Ocean Lords: Start as a Fisherman

Chapter 44 Making a Nest
Su Wang took out his fishing rod and thought for a few seconds.
I decided to be safe for the first time and try using the black iron grade monster fish meat as bait.

There were higher-level bronze and silver-level monster fish meat in the fish tank, but this was his first attempt at using bait at night, so he didn't dare to be too reckless.

After all, apart from himself, other fishermen probably wouldn't dare to take such a risky thing.

Under the influence of the abnormal effect of self-recovery of lost stamina, ordinary fishermen would applaud if they could ensure the safety of the vehicle through the night.

Accompanied by a plop.

The black iron-level monster fish meat bait has fallen into the water along with the fish hook.

Ten minutes passed in a flash.
Su Wang was highly focused, his eyes fixed on the water surface to prevent any strange fish from appearing.

At this moment, the fishman guard who was originally clinging to the hull suddenly became alert.

Noticing this phenomenon, Su Wang guessed that some strange fish had begun to approach the Wangxin.

Next second,
Su Wang suddenly saw several black shadows gradually growing larger under the water surface covered by thin mist.

"coming!"

Two of the shadows were at the location of the bait, while the rest were rapidly approaching the bottom of the Wangxin.

The fishing rod in Su Wang's hand also began to tremble at this time, and the information of catching a fish appeared simultaneously.

[Consumed 5 points of stamina, successfully caught a striped pomfret (slightly polluted), target stamina value reduced by 200*2 points.]

【Striped Pomfret (mildly polluted)】

Fish species rarity: Black Iron level.

Strength:33(25).

Stamina: 290/690 (580).

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It's just a black iron level fish.

At present, Su Wang has reached the silver-level fisherman, and his normal strength alone is as high as 100 points.

With the blessing of various abilities and effects,
Su Wang only felt the fishing rod vibrate for more than 1 second, and then a strange-looking fish was pulled out from the water.

Compared to two days ago when it took a lot of effort to deal with a Black Iron-level monster fish, now he can kill it almost instantly without using his talent.

However, at this time, several dark shadows had already swam near the bottom of the Wangxin ship.

The silver-level murloc guards clinging to the hull also jumped into the water.

Information about several kinds of strange fish flashed before Su Wang's sight, including a bronze-level strange fish.

"Using bait to attract strange fish has indeed increased the number of them!"

The night before arriving at the pier,

We had only encountered more than 40 strange fish in one night, but now, in just over ten minutes, we attracted nearly ten strange fish.

The Heart of Death is protected by 30 summoned silver-level murloc guards, which are more than enough to deal with this number of strange fish.

In less than ten seconds, some strange fish were besieged and killed by the fishman guards, and their corpses were thrown onto the deck.

Su Wang immediately continued to cast the rod, preparing to attract more strange fish.

Compared with the effect of bait attracting normal fish during the day, the efficiency of attracting strange fish at night is obviously much higher.

The gains from catching polluted monster fish and normal fish are equal, except for the value of the fish meat.

As long as you ensure that you have sufficient strength, there will be a better opportunity to obtain resources after nightfall.

As the bait falls,

This time, in less than two or three minutes, several black shadows appeared and approached.

With the joint efforts of Su Wang and the fishman guards, several more monster fish corpses appeared on the deck soon.

In less than half an hour, more than twenty strange fish were caught, which means that on average, nearly one strange fish was caught every minute.

If other fishermen knew how quickly this strange fish was caught, they would probably be both envious and frightened.

What they envied was Su Wang’s gains in half an hour, which was probably equivalent to what they gained in the whole night.

The fear is that it would be difficult to ensure safety when dealing with so many strange fish in a short period of time.

After all, other fishermen don’t have such luxurious configuration as Su Wang.

Not only are there silver-level murloc guards protecting the vehicle, but the fisherman levels and fishing gear modifications are also on a completely different level.

If an average fisherman were attacked by dozens of strange fish in just half an hour, he would probably have difficulty even protecting himself if he was slow to kill them.

However, Su Wang was not satisfied when he looked at the monster fish on the deck.

It’s nothing, it’s just too little.

“The efficiency feels a bit too slow.”

With the experience of collecting a lot of fish after the red tide ended, Su Wang was unlikely to be bothered by the current efficiency of fish collection.

Moreover, based on the feedback from the previous large catch of fish,
The Heart of Death already has extremely high durability, and with the support of 180 murloc guards, its own fisherman strength has also been greatly improved.

Su Wang realized that the current capture speed was a bit of a waste of the Wangxin's current advantage.

Although this is safer and more stable,

However, it is also impossible to fully utilize the current advantages of the Wangxin to further increase the speed of resource collection.

Thinking that there are still many fishman guards who have not been summoned,
Su Wang decided to take a slightly riskier approach to increase the efficiency of attracting the strange fish.

"How about we try making a nest?"

When I checked the communication area in the morning,

Some fishermen were curious whether the Wangxin had such high points because it had discovered a strange fish nest.

What Su Wang is considering now is whether to build a strange fish nest artificially.

