Nomenclature of Night

  Chapter 405 Humanoid self-propelled to find the king crab radar

  The Arctic slowly sailed out of the port.

  The engine of the dilapidated crab boat made abnormal noises, and the sea surface was broken by the bow, like a paper knife cutting a piece of canvas.

Niederp is a middle-aged man in his thirties. Zhang Jian said that this crew member used to be a sailor on a crabbing boat for pine leaf crabs, but because of his history of using illegal drugs, he has been released by all crabbing boats. "blocked.

  Nederp had been with Zhang Jian's father in the early years, so he found Zhang Jian and wanted to go to sea with the boat.

There are many sailors among the crabbers who have secretly taken illegal drugs, because their money came too fast, and because they were too tired on board, they thought that these drugs would give them spirits, like the dopamine in the other world, the inner world. Like a morphin chip.

   But the consequences of using illegal drugs are miserable, and no crabbing ship wants to be contaminated with such sailors.

   Zhang Jian decided to give Nedep a chance, took him for a urine test, and made sure that his test was not positive, and finally agreed to Nedep's boarding.

  Old John told Niederp that if he wanted to start over on the crab fishing boat, he should be a newcomer honestly and start from the job of binding crab pots.

   After Qing Chen and Yang Yang boarded the boat, Ni Depu just gave them a cold look, and then continued to do his work.

   "Hello, I will be a companion on the Arctic from now on," Yangyang greeted him in English with a smile.

   But Nedep just said indifferently: "Sailors who have been recognized by other crew members are considered true companions, and those of you who board the ship for sightseeing are not counted."

  Yangyang smiled and did not speak.

Before the Arctic was far away from the port, the ship's radio rang, and Craig's mocking voice came from inside: "Zhang, I heard that you finally let that addict on board, and there are two students under the age of 18 , one of them is a girl, is this true? Zhang, the former glory of the Arctic has been wiped out in your hands."

  Zhang Jian kept a cold face and did not speak, but Craig did not stop.

On the radio communication channel, laughter came from the cab of the Alps: "Zhang, can junkies and students lift the crab cage for you? Old John is probably going to die of exhaustion on the Arctic. However, I There is a traditional gift from the Barents Sea, ready to receive it."

  At this time, Qingchen and Old John were in the cab. Zhang Jian was puzzled. He looked at Old John: "What traditional gifts are there in the Barents Sea?"

  Old John’s complexion changed as if he thought of something, and he hurriedly said to everyone: “Quick, close the doors and windows, everyone hide in the cab!”

  The next moment, the Alps chased from behind and walked side by side with the Arctic at a distance of three meters.

  Qing Chen saw the seven sailors on the Alps bring out three white boxes, and took out...rows of eggs!

  That is a whole three boxes, hundreds of eggs.

   It's just that this thing is not for eating, but for throwing!

  At this moment, the sailors on the Alpine picked up the eggs and threw them at the Arctic, like a snowball fight...

  Qing Chen was confused: "What kind of weird tradition is this?"

  Old John trembled angrily: "There are still many traditions of crabbers. A long time ago, when ships left the port, there would be some similar small games between crabbers to enhance mutual friendship."

  Qing Chen looked at the egg whites and yolks on the window glass: "Do you call this enhancing friendship..."

   Watching the sailors of the Alps smash hundreds of eggs in one go, they immediately drove away with full momentum.

  Qing Chen stepped out of the cab to take a look, and immediately felt that the Arctic was a little patinaed...

  The crabbers are a little pee.

  He looked at the Alps going away, suddenly stretched his arms, and gave his thumbs up.

   Moreover, he also closed one of his eyes.

At this moment, the captain of the Alps, Craig, stood on the deck, looked back through the binoculars, and happily said to the crew beside him: "That student actually gave us a thumbs up and praised us for doing well!" .”

  A sailor took the binoculars from Craig suspiciously and took a look. He thought for two seconds and said, "How does this look like the gunner's aiming and ranging before firing?"

