The Fish I Catch Can Be Upgraded - Chapter 321

Chapter 321 The millionaire snail

One afternoon passed, and the harvest of five longlines was actually quite good according to normal conditions.

The catches add up to nearly 500 catties, and if sold, it is estimated to be worth 40,000 to 50,000.

This figure is definitely a big gain for ordinary small retail fishermen.

But to Chu Mingcheng, it was just so-so, as long as there were enough fish nearby, he could hunt them in an hour.

And the level of the high-quality aquatic products illustrated book has reached eighteen. Longline fishing has a bonus, and it can only be considered normal to have this harvest in the end.

Fortunately, it has come to the peak season of fish foraging, and he only waited for three hours to collect the longline once.

Harvest once at nine o’clock, and catch 726 catties.

Catch once at twelve o’clock in the middle of the night, and catch 511 catties.

Including the afternoon and my own fishing and hunting, today’s total harvest has reached more than 2,000 catties, which has exceeded one-third of the order.

If the harvest is good tomorrow morning, the mission is almost half completed, and he will have more time to explore the sunken ship.

The time set for Chuming City for this trip to the sea is still seven days, and I will return to the voyage on the seventh day.

If he can complete the order task earlier, maybe he can still have time to find and explore the third shipwreck.

In the early morning of the next day, Chu Mingcheng hurriedly collected the shrimp pots and longlines before it got hot.

The harvest in the morning was not particularly large, and the catch was only more than 600 catties.

The tiger prawns and the rich prawns are not bad, adding up to more than 220 catties, it feels like a lot.

The live sea fish and these shrimps are kept in the living water tank. The longline needs to be arranged and spread on the deck to dry. Before drying, the seawater must be washed with clean water to prolong the use time of the longline.

After finishing the work, the sun has risen to a high place. If there is no preparation for sun protection under the direct sunlight, it is estimated that the skin will be burned in an hour.

Chu Mingcheng hurried into the cabin, first came to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, after eating, he went to the pilothouse to start the Poseidon, and went to the first sunken ship first.

This shipwreck is a private yacht with a length of about fifteen meters. The owner of the ship is from Treasure Island.

According to some information found by Chu Mingcheng, the yacht sank in September 1982. The owner of the yacht at that time seemed to have brought some beauties out to sea for a party.

The pilot was bought by the enemy of the owner of the ship, deliberately drove the ship into the reef, and ran away in the only lifeboat on the ship before hitting.

Obviously, this is a murder.

If it wasn’t for the driver who was caught later, and the incident was reported in the newspaper.

As for whether there will be valuable things on this small yacht, he is not sure, it depends on luck.

However, the yacht is on a good route, which happens to be on the route he goes to the tuna fishing spot, so he decided to explore the yacht.

Unfortunately, there are only rough shipwreck spots on the news, and he needs to find it slowly by himself.

At the beginning of ten o’clock in the morning, Chu Mingcheng came to the waters of the sunken ship.

There are five reefs shown on the map, and the number is quite large, but it is estimated that the range of these reefs is not large.

The only thing I am afraid of is whether the original reef has changed in the past few decades.

Normally speaking, the geological changes of the earth should not be visible in just a few decades, unless there is a special case of a strong earthquake.

Chu Mingcheng first found a place to park the boat, and then went to the kitchen to prepare lunch for himself.

It was almost noon, and he didn’t want to come back to cook after diving, so he ate ahead of time.

After lunch, Chu Mingcheng came to the living room to move his body. After his body got hot, he changed into a diving suit, hung up a live fish buckle and a safety rope, and jumped into the water with a flashlight and headlamp to start looking for the sunken ship.

The first hidden reef is not big, and it only took him half an hour to visit it.

No fossils or other particularly rare marine life were found, so he hurried back and drove the Poseidon to the next reef.

After driving to the second hidden reef, Chu Mingcheng jumped into the water and quickly arrived at the hidden reef group to start searching.

After a lap, he found that the reefs here were unexpectedly large.

The first reef group just now is small in scale, the edges are all sandy, and the deepest depth is only more than 30 meters.

He has swam to more than 50 meters underwater, but the reefs are still out of sight.

With the experience of the first shipwreck, Chu Mingcheng knew that the shipwreck would not stay where it was after hitting a rock, but would continue sailing for a short distance.

