Chapter 358 The Talented Fisherman

The captain pushed Klaus, who hadn't yet reacted, forward.

"We will certainly compensate you for the damage... This is Klaus, our top foundry and engineer."

"I guarantee in the captain's name that he will tailor-make a top-quality bone cane for you to make fishing more comfortable, as well as a complete set of smoking rods and pipes."

Klaus was about to turn around and question, "When did I—"

He could turn his head back to normal at any moment.

"hurry up."

Under the relentless pressure of his captain, the engineer nodded repeatedly at Liv, forcing a smile that looked more like a grimace.

"Yes, yes... I'm honored..."

......

A gentle breeze pulls one out of fleeting memories.

Klaus, the only one still working on the ship, was squatting on the edge of the deck, desperately grinding a wooden pipe with a grinding wheel—a pipe as hard as stone...

It was all because a picky sea siren thought the surface wasn't shiny enough!

He kept muttering to himself.

"I knew it... Once I got on your ship, I'd never have a moment of peace... I'm a mechanical engineer, not someone who carves these damn pipes and staffs!"

"And this pipe!"

Klaus, exasperated, picked up the beautiful dark purple pipe with its wood grain and carefully examined the curvature of the surface of the "Heart of the Sun" to make sure there were no areas that hadn't been properly polished.

"The cigarette holder had to fit perfectly to her bite marks!?"

"How would I know how many teeth that old woman has?!"

Renyi plopped down next to him, holding two fragments of the [incomplete star chart] and trying to piece them together.

But the curvature doesn't match.

"Her teeth look fine to me, all intact. Why don't you just do it the same way as a normal adult woman?"

"How can these be the same?!"

Klaus retorted excitedly, "What if her teeth aren't straight? What if she prefers to grind her teeth on her left side instead of her right? These small habits can lead to different points of stress and wear, thus affecting the product experience!"

I'm too lazy to deal with my OCD.

While continuing to struggle with the astrological chart in his hand, he also distracted himself by checking the spoils he had collected in the system warehouse over the past two days.

Unfortunately... most of it is just flashy but impractical stuff.

Aside from the crystal ball that Sida could use and a few sea dragon horns that Klaus could use as new toys, there were no other proper props.

—Especially that highly anticipated [Green Bellyband of the Hehuan Sect].

At first, Renyi thought that although the name was not proper, it was at least a specialty of the cultivation world, right?

The system evaluation result was:

[Anime-themed merchandise from a science fiction fantasy world]

This thing... can even be made into merchandise?

I didn't understand, but after thinking about it, I tossed it back into a corner of the system repository.

What if it has other uses...? Ծ‸ Ծ

"Think positively."

Disappointed, he put the astrolabe back, but then, out of sheer curiosity, he tried to stuff a pearl into the tortoise shell that was supposedly capable of divination.

"At least she took down the sign at the entrance of the store that read 'No sea lions or other animals allowed.'"

The engineer muttered in a low voice, "That's because a broken sign can't stop a robber like you..."

"Nathan is the robber, I am not."

Nathan: "Huh?"

I'm an explorer, okay?!

"Splash—"

Just as Nathan was about to speak up for himself, another sound of water breaking came.

A magnificent, swift, crimson-scaled seahorse leaped out of the sea, and on its back was Fak Squid, the captain of the Sea Dragon Guard.

"Reporting to Your Excellency!"

"I've confirmed the approximate location of that cliff! Our current course is correct, and at this speed, we should arrive in about two more days... no, a day and a half!"

He nodded casually.

He couldn't possibly hand over all the Nightmare Crystals in his warehouse to the Deep Blue Kingdom.

So letting the kingdom's fish mine themselves is not only selflessly teaching them how to fish and selling their catch, but also allows them to profit from it by taking a cut, since being a miner themselves is time-consuming and laborious.

the most important is,

That place leads to the territory.

It's impossible for him to climb the cliff and boat up the current on his own right now, so if these mermaids have a way, they can go back and take a look.

After delivering the message, Fuck Squid once again piloted the seahorse into the sea.

"Two days..."

He stretched casually, and his joints made a series of cracking sounds.

"Since everything's alright..."

"Let's go fishing for a while then."

A fishing rod made of sections of black bamboo appeared out of thin air in his hand.

Ivan, yawning, emerged from the cabin and asked sleepily:

"Boss, what's for lunch?"

Without turning back, he flicked his wrist, which was holding the fishing rod, and the fishing line drew an arc in the air before falling far into the dark black sea.

"Eat fish."

Klaus paused in his polishing motion.

The [Pudu] has been transformed into fishing rods, so where did the fishing line come from?

He turned around in confusion.

Renyi was holding a fishing rod he had never seen before—

A broken fishing rod that looks like a bamboo pole, is black, has a real line, and a retro reel!

"Wait...where did this come from?!"

Klaus's gaze swept over the fishing rods, finding them ordinary and unremarkable, with simple structures, unknown materials, and little technical sophistication.

"I found it."

The captain gave a perfunctory answer.

The engineer, of course, didn't believe him. He suspiciously held out his hand: "Let me see!"

If it really was just a regular fishing rod that they found, then why did the captain choose to use this instead of the "Pudu" fishing rod that he had painstakingly developed?

There must be some kind of cutting-edge technology here!

As a result, she deftly evaded Klaus's "clutches" by tilting her hand slightly.

"Stop fooling around, we're waiting for dinner."

This was taken from Bob, so it must be protected to prevent Klaus from taking a liking to it and turning it into some weird thing!

"Captain, I'll just take a look, I promise I won't touch it!"

Klaus persisted and reached out again, insisting that he at least touch it and see the attribute panel.

But he turned sideways and dodged again.

The two men, both over fifty years old combined, were locked in a tug-of-war: one insisted on seeing it, while the other refused, and they began to play a game of cat and mouse.

result......

Just as Renzi was holding the fishing rod with his left hand to prevent the engineer from getting closer.

No one noticed that a limp little guy popped out of his pocket and snatched the fishing rod with a "pia".

The fishing float on the sea surface trembled, and then...

It sank with a "whoosh".

Xiao Jiu is also a talented angler!?

The sudden force pulled it off balance, and its claws dutifully clung to the fishing rod, refusing to let go. Renyi quickly grabbed one of Xiao Jiu's tentacles to help pull it back.

"Splash—"

The taut fishing line was released.

A small, bright green creature was flung directly out of the sea by a tremendous force and landed on the deck.