Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 18: Fishing Net

"Xiaoqing, I'm scared."

"I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to survive on your own without me to take care of you."

"I'm afraid I won't make it past the three levels, and will fall back into being a naive carp, and won't be able to remember you anymore."

Hong Gu's eyes were a little red, and tears slid down her cheeks and merged into the water.

Liu Qingqi went up and wrapped his body around Hong Gu, with his head pressed against her cheek.

"Sisi!"

Hong Gu seemed to understand what Liu Qing meant, and a look of relief appeared in her eyes: "Yes, with Xiao Qing by my side, Hong Gu is not afraid."

[Today's Intelligence: Level Black. A woodcutter at the foot of the Qinling Mountains stumbled upon a pond in Ziwu Valley while chopping wood. He will borrow a fishing net to catch fish at 5:00 PM today. This net is dyed with pig's blood mixed with cinnabar, and is specifically designed to defeat fish spirits and shrimp monsters. Heaven and earth are moved, and Hong Gu transforms into a demon. The first stage is this fishing gate.]

Liu Qing's pupils turned cold, Hong Gu's first hurdle, the fishing gate, was about to come.

He secretly swore in his heart that when Hong Gu passed the level, he would definitely help her get through this fishing gateway.

At the same time, based on the intelligence, Liu Qing couldn't help but feel surprised. It turned out that he had traveled to the Qinling Mountains, and the pond where he lived was in Ziwu Valley.

The familiar place name surprised him, but he didn't know which dynasty it was at that time.

Hong Gu was worried about gains and losses and was in a very low mood. She seemed to feel that the third level of transformation into a demon was just around the corner. Liu Qing was unable to speak and had to make preparations in secret.

Liu Qing swam ashore and spent half an hour circling the pond, which was five or six acres in radius, to get a clear idea of ​​the surroundings.

The south side of the pond is covered with reeds and mud, making it difficult for people to walk, let alone cast nets to catch fish. The north side of the pond is
The west side is full of strange rocks and thorny bushes. I think the woodcutter would not choose this place to cast his net. As for the west side,
It is close to the mountains, and the vast forest looks very gloomy. The roars of wild beasts can be heard from time to time, and the ground is covered with claw marks of wild beasts, which are where the wild beasts drink water. I think he would not choose this place.

Then, the only remaining place to cast the net is on the east side of the pond.

This is also where Liu Qing and Hong Gu are currently staying. On the shore, there is only an old locust tree that was broken by the wind, and a mulberry tree. The rest is mostly pebbles. The ground is not wet or slippery, and there is not much shelter.

It is a good place to cast a net.

Liu Qing thought about it, swam back to the river, and made a snake-like sound, signaling Hong Gu to go to the waters in the south, north and west directions, and it would be best to sink to the bottom of the water and not come out all day.

But today, for some reason, Hong Gu was unwilling to leave even though Liu Qing was angry. She just followed Liu Qing closely.

Liu Qing had no choice but to take Hong Gu and sink to the bottom of the water on the north side of the pond.

Only when the air in the airbag is used up will it quickly surface to breathe.

The first of the three levels of demon transformation?

There are too many loopholes to exploit. In such a big pond, the net can only be cast on the east side. So I took Hong Gu and hid at the bottom of the water on the north side where it is least possible to cast a net.

Let’s see how you, the Fisherman’s Gate, can stop Hong Gu from turning into a demon.

As time passed, the inexplicable threat approached, making Hong Gu more and more uneasy. She swam back and forth in the water, blowing bubbles anxiously.

Despite being prepared, Liu Qing was also infected by Hong Gu's anxiety and became nervous.

There was a faint sound of thunder.

It indicated that the time of Wei had arrived, and the three stages of Hong Gu's transformation into a demon began to pass through the fishing gate.

Liu Qing quickly emerged from the water, raised his head and looked around, and saw that there was indeed a young woodcutter wearing a conical hat and a gray linen shorts, carrying a casting net on his back, appearing by the pond in Ziwu Valley.

The woodcutter frowned and looked around the pond, then suddenly his brow relaxed and he walked quickly towards the east side of the pond.

Liu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, then took another deep breath to fill the air sacs in his body and dived back to the bottom of the water.

Hong Gu was looking up anxiously, and her expression relaxed a little when she saw Liu Qing coming back.

