a trace.

Seeing that they still wanted more, Chu Mingcheng handed them the Golden Spearfish innards he’d saved, only to find they sniffed but weren’t interested.

This took him by surprise; it seemed those innards could only serve as bait for crab pots, attracting some scavenging crabs.

In the afternoon, Chu Mingcheng didn’t send the sea lions out to find fish schools again; instead, he let them rest on the deck to conserve their energy while he drove the boat and used the fish finder to locate schools of fish.

Since he hadn’t fed the sea lions their fill today, he felt bad about overworking them.

Wouldn’t that make him the epitome of evil capitalism, or rather, the personification of the character he hated most… cough cough?

Compared to domestic capitalists, Chu Mingcheng envied the lifestyle of the Peninsula tycoons even more; now, that was truly living the good life.

The Sea God traveled across the sea at a slow pace of ten knots per hour. He occasionally glanced at the fish finder, saw nothing of note, and picked up his binoculars to scan the surroundings.

If he could spot seabirds, he wouldn’t have to worry about not finding any fish schools.

“Huh, is there really something?” After who knows how many times peering through the binoculars, Chu Mingcheng finally observed something unusual.

It wasn’t that he noticed a large flock of seabirds; rather, he saw a group of dolphins in the distance on the sea surface.

The moment one of the dolphins leaped out of the water was captured by him, and importantly, it had a small fish in its mouth.

His hour of sailing hadn’t been in vain, as he finally had a catch.

He quickly steered the boat towards that spot, wanting to check it out.

After a while, when the boat arrived in the area where the dolphins were hunting, Chu Mingcheng noticed that there were no large fish around, and it seemed the dolphins were preying on a type of Changyu.

The fish finder showed only a large region of red lines on the surface layer; based on what he had observed so far, there were only dolphins and an unknown group of Changyu here.

Chu Mingcheng was somewhat disappointed; sometimes, large Golden Spearfish would move along with the dolphins, but the fish finder couldn’t discern specific details, and no Golden Spearfish were seen splashing on the surface, indicating no significant finds this time.

But since he was already there, it wasn’t his style to leave empty-handed.

With so many fish, it seemed only normal to claim a share for himself!

Especially since live bait attracts Golden Spearfish more effectively. It would be best to prepare some if he could find them.

Chu Mingcheng stopped the boat, dropped the anchor, and then moved up to the deck.

He was just about to let the lounging sea lions dive in to fill their stomachs when, in the next moment, he suddenly decided to try being the evil capitalist.

So, he instructed, “There’s a school of fish here; eat your fill and then help me catch some to bring back. Don’t kill them.”

As soon as the sea lions heard there was food, they all got up. Little Black barked, seemingly conveying his understanding, and then led the two female sea lions into the water through the small door Chu Mingcheng had opened.

With the sea lions gone, he didn’t sit idle either.

He took out some Squid to thaw in water and then picked a metal rod.

After a bit, when the Squid was sufficiently soft, he cut it into small pieces, scattered some into the water to chum, and then began fishing with the Squid meat on the hook.

Having been busy with large catches for a while, Chu Mingcheng was somewhat unaccustomed to fishing for small fish.

When the fish bit, he wasn’t paying attention and almost thought the hook came loose due to the light feeling as he lifted the rod. Fortunately, the slight vibration at the tip indicated the fish was still on.

Lifting the rod and reeling in, he easily caught a fish.

It was about the same size as the Silver Pomfrets he usually saw, probably weighing around eight taels per fish.

Chu Mingcheng immediately recognized it as Spiny Pomfret, which he had never caught before, adding a bit of experience to his aquatic encyclopedia.

After removing the fish hook, he threw it into an empty live well.

One large live well section had four areas; currently, only the outermost live well housed Spot shrimp and Spiny Armored Shrimp, each taking up a spot. The needlefish from the morning had already been fed to the sea lions.

Since the Spot shrimp catch was over ten pounds, there was quite a bit, and they hadn’t finished eating it yet.

The rich shrimp were fewer in number. Jiang Luoluo had scooped them up at noon, and with some of the Spot shrimp, prepared them for raw marination to eat later that evening.

Chu Mingcheng didn’t put the Spiny Pomfret in the outermost live well but in a middle one, with oxygen pumped in and without a partition installed.

Fish of roughly the same size and not particularly aggressive usually don’t attack each other.

He planned to use this middle live well to keep fish of a similar size to the Spiny Pomfret.

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