The entire ocean is my fishing ground.

Chapter 32 Desperate Escape

He had anticipated that Zhang Tiejun would retaliate, but he hadn't expected the other party to be so ruthless.

[Limited-Time Opportunity: The city-level luxury hotel, Yunhai Pavilion, is opening in three days and is seeking a top-quality seafood dish to whet the appetite of its guests, regardless of cost. The target is the forbidden zone of the East China Sea – the Dragon Ridge Trench.]

Dragon Ridge Trench.

He opened the system store.

[Deep-water pressure-resistant diving suit (-30 points): Can withstand the pressure of water up to 100 meters deep, with a built-in micro oxygen supply system.]

[Highly Effective Fish Attractant (-20 points): Releases infrasound waves and special pheromones targeting specific deep-sea apex predators.]

Lin Chen clicked to redeem.

……

Three o'clock in the morning, at the old wharf in Huangni Village.

The able-bodied young men from the five newly joined fishing families yesterday have all taken their places on the deck.

Lin Chen was the last to step onto the deck. He pulled on the mooring rope and looked at his father and a group of uncles.

"We're not going to Shimizu Island tonight."

"Change course, Dragon's Back Trench."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Jianguo, who was squatting on the edge of the boat tapping his cigarette ash, suddenly trembled.

"Thud!"

Lin Jianguo gripped Lin Chen's arm tightly.

"What did you say? Where are you going?"

"Do you even know where that is?! Twenty years ago, the old captain was right there! The ship was sucked into a whirlpool, and not a single bubble appeared! There were twelve people on board, and I was the only one who survived by clinging to a plank!"

Wang Fuhai and several other old fishermen gasped in shock, instinctively taking a few steps back, their eyes filled with fear as they looked in that direction.

"Chenzi, that place is a death trap, you mustn't go!"

"Yeah, what's the point of making money if you can't live to spend it?"

Faced with the fear of the crowd, Lin Chen took out his phone and pulled up a nautical radar chart.

He pointed to three dark red dots on the map, in the outer channel of Qingshui Island.

"Zhang Tiejun hired three high-powered trawlers, and they were waiting for us there."

"Going to Qingshui Island, we're not facing eddies anymore, we're facing steel plates. They'll crush the Pioneer into the sea like they're crushing an egg."

"We had no choice."

Lin Chen turned around, took a package out of the cabin, and opened it in front of everyone.

That was a diving suit.

"Either go to Qingshui Island to feed the fish, or come with me to Longji Trench, forge a way to make a living, and while we're at it, bring back this stepping stone to the city's high-end market."

Lin Jianguo looked at his son's eyes, which were frighteningly calm.

Thinking of Zhang Meng's arrogance in smashing the ship and Zhang Tiejun's ruthlessness in breaking the ice, he felt a lump in his throat.

In this world, are honest people just destined to be bullied to death?

"Oh shit!"

"sail!"

The Pioneer turned its bow around, cleaving through the surging waves of the night, and resolutely charged toward the legendary forbidden sea.

Just five nautical miles from where the ship had sailed, three blinding beams of light suddenly appeared on the horizon behind it.

"They're catching up!"

Wang Fuhai's voice has changed.

Three modified trawlers caught up with the fishing boats at speeds far exceeding those of ordinary fishing vessels, creating huge white wakes.

The roar of the engine grew closer, and the immense pressure made it hard for anyone on deck to breathe.

"Into the ditch!"

Lin Chen stood at the bow of the ship, the strong wind blowing his hair back, his eyes fixed on the real-time terrain map provided by the system.

The color of the water ahead suddenly deepened, turning from deep blue to inky black. The wind became sharp, and rows of towering waves, taller than a person, rose up without warning.

We've arrived at the eddy current zone of the Dragon Ridge Trench.

"Lin Jianguo! Full left! Cut in!"

Lin Jianguo gritted his teeth and slammed the steering wheel shut.

The Pioneer's hull emitted a screeching sound as it narrowly grazed the edge of a huge whirlpool and cut into the narrow, calm waters between two undercurrents.

The leading trawler also tried to force its way out.

But they didn't have Lin Chen's eyes.

As soon as the bow turned, the ship was caught by a stronger undercurrent on the side and slammed hard against a jagged, black reef beside the channel.

"Kara!"

A deafening sound of metal tearing apart could be clearly heard even amidst the raging winds and towering waves.

The ship's searchlight flickered wildly a few times before going out completely.

The two remaining trawlers on the perimeter were terrified by this scene and watched helplessly as the Pioneer disappeared into the dark waves, no longer daring to follow.

……

The Pioneer hovered in a calm area of ​​water sheltered by a ring reef.

Lin Chen took off his coat, revealing the deep-sea pressure-resistant diving suit underneath.

"Chenzi, you..."

Just as Lin Jianguo was about to stop him, Lin Chen had already hung a bottle of dark blue fish attractant on his waist, made a reassuring gesture to him, and then leaped into the air.

"Thump!"

He silently merged into the dark depths of the sea.

Dive down, dive down.

The water pressure increased, and the light disappeared.

Guided by the system map, Lin Chen hovered in front of the huge reef cave, hundreds of meters deep, and opened the bottle of fish attractant.

An invisible wave spread out from the deep sea.

The next second, the entire cave came to life.

Fifteen minutes later, the sea broke open, and Lin Chen climbed onto the deck along the cable.

"pull!"

The winch roared as it laboriously pulled a specially made fishing net out of the water.

"Splash—"

The moment the net was removed, everyone on deck held their breath.

Two wild lobsters, each nearly a meter long and covered in splendid patterns, landed on the deck, their long antennae still waving majestically.

Next came several more deep-sea red-spotted fish, their scales gleaming metallic under the lights.

Lin Jianguo and Wang Fuhai's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, and the entire room fell silent for a full three seconds.

"A... a broccoli lobster! Alive!"

"My God! This...this is a Red Star Patchouli? No, it's even redder than a Red Star Patchouli, it's a Crimson Demon!"

Wang Fuhai reached out his hand, trembling, wanting to touch the lobster's shell, but then quickly pulled it back.

Lin Jianguo looked at everything before him, speechless.

Ignoring the shock of the crowd, Lin Chen wiped the seawater off his face, took out his phone from his waterproof bag, and filmed a video of the two majestic spiny lobsters jumping around.

Instead of sending it to Su Jianming or Wang Hao, he bypassed the town and city levels and found the private number of the purchasing director of Yunhai Pavilion in the provincial capital in the system intelligence, and sent the video there.

It also included a sentence.

"Two, alive. Arrive at the deep-water port in one hour. Highest bidder wins."

The sky is dimly bright.

When the news reached Zhang Tiejun's office, he was waiting for the trawler captain's call to report the victory.

the phone is ringing.

After listening to the intermittent voice from the other end, Zhang Tiejun's smug smile gradually froze.

"What did you say? One ship is wrecked? The other two are lost?"

"...Lin Chen...took two live lobsters, each a meter long, and went straight to the city?"

"Snapped!"

The phone slipped from his hand.

"Splash!"

With a wave of his hand, he swept the entire set of purple clay teaware and all the ornaments off the table to the ground.