Night’s Nomenclature - Chapter 411
[Four hundred and three, the humanoid walks to find the king crab radar]
The Arctic slowly sailed out of the port.
The engine of the old crabbing boat made an abnormal noise, and the sea was broken open by the bow, like a paper knife cutting a canvas.
Niedep is a middle-aged man in his thirties. Zhang Jian said that the crewman used to be a sailor on the Matsuba crab fishing boat, but because of his history of using illegal drugs, he has been given to all crab fishing boats. “blocked.
Niedep followed Zhang Jian’s father in his early years, so he found Zhang Jian and wanted to go to sea with the boat.
Many sailors among the crab catchers have secretly taken illegal drugs because their money came so quickly and because they were too tired on the boat, they thought that these drugs would give them energy, just like the dopamine in the inner world, the inner world. The same as the orphan chip.
But the fate of using illegal drugs is tragic, and no crab boat wants to contaminate such sailors.
Zhang Jian decided to give Nidepu a chance, took him for a urine test, and made sure that his test was not positive, and finally agreed to Nidepu on board.
Old John told Nidepp that if he wants to start anew on the crab fishing boat, he should honestly be a newcomer and start with the job of bundling crab pots.
After Qingchen and Yangyang got on the boat, Niedep just gave them a cold look and continued to do his work.
“Hello, I will be my companion on the North Pole from now on,” Yang Yang greeted him in English with a smile…
But Niedep just said coldly: “The sailors who have been recognized by other crew members are considered true companions, and those like you who go on a boat for sightseeing are not counted.”
Yang Yang smiled and said nothing.
Before the North Pole was far from the port, the radio on the ship rang, and Craig’s mocking voice came from inside: “Zhang, I heard that you finally let that addict on board, and there are two students under the age of 18. , one of them is still a girl, is this true? Zhang, the former glory of the Arctic has been exhausted in your hands.”
Zhang Jian did not speak with a cold face, but Craig did not stop.
On the radio communication channel, there was a roar of laughter from the cab of the Alpine: “Zhang, can the addict and the student help you lift the crab cage? Old John is afraid that he will be exhausted on the North Pole. However, I am There are traditional gifts from the Barents Sea, ready to receive.”
At this time, Qingchen and Old John were all in the cab. Zhang Jian was puzzled. He looked at Old John and said, “What traditional gifts are there in the Barents Sea?”
Old John’s face changed as if thinking of something, and he hurriedly said to everyone: “Quick, close the doors and windows, and everyone hides in the cab!”
The next moment, the Alpine chased from behind, walking side by side with the North Pole three meters away.
Qingchen saw that the seven sailors on the Alpine took out three white boxes and took out… rows of eggs!
That’s three whole boxes of hundreds of eggs.
It’s just that this thing is not for eating, but for throwing!
Just then, the sailors on the Alpine picked up the eggs and threw them at the Arctic, like a snowball fight…
Qing Chen was confused: “What kind of strange tradition is this?”
Old John shivered angrily: “There are still many traditions of crab catchers. A long time ago, when the boats left the port, the crab boats would play some similar games to enhance their friendship.”
Qingchen looked at the egg whites and egg yolks on the window glass: “Do you call this friendship enhancement…”
Watching the sailors of the Alpine smash hundreds of eggs in one breath, they immediately drove off with full power.
Qingchen walked out of the cab and took a look, and immediately felt that the Arctic was a little bit pulpy…
These crab hunters are a bit pissed.
Looking at the distant Alpine, he suddenly straightened his arms and gave his thumbs up.
Also, he closed one of his eyes.
At this moment, Craig, the captain of the Alpine, stood on the deck, looked back with a telescope, and said cheerfully to the crew next to him: “That student even gave us a thumbs up and praised us for doing a good job. .”
A sailor took the telescope from Craig’s hand and looked at it suspiciously.
He thought for two seconds and said, “How is this like the gunner’s aiming and ranging before firing?”
Craig: “???”
In fact, Qingchen is indeed measuring distances, and there is a lack of reference objects on the sea, so he has to get used to the new way of measuring distances visually, so that he can convince people with virtue.
Yangyang next to him said with a smile, “It’s not that bad. If someone smashes you with an egg, you plan to shoot it back with a sniper rifle, which is too much.”
Qingchen smiled: “The only thing I don’t have is to measure the distance.”
Yang Yang Xin said that you are a master who never stops doing two things. What is the purpose of ranging, not to snipe people.
The Arctic has been at sea for 20 hours, and finally entered the Barents Sea in the early morning of the next day.
It was also during these 20 hours that Qingchen saw the cruelty of the crab fishing industry.
Zhang Jian was in charge of sailing the boat, but he didn’t sleep for 20 hours, just because if the helmsman fell asleep, it would be a matter of minutes for the boat to deviate from the course.
