Ocean Lords: Start as a Fisherman

Chapter 207 The Last Crew Member (6K)

After more than two hours of work, the last batch of fish has been delivered.

After this batch of 100 mines is completed,
Su Wang immediately followed the transport personnel back to the port.

Erf has been waiting for a long time,
Seeing Su Wang coming, he came forward with a smile on his face.

"Is this the last batch of goods to be sold?"

Su Wang nodded upon hearing this.

"Thank you for troubling me for so long, Mr. Erf."

Nearly six hours have passed since the Pisces caravan arrived.

The few shoppers at the port had already dispersed, leaving only people coming and going to carry supplies.

Among the fishermen, only Cao Ge was left to help receive Erf.

Erf shook his head nonchalantly.

"That's fine. If Lord Su Wang still has good stuff to sell, I'm willing to stay a little longer."

At this moment, Erf no longer looked at Su Wang with contempt, but rather with admiration, and could not help but praise him.

"I've accepted trade missions from the new dock more than once."

"This is the first time we've encountered a new dock that has directly reached Level 5 trade status after trading with our Pisces Caravan."

Su Wang smiled modestly.

"Mr. Erf, you are too kind."

At this moment, a white-robed subordinate behind Erf whispered something in his ear.

Erf nodded at the man in white robe, then turned and said to Su Wang.

"Lord Su Wang, the goods have been counted.
After deducting the cost of the fish materials, I still need to pay you 13.81 billion Azure Fish Coins."

Su Wang hurriedly said after hearing this.

"I still have some purchases to make, I'll deduct them later."

Su Wang looked through the list scroll,

Buy all 100 senior talents, 100 top talents and 50 special talents.

Senior talents receive 100 million fish coins each, top talents receive 300 million fish coins each, and special talents receive up to 500 million fish coins each.

Fortunately, I have now reached the 5th level of trade and enjoy the right to purchase at 60% of the original price.

It only costs 3.9 million fish coins to buy them all.
Compared with the original cost of 6.5 million fish coins, this saved 2.6 million in expenses.

After some thought,

Su Wang continued to purchase 150 million pieces of each type of gold-grade fish, spending 3.6 million fish coins.

After a series of "extravagant" purchases, they chose to stop only when there was 6.31 million left.

Finally, these fish coins had to be preserved as "food and fodder" for the expedition a few days later.

Although it’s a pity that there are still a lot of golden fish left to buy, I can’t buy any more.

As the seller of supplies, Erf naturally had a constant smile on his face.

A series of huge transaction records will bring him a lot of dock merits.

The large amount of high-quality equipment obtained through the trade can be sold to other ports in the future, and a batch of merits can be obtained.

I originally thought that there was nothing to gain from this Fool's Wharf, but it seems I was wrong.

The merits gained from visiting the Fool's Wharf alone are comparable to those gained from visiting more than a dozen local wharves in a row.

Erf couldn't help but feel fortunate that he had snatched the trading quota for this dock from several team leaders.

Otherwise, this huge achievement would have been enjoyed by those guys.

As for the previous regret, he had already put it behind him.

After instructing his men to carry down the fish coins required for payment, Erf spoke to Su Wang.

"Since Lord Su Wang has nothing else to buy, and it's getting late, I have to rush to the next dock, so let's call it a day."

After saying this, Erf paused for a moment before continuing.

"There's a rule at Pisces Wharf that each wharf can only call once a month."

"But you, Lord Su Wang, have great potential.

I can do my best to provide you with some convenience within my rights. If there are any products that are in high demand, I can bring more next month."

After hearing what Erf said, Su Wang pondered for a while.

In a month, the dock must have changed a lot.

Considering the Fisherman's Wharf Alliance, Su Wang immediately made a decision.

"Then Mr. Erf, please bring more talents, golden fish materials, and golden fish souls next time."

"I believe the next transaction volume will not disappoint you, sir."

Erf nodded, then led his men to board the ship and leave.

Less than twenty minutes later, the Pisces caravan had already left the Fool's Wharf and headed east.

It was not until the ship was almost out of sight that Su Wang used the fish hold's storage capacity to collect all the fish coins in the port.

Now that you have bought the things, you naturally need to use them now.

First, there are 450 workers,
At this time, they were all gathered on the port avenue, guarded by many guards.

Su Wang immediately opened his eyes to recognize talent and scanned over, and suddenly a large amount of qualification information came into view.

"Bronze...Silver...Huh? It really exists!"

Su Wang noticed that among the 50 special talents, there were 7 special individuals.

Not only do they have gold-level worker qualifications, but their crew qualifications are also gold-level.

Moreover, among the special talents, the lowest crew qualification is Silver Level 1.