So he searched for the first hidden reef even if it was the nearby sandy land.

The reef group was deeper, and Chu Mingcheng naturally dived all the way down. He didn’t see the sand bed at the edge until he was 137 meters underwater.

Originally, after he found this position, he planned to search along the edge, but unexpectedly found a special snail.

Chu Mingcheng grabbed a palm-sized Dragon Palace Weng Rongluo from among several seaweeds.

The shell of this snail is conical. It is amazing that there is a very long crack at the bottom of the snail, which is not found in other snails he usually encounters.

Dragon Palace Weng Rongluo, one with a big palm like his is worth several thousand yuan, and the bigger the more expensive.

This is an ancient snail that was considered extinct but was rediscovered in the last twenty-first century.

His ancient degree is not much worse than the Nautilus, and he is also a creature that has lived from ancient times to modern times.

Compared with nautilus, the number of Longgong Wengrong snails is rarer, and the collection value is also higher.

And the most important point is that this thing has not been included in the protection of animals by the country.

Chu Mingcheng wondered if the person who wrote the protection law didn’t know this kind of snail at all, so he left it out.

But it doesn’t matter, he picked up the flashlight and illuminated the water area, and found that the food and aquatic plants of Dragon Palace Weng Rongluo were quite a lot.

If this thing is a big one, there might be local tyrants willing to pay hundreds of thousands to buy it.

Since the aquatic plants seem to be widely distributed, he immediately changed his goal and started looking for this so-called millionaire snail.

As for the snail in his hand, he put it in the net bag casually.

Swim at a height of three meters above the water plants below, turn on the headlights, and look for the rich man’s snail together with the flashlight.

Swimmed for about a hundred meters, suddenly, he found a pair of deep eyes staring at himself hidden in the aquatic plants.

Chu Mingcheng trembled and was taken aback.

The light shines on it, only to find that it is a skull, and the deep eyes are just its eye sockets.

Chu Mingcheng, who reacted, suddenly showed a look of surprise on his face.

Could this skeleton be the shipwrecked person? Does that mean the shipwreck is nearby?

This discovery immediately filled Chu Mingcheng with motivation. He accelerated his swimming speed and began to search and sweep the waters.

Just when he passed a large reef and encountered a super huge grouper head-on, he really found the sunken ship.

But this time he encountered a little trouble. A giant grouper with a body length of two meters was chasing him and biting him.

The boss of the huge mouth of the abyss seemed to swallow him in one gulp.

Originally, Chu Mingcheng would be very happy to meet such a giant grouper.

But the result was very helpless. In his eyes, the head and internal organs of this giant grouper were all emitting a rich green color, obviously a lot of ciguatera toxin had accumulated.

If you eat a bite of this fish, you will definitely have to go to the hospital to lie down for a few days, or even worse.

Fortunately, the speed of the giant grouper was very slow, so Chu Mingcheng picked up the fish spear as a stick, beat it lightly in circles, and drove it away.

It is said that there are huge objects near the sunken ship, but I didn’t expect it to be true.

After driving away the giant grouper and Chu Mingcheng, he put away his spear and slowly approached the sunken ship.

This shipwreck may have fallen to the right side because of the reef next to it.

But it can be seen from the appearance that this is a yacht, it seems that he has found his goal this time.

Chu Mingcheng observed the outside of the ship first, and after finding nothing, he swam into the cabin.

The door of the cabin was open. It should be that the people in the boat ran out after hitting the rocks.

He guessed that the ship would not meet a good friend like the previous shipwreck.

The first floor of the cabin is a quite large living room, kitchen and driver’s cab, and then he found a dozen bottles of wine on the wine cabinet next to the kitchen.

Chu Mingcheng’s eyes lit up. Having tasted the sweetness of red wine, he was very interested in these wines.

But it is a pity that these wines have been soaked in seawater for decades, and there is a high probability that they cannot be drunk.

If it is a relatively high-quality wine, it is still worth collecting.

Chu Mingcheng did not touch the wine immediately, but swam to the next floor first.

The fifteen-meter yacht is not big, with only two floors. The next floor is all bedrooms, with a total of five rooms.

