Otherwise, not only would the giant clam shells have been stolen, but people would have died, and I, as the leader, would have inevitably had to take the blame.

The coast guard ship approached, and several special police officers jumped over first, taking up key positions. Then, Director Zhou and Liu Jin followed.

As soon as he arrived, Liu Jin gave Ye Cheng and Xiao Hu a big hug, his face full of joy.

"Holy crap! I thought you guys were dead."

Ye Cheng quickly pushed the old man away. What are two men doing hugging?

"Commander Liu, don't worry, even if you die, we won't die."

Liu Jin rolled his eyes at him, then stepped aside and began to introduce the two of them.

"Ye Cheng, Xiao Hu, this is Director Zhou of our Municipal Public Security Bureau."

Ye Cheng glanced at the newcomer—a man in a white shirt, exuding an air of authority, clearly a high-ranking leader. He nodded and greeted him respectfully.

"Good morning, Director Zhou. We've caught several people who stole giant clams. There were five of them in total. Two were from Liu Village, and three were Japanese soldiers."

Seeing Ye Cheng's calm demeanor, Director Zhou nodded slightly. This young man is quite good; he doesn't panic in big situations.

Someone had already pulled the sock out of Da Liu's mouth and, together with the boatman, carried him to Zhou Ju.

Director Zhou's face darkened.

Are you local villagers?

Da Liu glanced nervously at Director Zhou and stammered,

"I...we are from Liu Village."

Director Zhou, with a disgusted expression, said angrily,

"I never expected that our Donghai City would have such scum as you."

How embarrassing!

Even Director Zhou himself felt ashamed.

He gave Liu Jin a hostile look, and Liu Jin shrank back.

Damn it, this has nothing to do with me.

I'm only in charge of maintaining order; ideological work with this person is not his responsibility.

"Take them back and interrogate them thoroughly," Director Zhou ordered sternly.

Several special police officers immediately came up and escorted everyone back to the coast guard ship.

After the criminals left, Director Zhou looked at Ye Cheng and Xiao Hu, then glanced around with admiration in his eyes.

"Is this your fishing boat?"

“Yes, Director Zhou, I bought it myself, a second-hand ship,” Ye Cheng replied loudly.

"You're a good young man. You have a boat at such a young age. I remember my dad's boat was passed down from the family."

Hearing what Director Zhou said, Ye Cheng immediately felt much closer to him. It turned out that even the big boss had come from a fisherman background.

Seeing that the leader was in a good mood, Liu Jin quickly chimed in with a few words of encouragement.

"Director Zhou, Ye Cheng is a star in our Shiling Township. He even runs a clam farm. Our deputy township head went there last time and sold 100,000 jin of clams."

Upon hearing about 100,000 jin of clams, Director Zhou's eyes lit up, and he looked at Ye Cheng with even greater appreciation. He reached out and patted Ye Cheng on the shoulder.

"This young man is promising and has ideas. He's also very brave. Not bad, not bad."

"Come, tell me what happened today. Where did their ship go?"

Ye Cheng briefly recounted the incident of the ship collision, leaving Liu Jin utterly astonished.

Holy crap.

I knew Ye Cheng was pretty strong, but I didn't expect you to be this strong.

They're not afraid of dying.

He looked at the bow of the ship and saw that there were indeed signs of an impact.

Moreover, both Ye Cheng and Xiao Hu had injuries on their faces; those two guys are pretty fierce.

Director Zhou nodded repeatedly as he listened, then looked at the two of them again and said in a serious tone,

"You have saved the country from enormous losses. Thank you for your hard work."

Xiao Hu was beaming when he heard the praise. This was a big leader, much better than the village chief.

After comforting Ye Cheng and Xiao Hu, Director Zhou began to worry about the giant clam shell.

"So that means the giant clam also sank to the bottom of the sea, right?"

"Yes, it's right there. The giant clam is huge. If you trust me, I can go down and retrieve it right now."

This level of depth is nothing to Ye Cheng.

However, Director Zhou shook his head.

“We can’t keep putting you at risk. I’ll have the coast guard divers go down in a bit. The problem now is what to do with these giant clams.”

Speaking of this, Ye Cheng had already planned it out; it was time to claim credit.

"Director Zhou, I know people at the Ocean Research Institute. Why don't we invite them over? They know how to handle this."

“Yes, that makes sense.” Director Zhou’s eyes lit up.

Is that right?

He can catch the criminals, but the giant clam shells must be properly disposed of, otherwise this whole affair will never be perfect.

To be honest, he himself didn't know if it was appropriate to just throw it back into the sea. If there were experts and scholars around, he could just listen to them and at least he wouldn't have to take the blame.

Seeing that Director Zhou had agreed, Ye Cheng picked up the phone.

Uh... the phone is gone.

He glanced at Liu Jin, who understood and handed him the phone, but with a single, gentle reminder.

"It's only 4 a.m., why don't you call later?"

Ye Cheng looked up at the sky and thought, "Yeah, the chickens are moving, the chickens are moving."

He was so focused on finding Yang Liu to take credit that he forgot about the time.

As a result, Ye Cheng, who was originally going to go back to rest, can only wait at sea until the people from the research institute arrive.

Director Zhou went back first. He had to go back to interrogate the prisoners, and it involved the Japanese, which was a very sensitive matter.

The person in charge at the scene is Xiao Xiangrong, a deputy director of the municipal bureau. He first arranged for people to go down and look for giant clams.

It was found quickly; it was quite large, but easy to locate.

Four giant clams were pulled out first, but they didn't dare put them on the deck. Following Ye Cheng's suggestion, they put them all in Ye Cheng's trawl net and hung them in the seawater, so at least they wouldn't die.

Taking advantage of their free time, Ye Cheng and Xiao Hu quickly dozed off for a while; they were too sleepy.

After waiting until 6 a.m., Ye Cheng quickly took Liu's phone and called Yang Liu.

Yang Liu, who was usually grumpy when she woke up, instantly woke up upon hearing the words "tridacna".

Ye Cheng told them to go to the dock, and then coordinated with Director Xiao to arrange a coast guard vessel to pick them up. Of course, he had to do it himself.

Seeing Ye Cheng's expression, Xiao Hu silently raised his middle finger.

At 7:30 a.m., Ye Cheng picked up Yang Liu at the dock.

To his surprise, Xiao Rou was also there.

"No, Xiaorou, what are you doing here?" Ye Cheng was taken aback.

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Rou walked to Ye Cheng's side.

Ye Cheng instinctively jumped away. Damn it, they're using that trick again.

Seeing that Ye Cheng had dodged, Xiao Rou flicked her ponytail and said irritably,

"What's wrong? You don't welcome me?"

“That’s right, I’m from Xiaorou. Tridacna shells aren’t something you see every day. Shut your mouth and don’t give yourself away.” Yang Liu also pointed at Ye Cheng and threatened him.

Depend on!

What kind of world is this?

No wonder people in ancient times didn't live long; it's no wonder they lived long lives with so many wives.

Besides the two beauties, the director of Yang Liu's research institute also came. He was an old man in his fifties, wearing glasses, and looked very knowledgeable.

"Ye Cheng, let me introduce you. This is Director Jiang, Jiang Guoming, from our institute," Yang Liu introduced Ye Cheng.