The Best Battlefield

Golden Crab Field have always existed only in legends, appearing only once every few decades, and then the legend continues.

The three crab fishing boats next to the North Pole slowly made way, wanting to see what was going on in the other crab traps of the North Pole.

One cage, two cages, three cages...

Almost every cage that was caught contained more than 100 king crabs.

Craig did a quick calculation and found that the North Pole had already made enough money by using the crab trap just once!

He shouted to the sailors beside him, "Lower our crab traps too! This is absolutely Golden Crab Field. The North Pole only put down 180 traps; there must be king crabs down there too!"

The North Pole was small and dilapidated, and could only carry 180 crab traps, which was less than the quota of other crab fishing boats.

Normally, the Alps carries 300 crab traps.

However, they had just hoisted the crab trap and hadn't even had time to put cod bait inside when they heard a sharp object cutting through the night air.

In an instant, a playing card shot from a distance of over a hundred meters, severing the rope on the Alps crane.

The playing card continued its spinning motion, leaving a long, bloody gash on Craig's right cheek before slowly drifting down onto the deck.

Joker.

The red and yellow Joker card looks like it's lying on the deck, silently mocking...

The crab trap plunged into the deep sea with a splash.

Craig looked at the North Pole with great surprise. He took out his binoculars and saw the boy who had been to the Walnut Bar grinning at him, revealing his white teeth.

That powerful sense of oppression hit you right in the face even from hundreds of meters away.

He looked at the deck, picked up the playing card, and gently tore it in two, splitting the Joker into two pieces of paper.

This is just an ordinary paper playing card, so why can the rope be cut?

You know, that rope is the thick rope that's responsible for suspending a 680-pound crab trap. How could a playing card possibly cut it?

Craig touched the bloody gash on his cheek, still shaken. He wondered if the playing card had grazed his neck, he would be dead by now!

He inexplicably recalled the sailors who had encountered the "sea monster" and returned saying that since the monster didn't intend to kill him, they should never provoke it.

Otherwise, they would definitely die a terrible death.

It's like a sailor falling into the sea and encountering a tiger shark. If the shark doesn't intend to eat you, you should never frantically shake your body to attract its attention.

Thinking of this, Krieg silently put the torn-up playing cards into his pocket.

To avoid the other party seeing that you tore up the playing cards and interpreting it as a provocation...

In the bridge, the sailor in charge of steering said, "Captain, the North Pole has informed us that setting traps in the Golden Crab Field is no problem, since it's all a gift from nature. However, according to the rules of the Barents Sea, we must wait for the North Pole to leave before we can start working."

Craig suddenly said coldly, "Lower anchor. Everyone go back to the cabins to rest. We'll lower the crab traps after the North Pole has left."

To be precise, Craig backed down.

Nowadays, Time Walker have become a hot topic of discussion in various bars.

Thinking about the country the other party might come from, Craig suddenly felt as if he were being controlled by a mysterious Eastern power.

Why would the Time Walker help Zhang Jian? Craig couldn't understand.

Craig wasn't sure if the Alps, Orca, and Longtail would all be put into cages here, and there wouldn't be enough king crabs left at the Golden Crab Field.

But now that we've found the Golden Crab Field, it's worth the wait.

"Thank you for helping me," Zhang Jian said earnestly to Qing Chen and Yang Yang. "I think I know who you are now, so you knew from the beginning that this is the Golden Crab Field, right? Tonight, Fenrir and Craig must have sent sailors to cut our buoys, and it was you, Qing Chen, who helped me repel them."

Qing Chen and Yang Yang stood beside the deck, catching the crab traps being hoisted up. The boy smiled and said, "We didn't intend to help you, don't overthink it. We came here with our own plans, and many things were just things we did along the way. We're not related and have no friendship, so it's not worth our time."

Zhang Jian was taken aback. "Then why are you still...?"

"It's fun!" Yang Yang tilted her head and laughed. "Isn't that enough? We're more interested in fun things than helping you, so don't keep thanking us. It's too much trouble for everyone to be so polite."

It has to be said that Qing Chen and Yang Yang are quite similar in one respect: they both dislike being polite to others.

Moreover, they really had no intention of helping Zhang Jian.

After all, can they help this year? Can they help every year Zhang Jian still can't find a crab farm next year, his crew will be ripped off again.

The income of sailors on crab fishing boats varies greatly; on good crab fishing boats, sailors can earn more than 80,000 euros a year.

On a poor crab fishing boat, the crew could earn more than 50,000 euros a year, while on Zhang Jian's boat last year, the sailors only received more than 20,000 euros, which was really just a basic salary.

At this moment, Qing Chen said earnestly to Zhang Jian, "It was very touching when you talked about your adventure dream, but I think I understand why you can't find the crab farm."

"For you, coming to the Barents Sea is a journey of freedom and adventure, but you should think more about your crew. Everyone came here risking their lives and has to shoulder family responsibilities," Qing Chen continued. "You can never forget your original intentions, refuse capital, and continue to take risks, but a crab fishing boat is for catching crabs, otherwise you're just a failed adventurer. So do your homework and research where king crabs might appear. In my opinion, king crabs aren't that hard to find; they have their own activity patterns."

