'Ding: A temporary task has been issued. Please check it promptly!'
At six o'clock the next morning, Bai Yu vaguely heard Tongzi's mechanical voice.
However, having dealt with Brother Tongzi for more than half a year, Bai Yu didn't take it to heart; he simply thought he was dreaming.
As for the reason, it's quite simple. When Bai Yu first met the leader, after completing the beginner quests, he thought the leader would give him additional quests.
This wait lasted for several months until the last time he received a temporary mission to rescue sperm whales. During this period, no matter how Bai Yu communicated with Tongzi, he did not issue any missions, but instead let Bai Yu develop freely.
For a considerable period afterward, Bai Yu dreamed that Tongzi would give him missions, and that he would reach the pinnacle of life by completing those missions.
Bai Yu thought he was dreaming again when he heard the noise, so after realizing it was a bit noisy, he turned over and went back to sleep.
Around nine o'clock in the morning, Bai Yu opened her eyes from her sleep, and the first thing she saw was a big red exclamation mark!
This sudden scene startled Bai Yu. He thought he was still half asleep and seeing things, but no matter what he did, the exclamation mark in front of him was still there.
The only person who could make an exclamation mark appear directly on Bai Yu's retina was Tongzi, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.
A week has passed since Tongzi prepared a surprise with full luck for Bai Yu on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
After making a guess, Bai Yu immediately checked the system panel and saw the mission email sent to him by Brother Tongzi.
That's right, Tongzi is clearly deep within Bai Yu's consciousness, and if Tongzi wants to communicate with Bai Yu, he only needs to use his thoughts.
However, I don't know who Tongzi learned it from, but it insists on sending emails. The key is that it doesn't just send emails; sometimes it also sends text messages to Baiyu, and sometimes it makes phone calls.
Basically, they all made prudent responses to Bai Yu based on the circumstances Bai Yu was in at the time.
Now that Baiyu is at sea, there is no cell phone signal, so making calls, sending text messages, and emails are all impossible. Since that's the case, it has no choice but to send system emails. The exclamation mark attached to Baiyu's retina is a reminder that there are new emails to check.
Temporary mission: Please catch a fish weighing over 150 pounds within 24 hours of this mission being issued!
Reward for successful mission: You can freely allocate 50 points of Luck.
Penalty for mission failure: Randomly reset your luck value for one day.
Bai Yu read the task description and the penalty for failure with exceptional care. After reading it, he had only one thought: why was there a penalty for failure?
Shouldn't the system help the host reach the pinnacle of life? What's the meaning of this punishment, especially since the reward and punishment are not commensurate?
"Hey, are you there, Tongzi? Can you explain to me what this temporary mission means? Why is there a penalty for failure? It deducts a whole day's worth of luck points?"
What if I'm exceptionally lucky on the day I get penalized, and my luck stat is as high as 80 or 90 points? Wouldn't it all be deducted in one go? The reward for this task is only 50 points, but you want to deduct 80 or 90 points from me. Are you trying to profit from this as a middleman?
'Host, please don't overthink it. The system has its own rules for doing things. You just need to complete the task according to the requirements. If you complete the task, you will receive your reward. If you fail the task, I will deduct the corresponding luck points.'
As for whether there's a price difference, you don't need to know, and there's no need for you to know. You only need to know one thing: this system will not harm you; everything it does is for your own good.
It's all for your own good?
That sounds so familiar. Where have Bai Yu heard it before? Did his parents say it to him?
That's not right either. Bai Yu's parents are very lenient with him and haven't made any arrangements for his future. They let Bai Yu take his own path, mainly to ensure their child doesn't have any regrets.
But if it wasn't heard from Bai's parents, where did it come from? These are the kinds of things that elders would say to younger generations.
Until an icon for a camera flashed into his mind, he instantly remembered that this was a topic that had been frequently appearing on a certain app recently. How did Tongzi know about it? Could it also surf the internet?
However, no matter how much Bai Yu questioned Tongzi, Tongzi ignored him and simply told Bai Yu to complete the task according to the instructions.
The task was issued at 6:00 AM and lasts for 24 hours. This means that Bai Yu needs to catch a fish weighing over 150 pounds by 6:00 AM tomorrow.
