Since Hu Tao said everything was fine, Bai Yu and the other man naturally had no other worries. After all, Hu Tao had been going to the beach for several years and knew the situation here very well.
Bai Yu and his group then took off their equipment and prepared to go beachcombing.
When they reached the roadside and looked down, the tide had already begun to recede, and most of the rocks on the shore had been exposed.
Just then, Wang Hai, who was fiddling with the filming equipment, suddenly made a discovery.
"Hey, Yu-ge, Tao-ge, come over here and look, isn't there a lobster here? Hey, doesn't that thing next to it look like a snail? Yu-ge, that's the snail that's been soaking in our dorm's basin."
Upon hearing Wang Hai's voice, Bai Yu immediately looked over and saw a tiny speck on the camera screen, a very small speck, with a small bulge next to it.
"Ah Hai, how far did you zoom in on the video camera? What position are you filming? I can't even see it with my glasses."
Bai Yu glanced at the screen, then looked at the rocky beach in the direction the camera was filming. He practically chopped his eyes off the wall, but he still couldn't see the two things on the screen.
"It's only three to five times the size, and the direction they're shooting is right there. Let's hurry down and maybe we can catch those two things."
"No, we came here to go beachcombing, so why is Wang Hai carrying a video camera? What are you guys up to?"
Compared to Bai Yu and Wang Hai's eagerness to continue, Hu Tao was even more bewildered.
He never expected that Bai Yu and his companion not only had complete beachcombing equipment, but they also carried a video camera with them. No wonder Wang Hai was carrying a bag at the beginning; it turned out that this was what was inside.
"Cousin, you don't understand. This is our side job. When we have nothing to do, we post pictures of our beachcombing experiences online. With the internet so developed now, maybe we can become internet celebrities and enjoy the benefits of the internet in the future."
Cousin, if you're interested, you can post pictures of your daily life in your free time, like your training sessions or beachcombing. Our accounts already have quite a few followers; we'll be internet celebrities someday!
After Bai Yu explained the situation to Hu Tao, he then took Wang Hai and prepared to go into the sea.
Despite the warning sign next to this rocky beach, it's actually not dangerous at all. The beach is quite gentle and doesn't have many oddly shaped rocks.
Guided by Wang Hai, Bai Yu quickly arrived at the location previously captured by the video camera. However, of the two things that were on the screen, only one remained: the small bulge.
Just as Wang Hai had guessed, the small bulge was a piglet snail, and a very large one at that, almost the size of a duck egg.
"What a pity, we arrived a step too late. The dot on the screen was gone. I guess it wasn't a lobster, it might have been a crab."
Holding a small snail in her hand, Bai Yu looked at the vanished flower spots with a hint of regret and said...
"Brother Fisherman, look what I caught! A big crab! This crab is huge!"
While Bai Yu was sighing, Wang Hai, who was standing to the side, held up a bluish object in front of Bai Yu.
"Holy crap, where did you catch this giant blue crab? How come it's so big? It must weigh at least a pound!"
Seeing the giant crab suddenly appear in front of her, Bai Yu was not afraid at all; on the contrary, she was filled with excitement.
Because Wang Hai caught a huge blue crab, a very large blue crab, at least bigger than Wang Hai's palm. Just by looking at it without even touching it, Bai Yu could tell that this crab weighed no less than a pound.
“They’re right here, Brother Yu, look, there are several more here.”
Wang Hai pointed, and Bai Yu looked in the direction he was pointing. Sure enough, they found something in a rocky pit, where two blue crabs were lurking.
"Cousin, we have some blue crabs here, do you want to come and catch some with us?"
Since Hu Tao had brought them to this rocky beach, Bai Yu first asked Hu Tao about it after making the discovery.
"Forget it, you guys catch them yourselves. I'll catch whatever I want myself. Look what I have in my hand, an orchid crab. This guy is really fat."
Hu Tao did not answer Bai Yu's question. At that moment, he was about ten meters away to the left of Bai Yu and the other person.
"My goodness, cousin, have you ever come here before and caught this many crabs? We've only just come down here and we've already caught so many big crabs?"
Bai Yu looked at the crab in Hu Tao's hand, and then at the crab in the rocky pit not far away. For the first time, he wondered how catching crabs on the beach could be so easy.
This can no longer be described as grabbing; it's more like picking up seafood on this rocky beach.
"How could that be? In the past, catching two or three pounds of crabs was considered good. Even then, it would take me two or three hours of searching to get that much."
This is really strange. I found a big crab as soon as I came down. I've been fishing here for three years, and I've only ever encountered this kind of situation a handful of times.
"Hey, we caught another giant conch! My goodness, I thought it was just a shell, but it has meat inside! We're rich today!"
Just as Hu Tao was speaking, he pulled out another large conch shell from a crevice in the rocks.
This conch is a spitting conch, the kind with a long spitting bar on the front of its shell. It's not cheap; when the market is good, it can sell for over a hundred yuan.
The one that Hu Tao has could easily sell for several tens of yuan.
"Yes, there's a lot of seafood here, and these guys are really silly. We're trying to catch them, but they don't even know how to run away."
If I filmed the crab-catching process and posted it online for my fans to see, wouldn't they think it was staged?
