Chapter 300: While the crab tigers were feasting, we took them all in one go

It is a crab tiger.

Not to mention Mo Lao, Wu An, holding the slippery crab tiger, was also quite astonished.

I haven't caught one of these in ages!

The last time I caught a crab tiger was on the tidal flats west of the village.

Since he made a name for himself in the village, he hasn't gone there in a long time, and now the tidal flats yield nothing valuable.

Green crabs have nearly disappeared, and crab tigers are no different.

People fear fame, pigs fear getting fat.

The few places he often goes to in the village are also frequented by the villagers.

Fortunately, he can now come to the Panshuikeng in town or go out to sea; if he were still just loafing around his one-mu-three-fen plot in the village, even with his Luck Boost, he'd just blend in with the crowd.

After all.

Luck Value only increases his chance of finding a catch; it can't conjure fish out of thin air.

The basics of making money still depend on resources.

If we quantified everything, the tidal flats have a hundred points of resources; for an ordinary person to find ten points would already be considered good luck.

With his Luck Boost, he can search and find all hundred points of resources.

Likewise.

Even with a lot more Luck Boost, it's impossible to unearth a hundred and one points of resources in the tidal flats.

Besides that.

There are also tools, weather, and other comprehensive influences.

Reality isn't a game; even if he cheats, he still has to follow logical reasoning.

Therefore.

Finding a crab tiger in the pond is quite reasonable.

Crab tigers were already in the pond.

I just had a little bit of luck, and happened to choose this pond to work.

Lao Fu Tou had sharp eyes, immediately brought an empty bucket, waited for Wu An to throw the crab tiger in, then added some seawater.

A Qing also felt around in the puddle, quickly caught two crab tigers, and shouted happily, "Brother, there are more, there are still crab tigers in the puddle."

Wu An nodded.

The two of them searched the puddle together and finally caught seven crab tigers total; the small ones were about one or two taels each, the large ones about half a jin each, considered 'big fools' among crab tigers.

Ordinary crab tigers, even if they die of old age, can't grow that large.

Figuring it out, they caught about three jin of crab tigers in that puddle, guaranteeing at least five hundred bucks.

A pond that can consume twenty Luck Value points certainly isn't just home to a few crab tigers.

These crab tigers are quite crafty, hiding deep.

As they splashed more water out, draining the small puddle as much as possible, these crab tigers had nowhere to hide.

Some hid under the reefs, where gaps beneath the rocks were just right for their small bodies to squeeze into; others were in the crevices between stones, making them a pain to pull out.

We still have to catch them!

This is all money!

Besides, don't think these crab tigers are small just because they're 'short winter melons'; they're actually full-grown 'big fish'.

After pulling the crab tiger family out of the puddle, there were naturally baby crab tigers; Wu An had A Qing find a larger puddle and pour the seawater from the other puddles into it.

Then he tossed in the baby crab tigers, enough to sustain them until the tide comes in, so they won't dry out in the sun.

Wu An had high hopes for these baby crab tigers: "Grow big and strong."

The baby crab tigers splashed in the puddle, kicking up little droplets, some of which landed on Wu An's face, like fish spitting water.

The baby crab tigers said: "You're such a nice person, so… we should thank you, right?"

"When we grow big, you'll come back to work us, right?"

Ptooey.

Wu An wiped the seawater off his face; he naturally didn't know the baby crab tigers were spitting at him, and even if he did, he wouldn't care, turning back to continue catching other crab tigers.

In the end.

The three of them caught three buckets of shrimp crabs; stone crabs were few, mainly hairy crabs, with seven or eight green crabs, also worth some money.

They had a big bucket of crab tigers, full of energy, splashing vigorously in the bucket, always trying to jump out.

Not a bad haul.

The three climbed out of the pond, all smiling; even Lao Fu Tou, who had things on his mind, relaxed his brows and eyes, his wrinkles bunching together as he smiled.

"How could there be so many crab tigers in this pond?" A Qing dumped the crab tigers into the water tank and said, "It's like they were waiting for us to catch them."

Lao Fu Tou said, "What we caught the most of was shrimp crabs."

And crab tigers' favorite food is shrimp crabs.

Get it?

A Qing finished dumping the crab tigers, put his hands on his hips, straightened up, leaned back and stretched his back, hearing his bones crack, then suddenly realized, saying, "I get it, I get it—these crab tigers were having a feast, and we ended up netting them all."

"……" Lao Fu Tou waited a few seconds, then nodded: "Pretty much that."

Wu An had already found another pond.

He crouched beside the water pump, watching; after a few minutes, his Luck Value reluctantly dropped by one point.

This pond really is a pit.

Wu An had originally planned to just switch ponds, but after thinking, he decided to keep working this one.

Mo Lao watched from the side.

Seeing Wu An work so skillfully, he was clearly a seasoned veteran.

You really make money from Panshuikeng?

I have to say, the luck is pretty good.

He watched.

The three went down into the water pits again; the catch was so-so, there were plenty of shrimp crabs, but they only caught a few crab tigers, together weighing less than one catty.

Mo Lao nodded, thinking, That's more like it.

Wu An again filled the water pump's luck value to the max; after working this long, he guessed they had already reached the low tide, today being a neap tide.

The tide rise and fall weren't big.

In other words, he had at most another hour to work; if things went smoothly, he could tend two more water pits.

He checked the water pump.

He found the luck value had dropped by 1 point.

When the water level had mostly dropped, Wu An watched the rising tide, quickly found another water pit, moved the water pump over and began pumping.

The luck was good.

Less than a minute later, the luck value had already dropped.

Wu An also smiled, directly pouring all of his luck value into it.

He left none.

After boosting it, he also hurried down into the water pit to get busy.

"Brother, there are so many crab tigers!"

He had just arrived when A Qing grabbed a crab tiger in one hand and shouted.

Crab tigers are good at digging holes.

But this place isn't a mudflat; even if they could dig holes, they couldn't go very deep, and once discovered they'd have no escape.

Wu An was also overjoyed.

Today's luck value had landed on these crab tigers.

Several water pits yielded nothing, mood naturally not great; luckily a few pits had crab tigers, otherwise it would have been all for nothing.

He and A Qing grinned so wide their mouths couldn't close.

As for Lao Fu Tou, he remained fairly composed; although he was also pleased, he didn't lose his composure.

Until he raised both hands holding a large crab tiger and shouted, "A An, A Qing, look—this crab tiger must be almost one catty!"

A Qing exclaimed in surprise and delight, "Damn, such a big crab tiger!"

"As expected, a veteran shows up—one equals two."

"I hereby name it the Crab Tiger King."

Wu An also nodded and said happily, "Not bad, not bad; such a big one is quite rare."

Lao Fu Tou broke into a grin.