Chapter 49 Night Fishing
The two ends of the wooden boat were pointed upwards, and the wood on the hull seemed to have been soaked in water for a long time, and it was wet and gave off a rotten smell.
Xu Zhiyan stood on the shore and glanced at the boat, feeling that something was not right.
The water gave him a bad feeling.
In addition, he was well aware of his luck, so he always avoided entering the center of the reservoir.
But since arriving at the Amber Mountain Reservoir, whether it was the fishing tips given by the Corrupted Body or the prompts for the next side quest, they kept pushing him into the water.
Xu Zhiyan seemed to have thought of something, glanced at the boy's head next to him, and asked, "Where should I hang you?"
The sides of the boat were pointed, with only ropes hanging on them.
The boy's head replied: "Just tie a rope around my hair and hang me on the bow."
Xu Zhiyan nodded, stood up, took out a roll of pinky-thick hemp rope from his backpack and threw it to Jiang Huaique: "Weave a bag for this head."
I don't know how long the rope on the boat has been soaked. If the rope becomes untied halfway through rowing and the person's head falls into the water, he will be in trouble.
Jiang Huaique obviously thought of this situation and didn't say anything more.
He took the rope, walked up to the boy's head, measured the size, and began to weave the hood.
The boy didn't expect the other party to be so cautious.
A few minutes later, it got a hood of the right size, covering its entire head, like an old-fashioned kettle covered with a net, and the flesh on its face was squeezed into lumps.
Jiang Huaiqie even carefully prepared a piece of rope, made a lock on it, found a wooden stick, and made the boy's head into a lantern style.
Xu Zhiyan gave him a thumbs up and took the human head lantern.
Seeing the boy's eyes widened as if in disbelief, he explained a little more.
"I'm sorry to have to put up with you for a while. After all, I'm here to help you. I hope you can understand what's going on and send me back after I retrieve the body for you..."
That’s right! Xu Zhiyan was worried that if he solved the task of getting the boy’s head in the center of the water, would this guy immediately jump into the water to look for the body, or leave him in the water.
After hearing this, the boy said everything was fine.
But its expression was unnatural, and it looked as if something had been guessed.
However, Xu Zhiyan did not expose it. In the end, he threw the fishing equipment onto the boat and prepared to get on the boat carrying the head.
Before leaving, Jinsheng held up the puppy and said, "Take Xiaoyi with you. At least we can come back if anything goes wrong."
"No!" The boy refused without thinking.
"This is my ship! I will not allow any other creatures to come aboard except this human."
A new prompt also popped up on Xu Zhiyan’s task panel in time.
[Tip: When completing a side quest, players must not refuse the quest object's request, otherwise the quest will be considered a failure.]
After reading it, he waved to Jinsheng and Xiaoyi, indicating that everything was fine.
He had a few useless props and some water-related items in his hands, so he prepared a plan B.
Moreover, the human head was tied very tightly, so as long as we don't splice the body after fishing it out, there should be no problem getting it back safely.
But there is always a gap between reality and ideal.
The moment Xu Zhiyan stepped onto the boat, he felt a warm touch on the bone of his right hand.
[Additional Task: Find a Safe House]
[Progress: 50%]
The task that originally didn't even have a progress bar has now been refreshed halfway.
Xu Zhiyan was shocked and almost tried to run away.
Sure enough, after he retracted his foot, the mission progress dropped to 0%
“…”
Shit, is the safe house underwater?
Now it seems that there is no way to avoid getting into the water.
A few minutes later, a half-rotten boat, carrying a young man carrying a headlamp, set off from the shore.
It was approaching midnight and the surrounding woods seemed to be asleep.
The only sounds left were the faint sounds of boats coming from all directions on the reservoir, accompanied by the occasional curses from players.
Xu Zhiyan hung a rechargeable LED bulb on the bow of the boat.
The light bulb flickered and emitted bright light.
Compared to other boats that were shaking and almost being pushed into the water, the broken boat under his feet was incredibly stable, constantly attracting the attention of players.
After Xu Zhiyan rowed the boat a few times, he felt that he was almost dying of exhaustion.
He threw away the oars, sat on the cushion prepared by Jiang Huai Que to rest, and asked the boy: "Can you feel where your body is? We'd better start fishing as soon as we get there, so we don't waste time."
The boy's head replied that he couldn't sense it, but it should be in the center of the lake.
