But to her surprise, the moment she held the sand crab in her hand, it began to wave its little pincers frantically, as if protesting that Melody Summers had picked it up.

Melody Summers breathed a sigh of relief. "Alright, so you’re not dead, just lazy..."

The mantis shrimp were just like the sand crabs, lying lazily on the deck without moving. They didn’t seem to care whether they were in the sea or on land.

Besides the sand crabs and mantis shrimp, Melody Summers also spotted a few tiger shrimp.

Compared to the burly, armored mantis shrimp, the tiger shrimp looked exceptionally beautiful.

Their shells had beautiful patterns of yellow and reddish-brown, edged with vibrant red. Their fanned-out tails looked like small dragonflies, a beautiful blue-green like a peacock’s feather.

Melody Summers held the few tiger shrimp in her hands to admire them for a moment, then carefully placed them in a water tank, planning to take them home to share with her family.

Besides the shrimp and crabs, she had also caught several different kinds of fish this time.

There were a few triggerfish that strongly resembled tuna. They were huge, as long as Melody Summers’s arm, and entirely silvery-white with beautiful patterns on their bodies.

The filefish, on the other hand, was a bit ugly. It had an antenna on its head, and due to the pressure difference, its internal organs had burst out after leaving the water, leaving its belly swollen.

Additionally, there were a few golden pompanos. They had flat bodies, and their silvery-white skin shimmered with a rainbow-like iridescence. Melody Summers thought, ’Perhaps this fish is the legendary "colorful white".’

The other fish stopped moving shortly after being hauled up, but a few sea eels were still stubbornly writhing on the deck. Melody Summers gathered them all up and put them in a nearby water tank.

Similar in shape to the sea eels were the cornetfish. They were long and thin like pipes, and their entire bodies were a brilliant, eye-catching orange-red. Unlike the lively sea eels, they lay stiffly on the deck. Due to the change in water pressure, they were a bit dazed and hadn’t seemed to recover yet.

Looking at the pile of seafood, Melody Summers exclaimed with delight, "This is a huge haul!"

While dividing the pile of seafood into smaller portions, she cast her fishing net again. It was still early, so she could make another catch.

After casting the net, Melody Summers took out her phone, opened The Arcadia Shop, and began to list the seafood.

[Freshly Caught! Straight from the net to you! Seafood Mystery Box, 300,000 yuan each.]

[All just caught, guaranteed fresh, quality assured!]

[This catch is low on fish, high on shrimp and crab. Contents are random, no special requests.]

[Please open your balcony window ten minutes after payment. We will use a drone to deliver the product to your balcony. If all windows have security bars, we will deliver directly to your door. Please retrieve it promptly. We are not responsible for lost items.]

As soon as the seafood mystery boxes were listed, they sold out in an instant, just as expected.

Unlike when she had listed the chickens and ducks, this time, the moment the seafood mystery boxes went up, a flood of user comments popped up, nearly causing Melody Summers’s phone to freeze.

Melody Summers switched to airplane mode and was finally able to see what they were writing:

[User xxx: Am I seeing things? Did you say this seafood is freshly caught?]

[User xxx: Are you kidding me? The ocean froze over a long time ago. Where did you catch this? In your fish tank?]

[User xxx: Liar. And here I was trusting you so much.]

[User xxx: This has to be fake, right? How could anyone possibly catch fresh seafood now?]

[User xxx: I placed an order. I’m fine with your old frozen stock too. I’m not picky, I just really want to eat seafood!]

[User xxx: I ordered. I know it must be frozen, but you can’t even buy frozen seafood anywhere else anymore.]

[User xxx: A seafood mystery box? You’re a real con artist. I work in the seafood industry, and there’s no seafood to be found anywhere. Let me guess, the mystery box will have some dried kelp and dried shrimp in it? Hahahaha.]

[...]

Melody Summers was speechless after reading the messages. Most of them were just pointless comments.

She ignored the messages. Seeing that it had been about ten minutes since the items sold out, she immediately rolled up her sleeves and started packing the orders with Albus.

