Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 406: The Best Battlefield

The Golden Crab Field has always existed only in legends, appearing occasionally once every few decades before fading back into legend.

The three crab fishing boats beside North Pole slowly gave way, wanting to see the condition of North Pole's other crab traps.

One trap, two traps, three traps...

Almost every trap hauled up contained over 100 Emperor Crabs.

Craig quickly did the math and found that with just this one haul, North Pole had already accumulated enough for a full load!

He shouted to the sailor beside him, "Lower our traps! This is definitely a Golden Crab Field. North Pole only lowered 180 traps, there must be more Emperor Crabs below!"

North Pole was small and dilapidated, capable of carrying only 180 crab traps, and even its quota was less than other fishing boats.

Under normal circumstances, Alps carried 300 crab traps.

However, they had just hoisted up a crab trap and hadn't had time to hang the cod bait inside when they heard a sharp object slicing through the night air.

In an instant, a playing card flew through the air, over a hundred meters away, severing the ropes of Alps' crane.

The card continued its trajectory, spinning forward, leaving a long gash across Craig's right cheek before slowly fluttering onto the deck.

A Joker.

The red and yellow Joker Face^[-] seemed to lie on the deck, silently mocking him.

With a plop, the crab trap plunged into the deep sea.

Craig looked at North Pole in astonishment. He took out his binoculars and saw the young man who had visited Walnut Bar before, grinning at him, revealing his white teeth.

The powerful sense of oppression swept over him, even from a hundred meters away.

He looked at the deck, picked up the playing card and tore it gently, separating the Joker into two pieces.

It was just an ordinary playing card. Why could it cut through the rope?

That rope was the thick rope used to hoist a 680-pound crab trap. How could a playing card cut it?

Craig nervously touched the cut on his cheek. He wondered, if that playing card had grazed his neck just now, would he be dead now?!

He inexplicably remembered what the sailor said after encountering the "sea monster': as long as the other party didn't intend to kill you, don't provoke them.

Otherwise, you will die a terrible death.

It's like encountering a tiger shark in the sea. If the shark doesn't plan on eating you, don't frantically move your body to attract its attention.

Thinking this, Craig silently put the torn playing card into his pocket.

In case the other party saw him tearing up the card and considered it a provocation...

In the cockpit, the helmsman said, "Captain, North Pole has informed us that if we want to lower traps in the Golden Crab Field, it's fine, it's a gift from nature. But according to the rules of the Barents Sea, we must wait until North Pole leaves before we can start work."

Craig suddenly said coldly, "Drop anchor, everyone return to the cabin to rest. We'll lower the traps after North Pole leaves."

To be precise, Craig backed down.

Now, Time Traveler has become a hot topic in various bars.

Thinking about the country the other party might come from, Craig suddenly felt a sense of being controlled by mysterious Eastern forces.

Why would Time Traveler help Zhang Jian? Craig couldn't understand.

Craig wasn't sure if there would be enough Emperor Crabs in the Golden Crab Field if Alps, Killer Whale, and Long Tail all lowered traps here.

But since they found the Golden Crab Field, it was worth waiting for.

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"Thank you for helping me," Zhang Jian said earnestly to Qing Chen and Yang Yang. "I now have a general idea of your identities, so you knew from the beginning that this is a Golden Crab Field, right? Tonight, didn't Finn and Craig send sailors to cut our floats? And it was Qing Chen who helped me repel them."

Qing Chen and Yang Yang stood beside the deck, responsible for receiving the hoisted crab traps. The young man smiled, "We didn't intend to help you, don't think too much. We came here with our own plans, and many things were just a matter of convenience. We are not related nor friends, and it's not worth our effort."

Zhang Jian was stunned: "Then why did you still..."

"It's fun," Yang Yang tilted their head and smiled: "Isn't that enough? Compared to helping you, we're more interested in fun things, so don't keep thanking us, it's kind of tiring to be polite."

It has to be said that Qing Chen and Yang Yang share a similarity: they both hate being polite.

Moreover, they really didn't intend to help Zhang Jian.

After all, they can help this year, but can they help every year? If Zhang Jian still can't find the crab field next year, the crew members following him will still be cheated.

The income of sailors on crab fishing boats varies greatly. On good crab fishing boats, sailors earn over 80,000 euros a year. On poor crab fishing boats, they earn over 50,000 euros a year. On Zhang Jian's boat last year, the sailors only earned over 20,000 euros, which is basically just a minimum wage.

At this time, Qing Chen said earnestly to Zhang Jian, "You said your adventurous dream is very moving, but I also understand why you always fail to find crab fields."

"For you, coming to the Barents Sea is a journey of freedom and adventure, but you should think more about your crew members. They risk their lives here and have families to support," Qing Chen continued, "You can never forget your original intention, and you can continue to take risks without accepting capital, but fishing boats are for fishing, otherwise, you are just a failed adventurer. So do your research and study where Emperor Crabs might appear. In my opinion, Emperor Crabs are not that difficult to find; they have their own activity patterns."

