After practicing by the seaside for about ten days, Xiao Yu started to try diving into the shallow sea areas. She rented a speedboat in the space, one hundred yuan per day or 3,000 yuan per month. Discover more novels at novel~fire~net
So, to make her investment worthwhile, the gains she made from diving had to exceed this amount of money; otherwise, it would be equivalent to losing money. Of course, this included the cost of the diving gear and the oxygen tanks that needed constant replenishing.
When she entered the sea, she would carry filming equipment because the sunlight was just right and the seawater was clear enough, so the lighting deep inside the sea was also very good. The azure-blue waters were home to various corals, sea trees, sea grass, kelp, seaweed, etc. They were the perfect habitat for shallow sea marine life.
She saw all kinds of fish, both familiar and unfamiliar, swarming everywhere, along with sea urchins hidden in rock crevices, sea cucumbers, abalones clinging to the rock walls, extremely fast-moving sea shrimps, large crabs that moved on the sea bottom as if on flat land, squids, cuttlefish, octopuses, and groups of variously patterned groupers, super-sized sea breams, tasty big and small yellow croakers, uncountable horse mackerels, sea eels, sea bass, and black sea breams.
The fish were too fast, and she couldn’t catch them, let alone touch them. Therefore, on her first day at sea, she could only look for abalones and pick sea urchins that were hidden in the coral clusters. This was far more than she could collect during shoreline harvesting; almost everything she touched could be stored in the space.
Therefore, the selling price was also not low, reaching over 3,000 yuan, covering the rent for the month at least.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t catch the fish. With her swimming speed, she couldn’t keep up with the agile "birds of the water."
What method should she use to catch fish then? Should she use nets like the fishermen and slowly pull them up?
The next day, she switched to a fishing boat specifically designed for catching fish. It cost five hundred yuan per day to rent this type of fishing boat, and she had to buy the fishing nets herself. This trip cost upwards of ten thousand yuan, but she couldn’t catch a wolf without baiting the trap; these were necessary expenses.
She wasn’t a fisherman, but she was a fisherman’s child, having gone to sea with her parents since she was young. So she knew how to fish and how to operate these ships, which were much more advanced than those of ancient times. She went from being unskilled to gradually mastering the techniques in just two or three days.
It’s undeniable—with a fishing net, she could even be said to make a fortune daily, never coming up empty-handed after a cast.
She caught all manner of fish, shrimp, and crab, some of which even she couldn’t name. They were all pulled from the nets and thrown into the space.
On a good day, she could make ten thousand yuan, and on a slow day, still several thousand yuan. If the weather turned bad, she would stay ashore, just placing her hopes in the fish basket.
Initially, she couldn’t tell cuttlefish apart from squids, thinking they looked quite similar. But after repeated observations and comparisons, she finally spotted the subtle differences between them.
First, in terms of classification, squids are molluscs and cuttlefish are cephalopods, so cuttlefish have a calcareous inner shell. Looking at their appearance, the belly of a cuttlefish is much larger than that of a squid, and its legs are much shorter, making it look plump and quite cute.
Cuttlefish ink is a treasure—it can be used to make noodles or dumpling skins; it’s very nutritious. Catching a cuttlefish today was an unexpected delight, and she was looking forward to thoroughly enjoying it when she got home.