Chapter 37 Night Fishing

Familiar pale light, familiar transparent panel.

[Logged into the dungeon Night Fisherman]

[Instance star rating: ★★★☆]

[Players please receive basic information/copy tasks. 】

[Players please confirm the additional task: Find the copy safe house]

Perhaps because he was familiar with the process, and because of the absolute safety time provided by the title, Xu Zhiyan did not check the task first this time. Instead, he raised his head and looked around.

The moon was rising, and it was evening, just as it was when he came to this world.

In front of me was a campsite with a burning bonfire, several tents set up around it, and some clothes hanging on tree branches to dry.

He wanted to stand up but felt something strange about his body. He looked down and found that his clothes had changed. The shirt he had been wearing when he came was now replaced by a thick cotton jacket.

Although this clothing slowed down his movements a little, it was enough to keep him warm and prevent him from freezing to death in the wilderness.

Yes, this is mountain wilderness.

There are weeds all around, and it is pristine and original.

The crackling sound of the burning flames mixed with the sounds of insects and small mammals in the grass made the place sound a little eerie.

"How can we go fishing at night when there is no water?" Xu Zhiyan frowned and clicked on the details.

[You are a fishing enthusiast. Your fishing friends in your city privately organized a night fishing event. Although you think Amber Mountain is a bit far, you agreed to it because it is a great place for night fishing. Now you have come to the vicinity of Amber Mountain. There is no car access to the reservoir, so you can only walk.]

[Main Mission [Part 1]: Participate in night fishing at the reservoir]

[Task 1: Go to Amber Mountain Reservoir with a local guide]

[Progress: 0%]

[Additional Task: Find a Safe House]

[Progress: ? ? ]

[Note: After the pre-task, the dungeon will add a survival mode, and the food brought by the players will not be edible. ]

[Tip: Your companions have gone out to look for food. You are arranged to wait in the camp. Please wait patiently for your teammates to return. ]

Looking at the contents on the task panel, Xu Zhiyan realized belatedly that just like the blind school, each copy would give the player a prerequisite task before it was opened.

They should all be single player missions.

It can not only allow players to become familiar with the current new copy, but also screen out some players who are not suitable for the current copy. Finally, when the players gather together, the remaining people are either capable or lucky.

"This is quite user-friendly. Do all dungeons have prerequisite tasks?" He asked after putting away the task panel.

[Only dungeons below five stars will have pre-tasks. ]

Xu Zhiyan paused, then asked, "Isn't the highest level mission now five-star?"

The game system seemed unwilling to talk more with Xu Zhiyan.

He replied hastily with a "yes" and left.

"Tsk, you can't play this game system."

He is now in an absolutely safe time, and the safe house system in his mind can still communicate.

[According to the background check, the five-star level is the highest level of the dungeon, but it is not certain whether the subsequent updates of the game will increase the difficulty.] Compared with the cold panel, the safe house system is much more lively.

[There are eight minutes of absolute safety time left. Although it is useless, please cherish it!]

“…You don’t have to remind me every time. This is a useless skill.” Xu Zhiyan sighed, stood up and checked the camp.

There are five small single tents in the camp.

If we exclude him and the guide, there are three other NPC anglers.

There were various fishing tools in everyone's tent, and the fishing gear bags were bigger than each other, and they must have been filled with a lot of things, making them look like they were going to the mountains to do scientific research rather than fishing.

Resisting the urge to search for supplies, Xu Zhiyan told himself that the game had just begun and when the situation was unclear, he might get beaten if he took supplies from the NPC!

After looking around, he only checked the tent with the word "Xu" written on it, and found no other clues.

This is the same as what is said in the prompt, it is a transit point.

Xu Zhiyan returned to the small stool beside the campfire. Thinking of the Amber Mountain Reservoir, he pinched his brows and felt a little worried again.

He can't swim.

Even a reservoir in reality is very dangerous to him, let alone a reservoir in the game copy!

Is this game targeting him?

But now that I’m here, I can’t go back.

Fortunately, he thought about his shortcomings before coming here, and had already used his points to exchange for a set of basic life jackets as a backup, which came in handy now. In this way, even if he needed to go into the water later, he would not be in a passive position.

As if he had thought of something, Xu Zhiyan took out his cell phone.

