Chapter 364: Chapter 240: The Big Guy Awakened in the Shipwreck

It wasn’t a wooden boat, but a steel one. It looked like a fishing boat, at that.

There were plenty of fish, though, swimming in and out of the vessel.

The boat was lying on its side, its miscellaneous contents scattered across the reef.

The light was dim down here, so he had to get close to see things clearly.

He glanced at his watch: two minutes and thirteen seconds. He could stay for another minute.

So, he approached the shipwreck first to see if he could find any unexpected treasures.

As he got closer, a large barrel, probably for storing fresh water, caught his eye.

Of course, it wasn’t the barrel that drew Gu Nan’s attention, but the antennae waving continuously from its opening.

He looked down, and his pupils constricted.

’Holy crap, what am I seeing? A barrel full of lobsters?’

Lobsters have a habit of finding holes and hiding inside them.

That’s why to catch lobsters, you just need to drop down vase-like traps. The narrowed neck effectively prevents them from escaping. If you find the right spot, you can get a good haul overnight.

The leather water barrel was quite large. Gu Nan estimated this one could hold 150 liters of fresh water; it was one of those extra-large, elongated types.

The barrel wasn’t completely full of lobsters, but it was close. There had to be dozens, maybe even over a hundred.

Gu Nan quickly looked for the barrel lid. If he could seal it, he could take the whole thing home.

Spiny lobsters weren’t expensive individually, but the sheer number of them added up. This haul had to be worth several thousand.

Unfortunately, whatever had happened to the ship when it sank, the lid was nowhere to be found.

’In that case...’

Gu Nan thought for a moment and came up with another way to get the lobsters.

His time was almost up. He returned to the surface for air and, while he was at it, grabbed a cage trap from his boat and brought it down.

The barrel’s opening wasn’t very wide. The mouth of the cage trap, when opened, would be just big enough to cover it completely. Then, all he had to do was scare the lobsters out of the barrel.

He returned to the shipwreck with the cage trap. Opening its mouth, he slowly approached and, with a swift movement, covered the barrel’s opening.

Two quick, clever lobsters sensed the danger and escaped in time.

The rest, however, were as good as his. The moment he had the trap over the opening, a whole swarm of lobsters came pouring out with a great clatter.

This horde of lobsters scrambled frantically inside the cage trap. When they realized there was no escape, they could only follow the path to the very end, where they bunched up.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

That was the sound of Gu Nan hitting the leather barrel. The lobsters in the front third of the barrel had already fled into the cage trap, but many more were still hiding deeper inside.

With each strike, startled lobsters shot out of the barrel’s opening one by one, running right into the cage trap.

There were many fish in the sea that were sensitive to sound.

While Gu Nan was scaring the lobsters, a large creature sleeping inside the shipwreck was awakened.

As the overlord of this reef area, it had never feared anything.

So, it followed the sound, slowly making its way along the shipwreck’s corridors and out of the cabin.

But there were many fish faster than it. Gu Nan now noticed several big ones nearby, each weighing more than ten pounds.

He knew that resources were abundant near shipwrecks.

Seeing this, he quickened his pace. Once the vast majority of the lobsters had fled into the trap, he grabbed the barrel and lifted it.

The leather barrel wasn’t heavy in the water, but moving it caused quite a commotion. The last few lobsters hiding inside finally felt uneasy and all scurried into the cage trap.

Feeling like he’d made a clean sweep, Gu Nan tossed the barrel aside, tied the opening of the trap shut, and started swimming for the surface, wanting to secure this catch first.

Back at the surface, he towed the cage trap all the way to his boat.

He pulled the cage trap in bit by bit. When he got to the end, he gave a hard tug.

’Heh, this thing’s heavy. I can’t pull it up.’

So, Gu Nan tied the two ropes at the head of the trap to the crane’s cable and used the crane to haul it aboard.

He didn’t even need to think about it; it was definitely over a hundred pounds. Otherwise, he would have been able to lift it himself.

He found two lidded crates. These crates had vents on the side, mainly to keep their contents from suffocating when placed in the live fish hold.

Dead lobsters weren’t worth much; he had to bring them back alive.

He untied the rope at the end of the trap, lifted it, and the lobsters inside came pouring out, instantly forming a small mound on the deck.

Fresh out of the water, the lobsters were lively and strong. Some crawled about haphazardly, while others flapped their tails wildly, splashing water everywhere.

Luckily, Gu Nan was wearing a wetsuit, so he wasn’t afraid of getting wet.

Gu Nan roughly sorted the lobsters by size. The spiny lobsters at the market were usually quite small, typically around half a pound to three-quarters of a pound, or even smaller.

But many of the ones he’d caught here were over a pound, and some were even over two pounds.

A spiny lobster growing to over two pounds was incredible—that was considered huge.

He didn’t count them, but since it was a whole group of spiny lobsters clustered together, there were no other types mixed in.

The two crates were quite large, and he filled each one more than halfway.

Gu Nan put the lids on and placed the two crates into the live fish hold.

When he’d first looked at the boat’s blueprints, the live fish hold had seemed very small.

In reality, the live fish hold was massive. It wasn’t just the aquarium-like tank on the stern—3.8 meters long, 1.2 meters high, and 60 centimeters wide.

There was another hold below the deck, a large space measuring two by three-and-a-half by one-point-two meters. Both were equipped with their own oxygen pumps.

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