Ocean Lords: Start as a Fisherman

Su Wang's message was conveyed.
An hour later, Di Anxuan responded quickly, sending over a list of loans available.

It records the amount of shipwright's potions that previous alliance members lent out.

The quantity was more than Su Wang had expected, reaching over 2.7 bottles.

The remaining shortage of nearly 1.8 bottles of ship's medicine was replenished by Su Wang.

Fortunately, the Green Knife Fish Wharf was purified by Su Wang alone, which allowed him to obtain tens of thousands of mission reward settlements.

After choosing to settle part of the account, and adding the accumulated shipwright's potion inventory, I had enough for 4.5 bottles of potions.

Through the alliance's shared warehouse, Su Wang successfully obtained all the shipwright baptism potions.

Next, Su Wang distributed the corresponding shipwright potions to each newly arrived alliance member lord.

After the medicine was distributed, Su Wang saw the confusion in everyone's eyes.

Su Wang didn't keep them in suspense any longer and explained in front of everyone.

"The dock you are standing on now is one that I just cleaned up and reclaimed today. Every resident here has top-notch shipwright qualifications."

"Now, you can use the shipwright's potion to recruit shipwrights at this dock and have your first small fleet."

As Su Wang finished speaking, the many fishermen lords present exclaimed in surprise.

"Haha! I'm going to have my own fleet of ships too!"

"That's fantastic! To get a top-tier ship captain right after joining the alliance is amazing!"

Seeing this, Su Wang smiled and continued.

"Moreover, this will be a long mission that will take up a lot of your time and cause the port's development to stagnate."

"Therefore, as long as a dock is recaptured during this long-term mission, each alliance member will receive the right to allocate 200 residents as compensation after the mission ends."

The supplementary regulations that followed raised the cheers at the scene to an even higher level.

What is the most lacking feature of the newly built dock?
people!
If there were enough people at the dock, they wouldn't have been building the dock for several days without finding any direction for future development.

Upon hearing what Su Shen said,

If they can recapture another ten or eight docks, wouldn't they be able to take away two or three thousand high-quality residents after the mission is over?
Immediately, everyone's interest was piqued, and they cheered that they should go and recapture the dock immediately.

Su Wang calmed the crowd down, telling them to keep their patience.

Those present were all green recruits, and most of them had no experience fighting against the polluter fleet.

Su Wang dared not let them directly participate in the battle; he needed to find some experienced alliance members to lead the team.

Having gone through these days of fighting, the members of the expeditionary fleet have become somewhat accustomed to fighting against the polluter fleet.

Su Wang decided to wait until the next dock was secured before reorganizing and redistributing the fleet.

Led by experienced members and combined with newly joined members, more expedition fleets will be formed to accelerate the process of recovering polluted waters.

...

Over the next two days,
The Fire Spirit Fish Wharf, which was originally deserted in the surrounding sea, has become extremely crowded.

4.5 Mutual Aid warships completely blocked the Fire Spirit Fish Wharf.

The residents of Firefish Wharf have all been awakened, totaling nearly 14 people.

The original ruling family was the Fire Spirit Family, but Su Wang still chose them as secondary managers of the dock to help restore the dock to normal operation.

Having lost its patriarch and the inheritance of the Source of the Extraordinary, the Fire Spirit Clan has become a lost clan.

The Fire Spirit Clan did not provoke much resistance from Su Wang, this "savior" who appeared out of nowhere.

Of course, the sheer number of warships outside the Fire Spirit Fish Wharf also played a role.

Su Wang also received a report from Di Anxuan today that the polluter fleet targeting the polluted dock has been wiped out to the point of being ready for elimination.

The Heart of Death disappeared over the Fire Spirit Fish Wharf.

Less than half an hour later,
All the residents and fishermen at Firefish Wharf looked up at the distant sky, captivated by the strange sight.

To the northwest of Fire Spirit Fish Wharf, on the distant horizon, dark clouds churned violently.

Within minutes, it began to thin and dissipate.

...

Above the newly purified dock, Su Wang also looked up at the strange changes taking place in the sky.

