As a contestant, Bai Yu still enjoys the same convenience as always: he has his own room.
Apart from that, he received the same treatment as all the other players, with no special privileges whatsoever.
The ship Bai Yu was on this time was Yu Xue 23. The captain was also an acquaintance of Bai Yu's, and they had known each other for a very long time. Bai Yu had recruited the acquaintance himself.
This person's surname is Li. When Bai Yu was in school, he was a crew member on a fishing boat.
Although his position was just a crew member, Brother Li was very ambitious. He was not content with the status quo and instead obtained the certificates of third mate and second mate through self-study.
Then Bai Yu recruited him into the company, starting him directly as second mate. After years of hard work, he successfully obtained his captain's certificate and is now the captain of Yuxue 23.
You could say Bai Yu is lucky; he is indeed quite lucky. After all, he has acquaintances on the ship.
But if you say he was unlucky, then he really wasn't. On that fishing boat, apart from some crew members, he didn't know a single person.
Including Bai Yu and others, there were a total of 510 participants in this fan fishing competition.
Five hundred contestants registered, and ten special invitation slots were available.
Besides Bai Yu and his three companions, he also gave a spot to some other people, including a well-known blogger in the fishing industry. The blogger participated in the lottery but did not win a spot in the competition.
There were also several of Bai Yu's colleagues, all national team athletes, who also enjoyed fishing, but getting a spot through a lottery was simply too difficult.
Therefore, Bai Yu gave the other party a special invitation spot, inviting them to participate in the competition.
There were thirty fishing boats, with only seventeen people on each boat, but among the seventeen contestants, Bai Yu didn't know a single one of them.
He was known only by the other contestants; he didn't know any of them.
That's why Bai Yu went to bed early and started scrolling through her phone in bed.
He bought some more data for his phone, so watching videos was out of the question, but reading novels to pass the time was no problem.
However, he only played for a short while, and before 11 o'clock, he also started to sleep.
Nothing was said that night.
At 5:50 a.m. the next morning, the reveille sounded precisely in Bai Yu's crew quarters.
Upon hearing this sound, Bai Yu, who was sleeping soundly in bed, suddenly sat up and looked around the crew quarters with a bewildered expression.
Although Bai Yu has never served in the military, he has participated in intensive training programs. Every training camp before the Olympics involved purely military-style training.
They were actually trained by military instructors and lived and ate with other soldiers, just not at the same time.
After all, Bai Yu and his group's training methods are different from those of other soldiers.
However, after several training sessions, Bai Yu became very sensitive to the sound of the reveille. Even when he was sleeping, he would react immediately.
Just like him now, even though he was still half asleep, he still sat up immediately and scratched his head with a bewildered look on his face.
"Ah! It's almost six o'clock? The competition is about to start, I wonder how lucky I am today."
Bai Yu muttered to himself as he opened his luck value panel.
Then a fairly standard number appeared in Bai Yu's eyes: his luck value today was not very high, only fifty-six points.
If this were when Bai Yu first obtained Tongzi, a luck value of over fifty points wouldn't be considered low, considering it was already over fifty.
However, in today's terms, this luck level is no longer considered high.
It's important to know that once Bai Yu owns a ship, he receives a luck bonus.
With his company now having over a hundred ships, his luck bonus has long exceeded 100%, and his luck is essentially doubling every day.
The fact that his luck value was only 56 after doubling is enough to show that before doubling, his luck value would have been even lower, perhaps only around 20 points.
Looking at it this way, his luck today is indeed not very good.
However, if you're using it for fishing, 56 points of luck is more than enough. Even if you can't catch a giant fish weighing several hundred kilograms, you can at least make sure it doesn't come back empty-handed.
Bai Yu then got up, put on a coat, and took her toiletries out of the crew room.
It's getting late, time to get up and prepare for fishing.
When Bai Yu walked out of the crew room, he wasn't the first to get up among the dozen or so contestants on the fishing boat; several others had gotten up even earlier than him.
As the initiators of this competition, these contestants would all greet Bai Yu when they saw him.
After quickly taking care of his personal hygiene, Bai Yu put his toiletries back in the crew room, put on his life jacket, took out his fishing gear bag, and left the crew room again.
When Bai Yu arrived on the deck, it was only 6:01 a.m., just the right time to start the fishing competition, although participation was not mandatory.
In other words, at 6 o'clock, you can fish if you want, or you can sleep if you don't want to fish. The competition staff will neither wake you up nor force you to fish.
After all, whether you catch any fish or what ranking you get in this competition has nothing to do with the staff, and they won't care about your results.
