The entire ocean is my fishing ground.

Chapter 80 You bought a piece of the Dead Sea!

Half an hour later, more than a dozen heavy refrigerated trucks from Hengda Cold Chain drove into the town's dock in a grand procession.

The car door opened, and a cloud of cold air billowed out. Zhou Dazhuang and his men loaded boxes of high-quality seafood, preserved with a dormancy solution, into the car in an orderly manner, without the slightest delay.

Tang Zhen and Luo Yi stood by the dock, looking at this scene, and finally felt a huge weight lifted from their hearts.

Luo Yi lowered his voice, his tone full of emotion.

"President Tang, this Boss Lin is a real dragon."

Tang Zhen didn't speak, but just looked at the young figure standing in front of the convoy, giving instructions to his subordinates, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

He originally thought Lin Chen was just a lucky fisherman's son, but now it seems he was wrong.

This wasn't luck; it was clearly meticulous planning and decisive action.

Just as the last car door closed, the familiar dark blue light screen lit up in Lin Chen's mind.

[Congratulations, host, on completing the "Business Comeback" mission, shattering Shao Kun's logistics blockade, and establishing industry dominance.]

[Mission Rating: Perfect.]

[Reward Settlement: System privileges upgraded, host level increased to level 3.]

[New Feature Unlocked: Advanced Prediction Module for Regional Business and Natural Trends. Provides macro-level predictions of business fluctuations and natural environmental changes within a specified area over the next 72 hours, and can be manually refreshed daily.]

Lin Chen turned off the panel; the constantly fluctuating numbers in his account had already made him feel nothing.

He looked up at the sky, the sea breeze blowing on his face, carrying a salty, fishy smell.

Shao Kun's ocean logistics business collapsed, but Shao Kun himself is still around.

……

The Chamber of Commerce building in the provincial capital, the president's office.

"Clang!"

The precious purple clay teaware was smashed on the ground, shattering into pieces.

Shao Kun's eyes were bloodshot as he roared and swept everything he could throw off the table onto the floor.

The secretary stood trembling at the door, barely daring to breathe.

"Lin Chen".

Shao Kun gritted his teeth as he uttered the name, his chest heaving violently.

He lost, he lost miserably.

His logistics empire, built up over half a lifetime, was torn to shreds in a single day by that kid. His connections and network of relationships proved utterly ineffective in the face of irrefutable evidence and vested interests.

Those who used to fawn over him are probably now scrambling to lick Lin Chen's toes.

Is it finished?

No.

Shao Kun suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with a crazed light.

He's not done yet.

"I can't beat you in the high-end market, and you've outmaneuvered me in logistics, but don't forget, Lin Chen, you're just a peasant."

He grabbed the phone, his fingers turning white from the force.

"Hey, is this Lao Wang? Help me contact the bank. My core assets under the Ocean Group, including those buildings, are all mortgaged. I need cash, right away."

"Also, notify everyone to go and buy them all. Huangni Village, Qingshui Island, and the surrounding cities—all the fishing rights in the near-shore fishing grounds. No matter the cost, I want them all."

"Yes, it's about cutting off his roots."

After hanging up the phone, Shao Kun seemed to have all his strength drained away, collapsing into a chair with a morbid, sinister smile on his face.

Didn't you, Lin Chen, start your business by relying on those small-scale fishermen?

Didn't you want to start some kind of cooperative and become the savior of fishermen?

Ok.

I bought the sea outright.

I wonder what your fishermen use to go out to sea.

Looking at your Dragon Ridge Ocean Shipping, what will you use to supply Marriott?

……

The next day, just as dawn was breaking.

The dock in Huangni Village was in an uproar.

More than a dozen modified armed trawlers brazenly blocked all the waterways in the near sea.

The boat was filled with burly men in black vests, carrying iron bars, pointing and gesturing at the fishing boats of Huangni Village with faces full of provocation.

"What are you looking at? This sea belongs to the Shao family from now on, so get lost."

"Take one more step forward, and believe me, I'll sink your wrecked ship."

Wang Fuhai's boat was in the lead when it was forced to stop by a large ship, the splashing water of which nearly capsized his small boat.

"Why should we? Our ancestors have been fishing in this sea for generations."

Wang Fuhai was so angry that his face turned red and his neck bulged.

A scarred man on the opposite boat spat and arrogantly banged on the gunwale with an iron bar.

"Based on this."

He pointed to the two large characters "Ocean" on the hull.

"Boss Shao has bought out all the fishing rights for this area for the next five years. If you have any objections, go ask him."

The fishermen of Huangni Village looked at their empty fishing nets and the arrogant trawlers, trembling with anger but helpless. They knew that the other party had legally and compliantly bought out the fishing rights, and even calling the police would be useless.

In the Lin family courtyard.

Lin Jianguo squatted under the eaves, puffing on his pipe, his brows furrowed in a frown.

The courtyard was filled with fishermen from the cooperative, all looking worried and sighing.

"Uncle Jianguo, what should we do? If we can't go to sea, our whole family will starve."

"That guy surnamed Shao is such a scoundrel, he's trying to drive us to our deaths."

Liu Guilan brought out a basin of freshly washed vegetables, and seeing the oppressive atmosphere, her eyes reddened.

The cooperative had just started to show some promise, and everyone was beginning to have hope for the future when this happened.

Just then, an SUV stopped at the gate of the courtyard.

Lin Chen got out of the car and looked calmly at the anxious and helpless faces in the yard.

"Dad, what happened?"

Lin Jianguo tapped his pipe on the sole of his shoe and mumbled the story over and over.

"Xiao Chen, this matter... is probably going to be difficult to handle."

He looked at his son, his eyes filled with worry. This was different from the previous minor squabbles; Shao Kun had overturned the table, directly cutting off everyone's escape route.

After listening, Lin Chen didn't say anything, but simply walked to the center of the courtyard.

He looked around at his uncles and brothers who trusted him.

"Everyone go back first. I'll handle this."

The fishermen dispersed, still somewhat skeptical.

Only the father and son remained in the courtyard.

Lin Chen showed no sign of panic. He walked to the well, drew a bucket of water, and slowly washed his face.

The cool well water made him more alert.

Shao Kun's move did indeed hit him where it hurt.

Lin Chen brought up the system panel and focused his mind on the newly unlocked regional business and natural trends module.

On the deep blue light screen, a three-dimensional map of the surrounding sea area, covering hundreds of nautical miles, slowly unfolded.

Lin Chen locked the coordinates to the near-shore fishing grounds that Shao Kun had bought out.

The next second, the entire area's map was instantly covered in a blinding red light. A line of large, scarlet characters flashed continuously above the map, as if issuing an urgent alarm.

[Major Natural Disaster Warning.]

[WARNING: Due to the combined effects of abnormal deep-sea currents and unusual hydrothermal vent eruptions, the ecosystem in the target area is showing signs of impending collapse.]

[Prediction: A devastating red tide will erupt in the area in 48 hours. At that time, dissolved oxygen levels in the seawater will drop to lethal levels, and all aquatic life will suffocate and die within 12 hours, with no survivors.]

[Estimated economic losses: Incalculable.]

This natural disaster is an irreversible event.

Lin Chen stared at the information on the panel, his breath catching in his throat for a moment.

A devastating red tide?

None escaped unscathed?

He slowly raised his head and looked towards the dock, as if he could see Shao Kun's crazy and smug face.

He spent all his savings to buy an area that was about to become a dead sea.

Shao Kun, you think you're taking my lifeline?

Little did you know, you had dug your own grave.