ocean hunter

Chapter 1 Start with a crayfish
At 2020 o'clock in the morning on July [-], [-], in a small village located in the border of Xuzhou, Lv Xiaolu was pulling a snakeskin bag to collect the eel cage by the river.

He is 1.7 meters tall, neither tall nor short, but because of malnutrition, his body is very thin, and it seems a bit difficult to drag the dense snakeskin pockets.

Lu Xiaolu remained silent. He set out a hundred eel cages, but found less than fifty today. The marks made yesterday were all trampled off, obviously stolen.

Only two rice field eels were caught, which was not enough for a rice field eel cage, which made the already poor family even worse.

With an ugly face, he was unwilling to go back like this, put down the snakeskin pocket, rolled up his trouser legs and went down the river again.

After some searching, Lu Xiaolu was covered in mud and water plants, and dragged his exhausted body ashore.

"I have to pay the tuition fee at the beginning of school, what should I do, hey." Lu Xiaolu lay on the bank tiredly, staring at the bright sky in a daze.

"Hey, what's that?" In his sight, an object fell from the sky from far to near, getting bigger and bigger.

"Fuck!" By the time he realized it was too late, the object hit his head with a "bang".

Before passing out, Lu Xiaolu only saw four large characters, Dongfeng Express.

After a long while, Lu Xiaolu finally woke up and was in a daze for a while. If he had just died, probably no one would look for him.

There was an accident at home when he was a child, and he was the only one left in the family.

The uncle took away all the compensation money in the name of taking care of him because he was still young.

As a result, just look at his malnourished body now.

If it weren't for the nine-year compulsory education, coupled with the exemption of high school tuition fees for excellent grades, and his own living expenses by catching fish and shrimp, he probably wouldn't even be able to finish high school.

Shaking his head, controlling himself not to think about those things, Lu Xiaolu turned to look at the culprit who knocked him unconscious.

A box the size of a rice cooker, with the four characters of Dongfeng Express written on it, and nothing else.

Lu Xiaolu didn't have the intention of looking for the owner, even if he did, he would ask him to pay for the medical expenses.

But this thing fell from the sky, and there was nowhere to look for it.

"Then take this stuff as my mental damage fee!" He poked open the courier with a twig resentfully, and was shocked when he opened it.

"Mobile phone!" Lv Xiaolu breathed out rapidly. Smartphones are not cheap, so he naturally didn't have one, and he rode his bicycle to his classmate's house to watch the online class.

Although there is no brand name on this phone, it is already a considerable fortune to him.

While thinking about how to turn it on, Lu Xiaolu noticed that there was another thing in the box, a red lobster, about the length of a mobile phone, and he reached out to grab it. It was made of metal and quite heavy.

Lu Xiaoluxin said that if it wasn't for the foam padding, she would have woken up with enough choking.

But this lobster looks a bit strange, with pliers in the left hand and a drill in the right hand.

At this time, the screen of the mobile phone was turned on, and before Lu Xiaolu had time to look at it, the lobster in his hand suddenly jumped up, his body twitched, it was so powerful that Lu Xiaolu threw it into the river with a wave of fright. inside.

"Fuck, it's free!"

Just about to go into the water to fish, the content on the phone screen attracted Lu Xiaolu's attention.

"What is this?" He widened his eyes, and saw that the screen was gray and there was a little sound of water flowing. If it weren't for those touch points, he would have thought the phone was broken.

On the left side of the screen is a roulette-style operating point, and on the right side are icons in the style of harpoons, pliers, and drills.

Lu Xiaolu tried to touch the harpoon icon, only to hear a "whoosh" sound of water breaking from the phone. In the middle of the screen, a thing as thick as chopsticks flew out, and then slowly retracted.

Only then did he see clearly that it was a small harpoon with small barbs.

Lu Xiaolu seems to understand a little bit, this is a remote control lobster.

Cautiously, he began to learn to operate the buttons, to advance, to retreat, to spin, to fire the harpoon, to open and close the pincers.

The most wonderful thing is the drill bit, the speed is so high that you can see bubbles on the water surface when you move it.

Seeing that it was getting late and the sun was very strong, Lu Xiaolu hurriedly controlled the lobster to crawl to the shore.

Not to mention, this lobster is very powerful. It jumped to the shore with a twitch of its body, just like a real crayfish.

That's not all, when it got to the shore, it stopped twitching and would crawl with its little feet under its belly.

Lu Xiaolu hurriedly put the lobster and mobile phone back into the box, holding the box with one hand and dragging the snakeskin pocket with the other, and went home.

The uncle's family all went to Shanghai to settle down. They said they settled down, but they actually worked there.

Lu Xiaolu was also very happy, anyway, he had already given up his living expenses, so it was disgusting to him here.

Seeing him coming back with a snakeskin bag on his back, the neighbor couple who were feeding pigs surrounded him.

"Little donkey, how many eels did I catch?"

"Is it enough for lunch, haha."

Lu Xiaolu didn't pay any attention to their teasing, just dragged his things and went home on his own.

The couple were left cursing in place: "You little bastard, you have no manners at all."

"Fortunately, Menglin was not allowed to play with him!"

Lu Xiaolu didn't want to worry about what they said, he had seen through the people in this village, there wasn't a single good person.

In terms of seniority, those two guys just now had to call me Xiaoye, but people are too poor to be in the crowd, and few people care about seniority.

People who live well always don't want others to live better than him, and they will trip you up if nothing happens.

Two years ago, someone in the village raised a pond of fish and was preparing to sell it in the new year, but the next day all the fish died.

The woman from the fish farming family scolded the murderer from the east of the village to the west of the village.

No one in the village sympathized with them, and everyone was gloating about their misfortune, saying that if the water was drained, some loaches could be dug out, and the family was so angry that they were sent to the hospital during the Chinese New Year.

Lu Xiaolu has seen countless incidents like these over the years.

But he didn't care about others, after all, he still had to worry about what to eat next.

There are only two bungalows at home, and a pot house covered with mud, which is also the kitchen.

Putting down his things, he poured the rice field eel into the big water tank, poured some well water, washed it briefly, and then Lu Xiaolu started to light the fire and cook.

The kind of firewood stove in the countryside uses tree leaves and straw picked up in autumn as fuel. Firewood is a bit of a luxury, and Lu Xiaolu is reluctant to use it, because it is used when steaming steamed buns.

Inside the pot is the leftover porridge from last night, add it to the heat, and make a makeshift meal with pickles.

In fact, Lu Xiaolu eats like this most of the time, and sometimes he will eat meat when he catches small fish that cannot be sold.

But today we only caught two rice field eels, so they can't be eaten, they have to be kept and sold for money.

(End of this chapter)