Fortune telling? How do you explain your hand-drawn lightning magic and sword flight?

After receiving Chen Xuan's signal, Xiao Lin in the scene began to ponder, seemingly organizing his words, trying to describe in as much detail as possible the strange events that had occurred three nights ago.

As Xiaolin began to speak, the previously swirling chat in the live stream gradually quieted down.

It turns out that Xiao Lin was a graduate of Northwest Business School. Despite his impoverished background, he was full of ambition for his future, thinking that after graduation he would quickly enter society to find a stable job and help his parents support the family.

Unfortunately, the two years after he graduated coincided with a period of international tension. Large companies not only stopped hiring but also laid off large numbers of employees. Helpless, Xiaolin could only find a job delivering food.

Unfortunately, all the beautiful fantasies of student life were shattered by the unspoken rules of society.

Faced with increasingly tight delivery times and heartless abuse from customers, he finally decided to resign and return to his hometown, feeling disheartened, thinking that it might be good to develop his career there.

It was precisely because of this decision that he indirectly caused the death of his mother.

People living in the mountains value their reputation highly.

When Xiao Lin was admitted to a top university in Northwest China, all the villagers came to congratulate him and have a feast. But a few years later, Xiao Lin returned in such a sorry state.

The gossip and ridicule from the village made his mother cry every day, and eventually her chronic illness flared up and she died despite all medical treatment.

From then on, Xiaolin had to earn money on his own to support his younger brother who was in junior high school. People in the village said that Xiaolin was a cursed star who had caused his parents' deaths, and they didn't allow their children to have any contact with him.

Xiaolin had no choice but to do odd jobs, farm, and occasionally catch fish in the river to sell at the market in order to barely take care of her younger brother who was in junior high school.

Three days ago, while selling fish at the fish market, he overheard a fishmonger from a neighboring village saying that he had seen a large red fish about one meter long in the Xiangshui River not far from Xiaolin's house last night, and that he must catch it in the net and sell it within the next two days.

Xiao Lin listened to it but didn't take it seriously, because there weren't any fish that big in the Xiangshui River, and he would cast his nets at several fixed locations in the Xiangshui River every day.

That evening, after dinner, he took his fishing net to the Xiangshui River. He was furious to see that someone had already set up their net at the spot where he usually did so.

Just as Xiao Lin was in a daze, two beams of flashlight shone blindingly on his face from afar. He turned his head and saw that it was the Lin brothers, the village's little tyrants.

Neither of them had graduated from elementary school. They spent their days loitering around the village, causing trouble and getting into fights. They were both in their early twenties, strong and healthy, and no one dared to mess with them.

Before Xiao Lin could say anything, he saw the two brothers rushing over, pointing a steel pipe at him and threatening him menacingly, "We've already set our net here. If you dare to try and retrieve it, we'll break your legs."

Although Xiaolin was angry, she held back her anger when she thought of her younger brother.

Amidst the arrogant mockery of the two brothers, Kobayashi had no choice but to find a suitable spot to set up his net again.

He walked for a while but couldn't find a suitable place to set his net. He almost slipped into the river, and just as he was grabbing onto the weeds on the bank to try to get back to shore...

Suddenly, in the bright moonlight, he saw a red, streamlined thing moving in the river not far away.

At first, Xiaolin thought it was a red plastic bag, but as his eyes gradually adjusted to the moonlight, he was shocked to find that the red streamline was actually a huge and terrifying red fish.

The big red fish was over a meter long and swam slowly in the water, seemingly unaware of Xiao Lin, who was staring in disbelief on the shore.

When Xiaolin saw the big carp, he slowly picked up the landing net, preparing to catch it.

However, at that moment, the big red fish spat out a dark red stone the size of a quail egg.

Kobayashi was stunned by this scene, thinking to himself, "Do big fish eat stones?"

In the blink of an eye, Kobayashi slowly approached the big red fish with the net.

Then, a strange thing happened.

As soon as the big fish spat out the small stone, it didn't sink into the water; instead, it floated on the surface, neither too high nor too low.

At this moment, the big fish began to circle the rock at a moderate pace. After circling a few times, it would spit out a mouthful of water onto the rock, repeating this process over and over again.

Just as the big fish was repeating the ninth time, the originally ordinary little stone began to emit a halo in the water. At first, Xiaolin thought he was seeing things.

As the stone's glow in the water grew stronger and brighter, eventually turning a visible golden yellow, Kobayashi was still reeling from the shock.

Suddenly, a dark shadow darted out of the water in the distance. The shadow was incredibly fast, swallowing the small, glowing stone in the water in one gulp, before flipping over and disappearing into the deep water in the center of the river.

This happened far too fast.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the little stone was snatched away.

The large red fish also flapped its red tail, the size of a palm leaf fan, and immediately chased after the dark shadow.

Kobayashi, who witnessed this scene, didn't wake up until the big fish disappeared into the deep water.

He almost slipped into the river, and since his flashlight was nearby, he thought he had just seen things wrong. He quickly picked up the flashlight and carefully shone it, trying to find the big red fish he had just seen.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he searched, he never found any trace of the big fish again.

Left with no other choice, Xiaolin could only find a random place to go online and didn't think much of the strange incident that night.

The next day, Xiao Lin got up early and took a flashlight to cast his net. Perhaps because of the bad location, he didn't catch any big fish or even a small fish in his several casts.

He packed up his net and took a shortcut back home, which would take him directly to the place where he used to set up his net.

As soon as they arrived at the place, they heard the cheers and joyful voices of the Lin brothers. It was already late, and there were a few people working in the fields.

Before Xiaolin even reached the destination, he saw a group of villagers gathered together, seemingly watching something amazing.

"Wow, this fish is so big! I've never seen one like it before!"

"Our ancestors all said that they had never seen a fish weighing more than three pounds in the Xiangshui River. That's really strange."

"I think those small fish were all eaten by this big fish, right?"

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Hearing the villagers' exclamations, Xiao Lin immediately thought of the big fish he had seen the night before. He was filled with regret, thinking that if he had come earlier to cast his net, the big fish would have been his.

Although indignant, Kobayashi still leaned closer to the crowd and craned his neck to look.

The Lin brothers, who had caught the big fish, were seen scaling it with a knife and gutting it, clearly intending to clean it up here before taking it home.

"It's a pity that the big black fish died. If it were alive, it would be worth at least a thousand dollars at the market!"

Upon hearing this, Xiaolin was immediately startled. Blackfish?

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that this large fish, which was over a meter long, was not the same large red fish with red flowing lines that it had seen last night.

Xiao Lin didn't dare to say anything about the big red fish, but just watched enviously as the two brothers gutted the meter-long black fish.

Then, after a short while, Lin Hai started cursing, "Damn it, there are big fish eating rocks?"

Xiao Lin was about to leave, but when he heard about the big fish eating the stone, he immediately thought of the glowing stone he had seen last night.

He rushed closer to take a look, and when he saw the stone the size of a quail egg that Lin Hai had removed from the blackfish's internal organs, Xiao Lin almost choked.

Because this little stone was clearly the one he had seen the big red fish spit out of the river last night, the one that emitted a golden light!

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Thanks to @怀旧 for the expert certification!

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