Zhang Jian was stunned.

Old John was also stunned.

Zhang Jian was a little unhappy after being scolded, but after that, he reflected on himself sincerely.

After all, when his father was still alive, although he also talked about freedom and the spirit of adventure, he always brought his crew members back with a full load.

Old John was stunned because he had discovered a problem.

These young people were talking while unloading crab traps. Just now, Old John had forgotten to use the crane, but these two people were handling 680-pound crab traps as if it were a game.

Perhaps these young people had forgotten, after the crab trap is on the deck, they need to use a crane to move them?!

At some point, Old John felt that Qing Chen was more suitable to be the captain of the North Pole. If they had such a captain, probably no one on board would die, and they would have a full load every year.

Seven days of work per year, and then they could freely enjoy life for the remaining 300 days.

Neidapu, who was responsible for measuring the crabs with calipers, felt that he had never been so relaxed on a fishing boat...

Lowering the crab traps is not easy, and collecting them is even harder.

North Pole turned on all the lights on the ship and worked from nine o'clock at night until dawn.

Old John was so sleepy that he wanted to close his eyes, but Qing Chen and Yang Yang were still working with boundless energy.

Alps, Killer Whale, and Long Tail witnessed the quantity of crabs in a Golden Crab Field from a distance.

Yang Yang was dismantling the crab traps while whispering to Qing Chen, "You directly showed your power as a Time Traveler by throwing the playing cards, and you didn't hide your tracks when you came. When these fishing boats return to port, many people will know that you are drifting in the Barents Sea."

Qing Chen nodded with a smile.

"So, you planned to lure Shendai and Koshima from the beginning?" Yang Yang curiously asked.

"Is there a more suitable battlefield than here?" Qing Chen asked back with a smile, "The sea is boundless, the seawater is icy cold. I can breathe underwater with my skin, but they can't. Here, if they really don't realize the danger and chase after us, the mysterious Barents Sea will let them know what it means to have nowhere to escape."

Yang Yang tilted their head: "How long can you stay underwater?"

Qing Chen thought for a while and said, "Half an hour."

Yang Yang pouted: "Liar, I even came here to help you overcome the tribulation, and you still lie to me. Are you even human?"

Qing Chen felt a little embarrassed. When he first obtained the new ability of underwater breathing from the Knight True Qi, he could only last 20 minutes.

However, now that he had almost infused his entire body with the Knight True Qi, he could last three hours underwater.

However, he was a little reluctant to tell everyone why he could breathe underwater and how long he could last, after all, this was a life-saving ability...

Yang Yang smiled: "Forget it, I won't blame you. I also have secrets, we're even!"

Qing Chen looked towards the sea surface. The distance between the ships here was often several nautical miles, and they were just small black dots to each other.

If the masters in Time Traveler were on land, they could run faster than ships, but here they could only wait honestly.

Sniper rifles seem to be very effective here.

At 9 am, North Pole raised its anchor, sailed towards the horizon, fully loaded.

One day later, when North Pole returned to Amsterdam port to weigh its catch, it even caused a small sensation in the port.

However, North Pole did not stay in the port for too long, as if it was in a hurry, and after only refuelling, it set sail again.

Two days later, Alps returned to the port.

After weighing the catch, Craig went to Walnut Bar to drink and unwind.

At this time, the port was full of legends about North Pole, and Craig was increasingly frustrated the more he heard.

When someone in Walnut Bar was bragging about North Pole, Craig retorted loudly, "North Pole's ability to find the Golden Crab Field is not Zhang Jian's credit, it's because there are two Time Travelers from the East on his boat! Without those two Time Travelers, North Pole would definitely lose everything this year!"

Everyone in the bar's eyes lit up. There's actually such a story?

However, at this moment, a short and stout Asian man sat down opposite Craig, "Can we talk? I want to inquire about the two Time Travelers on North Pole. What do they look like?"

Craig tried hard to recall, and then said, "Both of them are very good-looking."

The short and stout man seemed to have found his target, and he became interested immediately. He took out a photo of Qing Chen from his bosom, "Is this him?"

"Yes, it's him," Craig looked at Qing Chen's photo, as if he was suddenly transported back to Walnut Bar a few days ago, when the boy walked into the bar, still carrying the cold wind from outside the Amsterdam port.

The short and stout man across from him said, "Is he still on North Pole now?"

Craig had already noticed that the person opposite was not an ordinary person. He said, "Yes, we just met North Pole when we came back. I'm sure he's on North Pole."

The short and stout man smiled, "Nice to meet you again, my name is Shendai Cang. I can see that you hate those two Time Travelers, and I'm happy to help you get rid of them."

Craig was stunned, "You?"

"It's not just me," Shendai Cang smiled, "There are many others. We are all Time Travelers, we have been hunting him for a long time."

