Chapter 43 Night Fishing
Xu Zhiyan was in a good mood as he felt that he had dealt with the big trouble.
Since the water from Amber Mountain can calm evil spirits, the big-tailed snake is probably configured in the same way. It would be a good idea to take a dip in it and purify your soul!
Facing the confused faces of Jinsheng and Xiaoyi, he waved his hands to explain his mumbling.
"I just dealt with a pervert, it's okay now."
Damn it, what kind of pervert would get horny towards someone he meets on the first day?
Jin Sheng is not a nosy person. Although he occasionally says shocking things, when he sees that his teammates don't want to talk anymore, he grabs the dog and pets it for a few times. He stops asking questions and calls his teammates to go to the camp he has prepared in advance.
During this period, I briefly described my previous tasks with lingering fear.
"This time, the pre-mission seems to have assigned each player a new identity and a haunting evil spirit." When he said this, his expression became extremely painful.
After listening to this, Xu Zhiyan realized that not everyone has encountered the evil spirit of love debt.
Jinsheng is set up as a filial son who kills his father and mother. The number of evil spirits in the camp is super doubled. Others have three fishermen with three evil spirits, plus one player-exclusive evil spirit, but for Jinsheng, it becomes three fishermen with six evil spirits, plus two player-exclusive evil spirits.
Eight evil spirits, increase the quantity without increasing the price.
Looking at his teammates’ faces full of pain, Xu Zhiyan suddenly felt that he was not the worst off!
At least the evil spirit assigned to him seemed to have a weak brain and was fooled by just a few words. He was not afraid of it at all.
The barrage of comments was so funny that they were laughing like crazy when they saw the players exchanging messages with miserable faces.
[Hahahahahaha! It turns out that the one with so many ghosts last night that I couldn't see anyone clearly was Jinsheng's live broadcast room. I just glanced at it and swiped past it.]
[Hahahaha, his is really super double]
【Filial piety leads to strength! 】
[However, the filial son is fine. It seems that the two evil spirits who haunted him at least showed some mercy.]
[This time, the haunting evil spirits seemed to be randomly put together by the system. His father and mother ghosts are one slimy slime-like monster and the other has a human body and a fish head. ]
[? ? I didn’t watch it, but the description is really disgusting]
[It’s not bad. I saw someone set the evil spirit as a classmate, but a three-meter-tall bear monster appeared...]
[So who knows what Xiao Baiwan's evil spirit is? He has disappeared into the nightmare and we can't see him! ]
[I don't know, I'm very curious. He should be a not very smart but super strong old pervert hahahahahaha. The system is designed to target him.]
Xu Zhiyan, who finally found some time, opened the panel and checked the tasks while walking.
[Main Mission [Part 1]: Participate in night fishing at the reservoir]
[Task 1: Go to Amber Mountain Reservoir with a local guide]
[Progress: 100%]
[Task 2: Resolve the haunting evil spirit]
[Progress: 100%]
Very good! The main mission was successfully completed.
The only thing I am not satisfied with is that after completing the main quest, the game did not give me anything.
Wow, so stingy!
Fortunately, he accidentally hit the side quest.
[Side Quest: Soul of Pain]
[Progress: 100%]
[Task Reward: Special Bait (to be collected)]
Click to receive, and a tin box of bait appears in Xu Zhiyan's hand.
He opened the lid a little to take a look, and almost vomited, so he quickly closed the lid.
Seeing his teammates were curious, Xu Zhiyan handed over the bait, thinking that he couldn't be the only one to be disgusted.
Jin Sheng opened the box, and even though he was prepared, his expression changed drastically.
This lunch box-sized iron box was half full of live bait. It felt heavy in the hand. It was a creature similar to a sandworm, with a soft body and many legs. It had a strong fishy smell and looked like a centipede without a shell.
But this box of special bait is obviously more advanced than sandworms.
In addition to their wriggling multi-legged bodies, each of them has an extra head. The faces on their heads look like human faces, with expressions of crying and laughing, which make people's sanity drop wildly.
[Name: Special Bait]
[Level: E]
【Type: Consumption】
[Introduction: A special tool for fishermen, the dream of every fisherman. As long as you use special bait, you will never come back empty-handed! ]
[Notes: In order to maintain the mental state of the players, as long as you put the fishhook in front of the bait, the bait will automatically hook up. Please do not have too much psychological burden. ]
After reading the notes, Jin Sheng closed the box and returned it to his teammate with a sad heart. Xu Zhiyan took it and felt a little relieved.