   Craig: "???"

  In fact, Qing Chen is indeed measuring the distance. There is no reference object on the sea, so he has to get used to the new way of visual distance measurement so that he can convince others with virtue.

  Yangyang next to him smiled and said, "No way, if someone hits you with an egg, you plan to shoot it back with a sniper rifle. It's too much."

  Qing Chen smiled: "There is nothing to do, just measure the distance."

  Yang Yangxin said that you are a master who does not do anything and does nothing. What is the purpose of ranging, and it is not for sniping.

  The Arctic has been traveling at sea for 20 hours, and finally entered the Barents Sea in the early morning of the next day.

  Qing Chen also experienced the cruelty of the crabbing industry during these 20 hours.

  Zhang Jian was in charge of sailing the ship, but he didn't sleep a wink for 20 hours, just because if the helmsman fell asleep, it would take minutes for the ship to deviate from the course.

  Only Old John on the ship knows a little steering skills, but he has to teach the newcomers on deck.

  Old John must teach Qing Chen, Yang Yang, and Ni Depu how to bind crab cages, lower cages, hang cages, and how to stabilize their bodies on the deck within 20 hours...

   Moreover, the egg patina that the Alps smashed had to be cleaned up.

  The cold sea breeze is blowing down everyone's necks, and the sea water will wash up on the deck at any time.

   Fortunately, what Zhang Jian was most worried about did not happen, and no one got seasick.

  Old John didn’t show any kindness to the three new crew members. He looked at the three clumsy men and scolded Zhang Jian for being unreliable, regardless of whether Zhang Jian could hear them or not.

   When everything was ready, Ni Depu, Qing Chen, and Yang Yang were already exhausted and paralyzed on the deck.

  Sunrise, the morning sun rises from the end of the sea level.

  Old John yelled on the deck: "Rookies, hurry up and rest, there is only one hour left for you."

   After finishing speaking, Ni Depu went back to the cabin with dark circles and fell asleep, while Qingchen and Yangyang were attracted by the rising sun on the sea, and sat on the deck silently watching.

  The beautiful scenery is like an oil painting.

   Qing Chen whispered to Yang Yang: "Do you need to perform so realistically? I don't think we are both tired at all."

  Yangyang smiled and said, "You want to be in a group."

   "I saw someone organizing a student parade in City No. 10. Have you been to City No. 10?" Qing Chen asked.

Yang Yang leaned against the guardrail on the deck, tilted her head and looked at Qing Chen: "I haven't arrived yet. By the way, you seem to have done a lot of things in City 10. With your current status, you should be responsible for arresting Qing Chen." I was right, I have the impression that the PCA intelligence division used to be mainly responsible for this, as well as arresting Spades lurking in the Federation."

   "What do you want to say?" Qing Chen asked strangely.

  Yangyang thought for a while: "So our current identities should be opposites, and we have to separate ourselves to survive!"

   "Can we stop adding drama?" Qing Chen sighed.

  At first, when Qing Chen saw this classmate Yangyang, he thought that the other party would be a cold killer.

  However, in fact, the other party's detached side is irresistible.

   It’s okay to compare many awakened people to wild monsters. I don’t know where I learned the bad habit of driving anytime and anywhere.

  The relationship between the two seems a little close in the eyes of Zhang Jian, Old John, and Niederp, but what about the truth? Except for Yang Yang driving over Qing Chen's face unilaterally, there had never been any real, so-called "progress" between them.

   Qingchen is very clear that Yangyang has his own goals.

   She is not a vassal of spades, nor a vassal of day.

  Everything she does now is moving in a certain direction.

   Qing Chen turned his head and asked, "Do you want to help the residents of the other world?"

   "Yes," Yangyang nodded.

   "But this matter cannot be achieved only by student demonstrations," Qing Chen said: "The history of the watch world has fully proved this point."

   "But there must always be the first step to enlighten people's wisdom, right?" Yangyang looked at the magnificent sea: "My life is still very long, take your time."