As early as when he was enlightening the workers through potions, Su Wang discovered that the workers' talents were also related to the purity of their bloodline.

Therefore, these people not only have the qualifications of workers, but also have many qualifications of crew members.

From this point of view, the talents bought at a high price are more profitable.

Among these seven workers who have the qualifications of gold-level crew members, there are two cooks, three repairmen, and two smelters, but there is no one with command talent.

The Wangxin is currently lacking a smelting crew member, and now there is a personnel option.

Cao Ge happened to come over at this time, touching his head and pretending to be honest.

"Boss, did you buy all these people?"

"A lot of people have been quietly asking me for information and asked me to ask you if these people can be recruited as crew members."

Su Wang thought for a moment after hearing this.

The more talented a worker is, the purer his bloodline is.

This recruited 450 workers,
Apart from ordinary and Iron-level workers, some crew members have varying qualifications.

Among bronze workers, apart from the worker talents, even the crew talents are at the black iron to bronze level.

Among the silver workers, one-third have additional silver crew talent, and the least have bronze crew talent.

I guess some fisherman must have already opened his eyes and seen it.

There are so many high-quality crew members available, and even a few gold-level crew members.

It's understandable that the fishermen on the dock are itching to try something new.

"They can be recruited as crew members, but I bought them. If you want to recruit them, you have to pay me a ransom first."

The Pisces caravan arrives once a month, so naturally this is not the only opportunity for people to buy.

But we can't just let the fishermen recruit them easily, after all, they were recruited by spending fish coins.

Su Wang thought for a while and said to Cao Ge.

"Well, let's forget about those with bronze-level crew qualifications.

It's not difficult to obtain a bronze-level crew member by searching among the residents or exchanging merit for some crew qualification potions."

"Let's consider the Silver Crew qualification as the limit. If we want to recruit a Silver Crew member from these people, we must first obtain their voluntary consent."

"Second, you must pay me a ransom ranging from 300 million to 500 million Fish Coins to compensate for my losses. This also requires 1 points of dock merit."

"The ransom for those Gold-level crew members is set at 800 million fish coins, and 3 dock merit points are consumed."

With such conditions set, few fishermen at the dock will be able to reach it in the short term.

The only one with hope is Lao Cao.

In this way, the first batch of workers can also work on the dock buildings to support them until the arrival of the Pisces fleet next month.

Upon hearing that recruitment was allowed,

Sure enough, Cao Ge suddenly smiled happily.

"Boss! I want to recruit a smelter!"

Su Wang's eyes twitched when he heard that.

Only then did he remember that Cao Ge already had an old lover who was a cook, and later he also found a bronze-level maintenance technician to slowly train.

Now only the commander and the smelter are left.

Since Cao Ge was the first one to follow him, he was also the first to arrive when there was nothing at the dock.

Therefore, Su Wang specifically assigned many tasks that could earn merit to this "dock veteran" to complete.

The last time he dealt with the polluter, Cao Ge earned a lot of merit.

He had also accumulated a lot of fish coins by participating in several dock red tides and rapidly improving his strength.

It is not impossible to empty your savings and come up with 800 million fish coins.

"Alright, I happen to be in need of a smelter as well, and this time there are two people with the qualifications to smelt gold."

"If you can get the consent of one of them, I won't stop you."

It just so happened that these people needed to be arranged to register, so Su Wang immediately led Cao Ge towards the crowd.

At this moment, these people gathered together and arrived at an unfamiliar dock, but they did not show any signs of panic or nervousness.

Instead, they whispered to each other, as if they were mentally prepared for the current situation.

As Su Wang approached, the whispers in the crowd stopped and everyone turned their attention to him.

Su Wang was also very curious about how Pisces Wharf produced so many high-level talents.

Seeing everyone's gazes, Su Wang coughed lightly.

"Hello, I am Su Wang, the Lord of Fool's Wharf, and the one you will be loyal to in the future."

After the words fell, everyone responded in slightly different voices.

"Greetings, respected Lord."

"Moritz is willing to be loyal to you, great lord."

"My Lord..."

"Lord..."

...

Su Wang immediately raised his hand and pressed it lightly, signaling for silence.

Wait until the crowd quiets down,

Su Wang then continued.

"You will become members of Fool's Wharf. Now line up and go to the lighthouse next to it to register."

"I will arrange your accommodation and jobs later."

After saying that, Su Wang signaled the guard beside him to lead the way.

As everyone lined up to leave,

Su Wang, despite the slightly puzzled looks of the crowd, stopped two people from the team one by one and took them away.

After all the talented people have gone to the lighthouse,
Only then did Su Wang look at the two people standing aside who were a little reserved.

Both qualified smelters are male and middle-aged.

Although he agreed to Cao Ge, he would definitely make the first choice.