At least this crappy game knows how to maintain the players' mental state! Otherwise, he would have a hard time hooking this bait with a human face.
The reservoir area is not small.
It is about half the size of a football field.
The water surface was blown by the breeze, and the sunlight was shining on it, creating ripples that were so sharp that one could almost blind himself at a glance.
Soon, the two arrived at the camp chosen by Jinsheng.
As one of the first players to arrive at the reservoir, the temporary place he chose to stay was very good.
It’s a ways from the river, but not far, and is backed by tall trees.
The tree is lush and leafy, and many of its outstretched branches extend to the side of the reservoir, casting a shadow on the water surface, ensuring that anglers do not get sunburned when fishing during the day.
After a night of being haunted by evil spirits, the area around the reservoir was extremely quiet.
Xu Zhiyan looked around and found that except for a few people who had a brief discussion when they were pulling the corpse cart at the beginning, the rest of the players didn't say anything more after all the corpses sank to the bottom of the water.
Almost everyone was exhausted and collapsed. Even a few players who seemed to be at ease hid in their chosen resting spots to rest.
He realized later that the difficulty of his own dungeon seemed to have been stuck at the upper limit of the current dungeon that could be entered.
This is only the second copy, and it is already at the three-and-a-half-star level.
The quality of the players here is much higher than that of the people in the low-level dungeons. At least there are no those stupid players who are so stupid that they just jump in and make trouble.
Xu Zhiyan sat on the picnic mat, took off his full backpack, turned around and asked, "Have you received any new tasks?"
Jin Sheng shook his head and lay aside, using the strong golden-haired comrade Xiaoyi as a pillow under the back of his head.
Xu Zhiyan took out all the supplies from his bag and suddenly touched a plastic bag.
Oops, I forgot about the big white snake!
He quickly took out the snake cake, patted the snake's head, which had already turned upside down, blew on its eyes, and said to himself, "Is it still alive? It's not really going to eat snake soup, is it? Is snake soup delicious with a dead snake?"
"!!"
The big white snake, which had just been pretending to be dead, suddenly started and turned over, with its two little green eyes filled with fear!
It was the first time that Xiaoyi saw a snake. He didn't even bother to be a pillow for Jinsheng. He ran over, wagging his little tail and sniffing the snake wildly, circling around and sniffing it.
"Bang--"
Jin Sheng, who was resting with his eyes closed, suddenly felt a void in his head and his head hit the ground.
"Snake? How could there be a snake?"
He rubbed the back of his head and sat up, not wanting to bother with his rebellious son.
"I use this to deal with the guide's bugs. It's a good snake, very humane and cooperative." Xu Zhiyan shrugged and replied. Because he was afraid that Xiaoyi would rub against him, he used a stick to poke the snake away a little.
When talking about the guide, Jin Sheng's face changed and he talked about what he heard when he just arrived at the reservoir.
"When a player was about to reach the reservoir, he killed the guide in the mist, then he was covered in blood and crawling with bugs. He came to the edge of the reservoir, jumped into the water, and never floated up again."
Although most players will follow the normal process after seeing the task and will not conflict with the guide.
But there are inevitably a few people who think differently and always think they can find a more suitable method. The player who just killed the guide is one of them.
Flying white bugs kept falling from the body of the killed guide, instantly engulfing the player.
"The guide's body is full of these bugs. I don't think they are like living people, but more like a shell..." He said with a frown, looking a little unwell.
As expected, do dog-type players have any special intuitive methods?
Xu Zhiyan thought that if he had not deceived the evil spirit of love debt, he would not have realized that the old man was not a living person.
Seeing the fog still lingering around the entrances to the reservoir, Xu Zhiyan guessed, "Is it because the players haven't arrived yet?"
"It's possible. The fog at several intersections has dissipated but the missions haven't started yet. We probably have to wait until all the living players arrive safely before we can start the next stage." Jin Sheng replied.
The two counted their supplies and were assured that even if they couldn't catch any fish in the next few days, they would not starve to death easily, and they both breathed a sigh of relief.
Their guess was correct.
Forty minutes later, the last player came out of the thick fog with a pale face. The fog dissipated at the only remaining intersection leading to the reservoir, and a new task appeared on the panel.
