At the Phase-2 wharf of Dafeng Port, the Yancheng City garrison battalion was mopping up Armored Horseshoe Crabs.

These Armored Horseshoe Crabs were all in the Lv1 — Pure Gold Era. The corpses of the slain ones were hauled off, transported to the Yancheng City settlement for processing into core armaments and metal-change armaments.

Because the Armored Horseshoe Crabs were so numerous, the companies and independents from the Dafeng District camp came swarming over too, hunting them like bees to a hive.

The Huafeng Industrial Park zone had been contracted out to the Sea-Watcher Hunting Company, and its hunting squad was busy in this stretch, hunting down the fearsomely well-defended Armored Horseshoe Crabs.

To cut down on injuries, the hunting operation went fairly slowly, but the Armored Horseshoe Crabs were still dwindling, little by little, at a rate of two a minute.

Li Hu gripped a long-handled hook — a core armament — tasked specifically with snagging the shells of the Armored Horseshoe Crabs. Working in tandem with another squad member, Zhang Laishun, the two of them would heave up the hook together and flip an Armored Horseshoe Crab over. Once flipped, the crab could be run through and killed by his teammates' core-armament spears.

By this method, hunting Armored Horseshoe Crabs was perfectly safe.

The company was short on people, and its equipment wasn't advanced, so this failsafe approach was the only way to hunt.

"Hu-ge, we've got to pick up the pace. The Ocean-Going Trade Company over there is already more than halfway through their mop-up. They see us moving slow, they'll definitely come muscle in and steal our catch!" A young squad member came running over from another zone, a big bag of food in hand.

Li Hu was the squad leader. He set down the long-handled hook and signaled everyone to pause the hunt. "Eat first, then get back to it. Little Bei, no need to fret — we're not fighting them for it. We've hunted plenty of Armored Horseshoe Crabs already. No sense courting danger just to keep up the pace. Everyone here's got a…