Zhang Jian was stunned for a long time.

Old John was stunned for a long time.

After being lectured, Zhang Jian felt a little resentful, but after that resentment came a heartfelt reflection.

After all, when his father was still alive, although he always talked about freedom and the spirit of adventure, he always managed to bring his crew back with a full load.

Old John was stunned for a long time because he had discovered a problem.

The young man and woman were talking as they unloaded the crab traps. Old John had even forgotten to use the crane, so these two were lifting the 680-pound crab traps like it was nothing.

Perhaps the boy and girl forgot that a crane is needed to move the crab traps after they're on the deck!

At one point, Old John felt that Qing Chen was more suitable to be the captain of the North Pole. If he were to follow a captain like that, there would probably be no loss of life on board, and the ship would return with a full load of cargo every year.

I work 7 days a year, and then I can enjoy life freely for the remaining 300-plus days.

Nedup, who was measuring the crabs with calipers, felt he had never been so relaxed on a crab fishing boat...

Setting crab traps is not easy; taking them down is even harder.

The North Pole turned on all the lights on board and worked from nine o'clock at night until dawn.

Old John was so sleepy he was about to close his eyes, but Qing Chen and Yang Yang were still working with boundless energy.

Meanwhile, the Alps, Orca, and Longtail witnessed the abundance of crabs at a Golden Crab Field not far away.

As Yang Yang dismantled the crab trap, she looked at Qing Chen and asked in a low voice, "You just demonstrated your power as Time Walker by playing cards, and you didn't bother to hide your tracks when you came. Now that the crab fishing boats are all returning to port, I'm afraid many people will know that you've been adrift in the Barents Sea."

Qing Chen smiled and nodded.

"So, you had the plan to bring Kamishiro and Kashima over from the very beginning?" Yang Yang asked curiously.

"Is there a more suitable battlefield than here?" Qing Chen asked with a smile. "The sea is boundless and the water is icy cold. If I fall into the sea, I can breathe through my skin, but they can't. Here, if they really don't realize the danger is coming, the mysterious Barents Sea will teach them what it means to have nowhere to run."

Yang Yang tilted her head. "How long can you stay underwater?"

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "Half an hour."

Yang Yang pouted. "Liar! I came all the way here to help you through your tribulation, and you still lie to me. Are you even human?"

Qing Chen was a little embarrassed. When he first acquired the new ability of Knight True Qi, underwater breathing, he could only last for 20 minutes.

However, he now has Knight True Qi almost completely infused into his body, and he can stay underwater for three hours.

However, he still doesn't want to tell everyone how he can breathe underwater and for how long, since it's a life-saving ability...

Yang Yang laughed and said, "Fine, I won't blame you anymore. I have secrets too, so we're even!"

Qing Chen looked out at the sea. The distance between the ships here was often several nautical miles or more, and they looked like Little Black to each other.

The masters in Time Walker can run faster than a ship on land, but here they can only wait obediently.

Sniper rifles seem to be extremely useful here.

At 9 a. m., the North Pole lowered its anchor and headed towards the horizon, fully loaded with cargo, as the sun rose.

A day later, when the North Pole returned to Amsterdam port to be weighed, it even caused a small sensation in the port.

However, the North Pole did not linger in port for long. As if in a hurry, it simply refueled and set sail again.

Two days later, the Alps returned to port.

After weighing himself, Craig went to the Walnut Bar to drink and relieve his boredom.

By this time, the port was filled with legends about the North Pole, and the more Craig listened, the more he felt like he was about to have a stroke.

As someone was playing the North Pole in the Walnut Bar, Craig loudly retorted, "The North Pole's ability to find the Golden Crab Field wasn't thanks to Zhang Jian, but because he had two Time Walker from the East on board! Without those two Time Walker, the North Pole would have lost everything this year!"

The people in the bar were surprised; there was such a story?

But at that very moment, a short, stocky Asian man sat down opposite Craig: "Can we talk? I'd like to ask what those two Time Walker on the North Pole look like?"

Craig tried hard to recall, then said, "They were all very beautiful."

The short, stocky man seemed to have found his target and immediately became interested. He took out a photo of Qing Chen from his pocket. "Is it him?"

"Yes, that's him," Craig looked at Qing Chen's photo, as if he had suddenly returned to the Walnut Bar a few days ago, where the boy walked into the bar, still carrying the cold wind from outside the Amsterdam port.

The short, stocky man opposite him asked, "Is he still on the North Pole?"

Craig had already realized that the person opposite him was no ordinary person. He said, "Yes, we happened to run into the North Pole on our way back, and I'm pretty sure he's on the North Pole."

The short, stocky man chuckled, "Hello, let's get to know each other again. My name is Kamiyo Kura. I can tell you really dislike those two Time Walker, and I happen to be willing to help you get rid of them."

Craig paused, then asked, "You?"

"It's not just me," Kamiyo Kura laughed, "There are many others. We are all Time Walker, and we've been hunting him for a long time."