The contaminated fish meat stored in the fish tanks has piled up into mountains.
It can't be eaten, and it's difficult to use it as bait for fishing, so it's better to use it now.

Su Wang took out dozens of Black Iron and Bronze-grade contaminated fish from the fish tank and threw them into the waters near the Heartless. The fish would act as bait once in the water, and the effect of throwing dozens of baits at once was self-evident.

If you fish normally, throwing these baits will only attract fish and then be eaten by them.

If you stay in the water for too long, you will gradually sink into deeper waters due to lack of traction.

If Su Wang wants to catch a fish, he has to hit the target with the hook.

But what is attracting me now is strange fish.

Every strange fish attracted to the vicinity of the Heart of Destruction will gather together and attack the Heart of Destruction even without bait.

As a result,
The luring effect produced by the bait in a short period of time will be greatly preserved.

Seeing the contaminated fish meat used as bait fall into the water, Su Wang immediately summoned all the fishman guards.

"It all depends on how effective this nesting is."

If the effect is good and you can handle it yourself,
Su Wang calculated that if he persisted for one night, the rewards he would gain would probably be very gratifying.

When the nest bait is thrown into the water within 3 minutes,

Su Wang began to receive information about strange fish fighting between the merman guards.

This shows that a group of strange fish have been attracted underwater.

Then, within less than a minute, information about strange fish began to appear one after another.

Su Wang could already see many black shadows attacking the Wangxin, and the fish-man guards and strange fish were already entangled on the water surface.

Seeing this, Su Wang immediately waved his fishing rod to help speed up the killing of the strange fish.

The bait has just been cast into the water, and the luring effect should still be within the waters below the Wangxin ship.

Before it sinks to a certain distance from the Wangxin, it will only continue to attract strange fish to attack.

What Su Wang has to do now is to kill the strange fish that have been attracted and keep them within a controllable range.

Although the Murloc Guards have no special abilities, they are numerous.
What's more, the strength attributes of silver and bronze murloc guards are not low, basically around 100 and 50.

One after another, strange fish were caught and sent back to the deck.

The capture speed has increased several times compared to before using bait to bait the nest.

As the bait continued to take effect, more and more strange fish gathered near the Dead Heart.

Su Wang also felt a little pressure.
Although there are also many fish-man guards, and he can kill instantly,

However, the increase in the number of strange fish still caused the fishman guards to start suffering losses.

Fortunately, most of the ones that have died so far are ordinary and Iron-level Murloc Guards, so the loss is not significant compared to the large number of strange fish caught.

The process of a large amount of strange fish information appearing suddenly lasted for about 10 minutes and then gradually stopped.

After a few minutes, all the strange fish existing underwater were cleared out one by one, and Su Wang no longer received any information about strange fish.

"It seems the bait has sunk deep."

Su Wang assessed the situation and decided to deal with the fish on the deck first, and then make a second bait to lure the fish.

The reason for dealing with the fish on the deck first is mainly because there are not enough fish coins.

Although the wave of strange fish that just attacked from the water were all cleared out, it also cost hundreds of fish coins to replenish the fishman guards.

The number of fish coins in stock now is less than one thousand, so we need to replenish them first.

It takes a few minutes to prepare the fish.

During the process, Su Wang roughly counted the number of strange fish that were solved in nearly an hour.

There were about 80 ordinary-level monster fish, more than 50 black iron-level monster fish, more than 30 bronze-level monster fish, and no silver-level monster fish were seen.

"Why didn't a single silver-level monster fish appear?"

Su Wang couldn't help feeling a little confused.

Currently, the upgrade of the Heartless requires silver-level fish materials.

The harvest from one silver-level monster fish is comparable to that from several bronze-level monster fish, not to mention the harvest from black iron-level monster fish.

Moreover, only silver-grade fish maw can produce the fertile soil needed for the dock.

Su Wang couldn't help but suspect that there must be some reason why he didn't see a single silver-level monster fish.

Unfortunately, there is not enough information at the moment, and I can’t figure out the reason even if I continue thinking about it.

Fortunately, after the experiment just now, it was confirmed that multiple baits can attract a large number of strange fish.

Su Wang immediately took out hundreds of contaminated fish meat at once and stored them aside.

This time,
He planned to add some bait every few minutes to maintain the effect of making nests and further speed up the efficiency of catching fish.

In addition, the fish catch just now has given me a lot of fish coins, so I can't help but worry too much about replenishing the fishman guards.

Su Wang immediately started to spread bait to lure and catch the second wave of strange fish.

...

At this time, the naked eye cannot see below the water surface.

After more than ten minutes of sinking, more than ten pieces of fish meat had sunk to a depth of nearly 500 meters from the water surface.

The attraction created by the fish meat attracted several large fish to swim near the fish meat.

As the fish shadow passed by the fish meat, several pieces of fish meat disappeared.

Only some fish meat that was not intercepted by the fish shadow was left, and it was even continuing to sink deeper.

Just a few minutes later, some fish meat slowly sank from the upper water.

A large fish swimming at a depth of 500 meters underwater, sensing the temptation of the fish meat, gradually swam towards the upper water layer.

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(End of this chapter)