   I don't know why, but Qing Chen feels that he and this classmate Yang Yang are two extremes. He is a pessimist, always prepared for danger in times of peace, and always wants to be prepared for everything.

  Yangyang is always an enthusiastic optimist.

   Also don't know how they became friends.

   At this moment, the rough sea was outside the boat, and suddenly a blue whale jumped out of the water facing the rising sun in the distance.

  On the wide sea, the huge fins on both sides of the blue whale are like two wings. It seems that with a little force, it can leap into the sky.

  The vast figure overlapped with the rising sun, and it was extremely gorgeous.

   This is the first time Qing Chen saw a blue whale, just like he was surprised when he first saw the majestic giant tree in No. 002 Forbidden Land in the wilderness.

Old John walked out quickly from the cabin: "Put down the crab cage, put down the eight explorers! The blue whale has appeared, and we are going to put down the crab cage at the place where the blue whale appears. It is a stalwart elf in the sea, it will Good luck to us!"

   "Only eight?" Qing Chen asked.

"Yes, only put eight. Novices in the Barents Sea, remember, this is called a pathfinder cage. Put it in the sea for 6 hours and come back to see it. If there are king crabs, this will be our fishing ground!" Old John said.

   As he spoke, he picked up the phone at the door of the cabin and shouted, "Zhang, we are going to release the crab cage!"

  The telephone is a wired telephone connected to the bridge, which is convenient for the captain to communicate with the crew.

   Immediately afterwards, he slammed on the cabin door: "The rookie inside, come out to work."

  Qing Chen glanced at Yang Yang: "You go and tie the floats to the crab pots, and Ni Dep and I will set the crab pots."

  180 empty crab cages are cages welded together with steel bars, neatly stacked on the deck, just like containers on a freighter.

  When the captain drives the crabbing boat to the designated area, the crew is responsible for tying the crab pots to balloon-like floats, and then throwing the crab pots into the sea.

   Crab boats don't need to wait here.

  If there are king crabs on the bottom of the sea, they will follow the smell of cod and get into the crab cages one by one that can only enter and cannot exit.

  After waiting for 6-12 hours, the ship returned to the buoy. The crew threw out the claws to hook the buoy floating on the sea surface, and then used the crane to pull the crab pots on the seabed to the deck one by one.

  The floats are the coordinates of the crab cages.

   Followed by measuring size, sorting, and finally, according to the number of king crabs in the wayfinding cage, choose whether to continue to cage in the same place.

  At this moment, Niederp glanced at Qing Chen, and whispered, "I hope you won't lose your strength when you get out of the cage."

Qing Chen smiled and didn't speak. Old John, who controlled the crane, hoisted the crab cage to the delivery platform, and shouted at the same time: "Rookies, don't be distracted. Be careful that the floating rope tied to the crab cage is entangled with you." feet, take you into the bottom of the ocean."

  One of the most dangerous things in the Barents Sea is being carried to the bottom of the sea by crab pots.

  The rope is coiled in a circle and placed on the deck. The hull is shaken violently by the waves, and the crew may step on the rope if they are unstable.

  At this time, the crab pot is falling rapidly into the bottom of the sea, and the rope is pulled and falls together. If the crew's ankle is entangled in the rope, they will enter the sea with the crab pot.

  So, after all the crew members boarded the ship, Old John gave everyone a dagger, which meant that if someone was entangled, they needed a companion to help and cut the rope quickly.

  In the Barents Sea, the only person who can save the crew is his companion.

  Qing Chen and Ni Depu stood on both sides of the launching platform, pushing the crab pots into the sea until all eight of them sank to the bottom of the sea.

  The Arctic continued to drive forward, and Zhang Jian continued to follow the chart left by his father in the cab, looking for the next place where the crab cage could be thrown.

  After staying for six hours, the Arctic returned to the position of the pathfinding cage. Old John stood on the deck and threw out his claws, trying to hook the rope under the float, and then hooked it up with a crane.

