Chapter 757 Something Fishy (2/2)

Cruz did not refuse. He boarded the boat and sat down with Li Du and asked, ”How could you possibly get so much? How did you find the black gold abalone?”

To the outside world, it appeared that Li Du had found a rare habitat with a group of black gold abalone.

The black gold abalone reproduced every year, and over time, it formed a group of black gold abalone.

However, a large abalone group was very rare. They all had been found, and though there were many remaining abalone groups, the abalones in them were small and did not qualify to be harvested.

Li Du didn't have a good feeling about Cruz at first, and both sides had had a little bit of conflict with one another, but in this case, when Cruz found out he was in danger, he helped him or even saved his life, so the feeling changed.

Upon hearing Cruz's question, Li Du did not answer but asked, ”When did you start diving? How deep can you dive?”

Cruz said, ”I started learning to dive when I was 12, and I've been doing it since I was 15. Now I can dive down to 50 meters.”

Li Du nodded. ”Then you shouldn't stay here. Go south, man. There is a continuous oceanic trench, about 40 to 50 meters. You should go and take a look.”

Knowing what he meant, Cruz tilted his head and asked, ”Continuous trench? It's a little too deep. I think I've seen it. Didn't find any abalones.”

”Your eyes aren't sharp enough. You see too little.” Li Du said.

Sophie brought him a cup of ginger cola. It was Li Du's idea. They were always in contact with the sea water, and it was too cold. Ginger cola was a type of drink that the Chinese used to warm their bodies up. It could warm them up as well.

Cruz took a sip and frowned. ”What's that smell? It tastes more awful than sea water.”

Li Du laughed.

Cruz shrugged, continued to frown, then looked wistfully south and had a deep thought.

Li Du had already said everything he needed to say. There was quite a lot of black gold abalone in that area, but the water was deep so it would be difficult to get them out.

If Cruz was as good at freediving as he said he was, he could reap big rewards.

As the hunting continued, the two men continued to harvest quite a lot, and they became the dark horses in the abalone market on King Island. Many abalone buyers who were specially arranged by hotels on the island were contacting them.

The harvest was great, and Li Du and Hans worked hard.

They became familiar with the sea and began to enjoy diving for the black gold abalone.

In early April, Li Du emerged with a black gold abalone as a speedboat painted with the bureau's logo approached them.

”It's time to check again,” said Big Quinn as he shrugged and looked helpless.

Li Du called Hans and Sophie up, and the speedboat came up. On it was a fishing officer who asked, ”Who told you to fish for the black gold abalone here? Do you have a harvesting permit? Bring it over and I'll check it.”

”Of course, here it is.” Li Du nodded to Brother Wolf, who took out his harvesting permit from the safe in the driver's cabin and handed it to him.

He put the fishing license in the safe, not for the sake of insurance, but to prevent it from being damaged by seawater and moisture. Most of the damage to a harvesting permit was caused by moisture.

Handing over harvesting permit, Li Du instinctively felt something was wrong.

He thought quickly and realized that the officer was strange, his tone was unfriendly, and he didn't even look at Sophie when she came out of the water wearing an oxygen tank!

So, to be sure, Li Du sent the little bug into the boat to check the situation.