After the refracting matrix was put into use to purify the polluted wharf, the three purification wharves formed a mutually supportive environment.

The area in the sky where the anomaly occurred was the sea area between the three purification docks.

The dark clouds quickly dissipated, and without their obscuring effect, bright sunlight once again shone on the sea.

The originally dark seawater, when illuminated by light, sheds its black hue and reveals its true azure blue.

At the same time, Su Wang also received a new notification message.

[Three polluted wharves have been cleaned up, forming an initial barrier against pollution, and the pollution level in the isolated sea area has been reduced to light pollution.]

The lightly polluted sea area meets the conditions for the birth of normal marine life, and marine life will be born within 24 hours.

"Just as I thought." A glint flashed in Su Wang's eyes.

The emergence of the three purification docks has completely opened up a gap in the polluted sea area.

The area of ​​sea that a sanitation dock can purify is inevitably related to the dock's grade, and the range will not be too large.

The cleanup of the first two polluted docks still failed to create a connection between them.

The polluted waters in between make it impossible for any fleet of ships to travel back and forth between the two docks without a strong and capable one.

The changes that are happening now

This created a not-too-small "pseudo-safe" sea area between the three purification docks, where even fleets of average strength could operate.

As more and more purification docks are added to the area, the scope of the "pseudo-safe" sea area will further expand.

Ultimately, it will be transformed into the same situation as the sea areas outside the polluted areas.

This is what truly means to reclaim the world's dominion over the polluted seas.

"We've chosen the right direction."

The emergence of lightly polluted sea areas will greatly alleviate the problem of force allocation.

Previously, Su Wang was worried that for every polluted dock cleaned up, a portion of the combat power would have to be used to protect it.

In this way, the number of purifying docks and the distribution of combat power will eventually reach an unbalanced point.

At that point, the cleanup of the polluted dock will hit a bottleneck and become unsustainable.

The fact that multiple purification docks would create slightly polluted sea areas would greatly contribute to the liberation of combat power.

As the distribution of clean-up docks expands, there will inevitably be clean-up docks that no longer border polluted sea areas.

At that time, Su Wang only needs to deploy his combat forces to the purification docks that border the polluted sea area.

This eliminates the need to deploy a large number of troops to each dock; at most, one only needs to guard against polluter fleets.

However, from the Starlink perspective, it's impossible for any polluter fleet to infiltrate.

Su Wang had his reasons for making this deduction.

There are pollution sources in the polluted waters, and the presence of just one of them is something that local ports cannot handle.

Why does the expansion of polluted sea areas require the support of polluter fleets?

It is highly likely that the pollutant source can only operate within the polluted sea area and cannot leave it.

The only threat that can operate in lightly polluted waters is the polluter's fleet.

Although this inference has not been verified, Su Wang felt it was unlikely to be wrong.

Otherwise, just the arrival of hundreds of pollutants expanding beyond the polluted sea area would be disastrous.

With its ever-renewing nature, it should have turned the entire world into a polluted wasteland long ago.

Thinking back to when I met the Pisces King, those sea creatures said that the world couldn't hold on and would fall into eternal darkness after at most two rainy seasons.

It is highly likely that after two rainy seasons, the polluting organisms will break free from the restriction of being confined to polluted sea areas.

When the deeply polluted sea area is exposed, countless pollutants will emerge, and the consequences are unimaginable.

...

Arrange for people to be mobilized to wake up the residents of the new dock.

Su Wang then found Di Anxuan and conveyed to her the matter of reorganizing the expedition fleet.

Excluding the fleet stationed at the Blue Knife Wharf, the total number of warships available for deployment has reached 5.2.

Su Wang decided to allocate 22,000 ships to garrison the two newly recaptured docks.
The remaining 30,000 warships were divided into three expeditionary fleets of 10,000 ships each to accelerate the attack on the polluted docks.

A polluted dock every few days is still too slow.

According to Tia's information about the rainy season, the next rainy season is only two months away.

Although the last rainy season was a bit longer, it only lasted a little over five months.

Even if 10 polluted docks are cleaned up in a month, it would only amount to about 20 in two months, and 70 in seven months.