   However, Old John is too old, his strength is not as good as before, and his alcoholic body is constantly shaking.

  The waves are too big, and the hull is constantly undulating, which affects Old John's accuracy.

  No matter how many times he throws it, it is difficult to hook the rope under the float.

The boat is always drifting with the current. If Zhang Jian misses the hook once, he has to turn the boat back. For an old sailor on a crabbing boat, it is necessary for the captain to constantly adjust the direction to hook the rope. shame.

  Qing Chen thought for a while, then said to Old John: "How about I try it?"

  Old John smiled: "The rookie thinks he can do it? If you want to try, then try it. Remember, don't break the float, otherwise the crab cage will sink to the bottom of the sea forever with the float."

  The next second, he handed the hook claw to Qing Chen, only to see that Qing Chen hooked the rope under the balloon float with a casual throw.

  Old John froze for a moment: "Damn it, is this really your first time crabbing?"

   "I used to practice javelin-like sports," Qing Chen made up an excuse.

  Old John ran to the crane and pressed the switch. There was a rumbling sound, and the winch in the crane cabin made an overwhelmed sound.

  The experienced old John immediately felt that something was wrong, and immediately slowed down the speed of pulling the crab cage.

  The crab pots on the bottom of the sea are also rising until they come out of the sea.

   However, when the rope reached the end, it was not a crab cage that exposed the sea, but a two-meter-high single-room mobile public toilet.

   Even the calm Qing Chen is dumbfounded. I have never heard that the Barents Sea still produces public toilets.

  Qing Chen pointed to the public toilet: "To be honest, I really can't understand why this kind of thing appears in the Barents Sea."

  In the boundless sea, it seems like a mobile public toilet is suddenly hoisted up.

  However, soon everyone discovered that there was a marker written on the door of the mobile public toilet: "A gift from the Orca to the Arctic."

  Zhang Jian walked out of the cab and roared furiously: "It must be Fen Er of the Orca!"

  The captains of the three crabbing ships, the Orca, the Alps, and the Long Tail, were the ones who wanted to buy the Arctic king crab fishing quota in the Walnut Bar.

   It seems that the three captains are targeting Zhang Jian.

Zhang Jian explained: "This is an old prank by crabbers. Before they go to sea, they will go to the waste recycling station and buy this kind of thing at the cheapest price, or a scrapped car, and take it to sea with them. If you see the floats of other crabbing boats, you will hook up the floats and replace other people's crab pots with this large piece of garbage."

Old John said: "The crab cage is only 680 pounds, and this thing can weigh 4,000 pounds when it is filled with water, which is much heavier than the crab cage. They know that the Arctic is old, and if the crane is overloaded, it may directly Pull out the crane. If the crane fails, the crabbing boat can only go back to the port to repair the crane and then return to the Barents Sea.”

  Qing Chen can't laugh or cry, can he still play like this?

  The battles he experienced in the past were all directly facing life and death, but today's battles are weird.

   This is a battle between crab catchers...

   But it's too cheap, the other three crabbing boats are trying to cut off the North Pole's money.

  However, this is the rule in the Barents Sea. There can be a joke between crabbing boats, but only once.

  In the past, people would hang a small doll or a broken ball on the end of the float, but now some bad crabbers will directly use this rule to pit others into nothing.

   "What about this thing?" Qing Chen asked, pointing to the mobile toilet on the sea.

  Zhang Jian walked towards the cab with a gloomy face: "Remove the claws and let this thing sink to the bottom of the sea. Let's start fishing for other crab pots. They can only do this trick once at most."

  Qing Chen imagined, if someone came to the Barents Sea to hunt for treasure a few years later, and suddenly found a mobile public toilet standing on the seabed while exploring the seabed, what expression would it be...

   It's wonderful to think about it.

  As the remaining seven crab cages were hoisted, this time Old John didn't touch the hook claws at all, and he just watched Qingchen hook up the floats one by one with perfect accuracy.

