After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 418, Episode 0454: My First Time Going Beachcombing
“I shouldn’t have been so impulsive back then. Ever since then, whenever he’s unsure about something, he calls me. If I don’t answer, he’ll just run off to the military base.”

At first, he believed people who said he wasn't there, but later that trick stopped working. Those shameless people would block the door and let him in, and he could wait outside for ages.

The old man chuckled, "Isn't this good? With you in charge, the island won't be in chaos, and all your years of hard work won't have been in vain."

That's true, but... "I get paid for one job but do the work of three or four. Money isn't the main issue. The key is that I also need rest, old commander. My life is my life too."

Seeing his bitter and resentful expression, the old man couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Wang Datou: "..."

Just then, the sound of the door opening came, and the two of them looked towards the entrance at the same time.

Lin Yuexi, dressed in military green, walked in, followed by Xu Shan and others, as well as Zhang Hongying, who was wearing a sun hat and long sleeves and trousers.

Behind her, two guards each carried a bamboo basket.

The old man immediately stood up with joy, and without needing a cane, he nimbly went out to greet his grandson, "My dear grandson is back! Are you tired?"

"Grandpa." Lin Yuexi smiled and quickened her pace.

The grandfather and grandson put on a show of reunion after a long separation, leaving Wang Datou, who had just stood up to greet them, completely stunned.

He nudged Xu Shan's arm. "If I remember correctly, they see each other every day, right?"

If he hadn't lost his memory, Academician Lin should have come back every night. What's going on here?

Xu Shan: "The commander has been coming back quite late lately, and the old man is already resting when he gets back."

He paused, then added, "The old man and the leader have a good relationship."

They see this kind of scene often.

Wang Datou understood his underlying meaning and was immediately struck dumb. His old commander, who was always serious and never showed his emotions, was actually like this in front of his granddaughter?

With a snap, a corner of the filter shattered.

With his beloved grandson by his side, the old man immediately ignored his surroundings, ate with Lin Yuexi, and then accompanied her to see Zhang Hongying's catch from beachcombing, completely forgetting about Wang Datou's existence.

"A good haul today, such a big abalone?"

Zhang Hongying was very excited: "Dad, the Akita family led us to a place where there were abalone on the rocks over there, and oysters next to them. The abalone weren't that big, but the oysters were huge. Most of them were about the size of my palm."

"That's not all. If you're brave enough to swim a little further out, there's a huge rock, and looking at it, it's densely packed with other rocks, and they're probably all quite large."

Wang Datou also became interested upon hearing this, and after glancing at it, he exclaimed, "This isn't even that big? It's already three fingers wide! Even on the island, abalone of this size wouldn't be cheap these days."

The price of seafood now is quite different from when they first arrived and seafood was everywhere.

Back then, seafood was worthless, especially the small, shellfish kind. Nobody ate them; they were just picked up to feed poultry.

After the city was built, more people moved to the island, and more people knew how to eat. As a result, the price of seafood kept rising. Now, it easily costs several dollars, and small, purely wild abalone and lobster can cost tens of dollars.

The ones Zhang Hongying picked up were about three fingers wide, and they wouldn't be less than fifty yuan a pound. And so on.

Wang Datou squatted down next to Zhang Hongying with a long face and asked, "Comrade Zhang, is what you said true?"

Zhang Hongying could easily see what he was thinking, but she didn't intend to make things difficult for him. She had originally planned to tell the troops, and it just so happened that the head of his unit was there.

“Go south from Qinggang, there’s a deep-looking bay where the rocks are quite far from the shore.”

Wang Datou knew the terrain of Chongyang Island better than Zhang Hongying, and he knew exactly where she was referring to as soon as she said that.

He immediately showed his anger, "How dare you go there?"

The place Zhang Hongying mentioned is a spectacle on Chongyang Island, and also one of the most dangerous places.

It has a beautiful name: Moon Bay.

It's a crescent-shaped cliff where the cliff meets the sea. When it rains, rainbows often appear on the cliff face, creating a beautiful scene.

But it is also extremely dangerous there, both on the surface of the sea and underwater.

At sea, the cliffs are almost vertical, with no footholds. You can't even touch the cliff if you jump down from above, let alone climb it.

Underwater, not only is it deep, but eddies also appear from time to time. Sometimes the surface and the water are calm, while other times the surface is calm but the water is turbulent. If you encounter a situation where the surface is not calm, you can be sure that the water is extremely dangerous and there is no pattern to be found.

Before the troops arrived, the villagers in the two nearby villages all knew that it was dangerous there and would never go near it.

But the troops didn't know that when they arrived. Some military families noticed the place while going to the beach. No one had ever been there before. In addition, the terrain there is concave and crescent-shaped, and the water is deep. In some relatively shallow areas, large fish can easily get lost when the tide goes out. There are also many large abalone and oysters on the cliffs, which look very rare.

Then, something unfortunate happened. Three military wives went into the water to try to retrieve abalone from the cliff edge, but they encountered an underwater whirlpool. They tried to save one person from another, but none of them made it back up. One of them was pregnant.

From that time on, the military issued a strict order prohibiting anyone from approaching Moon Bay.

"Isn't there a 'No Entry' sign over there? Didn't you see it?"

Zhang Hongying was startled by his sudden fierceness. After thinking carefully, she shook her head. "I didn't see any warning signs, but we shouldn't be at Moon Bay as you mentioned. We're quite close. We're right by the sea, where there's still sand. The rocks where I was picking abalone aren't far from the beach either."

She stood up and gestured to a spot on her thigh, "The water only reaches this far when you get to the rocks, it's not dangerous."

Wang Datou felt a little relieved, but not completely at ease. Like a mother hen, he warned, "Moon Bay has beautiful scenery, but it's dangerous. If you just want to have some fun, just look at it from a distance. If you want to go beachcombing, you absolutely cannot get close. I'm not trying to scare you, but even the soldiers in the army who are good swimmers don't dare to go into the water there casually."

"According to our current exploration, the cliff is almost right-angled, splitting all the way to the seabed. There are many interconnected caves in the underwater cliff, some leading directly to the surface and some completely underwater. This causes whirlpools to frequently appear in the water nearby, and the suction force of the whirlpools is very strong. The body of one of the three military wives who were killed was found by our soldiers who risked their lives to dive into the underwater caves and searched through the various caves. Finally, it was found 20 kilometers away from Moon Bay."

That's because the cave there was relatively narrow and had already been filled with a lot of trash, which is why the body got stuck there. From this, you can imagine how strong the suction of those vortexes was.

It's safe to say that once a person is sucked in, no matter how good their swimming skills are, they absolutely cannot get out on their own; they will die without a chance of survival.

That's why it's a restricted area.

Wang Datou never expected that the more he instructed, the more interested some people became.

The next day, Lin Yuexi dressed the same as Zhang Hongying and headed towards Moon Bay.