Chapter 488: Chapter 322: The Underwater Cave

A meal had ended amid the critiques of three women.

The appearance of the King Isopod had triggered their most instinctive resistance, and in their words, even if it tasted better than lobster, they wouldn’t consider eating it.

Thus, Chu Mingcheng took screenshots of such comments to gear up for a “told you so” moment back home.

Chen Yang and Zhang Wei, being men, were quite open to trying it.

After lunch, Chu Mingcheng continued to pilot the Sea God towards the Public Sea.

The remaining grouper and deep sea fish could also be targeted through extended fishing in the Public Sea.

The area was rich in resources and didn’t hinder his search for sunken ships.

By five in the afternoon, the Sea God reached the area of the sunken mid-sized cruise ship.

But whether he could find it, Chu Mingcheng had no certainty.

However, he wasn’t in a hurry to search for the sunken ship but steered towards a small island he had spotted through his binoculars, finding a good spot to set out his five fishing lines.

Exploring the sunken ship was suitable at night, but searching was easier during the day with the sunlight.

With the sun about to set, Chu Mingcheng naturally wasn’t inclined to search for the sunken ship immediately.

After setting the fishing lines, he went to the front deck to gather the fish fins.

Preparing shark fins is actually quite troublesome. These completely dried fish fins were now placed by Chu Mingcheng into water heated to sixty degrees Celsius, needing to be scalded until soft.

This required some time, so he decided to prepare dinner.

After dinner, Chu touched the fish fins and found they had become soft again, so he took them out and put them in cold water.

He then took a small knife and started scraping off the hard scales and skin from the base to the tip of the fish fins.

After scraping, he continued to soak the skinned fish fins in cold water, this time for four hours, and they would still need to have their bones removed.

So, he simply grabbed the electric fishing reel and went to the stern to fish.

The electric reel worked automatically, and as Chu Mingcheng sat in his chair, he looked up at the star-filled sky and sighed.

Such scenery couldn’t be seen in cities anymore!

Suddenly, the fishing rod jerked, and Chu Mingcheng, putting aside his musing, quickly got up and pressed the button to reel in the fishing line.

The fishing line whizzed back rapidly, and in just a moment, a fiercely wriggling Ise lobster was hauled up.

“My goodness!”

Upon seeing the big lobster clearly, Chu Mingcheng, without any time for surprise, quickly grabbed the fishing line and lifted it up.

The fiery red color made it look at first glance like an Australian lobster.

Chu Mingcheng was naturally aware of Ise lobsters, but he guessed most people would think this lobster was from Japan.

In fact, the Treasure Island Strait and our country’s South Sea also had them, it’s just that he had not encountered them before.

This Ise lobster was about thirty centimeters in length, which was quite big among its kind.

He kind of wanted to show off!

Chu Mingcheng hesitated for a moment, fearing he might not catch another, so he first went to get a fish box, started oxygenation, and placed the lobster inside.

Better to hold off and show off with his wife later.

He and Jiang Luoluo had already gotten married, so calling her his wife was now perfectly legitimate.

Additionally, the live fish tank could make some room to keep the lobster, but since there was only one, he didn’t want to bother.

Continuing to fish, after catching two groupers, he hooked another slightly smaller Ise lobster, and Chu Mingcheng’s eyes immediately lit up. Could there be a lobster den here?

Crab cages weren’t suitable for catching lobsters, so he hadn’t set any. But since lobster fishing was slow, he decided to change into a diving suit instead.

Nighttime was inconvenient for searching shipwrecks but perfect for lobster hunting.

Ever since he learned to dive, he found that besides various immobile shellfish and sea snails, the silly lobsters and crabs were relatively easy to catch.

Equipped with two large net bags, Chu Mingcheng decisively jumped into the water.

Turning on the headlamp, he swam directly downward to the seabed.

Having arrived here in the evening and it almost being dark, Chu Mingcheng was unaware that there was a coral reef beneath the water.

No wonder there were many lobsters; small boats hardly ever came to this spot, and large trawling ships didn’t fish near small islands.

Because of this, the area where Chu Mingcheng was located was extremely rich in resources.

As soon as he reached the seabed, he saw various types of fish, some of which he had never fished for, and even a few he didn’t recognize.

Chu Mingcheng was familiar with domestic fish, but that didn’t mean he recognized all foreign fish.

With such good resources, he was confident of a big catch when he collected the fishing lines later.

However, what interested him more right now were the lobsters; Ise lobsters were not commonly seen in China, and he expected their price to be around three hundred yuan per half kilogram, similar to that of Australian lobsters.

Though Australian lobsters could grow much larger and naturally fetched higher prices with size.

As he reached the seabed, Chu Mingcheng saw long antennae waving from beneath the corals and smiled. He hadn’t expected to find a whole group of lobsters as soon as he arrived.

He’d only encountered such a sight in Xisha and abroad.

Chu Mingcheng didn’t waste time and went straight over to reach for them.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak…”

The lobsters were immediately startled, emitting their unique sound, which was still clearly audible underwater.

Next to him, one or two lobsters darted out from under the coral and fled into the distance.

But many more remained inside, merely shifting to the side a bit, which was why Chu Mingcheng dared to reach out directly to grab them.

Over a year of professional experience had given him a good understanding of the behaviors of most marine animals.