Because most people didn’t believe the seafood was freshly caught, they had mostly only bought one or two boxes to test the waters.

What surprised Melody Summers was that this time, she actually saw an order for a recipient named "Sophie Thorne"!

She took a closer look and saw that the contact number and delivery address matched. It really was Sophie Thorne...

Since it was an acquaintance, Melody Summers swapped her order into a bigger box while packing. She threw in a few extra of the beautiful tiger shrimp, and also added two triggerfish, two golden pompanos, two cornetfish, and two eels. She even tossed in the only cuttlefish she had.

Melody Summers and Albus worked in perfect sync, and they finished packing the batch of orders quickly.

The girl and her cat stretched, waiting to haul in the second net...

...

On the balcony of a suite in The Nimbus Hotel, Sophie Thorne stared with wide, unbelieving eyes at the delivery box that had just been tossed through her balcony window.

She quickly leaned out the window to look, just in time to see what looked like a drone flash by overhead before vanishing into thin air as if it had never been there.

Sophie Thorne was completely shocked. She murmured, "...Was the snow too heavy for me to see clearly... or am I hallucinating...?"

Just then, Ronan Rhodes walked over.

Seeing Sophie Thorne opening the window and looking out, he quickly pulled her back, yelling, "Honey, it’s too cold outside! You’ll get frostbite!"

After speaking, Ronan Rhodes closed the window and raised a hand to tenderly touch Sophie Thorne’s face, which was already red from the cold.

Seeing that Sophie Thorne was still staring blankly out the window, Ronan Rhodes asked in confusion, "...Honey, what’s wrong? What are you looking at?"

Sophie Thorne slowly shook her head. The scene just now had been too bizarre, and she didn’t know how to explain it to Ronan Rhodes. She could only start from the beginning. "...Well, I just ordered some freshly caught seafood online, and they delivered it to me in just ten minutes..."

Ronan Rhodes was dumbfounded. As if he hadn’t heard correctly, he blurted out, "...Huh?"

’Freshly caught seafood?’

’Delivered in ten minutes?’

Ronan Rhodes couldn’t make any sense of those words put together.

Never mind that the world was frozen over and the oceans were solid ice, making it impossible to catch any seafood.

Just with the raging blizzard and the two-to-three-meter-deep snow outside, how could anyone possibly make a delivery?

Ronan Rhodes cautiously reached out and gently touched Sophie Thorne’s forehead. He asked uneasily, "...Honey, you don’t have a fever, do you? Should we go see the medical staff?..."

Sophie Thorne rolled her eyes dramatically, swatted Ronan Rhodes’s hand away, and turned to pick up the delivery box from the floor before heading to the living room.

Ronan Rhodes quickly followed her, asking repeatedly, "Honey, don’t scare me. Are you sure you don’t have a fever?"

Sophie Thorne ignored Ronan Rhodes. She walked into the living room, placed the delivery box on the coffee table, and then, under Ronan Rhodes’s watchful gaze, slowly opened it.

Seeing the box neatly packed with seafood, both Ronan Rhodes and Sophie Thorne fell silent.

The salty, fishy smell of the sea filled the living room, reminding them both that this was real, not a dream.

Ronan Rhodes cautiously picked a sand crab out of the box. Annoyed at being disturbed, the crab waved its pincers at him.

This time, Ronan Rhodes and Sophie Thorne were even more silent.

It really was a box of freshly caught seafood, and it really had been delivered in a short amount of time. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be a single trace of frost on it.

It was negative forty or fifty degrees Celsius outside. There was even a puddle of water at the bottom of the delivery box; if it had been outside for any length of time, the contents would have definitely frozen solid.

But not only had the contents not frozen, they were still alive and fresh.

Realizing this, Ronan Rhodes held up the sand crab and said to Sophie Thorne in disbelief, "How is this possible?! How did they deliver it? The snow is so heavy outside, the roads are blocked, and neither people nor cars can get through!"

Besides, the ocean ice is incredibly thick right now—even icebreakers are useless. Where in the world did they catch this seafood?!