"Brother Tongzi, Brother Tongzi, it's been a long time! You've finally reappeared. If I hadn't been missing my luck stat every day, I wouldn't even be sure if you'd left."
But, Brother Tong, you're back, fine, but why did you give me a mandatory mission right away? It's not that I don't want to do this mission, but isn't the reward and punishment a bit mismatched?
Success grants fifty luck points, but failure means a month of zero luck points. Isn't that a bit too much? Brother System, could you perhaps increase the rewards?
Seeing the clearly inconsistent rewards and punishments listed in the mission information, Bai Yu mentally called out to Brother Tongzi.
Ever since Bai Yu acquired the system, Tongzi Ge has always been indifferent to him. Whenever Bai Yu tries to contact Tongzi Ge, he usually gets no response.
Now that Brother Tongzi has finally shown up on his own initiative, he should definitely take this opportunity to have a good chat with him.
Tongzi ignored Bai Yu's bargaining and simply displayed a sentence on Bai Yu's retina as a response.
The statement reads: "The system reserves the right to interpret all aspects of this task."
To be honest, Bai Yu had read a lot of novels in his previous life, including many system novels, but he had never really seen a system like Brother Tongzi who was indifferent to his host.
System-based novels are all about the system cooperating with the host to help them reach the pinnacle of life, so what's up with this system? Could it be that it really looks down on him?
"No, it's not that. I've just been quite busy lately and haven't had much time to deal with you. Please be patient and wait a bit; I'll be back as soon as I'm done."
Just as Bai Yu was internally criticizing Tongzi for being irresponsible, Tongzi's electronic voice echoed in his mind once again.
Perhaps Bai Yu's complaints had an effect, because this time Brother Tong actually gave him an explanation, which made Bai Yu feel flattered.
"Brother Yu, everything's packed. Shall we set off now?"
Before Bai Yu could ask what Tongzi was busy with, Wang Hai interrupted his train of thought, pulling him back to reality.
Although Bai Yu seemed to have been communicating with Brother Tongzi for a long time, it actually only took a minute or two. Moreover, during this time, Bai Yu's hands never stopped working; he had already packed up all the tools he would need for his beachcombing trip.
"Let's go then. My cousin and Li Xue are probably already at the school gate. Let's hurry over and meet them."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he took the lead, picked up his things, walked out of the dormitory, and got on his electric scooter downstairs.
Bai Yu and his three friends rode three electric bikes. When they arrived at the school gate, Bai Yu realized he had been overthinking things. The four of them were actually the first to arrive; Hu Tao, Li Xue, and the others hadn't arrived yet.
After waiting at the school gate for a few minutes, Li Xue arrived first with Xia Jing, followed by Hu Tao and his group of four.
"Hey, Xiaobai, you guys got here pretty fast! Now that almost everyone's here, shall we head over? How about we go back to that rocky beach we saw before?"
Hu Tao arrived at the school gate with his roommates. After seeing that Bai Yu and Li Xue had arrived, he took the lead and set off on his electric bike.
That's how things are sometimes with beachcombing. If one person in a dorm knows how to do beachcombing, or makes money from it, the other three will definitely not watch you make money alone.
There's a saying that goes something like this: you're afraid your brother is suffering, but you're also afraid your brother is driving a Land Rover.
Even if your brother really does drive a Land Rover, as a fellow brother, he'll definitely come over and ask you to help him out, because he doesn't want to suffer anymore.
With Hu Tao taking the lead, everyone present followed behind him on their bicycles.
While riding his bike, Bai Yu kept comparing the red dot that Tongzi Ge had marked for him to see how far he was from that unfortunate sperm whale.
The only good news was that the place where the sperm whale was stranded was not far from their destination; in fact, it was on their way there.
What Bai Yu found curious was that the road they were on was a branch of the coastal highway of Hai Province. There should be no shortage of vehicles coming and going here, so how come no one had noticed the stranded sperm whale?
With doubts lingering in his heart, Bai Yu saw on the virtual map that he was getting closer and closer to the sperm whale, until the two points completely overlapped. At that moment, Bai Yu stopped the electric car.
As soon as Bai Yu stopped, Li Shuang, Lu Sheng, Li Xue, and the others following behind him also stopped.
"Brother Yu, why did we stop? We shouldn't have arrived at our destination yet, right? Look at those guys ahead, aren't they still riding forward?"
Li Shuang came to Bai Yu's side and asked.
"Not yet, I still need to ride a few more minutes. I was in such a hurry earlier that I forgot to buy water. I just remembered when I saw the supermarket behind me. I'm going to go buy some water to take with me. Do you guys need any?"
Bai Yu parked his electric car and scanned the coastline across the road, but did not see any trace of sperm whales.
However, he couldn't very well get out of the car and search along the coastline now, since they were going to go beachcombing. Without a proper reason, it would be a bit too much for him to search along the coastline for a stranded sperm whale.
"Brother Xiaobai, please bring two bottles of honey tea for me and Xiaojing."
"Brother Yu, Ah Sheng and I just need bottled water, the big kind."
"Brother Yu, I'd like a large bottle of iced tea."
