Chapter 227: Ocean Tony Teacher

Wu An sighed.

It doesn't look like it'll work.

Before, that only spiritual sea turtle just had him clean the barnacles, and he still thought he was special, able to communicate with the sea turtle.

He was overthinking it.

The sea turtle pod still approached the fishing boat, but after reaching the boat's side, the sea turtle pod collectively stopped, heads raised, swaying back and forth on the sea surface, as if communicating.

Immediately after, one sea turtle swam up to Wu An, lifted its right flipper, as if greeting.

Wu An saw that this sea turtle's shell had no barnacles, recognized it as the spiritual sea turtle, his face involuntarily lit up, and he said, "It's you."

"You came to say hello to me?"

"We don't need to be so polite; meeting at sea, we just each go about our business."

"Let's go quickly; there's longline fishing here, don't accidentally bump into it."

Mai Hangyu also walked over to look.

The other sea turtles didn't move, just drifting on the surface, but that spiritual sea turtle started swimming.

Mai Hangyu said, "Brother, saying that is like playing the lute to a cow."

Wu An remained silent, he stared, seeing the sea turtle swim to beside the longline, his heart rose with it, but he always felt the sea turtle seemed to understand his words.

He silently hoped in his heart that this sea turtle truly was spiritual.

Otherwise, if the sea turtle got hooked by the longline, if injured it would be troublesome.

Then, under their watch, the sea turtle actually swam a circle close to the longline and returned, then went around the sea turtle pod.

Finally, it returned to Wu An's front.

"Brother, look."

"The sea turtle pod became active, but didn't approach the longline."

"Damn, it's divine, truly divine!"

"This sea turtle discovered the longline, then told the pod it was dangerous, getting them to avoid it."

Mai Hangyu's face showed shock, he shouted somewhat excitedly.

A Qing also shouted, "Quick look."

"Barnacles."

"These sea turtles all have barnacles."

Mai Hangyu turned to look at Wu An, with a strange expression, said, "I'll be damned, you're treating us like Ocean Tony Teacher, coming to get a haircut."

Wu An laughed and cried at once.

Last time Mai Hangyu just mentioned it offhand, never expecting he'd actually be right.

No need to say.

This group of sea turtles was brought by that spiritual sea turtle; surely they didn't come just to show him the sea turtle family.

Wu An asked, "You're right, should we help?"

Mai Hangyu and A Qing glanced at each other, then in unison said, "We'll follow your lead, Brother."

Wu An smiled: "Then you first retrieve the longline."

"I'll first remove the barnacles from these sea turtles."

"After you've secured the longline, come help me."

The two nodded, hurriedly reeling in the line.

Using the scoop net, he first lifted a relatively small sea turtle; the turtle didn't struggle, Wu An fetched tools, quickly removed the barnacles, then tossed the turtle back into the sea.

The sea turtle surfaced, happily spinning in the water.

Wu An watched, very pleased.

Doing good deeds truly makes one feel joy from the heart.

He had tidied up three sea turtles; A Qing reeled in the last hook, shouting, "Brother, the last hook is empty."

Wu An turned his head to look.

"Huh?"

"Is that it?"

Checking the time, it was already 3 p. m.; they'd been busy for two hours, much faster than last time, and he truly didn't feel time passing.

That's also normal.

With nonstop bites, just focusing on pulling the line, they couldn't attend to anything else; actually it's the same principle as fishing—when hooking fish with a linked rod, time always feels like it flies.

While Wu An removed barnacles from the sea turtles, he asked, "How's the catch?"

A Qing happily said, "Definitely better than last time."

Mai Hangyu walked over, saying, "Brother, I'll take this."

The result.

As Wu An just walked away, the calm sea turtle started thrashing.

Mai Hangyu couldn't press it down.

Wu An hurriedly soothed: "Be obedient, this is also Tony Teacher."

Gradually.

The sea turtle calmed down.

Everyone stared, dumbfounded.

Lao Mai came over to look, also clicking his tongue in wonder, unable to help asking, "Why do they listen to you?"

Wu An's head ached: "How would I know."

You all saw that too—I didn't do anything; they themselves are spiritual and can understand human speech.

Alright.

Don't just stand there—quickly tidy up these sea turtles; we still need to collect the crab pots.

A Qing and Lao Mai also pitched in.

Mai Hangyu grabbed the tools and chuckled, 'Hello, I'm Teacher Tony No. 3, happy to serve you—what hairstyle do you want?'

Oh, a bald head, right?

If you don't speak, I'll take it as your consent.

Fine.

Mai Hangyu got to work with a clack-clack-clack.

Everyone laughed.

There were over a dozen sea turtles; it actually didn't take long. After tossing the last processed turtle back, Lao Mai immediately started the fishing boat.

The sea turtle group lingered for a while, only disappearing into the water after Wu An and the others waved goodbye.

A Qing and Mai Hangyu puffed on their cigarettes, laughing cheerfully: 'Brother, there are plenty of sea turtles in the ocean—word spreads ten to a hundred, so we might soon have sea turtles coming to us to scrape off barnacles.'

Wu An had also thought of that, saying: 'If they come to us, we'll just help out.'

We make so much money from the sea; even if it's just their barber fees.

Mai Hangyu said, 'Hahaha, I think it'll work.'

This is really interesting.

With the sea turtles' blessing, we'll surely have smooth sailing.

Lao Mai also marveled—he'd lived decades, yet this was the first time he'd seen something so bizarre; if he hadn't seen it himself, he wouldn't believe anyone else's account.

He said, 'I've heard that encountering a sea turtle at sea brings good luck.'

A Qing didn't say anything.

As long as it doesn't interfere with making money, he doesn't care.

Collecting the crab pots is still hard labor.

Because each row of crab pots had a decent catch, fulfilling the saying that little blue dragons travel in groups—the first row of pots was actually full of them.

'Brother, the first row of crab pots has fifteen little blue dragons,' A Qing exclaimed, almost jumping for joy—'That's more than all the little blue dragons we got from every pot last time combined.'

Wu An nodded, also beaming—the little blue dragons in the pots were good-sized; they'd definitely bring a tidy profit.

Mai Hangyu said, 'Let me give it a try—after scraping barnacles off the sea turtles today, my luck should be good.'

Wu An and A Qing had no objections.

When the second row was hauled up, the catch was also decent—dumping out the seafood piled high, at a glance there were at least seven or eight little blue dragons.

What a bountiful harvest!

Wu An also marveled silently—though the luck value buff from yesterday wasn't huge, the harvest turned out better than when we'd previously applied a larger luck value buff.

This shows that harvest quality depends not only on luck value but also on location.

Perhaps, in saving the sea turtles, there's some unseen luck blessing as well.