After spending all 10 million points to open ten safe houses, he originally planned to get more money from other accounts of Guishen, but was told by the system that the maximum transfer amount of the account currently available to him was 1 million points.

During the three days of idleness, he tried to place bets on other players' rankings and various wins and losses, hoping to earn more money.

The results were not satisfactory.

He paid tuition fee of 20,000 points, became a master of skipping stones, and almost lost his pants.

Xu Zhiyan was so angry that he insisted on uninstalling the live broadcast system that day. If he hadn't thought about the cost of replacing the phone, he might have thrown it away.

Sure enough, it is better to bet on yourself than on others. The hope of making money still lies in yourself.

[Night Fishing-06-Xu Zhiyan]

When I opened my own live broadcast room, I saw a lot of comments.

【yoooooo! 】

【Xiao Baiwan started live streaming! 】

[Fuck! He's so cute! I love him so much! ]

[Only rested for four days? My goodness, is this the king of rolls? ]

[I can't believe that you, a little millionaire who looks so weak and innocent, can be so crazy when you brush your body! . ]

【▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇】

[Wifey kiss! I met Yanyan’s wife in the shell but I didn’t dare to say hello. Yanyan’s wife was covered in blood and looked so cool and fierce…]

【Lou, fork, understand? 】

Apart from some random comments, there was one comment filled with ▇▇ that caught Xu Zhiyan's attention.

He clicked it and the system panel popped up.

[It has been detected that the player is on the verge of violating the rules. All content that can reveal other players' information and copy-related information has been blocked. I hope the player will not always think of using crooked methods. ]

"..." Well, Xu Zhiyan's dream of getting information about other people through barrage was shattered.

He clicked on his own guessing page.

This time he had more time, so he first looked up his balance through a very complicated clicking process, and only started preparing to place his bet after making sure that the system had replenished the 20,000 points he had lost.

While checking it out, he didn't forget to make a few comments.

"Your game is shit. It's so troublesome to check the balance." If he hadn't found the balance before, he wouldn't have spent all the money.

[Because the guessing interface allows one credit, if the balance is not obvious, players may sometimes unconsciously buy on credit during the guessing process. When the interest is compounded, it can be a considerable profit!]

Having said that, the safe house system added.

[When it comes to shameless money-making behavior, the main system and the host are roughly on par.]

"No, it's much more dog-like than me." Xu Zhiyan shook his head and revealed his guessing panel.

After he won nine million points from the main system, this guessing mode showed the greatest malice towards him.

The odds of all his guessing options became extremely low, and even if he won, he would make almost no money. The only way to make money was to kill monsters.

[Kill no more than three monsters in a single game (3≥)]

The odds are even higher than the last copy No. 1 betting, twelve times higher.

Xu Zhiyan touched his chin, unable to believe the main system's pettiness: "No way, isn't it just that hundreds of your monsters were blown up in the last instance and your instance was ruined? Is it necessary to hold a grudge like that? Even the donkey at the entrance of the village doesn't hold a grudge like you."

He hesitated for a moment and clicked All-In.

[Player [Anonymous] bets 1,000,000 points in the dungeon Night Fishing Man [Player No. 06 Xu Zhiyan]]

Before everyone in the live broadcast room could recover from the horror of the King of Roll’s attack, they were shocked again.

【? ? Again? Again? 】

[One million, another million! ]

[At this rate, Xiao Baiwan will soon be able to reach the top three in the total ranking of points betting! ]

[He is now in the middle row, sob sob]

[No, I feel dizzy, I feel like I'm dizzy with points, looking at so many 0s makes my eyes red and my head hurts.]

[Hahahahahahahahahaha, did you see the bet?]

【Kill less than 3 monsters?】

[What if the final main plot is for him to kill monsters? ]

[Don't do it anymore. If you can earn 12 million, why would you care about the points in the main story? ]

[Fuck... what the above person said makes a lot of sense. ]

After a new banner appeared above the live broadcast room, Xu Zhiyan stopped paying attention to the jaw-dropping comments in the barrage and put away his phone with satisfaction.

Nothing can stop him from earning points!

Twelve times, twelve million points, who can resist this! Not to mention asking him not to kill monsters, he would even be willing to cook three meals a day for them!

Anyway, it just says not to kill, but doesn’t say not to injure.