Liu Qing wrapped his snake body around Hong Gu, his head pressed against her cheek, spitting out his entrails and hissing, trying to comfort her. "Don't be afraid, Hong Gu. The woodcutter went to the east side of the pond. We're safe here."

Liu Qinggang was so tired that he struggled to convey his meaning to Hong Gu with subtle changes in syllables.
But suddenly, he heard a loud noise, and then his vision went dark. He was shocked to find that he and Hong Gu were covered under a fishing net.

Liu Qing was shocked. Didn’t the woodcutter go to the east side of the pond?
Why is he here again? Isn’t he afraid of being scratched by the thorns on the thorny bushes?

Liu Qing has been a snake for a long time, but his thinking is not as detailed as when he was a human. You know, the east side of the pond is covered with algae and water celery, and the water is shallow. In the woodcutter's opinion, there can be no big fish in shallow water.

Although the north side of the pond is full of jagged rocks and thorny bushes growing in the cracks of the rocks, the woodcutter has a hatchet to cut through the thorns and has his hands to move the rocks that block the way.
Moreover, it looked pitch black from the shore, so the water must be very deep, and where there are deep waters there are big fish. When Hong Gu got anxious, she would occasionally spit out bubbles that would float to the surface from underwater, which further confirmed the woodcutter's judgment.

So, the fishing net fell from then on.

If Liu Qing knew about this, he would definitely be very upset. The hiding place he had spent so much energy to choose had actually led him and Hong Gu into a fishing net.

As the saying goes, snakes plan, humans plan, and humans plan, God plans.

The fishing net was tightened and pulled towards the water surface. The real fishing net was approaching. When the time came, Hong Gu was no longer nervous.

She opened her mouth and spurted out streams of water, which shot towards the fishing net.

But the ending shocked Hong Gu. After swallowing the low-grade earth treasure, the power of her water arrow talent increased by one time, enough to penetrate gold and split stone.

But he couldn't even shoot through the fishing net.

As the speeding water arrow touched the fishing net, a faint red light flashed, and the water arrow lost all its power and turned into water and dispersed again.

Liu Qing's eyes also focused. The intelligence suggested that this fishing net was dyed with pig blood mixed with cinnabar, which was specifically designed to defeat fish spirits and shrimp monsters. It turned out to be true.

The fishing net continues to be lifted upwards.

There was panic in Hong Gu's eyes. The scales on her body made a crackling sound when they touched the fishing net, and the pain made her tears roll down.

"Xiaoqing, save me, save me——"

Liu Qing paused the snake head and signaled Hong Gu not to be afraid, then he easily crawled out of the mesh of the fishing net, then surfaced and swam quickly towards the woodcutter.

Fishing nets are specifically designed to defeat fish and shrimp monsters, but they are useless against snakes.

Sisi——

Liu Qing raised his upper body high, leaving only the tail of his snake treading the water. His cold snake eyes stared at the woodcutter, his head tilted back, as if he was about to bite.

I thought that everyone was afraid of snakes, and that my posture would scare the woodcutter away. However, I never thought that the woodcutter was a very brave man.

Seeing Liu Qing swimming towards him, he sneered and pulled out the hatchet from his waist with one hand: "It turned out to be a water snake. I can use your snake gall to make wine!"

The woodcutter swung his hatchet fiercely.

Liu Qing quickly dodged to the side, but unexpectedly the woodcutter's hatchet swung slightly and then turned straight towards the direction where Liu Qing dodged.

Liu Qing was unable to dodge this time. A fierce look flashed in his eyes. He turned his snake tail upside down and used his minor success level tail whip talent to slam into the hatchet.

clang--

The hatchet was knocked back, and Liu Qing only felt a little pain in his tail, but his scales were intact. He immediately felt relieved and no longer feared the hatchet in the woodcutter's hand.

He leaped forward and swung his tail whip in the air, hitting the woodcutter's calf.

click -

With a dull sound, the place where Liu Qing's tail whip hit was instantly torn apart, and broken bones pierced out of the flesh. Half of the leg tendon hung white and trembled in the air.

The woodcutter no longer cared about the fishing net. He let out a miserable cry and dragged his broken leg, crawling towards the shore.

(End of this chapter)