During the time the North Pole was away from Amsterdam, many forces were searching for a Time Walker named Qing Chen.

Initially, it was Kamishiro, Kashima, Kunlun, and Jiuzhou that were searching, and later even "Future" in North America started looking.

There are only so many large Time Walker organizations in the world, so in the past few days, apart from the "hacker" organization based in North America, the other five major organizations have all been looking for Qing Chen...

What's strange is, why is he looking for Qing Chen in the future?

Someone asked, and the answer from the future is that everyone is looking for this person, which means this person is very important.

If everyone else is looking for one, and I'm not, does that make me seem a bit out of place?

At first, everyone sent Time Walker to stake out various tourist attractions, assuming that Qing Chen was visiting the Netherlands.

After squatting there for several days, I didn't see a single hair.

Gradually, all the manpower began to spread outward from the city center, until Kamiyo Kura came here and suddenly heard that "the new crew members on the North Pole are particularly young", and suddenly took notice of this matter.

Any stranger who suddenly appears should be noted.

Surprisingly, it was actually found by Kamiyo Kura.

Kamiyo Kura looked at Craig and smiled, "On this voyage, please help us find the North Pole."

Craig hesitated for a moment, then asked shrewdly, "What kind of compensation will I get? You know, the crab fishing season only lasts a few days. What if I delay the crab fishing because I'm looking for people?"

"We can pay you directly this year whatever you earned from crab fishing last year," Kamiyo Kura said with a smile. "We're willing to pay a 10% deposit; it's industry practice."

If He Jinqiu were here, she would definitely know that the God Era organization is planning to take advantage of people again.

In fact, the Shindai organization has done many similar things internationally: pay a deposit first, then kill the person after the deed is done, and no one will ask them for the final payment.

I don't know what's wrong with this nation. They seem normal most of the time, but once they start drawing blood, they immediately turn into shameless invaders.

However, Kamiyo Kura underestimated Craig's shrewdness.

After the people of the Age of Gods agreed to set sail the next morning, Craig immediately summoned Fenrir of the Orca and Frodo of the Longtail.

After a brief secret plot by the three, news that Time Walker could board crab fishing boats in Amsterdam Harbor spread like wildfire overnight.

This is a port city, and if you were to ask who has the widest network of connections in this city, it would definitely be the captains and sailors.

With the help of the Time Walker, the North Pole found the legend of the Golden Crab Field and drifted in the Amsterdam night sky.

Moreover, it seemed that everyone knew that the North Pole found the Golden Crab Field because of two Time Walker from the East.

A man and a woman, both quite good-looking.

Regel was clever; he realized that "good looks" seemed to be a criterion for Time Walker to find people, so he deliberately spread such news.

The next morning, more than ten members of the Kamishiro crew arrived at the port on time, and then they saw that Kashima and the people from the future were also there...

Kamiyo Kura was taken aback. He thought he was the only one who had found Qing Chen's information, but he didn't expect that Kashima had also found it.

Kashima's intelligence network in the Outer World seems pretty impressive.

But Kamiyo Kura soon realized something was wrong. After he and his men boarded Craig's Alps, Kashima boarded Fenrir's Orca.

Kamiyo Kura had heard that the Alps, Orca, and Longtail were all in cahoots...

Kamiyo Kura immediately realized that this shrewd crab boat captain had recognized the importance of intelligence and sold it to two different companies in one go...

Fortunately, Kamiyo Kura thought that although Kashima had also come, the two sides were basically aligned in their interests when it came to Qing Chen's problem, both wanting to get rid of him as soon as possible.

So, let Kashima come; it's like having another ally.

Kamiyo Kura breathed a sigh of relief.

However, just as the two ships left the port, Kamiyo Kura turned around and was shocked to see He Jinqiu, the leader of Jiuzhou, standing confidently on the deck of the Long Tail, a kilometer away, leaning on his black scepter.

Kamiyo Kura glared at Craig: "Speed up the ship! Don't go with that ship behind you!"

In the northern port of Oslo, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Bath is speeding away, heading towards the Barents Sea.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is one of the main types of destroyers in service in North America, equipped with the Aegis Combat System.

At that moment, several white men were leisurely lying on beach chairs on the deck of the Bath, seemingly unafraid of the biting wind, enjoying the feeling of sunbathing on the beach.

One of the Black men asked, "Why should we go to the Barents Sea?"

"Because everyone else went," a thin white man chuckled. "So everyone from Kamishiro, Kashima, and Jiuzhou went. Wouldn't it be a shame if we didn't go?"

"But the fuel cost for a destroyer trip is extremely expensive," the Black man said.

The white man chuckled. "Do we even need to worry about fuel costs in the 'future'? The world will be ours in the future. But I also find it a bit strange. It seems like the worlds of Kamishiro, Kashima, Jiuzhou are all looking for someone really good-looking. Why? Could it be like in Homer's epics, where Troy and Greece waged a ten-year war over Helen of Troy's beauty?"

The Black man thought for a moment and said, "I'd really like to see what this person looks like."

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