The Legend of the Fishermen of Sicily

Chapter 132 A distinguished guest, please take a seat!

"Can you calm down? With your eyesight, you might crash into a tree even if you just walk out of the village, let alone drive."

Nicholas pulled Salvir back: "Aren't you afraid of dying? Think about us, okay? It's terrifying for us to live in a village with a driver like you... You can't learn to drive! You really can't learn to drive!"

Leo and Salvi chatted for a bit this morning, and after that Salvi insisted on learning to drive, saying he couldn't wait a moment longer and had to go today.

His wife couldn't stop him no matter what she did, so she had no choice but to call over two of his close friends, Nicholas and Marco, to ask them to persuade her husband.

Nicholas glared at Marco, who hadn't said a word since entering the room and had only been smoking: "Say something, isn't this the time for you to keep saying Salvi is blind?" Why are you so mute now?

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Salvi learned to drive, and the first person he'll hit is you!

Marco's mood swings were in full swing, and he said sarcastically, "What do you want from me? To see Leo, right? Didn't Leo send him?"

Salvi said anxiously, "It'll be too late by the time Leo tells me to go! Everyone will have spotted the business opportunity; there won't be a chance for me to make money then!"

Nicholas moved a chair to block the entrance of the tobacco shop, sat down, and asked, "What exactly did Leo say to you?"

Salvi hesitated for a long time before whispering in a voice only the two of them could hear: "I told Leo that I'm observant, and he talked to me about sea urchin losses, asking if I knew how other fishermen reduced their losses. I chatted with him for a bit."

Seeing him stop, Nicholas urged, "Keep going."

"That's all, that's all we talked about," Salvi replied.

Nicholas, with his legs crossed, asked, "What does this have to do with you going to learn to drive?"

"It's exhausting talking to an idiot." Salvi looked at Marco. "Tell him what Leo asked you earlier."

"Leo asked why the merchants only come to Marzamemi in the morning, and also inquired about Sandro's catch." Marco stubbed out his cigarette. "I know what you're up to. You want to help Leo deliver goods, but that doesn't make money; it's a pure waste of time."

Salvi, with a "I'm tired" expression, shooed them away, saying, "I told you, wherever Leo is, that's where the money is. Believe it or not."

It's exhausting to chat with idiots.

I just regret that I don't have good eyesight!

Salvi kept insisting on learning to drive, so Nicholas and his companion had no choice but to invite Andrei over to have a retired teacher give him a proper lesson.

Andrei made Salvi cry with just one sentence.

He told Salvi that a medical exam is required before learning to drive, and that Salvi's eyesight would definitely fail the test. He told Salvi that he could call the training center if he didn't believe him, as he had students who did this job.

Salvi was completely disheartened... He sighed and lamented all day.

But Nicholas, who had been listening to him sigh all day next door, felt a surge of life.

When it comes to making money, Salvi is definitely the most capable of the three.

He could even sell unsold newspapers...

We sold another thirty net bags today.

He's already made two fortunes off Leo.

Nicholas thought for a long time in the grocery store, then picked up the phone and dialed a number.

Who cares if it's true or not, let's give it a try!

Transporting sea urchins out of the country isn't difficult; you can just find a vehicle to do it. The real challenge is finding a buyer after they're out there.

Nicholas doesn't know any outside distributors, but he has connections!

The call was answered quickly, and Nicholas flashed a fawning smile, his tone of voice becoming increasingly ingratiating.

"Feed? Rukia? It's me, it's me, Nicholas of Malzamemi!"

Leo spent some time in the coffee shop before starting his day's work—harvesting sea urchins.

Although his target is sea urchins, he will continue to decipher unknown traces whenever circumstances permit.

The newly opened map shows a rocky uplift riddled with holes, inhabited by countless residents. It's no exaggeration to call it a giant underwater museum.

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Often, when you shovel a shovel, before you even see a sea urchin, some strange things come out first.

Leo is all about money; he doesn't care about anything else, unless he comes across expensive seafood.

Around 9 a.m., he encountered his first VIP of the day, a Mediterranean spiny lobster, in a narrow crevice.

This is definitely a heavyweight guest.

First of all, the price is high.

Mediterranean spiny lobsters have no large claws, but their meat is delicious and can sell for over 40,000 lira per kilogram. That's just the land price; if they appear in Syracuse restaurants tomorrow, the price could be two to three times higher.

Secondly, it is truly a VIP.

There are many types of lobsters in the Mediterranean. The ones with large claws are more expensive, but they usually live in waters less than 20 meters deep and rarely come to shallow waters.

Leo was fortunate enough to disturb this distinguished guest today because Mediterranean spiny lobsters mate in the summer, and after this season they will return to the deep sea.

Since we've come across this, of course we should take it.

After nearly a month as a fisherman, Leo's hands were already good enough to be used as scales.

When he floated to the surface to rest, he deliberately held the lobster in his hand and weighed it.

A few seconds later, he put the lobster back into the net bag.

I heard the sound of "4 lira" in my ear.

Leo will first locate the possible locations of sea urchins by looking for crab tracks, and then use the search methods in the "Sea Urchin Survey Report" to find the sea urchin nests.

Therefore, in this process, traces that have already been identified will be ignored by him, such as light marks representing fish and water pressure marks representing shellfish.