"Don't panic. I left you two alone because I want to ask you something."

When they heard the word "request", the restraint on their faces became even more intense.

"Dear Lord, if you have any needs, please let me know. I, Ipak, will obey." The first person to speak was a fat man.

The other one who was a little thinner also reacted immediately.

"Yes, yes... Lord, if you have any requests, just tell us."

Su Wang chuckled.

"I'm not here to force you, but this captain and I each need an excellent crew member."

"I have checked your qualifications and they meet the requirements for serving as crew members."

"Would you like to become a crew member?"

Hearing this, the two middle-aged men looked at each other quietly, and could see a hint of doubt on each other's faces.

crew?

As a talent cultivated by Shuangyu Wharf, he has been trained to be a top-grade talent, and his value is much greater than that of an ordinary shipbuilder.

But now this lord wants them to be crew members?
But since they have already belonged to this dock, they should obey the arrangements of the lord.

This is the concept that has been instilled in us during talent training.

"Ipak is willing to follow your arrangements."

"Trevor is willing to follow your arrangements."

Seeing this, Su Wang immediately took out the crew contract scroll from the fish hold and prepared to check the information of the two people separately.

Mainly to check bloodline talent and ability.

After all, the other qualifications and abilities of the smelters are the same, the only difference is the bloodline ability.

Su Wang planned to choose one of the two whose bloodline ability was more useful to the Wangxin.

First he handed the scroll to Trevor.

The character's information immediately appeared in Su Wang's eyes.

The bloodline ability shows the unawakened bloodline of the Thousand-thorn Sea Urchin, and the ability provided to the vehicle is [Steel Hull].

Although there is no detailed introduction to the ability, judging from the name, it seems to be a hull reinforcement ability.

For the Wangxin, it doesn't seem to be of much use.

Su Wang immediately handed the scroll to Ipark again.

When he saw Ipak's bloodline ability, he had already made a decision.

【Target information】

Name: Ipak.

Possess crew qualifications: gold smelting qualifications.

Qualification bonus when working as a vehicle smelter:

① When smelting and upgrading any material, the material consumption is reduced to 2:1, and the Azure Fish Coin consumption is reduced by 90%.

② When smelting fish materials, there is a 1% chance of smelting rare fish materials.

③ When smelting fish souls, gold-level and above fish souls have a 1% chance of mutating into rare fish souls.

④ The basic attribute of vehicle strength is increased by 100 points, and the speed is increased by 50 knots.

⑤Golden Talent: Violent Hammer Shrimp (not awakened). After awakening, the vehicle can gain the ability of charged violent power.

Tip: A high-qualified individual with average qualifications, cultivated and improved through a large amount of purified source water.

...

Judging from the name of the ability, Ipark's bloodline ability seems to be more offensive.

This is exactly what Su Wang wanted.

Since both of them were mentally prepared to become crew members and had already agreed to it.

Therefore, you only need to activate the crew scroll to sign the crew.

Su Wang did not hesitate and directly activated the crew scroll on Ipark.

The next second, the scroll turned into scales and appeared on the back of Ipark's rough hand.

The inexplicable information that suddenly appeared in his mind, coupled with the changes on the back of his hand, made Ipark panic for a short time.

Su Wang immediately explained and also reminded Trevor next to him.

Seeing that Su Wang had already chosen the candidate, Cao Ge, who was standing by, immediately walked up to the other person and invited him to become a crew member.

Trevor agreed without much hesitation.

Seeing this, Cao Ge couldn't help but look at Su Wang with gratitude.

After all, if Su Wang hadn't taken the lead, and the initial mention of recruiting crew members was made in terms of the two of them together.

If he had come alone to negotiate, it might not have been so smooth.

Cao Ge also understood that this was the boss's special help to him, but he just didn't say it out loud.

Su Wang saw Cao Ge's affectionate look and immediately rolled his eyes.

He took Ipak and walked towards the lighthouse first.

"Don't forget to have Trevor register later. I'm going to go take care of other things first."

...

More than 400 workers have registered.

You can receive 45 bottles of talent purification potions as rewards for the Prosperity achievement.

Su Wang kept it for the time being, and would upgrade to the silver level when he had 1 bottles.

Then 20 bronze workers were left behind to serve as logistics personnel on the Death Heart later.

The remaining personnel headed towards the residential area first.

After spending nearly an hour arranging accommodation for the personnel, they were immediately led to the core area to replace the workers.

There are still 48 gold-level workers left, and they will naturally be assigned to important facilities.

Yuyu Lake can currently accommodate 10 workers, and Su Wang directly arranged 10 gold-level workers.

After all 10 people had settled in, Su Wang immediately checked the changes in the reproduction speed of the fish breeding lake.

