Night’s Nomenclature

The Arctic slowly sailed out of the port.

The engine of the dilapidated crab boat made strange noises, and the sea surface was cut open by the bow of the boat, like a paper knife cutting into a canvas.

Nidepu is a middle-aged man in his thirties. Zhang Jian said that this crew member was once a sailor on a crab fishing boat, but because of his history of using illegal drugs, he has been banned from all crab fishing boats. "blocked.

Niedep had followed Zhang Jian's father in his early years, so he approached Zhang Jian and wanted to go to sea with the ship.

Many sailors among the crab fishermen have secretly taken illegal drugs because their money came too quickly and because they were too tired on the ship. They thought these drugs would bring them energy, just like dopamine and endogenous drugs in the other world. Same as the orphin chip.

But the consequences of using illegal drugs are tragic, and no crab fishing boat wants to contaminate such sailors.

Zhang Jian decided to give Nedep a chance and took him for a urine test to make sure that his test was not positive before finally allowing Nedep to board the ship.

Old John told Nedup that if he wanted to start over on the crab boat, he should just be a newbie and start by tying crab pots.

After Qingchen and Yangyang got on the boat, Nidepu just looked at them coldly and continued to do his work.

"Hello, you will be my companion on the North Pole from now on," Yangyang smiled and greeted him in English...

But Niedep just said coldly: "Only sailors who have been recognized by other crew members are real companions, not those like you who come on board for sightseeing."

Yangyang smiled and said nothing.

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

Zhang Jian said nothing with a cold face, but Craig did not stop.

On the radio communication channel, roaring laughter came from the Alpine's cab: "Zhang, can the addicts and students help you lift the crab pot? Old John will probably die of exhaustion on the Arctic. But, I There are traditional gifts from the Barents Sea on the side, ready to receive them."

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

Old John's expression changed as if he had thought of something, and he hurriedly said to everyone: "Quick, close the doors and windows, and everyone hide in the cab!"

The next moment, the Alpine chased from behind, walking side by side with the Arctic at a distance of three meters.

Qingchen saw seven sailors on the Alpine move out three white boxes and take out...rows of eggs!

That's three full cartons of 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 towards the Arctic, like a snowball fight...

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

Old John was trembling with anger: "There are still many traditions among crab fishermen. A long time ago, when the ships left the port, crab fishing boats would play some similar small games to enhance mutual friendship."

Qingchen looked at the egg whites and egg yolks on the window glass: "Do you call this improving friendship..."

Watching as the Alpine's sailors smashed hundreds of eggs in one breath, they immediately drove away at full power.

Qingchen walked out of the cab and took a look, and suddenly felt that the Arctic was a little swollen...

These crab fishermen are all a bit pissy.

He looked at the Alpine going away, suddenly straightened his arms and gave a thumbs up.

And, he closed one of his eyes.

At this moment, Captain Craig of the Alpine stood on the deck, looking back with a telescope, and happily said to the crew around him: "That student actually gave us a thumbs up and praised us for our good work. .”

A sailor took the telescope from Craig's hand and looked at it doubtfully. He thought for two seconds and said: "How does this look like the gunner's aiming and ranging before firing?"

Craig: “???”

In fact, Qingchen was indeed measuring distance. There was a lack of reference objects on the sea, so he had to get used to the new method of visual distance measurement so that he could convince others with his virtue.

Yangyang next to him smiled and said, "That's not true. If someone hits you with eggs, you plan to hit them back with a sniper rifle. That's too much."

Qingchen smiled: "Nothing, just measure the distance."

Yangyangxin said that you are a master who never stops doing anything. The purpose of measuring range is not to snipe people.

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

Qingchen also witnessed the cruelty of the crab fishing industry during these 20 hours.

Zhang Jian was responsible for driving the ship, but he didn't sleep for 20 hours in a row, just because if the helmsman fell asleep, the ship would deviate from the course in a matter of minutes.

