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Chapter 229 - 182: The Fishing Boat That Crossed the Border
Chapter 229: Chapter 182: The Fishing Boat That Crossed the Border
April 15th, 5:30 in the morning.
The sea breeze blew continuously.
Ruffling the calm sea surface and creating a hint of a ripple.
The break of dawn brought a pale blue that spread slowly across the sky, as if nature’s gentlest brushstroke was unfolding across the vast canvas.
The sea, a grand master that had slumbered through the night, gently lifted the veil of darkness to welcome the first kiss of sunlight. The morning light, threadlike, pierced through the mist, blurring the line where sea met sky into a soft vagueness, bathing everything in a peaceful and mysterious blue-gray.
A gentle breeze wafted by, bringing a touch of freshness and coolness, as fine ripples shimmered with delicate silver light upon the sea.
Chen Yun, who had been tirelessly making his way through the seabed all night, was also gradually coming to a stop in his swimming.
The difference in longitude between Qixi City and the eastern side of the Shawai Fishing Ground was approximately 6.34 degrees, and one degree of longitude at the equator is roughly 111 kilometers.
However, as Qixi City and the Shawai Fishing Ground were not at the equator but at about 32 degrees north latitude, the actual distance was less than that at the equator.
So the real distance between Qixi City and the east side of the Shawai Fishing Ground was roughly 6.34 * 111 * COS32 degrees, resulting in about 602 kilometers.
For Chen Yun, who had pressed on throughout the night and early morning for more than nine hours, it became clear that he had nearly reached the eastern side of the Shawai Fishing Ground.
The previous 2000 kilometers he had covered accounted only for the distance headed southward, omitting the six hundred kilometers heading eastward away from the coast.
The true journey was just beginning.
The trip east and west was completed; he had arrived at a region where the average sea depth neared one hundred meters.
According to the planned arrangement,
the next step would be to continue southward along the edge of the territorial waters.
Chen Yun could rely on the super visual-range position sensing of the Flying Sword left back in Qixi City to adjust his direction southward accurately.
But for Chen Yun, who had swum 600 kilometers straight through the night until dawn, he wasn’t inclined to head south immediately.
He planned to drift around nearby a bit to catch and play with some marine life.
The journey through the night had indeed been somewhat tedious.
Along the way, he had deliberately swayed from side to side at times, spiraling forward in an ’S’ shape to extend the range of the Transparent World Perception, ensuring he wouldn’t miss much by swimming in a straight line.
But even with such maneuvering,
his range, at most three hundred meters, seemed tiny in the vast ocean.
It was like stirring a large vat with a toothpick.
How much area could a toothpick cover while stirring it around in a water vat?
So, Chen Yun hadn’t encountered any sunken ships along the way.
Which is to say, he found it quite boring.
With that thought, Chen Yun began to roam around the adjacent waters.
The Shawai Fishing Ground was a significant fishing area, particularly known for catching Pacific cuttlefish. The Pacific cuttlefish is one of the highest-yielding cephalopods in the global economy, commonly found in the seas around Japan and its archipelago. These waters offer specific marine environmental conditions conducive to the reproduction and growth of cephalopods, making them ideal places for the fishing of squids and other cephalopods.
Further east of the Shawai Fishing Ground, and not far off, essentially lay the territorial waters of Japan.
Thus, it wasn’t surprising that the area was abundant with Pacific cuttlefish.
The Pacific cuttlefish could have various regional common names, such as the Black Skin Squid, northern squid, or true squid. They belong to the Class Cephalopoda, Gun-shaped Order, Family Loliginidae, Subfamily Pleuroteuthinae, and genus folded squid.
This type of squid has an elongated conical body, where the mantle length is about 4-5 times its width, tapering to a point at the rear. Distinguishing features on the body include round spots and a conspicuous black band running down the center of the back, which extends to the posterior end of the fins, while the dorsal side of the head and the center of the tentacles without fins are nearly brown-black.
On his leisurely journey, Chen Yun had come across quite a few of these squids.
He swiftly caught one to eat raw for a taste.
As expected, and as he had predicted, the squid wasn’t appetizing, confirming that he still only had a taste for species of the order Squamata, Suborder Serpentes, Suborder Amphisbaenia, and reptiles.
He had previously specifically tried reptiles of the same order, such as lizards and crocodiles, but the results were the same: they didn’t incite any appetite.
And now, the same was true for Class Cephalopoda.
Reflecting on this, Chen Yun, who had been strolling around for a while, was just about to prepare to head south.
However, his Transparent World Perception suddenly detected a fishing boat within range.
It was a Japanese fishing boat.
Though there were no flags raised, and no distinctive markings were visible, Chen Yun could hear several fishermen conversing in Japanese.
It had crossed the national boundary line quietly, its silhouette waxing and waning in the hazy morning light, like a stealthy ghost.
The boat was not large, but equipped with modern fishing gear, its sides adorned with neat rows of fishing nets, revealing that this expedition was not simply for fishing.
The people on the boat moved quickly and cautiously, taking care to avoid any noise.
A few fishermen, wearing hats and silent, began to cast their nets.
Their noiseless and disciplined demeanor suggested that this was not their first or second time secretly plundering the fishing resources of another country.
As the nets were gently lowered into the sea, it seemed as though the air itself had frozen, with only the sound of the sea gently slapping the hull and the faint gurgling as the nets sank into the water.
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