After realizing that the boat would move slowly even if he didn't do anything, and it was a little slower, Xu Zhiyan simply took out his fishing rod and started fishing.
The special bait obtained from the previous mission was not much, only about half a box.
Jin Sheng had just brought some special baits for fishing, and a lot of them had already been used up, so Xu Zhiyan only brought five special baits, and the rest were baits in the fishermen's equipment.
He held the fishing rod, waiting for something to take the bait.
This time we are using ordinary baits, so it depends on luck what we can catch.
The boy's head was placed at an angle facing outwards, and he had to watch Xu Zhiyan fishing.
The fishing float was motionless, without any ups and downs.
After looking for a while, it felt bored and started yawning.
Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan began to ask random questions, hoping to see if he could get some clues about the final mission in advance.
"What do you want to do when you get the body?" he asked.
The boy answered without hesitation: "Of course I'm going to seek revenge on the person who killed me."
"Can't I leave here unless I find my body? Why is the water here so strange? Can't I get to shore if I don't leave the water?"
If this is the case, then the evil spirit of love debt that he had previously dealt with should still be suppressed.
Xu Zhiyan's tense spirit relaxed a little.
But the next words the boy said made him nervous again.
"The body of the snake god lies at the bottom of the water."
After the head finished speaking, his expression became more melancholy, and he continued: "When the evil spirit is completely dissolved in the water, it will become power to supply the snake god."
Xu Zhiyan was stunned after hearing this.
"Snake God? Is it a very big snake?"
"No." The boy's head said, "The snake god only has a snake lower half and a human upper half."
This description made Xu Zhiyan's heart skip a beat, and he thought of some guys with vulgar words and deeds.
"Is the snake god dead?" he asked.
When talking about this, people choke.
"It was dead and its soul disappeared, but for some reason, it reappeared yesterday."
"Although the soul of the Snake God seems to have not yet completely merged with the body, it should be soon. Complete fusion is only a matter of time." Concerning what's happening underwater, the boy knew much more clearly than the players on the shore.
The more Xu Zhiyan listened, the colder his heart became, and his expression gradually turned ugly.
"…What will happen after the fusion?"
He held on to the last glimmer of hope, hoping that this stupid snake god would not become too strong.
This question made the boy's head reveal a yearning expression, "A complete snake god will not be trapped by water."
The air on the wooden boat seemed to be condensing.
Seeing Xu Zhiyan's expression of "what if he gets into trouble?", the people in the live broadcast room began to speculate.
[What happened? This is obviously just some background information! ]
[Could this underwater snake god be the key to unlocking the mission? I think I should be happy to get this information. ]
[Emm, that's right, why is Xiao Baiwan not so happy? 】
[I guess the main system will target some players who destroyed the dungeon. Is it possible that Xiao Baiwan has a grudge against the Snake God?]
[What kind of festival is this? I've never seen it before. Is it just stored in my brain? ]
[…Love debt? Evil spirit?]
[Do you remember the ashes water, brothers? If the main system wants to deal with Xiao Baiwan and takes him offline in the pre-task, the quickest way is to draw the strongest evil spirit in the dungeon to him...]
With the prompt, the live broadcast room fell silent.
[Ah, this seems to make sense. ]
[That old pervert? ]
[Keywords: Fuck however you want]
[Hope the little million people are okay]
Xu Zhiyan propped up his knees and held his forehead with a serious expression.
In contrast, the human head looked at the human who was helping him and said innocently, "You probably won't be able to catch anything now, so you should just reel in your rod and wait until you get to the center of the lake."
Unexpectedly, the young man just shook his head and refused.
"I have other things to do besides helping you, and I accidentally lost a friend who helped me."
Xu Zhiyan took out the snake tears and wiped them on his eyelids, trying to use the power of seeing spirits to determine where the crazy snake god was.
But he just glanced under the water and then looked away.
He finally understood why everyone's boats would shake as soon as they entered the water and why the capsizing rate was so high!
After applying the snake tears, all spirits will exist in a form emitting a faint white light, and now, the entire Amber Mountain Reservoir is bright in Xu Zhiyan's eyes.
The water is filled with spirits.
Especially around the ship, those evil spirits were stacked on top of each other, penetrating each other's bodies, almost turning into glowing white balls.
The water isolates these spirits.
It also cuts off the evil spirits' path to revenge.
Xu Zhiyan lowered his eyes and kept tapping the fishing rod, as if he was thinking about something.
Suddenly, the fishing line in my hand became unexpectedly tight.