At this moment, Bai Yu looked at the two blue crabs in his hands, his mind filled with questions, because these crabs had no vitality at all. He had caught the two blue crabs without any effort and easily caught them in his hands.
"Brother Yu, isn't this a good thing? Crabs are not very active, so it's not difficult for us to catch them. This way, we can improve our efficiency a lot. As for the vermicelli? I think it tastes better with some minced garlic. What do you think?"
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What's with the garlic? Garlic vermicelli? Please, we're not even talking about the same thing.
"Okay, tonight's razor clams and snails, I'd like the owner to make them garlic-flavored, and add some glass noodles. Would you like some chili?"
"Yes, it tastes even better with minced garlic and a little chili."
Hu Tao, who was standing to the side, listened to the conversation between Bai Yu and Wang Hai. His attitude changed from serious at the beginning to shock at the end, which contained a variety of profound meanings.
Through their conversation, he understood why Wang Hai listened to Bai Yu. After all, no matter what Wang Hai said, Bai Yu could calmly pick up on the conversation, even if they were two completely unrelated topics.
In just a short while, Bai Yu had caught seven or eight crabs and collected more than ten kinds of sea snails, especially pig snails.
For some reason, even though the two of them weren't far from Hu Tao, the conch shells Hu Tao picked up were mostly large conch shells, and the crabs were mostly blue crabs.
There's always a clear distinction between the two sides.
"Lobster, lobster, Xiaobai, come here quickly! I have lobsters here, lots of lobsters! You two come over here right now!"
Just as Bai Yu and his companion were searching for seafood on the rocky outcrop, they heard Hu Tao shouting in their ears.
The three of them were already some distance from the coastline, where the resources in the crevices of the reefs were much more abundant, but this abundance did not catch the eye of Bai Yu and his companions.
For the three of them, they didn't want just any seafood; at least, Bai Yu wasn't interested in small, unwanted fish left in the rocky creeks.
Even things like snails, barnacles, mussels, kelp, and laver that live on the rocks hold even less interest for me.
Small snails, barnacles, and mussels really don't fetch a good price. With the time and effort spent catching these things, Bai Yu would be better off looking for other catches.
However, if the snails, barnacles, and mussels are big enough, then Bai Yu might be interested and might catch a whole bucket of each.
Hearing Hu Tao's shouts, Bai Yu and Wang Hai exchanged a glance, then immediately grabbed their belongings and ran towards Hu Tao's direction.
"Where? Where is the lobster you mentioned, cousin?"
"Look, do you see that rock over there? Look closely at the surface of the rock, aren't there several lobsters crawling on it?"
Hu Tao pointed to a reef in front of them. The reef was not connected to the reef under their feet, but stood alone on the sea surface, about ten meters away.
"Oh my god, how did we end up in that place? It's all water around here, how are we going to get across? We can't exactly swim across, can we? Cousin, do you think if the tide goes out today, it could connect that reef to where we are?"
"That's not necessarily true. Normally, the seawater doesn't recede that far during low tide; it only recedes during spring tide. We don't know if it's spring tide today."
Even if it's a high tide today, it will still take two or three hours for the tide to recede to that level. By then, nobody knows if these lobsters will still be there.
"Little White, why don't we wade over there? Those are little green dragons! We've seen seven or eight already; they're worth a fortune!"
Looking at the little green dragon on the opposite reef, Hu Tao made a suggestion.
"No, that's too dangerous. Cousin, I don't recommend doing that. The waves are too big during low tide, and we're on a rocky beach. It's too dangerous to wade across. We shouldn't risk it for a few lobsters."
Besides, since these lobsters are here, it proves this is their habitat. It doesn't matter if we don't catch them today; we can always come back another time.
Bai Yu immediately objected to Hu Tao's idea.
Although they were not far from the reef with the lobster, only about ten meters away, that ten meters was filled with seawater, and seawater with waves.
Beneath the surface of the sea, there are countless unseen reefs. If you were to be swept underwater by a wave while wading through them and hit your head on a reef, you'd be in for a lot of trouble.
After being reminded by Bai Yu, Hu Tao calmed down and regained his intelligence.
"Phew, Xiaobai, you're right. It's okay if we don't catch it today; there will always be another chance. I was just too excited."
"I understand, I understand. It's okay, let's keep looking. Even if we leave this reef, we'll eventually find another one with lobsters. Keep it up!"
Everyone can understand Hu Tao's idea; after all, seven or eight small green dragons could easily sell for a thousand yuan.
This amount of money is not a small sum for students like them who are still in school. For Hu Tao, a thousand yuan is enough to last him for almost a month.
In his view, taking even a small risk for this was well worth it.
Fortunately, Bai Yu didn't lose his temper. He stopped Hu Tao in time when he was about to get carried away, thus preventing a potential accident and a sudden windfall.
About ten minutes after leaving the reef, Bai Yu and his companion heard Hu Tao shout again. When they turned around, they saw Hu Tao holding a small green dragon in his hand, baring his big teeth.
Bai Yu and Wang Hai glanced down at their plastic buckets, where two small green dragons lay quietly in each bucket.
Xiao Qinglong and his companion were also caught, but they didn't make a fuss about it.
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