We arrived at the neighboring town.
Upon meeting, they introduced themselves and exchanged a few pleasantries.
After all, it's about handling a case.
Led by police from a neighboring town, the same procedure was followed as at the town's dock, with each boat being checked one by one.
After looking at several ships.
The police from the neighboring town frowned: "Wait, guys, are you here to investigate a case?"
Liu Long smiled and said, "Of course."
The police from the neighboring town scoffed and said, "I've really learned something new. What can you possibly find out with such a cursory inspection?"
"Even if a lost fish trap is placed in front of you, would you be able to recognize it?"
What markings are there?
Liu Long had no answer.
Wu An said, "I can recognize it."
The policeman from the neighboring town scoffed again; "You think you can recognize him just because you say so?"
How can we be sure that it's yours?
"Are you kidding me?"
It was Liu Long who came to the rescue, forcing himself to say that since the institute's leaders had assigned us to investigate, whether we could find anything was another matter; let's just get the paperwork done first.
In fact, he and Yu Kailang had had this question for a long time, but they didn't say much because of their pride.
For now, the only option is to shift the blame to the institute's leadership.
The policeman from the neighboring town suddenly realized that this was due to a superior's connection. Well then, he didn't say anything more, smoked a cigarette, and led the way to a yellow and white fishing boat. The boat owner was on board and greeted him with a smile: "Brother Huang, what a grand entourage!"
“Yes.” Huang Xuejun, a policeman from the neighboring town, snorted and turned his head back, saying, “Someone from the neighboring town threw a few fish traps into the sea and came to our area to look for them.”
"Old Ma, your boat came back at 5 p.m., right?"
Old Ma is a fishing boat owner. He is not tall, thin, and dark-skinned. At first glance, he doesn't look particularly special. Most people who go out to sea to fish look like this.
Old Ma and the others came up, offered cigarettes to everyone, and said with a smile, "This is quite rare. It's just a few fish traps, and they've come all the way here."
Huang Xuejun lit his cigarette, chuckled, and said, "Who says otherwise?"
"It's just a formality anyway."
"Keep an eye on them and don't let them damage your boat."
Old Ma smiled and nodded, greeted Yu Kailang and the others, and said, "The harvest was pretty good today, so I came back early. I bought the fish and cleaned up the fishing boats."
Yu Kailang asked, "What did you gain?"
Old Ma was taken aback: "Do I really need to ask that clearly?"
Yu Kailang: "Just a routine inquiry."
Old Ma said, "Sea fish, shrimp, crabs, nothing special."
"All the homework tools are here."
There are trawl nets, fish traps, harpoons, and the like...
Yu Kailang glanced around and said, "It's mainly trawling operations."
Old Ma nodded: "We occasionally use fish traps. Anyway, we just throw them into the sea. It's not much trouble. We collect them every few days."
Wu An looked at it but didn't notice anything unusual.
Old Ma's appearance was not suspicious.
Seeing the fish trap, I reached out and touched it.
This touch.
Luck value: (+6)
Touch another cage.
Luck value: (+7)
Grass!
If it weren't for his luck, he would have actually believed this bastard's nonsense.
He looked up and saw that Old Ma was chatting and laughing with someone, without showing any sign of guilt or nervousness.
Too.
This fish trap is just an ordinary, common item, without any special markings. I guess Old Ma checked it carefully before leaving it on the boat.
I reckon Old Ma wants to keep these traps for himself.
The fish traps were piled together. He rummaged through them and counted them carefully; there were exactly seven, no more and no less.
so……
Old Ma's boat originally didn't have any fish traps; it was purely for trawling.
A trawler, instead of focusing on its trawl operations, went and stole his fish traps.
Wu An was also feeling a bit naive at that moment. He reached out and instinctively touched his harpoon, wishing he could just throw it at the bastard who stole his fish trap and kill him.
Yu Kailang watched as Wu An fiddled with the cage, his expression shifting, and asked, "What's wrong? Is something the problem?"
"This is..." Wu An was about to say something, but quickly stopped himself. He changed the subject and said, "These fish traps look quite similar to mine."
After saying that.
He let go and stood up.
Old Ma, who was chatting and laughing with Huang Xuejun, turned around, laughed, and said, "I just bought this fish trap randomly. Yours looks pretty much the same. Did you also just buy it randomly at the market?"
Wu An said calmly, "Yes."
Old Ma said, "Those things bought at the market aren't worth much anyway, you're making a mountain out of a molehill."
"I heard you have connections, but that doesn't mean you can play games like this."
"It's so late at night, why are so many old people being followed around?"
How dare you?
Wu An clasped his hands together, his knuckles cracking as he squeezed them. His left hand pulled his right, saying, "Hold back, don't do it." His right hand pulled his left, saying, "Don't be impulsive."
After a long pause, he gritted his teeth and said, "The catch from the fish traps is pretty good, mostly mantis shrimp, with a total value of six figures. We have to keep looking for them."
Huang Xuejun opened his mouth slightly, stunned by what he heard.
Old Ma squinted and chuckled, "You know what, I've caught quite a few mantis shrimp with this trap."
"It looks like it's the season for harvesting mantis shrimp."
"Hahaha."
After saying that, he laughed to himself.
Wu An did not laugh.
Yu Kailang looked at Lao Ma and frowned.
Old Ma stopped smiling and coughed twice: "It doesn't look funny."
Huang Xuejun stepped in to smooth things over: "Old Ma, you're happy to have made money, but the other guy lost his trap. No wonder he can't be laughing."
"Alright, alright, since we haven't found anything, let's hurry up and get to the next ship."
Yu Kailang looked at Wu An.
Wu An didn't say anything.
Yu Kailang made his usual remarks, saying that if anything was discovered, they should be notified immediately.
Old Ma nodded happily, patting his chest: "Of course."
Everyone disembarked.
Old Ma said, "I'll see you off. I'm leaving too. I had a good haul today. I'll go to the tavern for a couple of drinks later."
Old Ma followed them to the next boat.
He came up to Wu An and said, "Handsome guy, you've been looking for me."
"With such a huge loss, I probably won't be able to sleep well for days if we don't find it."
"We all make a living at sea. It's so upsetting to have your things stolen from. We can really empathize with that."
"I get angry just thinking about it, you must be furious."
"Hey bro, I wish you success in finding it."
Yu Kailang and the others didn't really feel anything when they heard this. They just felt that Lao Ma was a chatterbox and talked too much. Although it sounded like he was trying to comfort them, they still felt a little uncomfortable.
Especially since he was laughing while he was talking.
Upon hearing this, Wu An was furious.
What is provocation?
That's it.
They attacked him face-to-face.
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