However, within this polluted sea area, there is a polluted dock every few hundred nautical miles.

This purification speed is too slow!

The cleanup of 70 polluted wharves suggests that a vast area of ​​polluted sea has been recovered.

Compared to the polluted oceans that cover almost half the world, this area is not even a drop in the ocean, so we must speed up the process.

After receiving the instructions from Su Wang, Di Anxuan immediately mobilized the expedition fleet to return home.

Head to meet up with the fleet at Firefish Wharf and reorganize the fleet.

…While waiting for the expedition fleet to regroup, Su Wang was not idle.

Next, he will have to consider logistical issues.

It's not about fish coins and fish materials, but about the reserves of source crystals and source water.

We currently have a sufficient supply of Source Crystals and Source Water obtained from Pisces King, so there's no need to worry about running out for the time being.

However, as the process of cleaning up polluted docks accelerates, there will always be times when it is not enough.

In addition to the issue of purifying pollution sources, the production capacity of source crystals and source water is of paramount importance.

Given Pisces King's attitude, Su Wang no longer wanted to go and demand it.

Whether or not the purification dock needs to be returned to Pisces is secondary.
It would be a big problem if the person sent by the Pisces King to take over disrupted his plans.

However, the current capacity of Fool's Wharf is far too low.

Su Wang must come up with a solution to increase the production capacity of source crystals and source water.

Su Wang currently knows of only two sources regarding the production capacity of Yuanjing and Yuanshui.

First, attacking the polluted dock will reward you with a Source Crystal.

One piece is completely useless and shouldn't be considered.

Secondly, production relies on purified springs, which is also the most efficient and stable production path.

Su Wangxuan immediately focused his thoughts on the source of purification.

"The Purification Spring is a Gold-level dock resource, and it might be possible to obtain it through the Gold-level Hidden Dock pointer."

Su Wang had previously cleared the hidden dock pointers for a period of time, but later stopped due to being busy with other things.

Now I've thought about it again.

The long-term processing of fish catches has resulted in countless hidden dock pointers in the inventory.

Eliminating pointers of the wrong level, Su Wang focused his attention on the gold-level hidden dock pointer.

“More than 9, there’s hope,” Su Wang pondered.

Purification springs are not unique to dock facilities; some local docks also have them.

This is why the Pisces King was able to produce so many source crystals and source water.

Given this, among the more than 9 gold-level hidden dock pointers, there must be one pointing to a hidden dock containing a purification spring.

But Su Wang was preoccupied with trivial matters and had no time to go through each pointer one by one to complete the game.

In a flash, Su Wang thought of the fishermen again.

These days, aren't all the fishermen just bored? This is a good opportunity to do some work for themselves.

With this in mind, Su Wang immediately made a plan.

First, summon the Fisherman's Scroll to open the fishing quest interface.

Su Wang immediately spent his reputation to draft a bounty mission.

[Collect and purify the source]

Mission objective: Obtain the Gold-level hidden dock pointer and explore the hidden dock.

Task Reward: If the hidden dock resource core is not the purified spring core, you can keep it and receive 10 Azure Fish Coins as a reward.

When the resource core is the Purification Source Core, it will be automatically submitted and you will receive a reward of 1 million Azure Fish Coins.

Maximum number of recipients: 0 / 9; Maximum number of Purification Source Cores delivered: 0 / 5.

...

Su Wang invested 9 gold-level hidden dock pointers in this task, along with the 140 billion fish coins reward required to complete the task.

140 billion fish coins is not a huge expense for him at present, but it is not a small amount either.

However, there's nothing we can do about it. Fishermen are quite well-off now, so a low reward probably won't interest them.

The reward is guaranteed at 10 and capped at 1 million Fish Coins, plus a free pointer provided for the task of only recycling the Purification Source Core.

Given the current situation where many fishermen have their own docks, this should attract a lot of interest.

After setting up the task, Su Wang immediately opened the Fishermen's Exchange Area page to promote the task.

The Heartless: "Due to the need to combat pollution, there is an urgent need for a large number of purified source cores."
I also urge all fishermen to actively participate in the tasks I post in the fishing task area.