The construction of safe houses requires too much money, and it is said that the union system that is about to be opened will also require a large number of points to establish.

[……] The safe house system that wanted to stop it fell silent.

After the absolutely safe time, it was officially offline.

The sound of footsteps nearby broke the silence of the camp.

Looking at the figure approaching from afar, Xu Zhiyan stood up and stretched out his hands to warm them in front of the burning campfire.

Just as he guessed, there were four people in total.

The three of them were wearing outdoor equipment similar to his style, which were obviously specially prepared and very new. There was also a man wearing a tattered cotton jacket, who should be the local guide.

I don’t know their names, and it’s not easy to ask directly.

After discovering that each person was wearing a different colored hat, Xu Zhiyan silently gave the three people new nicknames based on the colors in his mind - Uncle with Yellow Hat, Man with Green Hat, and Brother with Black Hat.

"We're back, Xiao Xu, look what we found!" The uncle with the yellow hat raised his hand and took out a fish as long as his forearm from the fish basket.

The fish looked scaleless from a distance, and under the dual amplification of the flames and moonlight, its flesh seemed almost transparent, and one could see the internal organs constantly jumping inside, which was a very curious feeling.

"This phosphorescent herring is very delicious. We were just planning to catch two rabbits to eat, but we didn't expect there was a small pond nearby. Brother Lie said he would give it a try, and we didn't expect he actually caught it."

The person who answered the phone was the cuckolded man.

After he said that, he took the fish, deftly took out a knife from his pocket, and placed the transparent fish on a clean stone.

The fish's belly was cut open and its internal organs dug out.

The cuckolded man's movements in killing the fish were smooth and fluid, and it was obvious that he was someone who killed fish frequently.

The guy in the black hat was obviously not a talkative person. He hadn't said a word since returning to the camp. He silently took out a pot from the side of a tent and put it on the campfire to boil water.

The three of them prepared dinner in an orderly manner, and the atmosphere instantly became much more lively.

Seeing that the three of them all had things to do, Xu Zhiyan didn't feel nervous or ashamed at all because he didn't know what to do, and he didn't even have the slightest intention of helping.

Instead, he fished out some candies for safe house supplies from his system backpack and approached the tour guide.

The level of the safe house has been upgraded. Although the restoration supplies have been lit up, the items available for sale are relatively ordinary. For example, this candy block that can restore mental power can only restore 0.1 mental power at a time, and it is the same whether you eat it or not.

The tour guide was an old man who looked to be in his sixties.

His face was full of wrinkles, with an indelible sense of vicissitudes.

Don't hit someone who smiles at you.

Xu Zhiyan handed over the inferior candy and asked with a smile: "How long will it take us to get to the Amber Mountain Reservoir? I can't wait to go fishing."

The tour guide looked at him with no expression on his face. He took the candy and carefully took out a handkerchief to wrap it up and put it in his pocket. Then he lowered his head and said, "We have to wait another two days. The fog in this mountain has not yet risen."

"Fog?"

"Well, Amber Mountain can only be entered when it is foggy, but the fog is poisonous, so you need to make some more preparations."

After saying that, the tour guide took out a dirty bamboo bottle from his waist and kept silent no matter what the young man in front of him asked.

The delicious fish soup is ready quickly.

When Xu Zhiyan tried several topics but still couldn't figure out why he had to wait for the fog to rise, the man in the yellow hat shouted, "Stop chatting, come and eat!"

Xu Zhiyan, who had just eaten and drunk enough to keep in the best condition before entering the dungeon, was not hungry.

He sat on the chair, took the wooden bowl and stirred the delicious fish soup inside.

It only took twenty minutes from processing to boiling, but the fish soup was cooked into an extremely thick, white and sticky soup with oil.

Xu Zhiyan listened to the other four people slurping their soup and eating with relish. For some reason, he felt that although the system didn't indicate anything, there seemed to be something wrong with the fish...

Since he wasn't hungry anyway, he chose to trust his instinct.

Seeing that he was picky about food, the brother in the black hat snatched his wooden bowl, rolled his eyes and said, "You have so many bad habits. You don't like to drink and you're hungry. You can starve to death. You've only eaten compressed biscuits all the way here, aren't you afraid of choking to death?"

