Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 227 The Captain from Moga Village
The captain's accent was very distinctive, reminding Lin Lin of an old friend of Locklark.

Upon asking, it turned out to be true. The captain was a sea dweller from Moga Village.

"You mean little Anxia? Did that girl go to Rocklark to study?"

After receiving Lin Lin's affirmative answer, the captain sighed, "I knew that An Xia would definitely have a bright future. My wife thought she would stay in a small place like Moga Village."

Lin Lin blinked. What should I say? What the captain’s wife said should be correct, right?

When earthquakes start to happen frequently in Moga Village, there is a 100% chance that the girl will travel thousands of miles back to the small fishing village.

"From what you said, it seems that you are very familiar with An Xia?"

The captain laughed twice, looking very proud.

"Of course! When An Xia was little, she often came to my house for free meals. I watched her grow up!"

I see. This world is really small sometimes. Even this can be related.

"An Xia went to Lokrak to study, so why did you leave Moga Village?"

Lin Lin took out the jib and stood beside the captain, casting the hook while curiously asking,
"Hey, what else could it be? It's for money, of course! We need to make a living!"

Lin Lin thought about the state of Moga Village in the game. Hmm... maybe it was a bit primitive, but it looked like the fishing economy was quite developed. It shouldn't be considered poor, right?

"It turns out it's hard to make money in Moga Village..."

"Well, that's not the case."

In order to hide his embarrassment, the captain jerked his fishing rod upwards - but of course he caught nothing.

"Although it's difficult to make a lot of money, it's still easy to go fishing every day and make ends meet."

"But I was thinking, my family's meals are nothing but seafood, and I'm getting bored if it keeps going like this. Then, the instructor who used to teach hunters in the village came back and said he could help us make a lot of money. So, I followed him out to improve our lives."

Huh?
Lin Lin felt that he had captured some key words.

Instructor?

"Take me to help you make a lot of money? Are you going to be a merchant, selling things? Are you selling Daren beer?"

"Huh? Young man, how come you know all this?"

So it really is him?

Lin Lin couldn't help but sigh again, the world is really too small.

"So... didn't you say you wanted to make a lot of money? Why are you following Yang Yan?"

"This……"

The captain's face looked increasingly embarrassed, as if he had recalled something quite bad.

"Actually, there's nothing to hide, meow. We met pirates, meow!"

A sailor named Elu was just passing by, but happened to overhear the conversation between the two and interrupted them. Lin Lin looked at him in astonishment, "There are actually pirates in this world?"

This really taught him something new. In his understanding, the humans in the Monster Hunter world had always been fighting together to survive in the face of the cruel nature. They couldn't say how harmonious and friendly they were with each other, but at least there shouldn't be any social problems.

Now it seems that even in this world, humans are not without a dark side!

"Why are there no scumbags, meow? There may be few of them, but how can we eradicate them? It's just that in most cases, bad guys can't make any difference, meow!"

"so……"

"So when bad guys band together on the sea, they naturally become pirates."

The captain sighed helplessly, "The last time we went to buy goods, we encountered pirates and all our money was stolen."

Lin Lin had a thousand complaints he wanted to make. It was hard to imagine that a hunter who could wield huge weapons to fight monsters and whose physical fitness was completely different from that of ordinary humans would be robbed by pirates. However, the captain had obviously anticipated Lin Lin's complaints and continued:

"The main reason is that they're outnumbered, and we only have one boat. If it weren't for the instructor's hunter identity, they'd be afraid of losing everything and wouldn't dare to go too far. We'd probably all be drowning in the sea right now, feeding the sea dragon!"

Well, at least this sounds a lot more reasonable.

But, with just this one move, did that idiot instructor go bankrupt? That shouldn't be the case, right? How much cash do you bring with you when you import goods?

"After that, I felt that the dangers here were quite high, so I decided to go it alone. Later, I met Mr. Yang Yan, and with his connections, I came to Yanhuo Village."

Lin Lin roughly understood the cause and effect, but he still had many questions in his mind.

"What about those pirates? Neither the Kingdom nor the Guild would allow such an unstable factor to exist, right? Didn't the instructor report this to his superiors? If they were caught, the lost money should be recoverable, right?"

The captain stared at the fishing rod with a complicated expression.

It was Sailor Airu who spoke and answered his doubts:
"Of course the authorities sent a fleet to siege them, meow, but they somehow provoked a sea dragon, meow, and several of their ships were reduced to splinters. The looted treasure also sank into the sea. Because of the dragon's presence, salvaging it was extremely difficult, meow."

Lin Lin couldn't help but sigh in admiration. This was truly the law of nature. Heaven had no mercy on anyone. In such an environment, instead of keeping a low profile, he dared to stir up trouble. He was courting death, wasn't he?
It's a pity to waste the instructor's huge fortune...

There are no high-tech devices like drones in this world, and the difficulty of deep-sea salvage can be imagined. What's more, there are sea overlords like sea dragons. In Lin Lin's opinion, the instructor has suffered a great loss this time.

But soon, the vibration of the fishing rod in his hand brought his mind back to reality.

The captain's reaction was even faster than his. He immediately threw his fishing rod to the sailor Elu, then rushed to Lin Lin's side, pointing at the bent fishing rod with excitement on his face:
"We've got a big catch! Let out the line quickly, the rod is about to break!"

Eh?
Lin Lin was stunned for a moment. It was true that he knew a little about fishing, but that was all experience fishing for freshwater fish in hunting grounds, which was very different from sea fishing on a boat like this. Although he loosened the fishing line according to the captain's instructions, his mind was still confused. For a moment, he didn't know what to do next.

The captain couldn't stand it anymore, so he snatched Lin Lin's fishing rod and loosened and released the fishing line in his hand, appearing to be at ease.

"Watch out young man, the fish are so slippery!"

It has to be said that the sea dwellers make their living from the sea, and their familiarity with making a living at sea is in their DNA. Lin Lin was actually quite entertained watching the captain methodically sliding the big fish underwater.

Time passed quietly in the confrontation between man and fish. Finally, the captain realized that the big fish on the other end of the pole was almost exhausted. He pulled it up suddenly, and a silver figure broke through the waves and flew out.

(End of this chapter)