“Got it. I’ll go to the supermarket in the back to buy it. Ah Hai, have Shuangzi take you for a walk along the opposite coastline and see how far the tide has receded.”
"Let's also see if there's anything good here. If there is, we could go beachcombing."
After finding out what the others wanted to drink, Bai Yu told Wang Hai to get off the car and get on Li Shuang's electric scooter, while he himself turned around and went to the supermarket to buy water.
Based on the principle that the chances of being suspected would be lower if he didn't discover it himself, Bai Yu handed over the task of searching for the sperm whale to Wang Hai and others, and then slipped away first.
As for whether Wang Hai and his group can find the sperm whale, I believe that shouldn't be a big problem. You know, sperm whales are huge. Even juvenile sperm whales are three or four meters long.
Finding the smallest calves, which are three or four meters long, is even easier, because the larger whales usually don't stray too far from the smaller ones.
According to Tongzi's tip, the stranded sperm whale is probably just an immature whale, and its size is not that of a juvenile whale of three or four meters, but rather a slightly larger one, which would make it easier to find.
After all, the larger the size, the more noticeable it is.
Just as Bai Yu finished buying his drinks and was about to pay, his phone rang. The caller ID showed Li Shuang.
"Hey, Shuangzi, I've finished buying everything and am checking out now. How's it going on your end?"
Looking at the incoming call notification, Bai Yu had some guesses about what was going to happen next, but he still pretended not to know anything and asked.
"Holy crap, Brother Yu, forget about the water! Something's happened! Something terrible has happened at the beach! You'd better come over right now!"
As soon as Bai Yu finished asking the question, Li Shuang's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Don't rush, don't rush, speak slowly, what happened, please explain clearly first."
"Brother Yu, we found a stranded sperm whale over here. It's stuck on the rocks and we can't move it. What should we do now?"
"What? A sperm whale is stranded? Really? There can be sperm whales here? Where are you guys? I'm coming right now."
Just as Bai Yu finished speaking, the supermarket cashier calculated the bill, and the ten bottles of water cost him a total of more than thirty yuan.
Then Bai Yu took the water she had bought and immediately rode away on her electric bike, quickly arriving at the location where Li Shuang and the others were.
By this time, Li Shuang and the others had all gone down to the rocks on the shore, leaving only three electric vehicles by the roadside.
"Li Shuang, Ahai, what are you doing? Where's the sperm whale? I can't see it."
Bai Yu stood by the roadside and looked at Li Shuang and the others. In his field of vision, apart from Li Shuang and the others, he did not see any objects that looked like sperm whales.
“Brother Yu, the sperm whale is under these rocks. You can’t see it from up here. You have to come down to see it.”
"Wait, I'll be right down."
Upon hearing this, Bai Yu climbed over the railing and onto the rocks below, then jogged over to Li Shuang and the others.
"Brother Bai, look, this guy is stuck between these two reefs. From the outside, you can't see the whale at all. Otherwise, if Li Xue and the others hadn't seen it spouting water and called for two people, most people really wouldn't have noticed it."
After Li Shuang's account, Bai Yu felt that it was really an accident that Li Shuang and the others were able to find this sperm whale, because the sperm whale was stuck in such a well-hidden location.
On either side are tall reefs that completely obscure the sperm whale's body. Unless you get close enough to observe, you can't see the sperm whale from the road or the shore.
Li Xue noticed the sperm whale because when it spewed out water mist, a rainbow appeared in the sunlight.
There were no waves at that time, and its own cries for help attracted Li Xue's attention.
Bai Yu looked at the sperm whale stuck in the reef. Based on his visual estimation, the whale was about six meters long, which perfectly matched his previous judgment that it was a juvenile, but not quite a juvenile.
This guy's skin was grayish overall, and he was stuck so tightly that he couldn't move at all, which looked extremely distressing.
"Have you called the maritime authorities? We can't handle this by ourselves. We need to call in professionals to save it. Otherwise, no matter how many of us there are, it's all for nothing."
Bai Yu looked at Li Shuang beside him and asked.
"The Maritime Safety Administration? We haven't called yet, and we don't even know their phone number. Who are we supposed to call?"
"No, even if we don't know, we can still look it up. You know, we all study oceanography, so this is common knowledge for us. If this happens again, we can't just say we don't know."
"Alright, I'll make the call. It's easy to find the Maritime Safety Administration's number; just call 114 and ask them to transfer you."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he took out his phone and dialed 114 (China's directory assistance). After being transferred to a human operator, the call went to the Maritime Safety Administration.
After briefly explaining the situation, Bai Yu urged the other party to send someone over immediately, as he was afraid that if it dragged on any longer, he would not be able to complete his mission and would be in big trouble.
Next, they just waited for the maritime authorities' professionals to come and handle the situation. However, they weren't just sitting there waiting; they still had work to do.
Because it's spring tide today, the tide will recede very quickly, and before long, the sperm whale will be completely out of the water and exposed on the rocks.
Before the rescue team arrives, Bai Yu and the others need to ensure the whale's supply of seawater, at least to prevent it from being dehydrated for too long.
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