Chapter 734 Time To Go Into The Water (2/2)

While handing the hot cocoa to him, Li Du smiled in a flattering manner. ”Hey, friend, such a muscular physique.”

The harvester was a middle-aged Caucasian man around forty years old. The muscular physique that he'd obtained from diving frequently throughout the year was used by Li Du as a conversation starter.

The harvester looked at him warily. ”What's the matter?”

Li Du smiled. ”I'm a tourist and I find your job to be very interesting—”

”There's nothing interesting about my job, you can find out more about it online,” the harvester coldly replied with a sentence before walking far away from Li Du and his group with his wife, who was on the shore.

While the couple was walking away, they still looked back as they found Li Du and his group to be very frightening.

Li Du was able to understand how they felt. Godzilla and Big Quinn, whom he had brought along, did not seem like decent people and looked even more boorish than thugs. It was clear that the harvester was worried they would rob him of his harvesting permit.

After consecutively finding a few people in hopes of gaining some knowledge, he ended up being rejected by all of them even when he went alone and did not bring Godzilla and Big Quinn.

Although there was not a lot of large black gold abalone at the beach, searching for them was much easier than searching for fire opals.

More than half an hour after Li Du had arrived on the beach, a harvester found a black gold abalone.

However, after bringing it to shore, he did not give the others a chance to look at it and immediately pinned an abalone card on it before storing it in a storage box. Whenever someone got close, he would chase them away in an angry tone.

Seeing this, Lu Guan sighed, ”There isn't a single bit of humanity in this profession. Boss, do you think they are lonely and bitter living like this?”

”Being able to earn hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars annually, do you think you would have a lonely and bitter life?”

”Uh, no.”

After Li Du released the little bug into the sea, it began searching the surroundings.

As observed by him earlier, although there were quite a few abalones in this area of the sea, the number of large abalones was low.

Due to harvesters holding their breaths while looking for abalones in the water, which made searching difficult, and the low quantity of large abalones that complied with the harvest criteria, the chances of finding an abalone was very low.

Even though the little bug's vision was great underwater and it was even able to find a few abalones, its efficiency was low due to the low quantity of abalones. It was only after expending some energy that Li Du managed to find a single large abalone hiding in the reef.

As this area of the sea had a very beautiful seabed and coral colonies, it was not surprising that this area was a famous diving spot.

There were constantly small fish, prawns, and crabs swimming past the sea anemones and seaweeds growing on the bright and colorful corals. From time to time, large fish and crabs could also be seen.

Having found the large abalone after a round of searching, Li Du took off his shirt, began warming up, and said, ”Seems like I will have to get a feel for it myself.”

Lu Guan asked, ”Boss, you want to go into the sea?”

”No,” Li Du replied. ”I want to do a striptease for you guys.”

Lu Guan grinned. ”That can't be it. You definitely want to go into the sea.”

”Of course, why ask if you already know?” Li Du responded unpleasantly.

The few consecutive refusals by the abalone harvesters had put him in a bad mood.

Lu Guan said weakly, ”I only wanted to show some concern. You have to be careful, the sea here is very dangerous.”

Li Du knew that the sea was dangerous. However, the water here wasn't even 20 feet deep at 30 feet from the shore. It was shallow so there was no need to worry about being swept into deepwater regions since there was no undercurrent. This area of the sea was safe.

As such, it was safer to harvest abalones here.