The Top Fishing
Chapter 377 - 191: Departure to the High Seas

Chapter 377: Chapter 191: Departure to the High Seas

When Lin Yang’s tongs came out of the hole, a large crab with a dark green carapace was struggling on it.

"Well, you’re not small at all!"

Looking at the big guy in front of him, he couldn’t help but laugh.

For many people, Green Crabs are mainly classified by region, such as Australian Mud Crab, South Vietnam Green Crab, Big Green Crab, and so on.

However, in reality, Green Crabs also need to be classified by species, generally divided into four kinds: Purple Claw Crab, Saw-edged Blue Crab, Nixue Green Crab, and olive green crab.

Of these four types of Green Crabs, the most common are the Saw-edged Blue Crab and the Nixue Green Crab.

At this moment, Lin Yang had caught a Saw-edged Blue Crab, weighing about one and a half catties, quite plump, and he casually tossed it into the bucket he had brought.

Of course, he also threw a lot of grass and leaves into the bucket, which was to prevent the caught Green Crabs from fighting each other.

Since Green Crab is considered seafood, naturally there are rewards; he immediately opened the guidebook to check the rewards, only to see that the reward displayed was 200 yuan, 2 points of experience and points, and that was all.

As Saw-edged Blue Crabs are cultivated, their low value was within his expectations. Seeing the tiny reward on the guidebook, Lin Yang immediately curled his lips and continued searching for more crabs.

His physical fitness was excellent. Although moving in the mud was quite inconvenient, for him, it was just a minor issue.

As Lin Yang’s gaze swept around, he quickly found several more crab burrows.

The second, the third, the fourth... in just half an hour, his bucket was already filled with four large crabs. It should have been five, but one of the crabs was carrying eggs, so Lin Yang let it go.

After all, since the eggs had already emerged from the belly, they were no longer edible. Rather than wasting them, it was better to simply let them go...

Of course, when looking for crab burrows, he always tried to find the larger ones; he wasn’t much interested in Green Crabs under half a catty.

As Lin Yang continued to toss crabs into the bucket one by one, he had also already unlocked two types of Green Crabs. Just as he was about to move forward, suddenly a sharp scream from Yue’er came from afar.

Along with that scream, a bunch of noisy sounds followed.

Immediately, Lin Yang ran quickly towards the direction of the sound.

When he arrived, he found Li Xiaopeng and a few other men standing together, with Yue’er behind them, facing a direction where a pink eel was digging into the muddy ground.

"Brother Yang, be careful, there’s another snake!" As he ran over, Yue’er couldn’t help but shout out loud, warning him to be cautious.

"This isn’t a snake, this is a Blood Eel, which is really good stuff," Lin Yang said with a smile, observing their frightened looks.

Well, to them, having never seen an eel before, it really was easy to mistake it for a snake.

Hearing Lin Yang’s words, Wang Feng was also taken aback for a moment, then started to compare it with the eels and sea snakes in his mind.

"It does look somewhat like the eels on TV, but this color is wrong."

"Of course, it’s wrong. This is a Blood Eel that lives exclusively in tidal mudflats. This is much more valuable than ordinary eels, selling for over 400 yuan a kilo, and since it’s not cultivated, it really is good stuff," Lin Yang explained, while he walked over to the Blood Eel, quickly grabbing it before it could dig further into the mud, and then put it in a plastic bag.

It was better to bag this, as putting it in the bucket might lead to it being killed by the Green Crabs.

As he was putting it into the plastic bag, he also sneakily checked the guidebook reward, which showed a reward of 500 yuan, 5 points of experience and points, plus an added special skill of increasing the big fish catching probability by 10%.

His original probability of catching big fish was 30%, which now after the upgrade directly increased to 40%. Although not a significant increase, it felt pretty good.

After securing the Blood Eel, everyone dispersed and continued with their sea foraging.

In the time that followed, Lin Yang caught several more Big Green Crabs. With five people in their group, each could share about two crabs, which was enough for each to eat two or three big Green Crabs.

Of course, there were also Blood Eels, and the others had caught plenty of Green Crabs and Blood Eels as well.

Once they knew it was Blood Eel, they were bold enough to catch it, knowing it was different from real eels.

Real eels are very slippery and hard to catch, and their teeth are extraordinarily tough and sharp, capable of biting off a person’s fingers, but the Blood Eel is not so fierce. It resembles eels a bit more.

After about two hours of foraging, everyone had had their fill and then carried the big bucket of Green Crabs back to the yacht.

Before boarding the yacht, they washed off the mud from their bodies with seawater, then took off their water pants once aboard.

After a quick wash on the yacht, it was nearly noon.

Today’s lunch consisted of nothing but these Big Green Crabs and Blood Eels. The Green Crabs would be steamed, and thinking it over, Lin Yang decided to make a soup with the Blood Eel, as it was very nourishing.