This was the first level-three mutated aquatic beast they had captured. It was a good start. After Sen Qi'an put down his binoculars and used his mental power to sense that there was no danger nearby, he sent several small teams down to the shallow water in submarines to retrieve supply packages. There were two supply packages right below them.
The cruiser stopped. It wasn't time to cook yet, and they didn't have any ingredients. Lin Yiran was bored, so she went up to the deck for a stroll. As soon as she came out, she saw several oddly shaped mechs jumping into the water with a splash.
Those mechs were indeed peculiar in shape and twice the size of ordinary mechs, giving them a bulky appearance.
"This is a mech that can be used in water," Jin Shuo explained to Lin Yiran after seeing it.
"The mech has its own air circulation system and oxygen supply. The air circulation system will be activated when there is not enough oxygen, and it can continue to maintain operation for about half an hour."
Lin Yiran watched as the big guys went into the water, and two smaller teams split up to the left and right, following the mecha on the water in the predetermined direction.
Lin Yiran was more concerned about something else: "Have we caught any food yet? One sea fish would be enough, otherwise we'll only be able to drink plain porridge tonight."
Jin Shuo was visibly taken aback upon hearing this and asked, "So far, we've only caught one whale. Is whale meat edible?"
Lin Yiran frowned: "Whales are edible, but whale meat doesn't taste good, and the texture will be greatly reduced when cooked."
Then she added, "How about you take me down there, and we catch a fish ourselves and come back up?"
Jin Shuo thought it was a good idea. Instead of relying on Sen Qi'an to catch fish for them, it would be better for them to go into the sea and catch them themselves. Besides, most of the fish Lin Yiran mentioned were small fish, which were difficult to target with missiles and would be troublesome for Sen Qi'an and his team to catch, unless they encountered a school of fish and could cast a net to catch them directly.
So Jin Shuo simply went to Sen Qi'an and told him, and repeatedly assured him that he would only wander around the sea about a thousand meters away and would absolutely not go any further down.
Sen Qi'an agreed, and also gave him a fishing net that had been dug out so he could take it with him and bring the fish back.
Lin Yiran then boarded Jin Shuo's mech—oh, no, it was the team's submersible mech, the one equipped on the cruiser, which could be used once the core was placed inside.
Lin Yiran didn't feel any discomfort. Apart from feeling a little dizzy the moment she entered the water, she felt no different from when she was outside.
The gravity inside the mecha is the same as the outside, so people feel very comfortable inside without any discomfort, and they can also enjoy the beautiful underwater scenery.
This piqued Lin Yiran's interest, and she pressed her face against the transparent mecha screen, watching intently.
The seabed was somewhat dark, but the mecha's built-in lighting equipment brought a glimmer of light to the otherwise gloomy seabed, penetrating far into the distance, allowing her to see the scattered schools of fish around her.
Basically, as soon as their mechs get close, the fish scatter.
and,
What infuriated Jin Shuo was!
These fish are so slippery, you can't catch them at all!
He was furious. Every time a fish slipped through his fingers, he couldn't help but curse, "Damn it!"
But the fish still swam very fast.
"The fish in this water are really hard to catch," he said.
Lin Yiran also noticed: "Yes, they're all wet. The mech's hands aren't precise enough to hold them. Why don't you just release the fishing net and catch as many as you can?"
Upon hearing this, Jin Shuo immediately opened the back of his mecha, letting the fishing net float out. Then, with one net in each hand, he began to swim towards the group of fish in front of him.
Lin Yiran: "Go to the left, there are pomfret over there, they taste very fresh and delicious." Jin Shuo obediently went around to the left, and then suddenly cast the net when he got close. A dozen pomfret and a few filefish entered the net.
The smallest weighs at least 20 pounds, and a dozen or so are enough to eat.
However, Lin Yiran saw a coral reef a hundred meters down, with crabs, sea crabs and a few small squids next to it, as well as countless sea urchins and seaweed. Lin Yiran gestured for him to go down a little further.
Since they came together, they only planned to go up to 200 meters underwater, where there was no danger. Jin Shuo immediately piloted his mecha down as well.
Lin Yiran: "See that black, hedgehog-like ball? It's edible. Pick up a few and put them in the mech's storage."
The sea urchins didn't move much, so Jin Shuo used the mecha's specially designed gripping arms to pick up the black, hedgehog-like creatures from the reef one by one and put them into the left-side hatch. Then he closed the hatch. That hatch was the mecha's independent storage space with its own water filtration device, so it wouldn't affect Lin Yiran and the others' cockpit, and it didn't matter how he opened or closed it.
In this way, Jin Shuo quickly caught dozens of sea urchins, and also caught more than a dozen bread crabs, king crabs, swimming crabs, and more than a dozen Boston lobsters with particularly thick claws.
Small squid are hard to catch; I only caught two, but that's enough to make a stir-fry.
After Lin Yiran said she had had enough, she had Jin Shuo pull up a large bunch of seaweed and kelp and hook them onto the claws, and the two mechs began their return journey.
After Lin Yiran returned to the mech's return capsule, her support team was already waiting there. Upon seeing Lin Yiran return, they quickly found some ropes and tied the claws of the swimming crabs and king crabs to her.
Lin Yiran: "No need for that trouble, just cut them off directly to avoid them getting caught in people's arms." If they do get caught, it's bound to cause a comminuted fracture.
Then they knocked out the food inside the return capsule and dragged it back to the kitchen.
A group of support staff came over to assist Lin Yiran, and Lin Yiran only needed to do the work.
“I saw that Commander Sen outside also caught three of those sea fish you mentioned. Should we bring them over and cook them together?” An Peipei asked, following Lin Yiran.
Lin Yiran: "No need, let's leave them outside for now. We can't finish all the fish we caught ourselves in one meal."
Based on the amount of food they currently have, plus the fish that Sen Qi'an ordered his men to catch outside, their meals for three days are more than enough.
"What we should be considering now is whether we have enough seasonings."
All we have on hand are salt and sugar; the other seasonings haven't been prepared yet.
An Peipei's face scrunched up: "Then how are we going to eat this? Won't it be too fishy?" She remembered that fish from the sea had a special fishy smell and a very strong taste, so her family only ate river fish.
Lin Yiran: "It's okay, we can just process it. I was thinking of steaming everything instead of making porridge. We don't eat much rice, so we should eat it sparingly. Let's make more dishes and have seafood until we're full."
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