Chapter 816 Ali’s Retaliation (1/2)

Chapter 816: Ali’s Retaliation

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The miner's description piqued Li Du's interest. Li Du asked, ”What are the small monsters? Do you know their name?”

Seeing that Li Du was curious, the miner gave a crafty smile and replied, ”Let me see the journal Bob gave you, and I will give you information about those monsters.”

Li Du was speechless.

Did the miner think he was stupid?

As Li Du could not be bothered to continue talking to the miner, he picked up a fishing rod, waved at Sophie, and said, ”Dear, let's go to Darling River and take a look. Let's see just what monsters are there. Could they be water monsters?”

Another miner said, ”Not water monsters, it's small lobsters. Peters was talking about small lobsters.”

Thinking that the miner who wanted to extort Li Du earlier was very stupid, the other miner looked at him in a scornful manner and thought, What value is there in this kind of information? Might as well honestly tell Li Du and get a small favor in return.

Sure enough, after hearing his words, Li Du raised his rod to signal to him and said, ”Many thanks. I will treat you to a beer at the bar when I see you again.”

”Anytime.” The miner hurriedly smiled and said, ”I'm Frye, Cole Frye.”

After Li Du nodded at the miner, the boss asked, ”I'll be gossipy and ask a question. I heard that you used to harvest black gold abalone in Tasmania. In that case, you would surely have a fishing license, right?”

The question that the boss had asked was an important one. Li Du replied awkwardly, ”I don't have a fishing license. You'll have to help me get one.”

In order to protect the fishing industry's resources, Australia required all fishermen to apply for a fishing license. The application process was very easy and could be done in a fishing equipment store.

The boss asked, ”What kind would you like to apply for? There are four kinds in total. Three days for seven dollars, one month for 14 dollars, one year for 35 dollars, and three years for 85 dollars. You don't need to tell me, I know the answer. The longer the duration, the better, right?”

As small sums of money were insignificant to Li Du, he took out 70 dollars and applied for two one-year fishing licenses. Since he would be not be staying in Lightning Ridge for long, his main consideration was that he might want to fish when harvesting black gold abalone in the future, and having a fishing license in hand would enable him to fish conveniently.

The boss asked Li Du the time he would be fishing and wrote it down on his fishing license. With that, Li Du was able to fish legally.

After bidding farewell to Frye, Li Du and his group drove off towards the north.

With the widest area being over ten meters wide, the section of Darling River that was located in Lightning Ridge was relatively large. As it had been raining heavily for the last few days, the river's flow was unceasing and swift.

Due to there being lots of mines nearby, there would be large amounts of rock dust deposited in the river every day, so it was inevitable that the Darling River would be somewhat muddy.

Despite that, when looking at the river as a whole, the conservation efforts that had been carried out were still very effective. Lush green watergrass was growing on the river banks, and the few pebbles that were being tumbled along the river banks by the water currents were very clean.

After spotting a small patch of elevated ground, Li Du walked over to it, found a thin pebble, and threw it with a swing of his arm.

With several splash sounds, the pebble skipped four to five times across the surface of the river before sinking into the water.

Seeing this, Li Du turned to face Sophie, raised his fist, and said, ”Yeah, a beautiful home run!”

Amused by his playfulness, Sophie smiled and said, ”Again.”

Li Du went to search for a suitable pebble. As the previous pebble had been a little too thick, it was not very apt for skipping and sank into the river after only a few skips along the river's surface.

When Li Du lifted a large piece of rock, two small, fully armored creatures raised their large pincers at him.

Small lobsters!

Earlier, after arriving at the river, Li Du first went to take a look at the river banks. As he did not see any small lobsters, he thought that the miners' words were a little bit of an exaggeration, and that even though there might be small lobsters in Lightning Ridge, the quantity was very low.

Now, with two small lobsters emerging after just having lifted a piece of rock, Li Du's views had changed, and he now believed the miners.

After discovering the two small lobsters, Li Du ran excitedly back to the car, took out the net bag that he had purchased from the fishing equipment shop, and stuffed the two small lobsters into the net bag.