88: Landing on a deserted island

After lunch, the group didn't cast with their boat fishing rods anymore.

Because in Yang Qi's ability vision, there weren't many valuable fish schools nearby.

They were probably hunted by the Tuna and then left with the changing ocean currents.

However, there were still quite a few Grouper on the seabed.

Yang Qi reset the depth on the electric reel, then went with Yang Dad to the flybridge for a smoke.

An hour later, after marking the location on his map, Yang Qi drove the fishing boat away.

He drove for another forty to fifty minutes, passing several rocky islands along the way, but Yang Qi didn't stop.

Finally, a not-so-small island appeared ahead, with its entire structure being higher in the east and lower in the west.

The eastern side was a steep cliff, while the western side was relatively flat.

Many tropical trees grew in the middle of the island, making it look lush and green.

Using his ability, Yang Qi saw that the entire island was surrounded by many rock formations.

Yang Qi's heart was filled with joy; such an island should be rarely visited.

Large ships couldn't get in, and small boats couldn't reach this sea area.

“This is an uninhabited, undeveloped, pristine island.”

Yang Qi found a relatively flat spot, stopped the boat, and dropped anchor.

He unfastened the rubber dinghy tied to the side of the boat, then took out a small motor propeller and installed it.

He took Yang Dad with him and headed towards the island, leaving Yang Mom and Bai Xue to watch the boat.

Finding a convenient place to land, the two came ashore and stepped onto the island.

Along the way, Yang Qi discovered that there were abundant fishery resources under the rock piles.

Countless fish schools swam in and out around the reefs.

Various crabs, conches, abalones, lobsters, and so on, were countless.

When the rubber dinghy successfully landed, Yang Dad also noticed the dense, nameless snails on the rocks along the shore, and even found a few crabs.

“Son, are these oysters? Why are they so big!”

Yang Dad couldn't quite believe it.

When he was back home, he occasionally went to eat barbecue with friends and had seen grilled oysters a few times.

Their size couldn't compare at all to the palm-sized ones here.

“Yes! Yang Dad, these are wild giant oysters! We’ll get some back to try later.”

Yang Qi's eyes also lit up.

“These are a man’s gas station and a woman’s beauty salon! Later, we’ll get more to take back and give Brother Jun some to try. Hehehe!”

Yang Qi felt happy just thinking about it.

He said to Yang Dad:

“Dad, you can wander around and look here, I’ll go pick up Yang Mom and Bai Xue.

I have a feeling this island is unusual, and we’ll definitely find a lot of good stuff.”

“Anyway, we’ll stay close by so we can keep an eye on the fishing boat.”

“Hmm, you’re right, go ahead, I’ll take a look around.”

Yang Qi returned to the fishing boat and explained the situation to Bai Xue, and the two immediately looked for usable tools and fish baskets for loading goods.

When the three returned to the landing point, Yang Dad excitedly told them that he had found many conches, crabs, and lobsters.

Upon hearing this, Yang Mom and Bai Xue also became interested and picked up their tools, heading towards where Yang Dad had found the seafood.

When they arrived, they saw that the rock crevices and under the reefs were full of all kinds of seafood.

Dense clusters of various snails clung to the reefs, and many more were on the sand at the bottom of the sea.

Bai Xue shrieked with excitement and quickly squatted down to pick up various whelks, cat's eye snails, auger snails, red conches, and so on from the sandy ground.

Yang Qi already knew that deeper waters held many large trumpet shells, coconut shells, large conches, and other good finds.

So he feigned putting on his diving gear.

He had specifically brought it over earlier.

When he dived to the seabed, his eyes were filled with good finds: trumpet shells and coconut shells as big as a human head.

A single net bag couldn't hold more than a few.

Helpless, he had to surface and first put the snails into the rubber dinghy.

After thinking for a moment, he also asked Bai Xue to paddle the rubber dinghy to where he was diving, and he would just go directly into the sea.

This way, at least when he surfaced, Bai Xue could control the rubber dinghy to be by his side, making it convenient for him to put these big creatures into the dinghy.

Just like that, Yang Qi could bring up four or five large snails in one trip.

Occasionally, he could also bring up a few sea cucumbers.

Soon, a large pile accumulated on the rubber dinghy.

Bai Xue even unloaded goods to the fishing boat twice in between.

At this point, Yang Qi was already happily picking up sea cucumbers on the seabed.

Basically, every large individual weighed about three liang.

The dark sea cucumbers were lying on the sand, and at first, Yang Qi thought they were rotten wood, almost letting them go.

Later, upon closer inspection, he realized they were the famous sea cucumbers.

He was no longer confused instantly.

“These are genuine, authentic wild sea cucumbers!”

“Not the stuff a certain football team eats!”

Yang Qi ignored the small sea cucumbers.

After he had basically picked up all the larger sea cucumbers nearby, he then turned his attention to the abalones on the reefs.

These abalones were simply too tempting.

Some of them were as wide as an adult's palm.

They clung to the reefs, looking like lumps growing on the rocks.

“This one alone probably weighs at least seven or eight liang, if not a whole jin.”

“This is going to be valuable!”

Yang Qi took out a screwdriver he was carrying and began prying off the abalones, only picking the large ones.

However, the tool wasn't strong enough; some abalones, with good luck, could be pried off in a few tries.

But most were still very difficult to remove.

Yang Qi pried several large reefs before he managed to pry off just one net bag of large abalones.

Surfacing, Yang Qi handed the net bag in his hand to Bai Xue, who was in the rubber dinghy.

Bai Xue was greatly surprised, “Such big abalones! A single fresh one is almost a jin!”

“Single-head abalone?” Yang Qi immediately raised his voice.

“Brother, you’re joking, the terms ‘X-head abalone’ refer to dried abalones.

Six to eight jin of fresh abalones only yield one jin of dried product,” Bai Xue explained to Yang Qi.

“Fresh abalones are sold by the jin! Your one-jin individual abalone is also very rare.

A large one like this would definitely cost several thousands each.”

“Alright! I thought…”

“Keep going! Keep going!” Yang Qi encouraged himself.

When Yang Qi heard that such abalones cost several thousand yuan each, he immediately became excited again.

Diving to the bottom, he saw large sea cucumbers, which he would definitely prioritize for a private room.

Then he continued to gather the large abalones on the reefs.

Seeing some crabs crawling in and out from under the reefs, Yang Qi temporarily didn't want to bother with them.

“What's your status? At most worth one or two hundred, yet you dare to disturb me while I'm prying abalones worth several thousands.

Don't you have any self-awareness!”

Yang Qi secretly cursed these crabs for overestimating themselves.

“When I free up my hands, I’ll deal with you slowly!”

One by one, large abalones were pried off by Yang Qi and put into the net bag.

He surfaced and handed the net bag to Bai Xue.

Turning to look at Yang Dad, who was still prying large oysters there, Yang Qi spoke:

“Yang Dad, first look for sea cucumbers and abalones nearby.

We can pry some oysters to take with us when we leave.”

Yang Dad thought about it and realized he was right!

Although he liked eating oysters, he couldn't deny that sea cucumbers and abalones offered better value for money!