Chapter 666: 403, Humanoid Self-walking King Crab Radar_2 Chapter 666: 403, Humanoid Self-walking King Crab Radar_2 Fortunately, the thing Zhang Jian was most worried about did not happen—no one was seasick.
Old John did not show any kindness to the three new crew mbers. He watched the clumsy trio and cursed at Zhang Jian for being unreliable, regardless of whether Zhang Jian could hear him or not.
By the ti everything was ready, Nedup, Qing Chen, and Yi Yi were already exhausted on the deck.
The sun rose, ascending from the horizon of the sea.
Old John shouted on the deck, “Rookies, make the most of your ti to rest, you only have one hour left.”
After saying that, Nedup, with dark circles under his eyes, went back to the cabin to sleep. anwhile, Qing Chen and Yi Yi, captivated by the sunrise over the sea, sat silently on the deck watching.
The beautiful scene was like an oil painting.
Qing Chen said softly to Yi Yi, “Do we need to act so convincingly? I don’t feel tired at all.”
Yi Yi smiled and said, “It’s about fitting in.”
“I saw people organizing student rallies in City 10. Have you been to City 10?” Qing Chen asked.
Yi Yi leaned against the railing on the deck, tilting her head to look at Qing Chen, “I haven’t been there yet. By the way, you seem to have stirred up quite a bit in City 10. With your current identity, you should be responsible for capturing . If I recall correctly, that was one of the main duties of PCA Intelligence Unit One, along with capturing Spade operatives infiltrated within the Federation.”
“What are you trying to say?” Qing Chen asked curiously.
Yi Yi thought for a mont, “So, our identities should be opposing now, and it should co down to a life-or-death struggle, right?”
“Can we not add more drama,” Qing Chen sighed.
When Qing Chen first t this fellow student Yi Yi, he thought she would be a cold-hearted assassin.
However, in reality, her irrepressible bubbly personality could not be contained.
Comparing many Awakeners to wild monsters was bad enough, not to ntion the bad habit of driving anyti, anywhere, which he had no idea where she had picked up from.
To Zhang Jian, Old John, and Nedup, the two seed quite close. But in reality? Besides Yi Yi running roughshod over Qing Chen’s feelings unilaterally, there had never been any real so-called “progress” between them.
Qing Chen knew well that Yi Yi had her own goals.
She was not a minion of Spade, nor a minion of the Daylight.
Everything she was doing now was progressing towards a certain direction.
Qing Chen turned and asked, “Do you want to help the residents of the Inner World?”
“Yeah,” Yi Yi nodded.
“But this cannot be accomplished just by student rallies,” Qing Chen said. “The history of the Outer World has already proven this.”
“But there always has to be a first step to enlightening the people, right?” Yi Yi said, looking at the vast ocean. “I have a long life ahead of . Let’s take it slow.”
Qing Chen didn’t know why, but he felt he and his fellow student Yi Yi were like two extres. He was a pessimist, always thinking of potential dangers, always wanting to be prepared for everything.
While Yi Yi was an eternally enthusiastic optimist.
He still didn’t know how they had beco friends.
Just then, outside the ship was the surging sea, and a blue whale suddenly leapt out of the water in the distance, facing the morning sun.
On the vast sea surface, the blue whale’s huge fins appeared like two wings, as if with a little effort it could soar into the sky.
The expansive figure overlapping with the sunrise was dazzling to the extre.
This was Qing Chen’s first ti seeing a blue whale, as thrilling as when he first saw the majestic giant tree in Taboo Land 002 out in the wilderness.
Old John hurried out from the cabin and said, “Drop the crab traps, let down eight pathfinding cages! A blue whale has appeared; we are going to drop the crab traps where the blue whale appeared. It’s a majestic spirit of the sea; it will bring us good luck!”
“Only eight?” Qing Chen asked.
“Yes, only eight. Rookies on the Barents Sea, rember, this is called a pathfinding cage. Put it in the sea for 6 hours then co back to check. If there are king crabs, this will be our fishing ground!” Old John explained.
As he spoke, he picked up the telephone by the cabin door and shouted, “Zhang, we’re dropping the crab traps!”
The telephone was a wired phone connected to the cockpit, making it convenient for the captain to communicate with the crew.
Then, he forcefully slapped the cabin door, “Rookies inside, co out and work.”
Qing Chen glanced at Yi Yi, “You go tie the buoys to the crab traps, I’ll drop the traps with Nedup.”
The 180 empty crab traps, welded into sturdy cages, were neatly stacked on the deck like shipping containers on a cargo ship.
After the captain steered the crabbing ship to the designated area, the crew were responsible for tying buoy-like floats to the crab traps and then dropping them into the sea.
The crabbing ship didn’t need to wait around there.
If there were king crabs on the seabed, they would follow the scent of the cod, squeezing into the traps that they could enter but couldn’t escape from.
After waiting for 6-12 hours, the ship would return to the float’s location, and the crew would throw out grappling hooks to catch the floats drifting on the sea surface before using a crane to haul the crab traps up onto the deck one by one.
Those floats were each a coordinate for the crab traps.
Next would be asuring sizes, sorting, and finally deciding whether to continue setting traps in the sa spot based on the number of king crabs caught in the pathfinding cages.
At that mont, Nedup glanced at Qing Chen and muttered softly, “I hope you won’t lose your strength while lowering the traps.”
Qing Chen just smiled without saying a word, as Old John controlling the crane lifted the traps to the deploynt platform, all the while yelling, “Rookies, don’t lose focus. Watch out for the ropes tied to the buoys on the crab traps; they might entangle your feet and drag you to the seabed.”
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