He spoke in a fierce tone, as if he was very dissatisfied with the handsome young man in front of him who not only did not work but also did not respect the fruits of other people's labor.

Seeing the fish soup being snatched away, Xu Zhiyan instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

Just now he was still wondering what to do if he didn't drink the soup. If he poured it out directly, he might get beaten.

Brother Lie, who was wearing a yellow hat, was afraid that the two young men would quarrel again, so he tried to stop them: "We all came out to fish together, so stop quarreling. But this soup is really delicious. It would be a pity if you don't drink it, Xiao Xu..."

Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan was worried that several NPCs would gang up on him and trip him up, so his eyes rolled, his face turned paler, and he spoke timidly.

"It's not that I don't want to drink it, I'm allergic to fish. I can touch it, but I can't eat it."

Anyway, from what the NPC said, he had never eaten fish in front of everyone before, so it would be more reasonable to just say this to avoid future troubles.

As soon as these words came out, Brother Lie nodded and eased up: "Oh, no wonder you didn't eat the fish we cooked along the way."

Even the guy in the black hat who had just snatched his bowl felt a little uncomfortable.

Seeing that the effect was achieved, Xu Zhiyan did not pretend to be a white lotus to embarrass the black hat, and turned to ask about Amber Mountain.

"I can't wait to see when the fog starts."

This topic is obviously more interesting than the fact that he doesn't eat fish.

Several people, including the guide, chatted around the campfire.

Taking this opportunity, Xu Zhiyan used his eloquence to get a lot of personal information out of him, and finally he didn't have to give the guy in the hat a nickname anymore.

The uncle with the yellow hat is named Jiang Lie, and he is also the president of their fishing club. He is responsible for organizing the anglers in the club to go fishing in various places. He is very popular with everyone, very authoritative and has excellent fishing skills.

The man in the green hat is called Fang Guocheng, and he is the vice president of the fishing club. He deals in used cars locally and has considerable financial strength. He also provided a lot of material help for everyone's trip this time.

The last one is the black hat brother Chen Zai, who is just thirty years old and an ordinary citizen who loves fishing.

Xu Zhiyan is the youngest among the four, so Brother Lie takes extra care of him.

The guide finished the last mouthful of fish soup, and seeing that the other people were also looking at him, he put down his bowl and began to tell the story.

"Because if there is no fog, it is impossible to find the road."

"The road to the Amber Mountain Reservoir only appears when there is fog, but this fog is poisonous. If you are not prepared, you will get lost in it."

He opened the bamboo bottle he had just held in his hand and took out four white chocolate bean-like balls as big as Maltesers. "You have to eat this. Only by eating this can you pass through the thick fog."

The four of them looked at each other and reached out to take the 'chocolate beans'.

It's light and weightless.

Xu Zhiyan looked at his palm and almost threw the thing in his hand away!

This is not chocolate at all. This round thing is clearly a fat worm as big as a fingertip.

It is white and fat, and its six little feet look like six small black dots.

Before he could ask, Chen Zai at the side couldn't help but jump up and said, "You want us to eat this? This is a fucking bug, okay?"

The old guide looked at him quietly, and suddenly his aura turned on: "You don't have to eat, but if you don't eat, you have to stay away from us."

It turns out that this white treasure insect is a high-quality product cultivated in the guide village.

Not only can people eat it to pass through the fog without getting lost, but it can also strengthen their physical strength. However, it needs to be eaten for three consecutive days, and the last one needs to be eaten before entering the mountains.

"The treasure bugs will nest in your stomach. With them, you don't have to worry about anything else. The treasure bugs will solve it for you."

However, due to its extraordinary ability, the smell of the white treasure insect spreads quickly and also attracts a kind of creature nearby.

The old guide called these creatures 'they'.

He didn't elaborate, but just a few words were enough to make people shudder: they have bright red eyes, a black outline in the dark night, and emit a strange stench...

So what the old guide meant was that he would give each person a worm at the appointed time, and if the person did not eat it, he would need to leave the team.

To prevent 'them' from coming to our door and causing trouble for others.

It's in the middle of nowhere, there's not even a road.

Leaving the team will lead to death.

After hearing this, Brother Lie was the first to swallow the white treasure worm in one gulp. Then the other two looked at each other, and after hearing the message that "once the worm is taken out, it cannot be put back", they also ate the worm with a painful look on their faces.