Originally, Chu Mingcheng wanted to go directly to the master bedroom. He felt that the rest of the rooms should not be worth exploring.

But he suddenly remembered that the owner of the ship had brought some girls over at that time. The girls who could go out with the rich were at least high-value beauties, and they would most likely wear some jewelry when they went out.

The jewelry will be taken off after changing into a bikini when going out to sea, so as not to drop it when playing in the water, which means that there may be some jewelry in the guest room. .

Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are. Chu Mingcheng thought of this and started searching from the guest rooms.

After decades of soaking, the locks on these doors were already broken. He kicked the door directly, and immediately kicked the door open.

Unsurprisingly, there were no skeletons in the room, and it was very messy.

Chu Mingcheng looked around, but there were no clothes or shoes, maybe this room was not occupied.

After searching in the cabinet, sure enough, there was nothing.

Immediately, he came to the door of the second room and kicked open the door as well.

In this room, I saw something that seemed to be a skirt on the floor, and a small bag in the corner, obviously someone lived there.

Then he found a pair of earrings, a necklace, a lady’s watch and some cosmetics in the lady’s bag.

There are still some women’s clothes and shoes in the closet, but they have already been soaked in sea water.

Put away the earrings, necklace and lady’s watch, put them in the net pocket, and then he left here and went to the next room.

The next two guest rooms were occupied, and Chu Mingcheng found two ladies’ watches, three necklaces and two gold rings.

The harvest was not bad, so he was looking forward to the things in the master bedroom.

The door of the master bedroom was also kicked open. After kicking open, there was a small toilet next to it, and there was another door blocking it.

But the door is not locked, so he can just push it open.

Pushed open the gate, but Chu Mingcheng didn’t rush in.

The lower floor, he observed from the outside of the ship just now, only the master bedroom has two windows, and all the windows are broken, maybe some marine life ran into the bedroom through the window.

Therefore, after the door was opened, he retreated instead of advancing. If there were any dangerous and poisonous creatures inside, it was very likely that they would come out as the door opened.

After a while, an ugly tiger fish slowly swam out, followed by a gaudy sea snake.

Chu Mingcheng was in a cold sweat watching, why is this room full of highly poisonous creatures.

Seeing them swimming in his direction, he quickly picked up the spear and stabbed them to death.

If you rush to the top of the stairs, maybe you will be attacked when you go out.

After finishing the tiger fish and sea snake, Chu Mingcheng took the dead sea snake into a guest room and closed the door. The tiger fish was hung on the live fish buckle and will be brought back.

Tiger fish are very poisonous and ugly.

As long as the fish skin is peeled off, there will be a mass of delicious meat inside.

After hanging the tiger fish, Chu Mingcheng slowly approached the master bedroom.

He was at the door first, and looked around the entire master bedroom with a flashlight.

The master bedroom is full of small fish, and octopuses can be seen in the corners.

Fortunately, there is no gap under the bed. These sea creatures have no way to hide, and they are all on the bright side.

Chu Mingcheng scanned around and found no more dangerous creatures, so he swam in with confidence.

No valuables were found in the master bedroom, but there was a small safe.

I don’t know the password, and the lock has rusted to death. He has to take it back and use a tool to break the lock open.

It is very common for rich people to use safes, but this is just a small safe in a yacht. There may be some valuable things, but there is definitely nothing that will make him rich overnight.

After the exploration was over, Chu Mingcheng tied the safe with a safety rope, and then swam to the cabin on the first floor.

Bringing the safe back to the wine cabinet, he **** all eleven bottles of wine inside, and then he left the shipwreck and returned with what he found.

‘Huh? A pile of defense? ‘

On his way back, Chu Mingcheng suddenly found a huge pile of defense on a piece of sponge.

The shape is different from the animal’s defense, but it is exactly the same as the defense drawn in the animation.

Swimming over to see it, Chu Mingcheng was overjoyed, happier than finding so many items brought back by the sunken ship.

Because in front of him is a Dragon Palace Weng Rongluo, and it is very huge.

Chu Mingcheng stretched out his hand and gestured, and found that the diameter of the snail reached more than 20 centimeters. He didn’t expect to encounter a million snails when he returned to the Poseidon.

In the past, a fisherman in Baodao sold a 22cm-diameter Dragon Palace Wengrong snail for NT$1 million. This is the origin of the millionaire snail.