  Old John just said: "Do you know that even a fifteen-year-old sailor may not be so accurate?"

  Qing Chen smiled and did not speak.

   It's just that the blue whale doesn't really seem to bring them good luck.

  In each crab cage, there are only seven or eight king crabs sporadically, and the harvest is dismal.

  In the pathfinding cages in the Barents Sea, there are generally 25 to 30 king crabs in each crab cage, which is considered a good harvest, which means that they are close to the crab group.

  If there are eighty crabs in the pot, it means they are above the crab group.

  Old John said that his highest record ever was catching 112 king crabs in one cage, and the huge king crabs almost filled the crab cage made of welded steel bars.

  At that time, the captain of the Arctic was Zhang Jian’s father. People in the port often said that the smart Asian captain could always find the largest crab farm in the mysterious Barents Sea every year.

  Zhang Jian looked at the harvest on the deck and frowned. It’s okay if the harvest was dismal, and one of the crab pots was snatched by the killer whale...

  He could already hear the jeers from the other crabbing boats.

   There is a tradition in the Walnut Bar, a total of nine crabbing boats in the port of Amsterdam. Every year, the captains will place a bet of 10,000 euros per person, whoever fulfills their quota first will take away the 80,000 euros of the remaining eight captains, and the 80,000 euros will be distributed to the crew.

  The owner of the Walnut Bar is guarding the port, and is responsible for observing the weighing of each crabbing ship's cargo warehouse.

  This is why captains like to go to the walnut bar. Crab hunting is also a good thing.

  The crew will also work desperately for this prize. You must know that one person gets more than 10,000 euros for nothing, which is equivalent to taking more than 100,000 yuan for no reason.

  However, Zhang Jian did not mention this matter to Qingchen and Yangyang, because his 10,000 euros was basically the same as a waste of money...

  At this time, Yangyang suddenly said: "Just now when we put down the road cage and drove to the depths of the Barents Sea, there is a very good place."

Zhang Jian looked at Yangyang, and patiently explained to his few crew members: "Catching crabs is not that simple. You just put the crab pots down after seeing what you see. You must know that during this season, king crabs are concentrated in On the continental shelf, the activities of crab groups also have specific rules."

   Niederp also gave them a cold look: "Don't think that if you throw your claws well, you can make any suggestions on the ship. Sailors should do their jobs well."

  Yangyang smiled and did not speak again.

   Only Qing Chen glanced at Yang Yang thoughtfully, and asked in a low voice: "Has your perception range expanded?"

  Yangyang responded in a low voice: "It has expanded to 300 meters."

  Qing Chen nodded, no wonder the girl spoke suddenly.

   "Is the crab group you found large?" Qing Chen asked.

  Yangyang nodded: "It's densely packed."

  King crabs are concentrated in the area at a depth of 270 meters, which can just be covered by Yangyang's perception range.

  This Yangyang classmate is a humanoid self-propelled radar. If she says that there are crabs, then there really are!

  However, they were not related to Zhang Jian and others, and they didn't really come to catch crabs.

   Now that they have boarded the ship smoothly, they can do whatever Zhang Jian and Old John command. Anyway, what Qing Chen has to wait for is just a storm.

  According to the weather forecast, there will be a strong hurricane of more than 60 knots coming from the north in 4 days, and it may be an opportunity at that time.

  However, at this moment, Old John suddenly looked at Yang Yang and said, "Which direction is the location you mentioned, we can put a few pathfinding cages down."

Zhang Jian wanted to say something, but Old John continued: "Now that I've just gone to sea, no one knows where the crab farm is. Everyone is trying to find it aimlessly, so it's okay to throw a few pathfinding cages according to your preferences." .”

  At this moment, although Old John, who has 20 years of experience in crabbing, is just a sailor, he is more like a captain.

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  Chapter 6,000 words, there is another chapter at 11pm

  (end of this chapter)