But when Leo was looking for crab-shaped patterns, he discovered a particularly large water pressure pattern.

At first, he didn't pay attention, thinking that there was a big seashell hidden underneath. Clams and whelks were very cheap, and even if it was big, Rio wouldn't care.

He only found crabs in the vicinity, but not sea urchin nests. Undeterred, he conducted a thorough search and unexpectedly discovered the anomaly of this "water pressure pattern".

Yesterday's multiple experiments proved that the center of the "water pressure pattern" is the adsorption point of the shell, but Leo did not find any shells on the reef this time.

This is like someone telling you, "There's someone standing in the corner," but you just can't see them...

Isn't that scary?

Suddenly, I've walked into a horror movie set!

The underwater world was mysterious, and Leo was all alone. If this case wasn't solved, Leo was starting to panic.

So he stopped and carefully investigated the unusual water ripples.

After studying it for a good half minute, he was certain that there was a shellfish there, but it was so tightly attached and a master of disguise that it was indistinguishable from the nearby rocks, which is why he hadn't noticed it at first.

There aren't many "Mediterranean suction cup masters," you could count them on two hands. And because of this powerful disguise, Detective Leo immediately had a suspect.

The second VIP guest may be about to make an appearance!

Suspecting this was a VIP, Leo dared not use force; once a shell creature is broken, it becomes worthless.

He noted down the location and continued searching for sea urchins.

After a while, they quietly circled back.

It really was a quiet... gradual approach.

When he was a meter away from that guy, he used the "Start of Driving" skill to its fullest extent, almost flashing over and throwing a "Weakness Strike" to lift it up. He also incorporated his experience and insights from "Reaction Throwing Training" and "Man and Shovel as One" into his move... and captured it in one fell swoop!

Leo gently placed the abalone with a ring of bright green teeth into the net.

The sound of money falling into a pocket came to my ears again.

"2 lira received."

This creature is called the Mediterranean green-lipped abalone. Their shells are often covered with barnacles, seaweed, calcareous sediments, and small shellfish, almost blending into the surrounding rocks, making them extremely difficult to find.

The annual catch in the entire Sicily region does not exceed 2 tons.

If Leo hadn't had a cheat code that allowed him to discover a strange water pressure pattern there, he would never have found it in his entire life.

The Mediterranean green-lipped abalone has an amazing suction power; its foot can have a suction force of up to 200 times its own weight. Once startled, it tightens its grip, and even if you smash the shell, you can't pull it off.

But it's expensive. The one Leo grabbed isn't that big, yet it still sells for such a high price. Its value is definitely worth the combo.

However, Leo couldn't help but laugh when he thought about how he had used his strongest attack on an abalone.

It's like using a cannon to shoot mosquitoes.

Before long, something worth firing cannons at appeared.

While exploring a narrow opening, Leo discovered some strange patterns inside, the kind he hadn't yet deciphered.

But there were many small plum blossom patterns on the surrounding area, so I used a long shovel to poke around them.

The shovel quickly relayed the message: "This hole is a trap; there's a secret room behind it, and I'm already inside!"

Leo immediately relayed a new instruction to the shovel: "Good job! Go and hook out the sea urchin inside!"

Next... the information transmission between the person and the shovel was interrupted.

It hadn't encountered the things the shovel had touched before, so it didn't know how to explain them to Leo.

Leo couldn't feel what the shovel had touched, so he could only try to pry it out.

Suddenly, an indescribable, purplish-white, eerie light, covered with countless tiny, fingernail-sized eyes, twisted and coiled out.

Then came the second one...

The third one...

Leo twisted his waist and flashed three meters away.

Damn it, it's his nemesis, the octopus, again!

"If you bring the harpoon down here, you'll die!" Leo delivered a whip kick, releasing it.

Two seconds later, Leo returned to his original position.

It firmly remembered the shape and pattern of the octopus's markings, whipped its legs twice, and left again.

I had good luck making money today, but the atmosphere was quite tense the whole time.

First, he accidentally wandered onto a horror movie set, and then he suffered a visual shock from Cthulhu... After that, Leo was very careful about everything he looked at, afraid that he might accidentally wander into some strange forbidden zone again.

Of course, this also served as a reminder to Leo—this is the ocean, a mysterious area that less than 0.001% of the area has been directly observed by humans (including cameras)!

Anything can appear in the ocean.

Let alone certain dangerous creatures, it is unavoidable to encounter things that cannot be explained by science.

For example, right now.

Deep within the narrow crevice in the rock where Leo was digging out sea urchins, a faint, eerie yellow light emanated.

To Leo's naked eye, there was a faint yellow glow inside.

Open the [Gaze of the Microscopic Eyes], and it still glows with a faint yellow light.

How do you explain this?

It can't be... the eye of some large fish, can it?

After hooking out all the sea urchins, Leo instantly retreated to a place three meters away.

run?

That's impossible!

He took a running start underwater and charged forward, his shovel plunging into the dark yellow expanse!

Leo only has a phobia of soft-legged creatures; he's not afraid of anything else.

There's a dragon inside, and I've even skinned it alive!

The shovel probed deep into the crevice and immediately transmitted a signal.

Leo's eyes lit up immediately.

One VIP guest!

Come here!

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