Damn it, Bai Yu doesn't have much time left!
After figuring this out, Bai Yu jumped out of bed, slapped Wang Hai awake, and left with a message to get up quickly. He then picked up the fishing rod from under the bed and left the crew quarters.
When he came out of the cabin and onto the deck, his second uncle and the others had already started fishing, and judging from their chatting and laughing, their catch this morning seemed to be pretty good.
Today's fishing spots are different from yesterday's. These people are all friends, and when they come out fishing, there's no such thing as a fixed fishing spot. Instead, whoever arrives first gets to choose their spot.
For example, yesterday the bow of the boat was the best fishing spot, which has the widest view on the fishing boat.
Bai Yue is currently occupying this fishing spot, Li Xue is on her right, and her second uncle and younger uncle are on her left.
Seeing this, Bai Yu took his fishing rod and walked to the right, coming to Li Xue's side.
"Xue'er, what time did you get up today? Did you sleep well on the boat?"
"Brother Xiaobai, you're awake! We've been fishing for over an hour now. Look at the fish in my fish box, aren't they pretty good?"
"Oh, there's a red sea bream too. You're really lucky. It's just a pity that this guy died. It looks like you reeled it in too fast and it died from internal pressure loss."
If you reel in the line a little slower, it'll be better. Don't rush things; as long as you make sure the fish doesn't get off the hook, sometimes fishing slowly can yield unexpected results.
While Bai Yu and Li Xue were chatting, he took a look at the latter's achievements so far that day.
According to Li Xue, they had been fishing on the deck for an hour and a half, during which time she caught five fish, the largest of which was a red sea bream weighing about ten pounds, and the others were small caramel.
The results were slightly worse than yesterday, but that's normal.
On the contrary, yesterday's fishing conditions were a rare occurrence; who could expect such a catch when fishing at sea?
If everyone could have the same catch as Bai Yu and his group yesterday, then the fish in this ocean would eventually be all caught, and the number of people going out to fish would increase exponentially.
Bai Yu took out his fishing rod, then his spare line, attached it to the rod, and chose a mackerel as bait before casting his first line of the day.
As per Brother Tongzi's request, Baiyu's fishing target today remains a 100-pound giant, and it must be a giant weighing over 150 pounds; success is not an option.
It wasn't that he was afraid of the punishment for failure, but rather that the reward of fifty points of luck, which he could freely allocate, was very appealing.
Based on his experience of beachcombing and fishing over the past six months, Bai Yu has gained a general understanding of the luck value given by Brother Tongzi.
For those with a luck value below 20, whether it's 1 or 19, there isn't a significant difference. One point of luck can bring him a catch worth between 10 and 50 yuan.
However, once the score reaches 20 or above, the outcome will be quite different. Between 20 and 49 points, the economic value that Bai Yu can gain can fluctuate significantly.
The starting price is definitely fifty yuan, and with a bit of luck, it can even bring in a value of over one hundred yuan.
Once it reaches fifty points, the economic value increases exponentially for every ten points it rises.
Once it reaches its maximum value, the economic value it can bring is immeasurable.
Take the most recent time when Bai Yu had the highest luck value, which was on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Although Bai Yu didn't earn much money that day, he almost reached 20,000 yuan.
But you should know that Bai Yu and his friends didn't sell their best catch from the beach that day. They didn't sell the biggest crabs, various sea snails and scallops, or even a bunch of lobsters.
Even the last croakers, the ones kept for killing and extracting glue, were the largest and the best quality ones.
If all these things are included, Bai Yu will have no problem doubling the money he receives on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Earning tens of thousands of yuan a day is the minimum benefit that a full value of luck can bring.
If Bai Yu completes this temporary task and obtains these fifty points of disposable luck, and later his luck value is high—for example, just a few points or a dozen points short of a hundred—he can use these free points to max it out.
Then, changing your daily luck value can easily multiply your already good luck value several times over.
So when casting his line today, Bai Yu still chose to use big bait, big hooks, and thick lines for bottom fishing to catch big fish. Here comes the 100-pound behemoth, Bai Yu!
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