Ocean Lords: Start as a Fisherman

Chapter 52 The Neglected Role of Source Water
[A large jewelfish smelled the bait and seemed to be interested in it, heading towards the bait.]

The information flashed through his sight, and Su Wang immediately drove the Wangxin to stop immediately.

Finally found a large treasure fish again,

If we let it run away again, it would be difficult to find another way to the secret realm in the remaining time.

Just 20 seconds after the Wangxin stopped sailing, Su Wang saw a flash of information about a small treasure fish being attracted.

He speculated that this might be because the bait effect spread further and attracted fish.

However, this time, the first information that appeared was that the large jewel fish was attracted. Su Wang was not worried that the previous situation would occur again.

"Now it all depends on whether the bait can entice this large jewel fish to eat it."

As the large jewel fish approached the bait, Su Wang began to feel uneasy.

After all, attraction is attraction,
Whether you can catch it in the end depends on whether this large treasure fish is willing to take the bait.

After more than a minute, the large treasure fish finally came near the bait.

A large jewelfish has arrived near the bait, but isn't particularly interested in it, hesitating whether to swallow it or not.

Seeing this, Su Wang suddenly became extremely nervous.

From the information prompts, it can be judged that this rare black iron-level fish meat has very low appeal to large treasure fish.

This is understandable.

After all, large treasure fish can already bring gold-level treasures, and black iron-level rare fish meat is three levels apart in terms of level.

If it weren't for the fact that the fish meat was rare, this large treasure fish would probably have chosen to leave with disdain as soon as it came near the bait.

It's just like the first time you use ordinary bait and encounter a medium-sized treasure fish.

Time passes minute by minute,
A full half minute passed, and Su Wang did not receive any notification that the large jewel fish had swallowed the bait, but fortunately, he did not receive any notification that it had left either.

This gave Su Wang a glimmer of hope in his heart.

At this time, the second small jewel fish attracted had been frightened away.

Su Wang was thinking about the bait.

"It seems I need to get more advanced bait before coming in next time."

Now in the fish tank, except for the contaminated fish meat.

Apart from the rare black iron-grade fish meat, the highest-quality fish that can be used as bait is the regular bronze-grade fish meat bought at the dock.

Su Wang estimated that this bronze-level regular fish meat should not be as good as the double-horned thunder eel meat.

And at this moment,
There was a slight noise on the deck, and Mirei pushed open the door of the crew room and walked out.

When Su Wang heard the slight noise and turned his head to look over, he found that Mi Lei was looking at the fantastic scene in the colorful secret realm with a look of surprise and confusion on her face.

When Mirei turned her gaze to Su Wang standing on the deck, she couldn't help but ask.

"Captain brother... where are we?"

"Mirei has never seen such a beautiful sea."

Hearing Mirei's question,
Su Wang thought for a few seconds and responded, "This is a hidden sea area. It can only be entered with a magical key."

Mi Lei nodded, not quite understanding.
When she saw the fishing rod in Su Wang's hand, a hint of curiosity flashed in her eyes again.

"Captain brother, what are you doing?"

Su Wang recalled that every time he used fishing gear, Mi Lei was basically either in the cabin or in the room.

This was probably the first time she saw herself using fishing gear.

It happened that the large jewel fish underwater was slow to take the bait, so Su Wang took advantage of the waiting time to give Mi Lei a brief introduction.

After hearing Su Wang's answer,
Mirei nodded her head and glanced at the jewel fish of different colors and sizes on the deck that had not been processed yet.

"fishing?"

"So this is the captain's ability as a seaman? It's different from what Mirei remembered."

Seeing that Mi Lei regarded fishing gear as a kind of boatman's ability, Su Wang did not explain it in detail.

It seems that it is because of the novelty.

Mi Lei put her hand on the railing of the boat not far from Su Wang, her eyes jumping back and forth between the water and Su Wang.

It seemed as if he wanted to see with his own eyes what "fishing" was, something he had never heard of before.

Seeing this, Su Wang couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

After all, whether it is possible to really catch the large jewel fish underwater is still an unknown.

More than a minute had passed since the large jewel fish came near the bait.

The problem is that there is no movement.
The large jewel fish underwater was neither leaving nor swallowing the bait, and was in a state of being neither up nor down.

At this moment, the special prompt message finally showed some movement.

The large jewel fish, attracted by the bait, hesitated underwater for a long time, and had already begun to think about swimming away.

【Replacing the bait with higher quality bait in time may help you catch it.】

...

See these two special tips,
Su Wang's heart sank, and he couldn't help but sigh, thinking in his heart.

"Sure enough, the problem lies with the bait."

His sigh was immediately heard by Mirei who was standing beside him.

There was a flash of panic in Mi Lei's eyes. She thought she was disturbing Su Wang and asked in a low voice.

"Mirei... Is Mirei disturbing Captain-brother's 'fishing' by being here?"

After hearing this, Su Wang chuckled and comforted him.

"That's not the case. It doesn't matter whether you're around or not."

"I just sighed because there's a fish underwater that I really want, but it seems I can't catch it because the fish meat is not of good quality."