Old John is the only one on the ship who knows some steering skills, but he has to teach newcomers on the deck.

Old John must teach Qingchen, Yangyang, and Niedep how to tie crab pots, lower crab pots, hang cages, and stabilize their bodies on the deck within 20 hours...

Moreover, the egg batter that the Alpine smashed had to be cleaned up.

The cold sea breeze blew into everyone's necks, and the sea water would rush to 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 people and cursed Zhang Jian for being unreliable, regardless of whether Zhang Jian could hear them.

By the time everything was ready, Nidepu, Qingchen, and Yangyang had collapsed on the deck from exhaustion.

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

Old John shouted from the deck: "Rookies, hurry up and rest, you only have one hour left."

After saying that, Nedep returned to the cabin with dark circles under his eyes and fell asleep, while Qingchen and Yangyang were attracted by the rising sun on the sea, and sat on the deck watching silently.

The beautiful scenery is like an oil painting.

Qingchen whispered to Yangyang, "Does the performance need to be so realistic? I feel like neither of us is tired at all."

Yangyang smiled and said, "You have to be a gregarious person."

"I saw someone organizing a student demonstration in City No. 10. Have you arrived in City No. 10?" Qingchen asked.

Yangyang leaned against the guardrail on the deck and tilted his head to look at Qingchen: "I haven't arrived yet. By the way, you seem to have done a lot of things in City No. 10. With your current status, you should be responsible for arresting That's right, I remember that the main responsibility of the PCA Intelligence Division was this, as well as catching Spade's people lurking in the federation."

"What do you want to say?" Qingchen asked strangely.

Yangyang thought for a while: "So our current identities should be opposite, and we have to live and die together!"

"Can you please stop adding more scenes?" Qingchen sighed.

When Qingchen first met this Yangyang classmate, he thought he would be a cold-blooded killer.

However, in fact, the extravagant side of the other party's character cannot be blocked.

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 to be somewhat close in the eyes of Zhang Jian, Old John, and Niedep, but what is the reality? Except for Yangyang unilaterally running over Qingchen's face, there has never been any real, so-called "progress" between them.

Qingchen knew very well that Yangyang had his own goals.

She is not a vassal of Spades, nor a vassal of Day.

Everything she is doing now is moving in a certain direction.

Qingchen turned around and asked, "Do you want to help the residents of the other world?"

"Yeah," Yangyang nodded.

"But this matter cannot be accomplished by student demonstrations alone," Qingchen said. "The history of the world has fully proved this."

"But there must be the first step to open up people's wisdom, right?" Yangyang looked at the magnificent sea: "I still have a long life, so take your time."

For some reason, Qingchen felt that he and his classmate Yangyang were like two extremes. He was a pessimist, always prepared for danger in times of peace, and always wanted to be prepared for everything.

But Yangyang is an eternally enthusiastic optimist.

I don’t know how they became friends.

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

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

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

This was Qingchen's first time seeing a blue whale, just as he was as surprised as when he first saw the majestic trees in Forbidden Land No. 002 in the wilderness.

Old John walked out of the cabin quickly: "Put down the crab pots and put them down for eight explorers! The blue whale has appeared. We have to put down the crab pots where the blue whale appears. It is a majestic elf in the sea. It will Bring us good luck!"

"Only eight?" Qingchen asked.

"Yes, only eight of them are placed. Newbies in the Barents Sea should remember that this is called a pathfinder cage. Put it in the sea for six hours and then come back to see if there are king crabs, this will be our fishing ground!" Old John said.

With that said, he picked up the phone at the cabin door and shouted: "Zhang, we are going to put crab pots!"

The telephone is a wired telephone connected to the wheelhouse to facilitate communication between the captain and the crew.

Immediately afterwards, he slapped the cabin door hard: "The rookies inside are coming out to work."

Qingchen glanced at Yangyang and said, "You go and tie the floats on the crab pots, and Nidepu and I will put the crab pots in."