Upon seeing this, Su Wang opened his mouth in surprise.

Originally, 10 low-level workers could only breed a regular fish once every 2 days, and a rare fish once every 5 days.

However, after the replacement of 10 gold-level workers,

Common fish species can reproduce four times a day, while rare fish species can reproduce once every two days. The time it takes for young fish to mature has also been shortened by two or three times.

Compared with before, the efficiency is much higher.

Originally, Su Wang thought that he could upgrade all the fishermen at the dock to silver level in 7 days.

According to the current efficiency, it is entirely possible to directly upgrade to a gold-level fisherman.

Combined with Menata's abilities, this plan is completely feasible.

Immediately afterwards, Su Wang brought the remaining workers to the purification source and replaced them with 10 gold-level workers.

Just like a fish-breeding lake, after the purification source replaced the workers, the output increased significantly and the production time was greatly reduced.

Low- and medium-quality purified source water can already be produced in large quantities every day, and high-quality purified source water can already be produced twice a day.

Even the purification source crystals that can only be produced after upgrading to the extraordinary level can now be produced in just three days.

When I checked Ipak's information just now, it said that he was a highly qualified person cultivated by a large amount of purified source water.

The output of purification sources has increased dramatically at present. Perhaps Fool's Wharf can also use this method to cultivate talents.

Su Wang arranged a small number of the remaining gold-level workers to the alchemy house and extraction center, along with some low- and mid-level workers.

When the fish soul is not enough, just extract some of the essence of the fish meat and fish materials temporarily.

It is enough to arrange these people.

Most of the remaining fish is stored in warehouses for smelting.

The reduction in smelting losses for gold and silver level workers can save a lot of materials.

Workers are also arranged to move in to several repeated basic resource buildings to improve production efficiency.

When all the positions were filled, there were still more than 200 lower-level workers who had no positions to fill.

These people can only be reserved for allocation and arrangement after additional auxiliary docks are added in the future. It is always better to be prepared.

After the redundant workers leave,
Su Wang went to the equipment manufacturing plant alone and continued to consume the fish in the fish hold.

Based on the current inventory of gold-grade fish materials, it is enough to build 150 bombers.

We are one step closer to the goal of building an "aircraft carrier fleet" consisting of 500 leading ships.

In just a moment, 450 million gold-grade fish materials were suddenly consumed.

Take the core,

Su Wang returned to the port and summoned some pilots to equip them.

He then boarded the Deathheart with 20 workers and the new crew member Ipark.

...

Back on the Lost Heart,

Su Wang immediately called Mirei, Tia and Menata to introduce the new crew members.

With the addition of Menata these days, the relationship between the three female crew members has become significantly closer.

Mirei, who was originally a little shy, seemed to like Menata very much and often stuck to her.

Tia and Menata originally had a master-servant relationship, but there were some differences due to the change in crew members' identities.

However, Menata's thoughtful care for daily life helped Tia regain the feeling of being a lazy young lady.

As a result, the relationship with Mirei also became much closer.

Su Wang was quite pleased with these changes.

I just turned a blind eye to Tia's "lazy" daily life.

After all, he was also taken care of by Menata, so he felt embarrassed to lecture Tia.

The three female crew members accepted Ipak's arrival very calmly.

It's just that there seems to be some estrangement between the two sides.

Thinking of the difference between men and women, Su Wang didn't take it to heart.

As long as Ipak does his job well.

After introducing each other,
Su Wang arranged for Ipark to go to the smelting room to familiarize himself with the operating table.

I returned to the living area and assigned the 20 workers to the crew.

The bonuses provided by each crew member's support staff are related to the crew's own capabilities.

Su Wang guessed that the smelter's logistics staff should also be related to smelting.

After assigning the first worker, a prompt message will appear immediately.

[The smelter gains a logistics staff member, and the mutation rate of smelting materials in the vehicle smelting room increases by 0.1%. 20 logistics staff members are required, and the smelting output increases by 100%.]

"Ok?"

Su Wang was stunned.

The increase in mutation rate is easy to understand, as it is related to Ipark's qualifications and abilities.

But what does this smelting output of 100% mean?
Could it be that originally only one material could be smelted, but now it can be smelted into two?
If this is true, coupled with the reduction in Ipark's own smelting consumption, wouldn't the smelting loss be pitifully low?
Su Wang felt that the logistical personnel bonus brought by upgrading the Fisherman's vehicle to the extraordinary level was no less effective than the crew itself.

Menata's fish production and level increase, coupled with Ipak's smelting output increase.

This is equivalent to catching an ordinary fish, which can be converted into half a bronze-level fish.

At this point, Su Wang decided to put it into practice and witness Ipark's qualifications and abilities.

He immediately paged Menata and asked her to come to the kitchen.

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