Only old John on the boat knows a little about steering, but he’s teaching newcomers on deck.
Old John had to let Qingchen, Yangyang, and Nidepu learn how to bind crab cages, drop cages, hang cages, and stabilize their bodies on the deck within 20 hours…
Moreover, the egg pulp that the Alpine smashed had to be cleaned up.
The cold sea breeze is pouring into everyone’s necks, and the sea water will rush to the deck at any time.
Fortunately, what Zhang Jian was most worried about did not happen, and no one got seasick.
Old John didn’t show any kindness to the three new crew members. He looked at the three clumsy people and scolded Zhang Jian for being unreliable, regardless of whether Zhang Jian could hear it or not.
By the time everything was ready, Nidepu, Qingchen, and Yangyang were already exhausted and collapsed on the deck.
Sunrise has come, the morning sun rises from the end of the sea level.
Old John shouted on the deck: “Rookie, hurry up and rest, there is only one hour left for you.”
After speaking, Nidep went back to the cabin with dark circles under his eyes and fell asleep, while Qingchen and Yangyang were attracted by the rising sun at sea, and sat on the deck and watched silently.
The beautiful scenery is like an oil painting.
Qing Chen whispered to Yang Yang, “Does it need to be so realistic? I don’t think we are tired at all.”
Yangyang smiled and said, “You want to be in a group.”
“I saw someone organizing a student parade in City 10. Have you been to City 10?” Qingchen asked.
Yangyang leaned against the guardrail on the deck and tilted her head to look at Qingchen: “I haven’t arrived yet. By the way, you seem to have done a lot of things in City No. 10. In your current capacity, you should be responsible for arresting them. I’m right, I have the impression that the main responsibility of the PCA Intelligence Department is this, and to capture the people who are lurking in the Federation with spades.”
“What do you want to say?” Qing Chen asked strangely.
Yang Yang thought about it for a while: “So our current identities should be opposites, and we have to split up and survive!”
“Can you stop adding drama,” Qing Chen sighed.
At first, when Qingchen saw this classmate Yangyang, he thought that the other party would be a cold killer.
However, in fact, the escapist side of the other person’s character can’t be stopped.
It’s okay to compare many Awakened people to wild monsters, and I don’t know where the bad habit of driving anytime, anywhere came from.
The relationship between the two seems a little close in the eyes of Zhang Jian, Old John, and Niedep, but what is the truth?
Apart from Yangyang unilaterally driving over Qingchen’s face, there has never been any real, so-called “progress” between them.
Qingchen is very clear that Yangyang has its own goals.
She is not a vassal of spades, nor is she a vassal of day.
Everything she does now is moving in a certain direction.
Qingchen turned his head and asked, “Do you want to help the inhabitants of the inner world?”
“Yeah,” Yangyang nodded.
“But this matter cannot be done by student demonstrations alone,” Qingchen said. “The history of the world has fully proved this.”
“But there is always a first step to unlock people’s wisdom, right?” Yang Yang looked at the magnificent sea: “My life is still very long, take it slow.”
For some reason, Qingchen felt that he and this classmate Yangyang were like two extremes. He was a pessimist, always thinking about danger in times of safety, and always trying to prepare for everything.
Yang Yang is an always enthusiastic optimist.
I don’t know how they became friends.
At this moment, there was a rough sea outside the boat, and a blue whale suddenly jumped out of the water facing the rising sun in the distance.
On the wide sea, the huge fins on both sides of the blue whale are like two wings.
The vast figure overlapped with the rising sun, and it was extremely splendid.
This is the first time that Qingchen has seen a blue whale, just like the first time he saw the magnificent tree in the Forbidden Land No. 002 in the wilderness.
Old John walked out of the cabin quickly: “Put down the crab pot, and put down eight pathfinders! The blue whale has appeared, we have to put down the crab pot where the blue whale appeared. It is the stalwart spirit in the sea, it will Good luck to us!”
“Only eight?” Qing Chen asked.
“Yes, only eight. Newbies in the Barents Sea remember that this is called a pathfinder cage. Put it in the sea for 6 hours and come back to see it. If there are king crabs, this will be our fishing ground!” Old John said.
With that, he picked up the phone at the door of the cabin and shouted, “Zhang, we’re going to put the crab cage!”
The telephone is a wired telephone connected to the wheelhouse to facilitate communication between the captain and the crew.
Immediately afterwards, he slapped the cabin door vigorously: “The rookie inside, come out to work.”
Qingchen glanced at Yangyang: “You go and tie the float to the crab pot, and Nidpu and I will put the crab pot.”
The 180 empty crab cages are cages welded with steel bars, neatly stacked on the deck, like containers on a freighter.
When the captain drives the crab boat to the designated area, the crew is responsible for tying the crab pot to a balloon-like float, and then throwing the crab pot into the sea.