Hearing Su Wang say this,
The panic in Mirei's eyes gradually dissipated, and she asked subconsciously out of curiosity.

"Then Captain, don't you have any better fish?"

As soon as Mi Lei finished asking the question, she immediately realized that the question she asked was a bit redundant.

Seeing this, Su Wang didn't care too much, but started to explain.

"Yes, there are some, but the fish meat is contaminated and cannot be used in this sea area." However, after hearing Su Wang's explanation, Mi Lei tilted her head slightly, with some confusion in her eyes.

Next second,
Su Wang saw Mi Lei standing beside him, and suddenly turned around and ran into her room.

Just when he was feeling a little confused as to why Mirei would behave like this.

Within a few seconds,

Su Wang saw Mi Lei holding something in her hand. She ran out of the room and came to him in a few seconds.

What Mi Lei was holding in her hand was the fish skin bag that he had given her yesterday.

Before Su Wang could ask, Mi Lei had already held the fish skin bag in front of Su Wang and said.

"Captain brother, can't we use this?"

Su Wang's eyes flashed with doubt: "This?"

Mi Lei immediately explained, "Captain, don't you know? Purifying the source water can also clean the pollution of fish meat."

When Su Wang heard this, he was stunned for a moment.

Yup!

Since purified water can wash away the pollution on Mirei, it seems that it is not impossible to clean the pollution on fish meat.

It's just that the value of these few liters of high-quality purified water is too high.
In addition, it was used to cleanse Milei of contamination, so Su Wang had not considered this aspect before.

At this time, Mirei added.

"Milei heard about it from her father before, but it seems that the purified water they used was of very low quality."

The large jewel fish in the water could slip away at any time, so Su Wang didn't care too much about it.

Take out a wooden barrel bought from the dock from the fish hold and put a portion of gold-level light shadow shark meat into the barrel.

Then he kept the fishing gear in one hand and took the fish skin bag handed to him by Mi Lei with the other hand.
Given that this high-quality purified source water is too valuable, it must be reserved for Mirei to cleanse pollution.

Su Wang decided to use 200ml at most to give it a try. 200ml is worth 2 fish coins.

It would be best if you could wash this golden grade fish meat, but if it is not enough, do not use more.

Su Wang first took a look at the source water storage in the fish skin bag,

He found that there were still 4 liters left, which seemed to indicate that Mirei had indeed drunk it as he instructed yesterday.

Immediately, Mi Lei was asked to help unplug the fish skin bag and carefully poured 20ml of liquid on the fish.

Su Wang took a look at the fish meat and found that there was no reaction, so he continued to pour it slowly.

It was not until he poured 50ml of the liquid that he discovered that the information of the fish had changed.

[500g of purified mackerel fillets.]

Price:
①: Edible…

②: Can be used as bait…

②: The fish meat is purified with high-quality source water and will not attract contaminated fish when used as bait.

The luring effect on normal fish has been enhanced, and the effect on attracting rare fish has been greatly improved.

...

After reading the information about Yurou, a gleam of light flashed in Su Wang's eyes.

After high-quality source water purification,

This piece of lamp-shadow shark meat not only eliminates the pollution effect, but also adds an additional special effect.

Without any hesitation, he quickly pulled the fishhook back out of the water.

As the large jewel fish flashed by in sight, I could tell that it had lost the attraction of the bait and was swimming away.

Su Wang hurriedly replaced the bait on the fishhook with the purified gold-grade fish meat.

With a splash, the fishhook and the bait fell back into the water.

This process took less than 5 seconds. Su Wang estimated that the large jewel fish underwater should not have swum far away.

as predicted,

Less than 10 seconds after the bait fell into the water, Su Wang received another special prompt that the large jewel fish was attracted.

A large jewelfish has arrived near the bait, showing interest in it and preparing to devour it.

When Su Wang saw the change in the content of the prompt message, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes.

“There have indeed been changes!”

Just a few seconds later, the special prompt appeared again.

[The large jewel fish has swallowed the bait. The bait can last for 5 minutes.]

[A large jewelfish has been hooked. You have 300 seconds to drag it out of the water.]

【Large Treasure Fish】

Fish species rarity: mysterious fish.

Strength: 1.

Endurance value: 99200/10.

A mysterious fish that lives only in secret places, with treasures in its belly.

...

After seeing the detailed information about the large treasure fish, Su Wang almost lost his grip on the fishing rod in his hand.

"10 stamina points?"

Although it can be seen from other sizes of jewel fish that the endurance of these jewel fish is terrifyingly high.

But Su Wang was still shocked to see that the large treasure fish had an endurance limit of up to 10.

Fortunately, all four parts of the fishing gear have been upgraded to silver level.
The triggering frequency of the innate skill alone has been reduced to once every 0.5 seconds, and the frequency of the fishhook triggering double damage is as high as 50%.

Although the large treasure fish has a stamina value of up to 10 points,
But in Su Wang's sight, the 10 endurance value was rapidly decreasing at the speed of a flood.

With Su Wang's current rate of endurance depletion against the large treasure fish, it would not even take a minute to capture it.

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(End of this chapter)