Mention Coconut, and even the bold and fearless Ship King showed him great respect.
“Coconut was my predecessor. Under his leadership, the shipyard quickly turned its losses into profits.”
“How did he do it?”
“He did two things. First, he brought in new shipbuilding technology. It made our ordinary vessels faster and sturdier, while improving the performance of our high-end ships across the board.”
Chen Miemie nodded. He did not ask what the technology was or where it had come from. Since the Ship King had been so vague, it was clearly a trade secret of the shipyard.
“The second thing was that Senior Coconut was a marketing genius.
“Truthfully, although the performance improvements of ordinary civilian vessels were impressive, they weren’t revolutionary.
“The reason we were suddenly able to sell them like hotcakes was Senior Coconut’s marketing strategy. He seized on the new city lord’s push to develop tourism and divided the shipyard into an outer section that was open to the public as a tourist attraction. Once more people came to visit, more people naturally ended up buying boats.”
Chen Miemie was puzzled. “That doesn’t sound right. Even if tourists got carried away in the moment, they wouldn’t go so far as to buy a boat, would they?”
The Ship King did not explain. He seemed a little embarrassed.
Dentist, however, was as blunt as ever and went straight for the heart of the matter.
“At the time, Coconut had people hand out flyers everywhere. They had pictures of beautiful women and handsome men doing sexy dances on boats, and sent them to other cities too. And then…”
“Ahem.” The Ship King cut her off. “In any case, he was incredibly talented.”
Dentist stopped reluctantly, though she continued muttering, “What’s there to be embarrassed about? He still hires handsome men and beautiful women to do exercise routines whenever he sells coconuts. Tidal Palace fines him every year, but people still mock them by saying, ‘Stop meddling in other people’s business.’”
While the three of them were chatting, someone came over to report that the culprit had returned to steal materials again.
The Ship King rose first. “Let’s go. I’ll take you there. If we’re too slow, it might get away.”
The three of them immediately set off.
On a gigantic ship in the inner section, half the deck had already been laid. The materials needed for the next day’s work had been placed in a corner.
Chen Miemie looked at the Ship King as if he were playing a joke on him.
“Old Wang, this is the ‘ship’ you were talking about?”
“Yes, this is it. Once it jumps onto the water, it’ll turn into a ship.” Old Wang sounded utterly certain.
Beneath one of the ship’s pillars, beside a pile of new materials, the two of them hid and watched.
A large rabbit was sitting there. Its entire body was made of a translucent, jade-like substance, with silver veins flowing inside it like blood vessels carrying moonlight.
When seated, the jade rabbit stood roughly half a meter tall. Its long ears pointed straight up, their tips curving slightly backward like two tiny sails.
Its eyes resembled a pair of red gemstones, cycling constantly from deep crimson to pale red.
At that moment, it showed not the slightest awareness that it was committing theft. Sitting openly in front of the materials, it pulled out sheet after sheet and stuffed them into its mouth.
Its four conspicuous front teeth looked perfectly ordinary and not at all sharp, yet they chewed through the high-hardness material with ease, producing loud, crunchy sounds.
Once they had confirmed their target, Chen Miemie dropped from above and landed right in front of the rabbit.
“Hey, rabbit! What do you think you’re doing, stealing our materials?”
Under tonight’s frost moon, the rabbit turned its head and glanced at him. At first, Chen Miemie seemed utterly ordinary to it. After looking at him twice more, though, the rabbit found him rather pleasing to the eye.
It was rare to meet someone it found agreeable, so it was in a good mood and decided to give Chen Miemie a little attention.
“What do you mean, stealing? I came out to forage and happened to find food by the roadside. It’s a gift from nature.
“And you’d better leave at once. If you stay this close to me, you’ll turn into a carrot.”
Chen Miemie plopped down beside it. “Don’t worry. I can’t be mutated. Do you really like eating the materials used to build ships?”
“Of course. They provide the vitamins I need every day.”
“You even know about vitamins?”
“Naturally. I read about them in a book. The book said that if you want to stay healthy, you need to take iron supplements. I eat lots of iron every day, which is why my eyes are so red.”
As the rabbit spoke, it never stopped chewing. Before long, it had eaten all the materials that could be easily pulled free. The rest had been bundled into several piles with steel cables, making them difficult to move.
The rabbit reached into its belly and rummaged around. To Chen Miemie’s surprise, there was a pocket hidden in its skin.
From it, the rabbit pulled out a pestle.
This pestle was the Jade Rabbit’s “personal tool.” It was about thirty centimeters long, with a spherical head.
The rabbit raised the pestle and struck the steel cables twice.
Clang, clang!
The cables immediately snapped, and the tightly bound materials came loose.
The rabbit happily continued its meal.
“You can eat that whole pile?” Chen Miemie asked. “The materials here are more than ten times your size.”
“I can’t eat all of it. I can only manage half.”
Even half the materials amounted to seven or eight times the rabbit’s size. Chen Miemie estimated its volume after it transformed into a ship.
The two of them continued chatting intermittently as they exchanged names. The rabbit told him that its name was Jade Rabbit.
Chen Miemie did not invite it to join him just yet. He still hadn’t seen what it looked like after transforming into a ship.
At last, Jade Rabbit finished eating. It brushed the scraps of material from its body and stood up.
“I had a wonderful meal today. And none of those annoying humans came to bother me. Goodbye, Chen Miemie.”
Its legs were incredibly powerful. With one push against the ground, the entire rabbit shot into the sky and fell toward the water beyond the ship’s deck.
The moment it touched the surface, the rabbit vanished and transformed into a small boat.
The boat’s hull was shaped like a mortar—wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with a rounded base. Its exterior was moon-white, while the interior was pale yellow. The hull was about five meters in diameter and one meter deep, large enough to hold six to eight people.
At the bow stood a statue shaped like a jade rabbit, about half a meter tall. Its forelegs rested on the side of the boat while its hindquarters remained crouched, as though it were preparing to leap. The statue’s eyes were two “searchlights,” casting a gentle silver glow through the night.
The rabbit statue’s tail was a rotatable “medicine-pounding pestle” about one meter long, inserted vertically into the hull.
When the pestle moved up and down, the little boat began to move.
After transforming into a boat, it should have darted away like a flying fish, vanishing in an instant.
But something was wrong today. No matter how quickly the pestle moved, leaving afterimages in the air, the little boat remained completely motionless on the water.
“Huh? What’s going on?” the boat asked in confusion.
“Need some help?”
A familiar voice rang out.
The jade rabbit statue at the bow turned its head.
Chen Miemie floated silently behind it, moonlight wings growing from his back and three lunar halos suspended above his head.
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