Crab boats don’t need to wait here.
If there are king crabs on the bottom of the sea, they will follow the smell of cod and burrow into the crab cages that can only be entered and cannot be exited.
After waiting for 612 hours, the ship returned to the float. The crew threw out their claws to hook the float floating on the sea, and then used a crane to pull the crab cages on the seabed to the deck one by one.
The floats are the coordinates of the crab pots.
The next step is to measure the size, sort, and finally choose whether to continue in the original underground cage according to the number of king crabs in the pathfinder cage.
At this moment, Niedep glanced at Qingchen and whispered, “I hope you won’t lose your strength when you get out of the cage.”
Qing Chen smiled and did not speak. Old John, who controlled the crane, hoisted the crab cage onto the platform, and shouted at the same time: “Rookie, don’t get distracted, be careful that the floating rope tied to the crab cage is entangled with you. on your feet, and take you to the bottom of the sea.”
One of the most dangerous things in the Barents Sea is being carried to the bottom of the sea by crab pots.
The ropes were coiled in a circle and placed on the deck. The hull was shaken violently by the waves, and the crew members were likely to step on the ropes when they were unstable.
At this time, the crab pot is rapidly falling to the bottom of the sea, and the rope is pulled and falls together. If the crew’s ankle is entangled with the rope, it will enter the sea with the crab pot.
Therefore, after all the crew members got on the ship, Old John gave everyone a dagger, which meant that if someone was entangled, they needed a companion to help and cut the rope quickly.
In the Barents Sea, the only people who can save the crew are his companions.
Qingchen and Nidepu stood on both sides of the launch platform and pushed the crab pots into the sea with all their might, until all eight of them sank to the bottom of the sea.
The Arctic continued to move forward, and Zhang Jian continued to follow the chart left by his father in the cab to find the next place to put the crab cage.
After six hours, the North Pole returned to the position of the pathfinder cage. Old John stood on the deck and threw out the hook, trying to hook the rope under the float, and then hooked it up with a crane.
However, Old John was too old, his strength was not as good as before, and his alcoholic body kept shaking.
The waves were too big, and the hull of the boat was constantly heaving, which affected Old John’s accuracy.
No matter how many times he tossed it, it was difficult to catch the rope under the float.
The boat has been drifting with the current. If he misses the hook once, Zhang Jian must drive the boat back. For an old sailor on a crab fishing boat, the captain needs to constantly adjust the direction to hook the rope. It is a kind of shame.
Qing Chen thought about it, and then said to Old John, “How about I try it?”
Old John laughed: “The rookie thinks he can do it? If you want to try it, then try it. Remember, don’t break the float, otherwise the crab cage will sink to the bottom of the sea with the float forever.”
The next second, he handed the hook into Qingchen’s hand, only to see that Qingchen hooked the rope under the floating balloon with a casual throw.
Old John was stunned for a moment: “Damn it, is this your first time catching crabs?”
“I have practiced javelin sports before,” Qingchen made up a random excuse.
Old John ran to the crane and pressed the switch. There was a rumbling sound, and the winch in the crane compartment made an overwhelmed sound.
The experienced old John immediately felt that something was wrong, and immediately slowed down the speed of pulling the crab pot.
The crab pots on the bottom of the sea are also rising until they emerge from the sea.
However, when the rope came to an end, it was not a crab pot, but a two-meter-high single-room mobile public toilet.
Qing Chen, who is calm and calm, is stupid, and he has never heard of the production of public toilets in the Barents Sea.
Qingchen pointed to the public toilet: “To be honest, I really can’t understand why this kind of thing appears in the Barents Sea.”
In the vast sea, suddenly a mobile public toilet was hung up, right?
However, it was soon discovered that the door of the mobile public toilet was also marked with a marker: “A gift from the killer whale to the Arctic.”
Zhang Jian walked out of the cab and roared furiously, “It must be Fener from the killer whale!”
Killer Whale, Alpine, Long Tail, the captains of these three crab boats, was the one who wanted to buy the Arctic king crab fishing quota in the walnut bar.
It seemed that the three captains were targeting Zhang Jian.
Zhang Jian explained: “This is an old prank of crab catchers. Before they go to sea, they will go to the abandoned recycling station and buy this kind of thing at the cheapest price, or a scrapped car, and take it to sea with them. If you see floats from other crab boats, you hook them up and replace other people’s crab pots with this kind of large garbage.”
Old John said: “The crab pot is only 680 pounds. This thing can be filled with water and can weigh 4,000 pounds, which is much heavier than the crab pot. They know that the Arctic is worn out, and if the crane is overloaded, it is very likely to directly Pull the cranes out. If the cranes fail, the crab boats have to go back to the port to fix the cranes and go back to the Barents Sea.”