The extremely unique golden information on the "Death Heart" stood out among the numerous messages in the chat area.

This immediately attracted the attention of many fishermen.

"Has Su Shen issued another mission?"

Ximen Qing said, "If Su Shen says it's to combat pollution, then I should at least go and see for myself."

"I just checked and claimed it. It requires navigating the hidden golden dock, but it's not difficult and only takes a little time. Plus, the rewards are quite high."

“I also accepted it. Even without the mission reward, I have to help out because of Su Shen’s influence.”

"Received +1. It's a pity I already used the purification spring. Otherwise, I would have given it to God Su."

Seeing the reactions of many fishermen, Su Wang felt deeply gratified.

However, to motivate the fishermen, Su Wang also sent an additional message.

The Heart of the Dead: "Thank you all for your cooperation. There is no limit to the number of times this mission can be completed. Those who submit the core of the Purification Source will be given priority in the next alliance recruitment."

Upon hearing this news, the fishermen in the discussion area were immediately excited.

Ximen Qing: "Holy crap! They even have priority admission to the alliance?"

"Brothers, I've already set off. Wait for my good news."

"Luckily, the mission limit is high enough, I still have a chance!"

Number 300: "Su Shen is really generous. Not only are the mission rewards good, but there are also so many bonus benefits. Let's go!"

The benefit of priority admission by the alliance immediately gave the fishermen who saw the information a huge boost of enthusiasm.

Su Wang returned to the fishing mission page and found that in just over ten minutes, the number of missions claimed had exceeded 7.

The details of the alliance rewards revealed during the last recruitment of alliance members were quite exciting for many fishermen.

Everyone now knows that joining Su Shen's dock alliance and becoming an extraordinary fisherman is only a matter of time.

Therefore, joining Su Shen's dock alliance is equivalent to becoming a strong person.

With everyone possessing an extraordinary fish soul, undertaking this task is completely stress-free.

It is estimated that many fishermen who do not have their own docks may accept this task and try their luck.

If you're lucky enough to successfully complete the hidden dock and obtain the Purification Source Core, it's like getting a ticket to become a powerful being.

...

Su Wang didn't continue to pay attention to the developments in the chat area at this time.

Once the message and task have been released, they will gradually spread and develop.

Now all we have to do is wait for the fishermen who accepted the task to complete it.

The core of the purification spring is initially of gold grade. Although it cannot produce source crystals, it can still produce high-quality source water.

With the addition of bloodline refiners who currently own several docks, everyone possesses the qualifications of a gold-level worker.

With each purification source core he harvested, Su Wang was confident he could directly maximize the source's production efficiency.

With the enhancement of the Seven-Colored Ascension Monument, the purification source can be gradually upgraded to the extraordinary level.

Imagine a seven-colored monument of advancement, where the dock building can only be upgraded once every 3 days.

Su Wang immediately had the idea of ​​re-entering the Seven-Colored Secret Realm.

"It's time to build a few more Seven-Colored Ascension Monuments."

When the alliance was first established, he mentioned that he would reward people with the Seven-Colored Ascension Monument.

Since you've agreed, you have to take action.

Fortunately, the situation in the polluted sea area is currently stable, and there is some time to spare.

Su Wang immediately returned to the Lost Heart and took out a seven-colored scale to open the secret realm passage.

Soon, the water gate leading to the secret realm opened, and the Heart of the Dead sailed into it.

...

[Sea Area Information: Advanced Colorful Secret Sea Area, Danger Level: None, Time Limit: 59 Minutes.]

Fish species: 8 species.

Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple fish king, colorful fish king.

Each single-color fish king will contain a huge amount of special materials in its belly, and the seven-color fish king contains mysterious treasures.

[Real-time updates of secret realm special information have been enabled, and you will receive 1 special colorful bait.]

Seeing the information that appeared before him and the dazzling seascape, Su Wang was immediately moved to speak.

"It's been a long time."

It has been almost two months since I last entered the Rainbow Realm.

And his own strength has undergone another qualitative change.

And this time, the preparations were much more thorough than last time; at least the bait issue was no longer a problem.

…(End of this chapter)