Chapter 049: Counting the Catch, What a Rip-Off Reward!
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First update of the day: Chapter 049!
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Yu Le’s judgment had been correct. The fish in the Nine-Ring Fishing Zone of the Yellow-Tier Fishing Grounds were exceptionally active. With both ground baiting and constant casting working together, the greedy little fish began biting one after another in a frantic rush.
One after another, then another—Yu Le was having the time of his life!
Compared with the entire Yellow-Tier Fishing Grounds, the fish in the Nine-Ring Fishing Zone were all small fry. That was also why Yu Le had chosen to lift his rod the instant the first fish took the bait.
The strength transmitted through the line was no different from that of the First-Order Spirit Fish he used to catch.
Before binding with the system, Yu Le would have to wrestle with a single First-Order Spirit Fish for a long time. Although he had never seriously tested his physical strength, both the doctor’s diagnosis and Geng Xiao’s examination with hidden force had concluded that Yu Le’s physical strength had reached the ninth level of the Rocksolid Realm.
A ninth-level Rocksolid cultivator fishing fish equivalent to the first level of the Rocksolid Realm—if that wasn’t bullying, what was?
Yu Le was practically one step away from simply climbing into the water with his landing net and catching them by hand. Judging from the speed at which he was lifting his rod and landing fish, however, he was already moving almost as quickly as if he were catching them directly in the water.
His float went under once, he snagged the bottom and broke a line once, and by the time the fish had finally calmed down somewhat, the four packs of bait he had bought were completely used up.
The result was...
A full keepnet!
Yu Le did not count them carefully, but judging by his estimate, in the few hours he had been fishing, he had caught at least twenty-seven or twenty-eight World Fish.
Two of them had clearly been much stronger than the others, and were most likely Second-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish.
“If every day could be this satisfying, I’d gladly live in a huge mansion in the Upper City and have more money than I could ever spend!”
Fortunately, no one was nearby. Otherwise, anyone who heard Yu Le say that would surely have given him a heartfelt, enormous question mark.
You want everything, all at once!
He put away his rod and counted his catch.
A full twenty-eight First-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish, along with two Second-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish.
The fishing had been satisfying, but whether he had actually made a profit remained unknown.
Everything depended on what worlds these World Fish were connected to—and what he could obtain from those worlds.
There was one thing he had to keep in mind, however. World Fish were not completely helpless. They could resist as well. In the Yellow-Tier Fishing Grounds, World Fish corresponded exactly to Spirit Fish of the matching level in the Rocksolid Realm.
If he did not choose to break through the boundary at the moment he caught one, but instead placed it in the keepnet before killing it, there might be some risk.
Of course, that risk had to be judged in relation to his own strength.
A World Fish equivalent to the first level of the Rocksolid Realm was no threat at all to Yu Le now. He easily lifted one out of the keepnet, punched it, and killed it without effort.
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The World Fish did not turn into a pile of flesh. Instead, it dissolved into countless points of light, drawing along the hook on the Fulong Rod as it plunged toward a world that looked like a mirror.
Whether eating or doing anything else, Yu Le always liked to save the best for last. Thus, he killed the First-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish first, leaving the two Second-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish until the end.
[Ding! You have broken through the boundary and entered the novel world Skybound: The Magical Beast Mountain Range Arc.]
At those words, Yu Le’s eyes widened. Who in his previous life had never heard of that supreme fantasy novel?
The Skybound World was a true fantasy world, and it stood even above the High-Martial realm!
“The Magical Beast Mountain Range Arc... the Heavy Ruler? Cultivation techniques? Battle skills?”
Even a few ordinary pills would have left Yu Le perfectly satisfied!
A First-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish had actually managed to break into a world of this caliber...
However, when the hook descended toward a pitch-black cave, Yu Le froze.
Inside the dark cavern lay a young woman of mature beauty, gravely wounded. The hook drawn by the World Fish flew straight toward her.
Yu Le: !!!
You idiot! What do you think you’re doing?
As the woman let out a faint moan in her unconscious state, Yu Le felt the hook catch on something. He gave it a gentle tug, and the scene shattered.
Dangling from the hook was a small strip of blue cloth.
The Seaheart Armor?
Absolutely not. Yu Le was far too familiar with this style. During the three years he had been married to Feng Jiujiao, he had been the one washing this sort of thing.
[Ding! From the novel world Skybound, you obtained an item—the original undergarment of Yun Zhi.]
[Copyright-related content. The item has been modified. Unless necessary, future boundary crossings into Skybound will be avoided.]
Smack!
Yu Le tore the small strip of cloth from the hook and angrily flung it onto the ground.
“What a rip-off!”
It had been a complete waste of his emotions. Even if the woman was a Battle Emperor from that world, what use was a scrap of intimate clothing?
He watched as the strip he had thrown onto the ground was blown by the sea wind toward the ocean. After hesitating briefly, Yu Le stepped forward, picked it up, and stuffed it into his trouser pocket.
He couldn’t litter. He would deal with the thing after leaving the fishing grounds.
“Damn. I got my hopes up for nothing.”
As the saying went, the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment. A First-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish had broken into a fantasy world, and Yu Le had thought he was about to strike it rich.
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“It seems the plane and level of the world a World Fish can enter have nothing to do with its rank. But the items it can bring back are still related to the World Fish’s rank.”
Once he had calmed down, Yu Le was not disappointed. After all, this had been an experiment.
Time to keep killing fish!
Yu Le had practically become an old master at gutting fish in a supermarket, his heart utterly cold.
The feedback from these World Fish, however, was even colder.
The world plane a World Fish from the Yellow-Tier Fishing Grounds could enter was unknown, but all the rewards he brought back followed one rule:
The reward always matched the rank of the World Fish.
After the twenty-eight First-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish had broken through the boundary one by one, most of the items they yielded could not even be called useless. They were simply a waste of his feelings.
Most came from modern urban worlds: a collector’s-edition Zippo lighter, a Genius Kid smartwatch, a Purple Magic Stick, cheese-flavored children’s fart bags, novelty handcuffs, and other such things.
Yu Le felt as though he had opened an entirely new world. After sorting through everything, he found only a few items genuinely useful.
A lighter, two packs of Liqun cigarettes, an entire case of Fatty Happy Water, a **** (.440 caliber; lethal to creatures below the third level of the Rocksolid Realm), a concussion grenade (***), and two YSL lipsticks in different shades.
These rewards came from various urban worlds resembling the one from his previous life. Some were from novels, while others came from parallel timelines. Yu Le had nearly thought he had traveled back to his old world.
Whether useful or not, he tossed everything into the system’s storage space.
Unfortunately, he forgot about the little strip of Yun Zhi’s original undergarment that he had casually stuffed into his pocket. A question certain to appear on the exam.
“Not bad, I suppose. At least some of this stuff is practical.”
Yu Le toyed with the pistol he had only ever seen in games in his previous life. He opened a pack of the expensive cigarettes he had never been willing to buy back then, lit one with the collector’s-edition Zippo, and took a deeply satisfied drag.
A First-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish had yielded a firearm with seven rounds, each capable of killing a creature below the third level of the Rocksolid Realm. That was probably the most practical reward among all twenty-eight First-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish.
With the cigarette between his lips, Yu Le looked toward the final two Second-Order Yellow-Tier World Fish.
“Give me something exciting!” he said, rubbing his hands together in anticipation.
One of the World Fish successfully broke through the boundary and entered a world that looked extremely familiar to Yu Le.
[Ding! You have broken through the boundary and entered the anime world Doraemon, Episode One: The Robot from the Future World.]
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