Qing Chen couldn’t help laughing, how could he still play like this?
In the past, the battles he experienced were directly facing life and death, but the battles today are strange.
This is a battle between crab catchers…
But this is too cheap. The other three crab boats are trying their best to cut off the North Pole’s fortune.
However, this is the rule in the Barents Sea, and there can be a joke between crab boats, but only once.
In the past, people would hang a small doll and a broken ball at the end of the float, but now some bad crab catchers will directly use this rule to get rid of others.
“What about this thing?” Qingchen asked, pointing to the mobile toilet on the sea.
Zhang Jian walked to the cab with a gloomy face: “Remove the hook and let this thing sink to the bottom of the sea. We start to fish for other crab pots. They can only play this trick at most once.”
Qingchen imagined that if someone came to the Barents Sea to hunt for treasure in a few years, and suddenly found a mobile public toilet standing on the bottom of the sea when exploring the seabed, what kind of expression would it look like…
Wonderful to think about.
As the remaining seven crab cages were lifted, this time Old John simply didn’t touch the claws.
Old John just said a word next to him: “Do you know that even a fifteen-year-old sailor may not be so accurate?”
Qing Chen smiled and said nothing.
It’s just that the blue whale doesn’t seem to really bring them good luck.
In each crab pot, there are only seven or eight king crabs scattered, and the harvest is bleak.
Pathfinder cages in the Barents Sea generally have 25 to 30 king crabs in each crab cage, even if it is a good harvest, it means that they are close to the crab group.
If there are 80 crabs in the pot, that means they are above the crabs.
Old John said that his highest record was that 112 king crabs were caught in one cage. The huge king crabs almost filled the crab cage made of welded steel bars.
At that time, the captain of the Arctic was still Zhang Jian’s father. People in the port often said that the clever Asian captain could always find the largest crab farm in the mysterious Barents Sea every year.
Zhang Jian frowned as he looked at the harvest on the deck, even if the harvest was bleak, and one crab pot was snatched away by the killer whale…
He could already hear the jeers from the other crab boats.
There is a tradition in the walnut bar that there are a total of nine crabbing boats in the port of Amsterdam.
Every year, the captain will bet 10,000 euros per person, whoever completes his quota first will take away the 80,000 euros of the remaining eight captains, and the 80,000 euros will be distributed to the crew.
The owner of the walnut bar is at the port, and is specially responsible for observing the overweight of each crab boat’s warehouse.
This is why the captains like to go to the walnut bar, and crab fishing is also rewarding.
The crew will also work hard for this lottery. You must know that one person gets more than 10,000 euros for nothing, which is equivalent to taking more than 100,000 yuan for no reason.
However, Zhang Jian didn’t mention this to Qingchen and Yangyang, because his 10,000 euros was basically no different from a waste of money…
At this time, Yang Yang suddenly said: “Just now after we put down the pathfinder cage and drove into the depths of the Barents Sea, there is a very good place.”
Zhang Jian looked at Yangyang, and explained patiently to his few crew members: “Catching crabs is not that simple. It’s not that you look good on the eye, and then put the crab pot down. You must know that during this season, king crabs are concentrated in On the continental shelf, the activities of crab groups also have specific laws.”
Niedep also gave them a cold look: “Don’t think that you can throw your claws well, you can give casual advice on the boat, and the sailor will do the work of the sailor.”
Yang Yang smiled and said nothing.
Only Qingchen glanced at Yangyang thoughtfully, and asked in a low voice, “Your perception range has expanded?”
Yang Yang replied in a low voice, “It has expanded to 300 meters.”
Qingchen nodded, no wonder the girl suddenly spoke.
“Is the crab group you found large?” Qing Chen asked.
Yangyang nodded: “It’s all densely packed.”
The king crab concentrated in the area of 270 meters deep, just enough to be covered by the sensing range of the seedlings.
This classmate Yangyang is a humanoid self-propelled radar. She said that where there are crabs, it is true!
However, they are not related to Zhang Jian and others, and they are not really here to catch crabs.
Now that they have successfully boarded the ship, Zhang Jian and Old John will do whatever they want. Anyway, what Qingchen has to wait for is just a storm.
According to the weather forecast, there will be a strong hurricane of more than 60 knots from the north in 4 days, and that may be an opportunity.
However, at this moment, Old John suddenly looked at Yang Yang and said, “Which direction is the position you mentioned, we can put a few pathfinder cages down.”
Zhang Jian wanted to say something, but heard Old John continue: “Now that we have just set out to sea, no one knows where the crab farm is. Everyone is trying to find it aimlessly, so it’s okay to throw a few pathfinder cages according to your preferences. .”
At this moment, Old John, who has 20 years of crab fishing experience, is more like a captain than a sailor.
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Six thousand words chapter, there is one more chapter at 11pm
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