Lu Ao was not a very patient person to begin with. Once Xie Lingxun and the others had made their decision, he did not try to persuade them further.
"Sigh, true enough. It's what the clients want. There's nothing we can do."
Lu Ao nodded. "Nothing will happen anyway. Let them be."
Boss Chen gave him a thumbs-up. "In all of Qianyong City, I think you're the only one who'd dare say that."
Lu Ao focused on steering the boat. A little after four in the afternoon, they arrived near Deer Island.
The typhoon had already passed, but the weather was still overcast today, gradually turning gloomy.
Even after four, the sun was nowhere to be seen.
Lu Ao handed the boat over to Boss Chen to steer slowly ahead, then went out to find Xie Lingxun.
Xie Lingxun was on the deck. The moment he saw Lu Ao, he said excitedly, "Brother Lu, we just spotted Giant Trevally! They're insanely fierce!"
"As long as you saw them." Lu Ao glanced at the sea. "Have you started chumming?"
"We were just about to." Xie Lingxun said, "We prepared two buckets of frozen fish and bait powder. Should we start now?"
Lu Ao looked at the sky. "About time. Go ahead."
Giant Trevally mainly fed at night. With no sun and poor light now, it was much like dusk—the kind of environment Giant Trevally preferred.
Xie Lingxun's friends gathered around and began kneading bait into balls, tossing them into the water as they worked.
At the same time, they cast down chunks of fish and fishing hooks.
Boss Chen saw from the wheelhouse that they had begun tossing bait. He slowed the boat further, but did not stop it.
Giant Trevally were fierce by nature and preferred live fish and shrimp,