The 180 empty crab pots are cages made of welded steel bars, neatly stacked on the deck, like containers on a freighter.

When the captain drives the crab boat to the designated area, the crew is responsible for tying the crab pots to balloon-like floats and then dropping 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 pots that can only be entered but cannot be exited one by one.

After waiting for 612 hours, the ship returned to the buoy. The crew threw out the hook and hooked the buoy floating on the sea surface, and then used a crane to pull the crab pots on the seabed to the deck one by one.

The floats are the coordinates of the crab pots.

The next step is to measure and sort, and finally, based on the number of king crabs in the pathfinder cage, choose whether to continue to cage them in the same place.

At this time, Nidepu glanced at Qingchen and whispered softly: "I hope you won't lose strength when you get out of the cage."

Qingchen smiled and said nothing. Old John, who controlled the crane, hoisted the crab pots to the platform and shouted at the top of his voice: "Rookies, don't be distracted. Be careful that the ropes tied to the floats on the crab pots are entangled with you." On my feet, I will take you to the bottom of the sea."

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

The rope was coiled in a circle on the deck. The ship's hull was violently shaken by the waves, and the crew was likely to step on the rope if they were unstable.

At this time, the crab pot is falling rapidly into the seabed, and the rope is being pulled down together. If the crew member's ankle is entangled in the rope, he will enter the sea with the crab pot.

Therefore, after all the crew members got on the boat, Old John gave everyone a dagger, which meant that if someone was entangled, a companion would need to help and quickly cut the rope.

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

Qingchen and Nidepu stood on both sides of the launch platform and pushed the crab pots into the sea until all eight of them sank to the bottom of the sea.

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

Six hours later, the Arctic returned to the pathfinder cage. Old John stood on the deck and swung out the hook, trying to hook the rope under the float and then use a crane to lift it.

However, Old John was too old, his strength was not as strong as before, and his body was shaking constantly due to alcoholism.

The waves were too big and the hull was constantly heaving, affecting Old John's accuracy.

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

The boat is always drifting with the current. If the hook fails once, Zhang Jian has to sail the boat and turn back. For an old sailor on a crab fishing boat, this requires the captain to constantly adjust the direction to hook the rope. This is a kind of shame.

Qingchen thought for a while and then said to Old John: "How about I give it a try?"

Old John laughed and said, "Rookie, do you think you can do it? If you want to try, then try it. Remember, don't break the float, otherwise the crab pot and the float will sink to the bottom of the sea forever."

The next second, he handed the hook to Qingchen's hand, but Qingchen threw it and hooked the rope under the balloon's float.

Old John was stunned for a moment: "Damn it, is this really your first time catching crabs?"

"I have practiced javelin throwing before," Qingchen made up a random excuse.

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

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

The crab pots on the sea floor are also rising until they emerge from the sea.

However, when the rope reached the end, what emerged from the sea was not a crab pot, but a two-meter-high single-room mobile public toilet.

Even the calm Qingchen was dumbfounded. He had never heard that there were public toilets in the Barents Sea.

Qingchen pointed to the public toilet: "To be honest, I really can't understand why such a thing appears in the Barents Sea."

Is it unreasonable to suddenly hang a mobile public toilet on the vast sea?

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

Zhang Jian walked out of the cab and shouted angrily: "It must be Finer from the Orca who did it!"

The captains of these three crab boats, the Orca, the Alpine, and the Long Tail, were the same people 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 of crab fishermen. Before they go to the sea, they will go to the abandoned recycling station and buy this kind of thing at the cheapest price, or a scrapped car, and take it with them to the sea. If you see the floats of other crab fishing boats, you will hook up the floats and replace other people’s crab pots with this large garbage.”

Old John said: "The crab pot is only 680 pounds. This thing can weigh 4,000 pounds when filled with water, which is much heavier than the crab pot. They know that the Arctic is worn out and if the crane is overloaded, it is very likely to directly Pull the crane out of service. If the crane is out of service, the crab fishing boat will have to return to the port to repair the crane and then return to the Barents Sea."