However, if you want to start fishing before six o'clock, they will stop you. Fishing before the competition time is a violation of the rules.
When Bai Yu came to the deck, he glanced briefly at the stern area, and then decisively walked towards the bow.
The fishing boat they were on, Yuxue 23, had the most spacious deck area at the stern, making it the perfect spot for fishing.
However, before Bai Yu came out, there were already people fishing at the stern of the boat, and there were quite a few of them, about seven or eight people scattered around.
The contestants on Bai Yu's boat were quite enthusiastic. It was only the start time of the competition, and half of them were already in place. It seems that the championship prize of tens of millions is very tempting, and most of the contestants are working hard for the championship.
If it succeeds, it will bring in a multi-million dollar prize; even if it fails, it will only mean getting up a few days earlier.
Getting up early won't cost any of the contestants anything. Even if they don't get the top prizes, they can still catch more fish and sell them for more money.
Bai Yu then took his tools to the bow of the boat, took a squid from the fish box next to him, and placed it in the sun to be bathed in sunlight.
He had just gotten these baits from the staff; they were all taken out of the cold storage and were frozen solid.
He's putting it out in the sun to dry. He's not expecting the sun to melt it in a short time; he just needs to assemble the fishing rod, and there's still some time in between. Drying it out won't hurt.
Assembling the fishing rod is quite simple. Bai Yu selected a fishing line with a tensile strength of about fifty pounds from the tackle bag and then attached it to the fishing rod.
There's a reason for using fishing line of this strength. You need to consider the current sea area and the depth at which you want to fish, and then choose a suitable fishing line.
The sea area where Bai Yu and his group are currently located is not in very deep waters, but in an area very close to our home's boundary line in the South China Sea.
Well, in terms of latitude and longitude coordinates, Bai Yu and his group are still in China. But if they drive a little further, they will cross the border and enter the waters of the Philippines.
Bai Yu and his company's fishing boats have been to these areas many times, so they are quite familiar with these regions, which are relatively rich in resources.
Especially in the area of grouper, the resources are very abundant and there are many different species.
However, there are not many giant creatures in this place; in fact, they are extremely rare.
Sea areas capable of producing giant fish weighing hundreds of kilograms all share a common characteristic: they are resource-rich deep-water areas.
The waters where Bai Yu and his group were currently located were only sixty or seventy meters deep, which was still too shallow for the giants. It was fine for these giants to occasionally come and hunt for food here.
However, if you were to let them settle here, they would most likely not agree.
Since the chances of catching a giant fish here are not high, there is naturally no need for Baiyu to use a giant fish line.
After all, fishing lines with a tensile strength of over 100 pounds, regardless of their workmanship, are much thicker than fishing lines with a tensile strength of only 50 pounds.
This is a fatal flaw, as some fish will notice this and therefore will not bite the hook.
That's why Bai Yu chose a relatively thinner 50-pound fishing line, but one with sufficient tensile strength.
If used properly, this fishing line can easily catch fish weighing 60 or 70 pounds.
So Bai Yu decisively put bait on the hook and threw it into the sea, waiting for the first fish to bite.
Another thing worth mentioning is that they are in this area, and they didn't come here just to fish.
When we reach our home's border in the South China Sea, a little further ahead is the territory of the Philippines, which means we are essentially facing the Philippines across the border.
In addition, they brought more than a hundred ships of various types, which, when deployed, occupied a very large area on the sea.
Then, many drones were floating in the sky, filming the fishing activities of the contestants on various boats.
This situation is perfectly normal for Bai Yu and others, as well as for the viewers in the live stream.
After all, this is a competition, and it's taking place in our own waters, so it's something we can do whatever we want.
However, for some of the more assertive monkeys recently, Bai Yu and his group's behavior was somewhat provocative.
After all, in their view, this dividing line was not drawn the way it is now, but needs to be re-planned.
Then, after some impressive rhetoric, the other party started acting like they were really capable, making a big fuss in the South China Sea.
Our side won't tolerate the other side's behavior, and the two sides have clashed back and forth quite a few times.
Even the private fishing boats below were involved in the clashes, with the representative vessel being one whose name started with "Yu Xue".
Bai Yu and his company's boats are like war gods here. Whenever they encounter Fei Monkey's boats, they will definitely give them a full-body shower.
This time they came here on the principle of not crossing the line, waiting for the arrival of the Filipino monkeys.
Once they show up, don't blame them.
Of course, if the other party is sensible and stays at home like a coward, then everything will be fine, and Bai Yu and the others won't overstep their bounds.
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