Li Yinsheng transmigrates from Earth to a similar yet different Blue Star. At the start, he participates in a desert island survival variety show as an ordinary person, and then a system activates....
"Lei Zi, here's the fish basket for you." Li Yinsheng said, handing the fish basket hanging from her waist to Wu Lei after surfacing.
She lay on the edge of the small boat, resting with slightly heavy breaths.
"Fatty, you caught so much seafood." Wu Lei took the fish basket from Li Yinsheng and felt its weight. Looking into the basket, he was immediately surprised to see two mantis shrimps, a large grouper, a large blue wrasse, several crabs, conch, and a small eel.
Although Wu Lei only spent a short day with Pang Niu, he discovered that Pang Niu was really capable. Not only was she adept at fishing in the sea, but she also knew a lot about wild plants and various other things. She was warm, cheerful, generous, and hardworking.
Such qualities made Wu Lei look at her with new respect. Among the peers he had met, the chubby girl was undoubtedly a unique presence, with a strong charisma, and being with her was a very comfortable feeling.
Even though he doesn't like fat girls, seeing the chubby girl's fair and plump face inexplicably made Wu Lei want to look at her again and again.
It seems that the chubby girl's smile has a captivating quality that makes people smile involuntarily.
"I've had some luck today, catching so many already. I think I just found a bigger one somewhere on the seabed," Li Yinsheng said somewhat uncertainly.
"A large shipment? What large shipment?" Wu Lei's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this.
Li Yinsheng smiled, a hint of anticipation in her smile: "I didn't see it clearly either, but I need to double-check."
"Let's go take a look!" Wu Lei immediately perked up. He stood up, put the fish basket in his hand on the boat, and his eyes gleamed with eager anticipation.
“But let me make this clear from the start: I’m the one who found that big shipment, so you’re not allowed to do anything. I’ll handle it,” Li Yinsheng reminded him.
She hadn't forgotten that she was working for Group C to earn points.
"Okay, whatever you say." Wu Lei readily agreed.
After resting for a while, the two dived into the sea and swam toward the place where Li Yinsheng had mentioned the large cargo.
The viewers in the live stream were already drawn to the big shipment that Fatty was talking about, but they kept watching Fatty's live stream without seeing any sign of it. Suddenly, the live stream chat became very lively, with the barrage of comments scrolling like a tide, a mix of speculation and anticipation.
"Big truck? I've been following Fatty the whole time, how come I haven't seen any big truck?"
"Upstairs, I didn't see it either."
"Fatty, what exactly is this 'big cargo'? Let us see it!"
"I replayed the previous live stream and found that the traces should be on the seabed."
"Holy crap? What's that? A giant clam that big? Is it edible? Are you sure it's not a marine life conservation project?"
"This is a giant clam! It's a first-class protected marine animal in China, but the island where Fatty and the others are located isn't in China, so it's not protected and can't be eaten there."
"Thanks for the explanation upstairs! Fatty, you've brought out such a big giant clam. It must weigh at least fifty or sixty pounds. It's worth more than ten points."
Li Yinsheng and Wu Lei dived into the sea and swam towards the seabed where she had seen the large cargo. At the bottom of a coral reef, a giant triangular oval shell appeared before their eyes.
Li Yinsheng touched the giant shell, and after matching it with the giant clam in her memory, she looked up at Wu Lei and nodded with a happy expression. She gave an OK sign, then swam forward, trying to pick up the giant clam and swim to the surface.
However, the giant clam was simply too large, weighing at least forty or fifty pounds, and Li Yinsheng couldn't lift it completely in one go. She tried to push it with both hands, but the giant clam only swayed slightly.
Seeing this, Wu Lei quickly swam to Li Yinsheng's side and gestured to help.
Li Yinsheng nodded. With Wu Lei's help, the two of them quickly lifted the giant clam and brought it to the surface of the sea. It took a lot of effort to get the giant clam onto the small boat.
"I'm exhausted. Fatty, what is this giant clam? Is it edible? Are you sure it's not a protected marine species here?" After finally managing to lift the giant clam onto the small boat, Wu Lei asked, panting heavily as he leaned on the boat.
"This is a giant clam, a first-class protected marine animal in China. But this area isn't in China, so the giant clams here aren't protected and can be eaten. The meat is delicious, and the shell is also a good material for making handicrafts. I'm exhausted, let's go back."
However, the small boat could only carry two people, and with the addition of a giant clam weighing forty or fifty pounds, it could no longer carry two people. Helpless, Wu Lei and Li Yinsheng took turns riding the boat and swimming to row towards the sea.
"Come and lend me a hand, I'm exhausted!" Wu Lei called out as they approached the beach.
"They're back." Seeing the boat turn around, Brother Hu quickly swam forward and pulled the small boat toward the sea.
"What kind of seafood did you catch? How much? What is this giant clam? Is it edible?" Dilraba also noticed the huge giant clam. She approached it with curiosity, her eyes sparkling with excitement.
Wu Lei, panting, said, "Fatty said this isn't ordinary seafood; it's a giant clam, a treasure from the sea, and a first-class protected marine animal in China. Although it's not food itself, the meat inside is delicious, and the shell is also a great material for making handicrafts."
"A good haul today. You two come over and weigh yourselves quickly. Once we're weighed, we can go back and have a late-night snack," Li Yinsheng said, rubbing her slightly hungry stomach.
"Fifty-three catties of giant clams, which can be exchanged for 10.05 points; thirteen and a half catties of sea fish and eels, which can be exchanged for thirteen and a half points; and five catties of sea snails, kelp, and crabs, which can be exchanged for one point. All together, that's twenty-five points. Adding the thirty-six and a half points earned during the day, today's harvest is a total of sixty-one and a half points." The staff quickly came to Li Yinsheng's side with an electronic scale, weighed all the seafood, and calculated the points.
"Let's go, let's get these things back first." After the staff finished weighing them, Li Yinsheng patted the sand off her hands, stood up, and said that she had earned more than sixty points today, leaving only one-third of the task to be completed.
Hu Ge and Wu Lei worked together to pull the small boat closer to the shore.
"Looks like we can have a big feast tonight!" Dilraba said with a smile, walking ahead alone with a fish basket on her back.
Hu Ge and Wu Lei worked together to carry the giant clam back to the camp.
Back at the camp, we planned to eat from the canal that night. We asked Reba to prepare the other fish we caught and smoke them for later. As for the crabs, snails, and the like, we just boiled them all together.