His is also huge. After so many years, the value may be higher than before. Anyway, more than 200,000 RMB cannot be escaped.

One snail sells for more than 200,000 yuan. It can only be said that ordinary people in the world of the rich do not understand.

Chu Mingcheng, who originally thought that the shipwreck had yielded little, was finally happy now, and returned to the Poseidon very satisfied.

Eleven bottles of wine, and a safe placed on the deck.

The jewelry and watches taken out of the net pocket were casually still next to the safe. Chu Mingcheng separated a small space next to the living water tank, and put the two Dragon Palace Weng Rong snails in it to raise them.

By the way, I threw a handful of aquatic plants that I just pulled out at the bottom of the water, so that the two snails would not be hungry.

The location of the next shipwreck is far away from here, on the high seas. It is a cruise ship from the 1960s that sank.

The ship is not small, and the information found shows that the sunken ship reached 58 meters, which can be regarded as a medium-sized luxury cruise ship.

Chu Mingcheng found no detailed information, but only said that the cruise ship was blown over by a storm, and many rich people died at that time.

As for the dead waiters and so on, they were not mentioned in the news.

But through the Xuan Tao of Hong Kong movies in the 1980s and 1990s, Chu Mingcheng immediately guessed the purpose of the cruise ship going to the high seas.

Maybe Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru have all the cruise ships. After all, they are not afraid of being caught on the high seas.

There are so many things worth exploring on such a luxurious cruise ship.

The only troublesome thing is that the cruise ship was blown over by a storm, and he couldn’t find it through the marker of the reef, so it’s still unknown whether he can find it.

Afterwards, Chu Mingcheng began to sort out his harvest for the day. First, he rinsed the eleven bottles of wine and jewelry with clean water to wash away the sea water.

Then he took a foam box and put these unknown brands of wine into it.

The paper on the wine bottle was all tattered and shrunk, and only some letters could be barely seen.

The origins of these wines can still be found out, but it is time-consuming. You have to slowly guess and check according to the letters above.

These submarine aging wines do not know how much they are worth.

After Chu Mingcheng put the wine into the box, he used specially bought sponges to separate and protect them one by one to avoid collisions.

Generally, the bottles of high-value wines are of very good quality. Even after being soaked in seawater for decades, they are not easily broken.

As for why Chu Mingcheng didn’t use wooden boxes, but continued to use foam boxes, it was naturally because the foam boxes were not conspicuous.

When moving from the ship, if you often move wooden boxes, it is easy to arouse suspicion from others, and you may even be suspected of smuggling.

After all, his boat is a fishing boat, and there must be something wrong with wooden boxes appearing frequently.

Foam boxes and plastic boxes for fish will not have this problem.

Eleven bottles of wine were processed, and finally Chu Mingcheng brought tools and began to solve the combination lock on the safe.

“Bang bang bang bang.”

The sound of hammers hitting things was heard far away in the sea, but the sound stopped soon.

Chu Mingcheng smiled while holding the hammer, it is really good to be strong, no matter how tight the safe is, it cannot withstand his smashing.

Open the door of the safe, and suddenly a stream of “sludge” flows out, exuding an unpleasant smell.

Chu Mingcheng pulled out the water pipe from under the side of the ship, and directly washed away the “sludge”.

These are actually the appearance of the banknotes after being dissolved by sea water. He directly rinsed the inside of the safe with clean water.

Afterwards, three things inside the safe were revealed.

A watch, a tarnished finger spanner, and a pitch-black old-fashioned pistol.

“What a pity!” Chu Mingcheng picked up the wrench and looked at it, then shook his head regretfully.

This finger should be made of jade, but it has lost its original translucent luster after being soaked in sea water for too long.

Although there is still some value, it is definitely a world away from the original.

Then he picked up the watch and looked at it, and found that it turned out to be a Rolex. As for the specific series, he didn’t know which series it was, so he had to look it up.

This watch has stopped beating, but I don’t know if it can be repaired.

To be honest, Chu Mingcheng really likes the last toy. It should be said that men are more interested in these things.

However, it was banned in the country, Chu Mingcheng just played with it, and threw it and the safe back into the sea.

(end of this chapter)