[Main Mission [Part 1]: Participate in night fishing at the reservoir]
[Mission 3: Survival Timer]
[Progress: ? ? ]
[Note: This task will last until the player leaves the instance. From now on, both the game backpack and the camp supplies cannot be eaten, and the hunger state will increase. Please fish well and survive well.]
[Tip: Different fish can be caught at different times. Only delicious fish can be eaten safely. After catching other fish, please decide whether to eat them.]
[Mission 4: Things in the Lake]
[Progress: 0%]
[Note: Amber Mountain Reservoir is a famous fishing spot, but it is located in a remote area. Here, you can not only catch fish, but also catch other items! ]
[Tip: When fishing at night, catch at least four (or more) special items. Different special items will trigger different quests. Please work hard.]
[Reward: Main Line (Part 2) Clues]
Xu Zhiyan smacked his lips and thought to himself, what’s the difference between this and opening a blind box!
On the other side, Jin Sheng hurriedly searched his bag and found that the edible materials he had just counted had all turned into black ash in an instant and could not even be picked up.
"...I should have known I shouldn't have kept any. I should have finished it." He felt heartbroken and regretful.
At first the system only said that self-prepared food was inedible. They thought it referred to the food sold in the system mall, and that food taken from other fishermen did not count. They didn't expect that food stolen would also be considered self-prepared food?
Xu Zhiyan nodded in agreement and called up his personal panel which he had not seen for a long time.
[Name: Xu Zhiyan]
[Status: Hungry]
[Spiritual Threshold: 0-61]
[Current Spirit: 61]
A stomach symbol is added to the status bar with the word "hungry" underneath.
The duo, who were full of confidence just now, began to worry.
Just as Jin Sheng was packing up his fishing gear and planning to start fishing, Xu Zhiyan pointed at the white snake beside him and asked, "Can you stew snakes?"
It should be okay to eat this, since it's all meat.
The big white snake wrapped around the dog froze all over, its small eyes full of grievance, until Jin Sheng shook his head, it was relieved. As a result, because it was too relaxed, Xiao Yi kicked it to the ground, licked its head fiercely, and its head was covered with dog saliva.
Damn, this fucking snake life!
Seeing that his teammates had already set up their fishing rods, Xu Zhiyan resigned himself to his fate and stood up, walking towards the lake.
Although the main task is night fishing, different fish can be caught in different time periods, and they need some food supplies.
The other players still alive around the reservoir obviously thought so too.
Then, long and short fishing rods were erected in a circle around the lake. Due to the hunger state and the disappearance of food, players did not even have the possibility of plundering others, and everyone had to eat with their own hands.
The Amber Mountain Reservoir was extremely quiet for the entire afternoon.
Until evening.
Xu Zhiyan and Jin Sheng gained nothing.
However, according to their observation, the others didn't seem to catch any fish, and some even put down their rods and tried to find other ways, so the two of them were slightly more balanced.
The feedback of hunger status is becoming more and more obvious.
Xu Zhiyan had just eaten in the morning, but now he was already extremely hungry.
He made up his mind, took out the special fishing bait, and he and Jin Sheng each used one.
It had only been a few minutes and his stomach felt like it was burning. If he didn't catch something to eat, he might have to put down his rod and start chewing on tree bark!
The sky gradually darkened.
The luminous fishing float emits a faint light.
After hanging the special bait, the effect is obvious.
"Ding-ling~"
Hearing the crisp sound of the bell on the tip of the fishing rod, Jin Sheng was delighted and quickly pulled up the fishing rod. He was also hungry.
But after seeing what was hanging there, his expression gradually calmed down.
It was a dead fish the size of a palm.
"A dead fish in the mouth... not a good sign." He muttered. Even if he was not a professional fisherman, he knew that catching a dead fish was not a good thing.
When he turned around to ask his teammates whether Dead Fish wanted to stay, he found that his teammates were in a strange state and their expressions were extremely solemn.
Xu Zhiyan kept exerting force on the fishing rod, his brows furrowed, as if hesitating whether to reel in the rod.
Jin Sheng looked along the taut fishing line.
The moment he saw the thing in the water, his expression became strange.
At the end of the fishing line, a swollen human head was biting the hook tightly and refusing to let go. Judging from the size of the head, it had probably been soaking in the water for some time.
“…it still has to be you.”
Jinsheng tried to ease the atmosphere and praised his teammates.
"I just caught a dead fish, but you caught a dead person."
After hearing this, Xu Zhiyan felt hungry and angry.
He exerted force with his hands, gritted his teeth and pulled the head up.
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