The entire ocean is my fishing ground.

Chapter 73 Feint to the East, Attack in the West

In a dark room of a private club in the provincial capital.

Although Shao Kun has fallen, several of his trusted confidants who depend on him for their livelihood are still around.

A scarred man with a gloomy expression lowered his voice.

"Big brother, the news is confirmed. Lin Chen signed a betting agreement with Marriott. He has to gather a whole ship full of top-quality live seafood by 5 p.m. today."

"Is he insane?"

The other tall, thin man couldn't believe it.

"Even when I was here, the items on that list had to be ordered from overseas a month in advance."

The leader was a middle-aged man known as "Ghost Hand," Shao Kun's top henchman who specialized in dirty work.

Ghost Hand twirled his fingers, a ruthless glint in his eyes.

"He's not crazy, he has connections we don't know about. With Chairman Shao gone, our source of income has also been cut off. This debt must be settled with him."

He picked up the satellite phone on the table and dialed a number.

"Hey, is that Poison Sting? I'm Ghost Hand."

A hoarse, synthesized voice came from the other end of the phone.

"What mission?"

"An armed salvage vessel called the Poseidon is about to set sail from the Donghai City dock. I want you to stop it at all costs and sink it in international waters."

"Deposit".

"Five million has already been transferred to your Swiss account. Another five million will be added after the deal is done."

Ghost Hand hung up the phone, a sinister smile spreading across his face.

"Lin Chen, without the ship, let's see how you deliver the goods. The 30 million penalty for breach of contract is enough to kill you several times over."

……

One o'clock in the afternoon, at the Donghai City Wharf.

Lin Chen and his group returned to the berth where the Poseidon was docked.

"Dazhuang, start the main engine and warm it up for five minutes. Check all equipment, especially the deep-sea boom and sonar system."

Lin Chen's orders were clearly given.

"Okay, Brother Chen."

Once Zhou Dazhuang boarded the ship, he felt much more at ease and skillfully rushed into the wheelhouse to start operating the controls.

The massive Poseidon emitted a deep roar as its engines began to run.

Lin Chen stood in front of the control panel, not looking at the usual radar screen, but closing his eyes.

"System, activate new feature: Marine Resource Heat Map."

As soon as he finished speaking, a deep blue three-dimensional sea map unfolded in his mind.

Within a radius of 500 nautical miles, the seabed topography, ocean currents, and water temperature stratification are all clearly visible.

Crucially, the image shows various flashing dots. White dots represent common fish, green dots represent economically valuable fish, while gold and red dots correspond to rare and priceless seafood.

This is practically a treasure map that is transparent to him from one side only.

"I see... This is the third-level access control."

Lin Chen glanced at the heat map and scanned it quickly.

The names on Tang Zhen's list—two-headed sea cucumber, bluefin tuna, deep-sea red-edged abalone—each found a corresponding red dot on the map.

They are distributed in different sea areas, some even in extreme environments hundreds of meters deep.

What others considered impossible tasks were, for him, nothing more than following a map.

Just then, a few fishermen who were loitering near the dock approached, seemingly by chance.

"Brother Chen, are we going out to sea? It's windy today, where are we going to make our fortune?"

Lin Chen turned around and recognized these people as former associates of Zhang Meng, who had now become informants for Shao Kun's remaining gang.

He deliberately spoke loudly to Sun Heizi next to him.

"Where else can we go? Let's try our luck at Devil's Reef. I heard they've found something good there recently, but the waves are big and it's dangerous."

"Huh? Devil's Reef?"

Sun Heizi was startled; that place was notoriously dangerous.

The fishermen's eyes lit up when they heard the words "Devil's Reef," and they quietly retreated to the side, quickly taking out their phones and sending messages.

Lin Chen took in all of this and sneered inwardly.

This is exactly the effect he wanted.

Five minutes later, Zhou Dazhuang reported.

"Brother Chen, engine warm-up complete, all systems are normal."

"Set off."

The Poseidon sounded a loud whistle and slowly sailed away from the dock.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, it turned its bow around and, as expected, sped off towards Devil's Reef.

On the shore, Ghost Hand's informant sent out a final message: "Target has departed. Destination: Devil's Reef."

……

The Poseidon carved a white trail of foam on the sea surface.

However, after sailing out of the near-shore monitoring range, Lin Chen suddenly pushed the control lever.

"Hard to starboard, target bearing 127, speed up to maximum."

Zhou Dazhuang and Sun Heizi were taken aback; this direction was completely opposite to Devil's Reef.

"Brother Chen, we won't..."

"Execute the command."

The Poseidon drifted, drawing a huge arc on the sea surface, and sped off into the vast, empty deep sea to the southeast.

"First target: two sea cucumbers. Location: 180 nautical miles southeast, deep-sea volcano crater, water depth 600 meters."

Lin Chen stared at the heat map in his mind, his tone calm.

Two hours later, the Poseidon arrived at the target area.

The sea was calm and the surface was a deep, almost blackish blue. There were no islands or ships in sight, which made one feel uneasy.

"This is it."

Lin Chen walked to the control panel of the deep-sea operation system and put on the neural connection helmet.

"System, redeem the Precision Control Technique for Deep-Sea Robotic Arm, valid for one hour."

[Ding. 300 points consumed, redemption successful.]

Instantly, a vast amount of knowledge about fluid mechanics and precision mechanical control flooded my mind.

He felt completely integrated with that expensive robotic arm.

"Dive."

The massive robotic arm, equipped with a high-intensity searchlight and a deep-sea camera, slowly sank into the dark seawater.

One hundred meters.

Three hundred meters.

500 meters.

In the footage transmitted back by the submersible, various deep-sea creatures flashed by.

When the depth reached 600 meters, a spectacular sight appeared on the screen.

On the seabed, beside a volcano, several geothermal hot springs are bubbling up steam.

Nourished by the hot springs, a group of plump, jet-black sea cucumbers clung to a reef.

Their skirts are thick and their size is astonishing; they are the legendary two-headed black sea cucumbers.

"Found it."

Sun Heizi and Zhou Dazhuang, standing behind, stared wide-eyed.

At the control panel, Lin Chen's hands flew across the complex array of buttons and joysticks.

On the screen, the giant robotic arm seemed to come alive. The hydraulic clamps at the front opened, and the movements were incredibly gentle as it peeled a two-headed sea cucumber off the reef and placed it steadily into the sample recovery chamber next to it.

One, two, three...

In less than ten minutes, the two live sea cucumbers required on the list, along with more than a dozen spares, were all accurately captured.

"Recycle."

The robotic arm, carrying its spoils, began to rise.

Lin Chen took off his helmet and let out a long breath.

He glanced at his watch; it was 3:30 PM.

There is still plenty of time.

"Two sea cucumbers, done."

He opened the heat map again, his gaze locking onto the next blazing red dot.