Kabanata 528: Seeing the Lightning Rat Again

Su Ping was curious. "What do you usually do when out at sea?"

"Our job…" Su Yuanshan answered with a smile, "As seamen, we sail out on the ships and search for rare and wanted materials in the sea. You must know that there are spatial cracks in the barren areas, but you may not know that you can also find those cracks in the sea. Of course, you won't see many people fighting and contending over things in the sea with so many wild beasts out there; whoever finds the materials will be the rightful owner.

"You can collect and pick up anything you find inside those spatial cracks in the sea. Naturally, the inside can be quite dangerous. You may even find beast kings inside some of those cracks. That is when people need us, the professionals, to probe."

"And how do you do that?"

"It's a job that needs a lot of devotion and special care. We may use some pets with temporary contracts. Us seamen would go in if there are no pets available."

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