During the time North Pole left Amsterdam, many forces were looking for a Time Traveler called Qing Chen.

At first, it was Shendai, Koshima, Kunlun, Nine Provinces that were looking for him, and later even North America's "Future" began to look for him.

There are only so many large Time Traveler organizations in the world. In these few days, except for the "Hacker" organization rooted in North America, the other five major organizations were actually looking for Qing Chen...

The strange thing is, what does Future want Qing Chen for?

Someone asked, and Future's answer was that since everyone is looking for him, it means this person is important.

Everyone is looking for him, but if I don't look for him, wouldn't that be a bit out of place?

At first, everyone sent Time Travelers to guard around various tourist attractions, thinking that Qing Chen came to the Netherlands for tourism.

As a result, they waited for several days without finding anything.

Gradually, everyone's manpower began to spread from the city center to the outside, until Shendai Cang came here and suddenly heard that "the new crew members on North Pole are particularly young", he suddenly paid attention to the matter.

All sudden strangers are worth noting.

However, unexpectedly, Shendai Cang actually found him.

Shendai Cang looked at Craig and smiled, "For this voyage, please help us find North Pole."

Craig was stunned, he asked shrewdly, "What is my reward? You know, the working time of a fishing boat is only a few days. What if I delay fishing in order to find someone?"

"We can directly pay you what you earned from fishing last year," Shendai Cang said with a smile, "We are willing to pay 10% of the deposit, this is industry practice."

If He Jinqiu were here, she would definitely know that the Shendai organization was going to freeload again.

In fact, the Shendai organization has done many similar things internationally. They first pay a deposit, and after the matter is done, kill the person, and no one will ask them for the balance.

It's unknown what's up with this nation; they usually seem normal, but once they see blood, they immediately become shameless aggressors.

However, Shendai Cang also underestimated Craig's shrewdness.

After Shendai's people agreed to set sail the next morning, Craig immediately called Finn of Killer Whale and Frodo of Long Tail.

After a brief conspiracy among the three, the news that there were Time Travelers on fishing boats in Amsterdam port spread overnight.

This is a port city. If we say who has the widest network of contacts in this city, it must be the captains and sailors.

With the help of Time Travelers, North Pole found the legendary Golden Crab Field and swayed in the night sky of Amsterdam.

Moreover, it seemed that everyone knew that North Pole found the Golden Crab Field because it had two Time Travelers from the East.

A man and a woman, who are quite good-looking.

Craig is very smart, he realized that "good-looking' seems to be a standard for Time Travelers to find people, so he deliberately released such news.

By the next morning, more than ten members of Shendai arrived at the port, and then they saw people from Koshima and Future...

Shendai Cang was stunned. He thought he was the only one who found the news of Qing Chen, but he didn't expect Koshima to find it too?

Koshima's intelligence system in the Outer World seems quite powerful.

But Shendai Cang quickly realized that something was wrong. After he took his men aboard Craig's Alps, Koshima boarded Finn's Killer Whale.

Shendai Cang had heard that Alps, Killer Whale, and Long Tail were in cahoots...

Shendai Cang immediately reacted. The shrewd fishing boat captain actually realized the importance of intelligence and sold the intelligence to two parties at once...

Fortunately, Shendai Cang thought, although Koshima also came, the two parties' interests are basically the same when it comes to Qing Chen; they both want to eliminate him.

So it's fine if Koshima came; it's like having another ally.

Shendai Cang breathed a sigh of relief.

However, as soon as the two ships left the port, Shendai Cang turned around and saw He Jinqiu, the leader of Nine Provinces, standing proudly on the deck of Long Tail, thousands of meters away, holding her black scepter.

Shendai Cang looked at Craig with an unpleasant expression, "Speed up the boat, don't go with the ship behind!"

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A Burke-class destroyer, Bas Ship, quickly departed from Oslo port in the north, heading towards the Barents Sea region.

The Burke-class destroyer is one of the main destroyers in service in North America, equipped with the Aegis combat system.

At this time, there were several white people lying leisurely on beach chairs on the deck of Bas Ship, as if they were not afraid of the biting cold wind, with a feeling of sunbathing on the beach.

One of the black men said, "Why are we going to the Barents Sea?"

"Because everyone else is going," a thin white man laughed, "So Shendai, Koshima, and Nine Provinces all went, wouldn't we be missing something if we didn't go?"

"But the fuel cost of a destroyer's trip is very expensive," the black man said.

The white man smiled, "Does "Future' need to consider the issue of fuel costs? The world will be ours in the future. But I also find it a bit strange. Shendai, Koshima, and Nine Provinces seem to be looking for someone who is very good-looking. Why? Wouldn't it be like what Homer's epic wrote, Troy and Greece fought for the most beautiful Helen, and the two countries engaged in a ten-year war?"

The black man thought for a while and said, "Then I really want to see what this person looks like."

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