The Top Fishing
Chapter 387 - 195: Coconut Snail

Chapter 387: Chapter 195: Coconut Snail

The frog crab’s usual habitat is the sandy seabed at depths ranging from 10 to 150 meters.

During the day, they would emerge from the deep sea to feed because there was plenty of food in the upper layers of the ocean. At night, they would return to the depths to rest and avoid nighttime predators on the surface.

Now, it was sunset, and they were heading toward the deep sea; it was the perfect time to catch them.

"Wait up for me!"

After informing the others, Lin Yang took a dive; he didn’t go directly to catch crabs but returned to the yacht to get a drone and an oxygen tank mask.

Soon, he jumped down from the ship again, opened the drone after reaching this area.

The viewers in his live broadcast room had thought there would be no stream today, who would have guessed Lin Yang suddenly started one.

"Hello everyone, I’m streaming again, mainly because we discovered a group of frog crabs, also known as tiger crabs. I haven’t caught this type of crab before, so I thought I’d broadcast it live. Those who don’t know what tiger crabs are can Google them." After speaking to the live broadcast room, Lin Yang bit down on his oxygen tank and directly folded his body toward the seabed.

His speed was quick because he was racing against time with these tiger crabs.

"Tiger crabs? By the sound of it, they seem pretty formidable. Are these crabs tasty?"

"To the person ahead, you might be disappointed, these tiger crabs are actually quite lousy."

"The host went down to catch them, they must be tasty, right...."

Although not many people had joined Lin Yang’s live session immediately, they still started discussing how tasty the crabs might be in groups of two or three.

Of course, Lin Yang didn’t know any of this because he had already dived down.

As he swam over the tiger crabs, he also put on his ultrathin gloves.

The tiger crabs in this area were not small, the biggest weighing around two pounds each. Looking at these crabs, Lin Yang didn’t have much to say and started grabbing them right away.

He caught two of the largest with a swing of his hands and put them into his net bag. As the crabs entered the bag, he also checked the rewards in the guide, $300, 3 experience points, and 3 points.

Although the rewards weren’t great, the intrinsic value of these tiger crabs was higher and, additionally, there were many of them.

Lin Yang didn’t hold back, sweeping them up under the water like a whirlwind. Virtually none of the crabs weighing over one pound escaped his grasp.

In less than 20 minutes, the net bags he carried were full. Seeing that there were still many frog crabs left, Lin Yang sighed. Heaven shows mercy to all living creatures, and since he had already caught so many, he decided to let them go. Thinking this, he prepared to swim upward.

However, just as he was about to swim upwards, suddenly, he saw a coconut snail slowly emerging from behind a nearby rock...

Lin Yang had seen this creature for the first time, but he recognized it.

When short beachcombing videos were most popular, practically all the up-and-coming hosts picked up these items.

Later, it was confirmed that these creatures were not found in the shallow waters near human habitation at all.

The coconut snail inhabits warm temperate sandy mud shallow waters, not right by the pure seashore because its heavy nature means it is unlikely to be washed ashore by the sea.

After this information was popularized, everyone understood that the coconut snails appearing in videos were just props.

But the one before Lin Yang now definitely couldn’t be called a prop, as he was at the seafloor about a dozen meters deep, and this creature was around ten meters deeper than his current position.

Looking at his oxygen tank and the remaining time, Lin Yang had already decided to spare the tiger crabs, but he was quite interested in this coconut snail.

Out of curiosity, he wondered what this creature might taste like.

With that thought, Lin Yang flicked his body and swam toward the coconut snail.

When he lifted it, he couldn’t help but feel his hands sinking; the thing was heavy, at least weighing over ten pounds.

Despite its heavy weight of over ten pounds, this creature wasn’t valuable; it was just good-looking. A large coconut snail like this only sold for about $40 per pound.

Lin Yang held the large coconut snail and slowly surfaced.

"Look, what a great find!"

When he emerged from the water, he immediately showed the huge coconut snail to the drone and spoke with a smile.

"Wow, it’s huge!"

"Wow, so yellow!"

Seeing this huge coconut snail, the people in the live stream were also quite happy. In fact, people have this hobby, enjoying the sight of large objects, and it must be admitted, this thing looked really nice.

"Come on!" As Lin Yang surfaced, the people around him also headed back to the ship. Lin Yang was the last to board, and before he did, Wang Feng, Li Xiaopeng, and Yue’er had already brought the tiger crabs and the huge coconut snail onto the yacht.

The two bags of tiger crabs were quite substantial, each weighing around 50 pounds roughly, meaning that Lin Yang had gathered nearly a hundred pounds of tiger crabs alone.

If calculated at $130 per pound, that amounted to over $13,000, rivaling the price of a wild yellow croaker.

However, what shocked Lin Yang most was when he opened the guide to check the rewards for unlocking the coconut snail, it immediately awarded him $50,000, but for experience and points, only 5 each.