Qingchen couldn't laugh or cry, how could he still play like this?

In the past, the battles he had experienced were directly facing life and death, but today's battle was strange.

This is a battle between crab fishermen...

But this is too cheap. The other three crab boats are trying every means to cut off the Arctic's financial resources.

However, this is the rule of the Barents Sea. Crab boats can joke with each other, but only once.

In the past, people would hang a small doll or broken rubber ball at the end of the float. Nowadays, some bad crab fishermen will directly use this rule to trap others without harvesting anything.

"What should I do with this thing?" Qingchen asked, pointing to the mobile public toilet on the sea.

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

Qingchen imagined what his expression would be like if someone came to the Barents Sea to hunt for treasure in a few years and suddenly discovered a mobile public toilet standing on the seabed while exploring the seabed...

It’s wonderful just thinking about it.

As the remaining seven crab pots were hoisted, Old John simply didn't touch the hooks this time. He watched Qingchen lift 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?"

Qingchen smiled and said nothing.

However, the blue whale doesn't really seem to bring them good luck.

There were only seven or eight sporadic king crabs in each crab pot, and the harvest was dismal.

In the exploration pots on the Barents Sea, there are usually 25 to 30 king crabs in each crab pot, which is considered a good harvest, which means that they are close to the crab swarm.

If there are eighty crabs in the pot, that means they are on top of the crabs.

Old John said that his highest record was when he caught 112 king crabs in one cage. The huge king crabs almost filled the crab pot made of welded steel bars.

At that time, the captain of the Arctic was Zhang Jian's father. People at 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 frowned as he looked at the harvest on the deck. It didn’t matter that the harvest was dismal. One of the crab pots was even snatched away by the Orca...

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

There is a tradition in the Walnut Bar that there are a total of nine crab boats in the Amsterdam harbor. Every year, the captain makes a bet of 10,000 euros per person. Whoever completes his quota first will take away all the 80,000 euros from the remaining eight captains. The 80,000 euros will be divided among the crew.

The owner of the Walnut Bar is stationed at the port and is responsible for observing the cargo warehouse of each crab fishing boat.

This is why captains like to go to the Walnut Bar. Crab fishing is also rewarding.

The crew members will also work hard for this lucky draw. 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 were basically nothing different...

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

Zhang Jian looked at the Yangyang and patiently explained to his few crew members: "Crab fishing is not that simple. You don't just put down the crab pots wherever you like. You must know that during this season, king crabs are concentrated in On the continental shelf, the activities of crab swarms also follow specific patterns."

Niedep also gave them a cold look: "Don't think that just because you are good at throwing hooks, you can give random suggestions on the ship. Sailors should do their job well."

Yangyang smiled and said no more.

Only Qingchen glanced at Yangyang thoughtfully and asked in a low voice: "Has your range of perception expanded?"

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

Qingchen nodded, no wonder the girl suddenly spoke.

"Is the crab swarm you found big?" Qingchen asked.

Yangyang nodded: "They are all densely packed."

King crabs are concentrated in an area with a sea depth of 270 meters, which can be covered by Yangyang's sensing range.

This classmate Yangyang is a humanoid self-propelled radar. Wherever she says there are crabs, it means there really are!

However, they are not related to Zhang Jian and others, and they are not really here to catch crabs.

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

According to the weather forecast, a strong hurricane with more than 60 knots will hit from the north in four days. Then there may be an opportunity.

However, at this moment, Old John suddenly looked at Yangyang and said, "In which direction is the location you mentioned, we can put a few pathfinder cages down there."

Zhang Jian wanted to say something, but heard Old John continue: "Now that we have just gone to sea, no one knows where the crab farm is. Everyone is trying to find it aimlessly, so it doesn't matter if you throw a few pathfinder cages according to your preference. .”

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

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Six thousand words chapter, one more chapter at 11pm