King of the Wilderness

Unsweetened Iced Tea x1: $4.5

Organic Apple Juice x2: $10

Subtotal:...$936.5

Sales Tax (5%):...$46.83

Total Amount Due:...$983.33

Lin Yu’an looked at the items on the bill, especially that line with the whole King Crab - $750, and noticed that this lunch was almost a thousand US Dollars even before adding the tip.

But compared to the prices in Shanghai, it was really quite cheap and worth it.

Lin Yu’an merely glanced at the total figure and nonchalantly handed over his black American Express Centurion Card to the cashier.

When the cashier returned the card machine and bill folder for him to sign, he casually wrote down a tidy figure of "$300" in the tip (TIP) section.

Afterward, he signed the final amount in the total (TOTAL) section - "$1283.33".

The tip alone exceeded 30%, almost equivalent to a typical family’s weekly grocery expenses.

He left the merchant receipt with the signed bill in the folder, nodded with a smile at the cashier, and prepared to leave with his family.

However, the young waitress named Chloe, who was responsible for their table, froze when she received the bill folder and saw that number.

Three hundred US Dollars for a tip!

This was the largest tip she had received in her year working there! It was almost equivalent to three or four days of her hard-earned wages!

She hesitated for a moment, watching the departing figures of Lin Yu’an’s family, and quickly caught up with them.

"Excuse me, sir! Please wait a moment!"

Lin Yu’an turned around, looking at her with some confusion.

Chloe ran up to him, her cheeks slightly flushed with excitement and a hint of nervousness.

She stammered slightly: "Sir, I... I just wanted to... personally thank you! You’re... you’re the most generous customer I’ve ever met! Really, thank you so, so much!"

Lin Yu’an looked at the innocent Alaska girl in front of him and smiled: "Your service was excellent, giving us a perfect lunch experience. You deserve it."

"Wow!" Chloe exclaimed sincerely, then as if remembering something, she said to them: "Please wait a moment!"

She quickly ran back to the souvenir shelf behind the cash register, carefully picked out a few items, and ran back.

She playfully winked and handed the little gifts in her hands to Aliya, Emily, and even bent down to hand them to the two curious babies watching her.

These were some souvenirs from the restaurant: a fridge magnet carved in the shape of a King Crab and a few beautifully vintage postcards depicting scenes from Ketchikan’s golden era as a fishing port.

"This is just a little token from our store." Chloe looked at Lin Yu’an’s family, her eyes filled with sincere blessings.

"I hope you and your family have a smooth journey in Alaska! And may each day in your future be as happy and beautiful as today’s lunch!"

"Thank you, Chloe." Emily smiled, accepting the beautiful postcard.

"We received your blessings." Lin Yu’an also nodded to her.

After saying that, he slowly walked out of the legendary King Crab shack with his family.

After lunch, they weren’t in a hurry to leave.

Lin Yu’an took them to visit the famous Mendenhall Glacier. The massive blue glacier extended from the valley, reaching the lake, once again allowing them to feel the wonders of nature.

Aliya and Emily took turns holding the children and took their first ever photo in front of the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center with the enormous glacier in the background.

In the photo, the two little ones were dressed in thick down jackets and cute woolen hats, curiously pointing at the giant blue ice crystal in the distance, their faces full of innocent smiles.

At three in the afternoon, when they returned to the airport, fueled up the plane, and ascended into the sky again, everyone was filled with satisfaction and anticipation for the next part of the journey.

The plane continued flying south along the most rugged and majestic inner passageway of the North American Continent. Below were countless islands covered with pristine forests, and deep blue bays as stunning as the fjords of Norway.

"So beautiful..." Aliya murmured, almost pressing her face against the window, "I feel like we are flying over Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings."

Emily was equally captivated by the magnificent scenery before them, the shutter of her camera clicking almost continuously.

Meanwhile, the two little ones had already fallen into a sweet slumber amidst the smooth flight.

Just at that moment, Lin Yu’an, who had been focused on piloting, slightly narrowed his eyes. With vision surpassing the ordinary, he noticed an unusual disturbance on the distant sea surface.

"Look," he alerted his wives through the intercom system, gently lowering the flight altitude towards that direction, "I think... we’ve encountered something big."

Aliya and Emily immediately looked towards the direction he was pointing.

They saw on the smooth, blue velvet-like sea surface below, a massive black shadow slowly surfacing.

And then, "Whoosh——!!!"

A deep and incredibly loud sound pierced through the engine’s roar, clearly reaching their ears.

Accompanying this sound was a giant white water column shooting skyward from the sea! Forming a brief, dazzling rainbow under the sunlight!

"A humpback whale! It’s a humpback whale!" Emily was the first to recognize it, her voice filled with irrepressible excitement.