Twenty thousand yuan was spent, leaving 64,800 yuan in the account.
The trading bay flashed, and ten sacks of bait were ejected in succession.
Jiang Ye picked up a sack to examine it. The sacks were very simple, made of the cheapest jute, with "20kg" printed on them. The weight seemed substantial.
Tearing open the mouth, he saw small yellow particles the size of peanuts, resembling puffed snacks.
He sniffed, but there was no fragrance.
Jiang Ye couldn't help but doubt, could these yellow beans really attract fish?
Carrying two sacks of bait in each hand, he made five trips to get all ten sacks onto the boat.
Entering the captain's cabin, he clicked the screen and set sail!
The fishing boat started up, leaving the dock with a ripple and heading out to sea.
After sailing for three minutes, scattered red dots began to appear on the sonar display.
Jiang Ye stopped the boat and carried a sack of bait to the bow.
The sea was calm, with gentle waves and a light breeze on his face.
Looking into the water, it was a deep, dark blue, with no visible fish, as if devoid of life.
Jiang Ye tore open the sack of bait, lifted it, and the yellow bait poured out, splashing into the water!
As described in the Galactic Mall, the bait landed on the water's surface, floating lightly without sinking.
Jiang Ye waited for a moment, but no fish appeared.
The floating bait seemed to have no appeal to the schools of fish in the sea.
"They actually scammed me!" he said, greatly disappointed, and returned to the captain's cabin.
As soon as he got back, Jiang Ye froze as he looked up.
On the sonar screen, large patches of red dots were emerging from all around!
They were all tiny red dots, but there were countless of them, at least several thousand!
He quickly ran back to the deck and leaned over the ship's railing to look down.
The water surface, which had been completely still, suddenly became noisy. Fish of various colors emerged from the sea, pecking at the bait on the surface.
More and more fish rose, soon becoming quite spectacular, so dense they were pressed tightly together, splashing water everywhere, and some small fish were even squeezed out of the water!
The bait was working! The scent had already spread!
Jiang Ye returned to the captain's cabin, staring intently at the sonar display on the screen.
Hundreds, thousands of red dots were still converging from all directions!
He waited for five minutes, and the bait floating on the sea surface was finally eaten up.
The dense schools of fish dispersed downwards, preparing to escape.
He decisively clicked the screen and cast the net!
The fishing net descended from the sky and plunged into the seawater. The fish were too close to scatter, and in an instant, they were all caught in one net!
Jiang Ye watched the screen. Except for a few red dots that were farther away and escaped, most of them were fixed beneath the ship, and their size was considerable.
It was definitely a great harvest.
"Haul the net!"
Whether it was an illusion or not, the time it took to haul the net this time was exceptionally long, nearly five minutes.
An unprecedentedly large net ball of fish rose onto the deck, like a small mountain, water gushing out, slowly and spectacularly sinking into the cargo hold!
This was the largest catch in a single net so far, more than three times the volume of the nets used when catching schools of fish previously.
Jiang Ye's mood was excited. He clicked the trading bay function and scanned!
This scan took a full three minutes.
The scan results finally appeared on the screen, not one or two items, but more than twenty items in total!
The bait had attracted all sorts of miscellaneous marine life, so one net caught over twenty types of fish.
Jiang Ye was too lazy to look at them one by one and scrolled directly to the bottom to see the total amount.
[Estimated Value: 228,700 yuan]
"Holy cow!" he couldn't help but exclaim.
Catching over two hundred thousand yuan worth of fish in one net, this speed of making money was simply inhumane!
Other colony officials worked hard farming, getting up early and staying out late, exposed to sun and wind, earning only twenty thousand a week.
Here, one net every few minutes, using only two thousand yuan worth of bait, the money earned was like an explosion!
He clicked sell, and his personal account balance rose to 293,500 yuan.
Jiang Ye had a feeling that so much money seemed to have blown in with the wind.
He started the fishing boat and drove forward for a minute, reaching a new sea area.
Jiang Ye repeated the process, dumping another sack of bait.
The twenty kilograms of small bait spread out, covering a large area of the sea like yellow weeds.
At first, it was still calm.
After waiting for a short while, a small white fish darted up, tilting its face to bite the bait.
Then, ten, a hundred, three hundred...
Three minutes later, the entire sea surface seemed to boil, with countless schools of fish leaping to the surface to snatch the bait!
Judging by the ferocity with which the fish pecked at the bait, the bait must have tasted delicious!
Jiang Ye watched from the ship's railing, feeling hungry, with an urge to jump in and snatch the bait himself.
When the bait on the surface was almost gone, he quickly rushed into the captain's cabin.
He cast the net with his eyes closed!
After waiting for a moment, he hauled the net!
Another full net of fish rose onto the deck with great momentum, water gushing out. The entire deck was filled with the strong smell of fish and seawater.
He clicked the trading bay and scanned.
The scan lasted for fifty minutes. This time, the captured biological species were even more numerous, a total of over thirty types.
[Estimated Value: 289,000 yuan]
This catch was a full sixty thousand yuan more than the previous one.
Jiang Ye was curious when he saw this amount.
It must be that some valuable fish were caught, which caused such a large difference.
He patiently sifted through the scan results in the trading bay and finally found the valuable contributor for this catch.
An unexpected creature, by itself, had driven up the value of the entire net:
[Item 12: Black Pearl Oyster]
[Item Description: A rare species of saltwater pearl oyster, twenty centimeters in diameter, capable of nurturing multiple black pearls simultaneously. It moves rapidly through the water by opening and closing its shell. This pearl oyster is arrogant and domineering, preying on the weak and fearing the strong. It likes to chase small fish, clamping them to death as food. When encountering large fish, it tightly closes its shell and remains still. Its flesh is delicious and edible. Its shell can be ground into powder for cosmetic production.]
[Quantity: 1 (containing 6 black pearls)]
[Estimated Value: 80,000 yuan]
Jiang Ye was quite shocked that such a black pearl oyster could sell for eighty thousand yuan!
He clicked sell.
The fishing net slowly moved into the trading bay, dumping various marine creatures into it.
The personal account balance rose to 582,500 yuan.
Jiang Ye was cautious and glanced at the bottom right corner of the screen, where the location was marked:
(1299, 0783)
He decided to bring his diving suit tomorrow and return to this location, to dive into the deep water and see.
Jiang Ye had heard that pearl oysters often had nests, where many oysters gathered together affectionately, bustling with activity.
Since he had caught one pearl oyster at this location, perhaps there were many more on the seabed nearby?
If he could find a large group of pearl oysters, not only would he get rich, but he could also try to farm them and build a pearl manufacturing plant!
Jiang Ye's mood was excited. While calculating in his mind, he drove the boat forward, continuing to dump bait and carry out fishing operations.
He fished continuously until dusk and then returned by boat.
The bait had all been used up, and the profits were substantial.
The personal account balance had surged to 1,875,000 yuan.