Xu Zhiyan was a little curious. Why were these fishermen so obsessed with the Amber Mountain Reservoir? Was there any reason that made them have to go there?

But I don’t think I can get anything out of you today. I’ll probably know only when I get there.

He also pretended to eat the bug, but actually hid it in his sleeve.

The setting of having bugs sitting in the stomach was too sanity-destroying. He felt that unless it was a matter of life and death, he would not really eat the bugs.

As for the monsters that might appear? At worst, I could just find a place to throw them away later.

Soon, the group began to assign night shifts.

Xu Zhiyan was thinking about finding a place to throw the bugs, and since he had just gotten a good night's sleep, he volunteered to keep watch.

The others were not polite to him either.

Finally it was agreed that Xu Zhiyan would guard the first half of the night and the guide would guard the second half.

Before the guide left, he looked at Xu Zhiyan and said hesitantly, "Only by eating it can we isolate the scent of the treasure insect."

Xu Zhiyan said nothing and poked the fire with a branch.

The darker night quietly descended.

Xu Zhiyan was the only one left by the campfire. He waited until the others seemed to have fallen asleep before he stood up, stretched, and picked up a bug with a look of disgust.

This kind of monster attractor is like a thing. I must find a place to throw it away later.

The bonfire was not that strong, so he put away the insects and went to pick up some wood from the other person's firewood pile to burn.

I didn't expect that as soon as I opened a piece, I would be shocked by what was inside.

“Hiss—”

It is a white rat snake with a round head and a round brain.

Xu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief. A friend of his had raised this kind of snake before. It was gentle and non-venomous, and it looked like it didn't come cheap. He didn't hate it, nor was he afraid of it.

But this snake was different. It was not timid at all. It rushed over for no apparent reason, its little eyes full of greed. It even stretched out its head to bite his trouser leg. If he had not jumped far away, he would have almost been bitten.

Thinking of the other three fishermen who ate everything, Xu Zhiyan didn't bother with the little snake and planned to move this pretty little thing to a farther place so that it wouldn't have to eat snake meat soup tomorrow morning.

He is not a snake lover.

He just didn't want to say anymore that he was allergic to snake meat.

However, just as he stretched out his hand to pick up the white rat snake, which was as thick as his thumb, he noticed something was wrong around him.

It has been less than half an hour since the bug was taken out.

'They're already here.

From the corner of his eye, Xu Zhiyan could see some flashing red lights. Those were 'their' eyes...

Xu Zhiyan subconsciously tightened his hand that was holding the snake, and the white rattan snake opened its mouth and looked like it was having difficulty breathing.

He began to wonder what he should do now.

Eat it on the spot?

No, no way…that's too fucking gross!

Throw it away? That doesn't seem to work.

The bug was too light and could only be thrown two or three meters away at most. If he ran to throw it farther, he would be walking into a trap.

The barrage began to worry about him.

[What to do? Eat it! What are you waiting for? ]

[Now it seems that there is no choice but to eat, but it is really disgusting. 】

[It's better to throw it away. Although it is a prelude, who can guarantee that this NPC is a good one? Many of them tripped me up right from the start! ]

[Blood and tears lesson, don't trust any NPC easily! ]

[Do you think Xiao Baiwan will eat it? ]

[Damn, stop guessing. Look at his fingers wagging around. He definitely won't eat it! ]

The next scene that appeared on the screen caused the commentator to shout that there was no humanity in Xu Zhiyan.

In front of the woodpile, Xu Zhiyan thought for a short while, then looked eagerly at the white rat snake in his hand, thanking him for the loan.

"You wanted to bite me, but I saved your life out of kindness and prevented you from becoming a snake soup. Now it's time for you to repay me." He pinched the snake's mouth open and stuffed the plump white treasure worm into it.

After making sure the snake was swallowed, he pulled up the snake's tail and said sincerely, "Come on, run farther away later!"

As he spoke, he spun the white snake several times in the air, and then, using its inertia, threw it far away.

After just a few seconds, the red light and the black shadow disappeared.

Probably chasing a snake.

Xu Zhiyan gazed into the distance, his eyes full of gratitude.

"You are such a good snake. I will remember you."

After saying that, he clapped his hands, carried the wood back to the campfire, and soon the flames began to burn brightly again.