Something's hooked!
"Pull the lever quickly! See if it's my body." The boy's head said excitedly.
However, Xu Zhiyan just froze in place.
The lake was too bright, and he couldn't ignore the huge black snake shadow swimming underwater in the distance.
The other end of the snake's tail is the direction in which the fishing line falls.
A bit troublesome, he thought.
But it seems too late to go back now. I have to think of a way to stabilize the stupid snake below.
He pretended to be struggling with his hands and chatted with the boy beside him in a relaxed manner: "Have you ever seen a milk powder can underwater? It's about, um... this big... Oh!"
“Plop!”
He stretched out his hand and gestured a few times, as if he had forgotten that he had a fishing rod in his hand. As soon as he loosened his hand, the fishing rod was immediately dragged into the water.
The boy said anxiously: "What milk powder? How can we fish for the body when you don't have a fishing rod?"
Xu Zhiyan watched the fishing rod being dragged far away and the black snake shadow that seemed to be coming towards him, and hurriedly explained: "It's okay, I brought a spare fishing rod!"
Xu Zhiyan lowered his head and rummaged through his fishing gear bag, feeling a little relieved.
This snake seems to be biting the hook.
It seems that this opponent has not yet completely integrated into the body and must be "hooked" up like other evil spirits.
Under the water.
The half-snake god's tail kept shaking, and his emotions were extremely excited.
It's still a little short of being fully integrated.
It originally wanted to go to the bottom of the lake to regain its power and memory, but on the way, it smelled the scent of human beings.
So sweet and charming.
It immediately put aside other thoughts and followed.
It originally planned to overturn the boat and drag the people away, but when it heard the humans on it mention it, it couldn't help but want to hear more, so it simply pulled the other party's fishing hook.
Why you are looking for the jar containing the ashes.
The important friend mentioned earlier is it?
This realization made the half-snake god inexplicably happy. It swam slowly around the boat, circling around it underwater, and used its thick snake tail to drive away the evil spirits.
What he heard next made the Half-Snake God start to reflect on whether he had misunderstood before.
The young man on the boat continued speaking as he sorted out his fishing rod.
“I regret that I threw my friend’s ashes into the water after the tour guide told me that the water here can purify souls and make them happy.”
"But I just realized that this water can't really make its resentment disappear. On the contrary, it may trap it here... I, I'm sorry."
If I had known, I would have killed him instead of throwing his ashes into the water!
However, what he thought in his heart and what he said were two different things. Xu Zhiyan still talked to the boy in a sad and annoyed tone.
"I miss it very much now. I want to fish out its ashes so that I can have something to remember it by... When we separated, I was afraid it wouldn't want to leave, and it even said some very harsh words."
Catching a glimpse of a dark figure swaying underwater, he moved to sit in the middle of the boat.
Very good, no one came to capsize the boat.
It seems these words work!
As a bold and careful businessman, Xu Zhiyan quickly found a profitable place.
"If my friend were still alive, he probably wouldn't forgive me. I'm really too sad. Once I finish all four side quests, I'll go down into the water and look for it myself." No way.
After saying this, he was silent for a while, wondering if this stupid snake could understand the hint, when he saw a headless corpse floating in the distance.
The boy's head, who had been trapped by Xu Zhiyan's words, shouted in surprise: "That's my body! Oh my God! You are so lucky!"
After Xu Zhiyan used a scoop net to secure the floating corpse to the stern, new progress popped up on the task panel.
[Mission 4: Things in the Lake]
[Progress: 25%]
[Reward: Main Line (Part 2) Clues]
He curled the corners of his mouth, unexpectedly discovering that this half-snake god was quite useful.
If the opponent is really the strongest monster in the background of this game, then maybe it is the ghost body he is looking for... Tsk, wasn't it agreed that the other bodies would be relatively normal?
Just as Xu Zhiyan was about to say something else, he saw a metal object being thrown onto the boat.
“Boom—”
It looks very heavy, and is a ring shaped like an Ouroboros.
This thing looked strange no matter how you looked at it, and Xu Zhiyan wanted to ignore it, but he found that the ring triggered a new pop-up window after he got on the boat.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering a special BUG! ]
[Note: A ring filled with strange love]
[Hint: ...￥...Snake God &*...Bride#&) alarm, please destroy the item before the end of the game &...*()]
"???"
Special BUG?
It was the first time that Xu Zhiyan discovered that special bugs in the game would also give prompts.
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