As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up
Chapter 541 - 339: A Sunken Ship Map Delivered to the Door

Chapter 541: Chapter 339: A Sunken Ship Map Delivered to the Door

Butter Crabs cannot be simply cracked open and cleaned before being steamed in the pot.

The crab must be washed clean without destroying its body and steamed directly, preferably upside down with the shell facing downwards.

Chu Mingcheng hadn’t expected his luck to be so good, the Butter Crab he casually caught turned out to be of top-hand quality.

That is, the crab roe inside had all melted into crab butter, without a hint of red, and even the crab meat had been infused with a yellow hue.

Such quality of Butter Crab, if Chu Mingcheng hadn’t caught it himself, wouldn’t have lived much longer on its own.

They say that when eating hairy crabs it’s all about the roe, yet Butter Crabs are ten times more delicious.

After eating, Chu Mingcheng had only two words in his mind, "So tasty!"

So, the next morning, he decisively set sail for the Butter Crab breeding farm at the Pearl River Estuary and found a crab boss with a significant farming operation.

Through the boss, he learned that during this season, top-hand Butter Crabs were basically nonexistent, and there were only a few early-hand ones occasionally, also known as Gao You Crabs.

Gao You Crab has not fully converted its red roe, but it has developed a certain amount of butter, resulting in a steamed female Green Crab with both red and yellow colors inside.

As everyone knows, all Butter Crabs are female.

Moreover, the red roe of a female crab isn’t that tasty, the truly delicious part is the yellow roe.

Naturally, the price difference was significant, top-hand could sell for one thousand five hundred a pound or even higher, while early-hand ones were just over five hundred, at least three times less.

The crab boss said that aside from specific seasons with top-hand Butter Crabs available, the rest of the year they would sell common Green Crabs and early-hand quality Butter Crabs.

Out of curiosity, Chu Mingcheng bought a pound of early-hand Butter Crab, costing him five hundred and sixty Big Coins.

One was nearly half a pound, totaling two.

Most Butter Crabs can only grow so big, as they don’t have enough time to live much larger.

The production of butter inside Butter Crabs is not something they can control themselves; at a certain point, they become excessively fat and "explode," naturally dying off.

After Chu Mingcheng tasted the two Gao You Crabs, he was utterly disappointed.

Having tasted the exquisite top-hand Butter Crab, his palate had become spoiled; the Gao You Crab, while tasty, was far from comparable.

In the end, he left disappointed, finding that compared to Gao You Crab, the Green Crabs from Sri Lanka were much tastier.

But the deliciousness of the top-hand Butter Crab still lingered in Chu Mingcheng’s memory, and he felt it was necessary to come to the Pearl River Estuary to venture out to sea every year from May to August on the lunar calendar.

As for buying, he was in the seafood business himself; how could he be willing to spend so much money on a purchase?

Unless he couldn’t catch them himself!

Having spent some time at the Pearl River Estuary, Chu Mingcheng set off towards the Bashe Channel.

On this journey, he didn’t intentionally stock up but was simply on the lookout for some aquatic produce he hadn’t encountered before.

However, having visited the South Sea twice, although he came across some seafood he hadn’t caught before, most were species he had already encountered.

Therefore, he took his time, stopping here and there, and it took two days to reach the Bashe Channel, where he also refueled his depleted diesel.

His experience points in the seafood guide were now at thirty-five and steadily increasing.

Chu Mingcheng wasn’t worried about whether this sea trip would allow him to level up; the ocean was teeming with life.

Even though the vast majority held no economic value, the remaining economically valuable species were still enough to easily upgrade and bring his seafood guide to level five.

The reason why it had taken so long for his external tool to start upgrading to the fifth set was mainly that his focus had always been on quality of life, not specially on these matters.

After filling Sea God with fuel, Chu Mingcheng gathered the Killer Whales that had been active around the exit of the Bashe Channel.

The presence of Killer Whales at this channel mouth was, of course, at his command.

Due to Japan, in the Public Sea, Killer Whales were not safe and could encounter passing whaling ships at any time.

For these large protected animals, domestic waters were the safest bet.

Unless extremely unlucky and injured by large vessels.

Otherwise, they could definitely live out their lives in peace in domestic seas.

Having assembled his bodyguards, Chu Mingcheng set sail for the Bashe Channel and arrived in the Philippines Sea, where he found those eleven fishing spots.

Checking the time, it was only after three in the afternoon; he contemplated his next move.

In the Philippines Sea, there were likely many marine species he hadn’t yet encountered. He didn’t plan to go far, so he just decided to head to the first fishing spot he had found last time.

But on the way, he suddenly remembered the incident with the pirate on the lone island and grew curious about whether the other party had survived or not.

Moreover, coming out of the Bashe Channel, he was even closer to the pirate island, and it was on the way.

So he slightly changed direction to go take a look...

As the sun was about to set, Sea God appeared near the lone island.

"Yo-ho, still alive, huh!"

Chu Mingcheng, using his binoculars, noticed that there was a new little shelter on the beach.

But he didn’t see anyone around; he wasn’t sure if they were sleeping inside or had already been rescued.

Just then, a puff of black smoke suddenly appeared on a clearing halfway up the hill, attracting his attention.

Chu Mingcheng, looking through his binoculars, instantly spotted a person under the black smoke waving their hands.

Because it was too far away, he couldn’t see their face clearly, but the figure seemed very much like the pirate who had been knocked out by a hefty bribe before.

Rescue?

Chu Mingcheng certainly would not – a pirate deserved death!

However, a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth as he turned the boat towards the beach.